Alex didn't think he'd grow up to be a thief, never could have imagined he'd wind up on a wanted poster within every town, every city, every small church in some god-forsaken clearing in the middle of nowhere. Even the fairies wanted him dead! How preposterous!As a little boy he would have been speechless were an oracle to tell him the word murder would follow his name. And yet things happen and this is where his life ended up. A young man of 20, not even fully into his adulthood and already left with one path forward. He stole a blessing from an Angel, a woman sent from the heavens to help heal a land frought with war and instability. Mad mages committing atrocities left and right, rampaging dragons, giant serpents, and birds the size of mountains laying waste wherever they see fit.
It started when he was 16, Alex was a very talented channeler, some would even say he was the bastard child of the Earth Mother. They'd be wrong because that was his grandfather but alas, he was strong. Studious, well liked by his peers, and dauntless when it came to hunting and harvesting creatures for the adventurers guild. They say a man dying upon a cross made a wish upon the largest blue moon in centuries, he wished for the Gods to help his people, to bless and protect a young species so they may make a place for themselves in this world. And they sent her, an angel they came to call Pieta. She had done her duty, for 10 years she taught man how to become strong, how to make allies, and went and claimed resources for them to make use of. Alex, he was enrolled in an academy she started and upon his 2nd year at age 14 violently assimilated his bloodline with that of the Kedu, an immortal serpent said to have swallowed Alunia, the missing moon. Immortality was not the gurantee for an eternal existence it seemed because Jormungandr, the world serpent managed to slay the beast. Devoured it's soul they say. And Pieta, hunting relics and prized things of old managed to land her hands on not only a large amount of the Kedu's blood, but even it's bone marrow. Alex was the recipient of this prize and 2 years into unraveling the abilities he inherited from the Kedu he had a sick thought. He tried to suppress it, tried not to entertain it, and unfortunately during a celebration of all Pieta had done for the budding nation, he acted upon it. No being upon the earth or even in the heavens was truly perfect. There were drinks that would get even an Angel drunk.
And taking advantage of her drunken stupor, he slipped a blade forged from her own hands into her spine, dragged her from the raging festival in honor of her deeds, into an area with a small semblance of privacy. Hands shaking, head pounding, he cut her head from her shoulders, cracked her skull open, and began eating the pink flesh that was her brain like a rabid animal. The Kedu granted the boy a bottomless stomach, he derived strength from the things he ate. Even inherited certain things from what he consumed. He ended up eating everything, even burning his throat so bad he couldn't speak for months. Even her Halo wasn't spared. He was caught covered in blood, eating what he'd saved for last. Her left wing. And that's when he ran.