Servant of the Gods
Servant of the Gods
by A.J. Kenning
The Gods and the Demons have been at war since time began. Their battle rages on each and every world in existence. The goal of this war– to seal off the enemy from each of the worlds, one by one. Until, eventually, the enemy has been sealed off from all of existence.
On one particular lonely world, the Demons have won.
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I am a child of rape. All of my kind are. For I am a Tsarvrath– a halfling demonkin. And there is, in reality, no other way for my kind to be conceived.
I know nothing of my parents, except the one thing that can be inferred– that one of them was a human, and the other was a Demon. I don’t even know which was which. Though it is likely that it was my father who was human, since it is quite rare for a human female to be able to survive bringing a Demon child to birth.
I can guess that my Demon parent is out there somewhere, on this world or another, ruling. But it is likely that he or she knows nothing of me, not even that I exist. Halfling children often mean nothing to them. And, my human parent would be long ago dead. Having lived out his or her pathetically short life many millennia ago.
Thus, I have no one. No parents. No siblings. No family. But that is of no loss to me. Because I am Tsarvrath, and we, unlike frail humanity, have no need of anyone else to survive.
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