World's Edge: Diabolyk

The world is full of forests.

Those forests are vast.  Those forests are full of secrets.  

Secrets are kept from the world in various ways.  

This secret is kept by a Well.

This well is in a forest.  The forest is dark, dense and deep.  Creatures live here.  Things of various shapes and sizes.  The creatures here are different than elsewhere.  They are unnatural.  

They have a keeper.  Once a man, now he considers himself a living Nightmare.  Once he was called James.  Now he calls himself Diabolyk.

A doctor in a previous life, he treasured life above all else.  Happy to save it, grieving at loss.  A noble man.  Noble until someone Changed him.  Someone, something, it matters not.

A frantic patient brought into the ER suffering from what appeared to be wounds given by some fierce beast changed this mans life.  The patient was different than any other.  She was tall and thin, porcelain white and when she spoke the room got cold.  

His first thought when he saw her was that she was dead already. She had the look of a banshee.  Long silver hair, dark rimmed eyes and pale blue lips.

It was her kiss that set him down the darkest road he could never have imagined.  Her kiss robbed him of his wife.  It took his two children.  They were gone yet thanks to his gifts...they would always be with him, just not as they were in life.

There is a well in a forest, the forest is dark and dense.  The forest hides the screams of the poor souls that have the displeasure of meeting Diabolyk. The screams go on for hours.  There is no shortage of unwilling participants for the good doctors experiments.  

Short in stature, broad in shoulder, strong and willful.  Often he would boast of his accomplishments to those in the scientific community, of the accolades and awards.  No longer was he competing with their Filth.  Now he was on a plain all his own.  His business was life itself.  

His life and that of Nischa, the one who burned his old eyes to give him his new sight.  

She took him away to the forest so dark, gave him the tools he needed to perform his work and the foundations for his research.  

He loved children the best.  He needed a steady supply of children for his work.  

Children make the best host bodies for The Aspects.

It's because of the Purity.