User:PyroSadist
PyroSadist
In the largely deserted suburb of Dunell Hills, a man sat in solitude in a contemplative mood.
His meditations drifted uncertainly like a ship upon an angry sea--no doubt that the crushing exhaustion of the inexperienced-and-still-alive aided his journey. Before long a zombie shuffled into the room and scowled; it scooted slowly across the cheap office carpet toward the man. His taxed body and mind lay at the out-of-bounds limits of consciousness--what few filaments of fear he could muster kept him arguing against the indistinct voices calling him out.
But just before he passed into that darkness, he spied that the zombie had stopped in its tracks and was staring at him vacantly. The zombie turned its wayward gaze to the office ceiling tiles where something drip-drip-dripped onto its face. Slowly, as both the man and the beast watched, a design spread across the tiles as the man succumbed to being utterly spent.
Upon awakening, the man was surprised to see the remnants of some fiery catastrophe that must have consumed the zombie leaving nothing but the soles of its feet, some foul, oily stains, and gently tumbling ash. Nothing the man could imagine could account for this miracle. And as he struggled against the absurdity and gravity (and gasoline vapors), he heard a voice. "Not a voice," he would often have occasion to think later, "The Voice."
He would describe it as strong, imposing, commanding, and captivating. The Voice explained to him that she was Phlogistera, Fire Goddess. She explained to him that she had opened him to the mysteries of the Cleansing Flame and that it was his life's destiny to be the first of her sacred Fryers--those mortal beings who are charged with exploring the mysteries of The Cleansing Flame and attempting to walk The Path of Burnination.
Never able to recall his previous life after that moment, PyroSadist was born. And he walks Malton, spreading the news of Phlogistera's revelation and her call to the Fryers to walk The Path of Burnination so that they might know The Embrace of The Cleansing Flame.
