Anna bowed at an alter, her mind racing madly. The decision she was making was not made lightly. Though her mother begged her not to, though her father had cried and sung for her, she was determined. Each year one of the youngest in the city must be given to the demons. Anna wanted it to be her.
She was sick. Had been sick as long as she could remember. Though she was only ten she knew a lot about sacrifice and good and evil. Her life would not amount to much. Others with her disease became bedridden. Some even lived for decades. To Anna it sounded horrible. And why, she thought, should a child who has a life, who wants to live, have to give themselves up?
No the decision was made, and no words would change a bit of it. The demons required young blood. Children from the age of 10-19. Every year they would bow before the altar, arch their backs and have their souls devoured by the demons.
Friends and family tried to cajole her by saying that no one knew what happened to a soul that was taken by the demons. That perhaps she be tortured forever or cease to exist. These things were frightening, but not enough to trade another happier life for.
As the drumbeats rose, and all the lights in the city were extinguished, Anna opened her eyes. Her body was glowing now, a stream of dark black smoke wafted from the altar and into her. Tears came to her eyes as she saw the light being drawn from her body. Her vision blurred then vanished entirely.
She felt cold.
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Anna awoke. A surprise in and of itself. She was in a field. Long tall flowers with white puffs at the end swayed back and forth with the grass in the gentle breeze. Was this Hell? Heaven? A man stood in the distance, unshaven and raggedly dressed. Even from where she stood and at her age Anna recognized the touch of madness.
"You have given yourself to the world child." He said in a near whisper. "You know not what you have done but it is a kind thing. A holy thing." His voice wavered, threatened to break.
"Who are you?" Anna asked, knowing nothing else to say.
"I am Dastrit. Just a spirit entrusted with the teaching of a fresh soul." He said, meeting her eyes with his one wild ones. "I am going to show you the ropes." He smiled. It was unnerving.
The Binding will be a supernatural battle-oriented RP about a group of young people who were sent too early to the afterlife. The sheer amount of life-force they hold allows them to hold between realms. They are taught to harness their own spirit energy into weaponry and skill and they fight the things that humans can't see. Evil spirits of all shapes and sizes exist in this world, and once the spirit world fills it will begin to overflow causing hauntings and possessions worldwide.
Long Story short you are young ghosts, sacrificed early in life to become warriors in the afterlife. You don't, however, know this. The people of the world think they are appeasing the demons not combating them.
The Living World: The world of The Binding is in it's early stages. There are guns but mostly early powder weapons like rifles, oil lamps are on the streets. And there are no plastics so everything is still made of stone, wood and metal. Superstitions are more prevalent in this world and it has caused most people to live together in order to protect themselves. Wraiths, banshee and skinwalkers are all examples of what the people of the living world fear.
We will not spend much time in the living world, we can only manifest briefly there and only as apparitions
The Spirit World: The Spirit World is very different from the living world. It exists by siphoning energy from both the world of the living and the dead. As such it reflects both and appears as a twisted vision of the world the spirits have seen only glimpses of. This world contains every possible creature that bumps in the night, zombies, ghosts, walking skeletons, hags, werewolves, vampires. The leaks caused by improper population control are the root of these stories. When the Bound do their job well, these stories are true ONLY in the Spirit World. If they slip up however...
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