As the years pass, the poison spread from the lowest begger to highest puplic figure head. Soon the most moneyed men lived poorly, and the poor barely lived at all. What wealth the town had once owned had been hidden, hoarded, guarded and forgotten. Now surely fame on its own is not enough to bring a great town to ruin? Surely some good, pure hearted person must remain unblemished by greed? It is possible that for a time some such good persons existed in a happy bubble of ignorance. But the malignant nature of this towns Mayor was so evil, so petulant, so currupt, so malicious any good was picked out a literally turned on their head. Leaders so abysmally bad, they would have the innocent persons stood on their heads until their skulls cracked like walnuts. A truly unfortunate and despairing village.
The Mayor of the this village was a very unfortunate women. A unfortunate greedy selfish and totally terrible woman. Terrible Tessa is how she came to been amoung the people, however it is likely that being known by such a name, would not have displeased her. Terrible tessa would rule her sad, sickly, village with very wicked tounge, a cruel taloned fist and heart of steel. The only thing in the whole kingdom that truly terrible women cared for was herself. As such she ruled on her own desires, so her power and splendor flurished. She grew fat off their harvest and rich off their labors while the town continued to dwindel into oblivion. Its magnificance grew moldly and tarrnished terrible Tessa cared not a twitch. If the villagers were the poisonious blood of the beast then truly Terrible Tessa was most certainly the heart that pumped the poison through the town, on its way to rot and ruin. But why was Terrible Tessa so terrible.
This beastly village was once just a modest mouse of a town, With nothing that put it on the map, nothing of great renoun . It is said that absolute power currupts absolutley, which is sadly true in the case befor you. A once sulking little nothing of a town, surrounded by a very dense, very dark forrest crawling with unusually strange beasties, and unusually smart creepy slithering things, was apart from any other town and miles away from its feuldal lord. It was not long befor it was forgotten. It grew into its own autonomy as one currupt greedy vicious leader stepped forward and yanked all power from the people. Then another, then another, until democracy no longer existed. Villiagers were silenced like like cattle, If bribs were refused then murder was always an option. The opposition vanished into dark alley ways nightly. While poor witnesses saw nothing as their pockets over flowed with coin.
Soon it was Terrible Tessas time inherite the throne of power. Her Unkles brief term ended after a tragic hunting accident, her father died in his first week of office, what was left of him was found in his golden bathtub, with fat silver fish cleaning off his bones. Her brother, her poor weak brother ruled for no more then a day. Nothing, not even family would stay Tessas hand from getting what it wanted. No body even suspected the evil she was capable of as Terrible Tessa black withered heart was concealed behind her terribly awsome beauty.
