The Evil Within (Prequel‪)‬

The ‘Evil Within’ is the back-story of the Tears of a God series. This is the full story that Ishma, Witch and Seer, simply outlined to Cal while she was healing him in the Great Forest before he reached the upper land.
A thousand years of peace and prosperity, known as the Golden Age, was torn to shreds when High Lord Malphas fell to the evil within him and turned his scheming, murderous mind on his gentle, peace-loving brothers.
Malphas used his Lord's Power to kill a man. His tainted aura is noticed by another lord and reported to the conclave. But rather than face his peers, he makes his way into the mountains to gather his thoughts. But then he kills another man. He starts to like the feeling of power used in violence, and before long he has contacted a source of evil buried deep within himself and within a world of which he had no prior knowledge.
Soon, he is converting his fellow lords to his evil intent and his plan to overthrow the High Lords and take control of the land for his own, evil purposes.
The High Lords are not prepared for the violence and sheer horror to come. In their innocence and purity of soul, they are easy prey to the murderous intent of Lord Malphas and his unholy friends. This is the story of their downfall and the rise to power of Malphas and his unholy brothers.