Tenkot et Ashura has never always been around, as I'm sure you've noticed. Infact, the whole group in itself is fairly new, perhaps two years at the most, and even now we're still in the development stages.

Before Tenkot castle was built, none of the members had met. Everyone was living their own lives, not knowing how they would all be thrown together by fate in a few years time.

In particular, Neci-Nox was still a young girl, perhaps 17 or roundabouts. Neci was abandoned by here parents when she was a little girl, 6 years old. She wandered the streets untill she was adopted by a band of gypsies, who held a permanent ground in the outskirts of the little seafaring town, Lesdiun. When she came of age, she found herself suddenly entagled in a mysterious and challanging adventure, accompanied by various other heros and heroines.

She faced many battles, in which she fought well, though her skills were not as fine-tuned as they are today. When it all boiled down, the basic jist of what happened was this:

Eons ago, the gods created an artifact so powerful that just one wish made upon it would grant the users most deepest desires, even if that is not they would prepare ot wish for. The outcomes could be good or bad, because this object, the Harp of Obsidian, was usable by both good and evil. This was called the harp, becuase it consisted of a single, silver-like wire suspended over a cavernous pit, though it was not very deep in itself. Just one pluck had hte power to end wars, destroy civilizations, create life, bring death. A powerful mage sought this harp, and he was the only one ever able to come in range of it more than once in a lifetime. Infact, Rupert faced it three times before he managed to have his wish granted, despite the valiant efforts of Jerrell and his companions, of which Neci-Nox was one. Rupert succeeded, and gained tremendous power, and created a realm in which he could destroy the travellers.

Thanks to the efforts of Nurwen, a brave wood elf, and many others, they were able to destroy the harp, and banish it to the shadow realm along with the black scarab, a powerful object that Rupert had attached to the harp to make it do his bidding and not dissapear after it had been used. when the harp was destroyed, Rupert's power vanished, and he was doomed to live out the rest of his immortality in the devestating realm he had created. The travellers all died along with the destruction of the harp, but were granted a second chance, due to their incredible feats of strength, power, and cunning. Neci-nox returned to her life with her gypsy family, but went on to travel the world, training herself to become stronger and better with her powers. Eventually, she was accepted into an off-world tournament, where she met her first true, wise friend; A powerful wind mage by the name of Glomoro.

But..

Something happened. Ruperts power didn't vanish compeltely. He was left alone in the world he had created, barran and full of death and decay, but he had salvaged some power, by unknown means, and developed it. Day by day he grew stronger, unable to break from of his prison, but in time able to influence the corporal realm and manipulate creatures form his realm that obeyed his command to spring forth from rifts he created between realms. Thus were created the vast, skeletal armies that have begun a relentless attack on Tenkot, as we see today.

There is only one motive plausible enough to explain why Tenkot castle is being attacked: Rupert wants his power back, and he wants to start by destroying all that prevented his domination of the earth. The others are sure enough taken care of, their feeble powers now outmatched by the swarming minions of Rupert. Now only one remains, one stronger than all the rest, the one that has proved the most difficult to squash underfoot. Neci-Nox - the last survivor of the Quest for the Harp of Obsidian.

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Rupert saga - Plot updates

>After the initial attack on Tenkot, Neci was plauged with a voice in her head - Rupert's voice. He was tormenting her, contacting her through her thoughts, trying to scare her into being subdued. After Neci told the rest of the group about Rupert, they consulted Oracle on what they should do.

>Oracle claimed that the first step to stopping Rupert would be salvaging what was left of the Harp of Obsidan from the shadow realm where it was banished (this realm is not to be confused with the realm where Rupert is trapped) and that only a traveller who fits the prophecetic riddle could enter the dangerous shadow realm to retreive the harp: The one who lives between realms, walks between life and death, between light and dark.

> this riddle was solved, and taken to represent a fusion of Yuuki (Phantom) and Keitaro (Darkness).

'.. Walks between life and death..': Thats Yuuki - She's half ghost so you can't get much more between than that.

'.. between light and dark..': Kei is the darkness demon , he lives in sunshine and daylight, but he posseses a spirit of darkness.

> A second prophecy forwarned Neci that if she battled with Rupert - She would die. Oracle put Neci under Glomoro's protection, and that if Rupert came after her, he would have to intervene to save her life. Well, Neci wasn't a happy bunny about this.

> Neci has become isolated from the group. She spends alot more time on her own, away in the moutains or in the forest. She refuses to be protected - because he insists that she can protect herself. These long absences has come to hint towards her training on her own, drawing out the power she needs to defeat Rupert. She is determined to prove Oracle wrong and override her destiny.

>Yutaro - the sucessful fusion of Yuuki and Keitaro - was able to retreive the Harp form the shadow realm, and with much effort it was repaired as good as new. However, this meant that it soon dissapeared along with the Staff and Keystone.

> With the Harp fixed, Rupert regained his body and started his relentless attack on Neci-Nox, beating her mercilessly in spite of her tremendous power. At the same time, The group fended off Rupert's minions from the castle, while Dorian and Arafel quested for the Harp to destroy Rupert once and for all..