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I have never known the freedom of the climb.

I have never known what it is to fly, to move, to see beyond the haze of my own existence. To rise through the heat and over the flames, to feel the rush of smoke against my form, to smell the wretchedness of humanity laid out endlessly beneath me.

For centuries, I have been chained, collared, subdued. Now, I am unleashed and I will fulfill the dark purpose for which I was created.

I will find the human, take hold of his heart and his mind, and bind his very soul to my will. I will not rest until I have sown such terror and despair into the world that it will never wash clean.

I am Annoth’zagoz, Demon of the Seventh Tower, and I am coming for you, Theodore Keating.