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Beast of the Prince's Woods

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“What have we here, a lost soul in the dark?

With a grave being that bears death’s mark?

His body will turn to rot, ash, and wood.

But if he could be save, you would?

What if I told you I had the power to make it real?

And all you would have to do is accept my deal?

His soul I’ll place in a lantern orb made of the night.

Where safely it’ll keep from horrors, pain, and fright.

But this you must know for his soul is at stake,

Should the light of the lantern ends, so his soul the reaper take.

Keep the lantern going with oil, with twig, with grass, with blood.

And watch as his body sinks into the soil and claim by the dark mud.

In time a tree shall grow and from it born a single fruit,

Grown from the dead man’s blood, his bones serving as the root.

From this he shall be born anew and your task be done.

For he shall be fresh as spring as his soul and body become one.

But a price shall be paid in full and be paid by you alone.

For of your task I’ll drain you of the soul of your bone.

An age from you I shall take as payment mine,

Truest I speak as old as time and from Perathi’s spine.

Your spin of life shorter, the candle of hope more dim.

But for your friend, can you handle a price so grim?

The choice is up to you, to me it matters not.

For both of your foolishness his death had wrought.

Now think deeply, and consider this true,

Would your places be switch, would he pay the price for you?

I shall ask one time once and never again shall I make this offer,

Will you let him live again or let his death cause you to suffer?

Now answer me lost soul in this hour where demons and magic are real…

Will you let your friend die in your arms… or shall you accept my deal?”

~~The beast of the Prince’s Woods, a poem of Perathi
More introduction and prework of my new world perathi, this time revealing a bit of LORE of its mythos and a location known as the Prince's Woods, named after one of the many incarnations of Karma, to be exact the incarnation of The Prince of a Thousand Deaths. Within the woods you can find a creature known simply as the Beast, a very powerful manifestation of Karma that controls the power over death who can make a deal, prolonging one's stay in the mortal worlds through a special form of reincarnation... for a price. I'm eventually going to get around to make a more detail map or charter for all the creatures and such. Hope you like, comment if you want
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