Gargoyle

The legend of the Gargoyle dates all the way back to around the seventh century and to the time of Saint Romanus. He was said to have freed the country of Roeun of a monster called Gargouille  which was dragon like with large wings sprouting out from each shoulder blade and the ability to breathe fire. It wasn't much bigger than the average man but was way more ferocious and hated to be disturbed especially by humans.

The Saint brought along with him the help of a condemned man in a bid to battle the creature and two days later he returned with it subdued inside a cage and led back to Roeun to be killed. It was thrown into a large furnace to be burned, everyone could hear the cries of the gargoyle as it was burning up but something strange happened - the head wouldn't burn, it remained intact. Saint Romanus then mounted the head and stuck it outside on the walls for everyone to see, he attached it to a body made of stone that was filled with the ashes of the dead monster and unbeknownst to him or anyone else this actually warded off evil from entering that building and was therefore used for protection. As a thanks to the condemned man, whoever the Archbishop of Rouen might be has the power to grant freedom to any prisoner on that day every year.

In modern times the Gargoyle is a rarely seen creature with it thought to have moved around from country to country over the years before eventually returning back to France. There aren't many around anymore since word got out of the benefits of killing one has they have been hunted by the rich and desperate and used by them as security within their own homes. They are lonely creatures who just want to live a life away from everyone but have over time been conditioned to hate humans after what they have witnessed.

When they attack they do so maliciously, they do not need to eat that regular and only feed on humans when it is absolutely necessary. They are clever and only snatch people when they least expect it and when no one is around to see it, they would toy with the person for several days up to the point of boredom and then usually kill them in the most popular Gargoyle fashion and that is flying to the tallest building around and holding them upside down for a few minutes before releasing them to plunge to their death.

There is a debate over the decency of the Gargoyle and that it is only acting out after years and years of cruelty shown to them by people but this debate cannot be leveled at this one particular Gargoyle Rurluack. He is the nastiest one said to ever exist, he does not kill out of revenge or out of necessity he does it out of fun and anger but not only towards people but towards anything it can get its hands on , including his own kind.

It has been the subject of many hunts but never to any success, there has been many lives lost on the hunt for Rurluack. Fast and deceitful , he flies the skies of Paris full of rage hoping to strike down some lost soul walking alone and terrorize them. His mission is to destroy the Cathedral of Notre-Dame by first getting rid of the Gargoyle statues on the outside that ward the place of him entering then by killing all that are inside and finally bringing this Cathedral crashing down. This is where they have burned the bodies of Gargoyles for the last few hundred years since they moved from Roeun to Paris.

He can often be seen at the stroke of midnight standing on top of the clock of the Musee d'Orsay peering down at passers by, his wings a different colour to his body and his eyes yellow it is not hard to recognize him. The history of these creatures flows through the underground of the Paris streets, behind the beautiful cultural feel to the City lies the secret of the Gargoyle, one that is being tried to be kept desperately. Out there to this day are the flying beasts but more importantly out there still is Rurluack.