Your Father tells you the origin of your name.....again. Part 2

"As I was saying, things went down very quickly after your mother's water broke. The scent attracted all sorts of monsters from the area. Ghouls, alghouls, devourers, graveirs, you name any monster that reeked of ****, and it was there. These things knew a new life was about to be born and they instinctively chose to seek it out, like moths drawn to a flame. My men...they fought the monsters bravely...but they were no match for the horde that came seeking out the new life," he looks at you deeply, "that came seeking you."

"After the last of my men perished, our chances of survival were close to none. It had begun raining and there was a thunderstorm. Yet these monsters seemed to have no end. However, my Queen, your mother...would not go down without a fight. She wanted you to live with every fiber of her being. Seeing her ferociousness I knew I had to push myself beyond my limits. We fought back to back for hours, using every last bit of our magic. Your mother used so much that her body started using your magic, not because she wanted to, but because you yourself gave it to her."

You know what he saying was the truth. The earliest memory you had was not when you were 3 years old, playing with your wooden horse. It was of you giving your magic to your mother. You couldn't see or feel anything, but you could hear her muffled frantic efforts to save you, and you knew how much you meant to her. You remember reaching out your tiny hands and touching the inside wall of her womb, to give her your magic, which she then uses to continue her fight. You don't know how or why you knew what you had to do...you just knew. Her body was way beyond her physical limits and she was standing on willpower alone. You knew her end was near. You wanted to save your mother. So you reach out and give her all of your magic, ripping out the magical part of your soul in the process.

"She was filled with a different kind of power after that. It was untainted and pure, the kind of power that only small innocent children and forest nymphs have. She used that power to cleanse Artur's pass and our kingdom of all necrophages once and for all."

It was a very famous incident, not only because of the effect and scale of her magic, but also the uniqueness of it. There had been a handful of instances of magical souls being violently ripped apart for the purposes of punishments and ****. But the magical soul being sacrificed so willingly by a baby nonetheless was something that had never happened before. The destructive and healing potential of a pure magical soul was the stuff of legends for the mages of this world. However, very few if any had the technical skills and knowledge to actually study it. To this day, no necrophage or monsters with evil intent can enter this kingdom. There have been notable exceptions with higher vampires (a different story), but the point remains. It is the only kingdom in the world that is safe from necrophages and that fact alone makes it very attractive for people to settle in the borders of this kingdom permanently.