Solanum is the deific creation of another deity. He was spawned in the underworld and submerged within the river Styx. At his beginning, he was fully sentient and fully developed. The deity's realization that its creation was too powerful, elicited a violent reaction. The deity tried to kill Solanum. In self defense, Solanum overpowered the deity and killed the demi-god, and absorbed his creator's power to siphon abilities. With Solanum's killing of his creator, he ascended to the status of 'deity' and replaced him.
In fear, the other deities tried to put themselves in Solanum's favor, but when he merely met them with cold calculation and a stare that could have melted diamond, they thought it best to avoid the creature. However, they weren't through with something that made them so uneasy. They tricked Solanum into drinking from the river Styx - causing him to lose his voice - and, in his disoriented state, they merged their powers and sent him through a dimensional gateway so as to put distance between them and him.
He was lost in the multiverse, but determined to exact his revenge. Not once, but twice he had been betrayed, and he did indeed grasp the concept of betrayal. He wound his way back to his 'birth place' and he began to exact his revenge.
The decades that it took Solanum to return had been subject to much change. The deities (which once stood together) now warred and remained divided. One by one, Solanum slew his adversaries (without interference from the others). His final adversary, the most elusive and wise, was a demi-deity named Syn. Syn (who was originally the only one reluctant to send Solanum away) was as beautiful as she was powerful.
Solanum had finally cornered Syn, but her beauty stayed his hand - as well as her composure and serenity in the face of death. He tried to communicate with her, but his voice remained lost to him. However, she felt for poor Solanum, and helped him to learn to communicate.
Almost immediately, they fell in love. The love was strained and short lived however. Syn had to remain distant (physically) from Solanum, or he would die. Doomed to never touch, their love found much hardship. Torn and depressed, Syn threw herself into the river Styx and tried to drown herself in its acrid depths.
Fearful for her life, Solanum dove in after her and returned her to the riverbank. As Syn withered, she cried as her touch did not kill Solanum. Her tears were that of joy, and devastation (she could have touched him and lived forever with her love, who was born in a river of death). As she died in his arms, Solanum and Syn kissed for the first time. She died before she could openly admit her love. Solanum cried for the first time, his bitter tears falling on Syn's pale cheek.
With her death, a memory of her once perfect, beautiful existence settled itself within Solanum. He was imparted with her curse: the Death Touch. In spite of its potency, he could tame the curse and accomplish what Syn had once wished. He could touch without taking life.
However, he would take life soon. The demon who had burdened Syn with the curse that made her suffer so, was named Aethos. The demon was sly, and treacherous. It shifted form and lived to trick others.
Solanum neither slept nor paused in his search for Aethos, the demon who vexed his beloved so. Half of a decade of searching ended with a confrontation between the morphing Aethos, and the furious Solanum.
The battle they waged was epic. Solanum faced creatures who's names are lost to legend, and those who's names were never known. Aethos fought frantically against the broken hearted Solanum, but in the end, Solanum wore Aethos out.
Solanum's gaze petrified Aethos where he stood, and the words he would have said would be worse than acid. In horrific, deadly silence, Solanum grasped Aethos by the throat and proceeded to drain his life with Syn's curse. The touch of Solanum caused Aethos to shrivel and scream.
Aethos fell as a pillar of salt under such a touch. The life force of Aethos flowed into Solanum, as Solanum's creator and lover had, and he gained one more trait. Aethos's ability to Shape shift.
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