(Scars do not appear to be cause of death –shock ... - Bad Request

MEN -- ONE IN MANY MEN. EACH ONE -- WHETHER GOOD OR EVIL -- A
MONSTER, WHO CASTS A SHADOW UPON EXISTENCE."
"A... shadow upon existence?"
"OH, YES." The pillar's heads narrowed their eyes and smiled grotesquely.
"EACH TIME YOU DIE, 'IMMORTAL,' YOU CAST A SHADOW... EACH TIME YOU
DIE, ANOTHER DIES IN YOUR STEAD. THESE SHADOWS... THEY GATHER,
HUNGERING FOR YOU, WITHIN THE FORTRESS OF REGRETS. HOW MANY
TIMES HAVE YOU PERISHED, NAMELESS ONE? HOW MANY HUNDREDS...
THOUSANDS... HAVE DIED, BECAUSE OF YOU?" The pillar trembled with
wicked glee; its heads pulled faces and gurgled mockingly at me.
"Is that all you have to say, Pillar?"
The heads abruptly ceased their laughter. "NO. YOU BEAR MANY NAMES;
EACH HAS LEFT THEIR SCARS ON YOUR FLESH:"
The names rolled from rotting lips in a grim incantation, rhythmic and
terrible, "LOST ONE... IMMORTAL ONE... INCARNATION'S END... MAN OF A
THOUSAND DEATHS... THE ONE DOOMED TO LIFE... RESTLESS ONE... ONE OF
MANY... THE ONE WHOM LIFE HOLDS PRISONER... THE BRINGER OF
SHADOWS... THE WOUNDED ONE... MISERY-BRINGER... YEMETH...
"YOU ARE AS SILVERED GLASS THAT HAS CRACKED... SHATTERED, AND THE
PIECES SCATTERED ACROSS HISTORY. YET ONLY ONE PIECE IS OF IMPORT.
REGAIN THAT, AND YOUR LIFE SHALL BE YOURS ONCE MORE. THERE WILL BE
A PRICE. THIS PRICE WILL BUY YOU A CHANCE. WITHOUT THE CHANCE, YOU
ARE DOOMED. YOU HAVE LOST THAT WHICH IS NEVER MEANT TO BE
SEPARATED FROM MAN. YOUR MORTALITY HAS BEEN STRIPPED FROM
YOU... LOST. IT EXISTS, BUT YOU MUST FIND IT BEFORE YOUR MIND IS LOST
TO YOU AS WELL."
And then it clicked into place. The death of Pharod, the shadows beginning
to hound me soon after. It was too convenient, the way they always pursued
us as if sent by a guiding hand, striking when I was weakest. The shadows
must've been the ones that murdered Pharod, who had pointed me along
the path I now walked on. Yes, nothing could've left that stench of dread
when I found his broken corpse in Illwind Court.
I needed to know. "Somethings hunts me, doesn't it? Who is my killer?"
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