The Fall of Lazarus Dalpen

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Lazarus Dalpen was a young gnome when he left the Moonshae Isles and headed off to make his mark on the world, arriving in the small town of Isinhold in Cormyr he was full of hope and happiness for the future. It was not long before he ran into a childhood friend of his, Friagrin Sorn. Friagrin was no stranger to Mischief and often enjoyed the delightful sights and sounds his friend Lazarus created with his Illusion magic which often got them both into a great deal of trouble. Lazarus was meeting new people and making new friends and was a self proclaimed "Trickster of the Mind". as Lazarus grew older they grew apart and went their seperate ways. He was eventually consumed by his Illusions and was slowly but surely being driven mad, he would lie awake at night shaking, praying for the nightmare to end and then one night a strange shadowy figure came to his quarters in the Inn and told him to seek a man by the name of Raven Rift, he knew this name, it was an infamous name which everyone in Cormyr feared, a powerful follower and possible right hand man of the Evil Deity Cyric. With hesitation, fear and curiousity he sought this man, the dark figure he had seen the night at the inn would speak to him in his mind, guiding him to a door behind a waterfall on the outskirts of Waymoot, he walked in and made his way to an Audience Chamber where several men sat listening to none other but Raven Rift himself, as he looked around the room he noticed a small figure sitting in one of the chairs around the table, it was Friagrin Sorn. Raven and Friagrin led Lazarus to an underground cave near the Temple of Cyric and there Raven promised an end to his Madness and Delusions through Cyric, Lazarus would do anything to escape the torment of his own mind and begged Raven to guide him. Lazarus dawned a Purple and Black robe the colors of Cyric willingly but hesitantly, Lazarus was not an evil gnome, he just wanted to be his happy self once again, he carried out tasks that Raven gave him with his friend Friagrin, they were once again companions, but Friagrin saw what it was doing to Lazarus, the atrocious deeds he did for Raven were driving him further over the edge for at heart Lazarus was a good gnome, not wanting to see the end of his friend Friagrin betrayed Raven he forsook everything Raven had taught him and denounced his ways. He pleaded with Lazarus to do the same but all he could think about was the promise that Raven made. Raven soon ordered the death of Friagrin's family by the hands of Lazarus, in hopes of getting Friagrin to return to the ways of Cyric, when Lazarus refused Raven called upon the dark deity Cyric himself. in the vulnerable state of mind he was in Cyric was able to possess him and did the evil deed himself, Lazarus watched through his own eyes as he slaughtered Friagrins family and then Friagrin himself, Cyric left Lazarus' body, he collapsed to his knees and began to weep, for Friagrins Family, For Friagrin, for his own sanity, he took out his dagger and carved an S into his right hand, he vowed from that day he would get revenge, upon Raven, upon Cyric himself if he could, Lazarus was forced from Isinhold by his once good friends, he denounced Cyric returned to Moonshae with what was left of his broken mind and body for 30 years until the day he got a letter... a letter from Friagrin