Origin Of the Curse- Searchers Companion Entry I

The Ravenmoon Curse
The Ravenmoon Curse comes from long, long ago. Eons have passed and most of the records have been lost, but one thing we do know is the first case of the Ravenmoon Curse, and its origin. We know that Quel'thalas, a High-Elf, killed a Female Red Great Wyrm. The Red, Fyrentennimar, had decided that if she was to fall she would lay a curse on that Elf and his/her descendants. We know not whether it was a battle in a Dragon-Elf war or simply a Dragon hunt, but a battle between an elf, or even 50 elves, is a fierce and deadly affair. It is unlikely, if not downright impossible, for one elf to kill a Great Wyrm. Thus the common belief is that he was in a party of 50 other elves yet in the end we do know that he was the only one left standing, the only one to walk out alive. The Dragon Fyrentennimar knew the Elven culture at the time, and so had woven a curse into her own blood and bone. The Curse had three words of power yet they formed the main extent of the curse. They are, as written in the old tongue on a slate of the dragon's own bone, and once more recorded in Ausar's Record, POWER, DARKNESS, DEATH. After Quel’thalas fell Fyrentennimar he ate her heart as was the custom of the time. Thus ensuring the curse was within his own blood. Hours after eating the heart of the dragon, the first scales began to appear. A Dark Blood red color on his chest over his heart. 7 years later Quel’thalas went mad and left the Elven forests. But not before continuing his bloodline, and thus ensuring the continuation of the curse. Some legends even state that he walked into the Shadow Realm during his madness. He searched but could find no cure. And 15 years after the curse had started upon him, it ended him as was decreed by the old one.