WATCHER

WATCHER
 
For eons people of all races joined together in a common cause, a common
need, to form great cities to protect themselves from their neighbors and to
allow them to share the burden of lifes toils.  As more sprang and spread
the scars left by their building tore through the lands, making them
uninhabitable.  It was then that the god of nature appeared and told of what
was being done, and instructed those that dwelt in the cities to stop what
they had begun, and to restore what had been torn asunder.  But the people
were a vain and pompous lot, and had taken crowns and titles and made laws
that they felt justified their actions, even in the face of the words of a
god.  They did not heed his words, and so he left them with anger burning
inside him.
 
Then did the gods of death conspire against nature.
 
With the rebirth of the god Virigoth legions of undead rose from the
tombs and crypts to feed on the people of the lands, from a rift in time and
space came the Chaos Demons, reveling in the terror and suffering they
brought with them.  Then did the gods of death put their taint upon the
living, making them twisted, a perverted shadow of their former self.  They
were given eternal life, but at a price.  Called Vampires, they would
forever feed upon the blood of the people in the lands. 
 
And then the gods of light twisted their own.
 
They called their greatest followers to them and changed them, made them
a part of the Light itself, forsaking their spirits and bodies, they became
the nemesis of darkness, but they had paid a price in doing so, for they
were no longer what nature had made them to be. 
 
With each touch of their tainted forms the lands themselves cried out in
pain, deafening and torturing the god of nature.  And so it was that he
called to him his most loyal and hardy followers to combat those that would
tear down, those that would destroy, and those that are a taint upon the
lands, and in doing so created the Watchers.  Now they stalk the lands,
seeking those that rule and guard the cities, and those twisted by the gods
of light and darkness.
 
See Also: HELP STALKER, WARDER, ARMIES, RAID