Gore Warning!
Be warned you are delving into Monmouth's grosome history - be prepared for blood and gore!
In 1882, the city of Monmouth was a hotbed of illegal and immoral activity, with extreme poverty and marginalised demographics split between worlds, which had been driven to the consumption of alcohol, violence, thieving or prostitution, and the east division of Trivery's road was considered one of the most dangerous in Monmouth.
The city of Monmouth had grown rapidly since the War Of the Red Waters which expanded the formidable Kingdom of Koultrék's empire, allowing them to build and develop further, undertaking exploration to the hostile surrounding areas to survey and discover new resources to meet an ever growing demand.
The day had begun like most others, walking down Trivery's road to the Old Ward into the bustling hub of Monmouth's transportation and service goods operation department (depo). The demand for workers and people grew as the worlds between those at the top and those at the bottom grew wider like a vast chasm. Having worked all day until the late hours of the night, a man weaved through the twisted and dimly lite streets; the night was gloomy with a harsh, bitter chill in the air, with a thick fog rolling through the streets which made the night all the more gloomy. Heading back down Trivery's road just before the strike of twelve is when the soon to be infamous killer 'The Midnight Reaper' took his first steps into the history books.
In 1888, the authorities found a gruesome sight in the early dawn of the morning. The sight was discovered by a newly drafted police officer James Monro, who had been recruited to help with the growing demand for law enforcement due to the lawless behaviour of the east division. While undertaking his morning patrol of the side streets just off Trivery's road, James found what at first from a distance looked to be just another drunk middle-aged woman, in the doorway of the back entrance to the air and go zeppelin yard, which would have been the eighth that morning alone. However, as James Monro approached the woman in the dimly lite streets, drawing his naphtha light from his belt and switching it on, to reveal and sight which turned his stomach upside down... A gruesome murder!. The body had been mutilated and torn with the very flesh itself ripped as though a wild animal had laid waste to the woman. However, no animal could have attacked with such veracity and precision to sever the vertebrae of the throat down to the spinal collum. Her sexual organs had been removed and placed around the body, and several other organs and body parts had been removed such as, a breast and her liver which wasn't recovered at the scene.
Letter from the murderer. by Gamez
Over the course of the next six months, twelve other women were found mutilated with body part removed and missing. The murderer was never found even after clues and taunts were left by what was believed to be the killer, such as; each victim being found with a small pile of what appeared to be black and purple ground stone and a handwritten note delivered to central ward station transportation depo, written in the blood of the third victim reading; "The night is dark and full of terrors, the gloom will rain as 'The Midnight Reaper strikes again, find enclosed one token from my last, catch me if you can!". The killer was named the 'Midnight Reaper' by the press as panic ensued through the streets, having many of the victims been identified as being murdered after the autopsy on or around midnight.
To this day the murderer has never been found only clues which led to the hostile mountains of Mount ingens terástios home of the Midnight lapis.
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