The Legend of the Red Eyed Assassin

[Tuinor]

This is the story of Tuinor the Red Eyed, my namesake here on the moot. I'm writing on this for personal enjoyment, but will hopefully be entering a large excert of it in a writing contest. Wish me luck! (and deliver any criticism you wish on it! All such help is appreciated!) I will sooner or later set up a discussion thread for it... be patient! And, with all that said, and no further ado, I give you "The Legend of the Red Eyed Assassin"!

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The Sight of Blood was his curse. Yes, that was the punishment brought down upon him. Some say he deserved worse; that the acts he committed against the Ain Ilndiri merit nothing less than death. Others believe he was justified; few in Terracia’s short history have suffered such pain and loneliness as he. Tuinor would say that he indeed deserved death. He would have accepted it, too. Perhaps death was too light a punishment. Perhaps his misery had caused him to welcome death. Either way, it can be said that there are few in this world that understand justice better than he.
What few know about Tuinor is that he himself is of Ain Ilndirin blood. Yes, he was even born a prince of that most prestigious race. And yet, even though he was born into one of the highest niches of society in his world, he was alone. Very few know why Tuinor was rejected by his people. Some say he was wicked at birth, that he was possessed of an evil spirit. Others hold to the idea that he was illegitimate, and his father cast him out in fear of his own exposure. However, there are some (in fact, a select few) that believe it was a deeper matter than this. For, you see, the Ilndiri are all beings more of spirit than of flesh, and their spirits can reveal themselves in many ways to a careful eye (as all Ilndir have). The bodies of the Ilndir, it is said, are like vessels of class. Their spirits can be seen in the physical world. It is believed that Tuinor’s father, the esteemed Kallith the White, saw into his newborn son’s spirit and perceived that it was a dark spirit, yet he knew not whether it was evil. It is thought that this may be why his father banished him to the edge of his realm, and why Tuinor may have been so prone to evil in his later life, yet none now can say. For who has ever looked into the soul of the Red Eyed Assassin and lived to tell the tale?
It was thus that Tuinor grew as an outcast in his world. He was close to none save his mother, and she was forced to abandon him as well when he grew into adolescence. Thus he spent a great deal of his young life living in the wild, learning how to survive on his own. Well, it came to pass that his mother (who still loved him dearly) would visit him during the time of Eildom’s waning. It was in those times that she furnished him with what few things she could bring to him in secret. This was how he survived until he had lived nearly fifteen years of the Undari.
It came to pass that one night, during the time of his mother’s visit, Tuinor experienced the first and greatest tragedy of his life. His mother was unusually late, and he decided to go and meet her on the road. He found her, true, but when he did, she had been attacked brutally, and by what she called, “a demon.” Her last words were spent on Tuinor as she lay dying in the moonless night. He stayed with her body until early dawn when he was found by a search party sent to find the missing Lady. Despite his words, Tuinor was arrested as the murderer (indeed, the Ain Ilndiri still hold to the idea that he did in fact murder the only one who loved him). He was brought to court to be tried on the murder of his mother, which is where his childhood ends, and his legend begins…