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sanityontherocks) wrote2010-07-05 08:29 pm
sanityontherocks) wrote2010-07-05 08:29 pm
History
Dr. Edward Roivas comes from a sophisticated and well read background. As a clinical psychologist, he is educated in the studies of the most influential professionals in the field of that time, including Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Burrhus Frederic Skinner. In his studies, Edward found that his profession did not prepare him for what he found later on in his career, upon unearthing the research left behind by his ancestor, Dr. Maximillian Roivas, who described creatures not of this world. Maximillian’s notes further delved into three gods with the power to annihilate humankind. These beings were also known as the Ancients—Chattur’gha, Xel’lotath, and Ulyaoth. Edward used to believe that only science could solve the mystery of his family’s sordid past, which ranged between convicted to hung witches, and committed madmen. Much like Maximillian so long ago, Edward, too, found an interest in seeking out the secrets of his family history.
Science did not provide him with the answers he needed in the end. It was not until he was visited by the ghost of Maximillian Roivas that Edward discovered that the end of humanity was nigh. With nothing more than a cryptic message to set the library grandfather clock “to the thirty-thirty minute of the third hour”, that an unknown passage revealed itself, leading deeper into an unexplored corridor of the house. Within, Edward was visited again by the spirit of Maximillian for the last time, who brought him to the Tome of Eternal Darkness, and beckoned Edward not to let his ancestor’s death be a wasted one.
Once touching the Tome, Edward acquired the knowledge of its previous holders. The memories he gained included: Pious Augustus, a Roman Centurion who sequentially became an enemy of mankind. Ellia, a dancer girl from Cambodia. Anthony, a messenger of the Holy Roman Empire. Karim, a Persian swordsman. Dr. Maximillian Roivas, an ancestor of the Roivas family line, who was later committed into a mental institution after his discovery of Ehn’gha and the Ancients (on the other hand, Maximillian was a nutcase to begin with. Not to mention his astounding sense of logic fail when he went and offed all of his servants he believed to be “bone thieves”, so it’s no wonder he was locked away). Dr. Edwin Lindsey, an American paleontologist. Paul Luther, monk during the times of the inquisition. Roberto Bianchi, an architect who is captured with a handful of other slaves during the Renaissance. And, lastly, Peter Jacob, a journalist covering the gristly scenes of the First World War, in the French Oublie Cathedral. Each crossed paths with Pious Augustus and the Ancients, and played a role in the battle against the Eternal Darkness that had prolonged for two millennia.
Not long after gaining the power of the Tome was Edward visited by one of the Ancient’s agents. A “vampire” began stalking the Roivas mansion, attempting to attack, feed off of, and possess the servants of the household. Needless to say, this bastard went and messed with the wrong Roivas. Fed up with his servants getting picked off by the vampire, Edward pursued it without relent, before forcing it to flee into the basement for safety like a little bitch. He destroyed its source of power, taking the form of a slab of concrete, before slaying the vampire himself like a bamf.
Like any other plot convenience, the slab of concrete that was empowering the vampire revealed a ladder leading into yet another super mysterious unknown passage. Upon descent, Edward discovered that there was a massive city that had been established underneath his house, the ruins of Ehn’gha (as it turned out, Maximillian wasn’t so insane in the membrane after all). It’s beyond anyone’s guess as to why there was such a huge city underneath a house in Rhode Island, but that’s neither here nor there.
Knowing that he had to destroy Ehn’gha as it was enemy territory and that it would cripple Pious and the Ancients’ plans, Edward set out to the nine towers surrounding the city. And just to waste Edward’s time more, he had to go around solving really large puzzles and do a lot of tedious running around business. Eventually he managed to successfully activate each nine fields into one giant circle of power, which generated enough mass of energy to dispel the magick supporting the city. Which also meant that there was going to be a big explosion. Good job. So Edward got the hell out of dodge and made it just in time to enjoy a lovely front seat show of Ehn’gha getting utterly obliterated.
As he witnessed the destruction of Ehn’gha, Edward began to feel a pull, as though something were calling out to him.
And that was when he Awakened.
Science did not provide him with the answers he needed in the end. It was not until he was visited by the ghost of Maximillian Roivas that Edward discovered that the end of humanity was nigh. With nothing more than a cryptic message to set the library grandfather clock “to the thirty-thirty minute of the third hour”, that an unknown passage revealed itself, leading deeper into an unexplored corridor of the house. Within, Edward was visited again by the spirit of Maximillian for the last time, who brought him to the Tome of Eternal Darkness, and beckoned Edward not to let his ancestor’s death be a wasted one.
Once touching the Tome, Edward acquired the knowledge of its previous holders. The memories he gained included: Pious Augustus, a Roman Centurion who sequentially became an enemy of mankind. Ellia, a dancer girl from Cambodia. Anthony, a messenger of the Holy Roman Empire. Karim, a Persian swordsman. Dr. Maximillian Roivas, an ancestor of the Roivas family line, who was later committed into a mental institution after his discovery of Ehn’gha and the Ancients (on the other hand, Maximillian was a nutcase to begin with. Not to mention his astounding sense of logic fail when he went and offed all of his servants he believed to be “bone thieves”, so it’s no wonder he was locked away). Dr. Edwin Lindsey, an American paleontologist. Paul Luther, monk during the times of the inquisition. Roberto Bianchi, an architect who is captured with a handful of other slaves during the Renaissance. And, lastly, Peter Jacob, a journalist covering the gristly scenes of the First World War, in the French Oublie Cathedral. Each crossed paths with Pious Augustus and the Ancients, and played a role in the battle against the Eternal Darkness that had prolonged for two millennia.
Not long after gaining the power of the Tome was Edward visited by one of the Ancient’s agents. A “vampire” began stalking the Roivas mansion, attempting to attack, feed off of, and possess the servants of the household. Needless to say, this bastard went and messed with the wrong Roivas. Fed up with his servants getting picked off by the vampire, Edward pursued it without relent, before forcing it to flee into the basement for safety like a little bitch. He destroyed its source of power, taking the form of a slab of concrete, before slaying the vampire himself like a bamf.
Like any other plot convenience, the slab of concrete that was empowering the vampire revealed a ladder leading into yet another super mysterious unknown passage. Upon descent, Edward discovered that there was a massive city that had been established underneath his house, the ruins of Ehn’gha (as it turned out, Maximillian wasn’t so insane in the membrane after all). It’s beyond anyone’s guess as to why there was such a huge city underneath a house in Rhode Island, but that’s neither here nor there.
Knowing that he had to destroy Ehn’gha as it was enemy territory and that it would cripple Pious and the Ancients’ plans, Edward set out to the nine towers surrounding the city. And just to waste Edward’s time more, he had to go around solving really large puzzles and do a lot of tedious running around business. Eventually he managed to successfully activate each nine fields into one giant circle of power, which generated enough mass of energy to dispel the magick supporting the city. Which also meant that there was going to be a big explosion. Good job. So Edward got the hell out of dodge and made it just in time to enjoy a lovely front seat show of Ehn’gha getting utterly obliterated.
As he witnessed the destruction of Ehn’gha, Edward began to feel a pull, as though something were calling out to him.
And that was when he Awakened.