Requiem

Born in a royal family of the island near Riddleock, Requiem quietly enjoyed his life with his sisters and events ran by his family, but he preferred the more distant scholarly life.

As he grew older though, so spread the rumour of a beast in the woods that lons spotted running through the trees. Knights were sent to capture it and bring it back to see what it was, but that seemed to only infuriate the beast that now ran through town every night causing chaos. Feeling cursed, the family were desperate to find out where this beast had come from and why it seemingly disappeared by morning.

One evening, as the queen decided to visit her children before nightfall to warn them to lock their windows, she found her son transforming and becoming the beast they felt so haunted by. Heartbroken she was forced to order her son be sent to the royal graves across the water near Marshgrave and watch for grave robbers and keep the gravestones well cared for. Requiem doesn't know he's the beast however, and becomes depressed not understanding why he was suddenly cast aside.

Heartbroken, he continued to do his job, which he found to enjoy even though he would often get nightmares about his family becoming zombies. The thing that truly chilled his spine was finding claw marks and foot prints near his home that looked a lot like the beast's. Had it followed him! Was it going to try killing him? Was he a sacrifice!? Requiem now begged every knight or mage who came by to hunt down the beast and kill it, not wanting anything to do with it. However, no powerful mage nor beefy knight could seem to get a hold of it, let alone kill it. Knights and Mages all around visited to try getting their coin, but none could produce its head.

Visitors slowly stopped arriving, and Requiem now lives in fear of the beast, keeping his pippets close and correcting any damage done to the gravesite.