Legends of Belariath
Kerian
Kerian stood outside in the dark, the light from the burning house reflected on her pale skin, the small 7 year old human girl with long black hair and dark cold eyes chuckled softly as she watches her parents house burn.
"oops" she thought "there are the villagers, well i guess the fun is over" she took a deep breathe and put a sad face on, dropping to her knees and cried, well..at least tried to cry. The villagers came running to the house and a few of the woman came to Kerian, holding her, crying with her, one asked her "Are you sure your parents never left the house?" Kerian just nodded and leaned against one of the woman while the men were busy trying to put the fire out.
Kerian was born on a cold night in the winter, the healer who helped with the birth had his eyes wide open when he saw the small baby, thinking by himself "those..eyes...they are so...dark..and cold" he had never seen such soulless eyes it was like the whole baby was surrounded by an invisible darkness.
As Kerian grew up her parents knew there was something wrong about her, not only because of her eyes but the way she acted, like when she was 5 and killed a rabbit, cutting it into little pieces as her mother caught her with blood all over her clothes.
The day it all happend Kerians parents forbid her to go out of the house at night, Kerian then decided what she would do, she went to bed and stayed awake, hearing her parents go to bed and waited a while then she got up, quietly sneeked through the house and foundwhat she needed, she brought the chair up to her parents bedroom and used it to block the door. Then she searched for a fire, headed outside and saw a small fire with nobody there, she grabbed a wooden stick and set it on fire, quickly running back to the house and went back to her parents bedroom, glad they weren't awake she started to set the walls near the bedroom on fire, chuckling and watching it as the fire spread quickly on the dry wood.
When she smoke became too thick and she heards her parents scream and trying to open their bedroom door she ran outside, hearing the screams of her parents getting burned by the fire and she loved it.
A young couple took care of her, but as time passed more people started to question her and how the fire started, espacially when they found the burned chair near te burned bedroom's door. She knew she had to run soon so she took a dagger from the man of the house and got some food, when it was night and everyone slept she left the house and the village, walking through the dark woods but she didn't seem to mind at all.
She walked for several days, killing rabbit and ate them, drinking from small streams, all the time she held her dagger in her hand. One day she walks down a path and saw a man laying, near him stood a female, Kerian only heard about dark elven but never actually seen one and with no fear she stepped up to them and looked down at the man, the dark eleven looked at Kerian "Shoo girl..you have nothing to do here" Kerian looked up at the large dark female then looked down again at the man who was barely alive and she thrusted her dagger into the mans chest, turning it inside the man and pulled it out again. The dark elven stood there with her eyes wide open while Kerian chuckled as she had some blood on her small hands, liking the killing more and more.
Without a further word the dark elven took Kerian to a small camp where there were a few other dark elven, some male some female, Hogina the dark elven who brought Kerian spoke out loud "This girl..is human...yet, she has the darkness we have, most likely even more, therefor...anyone who touches her...is dead..understood?" the group nodded and Kerian sat down by the campfire, still showing no fear at all. When they asked her questions she nodded or shaked her head and sometimes spoke but as short as possible.
Kerian stayed with the group for many years, watching them rape, burn and kill people but sometimes they were so nice to leave the injured ones to Kerian and she had her way with them, torturing them untill they died. When she turned 16 they started to teach her how to fight, she learned quickly and soon she went out on her own to kill people, sometimes for a reason..but sometimes she didn't needed to have a reason, however when she wanted to kill a man who tried to seduce her she met her equal, the fight lasted long but he finaly won and left Kerian half dead on the path, since then she knew it was unwise to attack everyone, well at least untill she would be stronger then everyone else.
One day when she returned to her camp everyone of the group were dead, their bodies scattert over the campsite, she sighed and got their stuff mostly money and food and went on her way again. several days later she stepped in a bar where there was a brawl, some man stood in the middle while several man were trying to attack him from all sides. Kerian was impressed by his fighting ability and for no real reason she decided to help him out, she killed two men and the man killed four, he nodded to her and smiled "Thank you for helping out, i saw you fight your not bad for a girl, maybe with the right training you can become very strong!" Kerian thought a moment "Is that an offer?" she finaly said "Well i'm a knight of Lord Remka, if your interested i might get you to train with our other pupils and maybe one day you can call yourself a knight too!" Kerian was now very interested, not really because of the knight part but more of the training part so she agreed and entered the training.
She learned quickly and after a few years when she turned 18 she finaly was an official knight. They send her onto the battlefield where she could kill all she wanted and she loved it, but she went too far when she returned to the other knights with two heads of children. She never expected that the other knights would actually attack her for this so she drove her horse to his maximum as she tried to get a few knights off her back, when her horse died of exhaustion she knew running wouldn't work so she got into the bushes and waited, her sword ready to strike. Soon she heard horses and she got ready, they stopped when they saw Kerians horse and looked down at it, that's when Kerian striked, she first killed both horses so the knights fell off, she then quickly killed them both before they could get up as she knew at least one was stronger then her. She looked down at them and decided to chop their heads off putting them on poles and walked into the woods instead of following the path, she took her armor off as it was way too heavy to walk great distances with.
Kerian found the Lonely Inn after a while and decided to stay for a night, but the place wouldn't let her go, something or someone was keeping her there. She hated the fact that there were alot of strong people in the inn, more then usual and she was forced to keep a low profile, but she would train..yes train hard and then when she's strong enough she can kill anyone she wants.