Jonathan (Son of Morgoth)

(WIP- please do not edit) Jonathan is one of the main protagonists of the Tapestry of Dark Souls novel. To date, he has not been mentioned by name in any game products in the Ravenloft line. However, he is referred to in Brother Dominic's entry in Champions of the Mists as Morgoth's "own son" whom helped the Order of the Guardian to overcome Morgoth and the Tapestry of Dark Souls (also known as the Gathering Cloth).

History

Jonathan (718 BC-735 BC) is the son of an outlander woman named Leith. She was a mother Jonathan never got to know, as her lycanthropy and influence from Maeve led her to sacrifice herself to the Tapestry of Dark Souls following his birth. It is with this dread artifact that Jonathan's paternal origins laid, for the imprisoned warlock Morgoth had somehow reached beyond the Tapestry to impregnate Leith prior to her imprisonment. Jonathan also inherited lycanthropy from Leith, the latter having been infected by Maeve.

Left in the hands of the Order of the Guardians, he was at first left in the hands of a family known to be trustworthy and seeking the care of a child, Andor Merriwhite and Dirica, both residents of Linde and the caretakers of the Nocturne inn. However, the boy did not bond with his would-be foster parents, leaving Dirica greatly traumatized. The monastics took Jonathan back in, raising and giving him instruction for the first seventeen years of his life. He learned how to play the flute and the harp from Brother Peto, how to fight from Brother Hektor, and magic (if very sparingly) from the disciplinarian Brother Leo. During this time, the existence of the Tapestry was [concealed]] from him.

At age 17 (in the year 735 BC) under the partial influence of Leith communicating to him from the Tapestry, Jonathan became interested in the hamlet of Linde after rescuing Sondra by inadvertently but instinctively leading some wolves to attack a band of goblins assaulting her. They grew close. In addition, he came to train under Ivar, a friend of Leo (and the other Guardians) but whom differed from Leo in how he approached tutorship. Whereas Leo was slow and reluctant to give secrets of arcane lore to Jon, Ivar hardily and proudly encouraged his development. With Ivar's help, Jon's skills in wizardry bloomed.

At the same time he was flourishing, several forces ate away at his attachment to the Order of the Guardians. He encountered the bestial sacrifices the hamlet performed in order to generate good fortune, which began to awaken his bestial nature. With the assistance of Maeve, he came into the full knowledge of his nature as a werewolf. And as he drew closer to Sondra and earned praise as a musician at the Nocturne, he drew the enmity of Miysha, Sondra's jealous would-be suitor. Miysha and Jon's mutual antipathy built to the point that Miysha employed Aldern and Josef to ambush Jon, beat him to near death, and leave him for the goblins to feast upon. However, with the intervention of Maeve, Aldern and Josef were both themselves murdered.

By far the greatest thing that led Jonathan down the path of corruption was the influence of the Gathering Cloth, a collector and magnifier of Evil in the heart.