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This is the story of a bird.
Once, a long time ago, this bird sat on the left shoulder of death and, other than for the
reaper’s steed, was Death’s only companion. Together, the rider the bird and the horse
went out into the world and hunted for souls to take to the afterlife. The reaper and his
steed knew only this duty, but the bird was prideful and greedy. It begged Death to give it
souls of its own to hold dominion over.
Death refused, but the bird persisted, cawing in the reaper’s ear incessantly. Eventually,
even Death’s patience was exhausted and, in a rage, Death cast the bird down into the
shadowy space between the world of mortal men and the afterlife. It gave the bird dominion only over those incomplete souls could not move on to the next world and who
were trapped in limbo as ghosts, spectres, and phantoms.
The bird, for its part, was also enraged. It grew capricious, cruel, and spiteful and hatched
a plan to swell the ranks of its own kingdom at the expense of death.
It became a spectral thing itself and, haunting the minds of wronged men, the bird taught
mankind how to seek vengeance. It remade itself from an avatar of death into an avatar
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