Kashna, the Black Dragon
The Story of Kal Daka and the Black Dragon
The family DarkAmber has been around a long time. The curse of the DarkAmber stems from when the family was still know as Kal Daka. This family has always been ambitious, shewd and dark of heart. They were the favored clan of the Dark Gods, made powerful alias and deadly enemies.
This would be their down fall. One of the more powerful of the family, C'tuk, then the head of the family, was always seeking power and ways to destroy his enemies. So when he read of the great Kashna in an ancient scroll, he knew what it was he wanted. It was said that Kashna was once a mortal deciple of Chacemak, the Dragon God. She pleased her Lord so much, he gave her the gift of draconic immortality. As the tale went, if she was killed, and her eyes, wings, and claws were properly set by magic, would bring the wearer great powers.
The Eyes would give great insight into the future and would bring powers of the mind to the wearer.
The Wings would bring great magical powers and the mastery of the powers of the air.
The Claws were said to bring the greatest power over all, yet never said just what that was.
It was the Claws of the Black Dragon that C'tuk would seek. His quest would not be an easy one however. Kashna was immortal. But even immortals cam be killed, as it was with the Black Dragon. Only one thing could do that, the very thing that gave her the powers of the dragon. A small orb, then called the Orb of Chaos. This orb would later be used by Devane to trap the Angel of Destiny and kill the Dragon God himself and is now known as the Destiny Stone. It is an orb of unknown origins and holds great powers. It was this that Chacemak used to make his beloved deciple into the immortal dragon. And it was this that would kill her.
Obtaining this orb wasn't easy, but C'tuk used every backstabbing, evil way he knew and soon had the orb in his possession. And the location of his prey to go with it.
And so the battle would begin. It was a long bloody fight that nearly ended with C'tuk's death. The overconfident mage tried to fight her without the orb, thinking his own powers would be enough. But he did use the orb and killed Kashna, but before she died, she said this curse,
"Curse you Kal Daka! Guardian of the Damned I call upon you! Take this soul and those of his decendants into your care. Take these claws Kal Daka and all the power that goes with them, and may you be forever alone, alone for enternity, alone while surrounded by family that will be just as alone. I curse your line to the damnation of the lonely!"
And with that the family was cursed. C'tuk never got to use his plunder, as he died soon after. Leaving the claws and Eyes of the Black Dragon to the care of his family. It would be over a thousand years before any of the cursed would dare use them.
It was the generation when the name Kal Daka came to be known as DarkAmber. It would be the first of this new family that would take these items as her own. Kaylin, wife of Shadow the DarkAmber, who would be the first to use them. She would be trapped in the Destiny Stone. A fitting way to go when you think about it.
It would be her daughters that would later take these items. The worldly spirits of Death and Destruction, yet they were never to take on their roles as demons and were raised by a reformed Shadow and half-angel Akalia. Lilith would take the Claws of the Black Dragon, and Sirius the Eyes. Sirius would destroy one eye and give the other over to the care of the Goddess of Night. While Lilith would choose to take the claws for her own.
The curse still stands, Sirius has seen it for herself, and been forced to be alone and without those she loved many times. Lilith is just coming to realize her curse, and fears giving it to her son Eyas. She is currently seeking away to spare him from the families curse.
The Eye of the Black Dragon