The First Trial of Turel

We, the scholars of Phatep, hereby record for all to see our first meeting with the vampire Turel, our Interview with a Vampire (author's note: sorry, i couldn't resist). so here it is the story of how Turel first became a Vampire as told by Turel himself:

During my youth, I lived in a village on the Plains of Gorud, south of Windy Bluff. At the time we were known as the Warrior's Village, now it is nameless, slowly rebuilding itself from the...no, there's more to this story first. Since I was no taller then my fathers knee, I had been infatuated with a young girl in my village, Nina, she had beautiful red hair and her voice was as sweet as the song of the gods...when we were just children we were best friends. When I became an adult and a warrior, we fell in love. On my 17th birthfay I finally got up the nerve to propose, she accepted. It was not until two months later, on the eve of our wedding that the village became a scene of carnage, a hell on earth. They came without warning and attacked without mercy. Trolls ten of them and leading them a Vampire. Of the dozen and a half warriors gathered for my wedding ceremony, three were struck down by the trolls initial attack.As I ushered the women children and elderly into what I thought was a safe haven, two more of our men died while felling a troll. Then I fought back, seeing me without a weapon, the trolls thought that I was not of immediate concern. Huh, the fools. Drawing my weapon from underneath my wedding cloak, I stabbed one of the trolls through the heart and, pulling my blade free, slicing anothers neck before they knew what was happening. The remander fo the battle was short but bloody, all the trolls lay dead but at the cost of eleven of our warriors. The two that were best were, ironicly, my two best friends, Joshua and Koran. I trusted both of them with my life and it seemed that was what that was on the line.The Vampire stood motionless as it had for all of the battle, we wasted no time and struck out at the demon, unfortunatly the spells it had cast to protect itself had blocked all of our efforts to hurt it.One moment Koran was standing beside me, the next he was gone, struck down by the Vampire's dark magyks.Before I could stop him Joshua uttered a curse and raced to attack...he found only death. i felt a sharp pain in my neck beofre Joshua's corpse hit the ground and all went black.

I awoke in a scene born in the pits of hell. My friends and family lay like rag-dolls Then I saw it...Nina's body. I ran Screaming to her side but life had already left her.Then he spoke "I am Renon" The voice seemed to come from all around me. " you are the reason these people had to die, so that you would be turned into one of us and fight by our side." then he was right behind me. "You think you can destroy my home and kill my friends..my family...my WIFE?!? and then expect me to JOIN you?! NEVER!!!" with that i ran north through the plains towards Windy Bluff. When I reached Windy i heard noise from the town square to the north, my curiosity got the best of me and I went to see what was happening. Yet another scene of horror assulted me when I arrived in the town square, a young woman was being attacked by a Vampire, a fledgling, and two others were preventing another young woman, a Druid I deduced from her clothing, from intervening with the meal. I heard footsteps to the west and I knew that help would be here in a few moments, however the girl did not have a few moments. the fledgling never knew what happened to it. I couldn't allow it to harm another innocent girl like this one or Nina...I'm sorry, I allowed myself to be caught up in past memories, let me continue. After the Vampire died a Priest arrived from the west and, with the Druids help drove off the two other Vampires. Then the Priest did something I did not expect...He introduced himself and the Druid. " I am Lacar and my companion is Villani, thank you for your kind actions Vampire." I replied to this the only way I knew how, with the truth. " I am Turel and I am not the kind of Vampire you would expect to meet." Then the three of us headed to the Inn where we spoke most of the night. I told them the story I have just relayed to you and they told me of gods that may suit what I wished to do with my "life". The next day I devoted my self to Tarin and protecting the innocent. I secretly devoted some of my time to finding Renon and making him pay...but that is another story.

With that Turel left us pondering his last words. Twas not until many moons later did we have meet Turel, the Vampire of Light, again.

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