In Review
(Cause after almost 2 years both of us need it.)
After nearly half a decade working with worgen packs in an attempt to introduce more feral beings into the whole of society, it seemed to Gerald that his job was nearly at an end. With this knowledge he went out in search of another vocation. Thus he was hired into the Waterstreet Detective Agency for a brief period of time. He made a small file for himself before a schism broke the company and sent Gerald back out into the street.
Just a couple weeks later, a woman by the name of Vinarei approached Gerald, finding his file in the abandoned Waterstreet building. She hired him on as an artifact hunter. Gerald worked closely with Vinarei, her lover Kota, and a young man by the name of Atticus. Through their work they learned that they were cousins, on Gerald’s mother’s side, of whom he knew little about. Atticus, through a stroke of fate, was of the family as well. When the artifact business ran dry, they still kept in close contact.
Gerald got a letter from his dear cousins urging him to come work with them under another banner: House Draconis. Run by the firm and mysterious Strixena Draconis and her close family, the organization was otherwise an enigma. Gerald, having bitter memories of nobles, but a love of family, reluctantly followed suit. Though family troubles and noble drama, he managed to make a name for himself among the Draconis family. Though this high would not last and would soon drop to harrowing lows.
Vinarei had messed with magics beyond her discipline. She, through outside help, managed to fuse her soul with another: Verlai. A more cold and distant person than Gerald’s cousin. For a time, both souls inhabited the same body, but suddenly, Verlai claimed that Vinarei’s soul had passed on, and that only she remained. A funeral was arranged, and no more was said. Gerald however, did not buy it.
Finding a thief in his home, he would turn to his own research to get to the bottom of Verlai’s plot. He took his would-be robber into a dangerous and forbidden section of Easterly’s woodland, known to be perfectly balanced in the arcane. Gerald released the soul of his old mentor into his captor’s body and trapped them in the forest to examine what would happen if one soul overpowers another.
His experiment would start a doom for all of Easterly. Gerald would move his experiment to Drustvar, but the damage was already done. The balance of the forest was off, and a plague erupted from it, spreading far and wide. The plague would turn all it touched into mindless husks, and coordinating with this plague, an old enemy of House Draconis would rise and take everything from them. Syler Dominicus, along with an army of undead, swept through Easterly, killing all but a few survivors. Gerald’s grief was all encompassing.
The survivors shipwrecked on an island that they later named Viridia and Gerald set up a portal network with Stormwind and the outskirts of Easterly. Even with all the turmoil his experiment was a success. One soul cannot force another out of the body, only pack it so tightly away that it can be easily put into a soulstone. A soulstone which Atticus had unwittingly received from Verlai.
With this last piece, Gerald was ready to bring his cousin back, but by her wishes, Gerald instead released her spirit to a hopeful rest. As for his mentor, he gave her a new body and released her, hoping she would find a new life free of captivity. He tried to find Verlai, to accuse her of taking over Vinarei’s body, but when he caught up to her, she already seemed to be dead. With no other loose strings, Gerald escaped Viridia in the dead of night with his familiar, Gunther, to try and clear his conscience of the horrors he had wrought to House Draconis and his own family. He only hoped to have the chance to do so.
It has been nearly two years since then.