![]() ![]() Washing up in the Caribbean centuries later (and drawn by a pull he could not understand) Spinal took up a pirate’s life as a way to track and plunder precious items moving around the continents, always focused on finding the Mask. But he was finally strong enough to break out of his coffer, and Spinal wandered beneath the oceans and seas, searching fruitlessly for the Mask, scouring the wrecks of ships for any trace of it. The cost on his undying mind, however, was grave and most of what was the man was now burned away to insanity and unquenched desire. Over centuries of isolation and imprisonment in that confined space, Spinal slowly gained control of his body, able to once again exert a will on his bones and form them back into a human skeleton, held together by ghostly sinews. While his flesh melted away, Spinal’s skeleton remained, and even when the Mask was removed from his seared and smoking skull, there yet persisted a will and a force that moved the bones, however feeble it might be.įearing that this punishment would backfire on him, the King ordered the wretch’s remains sealed in a lead coffer and the Mask thrown into the sea. He had become a mere automaton wielding dark magicks.Īfter a time, the King grew bored with this torment and ordered Spinal to burn himself alive as a final rite of purification in penance for his crimes. He felt every cut, break, and wound his body endured, but he could not act against the all-powerful will of the Mask. Trapped inside his own head, Spinal went mad as his body carried out more and more brash and dangerous tasks at the behest of the king. The Mask did not prevent rebellious thoughts and free will but it overrode any attempt to disobey the King’s commands. This accursed veil turned Spinal into an unthinking arm of the King’s will, bound to protect and serve the potentate, with no ability to question even the most suicidal of orders. Each was burdened with a curse that would unravel their bodies and minds in unique and diabolical ways.Īs punishment for his rebellion against rule, Spinal was shackled to a powerful artifact of control: the Mask of the Ancients. The monarch proved too wise however, and the conspirators were rooted out, captured, and subjected to sorcery. Recruited by a scheming vizier in ancient Babylon, Spinal and his bandit network were hired to disrupt the city’s flow of resources-one small move of the Vizier to lessen the King’s power by constricting his wealth. In clearer moments, when the insanity of his ancient bane isn’t fully in control, Spinal remembers snippets of his previous existence, before he was cursed, when he was human, feared, and rich…. ![]()
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