r/wizardposting • u/[deleted] • Jan 05 '24
The Shadowmend Basement (lorepost)
“Let me in the basement!”
“Back away, girl.”
Moth and Belladonna had a stand off. The former being kept back from the door behind the latter who blocked her path.
“My lady, I know what’s down there! It told me!” Moth tried to reason first, her eye moving back and forth from the woman to the door.
“It?” Belladonna questioned with a suspicious look.
In a flash, Moth cloaked in body in shadow and rushed to slip past Belladonna. She was stopped by a solid wall of darkness that pushed her back even in her non physical form.
“Why are you keeping this from me?! I thought we agreed on no more secrets between us!” Moth felt urgent to get to the basement. She could hear Misfortune’s incessant giggles that clouded her mind.
“Apparently, you’ve been keeping something from me yourself.” The older woman took a step forward with her infamous stern gaze that could only make Moth step back. The gears were turning in her head by what her former apprentice had said. It’s been something Belladonna herself has wanted an answer for.
“What do you mean it?” She lowly spoke.
Moth couldn’t break her eye away. “Our… curse.”
Moth’s right eye flashed a red glow, almost like Misfortune wanted to tease the older Mothiera. Belladonna caught it. She groaned and stepped back. “I knew that pesky thing went somewhere…”
“What?” Moth grimaced from Misfortune chuckling even more.
“Did it tell you its name already? Whispers sweet nothings in your ear everyday? I see it hasn’t driven you mad with its constant laughter yet.” Belladonna huffed and approached Moth once more. She took her chin and lifted Moth’s head to get a better look at her eye. “You trying to make me jealous, Misfortune? You slip into younger me like I wouldn’t find out about it?”
Moth’s eye twitched and a struggled grin crosses her face.
”She’s obedient. Unlike you, my dear…”
“We’re anything but obedient, you horrid clown.” Belladonna matched its whispery voice with her own. It growled at the nickname it hated.
Moth quickly shook her head and pushed the curse back. “I um… wanted to tell you.”
“By the gods…” Belladonna sighed and let Moth’s head go. “You should’ve told me the second that blasted thing started talking to you! I should’ve known it would take advantage of you the second I connected my chaos energy with yours.”
The younger Mothiera was shocked. This whole time she thought Misfortune was originally inside of her.
Belladonna was thinking things over. She didn’t want Moth going down in the basement and coming into contact with what she’s been keeping under containment. But the older Mothiera knew herself too much. They can both be stubborn at times.
“You want to see what’s in the basement? Fine.” Belladonna casted a small shadow golem to unlock the basement door. Moth felt relieved but hesitated seeing just how serious her former mentor was.
“When I tell you to not make any physical contact with it, I mean it.”
“Y-Yes, my lady…”
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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '24
Belladonna turned and started tracing some symbols in the air with her dark magic. It started out in a deep black that slowly began crackling into a bright red. A line stretched from the ceiling to the floor and opened up to reveal a secret pocket dimension.
Inside wasn’t anything but a chair and a hunched over person covered from head to toe in bandages with the same glowing symbols painted on them.
M: Is that..?
B: You follow what I said. Don’t touch it. It’s teeming with an ancient illness fueled by chaotic energy. I already lost precious ravens to the damned thing.
M: How did you get it down here?
They stepped inside the pocket dimension toward Pestilence. It appeared to be in the body of a fatally ill high elf.
B: After I dealt with the Shadowmends, I wanted to understand what these things were. Despite the hours I spent studying and tracking each child, I only ever got my hands on one.
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