I have been a reader for most of my life.  I started with the Elfstones of Shannara around 15.  I played DnD extensively starting when I was 11 and I think that is where I learned to tell a story.  I played games and mmorpgs as well as time and technology progressed.  
I created a villain in 1986 playing dungeons and dragons.  His name was Arawn Mistweaver and he was an albino drow, lawful evil fighter mage.  He had the moral code of a yakuza and was absolutely ruthless.  Why is that important...well that character stayed with me in my DnD days as well as the gamer days.  There was always an Arawn but I never wrote anything about him.  
I stopped writing in college.  I had a professor of creative writing accuse me of plagiarism and said that there was no way anyone like me could have written something as great as what I had turned in to her.  She demanded to know where it came from.  I was so offended, and young, I just quit. I've not really written anything since.  On August 6th, 2020 I decided I needed to write an origin story for Arawn.  I was sitting down and asking myself, "Does Sauron know he's the bad guy?  Do Villains start out evil or is there a series of little things along a road that pushes them enough that they choose to become the villain.  Well, this is the beginning of that story for Arawn.  It's about how a hero falls.  Welcome!