<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=81022.msg3572020#msg3572020">Quote from: Jaydon on September 01, 2010, 07:58:55 pm</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">&lt;Its summer time in the northern farmland of Malshire.  Malshire is a thriving Kingdom on the northern part of a large continent.  Its bordered on the southeast by the Kingdom of Upper Gont.  To the Southwest its bordered by the great Orange Sea.  The western border is shared with the Kingdom of Ellington, and East by the massive Onyx Mountains.  To the north of Malshire is a vast pine forest that stretched back to the foothills and finally the northern part of the Onyx Mountains.  Between the farm lands and the mountains is a dark and cold forest the people of Malshire have known as the Midnight Forest for as long as anyone can remember.  Parents tell their children if they are bad they will be sent to the Midnight Forest.  Very few people have ever dared to venture into the great forested north.  Of those that have, even fewer have ever come back to tell the tails of great monsters, ghosts and even worse.  In the past fifty years only seven people have been known to venture into the Midnight Forest.  Of the Seven, only three came back, and only one was not insane when he came back.<br/>The Kingdom farms at the southern edge of the Midnight Forest report occasionally seeing monsters and ghosts, but for the most part the threats stay within the forest and leave Malshire alone.  That was the norm, up until this late spring.  Reports from merchants who went to the farms on the southern edge of the forest reported signs of struggle but a lack of people on the farms.  By mid summer a handful of terrified residents had reported sitings of hideous creatures attacking the residents or farms and small towns on the northern part of Malshire.<br/>The King of Malshire is aging rapidly on his death bed.  His eldest son is power hungry.  There has been a long war with Gont that has remained only in the summer months, but the Prince hungers for true glory.  He is massing the troops on the western edge of Malshire to invade Gont as the autumn leaves fall.  He believes that if he attacks during harvest season, that Gont will not be able to pull enough farmers away to mount a defense to his forces.  This also means that the King can not spare many troops to defend his northern boarder against these new invaders.  The Prince has dismissed the fear of the presents that the Midnight Forest is attacking, as childish story telling.  Yet someone in the castle, someone with enough influence has sent word to a small number of hand picked warriors and would be heroes to go to the Midnight Forest and put an end to the invasions.  This is not well known in the kingdom, but a few people have found a letter under their door, in their carriage, on their desk.  The letter calls on secrets of their pasts, or motivations for their futures, all letters call on the readers to action to meet at one location in the northern town of Rockcreek.  This will begin the epic story of their new lives....&gt;<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Ack, I made a rookie mistake.  I had two maps, one had Upper Gont to the southeast, and the other had Gont to the west.  The beginning of this story should have Gont to the west and Ellington to the Southeast.  Sorry for the confusion.