Burning thought
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(this is going to be a long one, really just a bit of cool story, but it describes a lot of dark things since we seem to all be on the dark side now 🙂 )
The son of Torment came before the abyssal cathedral, towering even higher than himself, the door was like a demonic portal itself. None are allowed into the Cathedral, unless called upon by the Emperor, its old abyssal gate deep within the earth may only be used by the Dark god and his sons. The demon pushed through the doors into darkness. It was pitch black outside but inside was even darker, the demon walked through the shroud, the cathedral is so vast that no mortal being could find the way in such darkness but the Son of darkness itself knew. Eventually as he walked huge braziers burst into unearthly flames, they slightly lit the way, a smooth obsidian stone floor with cracks of infernal red light contributed to the evil of the place and showed authority, demons only use obsidian on sacred or important places. The son of Darkness was silent, even he feared the Emperor and most of all his father. Silently he pulled lord from his own flesh who was woven into it, he placed the unconscious body onto the floor who then sprung to life, feeling suffocated he looked around in fear and swallowed hard as he watched the Demon prince walk away.
There was no way "lord" could escape, he had no knowledge of the cathedral and even those with knowledge could not escape the Dark emperor. In darkness two burning eyes appeared, the eyes were burning in a dark unearthly flame, much like the braziers. he looked up to see them, he knew who it was and came to his knees, hands on the floor with his head low. Teeth appeared beneath the eyes, sharp and jagged. Darkness poured from the mouth and covered the braziers,sending the cathedral into complete night, the only light was the eyes. As the emperor stepped forward it sounded like a thousand blasts of thunder, hundreds times as loud as a volley of cannons. The emperor's form was enormous, at least four times the size of a Demonic son of their god, the emperor was the first Demon ever created in the Abyss. Its head was high above lord, it had a pair of large curved horns coming out either side of its head, its arms were great and muscled, out of the emperors back came many huge,thick tentacles,some started at his neck and others his elbows with shards of obsidian covering his body and burning cracks in his skin much like the flooring. his black cape covered his shoulders loosely and came over his chest, stopping at his waist but it flowed down his back, rips in it were made by his tentacles and other demonic appendages.
It spoke, its every word echoed throughout the cathedral, it sounded like many demonic voices as one, they spoke in unison, each more bloodthirsty and threatening as the last "you dare fail "lord", i send you to oversee the chaos, your numbers flowed forth across the battlefield yet one wizard sends your forces into a fleeing rable, do you know the penalty for failure". "lord" trembled as a mess on the floor "my form is too great for many to stand against,minion, perhaps ill take on a far less terrible form" the dark emperor smiled to himself and seemed to disappear into the darkness, then a humanoid figure, roughly 6 feet tall in a thin black robe covering his body came out of the darkness, "stand up minion" "lord came to his feet but still trembling, "you are going to be blessed with a second chance, i will give you more power and this time take some of our demons with you,the chaos rable is not enough" with that the emperor breathed evil out of his mouth, pure evil in a form of gas that fell over "lord", he closed is eyes and when he opened them he felt the coldness of the Cathedral and felt down to actually feel his body was back, "now with this chance GO!!!" the emperor moved at speed no mortal eye could see, a blur flew at "lord" with such force that he flew across the cathedral, all the way to the door and he blasted out of it. The darkness of the door folded together to fix the break and lord fell to the dirt, he was picked up by the prince "now go, if you fail again the dark god will have you" and so lord walked onwards, smiling to himself but feeling the force of the Emperors punch and worried of his warning but happy to have his chance again, he marshled dark forces who followed him out of the dark lands