Editing Addar (section)

==History==
On a world far removed from the [[Demiplane of Dread]], Addar was born amongst a herd of unicorns who lived in a wide, lush forest, filled with [[fey]] creatures of all kinds, from [[sprite]]s and [[pixie]]s to [[dryad]]s and [[elves]]. Like all his kind, Addar loved the beauty of nature and respected his sylvan neighbors, but he had one unusual failing: Addar '''detested''' the practice amongst his herd of allowing themselves to be ridden by an elven maiden. To him, it was nothing less than an utter insult, degrading a proud champion of the wilderness to the level of a mere riding beast. It didn't matter to him that the elder unicorns warned him that such thoughts were only his vanity speaking, and that the bond between unicorn and rider was a partnership of equals, not one of master and slave. As far as he was concerned, this was merely attempting to use pretty words like "tradition" to cover up the true meaning - servitude and humiliation.

Such bitterness deeply concerned some inhabitants of the forest. Others, darker in nature, reveled in this spiritual poison. Eventually, Addar's festering pride seeped into the [[Lower Planes]], catching the attention of a [[nightmare]]. She began visiting Addar in his dreams, using the guise of a beautiful black mare to appeal to his noble feelings, asking for help from a far-away forest that had no unicorns to protect it. Then, she began to appeal to his vanity, insinuating that the denizens of this forest would begin to worship him like the guardian spirits of his own forest. Initially confused, Addar soon began to believe his dreams were true omens. Furthermore, he became increasingly enamored with the idea of being worshipped and revered, and so he kept silent about the dreams, letting the nightmare's sweet words fester in his once-pure soul.

This did not go unnoticed by the elder spirits of the forest. Unable to detect the cause of Addar's corruption, instead, they decided that only by binding Addar to a partner would he finally lose his wrongheaded pride and learn the wisdom they had been trying to teach him. They contacted the only princess of the local elven kingdom, a noble [[paladin]] of charming beauty and unparalleled purity, telling her Addar's name and that they wished for her to tame him. Ignorant of the greater struggles amongst the forest's spirits, she bowed to their wishes and set out for a grove deep in the forest on the next night of the full moon.

However, the forest spirits had woefully underestimated Addar's resentment of the bonding process and how much dark strength his growing pride furnished him. Unaware of just whom she was trying to summon and bind, the elven princess repeated the incantation time and time again, and each time Addar refused to heed the magical call. But something else did; the nightmare took advantage of the gathered magical energies and materialized in the grove, where she attacked the elven princess by setting the trees around her on fire.

The smell of smoke and the sound of terrified screams drew Addar to the grove, where he saw the princess was trapped and beginning to suffocate. He could have saved her. He chose not to. Arguing that if she were as pure and good as the forest spirits believed then she would find some way to save herself or that another unicorn would take her as their partner, Addar turned his back on her and left her to her fate. As he followed the silhouette of the black mare from his dreams into a dense bank of smoke, the last thing he saw as he looked back was the elven princess choking to death, and the last thing he thought was that nobody would ''ever'' ride him, for he was to be the king of his own forest.

And thus he damned himself. When the smoke cleared, he stood in his new prison, with only the nightmare for company. For a time, they coupled, giving birth to the first [[Shadow Unicorn]]s, but ultimately the now-insane and paranoid Addar drove his progeny and his mate away.