In the Void...

Within the world of darkness, in the great tower of calamities the voidsent Lord Heloxian looked into the dark waters of his scrying pool and saw the future of the realm of Eorzea laid before him. There were few in all the world of darkness and that of Hydaelyn that shared Lord Heloxian's skill for looking into the future, and none of them had the same power to change the course of the future as he did, Heloxian could see hundreds of years into the future from where he stood, and he did not like what he saw. In the whole of reality Heloxian wanted nothing more than to take control of Eorzea, and give himself and his subjects a feast of aether like they had never had before, but every path forward to that goal was going to be thwarted by the Warrior of Light. Heloxian had looked into the mirror-like waters a thousand times, with a thousand different plans to kill or subjugate the Warrior of Light, and none of them showed any real chance of success in his divinations. He was always thwarted, always sealed away for eternity to rot as the Warrior of Light stood victorious, it was infuriating to know that one man stood between him and conquering the realm he had sought for so many years. The voidsent lord began to pace, his clawed feet clacking on the dark stone tile work. He only needed to change the board ever so slightly to have the potential for his conquest to succeed, but there was no changing things while the Warrior of Light stood in defiance of his dark future. Heloxian paused for a moment then his demonic face twisting into a grin. Of course, he didn't need to change the whole board, just the Warrior of Light's piece, and then the rest would fall, and maybe there was a way to change the piece without defeating it...

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*Three years later.*

The Cult of the Dark Moon Ascendant gave prayer to their lord. They chanted his sacred mantras as they inhaled his ceremonial fumes, they made their sacrifices to their dark and terrible god, using the blood of the three maidens they killed to anoint their naked bodies with their lord's holy symbols, and then they gave into the pleasures of the flesh as their god watched them from beyond. On this day of ritual the high priestess received a vision, she saw one who would soon come to the temple bringing ****, and she heard her God's orders on what to do to him...