How do you think the old man got his curse?

It's gotta be a way to seal off the dungeons spooky scary monsters. In order for skeletron to stop rampaging and the dungeon monsters to go away, they needed to curse someone. Someone needed to become skeletron's vessel.

That's who the clothier is. Or the old man.
 
Skeletron needed to guard the Dungeon. He needed a person whom he could inhibit, so that he could warn the people who tried to enter against entering his dungeon, before killing them(Killing them straight away is not fun. The killer can't say a "I warned you":p). The Clothier accepted the job(More likely was forced).

After so many years of being a container for the Skeletron, he started to get mad, also started to loose control over his body, even during day time. This suggests how he vaguely remembered tying up the Mechanic, against his will.

So this "job" of his became a curse that he had to carry, until the Legendary Warrior of the prophecy came to free him.


(I could still explain in-detail, but I'm lazy at the moment :p)
 
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The Cultists needed someone who looked Human, who looks non-threatening to Terrarians that may explore their Dungeon of Secrets. To dissuade Terrarians from exploring from the Dungeon, the Old Man was bound to the entrance of the Dungeon to warn Terrarians of the danger. To actually prevent Terrarians from exploring the Dungeon, they summoned Dungeon Guardians that are bound to the Old Man/Skeletron. Very Powerful, but their "heart" rests in Skeletron which is why they cannot appear after Skeletron has been defeated and the Old Man freed of the Cultist Curse.
 
Every year, a few people tried to break into the dungeon, because there were tales told about great treasure in there. None of them ever seemed to come back, though.
One day, a young man decided to laugh in the face of danger and brave the dungeon. He went along with a few other people, who were all planning to cheat each other out of the fortune that lay within the strongly protected walls. They climbed down far into the dungeon, hopping over the spikes and ducking under dart traps. Soon, the young man and someone else stumbled upon treasure. He took it all for himself, and when the other person asked for some of it, he refused. The woman he was searching with attempted to take some of it, and then the young man killed her.
This act of desperate greed disgusted the dungeon guardian, and it attempted to kill the young man. He barely escaped death, but with a price. He would be trapped forever at the dungeon, stopping people from doing what he had done. Many years later, he grew old and lost almost all hope, filled with regret. One evening, though, a slightly arrogant hero boasted of how he could beat the old man's master. The old man summoned his master, but while doing that, got killed.
 
One day old man was walking around the dungeon but then skeletron got inside him because skeletron likes old people but dungeon guardian is really scared of old people so dungeon guardian is hiding in dungeon and kills every one because he thinks its an old man. then when you kill skeletron old man moves to your house so dungeon guardian is happy so he leaves. and you can explore the dungeon without dungeon guardian attacking you.

took me 15 minutes to think about this.
 
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One day old man was walking around the dungeon but then skeletron got inside him because skeletron likes old people but dungeon guardian is really scared of old people so dungeon guardian is hiding in dungeon and kills every one because he things its an old man. then when you kill skeletron old man moves to your house so dungeon guardian is happy so he leaves. and you can explore the dungeon without dungeon guardian attacking you.

took me 15 minutes to think about this.

seems accurate
 
For a very loooooong time ago the world was a house for a strange population. They were really strong and survived many attacks from the space, they even working on a project that they will conquer their enemie's homes and beat them forever. So they were building an underground base that has many confusing corridors and rooms even traps and boned warriors to protect it. But, when they completed and ready for real battle something went horrible and horrible wrong...

There was a space nation called Marnites conquered almost all universe and then they targeted the last world unconquered. The battle was real epic, just was a true legend! But unfortunalety the luck wasn't the inhabitants, so Marnites all about to win a great victory. But onebody thinked that this is not ended. He agreed to boned warriors that he and the warriors will have the same body and have combined power. Fortunately the tactic worked, the Marnites all defeated and the world finally survived. But, just the world...

The inhabitants were all killed, the one who has combined powers with warriors was cursed and prisoned on the entrance of this structure. Also, the combined power didn't ended, it started to sleep in the deep of the base. Whenever someone enters the deep of the base or this cursed guy wanted to be free from his curse the power kills them...

Today, we know this base as The Dungeon, the power as The Dungeon Guardian and the cursed guy as The Old Man. Luckily, there's new inhabitants they can want to lift the curse of Old Man and fight against the combined power...


It was a hard and also enjoying job to write all this. Hope you enjoyed!
 
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