The story behind ShadowKnight.
I came up with the idea a long time ago, after reading the book Eragon by Christopher Paolini, just the first page of the first chapter, that’s what got me.
You see, it was the character Durza, he was a Shade, a demon-sorcerer with crimson eyes, who cast powerful spells, and struck fear into his henchmen as a group of elves tried to escape from him with a dragon egg.
But I loved the character, and that small part he played. I invented an origin story for such a creature, (which turned out to be not too far off from Paolini) and restored its humanity. The story built from there.
Since then I’ve changed the coloring, switched the name from Shade to Sorcerer, because shades are Paolini’s, but I had to give a nod to him, cuz without him publishing his book, I wouldn’t have published mine.