Forces Beyond The Grave

7.4

"Ekaterina Quinn was born in 1440, her family originally owned the manor, they were wealthy, but they were travellers. They were the first family to come across the field, the open land, and they claimed it for themselves. As you know, travellers have their own kind of magic, it's powerful, but it came solely from the women in Ekaterina's bloodline, as she was from a line of the most powerful traveller witches this land had seen. Witch magic and traveller magic in the same blood line? Ekaterina held more power than she could ever imagine, her family knew just how special she was. But she was expected to give it up, for the sake of her elders and a ritual that would be completed to distribute her immense power throughout each of them, because they knew that that much magic in one being was dangerous, it could consume her. But she was young, naïve, and she couldn't understand how selfish her family would be if they forced her to complete the ritual. So she did her research, she started combining both kinds of magic into one force, practising her very own creation of energy that nobody had seen before. She was warned of the temptations of venturing into dark magic, all she wanted was to be strong enough to resist the ritual and keep her magic to herself, but it backfired, and she gave into the temptation of using dark magic to increase her strength. By hand, she created an immortality spell for her and her friends, linking the four of them in the process. They would have lived for hundreds of years, but when she tried to adjust the spell the darkness in her magic consumed her. Since she and her friends remained linked through the spell, they passed along with her, and they became spiritually bound to the manor for the rest of eternity. I know you're wondering how this has anything to do with you. You, my love, are Ekaterina's dopple ganger. You're her twin, the universe's way of replicating her, right down to the DNA, her beauty is your beauty, her blood is your blood, and so forth. There was a legend that one day a replicate would be born with the power to restore the magic of the Quinn bloodline, and from the moment you were born I knew your destiny. You are the legend Lennox. You are what the stories talked about, it has always been you."