Az’alith, the first Xoloth.

You are living in Tenebris, a dangerous world filled with wars between many different races. Alliances are uncommon and the stability of the realm is falling apart. Ruins are everywhere outside closed walls, creatures are lurking for fresh meat in the wilds, and villages barely hold themselves and need to be heavily protected. You are living in the capital of the humans in a low status district, you are poor…like many. The cult is growing restless, people disappear suddenly, strange noises can be heard at night and the air smell like suffering…

But at least, you work for a butcher, your best friend Paul is also working here and he do the deliveries. But something happened, he didn’t come back from his tour. Needless to say it’s very worrying. You know for sure there is no chance of him reappearing if you do nothing, you have to try ! So you told your patron about it and he wished you good luck, because the odds of success are close to zero. You asked him about the deliveries, he gave you a plan with the usual roads Paul take.

You then took the same roads and you asked the clients if they saw him and what time it was. You also asked some people on the streets if they saw him. Most of the clients saw him except for two of them who told you they waited him but nobody came. This means you know approximately where and when he disappeared. The problem is nobody saw anything suspect…the only possible clue you have is a client who told you that Paul talked with the divines. And this happened just before he disappeared, but this is the divines…

The divines, they are the members of the cult of the divines. They are from the holy cathedral in the upper district of the city but there are also smaller churches in the low districts. They wear long white robes with red markings and they are widely appreciated for the help the give. However, the rumors about the corruption of the divines are getting stronger, yet you never saw them doing something suspicious. You know life is getting riskier each passing year, going out at night is out of question, the villages outside the city are getting destroyed one by one…but you had some luck somewhat until yesterday.

You don’t have any choice but to go to the local church and ask the priests directly. Your are now approaching the church, a priest is outside. You are saluting him politely and then you told him about your disappeared friend, the priest was visibly shaken.

“This is terrible my child, come inside with me, I was at the cathedral yesterday but my colleagues can certainly help you.”

He opened the door of the church and we entered. Some people were praying inside, we then entered in another room where others members of the divines were. The priest asked me to narrate my story so I did. The members were anxious.

Head Priest: “This is a very bad news, we don’t need more of theses atrocious rumors. But I have good news for you as we know where your friend is.”

I was relieved !

“He told you where he was going ?”

Head Priest: “He asked some questions about the cathedral and the divines, he was actually motivated to join as a member so I offered him the opportunity to do so.”

Something felt wrong, he never told me about this…

Head Priest: “I see you are troubled my child, is something on your mind ?”

“This is because he never told me about his interest for the church before.”

I felt something ominous for an instant.

Head Priest: “He is actually doing his initiation at the altar room, like many before him. A brother can guide you here so you will be able to ask your friend directly.”

His words were reassuring but I am not convinced, I know Paul very well, this is not what he would do normally…I am getting suspicious of them.

Brother: “Follow me please.”

I followed him, he closed the door behind me, I suddenly felt less oppressed. Their presence was seemingly…crushing ? Is that the divines presence ? Shouldn’t I felt relaxed ?

Brother: “We will enter this corridor and then take the door at the left, the altar room is in a cave, this is the most peaceful room of the church.”

“In a cave ? I always fought the divines were god from the heavens, shouldn’t it be in place with a direct view from the sky ?”

Brother: “I could agree with you but who I am to judge what the divines want ?”

Legit in some way but…

Brother: “Enter first my child, the door is enchanted, I need to open it and close it myself *mumbling* here you go.”

I started to go down, it was well lit but as I passed the door, the oppression started again, like I shouldn’t be here. But I didn’t do anything wrong did I ?

Brother: “Take the first door at the right my child, but don’t make loud sounds please.”

I opened the door silently and I saw Paul ! But unconscious, and I heard mumblings from behind…my hands were now tied and I was pushed next to Paul magically !

Brother: “Sometimes, it is better to not ask questions “my child”. Your friend here were too curious about the rumors, well, the rumors are true after all.”

I couldn’t move at all !

“You are a dark mage !”

Brother ?: “Of course, we all are, the members of the divines are long gone, well, there is some there and there somewhere resisting us but it’s nothing really.”

“The cult is gone…but why ? Why doing this to the divines ?”

Dark mage: “Actually, they got corrupted by the inside, they have a lot of ancients relics and stone tablets secured but it only need one curious mind to unveil something that shouldn’t be unveiled. We just took advantage of the momentum and pushed it further. Anybody can be corrupted.”

“For what purpose ? Being evil ?”

Dark mage: “That’s insulting you know ? Being evil for being evil ? It’s stupid. Do you even know why we are called “dark mages” ?”

“not really…”

Dark mage: “The divines called us like this, we are actually some of the divines ourselves. We just discovered a secret of the cathedral, a well-hidden secret. A very ancient one but he couldn’t be accessed easily, at least, not if we didn’t take control of the divines.”

“Because life wasn’t hard enough, you had to make it worse ?”

Dark mage: “We are not responsible of the monsters killing humans outside, we are not responsible of the wars between realms. The bourgeoisie even talk about the responsibilities of the demons, but the fact is the demons doesn’t really care about this planet. They are not even from our dimension ! They just appeared because of a dimensional rift above the now called dead sea. Life is hard for everybody except the ones that are behind well-guarded walls inside the high district. Okay, maybe we made their lives a little harder recently.”

“But you are behind the disappearances !“

Dark mage: “Casualties, we prefer secrecy. Plus, these people are not even dead. At least, most of them are alive. And they are greatly helping us.”

“What ? How ? Why ?”

Dark mage: “Firstly, most of them are members of the divines, others are people like you, too curious. But we do like curious peoples, isn’t our instinct as humans to follow clues ? The need to know, to understand everything ? To know secrets. Knowledge is power is this world. You are here because you wanted to know, I am here because I wanted to know. And your friend wanted what ? To know. For now, he is under a sleep spell and you are going to be under one too. You are going to be sent to the cathedral this night, good night.”

And I fell asleep, I woke up in a new room, Paul was here, there is other people too.

Dark mage: “Ah, everybody is now awake, so tonight we have 5 new members, good, good. Before saying anything, I will answer the usual questions. Firstly, we mostly don’t kill people so except if you plan on harming us, you should be fine, really. Second thing is you are here for two reasons. You were too curious and we need people to help us unveil what was hidden from everybody living in this city. The last thing is yes, you are our prisoners for now but you will see it will not last very long.”

*Why would I join them ? Unveil what ?”

Paul: “We are here just because we where CURIOUS ?!”

Dark mage: “For what other reason ? We don’t do sacrifices, we are not necromancers. I think no one of you really know who we actually are and you certainly not know what is our purpose. We are ex divines for most of us and we are now the Xolothians. There is a very, very well-kept secret just under our feets you know ?”

“Can’t you just tell us what is it ?”

Xolothian: “Well, I will. There is an ancient city buried just under ours.”

Paul: “And ? Why is that so important for you ?”

Xolothian: “Ah ! That’s the good question here, don’t you all want to know why it was a secret ? The father of the divines was the keeper of the secret, a secret that will be passed to the next father and so on. A secret kept far away from everybody ! But ! One of us found a clue in the reliquary, an ancient stone tablet, like many others. But he had something on him, an inheritance from his father who had it from his father and so on. A very old amulet, unusual in look but not magic. That’s what he thought but she was magic, it was enchanted with an old hidden spell and it revealed itself when close enough to one of the linked items.”

You: “And ? What happened ?”

Xolothian: “Knowledge was infused in him and he could now use magic, basics, but still. And he then knew about the buried city and the existence of the Xoloths. As you already know, only mageborns can use magic naturally, others need a channeler. Most of us were not mageborns and now, we can use magic and we now have new knowledge ! We wanted to know more about the Xoloths, so we dug with the help of magic of course. And we found others tablets and amulets. We are now close to a huge discovery but we need one last tablet.”

Paul: “Natural magic use without being mageborn…this could change so much things…”

This is troubling, but Paul is right. That wouldn’t change everything for sure but, it could ease life.

Xolothian: “Right ? Xoloth needed nothing, they were hedonists, telepaths and magic users. They were bathing in abundance and pleasure. Xolth were all herms. The only thing we don’t know is how did they disappeared, there is no corpse, no bones, nothing ! They just vanished…”

Hedonistic lifestyle, abundance, the pleasure of both genders for everybody…

“This is…”

Xolothian: “Too good to be true. We all thought that. And anyway, this is them, not us, but the tablets gave us so much. Each time we found one more, our powers and knowledge grows. And we know the 10 tablet is going to unveil a deep secret, we don’t know why we know it, but we know it. And now that you are all interested, the tablets are behind this door, we will give you an amulet, each one you will wear it and then pass it to another one.”

He gave the amulet to Paul, he wore it and then they make us enter the room. Paul had a strange reaction when approaching the tablets, he was like not here psychically for a moment and then he came to his senses, he casted a fireball in his hand, just like that. He never used magic in all his life.

Paul: “It is true, all of it…the magic, the knowledge…they are right, the tenth tablet will be a revelation ! Try it yourself.”

He gave me the amulet, I wore it and it happened, I felt like I was warped somewhere unknown, all the knowledge was infused in my mind, everything about the Xoloths and the use of magic…no, not everything, something is missing, something important we need to know…this is so frustrating ! So close yet so far ! And then, without grasping the last part, I was warped back, I knew how to use magic, but I wanted to know more…

“I see now…”

I gave the amulet to another person. I felt enlightened. And after the last person received the knowledge, we came back to the Xolothian, ready to help them as we are now with them.

Xolothian: “You are now free. Welcome to our new members. Now…”

Everybody stopped acting, In my mind, I heard a call, the last tablet was found, the Xolothian father was calling every brother and sister with telepathy, he had the last piece of missing knowledge.

Xolothian: “WONDERFUL ! Everyone, took the tablets, we need to go to the ritual room, our leader, the one who found the first tablet will enlighten us !”

Some moments later, every Xolothian was reunited in the ritual room, the last piece of the puzzle was here. One by one, we approached the tablet and we got enlightened. The last part was the fact we could transform ourselves into Xoloths, and everyone of us now knew how. The Xolothian father will be the first one to do it of course.

Xolothian Father: “Everybody saw it, the last step for us is our elevation, the end of our sufferings.”

Becoming a Xoloth, of course ! It was the next logical step, why showing us so much pleasurable things if we couldn’t attain them ? This is our reward ! And then, the ritual began, it’s going to be easy now that we have the knowledge and the powers. All that was needed was the amulet in the right hand, to be nude and an incantation. The rest depend of the caster, it is said that the shape we will have can vary but our skin will be marbled grey, our eyes are going to be red and we will be herms.

The Xolothian Father was ready to start, he said the incantation while holding the amulet in his right hand and…his body started to change. He grew in size, her skin started to be marbled and grey, a tail started to grew he lost all his hair and her nose became longer and longer. His breasts started to grow, a lot. His testicles grew a lot too, his feets became hooved and huge. His penis became longer and longer while becoming jet black. The changes were so intense that he fall on the altar, he was on all fours on it, still changing. A huge pussy grew, with a big clitoris. His anus became bigger and bigger, to attain an immense size ! His placement on his body even changed. This was fascinating but also disturbing, would one really want to have such a grotesque form ?

I took a quick glance on the crowd, it was the same as me, a worried but fascinated expression…did we made the wrong choice…? The physical form of who was the Xolothian Father is now gone, he is still on all fours with his head down but then, at the moment the transformation ended, there was a wave of raw energy that shacked the entire room and our minds ! It was…sinister and oppressive but…glorious ! The crowd applauded the Father ! Then, he lifted his left arm to put it on his…no this is wrong, why his ? Her ! thigh, revealing her grotesque heavy saggy left breast. Her anus was twitching and gaping, same for her pussy. His cock was of a strange form, it looked like a sort of leech, ready to suck or…maybe this is just a very long sheath ? And her penis is barely even visible ?

Then she lifted her head and she turned it to her left, she looked at us and she had a smile…no, a grin of utter satisfaction…and then, an impulse of psychic energy emanated from her !

Az’alith: - AZ‘ALITH -

Yes of course, Az’alith, this is a herm, not a male anymore…

Az’alith: - Well done my childs, I feel so strong now, so powerful. –

I became lusty, craving her, her body didn’t seem grotesque anymore…her body was…perfect and I wanted to bath in it. I want to submit to her desires…

Az’alith: - Do you sense that my childs ? That raw energy of lust ? Come, come touch me, come play with me. –

Of course, why we wouldn’t ? That’s why we are all here right ? For what other thing ? No, this feel logic, this urge of servitude is perfectly normal. We need to do that for…

Az’alith: - Pleasure me and pleasure you, why are you dressed ? The ritual need to continue, the most pleasure you give, the most reward you got. You want to evolve in this greater form right ? Then PLEASURE ME ! And give me meat, raw. –

But of course ! Raw meat ! Why didn’t we thought of it before ? Stupid us ! And I need to undress now, I want to have a greater form too ! So perfect…

Az’alith (in her mind): - Great, I feel so desired, how exciting ! I am the first Xoloth, and I will rule, they are already subjugated. Our ancient spell worked perfectly. I have all the memories of their “Father” and I can shapeshift into him when needed. They will never know that their “Father” gave willingly his body and mind to an ancient being that manipulated him. He will now have the perfect existence he wanted, he will never starve and he will experience all my degenerate pleasures as he is now existing in my lower parts ! Heeeheee ! Shout all you want to your fellow humans, all this is doing is to make my pussy and lovely anus twitch, and I love this. You will learn to love it too, do you want to eat one of your brother or sister my dear anus ? You are hungry right ? Ah, you are gaping in excitement ! I’ll let you be so inviting that one of them will plunge head first ! Oh yes. And when they will be covered in my fluids, I will choose some of them for their rituals. That’s too bad they forgot how to do it and why they are here, how saaaad ! Heeeheee ! And they don’t even know that they can fuck my pusssoles ! Heeeheee ! –

Tricked by an Ancient Being, Bad Ending