Lots of people claim to fight the "darkness". Its normally a creed meaning you fight corruption, bad people, and demonish creatures not like an actual thing. But for Valrym, the darkness most certainly was/is a real thing that he has fought, continues to fight, and will probably die to some day. I didn't know this but when the God's came into being (on this he is sketchy or outright lying, I can't tell for sure but he made it sound like one day he was nothing and the next the squat little jerk face I hate today) they all had a task assigned by their believers. For some its easy (like being the god of love you are supposed to encourage people to have sex, probably the easiest job next to the god of bad decisions, they probably go hand in hand) for others like Valrym he was created to protect the deep places of the world, and the deep places as he said are full of damn evil.
Yeah it seems much like how gods are created so are the horrors of the world. You ever tell a child "be careful of this monster?" STOP DOING THAT! Apparently it creates the damn things wholesale if Valrym is to be believed, and as someone who has fought similar creatures I'm really tired of having new nightmares fight my old nightmares to become mega nightmares. So the earth gods and Valrym as their Avatar (yes I said gods, back then there were multiple, not so much today) were tasked with fighting the Darkness. Each victory over evil was more reason for their believers to trust in their ability to fight it and so the gods got stronger. Which seems like a good thing until you realize no belief lasts forever, while evil is ever lasting, and so their foes got stronger but their victories fewer which weakened their support base (well that and Valrya murdering Valrym's believers like no ones business but honestly by the time that happened they were already pretty beat up).
The gods were not idiots though, they could see their power waning and their avatar getting weaker. So they did what anyone would do, they turned to their followers and asked for help (I mean what good is being in charge when you can't actually demand something of those you are leading). And so the champions of the earth guard began. A group of warriors lead by a man wielding the sword I now have in my possession (so you can already see how successful they were) the sword imbued with the power of the earth gods initially scored victories and believers soared. But again you are fighting a war against darkness and you can't win that ever.
Over the centuries the champions won and lost battle on battle, Valrym the gods avatar aided these people as he could, but he alone as before could not defeat the darkness and so the champions eventually fell as all heroes must. The sword remained a beacon, aquiring it back after a hero fell became a story in of itself for each champion, a kind of testing ground to see how worthy they were to wield the blade. Sadly as I said before, it was a losing fight. Every time a champion fell there were less champions to charge into the fray for next time.
It was shortly after Valrya murdered most of the remaining followers of the earth gods that Valrym was tasked with retrieving the sword by himself. His gods that were basically his parents were dying, their lack of followers combined with darkness overwhelming them in their own realms had lead to one final task, retrieve their weapon and wait for a day when it might see use again for the right reasons (so I'm sure whatever afterlife gods get, they are fuming its in my possession). And that tale, the tale of the final time Valrym fought beneath the earth, is one I will tell. Tomorrow naturally, I have to string you along little journal. Its what I do!
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