dark pictures

Don’t be fooled by her pale skin and innocent appearance. Nor be tempted by her beautiful eyes and luscious lips. While her long flowing hair smells of fresh spring flowers, her spirit reeks of the stench of death. She is a lovely apparition in search of life. The ghost of innocence doesn’t breathe or feel emotions, but by taking a life she gets a glimpse of what being alive must be like.

Her desire to see and taste blood developed over the course of time. Unable to feel what it’s like to have this life giving fluid flowing through her body, she smears the blood of the lives she takes all over her body. In some cases she even takes a few sips, just to experience its viscous texture and warmth.
What used to be the ghost of innocence has transformed into the ghost of death.

According to legend the sword that accompanies the skull has the power to change the tide of battle. However, it comes with a price. Before it can be carried out in battle and its power utilized, it has to take the life of an innocent virgin. It’s a sacred sacrifice a nation has to make if they want to stay under the power of the skull.

Nobody knows where it comes from, who created it and how it died in the first place. But it’s obviously the skull isn’t as much human as it is animal. The jaws, the teeth and the naturally evil eye sockets provide an indication that whatever it was before could not have been good.

For kings it was the easiest way to stay in power, but for the selected virgins it was a slow and painful death. With each war another sentence was fulfilled.