As I develop the Duchy using old and new blog material (see Duchy of St. Cuthbert posts), I've decided to develop Saint Albus as Patron with Boons for the Warlock class in Shadowdark. But to do that, I have to figure out who Saint Albus is, right?
Here we go...
One autumn, during the Harvest Festival in Quagmoor, Arcterus Von, a necromancer and vampire, directed his undead forces to invade it, abduct as many children as possible, while he raised the dead to join him. Seventy children were acquired that day and over the next decade, Von experimented on each one, slowly destroying all of them until only a lad named Albus remained.
The boy, who was only three when taken, endured these horrors by focusing on a voice within, telling him he had been chosen and assuring him he would survive and destroy his monstrous captor.
As the boy endured, the voice grew louder, and it began preparing him to become a holy weapon to hunt and destroy the undead plague upon this land.
At dawn on the lad’s thirteenth birthday, the voice revealed itself as a celestial being named Minevos who freed Albus and completed his training so he could finally destroy Von and his forces.
Over the next ninety years, Albus of Quagmoor’s war against undeath became legendary, and he founded an order to share the training Minevoss bestowed upon him to protect the world against the undead monsters that see the living as prey.
On his death, Minevoss declared Albus a Saint, a patron to those who survived against undeath and had the conviction to hunt and destroy them. Now, some hear Saint Albus’s voice within themselves at their darkest hour, teaching them to fight, hunt, and destroy the undead scourge.
