Editing Campaign:The Black Parade/Elusive Arrow (section)

=== Background ===
Thorns once glowed with vitality. It flourished under the hand of the Scarlet Empire, a beacon of culture unparalleled in all Creation.

Yet as it must be, every light must cast a shadow, and the Thorns that was was no different.

Elusive Arrow was, once upon a time, Kayell Arcaldri. A lesser servant to a lesser Dynast in the city, she made her real living as his personal spy and assassin against her will - threatening her and her family repeatedly during his rages, before suddenly calming just long enough to give her a command.

It was on one of these unpleasant missions that she fell from grace, and violently.

Having collected the necessary information from the opulent ball of one Cynis Vadanel, she had begun her egress through the quiet night.. only to run smack into a pair of mind-blowingly drunken Dynasts who had slipped out to continue their affair with alcohol. Neither side was pleased with the discovery.. but one side had the advantage of numbers and power.

After they were satisfied she was completely battered and broken, they went through no great pains to hide the body - simply dropping her behind a row of hedges, streaks and pools of blood and worse leading to her position. And there, as her sight faded, as her heart failed, as she pleaded desperately, silently for it to end -

- it didn't.

A voice in the back of her head chuckled softly.

"Ah, so you've run into my opposition. How.. unfortunate. I presume that, were you able, you'd delight in revenge.. something I can grant, at cost."

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The mangled, dismembered corpses of the Dynasts were found the following daybreak, two broken and bloodied arrows plunged through their throats, the only visible signs of any murder weapons. Any investigation and paranoia was short-lived.. for soon after, the Thorns that was ceased to be.