The Ark of Duke
The Famously Fabled Duke of Shadowlight
by Dakkoth
“The Ark of Duke” is that of the Great Alexander, Duke of Shadowlight. Alexander was a Soulmaster and teacher of ancient fabled times. At an early age, Alexander achieved awakening. The strength of his soulsphere was remarkable even then as it weathered the storms of Chaos. His rather innate ability to shield off the Chaos earned him the respect of the other wayfarers who regarded him as the “Great Alexander”.
In his later years, Alexander would become famous for the creation of his Ark which he used to sail the seas of Chaos in search of banished, tormented, and lost souls. Alexander made it his mission to save the souls of the lost and forgotten; those who had perished or died. He honored them in the Shadowlight, a rather eerie peaceful blanket of Light and Shadow amidst the sea of Chaos, creating a memorial and shrine for each so their souls lived on for eternity.
One dream, Alexander came upon the soul of a one, Emma, who was in distress amidst the Chaos clutching to her last Dreamsoul. He rescued her. She then boarded his Ark. Alexander fell in love with Emma instantly. Inspired by his feat in saving her soul, Alexander set off with Emma both sailing the sea of Chaos aboard the Ark in search for more potential troubled souls.
One dream deep in the twisting nether, the tides of Chaos were overbearing. The Ark began to crack under the forces of Chaos. As Alexander was tending to and repairing a large rift in the center of the Ark, the side railing Emma was grasping hold of broke free. She was cast into the twisting nether of Chaos. Alexander could do nothing to save her. The Ark spun out of control. It was spit out of the spiraling Chaos and crashed into the Shadowlight.
Alexander never saw Emma again. Filled with grief over the loss of his beloved, Alexander died in his sleep mid dream. The toll of his infinite sadness decimated his body on Cloudsbreak. Yet the empty glum drab gray hue of his soulsphere remains atop the staircase flowing with the tears of his grief.
The story of the Great Alexander would have been lost to antiquity had it not been for the cataclysmic Clash of Dreams. Discovered by the dreamers of and on LyraClesia, the portal to the Ark and respectively to Shadowlight are hidden in the Provenance. In honor of the Great Alexander in preserving the souls of the dead, his legacy lives on as the “Duke of Shadowlight”.
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