05-06-2008, 12:12 AM
1. Introduction: The Tsinigani Brothers
The Lord Tsinigani above all else was known for the many children that he kept housed in his manor. There were seven in all, each with their own demeanors and needs but not exceptionally gifted. The family had long suffered at the hands of their own greed and the interbreeding of the family led them to loose the gifts that were contained in their race. Whatever they had been was long lost in thinned blood of the past generations.
There were two however that lived up to the elder lords hopes. His young twins had developed the strains of their own gifts. They had begun these signs not long after the boys had gone missing during a hunting trip. The separation had been mere minutes when a rogue Shieto had torn from the brush at them and died on the shaft of the spear that the elder brother held out by mere accident.
When the boys were found again they remembered nothing. The shock of it all had wiped their memories clean of all of their life before that single moment and they forged new ones, even creating new names for themselves. The lord had worried for sometime, but it seemed Flamoya had been gracious to him and had rewarded him payment for his stolen children's memories.
The younger, Heso, became a Illian, a weaver of souls who was able to read the stitchings that Flamoya laid out for her people to follow. Lord Tsinigani could not have hoped for a better development in his son, but the child was weak in demeanor. He was frail and wise enough to be kind and thoughtful, such a thing could never be a proper leader. The elder, Totsu, the lord was glad to find, had a much stronger will about him, and an equally strong development. His sole turned to that of an incubus. He drew at the desire in the people around him, commanding his servants with an unpredictable skill.
For this reason Lord Tsinigani saw to it, when the time came, that his estate and all the power that came with it, was given down to the twin boys, now men. Surely with the combination of their power and foreseeing eye they would be able to keep their family prospering.
What a shame it is to know that Tsinigani gave his estate to wolves in sheep's clothing. Forseeing the event with his skill the younger had planned the attack on the children that they were so much alike. Not a thing could stop them then, once they were planted in the home, to take the inheritance that so belonged to the Tsinigani's true children.
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