In exotic Colchis on the farthest reaches of the Black Sea, a woman whose radiance was a gift to man became a princess when she married the heir to one of the wealthiest kingdoms. However, the prince was a brute, a drunk, and an animal… and she knew how unruly animals deserved to be treated…
When his family began looking for him, the woman told them they could find him hanging with the other slabs of meat at the butcher’s.
She became filled with spite.
Why should she give up the power she had rightfully earned? Did it not matter that the prince had earned his slaying?
Lacking the means to set things right, she fled Colchis during the night. She sailed beyond reason, to the point that any man would have given up…
But Circe was no man.
She demanded the universe answer her and give her the power she needed.
I have nothing to give but the spite that lives inside of me, and that I will not give away. I deserve this power. Give me what I seek or leave me to die.
Hecate, the witch queen, the protector of women, responded.
And so began the legend of the witch Circe. She, powered by immeasurable magic, influenced the world of men from afar. She was mighty, indeed…
…but somewhere along the way, Circe lost her very soul. And no matter how many spells she cast thereafter, how hard she searched, she could not regain it.
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