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Early Life
Blood & Pain
Exaltation
Jackal exalted roughly four months after Schuyler, a little under a year ago. Trudging through the Wilderness outside the Village, tracking the path of a young boy that often came to visit him (hoping to hear stories of glorious places and epic battles) and had not returned after a trip to gather herbs in the Moaning Lands. Jackal managed to make it into the Shadowland without incident, finding signs of the boys (including the herbs he'd been gathering) but no real signs of a struggle. Suspecting what had happened, Jackal decided to wait until Nightfall and see what could be done rather than leaving the youth to his fate. So it was that, under a alien sky with strange unknown stars, Jackal wandered into the Underworld and sought after the trail of a living boy that had taken the same path a night ago.
The trek was a difficult one, but Jackal managed hold himself together through the cool air and the dead landscape that surrounded him, ignoring the ghostly farmers that lined the area and watched him as he wandered by. Eventually, he arrived at a small township where the Boy had apparently taken refuge -- finding the lad being held by a number of powerful Ancestors within, who sought to add another of the living to their collection. This hope died on their chill hands when Jackal Exalted with the power of the Risen Sun, however, his sword slashing out at the spectres and his pure golden light frightening away any others.
The two wandered back to town, ghosts gathering to watch but not daring to disturb the glowing figure. As the Dawn crested over the Shadow, they wandered back into Creation, and toward Nulam.
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