The slow rising sun shines over the town of Woltin. Nobles rise from their beds and maids are ready for their duties. Adventures head to the guild and the gates open.

  The great town of Woltin it was called. A place untouched by the hand of a single god, a variety of species roamed and lived here. Ships came in and out of ports day in and out. If anything this town would be considered the capital of the small coastal country South Gambit.

  However even the most peaceful of towns fall after a while. As crops died and mysterious storms blocked ships from even getting near, the town slowly starved. People prayed to their individual gods for hope, however no one ever came.

  A neighboring war harboured the utmost attention leaving a certain god to rise to power, taking control over Woltin would be easy in their eyes.

  After months of slow decline a duo of adventures showed up, both seemingly human. Not much in the eyes of many but I could see potential. I struck my bet.

  In a fairly well known dungeon usually meant for beginners speaking to learn from the monsters that lie there. A skeleton rises from its resting position, a glow in their eyes as their soul is placed in.

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  It was dark, he was in a room filled with others just like him, or was it a tunnel, it was too dark to tell. He was holding a flimsy type of sword that was seemingly made out of the bone, same as his body. He looked around but I was all in vain, it was too dark to even grasp what was around. I should probably mention he had no eyes. No organs, not a single piece of meat, he was purely bones, a sight that defined all logic. Then suddenly one of the skeletons near the end of this big cluster of skeletons started to walk. Then more and more followed so naturally so did he.

  He didn't know how he knew he was following someone but it was like his very existence stretched upon a long thin plane where he could see every inch of each skeleton if he looked hard enough. Some were holding swords and some were holding bows, some in the back were even holding weird sticks. The ones in the back seemed to be particularly visible, almost glowing in this way he was viewing the world. There was one thing wrong though, each of these skeletons had an orb located in different parts of their bodies. Some had this orb located in their skull, some in their leg, all scattered around in different bones around their bodies. However when he looked at his own body he found no such thing, no orb that glowed out of his bone, just pure darkness.

  He decided to reach for the skeleton in front of him but before he could make contact something happened. He heard a noise coming from the front of this pack, then noise and more noise flew at him, he readied himself as if he had done this before. Putting his sword up ready to attack he finally saw what it was. It seemed to be a group of 3 people but this time it wasn't skeletons. They glowed extremely brightly, instead of it being located in one part of their body it seemed to resonate over each limb and organ, like a never dying fire. He watched as one of the men charged at the front skeleton, they seemed to be in a heated match to the death. It looked almost perfect, the person swung at each interval to stop the skeleton from dealing damage, and the skeleton was no match for them.

  In almost perfect precision they hit the orb that was glowing in the skeleton and it fell to the ground, no more than a pile of bones. Soon more and more skeletons charged, outmatched by skill the group realized their disadvantage and charged all at once hoping to out number them. From the back stood a person with odd ears holding a bow, they lifted it up at the crowd and shot. It was a piece of art, he could see as the person relocated this mysterious fire into the bow and strengthened it. It priced 5 skeletons, only hitting the orb of the first and severely hindering the other 4. The more he looked closer the more he noticed, he watched as fire spread to the swordsman's arms and legs at each strike making his blows more impactful. Soon came the big strike. The last person was another weird person holding a stick. They seemed to separate their own fire from their body and formed it into a complex set of data as it formed a phenomenon, it flew towards the crowd as it burnt over half of the crowd into ash in an instant.

  By now he was almost near the front of the crowd, he could see the volley of orbs left from the skeletons, the only things that survived the attacks of the blast. One rolled his way, it was almost mesmerizing, he picked it up and examined it. It was almost perfectly circular but its actual physical matter was much smaller than the light shining from it. He crushed it in between his boney fingers. It was surprisingly fragile in a way, I could only assume from the blast it withstood the only thing holding it together was the light. Speaking of its light, instead of falling to the ground with the physical matter, it crawled all over his body. He felt something almost painful resembling even though he couldn't feel anything at all. He fell to the ground.

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  He felt the people walk over his body as they charged at the humans. He couldn't move an inch.

  He didn't know how long he laid there as the floor became one with his body. After some time however the fighting ceased.

  "Do we get the stones?" The shiny one with the stick said

  "No, leave them, we're just here for the checkup. Plus these things won't fetch much anyways" The one holding the sword responded quickly back at her.

  They walked right past him, after they got out of his view range he waited a bit before getting up. It was as if every star in the sky fell to the ground. The floor was shimmering with these stones found in each skeleton. Some were still surrounded by bone but much less dim. While others were cracked. He picked up one of the more shiny bones and threw it against the floor, the bone crumbled around as the orb fell to the ground. He didn't know why but it was if his body craved this sort of fuel. He figured it must have something to do with the fact he had no light himself.

  He picked up the fallen stone and brought it to his boney mouth, although he had no digestive tract the act of consuming it made it vanish where the stomach should be. That same feeling rushed back to him, but instead of that instant pain there was a ting of pleasure. He picked up more and more of these orb-like rocks and consumed them just as fast.

  After a while there was not a single one left, and so he sat back down. He didn't realize it until now but his body was very slightly luminescent, a faint glow only visible if you looked at the right angle. He wandered what set him apart from the rest, why did his body glow at not a single point but all at once.

  So he tried one last thing before getting up, he tried to converge on it at one point. He pushed or at least tried to push his light towards his right arm but he couldn't budge it in the slightest. He tried again and again and after a while he managed to move it ever so slightly but the feeling alone was enough to crumble his bones into dust. He was pushing so hard he failed to realize his own exhaustion, to be fair it's not like he's used to feeling much of anything. He couldn't bear the pain anymore and he dropped his arm, not being able to move. Fading in and out of a sort of conscience. Finally the dark hit him or shall I say the absence of being able to see.

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  He awoke once more, although this time he couldn't see at all, like there was nothing that he previously clung onto to see left. In the same way though he could see, he had a body. So he opened his own eyes, eyes which he was first experiencing. He was in a void almost, a completely black void yet some sort of light kept just the area around him visible. He was currently just looking down but he sooner turned his head upwards. There stood an entity, he couldn't really make out any of the features. Although the size difference was apparent, it was as if I looked up at the stars from the ground. It stretched far upwards and looked as if it sat on a throne. He could make out faint chains, around 6 massive ones each chained around each limb and 2 on the neck. There were also many other smaller chains that seemed to get smaller and smaller the more you looked. Clearly whatever this thing was, was being chained for a reason.

  "Oh young one, you must be so confused" it spoke, its voice feminine but quite deep. It tried to move its body as a gesture of greeting but the chains held its body back.

  "Who- who are you?" he said. It didn't know how it knew to speak or what language it was but he knew what he was saying.

  "Your answers will come with time, young one. For now I have one small question." A pillar of light formed in front of him as the being finished their sentence, leaving behind a small table with a piece of paper and a pin laying on it.

  "Do you wish to continue living?" It was an odd question. No sane person would want to stop living, but for some reason he was conflicted.

  "And if I don't want to" he responded

  "Then you will return to bones, and forever roam till slain"

  "And if I do?"

  "Then your soul will be mine, and my word will be your command"

  "Those both sound bad..." They were indeed both to be followed by terrible fates.

  "You don't need to decide now, of course, a wait comes with a price."

  "Like what?"

  "For each day I wait, your new body will wither from the inside out. Your flesh will fall like leaves in autumn."

  "I won't take long to decide, I just need some answers before I commit"

  "It's only a natural young one, though you will need a name with that body."

  "And if I don't have one?"

  "Someone else might claim you, and I don't want that now do I?"

  "Then got any suggestions?"

  "Seko, it reminds me of skeleton, which will serve you remember your origin in a way"

  "That would work I guess."

  "Then I shall engrave it, Seko, The Soul of lost faith"

  "No need for a title-" before he knew it he was again awake, this time in a new body, one resembling a male humanoid albeit without the genitalia.

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