Morgoth

Morgoth was one of the most vile and terrible beings imprisoned within the Tapestry of Dark Souls (also known as the Gathering Cloth). He eventually freed himself brought an army of monsters to bear against Brother Dominic and the Order of the Guardians. The conflict ended with the destruction of the Order's monastery on Markovia but also ended with the death of Morgoth and the unmaking of the Tapestry.

Morgoth serves as the main antagonist of the Tapestry of Dark Souls novel. He should not be confused with Morgoroth, a similarly evil wizard but a completely different character.

History

Known as the Silverlord, Morgoth began, according to his own testimony, as a meager slave sold by his parents to a horrible master that instructed him in the dark arts. However, Morgoth grew in power and recognition over time such that his master became jealous and worried about the potential of rebellion. Thus, according to Morgoth, his master ordered him to travel to the shrine of the Order of the Guardians and destroy it, or be destroyed in its place. Morgoth got to the cloth, but his overconfidence allowed the Cloth to imprison him.

However, Morgoth soon discovered a way to free himself and all the [[[prisoner]]s in the Cloth. On the night of a full moon, he unbound the Evil souls. The Order of the Guardians managed to seal all the Evil back into the Cloth, but only with great sacrifice. All of the monastics of that Guardian cell met their doom, save for three survivors. Moreover, Morgoth blinded Brother Mattas, one of those survivors. And despite his defeat, Morgoth discovered how to lure more victims for the Tapestry to absorb.

In 717 BC Morgoth brought Vhar and Leith to Markovia near the Monastery in Markovia. In the chaos that followed their initial exposure to the Gathering Cloth, Morgoth raped Leith from inside the Cloth and impregnated her. Later, Leith gave birth to her son and him over to the Order of the Guardians, whom named him Jonathan and raised them as their own child. Having herself been infeected with lycanthropy, Leith surrendered her own life to the Tapestry of Dark Souls.

Morgoth waited seventeen years before he was fully able to fully manipulate his son. Casting the Guardians as liars and deceivers, Morgoth manipulated Jon into freeing him. Portraying himself as a benign father figure and teacher, Morgoth persuaded an oath of loyalty from his son, with the implicit threat of doom to his loved ones, especially Sondra, weighing deeply upon Jonathan's heart.