Mesmmer The Impaler. The rejected child of Marika. One of manies. The first one. Cursed and bannished out of the Lands Between ever since he was young. He never came back, never met his brothers or sisters, only Radahn, a few times only. He made himself a symbol of fear to help his mother, leading the Crusade without ever asking for anything in return, bu her love.

Did he ever get it?

No.

Oh, how he wished at night his mother would come back and hug him tight, telling him how beautiful he was and how much she loved him. Instead of what he was alone in a cold bed, in a too big and too cold castle, in Lands of Shadows, waiting for her return since centuries.

He wasn't alone no, he had his sworn Fire Knights, Rellana, and Gaius nearby, but it was never enough to fill the void into his chest, the need for love, true, undevoted and unconditional love.

Sometimes he left the castle, when the sun was settling, he would go back to the Shaman village, basked in gold, observing the Tree and the last remnants of what was once his mother and the village he had left behind. It was the only moment he ever felt a little closer to his mother, somehow.

All he ever wished was to be held, and loved.