The Story: The Elder Are Broken In an epic battle, The Four Who Are One defeats the Nightmare king, never suspecting that, from the jaws of his own annihilation, their archenemy has played one last treacherous card. Seizing upon the broken oath of the Elder, the Destroyer summons the last fragment of his once awesome strength to pull the spirits of the Elder down with him, trapping them in the void beyond. Although the Elder do not perish, they are left powerless until their spirits can return to their respective realms. A Seed of Evil is Planted Before vanishing forever, the Nightmare King's final action is to take the essence of his own powers and with them plant a seed of evil. This, in the most desolate corner of the cosmos, a child is being born - one shaped from corruption absolute, its dark conscience ever growing, still unaware of its own tainted core. With its birth, the child will invade the space left vacant by the Elder's absence, so that no creature may challenge its dominance. The Destroyer thereby seeks rebirth from his own death that he may return to the world in a new and even more terrible shape. So it is that the circus the Elder once vowed to protect lies broken, drifting through the abyss, carrying the sole remnant of the Destroyer's taint. The Four Who Are One, their shapes now splinters scattered across the realms, linger in a helpless state of limbo in the cosmos' darkest hour. One Hope Remains Only one mortal can devise a means of calling back the Elder. Her name is Madame Raven, the clairvoyant matriarch of the Psycho Circus. She must recruit one last soul to collect the shards of the Elder's forms, to give the new avatar the necessary power to enter the Womb Of Hell, the dark rift where the Nightmare Child stirs. But who will take this Suicidal path? Will anyone dare oppose the seed of a new God? Feverishly, her blind eyes scan the orb in front of her. There will be no rest for the sorceress this night.
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