I and the End

I was once a bastard struggling in the mud, a heretic despised at the Oracle Academy, and the most wretched ruin in my lover’s eyes. They degraded my very blood, burned my faith, and took the last light I had.

Then came the storm, when the blood of my four brothers stained the seats of a battered Santana. Then my beloved turned away amid the dazzling brilliance of a nuclear blast. Then a poisoned dagger pierced the last warm embrace I had left.

So I tore down seventy-two towering pillars, made the Oracle Academy howl in flames, and watched the Spiral Tower collapse like a broken-backed beast. I sat upon a throne forged from betrayal and bones, the embers of godslaying power flickering at my fingertips.

Now I gaze down upon this shattered world and declare softly:

From this day on, I am the law. I am the end.

And it all began on that rainy night when the whole world betrayed me...