During his slumber when he was as The Shard, Baal learned of The Shard. He learned that nothing of this planet he was on could give him full access to his true abilities and each time he was reborn, The Shard would lock all knowledge of itself as a self preservation. He also learned he could predetermine certain traits and abilities of his new life such as a desire to seek knowledge or to be athletic or fat and lazy which he despised. So after he finished his tinkering, he was ready to be reborn.
Alexander Mightvall was a Warian by birth and by blood and he carried a dark secret close to his heart that not even his new wife Marissa knew: he had the blood of The First Warian King coursing through his veins. His wife Marissa had one of her own: her's was the blood of the Kingdom of Night's royalty. The Kingdom of Night's Royal bloodline had been hunted to extinction down through the generations forcing the survivors of the war that resulted in the birth of Atlantis to change their surname to Nighs in an attempt to stay hidden. When the War of Atlantis came, Alex and Missy believed they where done for but Alex got lucky when his old commanding officer happened by and recruited him back into the Warian Army. Alexander was able to pass his wife off as a Warian of low birth as they basically looked identical to humans. Through his deeds in the Atlantian War, Alexander got promoted to Head General of the Atlatian Legion Corp. #13. During his promotion ceremony his wife Marissa gave birth to their son, and Baal is reborn.
Baal was a quiet yet talented baby and had started walking on his own by two and was having full conversations by three. While the War of Atlantis raged on, Baal continued to grow and learn unaware of his past life and knowledge and of the powers within. During his coming of age ceremony, Baal learns of the plans to wipe out half breeds and enslave humanity. With his mother being human he makes the decision to foil the plan every chance he got . After memorizing everything and realizing a few things ... 1 their plan would take a few decades to complete 2 he could do it better and faster and 3 the exact plan of how he would do it, Baal quickly decides on a militaristic path and quickly advances through the ranks of the Atlantian Military and soon even out ranks his own father.
Eventually 14 years pass and with the Atlantians Fighting the Warian Human Halfbreed Correlation for the dominance of the planet, Baal finally finds himself in a position of power to enact his plan. One dark and stormy night while at work in his lab, one of his experiments back fires knocking him unconscious. While he's out he dreams he's floating over the world when everything suddenly turns crimson and a figure appears before him.
" I am the true Baal. The one for whom your named. I am your mother's creator and creator of all on this planet for it was created to stop your father's people from destroying mine and destroy them instead. However my plan was unsuccessful and I sacrificed myself to save this place now I am merged with the being known as The Last Primordial Shard of Chaos and have become you. Together we will end this war and foil the Atlantians plans for this place and then use their technologies to make us a body that can handle our full power."
Three days pass before Baal regains consciousness and awakens to find that his lab had burned down around him and several other buildings before the fire was put out. Baal quickly rushes home to find his distraught mother crying in his room.
At his touch she immediately jumps back in fright until she realizes it's her son and then immediately flings herself into his arms squeezing him in a hug and crying hard while babbling on about how they had thought he was dead and his father would be so happy to know that he was alive. At the mention of his father, his mother starts sobbing even harder going on about how he had been arrested on the grounds of treason and the only thing his father had ever done was marry his mother and have him.
Just then Atlatian soldiers come barging into his room ripping his mother from his arms and knocking them both to their knees. While his vision swam, Baal watched in utter horror as a soldier stepped forward and sentenced her to death by beheading for being a useless traitor human whore. With a swing of his sword, Baals mother's head falls into a sack and her corpse is dragged from the building.
The Atlantian Guard then turns to Baal and sentences him to a life in prison for being a filthy half breed.
An unknown amount of time passes before Baal wakes to find himself in a dungeon cell. It was dark and moist. No light shined inside from a window or from under a door. Deep and heavy darkness was all Baal experienced apon awakening. At first he was confused. He was sure something had woken him but what was impossible to tell in the oppressing darkness. Time passed as he sat in confused silence until suddenly the door to his cell opened and a burly bearded man walked inside raised his hands and then quickly brings them down atop Baals head, hitting him with an unknown object and rendering him unconscious.
When next he awoke, Baal found himself strapped to a table. At first he willed himself to move but was unable to. A look of concern then slowly creeps across his face as something from the corner of his eye catches his attention and causes him to reexamine the room he was currently in.
Shock and disbelief slowly creeps across his face as he takes in his surroundings and realizes that he is in some kind of lab. The walls, floor and ceiling are all blindingly white. The shiny thing that had caught his attention was a silver object that looked like some kind of torture device. As soon as he realized this he immediately looked down and found that he was currently strapped to a metal table, his left leg was missing from his knee to his foot. His right arm had been sliced open from his wrist to his elbow exposing his veins with sections of muscle missing. Then he discovered his reflection which revealed his face had been pealed from his skull and he had been split open from chin to bellybutton revealing all his organs and his rib cage being held open revealing what was beneath causing him to pass out from shock.
While unconscious The Shard speaks informing him of the need to self destruct his current form before they manage to extract the shard. Learning that it was possible for someone to take his power away, Baal panics for the first time ever causing himself to awaken back inside the lab.
A bald fat man with glasses is staring at him when he awakens with delight. " Oh goodie. I was hoping to be able to speak with you before I started the very painful and very lethal extraction. You see when doing a scan of you we learned you have a very powerful energy coursing inside of you and through study over the past several days I've devised a way to extract what can only be described as a crystal shard of some sort . Unfortunately for you you won't survive the process. Now care to tell me what it is, how to use it and where you got it ? No? Well no matter it will be Ours in the end." And with that the fat man injects Baal with something rendering him unconscious.
The Shard reveals to Baal that the self destruct had been started. As soon as the extraction process starts to actually starts removing The Shard, The Shard will explode.
And exactly three hours later the fiery remains of the once Great Kingdom of Atlantis sinks beneath the waves of the water sufficiently ending the war between Atlantis and the main land over night. Baal and The Shard slowly sink to the bottom of the ocean as they disappear with the rebirthing process.