Baifa Monü Zhuan
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To expand on someting found in the mysterious Atrisian forests
- Image Credit:
Ju-On The Grudge
Sadako vs. Kayako - Star Wars battlefront 2
- The White Haired Witch of the Lunar Kingdom
- Canon:
Darkside Wraiths
Altar of the Dark Side - Permissions: n/A
- Links: N/A
- Media Name: Ishiyakushi Wraiths
- Format: Holobook
- Distribution: Planetary
- Length: Medium
- Description: Issued as a general warning to the people of Atrisia with the restoration of Atrisia came exploring the ancient mysteries. One was the primeval forests of Ishiyakushi where villages within the forest are said to disappear and the Onyx empress lost her sister. A discovery was of the wraiths... malevolent spirits bound to the forest that couldn't leave the confines of it. As a large public service warning of the dangerous entities that are in the forest and giving information as they were excited with the force activity on the planet.
- Author: Io Murasaki
- Publisher: Atrisian Commonwealth
- Reception: N/A
Presented and distributed much like bounty pucks projecting a hologram of the forest.
CONTENT INFORMATION
There is not much know about what happened in the ancient forests. The jedi teams that have gone in either haven't returned or if they did reported that the deeper you went into the heart of the forest the more malevolent the wraiths that appeared. Victims created into spirits by the darkside of the force. They are angry and vengeful beings who have become twisted with madness. The jedi reports show that there is something dark within the heart of the forest, an almost direct opposite to the tree at the center of the Agora which houses a lightside nexus. The heart of darkness has the wraiths bound to it and they are unable to escape. Reports of similar situations on one or two other worlds were recounted but one of the major differencesis instead of being priests who did it for immortality.. these appear to be victims who were bound to feed the power of one such being.
The earliest accounting of it though is from the Silver Star Empress who sought the secrets of immortality and stole away virgins from her subjects. Their daughters using their blood to try and keep herself beautiful. This is when it is believed the evil started, whatever dark rituals she used deep in the forest to attain eternal youth (she died from heavy metal poisoning thanks to her make up using mercury whcih poisoned her slowly). Using the force in profane ways to kill them they were bound to the alter with a smaller version of the great crystal entrapping the souls of the women killed and separating them from the bodies. The spirits would later finda means to escape but in their anger slowly became dangerous letting the dislike turn to venomous hatred for force users. That hatred was fueled as they couldn't leave the proximity of the forest, it was outside of the alters influence and such they would be returned to the center of it.
IN THE EVENT YOU HAVE ENCOUNTERED A WRAITH RUN... DO NOT LOOK BACK, DO NOT TRY AND TALK WITH IT RUN TO ESCAPE OR AND THIS IS A LAST DITCH USE THEIR HATRED AGAINST THEM. RUN UNTIL YOU CAN FIND ANOTHER ONE AND LET THEM SEE EACH OTHER. THEIR ANGER AND MALICE CAUSES THEM TO FIGHT EACH OTHER.
Their hatred and rage is legendary on Atrisia within the region.. many ghost stories talk about getting lost in the forest and encountering spirits that shred and maul the victims or in cases each other. They are spread out far and wide in the forest wandering around almost aimlessly until they feel a living force presence... then they start to converge but if they should see each other they will fight each other. Communications with them have proven next to impossible in legends as they do not speak just relive the horrible things done to them. Because of that the emperor in the tenth era issued a warning that the forest be avoided by all unless it was essential. After the Onyx empress got lost in it with her sister it is believed the spirits killed the one sister but the other escaped. Reports are hard to verify and even less from crimes committed.
Over the centuries the forest has been designated as a danger zone and rarely ventured into unless it was important the spirits seeming to get more angry as time went on based on the rare case file that could be tied to venturing into the forest by teens who wanted to prove how brave they were. With the recent attacks and plagues it has kicked the horents nest of the spirits and made them appear more... made them more dangerous but they are often regarded as slowly moving and dim witted able to be tricked just not bargained with. Best advice given is to escape the area, to find a means to get out of the forest quickly or dissipate them as soon as you can with force energy.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
With the restoration efforts across the planet and rebuilding, exploration was deemed important to the royal family. The primeval forest with its constant clouds and stories of dark rituals was one such place. Io collected the accounts going back tens of thousands of years to compile them into a guide if you should be within the forest or trying to visit it to understand the dangers of doing such a prospect without the proper training.
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