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The fog and clamour ceased over the battlefield as Luciandra Vortomlik stood in a pool of blood with dead orcs at her feet. Her comrades had infiltrated the northern mountains and disposed of a threat that was soon to take Greginsham by surprise. As the battle had approached its end, a new threat was on the rise, but unknown to Luciandra's order of footmen. The caves within the mountain were foretold in legend to harbor a great evil, and Vortomlik's company was about to met it head on for the first time. As her men gave the report that the enemy had been slain, the treelines began to gleam with hatred and malice. Luciandra took notice and commanded her company to maintain defensive measures. They formed the famous Pillar of Greginsham, a defensive maneuver invented and perfected by Luciandra Vortomlik. Her company held the Pillar as the enemy began their ambush. The Pillar was an effective defense designed to provide stability and control. Most invaders would falter, but these were no ordinary invaders.. The shadows took form and rendered Luciandra's tactic asunder. Comrades falling victim to vile incantations and horrific lacerations as a fog began to form and feel heavy with the taste of blood upon aspiration of it. Luciandra was at the center of the Pillar giving orders to maintain, but to no avail, her company was running out of time. Charging forward she was able to dispose of three shadows, but breaking formation at the same time, what was left of it anyway. Soon she found herself alone as the shadowy figures amassed in number. Encircled and alone, the shadowy figures chanted vile blasphemies to her. Luciandra was also frozen in her stance, the sweat and blood making her appear clammy to the touch. Frozen, overwhelmed, and taken by exhaustion, Luciandra collapsed.. She awoke with a slight pain to her stomach, and upon inspection she found her abdomen was embedded with tiny shards from a pitch-black orb. The wounds surrounding the implantations were fresh, but not producing a flow of blood. When surveying her surroundings she realized she was outside the gates of a vast city long forgotten. A dark city with no real entrance, but at a glance the city was wondrous. She couldn't enter and so she wandered the caverns and mountainside for months. She tried to remember what had happened but couldn't. Her body began to change as her skin became darker, her hair began to turn silver, and her teeth grew into fangs. She resembled a beastly humanoid now and was not welcome among the caravans that traveled through the mountain range. She found herself to like dark places, and soon located a group of people that also found solace within the dark reaches of shadow. Unknowingly to Luciandra, these were the very same individuals who assaulted her company that fateful day. The Shadowstalkers took her in as Lucidique the Invoker of Suffering. Studying under them and becoming a student of Zylenier. Teaching her the incantations of the Shadowstalkers she began to grow into a fearsome one. Upon completion of her training, she was told by the adepts of Zylenier to seek more power. She was lead to this ideal with the assistance of a recent scroll. The Legion sought new members and she didn't hesitate to reveal her new form. She was Luciandra Vortomlik no more.