Parasited Ember

The contract seemed simple: destroy the Barren Earth Star that was consuming his contractor's armies. No one told him the price of such a Collision...

When his fire finally devoured that cursed wasteland, the hellish red of his flames was extinguished forever, turning into a sickly, ocher glow that reeks of burnt earth. The Star did not die completely; it embedded itself in his core like a parasite, fighting for dominance in his chest and smothering his flames into a black, hungry ember. Two opposing Stars in perpetual war, forcibly united by a single, cold seam of Silver Fate that crosses his torso.

Tirenu no longer conquers; he lives in a perpetual state of hunt, seeking the Star that betrayed him, feeding the agonizing ember in his chest to postpone turning to ash forever. Every essence he drains brings him one step closer to his vengeance, but also sinks his core deeper into the affliction that corrupts him. They used him to destroy a plague and created something infinitely more voracious.