Lesarius the Dark

When the sands of time were shallow still
The land just new, the seas just filled
The gardens grew thick, rich and green
Streams were free to flow, their melody serene

The gods decreed this Sacred Earth
With trees and beasts did life give birth
Yet another task was still to fall
A race yet needed to tend them all

So wrought from earth a mound took form
And light was added, to make it warm
Then gathered beasts of air and wood
As the mound broke loose, and a being stood

Then the gods spoke for all to hear
"This being we give, you shall not fear
The first of many and of his kind
A herald of light and passionate in mind

Imbued in him are gifts of life
To love and heal in times of strife
Knowledge to know, and know to learn
Of power and greatness he will never yearn"

But forces oppose and a warning was told
To any such beast that felt so bold
"Let not him stray, or wrong path embark
Lest see him turn, and his heart go dark

Night's black agent, life everlast
Thirsting for blood else he fast
A herald of dark you will then fear
Heed this warning lest death come near"

The age passed on in the gods' green palace
Peace reined true no hint of malice
Til one herald, Lesarius by name
Wondered his worth, thought not the same

He once was pure but corrupted he grew
His heart did yearn for something new
Knowledge, he learned, became a power
More he yearned and his spirit turned sour

His hair of gold turned black as coal
His love was lost as was his soul
Ages spent on knowledge he quested
His endless curse that never rested

Many races spawned of Earth
Seen Lesarius' eyes accursed
Bound as night's eternal squire
Earth now knew its first vampire

His life was blood that begged his call
His body held no life at all
Beware who dare this path embark
Lest fate match thee with Lesarius the Dark.