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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><u><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 26px"><b>Nations of the Second Age</b></span></span></u><br>
<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 26px"><u><b>A History in Seven Volumes</b></u></span><br>
<u><b><span style="font-size: 26px">Volume IV</span></b></u><br>
<span style="font-size: 15px">By Viktor Mageson</span></span>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><br>
<span style="font-size: 15px"><i>We have, in previous volumes of this work, touched on the earlier history of the Second Age. Primarily, we have touched on the Magisteri who, in their long and storied history as a people, came to dominate the continent of Enmundi. We will continue to confine our historiography to the continent of Enmundi, which in the Magisteri tongue is the "little world." Bounded on the east by an impassable desert, and to the south by the dense jungle of Moora, Enmundi was a self-contained microcosm well into the Second Age, justifying the name which the wayward sons of Plendar gave it after the Desolation of the First Age. <br>
<br>
We begin our treatment of the successor states to the Magisteri in the year 5420 of the Second Age, for it was in this year that the long Concord between the gods had ended (though most of the mortal races of Enmundi did not know it yet). The gods of the Underearth were eager to reestablish their holds on the realms of mortals after long years in the dank dark of the underworld. Meanwhile, the forces of good on the surface of Enmundi were beginning to wane. The worship of Morfus was, it is true, almost a novelty in many parts of the continent — and furthermore any affection for the Ill'Cantori who had shepherded mortals in their darkest days was beginning to fade. Many kingdoms even rose to challenge the gods themselves. But in  the midst of great evil and upheaval, there were opportunities for the greatest of the Second Age to prove themselves...</i></span><br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><u>Maimon, the Underearth City of Ploutorio</u></span><br>
</span>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><span style="font-size: 15px">The dark spires of Maimon rose into the cavernous sky above the dark under-city ruled by Ploutorio, the dread god who had harassed the races of mortals for ten thousand years. And for ten thousand years he had ruled the demons of the underground with an iron fist, terrorizing the mortals who would dare to dig too deep, coveting the stores of adamant and gleaming crystal that he grew to entice them below the world. In the five thousand, four hundred and twentieth year of the Second Age, in early autumn, a lieutenant Malacaccio, fresh from a failed campaign against the crystalline Geldeks of the north, approached the throne of Ploutorio. </span><br>
<br>
In the throne room, two red-skinned throne guardians with halberds of gleaming black bronze flanked an enormous pillar of light, red and casting a haunting glow over the black marble of the subterranean palace. Malacaccio, his plate stained with blood not his own and his black hair and goatee glistening with sweat, knelt before the throne in homage. He shut his eyes and waited for the inevitable response. <br>
<br>
"You have failed me, Malacaccio. My patience with you grows thin."<br>
<br>
"Yes, my lord," coughed Malacaccio nervously. <br>
<br>
"And yet, none of my lieutenants have thus far defeated the Geldek in combat. Their magics are, apparently, no match for my legions whose power I cannot supplement with my own." The disembodied voice echoed around the chamber, causing the throne guardians to kneel in reverence. "Thus, I forgive you this failure, and you may take as punishment only the loss of three fingers from the left hand."<br>
<br>
One of the guardsmen stepped forward, and at this gesture Malacaccio wordlessly held out his left hand with three fingers extended. Drawing a thin, curved, one-sided blade, the guardsman struck swiftly and severed the fingers which clattered noisily to the floor, still encased in gauntlet armor. Blood spurted from the fingers and onto the stone before the pillar of light which represented Ploutorio's usual form. The demon lieutenant merely held his hand, one in the other, and silently accepted his punishment with little more than a guffaw of surprise. <br>
<br>
"I have taken three of your fingers as a memento of the three duties you swore: to me, to my treasures, and to your own death. See to it that all three of these oaths are upheld in the future, with your new assignment."<br>
<br>
"Which is, my liege?" Probed Malacaccio.<br>
<br>
"A new campaign. The mortals of the north of Enmundi are hardy for now, racked with constant warfare against the lich kings. The south has become rich and fat, perfectly ripe for a bloodletting. Moreover, it is clear to me that..." The voice stopped, as if he was about to give too much information away to a being of lesser rank. "Powers that would see us deposed are growing in the south. I wish to bring them to heel before my 'brothers and sisters' would force us into a precarious situation."<br>
<br>
"My lord," Malacaccio began with a mischievous grin already growing on his face, "do you mean to say we will transgress the Concord?"<br>
<br>
"No, Malacaccio. We will make my brothers and sisters transgress the Concord. But to do so will require...outside help. You know of the Deoram?"<br>
<br>
"Their rapaciousness in Koravor knows no bounds, my liege."<br>
<br>
"Yes. I want you to seek them out. But you most go disguised, or you will be discovered. Can I trust this task to you Malacaccio?"<br>
<br>
"You can trust any task to me, lord."<br>
<br>
"We shall see. Depart from my presence," commanded the voice, and just so Malacaccio left, leaving his three fingers behind with blood trailing out of the throne room. Wordlessly, the guardians were dismissed and a fell wind passed into the room. A column of light, orange and green putrescent, emerged from the open doorway as the owner of a second disembodied voice. "Ploutorio, as you have deduced," said the spirit, "we have reason to believe that the Ancient Power is returning. The warrens entrusted to Carakoccio have been completely destroyed by, of all things, Barding crusaders!"<br>
<br>
"Yes, but we cannot let word of this escape," muttered Ploutorio. In a flash, the column of red light coalesced and descended on the metal statue that had heretofore rested in the throne, masked by the pillar of light. The statue was of burnished bronze, with legs of blackened adamant. The featureless face, frozen in a blank grimace, was lightened by the same red light as before. His companion spirit remained disembodied, and the statue spoke with a dark gravity. "We cannot let the ranks of the daemon think that we could not, by the snap of our fingers, conquer the mortal realm. We want them to believe that we allow the mortals to survive only so as to despoil the work of their hard hands and let them breed more playthings for the pleasure gardens. The fact is, the Ancient Power is growing stronger in the west, and in Enmundi. Your tale of crusaders only solidifies the fact in my mind. If we are to act, Ulkuran, it is now. If we do not break the Concord now, it may remain unbreakable."<br>
<br>
"But I thought you would not break the Concord?"<br>
<br>
"I will lure the Ill to do so, of course, but in truth we both know that it will be I that breaks the Pact. If we allow the Ancient One to return and we have not solidified our hold on this world, there may be no hope left for us, and for our rebellion. We must strike now, while the mortals are weak and disconnected from their old gods and traditions. Surely some may be won to the cause with displays of riches and force?" <br>
<br>
"So, you go to the Deoram first?"<br>
<br>
"Yes, to crush the Barding Church. If there is no conduit for Him, perhaps it will buy us time. As of yet, we have no reason to fear reprisals, and I have no affection for the hordes of the Deoram. If they perish on those ancient walls, it is of no consequence to us. There is a further project I would have you assist us with, Ulkuran."<br>
<br>
"And what is that, mysir?"<br>
<br>
"Go to the Lich King of Illthak. His long war on mortalkind has been fruitless, but he is still  a valuable ally to keep in one's pocket. I want him to marshal his strength and attack this winter. He must strike hard and directly. The Ill are reclaiming their right over the Galarians and I would prefer them weak and degenerate."<br>
<br>
"I will send word at once, my lord. As for my people?"<br>
<br>
"Ready them for war in the underdark. The Geldek hold the most direct route for our armies into Enmundi, and Enmundi is the best beachhead for our assault. We must break them if we are ultimately to succeed. No more probing attacks, we must strike hard and quickly, and preferably while the iron of mortal conflict on Enmundi is glowing hot."<br>
</span><br>
<div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><u>Winter 5420, North of the Tulian Confederacy</u><br>
</span>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">They descended like a tidal wave, in greater numbers and with a rapidity heretofore unseen. No scouts, no probing attacks. The palisade-walled settlement of Durgan was razed in less than a day with the population still inside, and from the heights at the source of the Blue River, Tulian scouts counted the numbers of their hosts. Ten thousand, fifty thousand, one hundred thousand. Revenants and reanimated corpses flying the black and white banner of Illthak. They descended on the frozen northlands with voice in their icy jaws, calling for all who would harken to the siren song of death. <br>
<br>
The quest of the grave is done!<br>
The army of the grave hath come!<br>
The triumph of death hath come!<br>
</span><br>
<div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><u>Winter 5420, The Galarian Palace</u><br>
</span>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">"You must wait!" Cried the guardsman, but the messenger ran on, breathless, gasping for air. He ran past the whole of the citadel guard into the very chamber of government. <br>
<br>
"I must, speak, to Consul Marius!" The messenger gasped, his torn Tulian garments stained with blood and other questionable, black and ichorous, fluids. Bursting into the Consul's chamber, the messenger threw himself at the feet of Marius Galarius and, promptly, ceased to breathe. In his hand, the rolled up letter stamped by the military government of the Tulian Confederacy, when pried out, read as follows:<br>
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<i>We request urgent aid at once. The Undead of Illthak are upon us. One hundred thousand strong. Baring down on Tublika. The Temple of Halaria is under threat of siege. Send reinforcements immediately. The gods will smile kindly on those who aid their brothers. -General Illurian Tulius</i><br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><u>Winter 5240, The Camps of the Deoram</u><br>
</span>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Walking in the armed camps of the Deoram, flying banners of the dusty Southern Desert, a hooded figure passed without the notice of others, shrouded in dread magics. The camp of Buras Ur’ull was outfitted for war on mortals, and the tent of Buras Ur'ull was therefore empty save the warlord himself. The flap opened and closed without his noticing, and suddenly a figure sprang into view out of the air before him. Clad head to foot in dark armor, the face a dark shade of greyish red and full of reserved malice, the hair and goatee black as pitch, the eyes red as burning coals. Malacaccio knelt and paid the warlord of the Deoram homage.<br>
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The Obsidian Palace, Winter 5240<br>
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<b>Emperor Archibald</b><br>
<br>
The Old Wyrm is napping on the balcony when his daughter arrives. Archibald wakes to a dragon’s roar, as Emma and her husband Charles soar over the horizon. Their sons are with them, Little Archibald, Harold and Myos. The Obsidian Palace, ancestral hall of dragons, shakes when they land. Five of the cattle yards are given over to the hunger of dragons.<br>
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Emma, green-yellow and thick with muscle in her scales, blasts the entire yard. The cattle are swiftly devoured, black fangs smashing through bone and flesh with ease as yellow flames devour hair and hide.<br>
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Charles is more dainty than his wife, snapping up a single cow at a time. Black fire fries his meal, searing the meat to perfection.<br>
<br>
The children are smaller, too small to eat more than one steer per meal. Little Archibald almost takes a second, but his father warns him off with a growl.<br>
<br>
Once his daughter’s gluttony is sated, she and her brood soar to the broad balcony. Yellow fire flares and she stands in mortal shape, dressed in a coat of her own shed scales. A blade of dragonbone, Char, hangs at her side. Her husband and sons do the same. The Princess is tall and corded with muscle, and despite bearing three sons is still lean. Emma brushes aside a black hair, and smiles.<br>
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“Hello, Father. It is so good to see you once again.” Archibald smiles a dragonbone grin, once-white teeth gleaming black.<br>
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“And you as well, daughter.”<br>
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***<br>
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After the greetings, the wife of the Emperor descends from the angled roofs of the Palace. Lady Rose went to scales years ago, red as blood. Her golden eyes are all the hint that she once walked as a woman.<br>
<br>
She sniffs the princes, rumbling in approval at each of her grandsons. They stand still, frozen in fear and reverence for their grandmother. Then Rose takes wing, ascending to her place on the towers. Prince James, the Dragonmad as some call him (out of the Emperor’s hearing) soars in the distance.<br>
<br>
Archibald wishes to take wing as well, to shed the aches and pains of mortal flesh forever and abandon his realm. But if he does, war will rage. His second son, Harrison, the Sun Prince, would rip the realm to pieces to attain the throne.<br>
<br>
He should arrive shortly.<br>
<br>
***<br>
<b>Sun Prince Harrison</b><br>
<br>
He rises on golden wings, dancing like his twin sister never can. He knows the winds above Faircourt, and which will bear him quickly to the Palace. Soon the white towers vanish, and the inky mass of the Obsidian Palace looms.<br>
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Jon has wanted to come with him to the feast. Harrison had dissuaded him.<br>
<br>
“My father does not want you there,” he’d said. “Besides, it’s family only. Even Myos’s bastards can’t come. You’d never like the Palace anyway. It’s sweltering all year, and my forefather’s skulls are all over the place.”<br>
<br>
Jon had sulked, but accepted it. Even if they were of a height in mortal shape, Harrison made him a gnat in scales. And now he swooped over the black, angled stone, and lighted in an inner courtyard. In a flash, he was in mortal shape once more. The Cormen servants are shouldered past, as their Sun Prince enters the Throne Room.<br>
<br>
Nigh one hundred skulls line the black walls of the Palace. Here, only the skulls of the Emperors and Kings of eld are allowed. The space is large enough for dragons to walk it, and so he takes scales once more. His raspy breathing is drowned by his father’s deep rumbling.<br>
<br>
The White Wyrm is in his scales, pink wings folded to support his bulk. He is coiled at the far end of the hall, before the towering throne. It is an angular, brutal seat, of the same fused black stone of the rest of the citadel, with a set of dragon’s jaws looming on its summit. Above is the skull of the First Dragon, twice as large as the second-biggest head.<br>
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“<i>Hello, Father</i>,” he hisses in dragontongue. “<i>My Emperor</i>.”<br>
<br>
Archibald rears up painfully, lips curling back to reveal obsidian fangs longer than spears. White-hot smoke seeps between his teeth.<br>
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“<i>You stink of Kerys. I have warned you time and again to set him aside, and yet you further sully yourself with one not of the blood.”</i><br>
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“<i>He is none of your concern, my Emperor. Dragons can have their toys, after all</i>.”<br>
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“<i>Kerys is an embarrassment to the Throne and the Crown. Take a wife of the blood, and make little dragons if you want to succeed me. Without heirs, Emma is the superior choice</i>.”<br>
<br>
“<i>That Pissfire She-Dragon? She is hated. I speak with the commoners. They only know her as an ugly yellow beast that devours their flocks in a vain attempt to become even larger. I am loved. Even Grace knows it to be true. You remember Grace? The most graceful of your daughters</i>.” Harrison laughs a dragon’s laugh, deep as the sea, fiercer than a volcano, and filled with fire. His sun-bright flames light up the dark hall, and leave a storm of smoke behind. Archibald is not amused.<br>
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“<i>Until I forsake flesh forever, I am EMPEROR, not you. Nor Emma. No matter Grace’s ideas, you are but a second child. Emma has four dragons at her side day and night. Even you should be ill-pressed if you strike at her.</i>“ The Emperor bared the white flames in his throat, grated by black fangs. Harrison only snorts, and leaves the hall.<br>
<br>
A deer from the Dragonwood sates his hunger.<br>
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For now.<br>
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***<br>
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That evening, the Royal Family congregates in the heart of the Palace, seating themselves on the chairs arranged around the feast table. Platters of meat and fruit are brought by Cormen servants, many of whom are sweating from the heat of the hearths.<br>
<br>
The dragonlords have no such qualms. Their blood runs with fire.<br>
<br>
The aging Emperor rises, raising a hand for silence. His fingers are long and webbed with age, and his fingernails curl into talons.<br>
<br>
“I am pleased to see my children and grandchildren once more. I have called all of you to discuss the state of our great Empire.<br>
“Drachen has a long and noble history. We have never been conquered, and for long years we have not been conquerors. For long years, we have been isolated, wrapped up in our own intrigues and feuds. In a way, we are blessed by our isolation, for no dragonlord has perished on the field of war since the Mad Prince tore our Empire apart.<br>
“This cannot last. My blood, my heirs, I have heard disturbing reports from the Northern lands. I have heard of armies of undead marching. Of war, ravaging our northern neighbors. Mayhaps it is naught. I shall not take that chance.<br>
“We are dragons. And dragons do not hide in the distance and circle like vultures. We hunt with fire and might, and break all threats to our own. So I will send one of you, my children, to ascertain these dark rumors.”<br>
<br>
These words send a murmur through the assembled dragonprinces and princesses. James mutters something to Harrison, and he smirks. Emma frowns, golden eyes narrowing. Grace simply nods, as if she expected this from the start. Charles looks to his wife, and taps his fingers on the stone table. His sons are busy eating, only Little Archibald understanding what has passed.<br>
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“Well,” Harrison says with a smile. “I’ve always wanted to see the world. I’ll gladly go.”<br>
<br>
“You will take a contingent of Fiery Swords,” Emperor Archibald replies. “Five, to attend to you. And you are to go as an ambassador, not a fighter. Arrange alliances where possible. And remember to be polite, no matter the customs they demonstrate.” Harrison nods in assent.<br>
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***<br>
Weeks later, Harrison takes wing from Faircourt, five Fiery Swords chained to his back.<br>
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The Highway Confederation awaits.<br>
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"Stuff it, Andre, you're drunk," Captain Salvicci said through an exhausted grin at his First Officer and longtime Yukra partner. The card game was not going well, Teodoro thought as he limply dropped the Eight of Cups and the Nine of Swords on the table, only for the bloviated, drunken Grummere that he sat across the table from to chuckle in the back of his throat. <br>
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"Ah, O Captain, my Captain, you are truly an amphibian's best friend," he quipped, picking up the pile of cards and with it the pile of Solicazian crowns which he stuffed unceremoniously in his coinpurse. Putting his three-cornered hat on his bald, slimy head, the Grummere gave the hat a slight tip,  although just  enough to smack Andre in the face with its prodigious plume. Andre, nonplussed about losing his coin, immediately rose to his feet, towering over the portly frog-man by a decent foot and a half. The Grummere glanced briefly towards the door, then to Teo, then back to Andre, who by now was glowering and asking for a fight. <br>
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Mercifully, Teo stepped in and ended the staring contest. "Alright, toad, take your winnings and clear out. It's almost midnight." <br>
<br>
The Captain watched as the Grummere drew in a snotty breath, then swaggered out the door. The only one sober, Teo decided that he would be the one to round up his officer corps who were in various states of drunken debauchery scattered around the rather large portside bar. Going upstairs first, dodging a Galuthran chewing the stem of a pipe in the corner of his mouth and headed down the stairs with a heavy gate, then passing by the woman that chased after him demanding payment for certain services rendered, Teo reached the second floor of the tavern with little trouble. The smell of alcohol, vomit, piss, and sex all combined to make the air uniquely stale and unpleasant. The rooms, clustered together in a claustrophobic hallway, were closed fast so as not to disclose the, frankly, disappointing meetings that were taking place behind the doors. The hallway terminated in a window, which looked out on the bay. The only sound and smell that reminded Teo of something even remotely comforting were the waves and the salt in the port city air. Searching about, he found the door he thought would reveal his Chief Swain, Frederico, and banged on it with the pommel of his sword. The sound of a mattress swaying suddenly stopped. <br>
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"Oi, what you want!?" Came a voice from inside. <br>
<br>
"City guard, come out with your pecker sheathed!" Teo called back with a chortle. <br>
<br>
"Captain, uh, five minutes."<br>
<br>
"Five minutes till you're back on the ship. Sounds good, see you there."<br>
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"Godsdamnit, Captain Salvicci, I'm..." But Teo was already on to the next hallway, rounding up his Chief Navigator and Quartermaster who were, naturally, sharing sea stories with a few young sailors in their room. By midnight, the gang was assembled for the walk back to the HMS <i>Quicksilver</i>, which floated over the harbor at moor for the winter. A few lights stood out on the deck from the sentinels, but otherwise no sign of life could be detected onboard the craft. <br>
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"So how much did your night with the Silvi cost you, Frederico?" The Captain asked, glancing sideways at his Swain. <br>
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"You're just salty, mysir," Frederico said back with a snigger, "because you haven't had a woman touch you in a fortnight. I reckon we'll be hearing you call after them fish women before we're done winterin' in port. Or maybe, sending back to call on Oph—" Frederico stopped dead, both talking and walking, and for a tense moment there was silence. Then a hiccup. The men laughed and went on. <br>
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"Yes, I might call on Ophelia, but not for a romp in one of these oh so classy establishments you seem so fond of, Fredo. No," Teo grew quiet at the thought, so much so that the other men stopped laughing at their own jokes and listened. Matteo, the older Quartermaster with thick sideburns and a downcast look, began to work a small, earnest smile on his lips. He glanced from the others back to Teo: "That man is a marryin' man, fellas. Ophelia Rezanotti found the one man in the whole Royal Navy who weren't no scoundrel."<br>
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"Aye, I'll raise a glass to Mister and Missus Captain Teo's future happiness!" Said Fredo, raising a non-existent glass, tipping it bottom's up, and promptly stumbling drunkenly backwards onto the paving stones. Matteo caught him and hauled him up, allowing them all back onto the ship together. <br>
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The sentinel, a bright-faced lad of eighteen, held up a lantern and inspected each of the men as they came aboard. "Welcome back, Captain. This came for you while you were away. A royal envoy sent this, I suppose."<br>
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Teo took the letter, sealed with the Royal Navy seal and stamped with His Majesty's personal crest. He hastily took it back to his cabin, where he opened it and it read as follows:<br>
<br>
<i>My esteemed Captains of the Fleet, </i></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">I request you to sail immediately for Lucrezia when this letter arrives for you, to join with the wider fleet. We are scheduled to sail on the 17th of this month, therefore it is imperative that you sail quickly as soon as you receive this missive. We will be taking hostile action upon sailing from Lucrezia, details to be forthcoming upon your arrival. Furthermore, I order you to burn this letter. <br>
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Marius looked tiredly on the collection of robed men and women, as shouts filled the Curia Agusta's amphitheater. His gaze fell on the curved wall opposite him, the towering heights of marble a hotbed of activity. where once murals of Republican armies marching against the dead of Gurad'Nur had displayed proudly by scenes of Livia Agustas discovery of the Drema, there were only the portraits of vain men with crowns and shaved derevs. He watched the scribes as they painted over the stern faces, musing on the Irony of men that painted over history were being replaced by what was there before. A rough nudge from Felix shook him from his reverie,  forcing him to look down onto the forums floor.<br>
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A frustrated senator met his gaze, curling derevs framing a red face. "As I was trying to tell you Consul Marius, the city can barley afford to keep the standing army as it is. Although we have seen renewed interest from the Drema in our people, their blessing has not met by any of our clerics. We made due with magic before, buts its rough and elemental nature is not fit for the task of healing. More died under the magicians fingers than survived to fight on. As it stands, we may win the battle, but we will leave ourselves open to invasion. Our focus should be negotiations from a position of strength, and while it is regrettable that the Temple of Halaria may fall, the dead can't rebuild." Murmers of agreement came from the seats behind her, and Marius opened his mouth to speak as a voice rang from the opposite side of the hall.<br>
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"You'd leave our people to die Cellia, from the scourge that we could beat back with ease?" A black haired senator rose from his bench in the back of the assembly, striding quickly down the polished steps to meet his adversary.  "We have just regained the favor of our Drema, and you'd spit in their eye! No matter the cost, we must defend our people and our homes from this attack. If we falter in our approach, the dead will simply grow and take us here." His gaze went to the walls where the dreaded armies were appearing, then returned to the Senator across from him. "if we don't support our former people now, even if they survive, the blood will be on our hands from those battles. They will not forgive or forget that easily."<br>
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The senators continued to stand mere feet apart, their Derevs nearly touching as their argument continued under the shouting of their supporters. Marius stood, and the hall quieted quickly as he stepped forward from the two seats the consuls held on the floor. "We may not be able to afford this war, Senator Cellia, on that we can agree." As Cellia straightened and smirked at her colleague in triumph, Marius continued. "However, Senator Lucius is also correct, this is not a conflict we can afford to remain apart from. Consul Felix is willing to marshal the Eagle Legion tonight, and set sail with the rest of the army tomorrow." Marius held up a hand as Senator Cellia opened her mouth to reply, stopping her words before they left her throat. "We discussed the letter before the emergency meeting was called, and we stained our hands with the blood of the brave man who brought it to us. Felix and I are in agreement, this is the best way for us to help our brothers and sisters to the north, and prove that we are not our forefathers." His voice filled in power, magic forcing his words to ring throughout the Curia and beyond into the plaza outside. "Will you stand by our people, or doom yourself to shame as the blood of the innocents is spilt!?"<br>
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A moment of silence filled the chamber, only the soft tune of a songbird flying by filling the tense moment. Almost as one, the majoity of those on Senator Cellias side stood and moved, their soft footfalls leading to the left. The silent support of the people was shown behind Senator Lucius, and Senator Cellia stood still for a moment, before angrily storming to her bench those that remained shifting away from her. "I see that it's decided." Felix's voice rang clear from his seat, startling those there as he broke his stoic silence. "I will go ready the men." He stood, his solid derevs flashing in the wanning sunlight, and walked out of the archway and the plaza, marching down the street that led to the military encampments in the city.<br>
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"Well," Marius walked slowly to his seat, relaxing into it and smiling at the silent Senators. "I believe that is all we need to discuss as a body today, the Senate is closed until tomorrow, please remember to prepare your arguments for the use of touchstones for voting." he waited as the senators filed out, talking idly with the ones that approached him with final remarks, and watched as the doors of the Curia were closed with a subtle *thuum*. His smile dropped then, changing to a tired frown as he stood and walked behind the two seats to a small door, heading through and down a long hall. He stopped and entered a ornate door, passing through a decadent office to a surprisingly simple desk setup, his attendant waiting with a glass of water and a small meal. "Thank you Percival, please fetch the Luminion ambassador." Percival nodded, and exited the room as Marius slumped down with a heavy sigh, grabbing a reed pen and a inkwell. As the Ambassador entered quietly, he looked up from his work and forced a smile again.<br>
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"Please don't bother to sit, this won't take long." He finished the letter, sealing it with a wax seal and handing it to the ambassador. "Please have this sent through the embassy, ensure that it is delivered as swiftly as possible. Use a Eagle Rider if you need to."<br>
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"Of course sir" the ambassador took the letter in his hands, frowning slightly in puzzlement. "May I ask why we need to contact the Luminion, the shipments of food stuffs have been unimpeded and flow readily."<br>
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"We've just entered a war to the north my dear friend, we'll need as much relief supplies and a stable source of food for the soldiers if this is to work. We'll need to buy more, as much as that will annoy the temple of Morgot here."Marius doesn't react to the paling of the ambassador, and brushes his rushed goodbye away as he looks out the window that his office contains. He looks on the harbour, watching as slowly the Dragonflame Ships are filled with supplies and munitions, soldiers swarming the decks and more appearing from the city by the minute. Marius is startled as a sudden wall of feathers blocks his view, a loud screech and a hearty laugh identifying the perpetrator as Felix waves from his mount, before joining the flights on the horizon. The eagles circle the city, before heading north along the river, straight towards the temple of Halaria. Marius frowns mockingly at Felix even though he knows his fellow Consul can't see him, but when his gaze returns to the retreating Eagle Legion any levity leaves the situation. He closes his eyes, and offers up prayers to Sefra and Farhail, hoping that their anger had abated enough to lend their blessing to the clerics going into battle.<br>
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It has been a generation since we had left the deep. 2 million Malacs were gathered for the Great March towards the shallows. We followed the light for many years, and many had died in our journey. Of the many Casts who had joined us, there were just as many who had stayed in the deep. Of the many who had joined us, more then half had succumb to predators, infighting or had simply turned back. Our saving grace at least was that food wasn't a scarcity during out journey. 2 million Malacs had left for the shallows, and a little over 500,000 had made it to what we now know as the Strait. Luc Mabba-Breke, our leader, had staked out a claim in this new land, and through him, we have begun to finally prosper. He wished for the Casts to form a singular body, and through it the Malacs would form a new identity, a new Confederacy to secure the survival of our people.<br>
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However there were many who did not see Luc Mabba-Breke's vision. Sura Gla-Owenvif, the King of the Ondervi Cast, had wished to simply take what the surface had to offer us, take and bring back to the deep and inspire more from our homeland to rise to the shallows. Luc did not agree, and denounced Sura's proposal. Soon after, the Ondervi Cast, as well as like minded Casts, even the Sunverti Cast left. Luc allowed them to leave, believing that without the support of the other 5 Casts, the Ondervi and the Sunverti would not be able to gain much ground. <br>
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They focused on rebuilding their people, and building a new home for the Malacs. The strait provided many creatures to hunt, and plenty of land to build and fortify our territory. For a year we had prospered, but in a year Sura had returned. Sura believed that the easiest way to for the Malacs to live, was to take prosperity from others, just as our ancestors had done for millennia. The Sura rebellion had begun and Luc's Confederacy suffered greatly due to this civil war. Villages were raided, hunting parties butchered and jars of larvae had been stolen to fuel the Rebellion's numbers. A generation ago, the rebellion began, and a generation later the rebellion continues.<br>
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The Confederacy and the Rebellion was at a stalemate, as our fortified walled cities kept the invaders out, but the Rebellion had trapped us within the Central Sea. They constantly bribe and bring more from our homeland with ill-gotten treasure and food, and slowly they will surely soon outnumber our own forces. Desperate times calls for desperate actions.  Originally Luc's Confederacy, now simply the Luc Confederacy had wished to explore the new world in-depth and expand after the Rebellion had been put down, but without a favorable end in sight, I, King Ovry Jarvan-Rarteca, have been ordered to take my Cast and go inland, to find new allies and new weapons to use against the rebels.<br>
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Fall 5240<br>
My Cast began our journey travelling along the northern coastline. 11 leagues a day we marched, marched along the ocean's floor looking for signs of civilized life. During our journey, we had to had encountered a large beast made of brown bone, with softskinned beasts walking on the beast's back. The softskins wore shells on their heads, or were the shells growing from their heads? Either way, our scouts tailed the beast from under the water, and told me that they had encountered a surface settlement of these softskins, which they called Coneheads. Upon reaching the settlement however, my scouts return saying that the Coneheads would not speak to us and threatened to forcefully remove them from their land. I believe the Coneheads will not be having us over for a talk anytime soon. Still we must march. There is an island to our west we can travel alongside to forage and rest. <br>
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Our detour took us to the coasts of a small island, where we scavenged and hunted for food before continuing. Unlike the strait, this land had little in the way of edible matter. The closer one came to shore, the smaller everything seemed to become. Luckily a pod of whales were migrating close by so our hunters had time to at least practice their harpooning. We traveled along the southern coastline of the island, and soon left the island behind, and made our way back towards the northern shore. We stopped halfway, and allowed our scouts to travel ahead while my Cast rested and enjoyed the spoils of our latest hunt.<br>
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During the blue bright, I planned on joining the latest hunt in order to break the monotony of the daily march when my second came with me to the news that the scouting party had discovered settlements along the coastline, underwater shelters inhabited by strange soft skin creatures, similar to the shell crushing squids of our homeland. A second chance to make contact with the shallow's inhabitants. With my Elder Guard, I will follow the shallow trail our scouts had left to the site of the settlement. From there, I hope to begin some gain support for the Confederacy. Time is limited, and I cannot waste more on this march. I believe I should reach the these strangers by dark.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><u>Holenweln, The Highway Confederation, Winter, 5420</u></span><br>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">The winter festival was in full swing when Prince Harrison and his guards reached the walled border-town of Holenweln, nestled into the hills south of the Vosen Channel. In the distance, as he flew in, Harrison could see barges floating up and down the channel, stopping only at the few bridges that also served as locks for the river trade. The town itself was dominated by a few tall towers of white stone, while the rest of the houses were made of the same white stone but with sloping, black-shingled roofs. It was not until he could see the sentries clearly on the wall that he could also see the townsfolk gathered in the square on top of the central hill. They were dancing around several large bonfires, waving colored streamers and wearing red and yellow jackets. <br>
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At first, the sentries on the wall raised an alarm. They began to ready the ballistae which were nestled into the battlements on the wall and pointing them towards Harrison, but once the white flag became visible, raised by one of the soldiers on the back of the dragon, they hesitated to take hostile action. They knew that this was likely to be one of the dragonlords of the south, although their people had few dealings with the Drachen in living memory. Luckily the road was deserted, so no traffic was disrupted as Harrison came to rest on the wide pavement outside the gatehouse. A small squad of troops emerged from the gate, led by a captain. They were all decked in armor with plumed caps, and they carried shining steel halberds and sheathed longswords. <br>
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"Hail, dragon," the Captain said. The accent probably sounded thick to the Drachen emissaries, but he was still understandable. "I hope you come with no martial intentions toward my people. How may Captain Olar Gustavsen be of service?"<br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><u>The Temple of Everen, Galaria</u></span><br>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">The legions were set to depart tomorrow for the front, and this was precisely why Bellator Vitalius, a centurion of the Eagle Legion, sought out the guidance of his patron god Everen in his temple. The temple gates were wide open on this particularly warm winter day, and a few patricians and other well-to-do citizens were ascending and descending the steps, musing while walking amidst the great marble pillars, and making sacrifices at the altar. <br>
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Bellator approached the altar, a raised stone table that held a stack of parchment, an inkwell, and a quill. Taking up the quill and a sheet of paper, he wrote his sacrifice to Everen. The typical sacrifice was of thoughts. Whatever ideas were stirring in the minds of Everen's devotees. Bellator wrote:<br>
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<i>I go to battle and, possibly, to death. I feel more alive now than I have ever been. What strange paradox that life should come in threat of death. O Everen, long-suffering patron of my people, protect me now as I face the jaws of death. </i><br>
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<span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Holding the parchment out, he dried the ink and then tossed it into the flaming brazier on the other side of the altar. Steam and smoke rose up immediately, as the flames consumed the page. Turning to leave, Bellator was about to put his helmet back on his head when a blinding light flashed in a moment from the brazier. He staggered back and almost tumbled down the stairs, but at the last moment an unseen hand caught him and brought him to a sitting position at the base of the stairs below the altar. A voice descended from the smoke and steam, a voice ethereal and unconditioned by vocal chords, or tongues, or any mortal artifice. Yet, it sounded warm and wise. <br>
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"Bellator, you did well to seek me."<br>
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Yet Bellator did not speak, struck dumb by the power of his patron manifesting for the first time in centuries. Across the temple, the priests and priestesses were dumbfounded as well, staring at Bellator and the bright light that overshadowed him. The patricians as well stood on and gawked. </span><br>
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"Bellator, you are favored by me to take on a holy mission. My brothers and sisters are willing to return, to aid your people once more, now that those who reveled in debauchery and cruelty, like the Magisteri before you, have been swept into the sea. I want you, Bellator, who have sought me in these long years when even you doubted I would ever return, yes I know you doubted, to be my champion."<br>
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"Yes, my lord!" Bellator struggled to enunciate.<br>
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"Rise, my fair knight," Everen commanded, and it was done. "Below the altar is the tomb of my former champion, Lumos Aurelius. I will set aside the stone for you."<br>
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As he spoke these words, one of the heavy stones below the altar was flung a short distance in the air with a puff of dusty mortar. It fell against the marble floor and shattered, causing the patricians and priests to gasp. Yet Bellator did as he was commanded. He knelt down and saw the desiccated corpse of Lumos Aurelius, dead for centuries, encased in gleaming armor of blessed adamant. And on his breast laid a longsword of the same adamant steel, glowing in blue and white. Bellator took the sword the scabbard, turning to let the people see the artifact charged with power before returning it to the scabbard. <br>
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"You forget that it was my choir, the Amani, who forged the blades that cleaved mortalkind into male and female. Such skill was never lost, though it has been buried for long years. It is an enchanted sword, Bellator, Ill'Vitarus, 'Light of Life.' Just a single touch of its blade upon the undead will see them crumble to dust before you. Take this weapon and lead your men from the front, and if you hold faith in me, none of the thousands of the ranks of the dead may harm you."<br>
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"It..It will be as you wish, Lord Everen."<br>
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"Be a champion to the people, Bellator. Dark times are upon you all. Go to the front, and when you have triumphed return again, my champion."<br>
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Word spread throughout the city like wildfire. Bellator Vitalius was the new champion of Everen, who had returned to his people at long last. The moral legitimacy of the new republic was seeming more and more secure, but yet the news that a simple centurion was to be a champion of Everen did cause some of the military command, some of whom were even devotees of Everen. Jealousy, but also hope, abounded as the legions marched north into the Tulian Confederacy.<br>
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After a march of only a week or so, the Galarian army reached the city of Tublika, resting on the mountain slope, and on the other side of the river, sitting on a tall hill, was the gleaming temple constructed to honor Halaria. The city was, as of yet, not under siege, yet smoke rose ominously farther up the valley of the Blue River. <br>
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			<div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><u>Holenweln, The Highway Confederation, Winter, 5420</u></span><br>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">The winter festival was in full swing when Prince Harrison and his guards reached the walled border-town of Holenweln, nestled into the hills south of the Vosen Channel. In the distance, as he flew in, Harrison could see barges floating up and down the channel, stopping only at the few bridges that also served as locks for the river trade. The town itself was dominated by a few tall towers of white stone, while the rest of the houses were made of the same white stone but with sloping, black-shingled roofs. It was not until he could see the sentries clearly on the wall that he could also see the townsfolk gathered in the square on top of the central hill. They were dancing around several large bonfires, waving colored streamers and wearing red and yellow jackets.<br>
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At first, the sentries on the wall raised an alarm. They began to ready the ballistae which were nestled into the battlements on the wall and pointing them towards Harrison, but once the white flag became visible, raised by one of the soldiers on the back of the dragon, they hesitated to take hostile action. They knew that this was likely to be one of the dragonlords of the south, although their people had few dealings with the Drachen in living memory. Luckily the road was deserted, so no traffic was disrupted as Harrison came to rest on the wide pavement outside the gatehouse. A small squad of troops emerged from the gate, led by a captain. They were all decked in armor with plumed caps, and they carried shining steel halberds and sheathed longswords.<br>
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"Hail, dragon," the Captain said. The accent probably sounded thick to the Drachen emissaries, but he was still understandable. "I hope you come with no martial intentions toward my people. How may Captain Olar Gustavsen be of service?"<br>
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</blockquote>The Fiery Swords slid off the Prince’s golden back, one stepping forward to unclasp the chains that secured them. Harrison rolled his shoulders, and the harness fell off.<br>
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In a flash of golden fire, he stood as a mortal. He was dressed in his own shed scales, emblazoned with his sigil: a golden dragon crowned with black stars, within a white sun. <br>
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Slowly lowering his hand to his side, Buras listens to the creature before him. "Buras will listen," he said in the deep, rumbling tones of the Deoram, the words feeling odd in the beast like mouth of the warlord.</div>
				
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She had been waiting for this moment her entire life. Finally, a part of the inner circle, face to face with the king. An instrumental player in the kingdom's new golden age of expansion. It all begins here.<br>
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The man opposite her smirked and motioned for her to stand up again. "<span style="color: rgb(251, 160, 38)">Please Minister, there's no need for these formalities,</span>" he leapt off his marble throne and stood level with his minister, "<span style="color: rgb(251, 160, 38)">But I'm glad you're more than enthusiastic to carry this out...especially under such <i>discreet</i> circumstances. You do understand what I'm referring to, yes?</span>" Rei knew exactly what he was referring to. An act of this kind needed to be debated in the senate and vetted by the Chancellor, and based on his previous attitudes on conflict, that would never happen. What Rei needed to do was to execute this order swiftly and efficiently, before the senate has any time to react. The emperor and the monarchists loyal to him will clean up any mess afterwards. Though technically what they were doing was illegal, or at least sat uncomfortably in the grey area of the constitution, Rei believed it was all for the greater good.<br>
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"<span style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130)">Of course, your majesty,</span>" Rei replied.<br>
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"<span style="color: rgb(251, 160, 38)">Good</span>," Ra'sh spun around to face the enormous map framed on the wall, eyes set on the small province on their western border. The Neaeru comprised of broken bands and tribes of Goblins scattered across the continent. Annexing them or at least occupying them would grant them free access to the plainsland and be the first step of the long road to continental domination. Easy prey, but he couldn't be too careful. One simple mistake and he'd be out. Exiled, or worse. "<span style="color: rgb(251, 160, 38)">You'll be escorted by a battalion of the Riteno lead by Major General Usiguy. He's there mainly for intimidation and protection, but if things go wrong...he and his men will be the only thing keeping you alive.</span>"<br>
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"<span style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130)">Yes, your majesty</span>," Rei said, "<span style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130)">I won't disappoint you.</span>"<br>
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<div style="text-align: center">[***A week later***]<br>
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<b>*Rei Uytari*<br>
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Temporary military camp, Southern Jorpindarre Delta, Bordering Western Neaeru Stronghold<br>
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	</div></span><br>​</div>The air stank of soot and peat. Men cackled with the fire as they saddled their horses with silver armour and sharpened their swords. The faint screeching of birds drowned out by the rushing river. Dawn was just creeping over the distance when Rei emerged from her personal tent, a scroll in her left hand and a pen in her right. She had spent the week formalising a document. A treaty of sorts. it was filled with political jargon and promises of peace and prosperity, but no amount of diction and flowery language could cover up the elephant in the room that was the message she was sending:<br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">"</span><span style="color: rgb(85, 57, 130)">Assimilate and keep your villages, wealth and some degree of autonomy...or die fighting a futile existence.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">"</span><br>​</div>She exhaled and approached a small group of lightly armoured men on horseback near the mouth of the encampment. Handing the scroll over to the leader, she gave them her orders. Cross the river and reach the nearest tribe. Give the scroll to the chief and allow them to think on it. We'll wait until sundown for a decision. If they do not return, the Kingdom will invade with greater military forces.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><u><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Holenweln</span></u><br>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Without much further in the way of niceties, the Captain led Prince Harrison into the city to be entertained at the Mayor's house and get the information he wished out of the well-connected municipal leader. The streets of Holenweln were narrow and flanked on both sides by stone and timber frame constructions about two or three stories that jettied out over the streets. When they entered into the broad central square, they were forced to walk past the bonfires that the citizenry were dancing around. There was the sound of drums and pipes, and men and women were dancing in paired dances arm in arm. Though the air was relatively cold, the square was balmy between all the large fires. Some of the citizens stopped to stare curiously at the newcomers, but most of them paid no mind to them. The soldiers accompanying them did not seem to cause them any alarm. <br>
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The church on the other side of the square tolled twelve o'clock and the Captain finally spoke to Harrison again. "I believe you're just in time for lunch. Mayor Harkon would be delighted to entertain you and your retainers."<br>
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As the sun rose the next morning, the Dragonflame Fleet cast away it's lines, and began their journey up Junthum's River. The ships moved steadily, their blue and orange hulls matching the colors of the morning river, and the sails seeming to glow as the sun back lit the rearing dragons painted there. Soldiers waved excitedly as cheers rang from the shore, before returning to their workstations as the mighty walls of Galaria disappeared down stream. Inside the heavy laden hulls, the supplies and foodstuffs taken from now barren stores sat quietly, stored next to dragon heads full of liquid fire.<br>
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</span>​</div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">As the sails of the Dragonflame fleet receded upriver, a more formal farewell was taking place where the city was connected to the Isle of Junthum. Spanning the river crossing to the east, the bridge was covered with names of every Legionare that had ever served in the Galarian military. Massive statues of legendary generals stood on pedestals formed into the pillars of the bridge, their metal derevs shinning as the sun rose higher in the sky. Every hundred feet, a giant golden standard was set, with a different totem for each of the named Legions. Only one was noticeably absent, and its bearer stood at the front a massive gathering near the bridges gates, the golden eagle a beacon of shimmering light in a mass of wood and steel. Thousands of men and women stood at attention, silent and stoic, waiting for the order to begin their large march. Their silence was the oddity, however, as the crowd before them jostled and shook with excitement. Murmurs of apprehension, pride, and anticipation filled the open air as more arrived from the city, all eyes turned toward a wooden platform at the forefront of the legion. The murmurs died for a moment, as from the rank and file emerged a group of men and women in senatorial garb, and the command staff of the legion. While they didn't garner much of a reaction from the crowd, the man garbed in the red and white robes of consulship did. Cheers rang up from the crowd, chants of "Marius" rang through the mid-day air, boosting the already cheerful atmosphere as he took the stage, the Primus Pillus breaking from the other commanders and following behind. A raised hand calmed the crowd quickly, and with a happy grin Marius Galarus cast a quick spell, his voice booming from his throat.<br>
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"I welcome you, my people, for history in the making. Before you stand, for the first time in a century, and the first time in our republic, the Legio Aquila!" He let the cheers ring for a while, smiling at the energy of the crowd, before raising a hand to calm it again. "Our people to the north have called upon us, to defend them from the most ancient of our foes. The dead march from the bitter lands of Guard'Nur one more, and attack the Temple of Halaria itself! As is our solemn charge since ancient days, we will march against these abominations of life. Consul Felix Coriarus himself will lead our legion, as is the duty of our station, and now," he turns, motioning the Primus Pillus to the front "Everen's Champion, Bellator Vitalus, will fight with him on the front lines, Ill'Vitarus itself by his side!" A massive cheer rose from the crowd at this announcement, and Bellator Vitalus stepped up beside the consul, as the crowd chanted his name.<br>
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"Everen himself told me that the gods would return to us, now we must defend them. We will not let this vile scourge defile Halaria, and we will once again be one people, united under the Dremas blessing!" As he finished his proclamation, Bellator exited the stage, followed by the cheers of the crowd. Marius smiled warmly, as he had seen the flustered look Bellator had barely kept from affecting his voice, and waved to take the attention of the crowd again.<br>
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"Now, lady Aurellia will bless the legion, and allow the dremas light to follow them into battle." A previously unseen figure stepped up from behind the platform, and for the first time true silence fell onto the crowd. Her powder green robes were matched by her unnaturally pale blue skin, and her long auburn hair seemed to wisp in the wind. Delicate derevs framed a petite face, and her soft voice rang through the crowd like a bell.<br>
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			<div style="text-align: center"><u><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Holenweln</span></u><br>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Without much further in the way of niceties, the Captain led Prince Harrison into the city to be entertained at the Mayor's house and get the information he wished out of the well-connected municipal leader. The streets of Holenweln were narrow and flanked on both sides by stone and timber frame constructions about two or three stories that jettied out over the streets. When they entered into the broad central square, they were forced to walk past the bonfires that the citizenry were dancing around. There was the sound of drums and pipes, and men and women were dancing in paired dances arm in arm. Though the air was relatively cold, the square was balmy between all the large fires. Some of the citizens stopped to stare curiously at the newcomers, but most of them paid no mind to them. The soldiers accompanying them did not seem to cause them any alarm.<br>
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The church on the other side of the square tolled twelve o'clock and the Captain finally spoke to Harrison again. "I believe you're just in time for lunch. Mayor Harkon would be delighted to entertain you and your retainers."<br>
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It was only a short walk back to the Mayor's mansion, a squat stone edifice below the central hill surrounded by gardens and small chapels. Upon entering, Harrison was led into a dining room where platters of ham and mixed vegetables were being served to the Mayor's family. The Mayor himself was a corpulent, good-natured looking man with a white beard.<br>
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"Ah, who are these, gentlemen...Captain?" He asked, glancing between Harrison and Captain Gustavsen nervously.<br>
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"This is Prince Harrison of Drachen. He's making a tour of these countries. And he wants to have his curiosity about the rumors about war in the north tickled. Would you oblige him?"<br>
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"Of course," He glanced at Harrison. "Surely you gentlemen will take a seat? Would you care for luncheon?" His eyes drifted down to the swords in their scabbards. "Now, I will say, normally, we don't wear swords at the table. You can leave those with the good captain."<br>
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</blockquote>Harrison gazed with curiosity at the bonfires and celebrations, golden eyes trawling over the festivities. After the mayor greeted him, he spoke.<br>
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“Firstly, what is the celebration? And secondly, the Fiery Swords seldom yield their blades. They are dragonbone, each storied and legendary. If I yield them, they must be returned. Ideally in perfect condition. Each is from one of my blessed ancestors. If those conditions are met, I shall gladly entrust them to your men.<br>
“As well, who are the ladies and the boy?” The Sun Prince’s gaze falls upon the youngest. “They are truly refined. Your family, I presume?”</div>
				
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"Albert," his wife interjected, embarrassed, "why don't you introduce the children?" The children had been silent through their father's rambling, with only a few showing any interest in food or conversation, mostly stealing glances at the foreigners.<br>
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			<div style="text-align: center"><u><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Mayor's Palace, Holenwoln</span></u><br>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">"Ah yes, the Captain will take good care of your swords," the mayor said with something of a wince. Captain Gustavsen held out his gauntletted hand and the swords were carefully arranged in their scabbards then taken into the next room and laid upon an antique table. When the guests had taken their seats, the mayor began to answer Harrison's questions.<br>
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"Today is the Midwinter Festival, a very special time of the year in Holenwoln. It is a... religious festival, I suppose, where we remember our blessings in the midst of the bleak midwinter, one supposes." It was evident that the mayor was choosing his words carefully and his voice carried a note of indecision, as if he was worried that any stray word might offend his guests. Truth be told, it was one of the major holy days of the Barding religion, and later on that evening the churches would likely be packed with worshipers, yet Mayor Harkon knew a little of the Drachen and knew that they had peculiar religious ideas when compared to the rest of the continent.<br>
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"At any rate," he continued, "the festival is a merry occasion for the townspeople to rest from their labors and enjoy the plenty they have stored up for themselves in harvest time. I suppose there is the other matter, the Midwinter Festival is the best occasion for the young men to meet their future wives. You see, the period for the publishing of banns in this part of the world is six weeks, and after that interval if one marries, if you count nine months..."<br>
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"Albert," his wife interjected, embarrassed, "why don't you introduce the children?" The children had been silent through their father's rambling, with only a few showing any interest in food or conversation, mostly stealing glances at the foreigners.<br>
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"Ah yes," Harkon muttered. "Well, this is my wife, Klara, and beside her in Untock, my son. And here we have Olga, Elma, Erta, Una, Dima, and Rosa there at the far side is the youngest daughter."<br>
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The redhead, Rosa, nodded assent and then opted to speak for herself. "Captain Gustavsen said you wanted to know about the world. I've been studying everything there is to know about Enmundi. I have notes in my World Atlas," she said, unashamed to speak so freely in the presence of her elders, "What did you want to know?"<br>
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</blockquote>Harrison nodded at his Fiery Swords, and they reluctantly passed their blades to the guards. He took a seat, and listened intently to the explanation of the celebration.<br>
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“In Drachen, we have a similar celebration. It’s much duller than these, all ‘by the grace of god’ and ‘blessed by holy fire’. These sound more exciting.” The Sun Prince remarked. When the conversation turned to the children, he nodded to each and tried to remember all their names. He’d probably forgot, but no man could fault him for trying his best. When Rosa spoke, he couldn’t help but smile.<br>
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“I have a younger sister, Grace, much like you,” he said. “Perhaps you could meet soon,” he added.<br>
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“As for what I wish to know... my Lord Father heard rumors of war in the north. Of dead men, and turmoil. I’d also like to know about the major powers of the North, and perhaps their famous monuments. And, good Harkon, may we join you at your repast? I’ve been flying for days, it seems. Oh, I almost forgot! Some decades ago, my uncle Myos disappeared. Perhaps you’ve seen a purple wyrm in the sky? When he left, he could swallow a horse. By now, he could likely devour elephants if he lives.”</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><u><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">The Mayor's Palace, Holenwoln</span></u><br>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Rosa smiled at Harrison, as he seemed not to underestimate her knowledge or ability. Harkon was the next to speak.<br>
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"A purple dragon eh, decades?" He thought for a moment. "I will look in my library and see if there's anything in the town record that would allude to your uncle, Myos as you say? Yes, I will look." He turned to the guests more directly. "Of course, have lunch. My servants will bring fresh plates of meat and bread, whatever you wish. When lunch is over..." he glanced back at Rosa, "Rosa, my sweet, will you and Untock entertain our guests in the front parlor? I have a map there, and some portrait books. You can fill our unworldly stranger here in on the world at large." <br>
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"So, Prince Harrison, here we are," she said, indicating Holenwoln on the map. "I've heard about the war too. The new one that is. The last one was in 5414." She indicated Galaria on the map. "This is the city-state of Galaria, a once mighty empire. They recently had a coup d'etat," she paused and glanced at him to see if he knew the finer verbiage of diplomacy, "that is, they changed governments. Above them is the Tulian Confederacy. Those are rebels led by the descendants of General Tulius who claimed to be the true emperor in 5220, and broke away from the Galarian Empire. Beside them are the Luminion. To be truthful, the Luminion is several nations, all of them subordinate to the moth-men of the mountains, that is, the Scurosi. I don't know much about them, other than their affinity for light magics. To the north of them are the Geldek. Again, it is hard to say much about them, although I read that they are people entirely made of stone...Very strange. At any rate, here in the north is the Dead Pass, that is a pass in the ice around the Tower of Illthak. Morfus created the tower Illthak to regulate the climate of Morfea. It produces all the frigid winds of the north, you see. But in the beginning of the Second Age, the Cantori who had residence there abandoned it and the Lich Kings of Gurad'nur moved in. Ever since, they have warred with mortalkind for slaves, and thralls for their undead ranks. Word of these attacks usually travels fast, you see, but I think in this case, that is, the ongoing war against the Undead, the messengers are wrong. One hundred thousand is far too many undead, I think. I have never read of an invasion of more than twenty thousand, and that was at the height of the succession wars in Galaria in the late 5th Millennium."<br>
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			<div style="text-align: center"><u><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">The Mayor's Palace, Holenwoln</span></u><br>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Rosa smiled at Harrison, as he seemed not to underestimate her knowledge or ability. Harkon was the next to speak.<br>
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"A purple dragon eh, decades?" He thought for a moment. "I will look in my library and see if there's anything in the town record that would allude to your uncle, Myos as you say? Yes, I will look." He turned to the guests more directly. "Of course, have lunch. My servants will bring fresh plates of meat and bread, whatever you wish. When lunch is over..." he glanced back at Rosa, "Rosa, my sweet, will you and Untock entertain our guests in the front parlor? I have a map there, and some portrait books. You can fill our unworldly stranger here in on the world at large."<br>
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"Yes, of course, father." Rosa said respectfully, although Untock only grunted his acquiescence. Mayor Harkon scooped the last mouthful of sweet corn into his mouth from his plate before excusing himself from the table and entering his study, which was very large and the walls were lined with books. It would take him an hour or two to look through the relevant records and see if any mentioned a purple wyrm. In the meantime, the Drachen delegation was brought their lunch and allowed to luxuriate a bit. To drink, they had a choice of sweet ale or water, and after lunch the servants cleaned the lower parlor. Rosa led Harrison down the hallway, with Untock drawing up the rear. The boy favored his father in the face, but was stick-like and tall like his mother. His features were severe and caused him to constantly look like he was scowling, while his hair and eyes were relatively dark, again like his father's. His countenance was unpleasant, though he was only a lad of less than twenty.<br>
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Rosa, upon reaching the parlor, strode immediately to the massive map that was arranged over the eastern wall. It was the centerpiece of the room, carved out of a single piece of wood that must have come from a massive tree.<br>
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"So, Prince Harrison, here we are," she said, indicating Holenwoln on the map. "I've heard about the war too. The new one that is. The last one was in 5414." She indicated Galaria on the map. "This is the city-state of Galaria, a once mighty empire. They recently had a coup d'etat," she paused and glanced at him to see if he knew the finer verbiage of diplomacy, "that is, they changed governments. Above them is the Tulian Confederacy. Those are rebels led by the descendants of General Tulius who claimed to be the true emperor in 5220, and broke away from the Galarian Empire. Beside them are the Luminion. To be truthful, the Luminion is several nations, all of them subordinate to the moth-men of the mountains, that is, the Scurosi. I don't know much about them, other than their affinity for light magics. To the north of them are the Geldek. Again, it is hard to say much about them, although I read that they are people entirely made of stone...Very strange. At any rate, here in the north is the Dead Pass, that is a pass in the ice around the Tower of Illthak. Morfus created the tower Illthak to regulate the climate of Morfea. It produces all the frigid winds of the north, you see. But in the beginning of the Second Age, the Cantori who had residence there abandoned it and the Lich Kings of Gurad'nur moved in. Ever since, they have warred with mortalkind for slaves, and thralls for their undead ranks. Word of these attacks usually travels fast, you see, but I think in this case, that is, the ongoing war against the Undead, the messengers are wrong. One hundred thousand is far too many undead, I think. I have never read of an invasion of more than twenty thousand, and that was at the height of the succession wars in Galaria in the late 5th Millennium."<br>
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</blockquote>The Prince enjoyed the repast, picking meat and ale, as his guards similarly ate. They chose the water, and did not drink the ale. Afterwards Harrison followed Rosa to the parlor, gesturing for the guards to follow at a respectable distance.<br>
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At the map, the Prince listened to Rosa as she indicated the northern nations. As she spoke, he realized she was not like Grace. Rosa was more like Emma, wise beyond her years. He reflected on what she said, considering the nations of the north. The Luminion seemed the best bet for aid, if the dragonlords ever headed north. The news of undead made him start.<br>
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“Tulians, Moth-men, stone men, and possibly ten thousand undead. Quite a collection. I am no strategist, but how reliable have the reports been in the past? That may indicate how likely these rumors of thousands are. If they are correct, my father would have to interfere. Necromancy is the worst of sorcery, as our history and god speaks. Walking corpses are dire news. In our oldest tales, demons and worse led undead. They were driven out, but no tale says all were gone from the world. And Lich-Kings with access to a tower that makes cold weather? That’s even more suspect. What if they’ve been trying to make it obey them?”</div>
				
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Walking over to the opened chest, Buras sinks one massive hand in and picks up a fistful of adamant silver, letting the loose bars fall through his fingers and back into the chest. "Baubles of civilization." he growled as he dropped the rest into the chest. "Useless to us. There are cities that float among the clouds and great beasts whose scaly skin turns aside even the sharpest of our weapons. And yet you offer only these bars. Useless."<br>
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Snikrit was scurrying through the great camp. When Buras' horde had surrounded his, he willingly gave up those that resisted. Buras, as a reward, gave him control of what remained of his decimated warband. But that was not going to be the end of Snikrit, oh no. For why should he put his neck on the line allowing any and all to challenge him, when there was a more than willing combatant that he could guide.<br>
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Speaking of the puppet, he had to make sure the cow's plans weren't going to kill them all. And so, he slipped quietly into the hide tent of the Warlord Buras Ur'ull. There he saw the bull was in conference with a shade, and was currently in the process of turning down the offer of by far the shiniest metal the raet had ever seen.<br>
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"Great Warlord," he hissed, bowing and scrapping low to appease the creature that could crush his skull with two fingers, "I beg you, this is good. Raet can make those into great thing. Make Vordr stronger, harder, yes. Can do many things."<br>
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The hot air that blew around Lylth, her dress flapping about annoyingly and occasionally forcing her to stop it from lifting up entirely. If she knew her brother was going to bring her to any of their forges she would have dressed more appropriately. "Why, again, couldn't you have just told me the good news?" The irritated woman stared daggers at Kan. She didn't hate the forges, she simply enjoyed tending to the slaves at the foot of the mountain more so. "You could have at least given me time to put on better clothes..." Kan paid no mind to her words, but finally gave her an answer when they came to a door leading to some of the newer parts that had been dug underground, "I didn't want you to miss the experience of seeing it for yourself." He gestured for her to proceed. She eyed him suspiciously. She could hear faint noises on the other side. It was probably another one of Kan's pranks. "If it's one of those shelled beasts, I'm going to kick you down the mountain again..."<br>
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What Lylth saw next after opening the door made her almost fall. Beautiful, shiny, metal, all around. It was a motherload of ores, plenty of which being adamant silver. And their Omoran cousins working hard to mine it all. "Oh my... You really do love me!" She shouted gleefully with wide-eyes, like a child who had received a pony. "Do the others know? Because the moment Vox sees this he's going to-" As Lylth turned around to face her brother her lips were met with a finger, shushing her mid-sentence. "Yes, and that's why Vox is on the east side of the mountain with Nora testing Elijah's newest toys." Kan removed his hand. "Shouldn't Nora be heading West with Eli? She was so excited to finally leave and explore." Lylth knew how much it meant to Nora to see the rest of the world.<br>
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"The nomads, and our scouts, have informed me more of the outside world. Hoards of beasts, armies of the undead, dragons. Some much closer than expected. Our isolation gives us an advantage but has also put us at a disadvantage. This time, we won't be the ones to fall if armies of the outside try to take what we have. Nora and Elijah will make their journey West once we've prepared for the winter. We don't need anything happening to Nora."<br>
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"PULL!"<br>
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Nora pulled hard at hearing the command, sending a spiked metal ball straight towards the giant beetle she and Vox had been following. The ball embedded itself into the side of the beetle's head, sending it tumbling and causing it to let out a loud screech. Vox swore, rushing past Nora and towards the creature. Slamming his foot down on the already damaged head, he ended its shrill cries. The two looked around in silence. After a tense moment, they looked at each other and started laughing in relief. Nora began to walk to Vox but stopped, staring at his feet. Vox felt the ground beneath him moving at the same time. After he had taken only two steps, a massive set of pincers burst from below and clamped themselves around the Omoran. A beetle larger than the one they had just slain crawled out of the earth, sending chunks of rock and dirt flying, and began relentlessly slamming Vox on the ground, thrashing him like a ragdoll. "GET.... MY.... MACE...." He could only let out a word at a time in between the beetle's thrashing. Nora rushed over and grabbed her brother's weapon, throwing it towards him. After landing a clean hit on the beetle, missing her intended mark, the beast slammed Vox down again, taking its frustration out on him. The Omoran groaned while he regained focus, reaching over and grabbing onto the hilt of his weapon that lay right beside him. The beetle released then reclamped its pincers around Vox, preparing itself to burrow back into the mountain. "NORADON'TLETITTAKEMEHELP!"<br>
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The oligarchs were standing outside of their fortress, just beyond the gates of the city, clothed in thick furs. While their kind was immune to the coldest winters, the family enjoyed dressing for the occasion. They were all personally overseeing the migration of the slaves. For Nora and Elijah to be leaving was a whole event. Food had been stockpiled, prepped, and most of the livestock belonging to the slaves was slaughtered to keep them all fed adequately. The nation had prepared not just for winter but for any potential invasions that may occur once their two diplomats leave. "Elijah and I will be departing once the last caravan makes its way past the last checkpoint. But, I want our guards to use weapons and armor of low-quality metal. We can't let the world know of what we possess until we are able to properly defend it, or have allies willing to help us do so," Nora spoke up to her siblings. Normally they'd protest, but in this instance she was right. "I'll have a few more of our cousins join us then," Elijah nodded to Nora, accepting her decision.<br>
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As the Galarian scouts rode forward to assess the situation while the army in the field was forming their battle lines, they were able to witness the first ineffectual attack on the city walls on the northern side of the settlement. Armies of Illthak were arrayed in full warlike stance less than five kilometers north of the city, such that their large banners were still easily identifiable across the open terrain. Their first line consisted of loosely-formed skeletal warriors armed with polearms, axes, swords, and shields, and wearing very light armor. The second rank consisted of solid lines of wights, which is, in the parlance of necromancers, enchanted corpses that still have their muscles and tendons intact. These ranks of wights had eyes that burned a dark shade of red which shone through the fog and snow, and their armor was uniformly black and emblazoned with the White Hand of Illthak. Some of them carried great weapons, longswords and warhammers, while the majority carried spear and shield. Finally, behind them were a rank or two of dreadwights, who are, in necromantic parlance, those who are converted into undead servants while still living. They are the strongest of Illthak's soldiers on the field and are encased in heavy mail or, in some instances, blackened plate armor. By counting the banners and estimating the sizes of the regiments, the scouts confirm the estimate of 100,000, although 20,000 of those are spotted across the river, menacing towards the Temple of Halaria which stands on its own above the fields, connected to the city by an ancient stone bridge wide enough for ten men to walk across at a time. <br>
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The scouts witness the first attack, a probing attack by the enemy. A small group of skirmishers approach the wall and begin to fire on the battlements. The skeletal archers do very little against the defenders utilizing the cover of the city wall's battlements, and they are soon beaten to scattered piles of bones by return fire from the castle's mounted mangonels. Single missile fire is highly ineffective against the skeletal soldiers, but pelting them with masses of stones exerts enough force on impact to shatter them. After the entire regiment of skeletal archers melts under mangonel fire, the Illthak army begins its first attack on the walls. Advancing a single regiment of dreadwights with the ladders, several regiments of wights with axes and swords advance to utilize the ladders once they have docked the walls. On the way, the dreadwights take withering fire from one or two fire mages who can just barely be seen commanding flames from a staff atop the battlements. The fires engulf the regiment of dreadwights and burn the ladders to ash, forcing a general retreat but not before they are put under withering fire by archers with flaming shot. The arrows covered in lit bitumen that find a target continue to burn the zombies, insensitive to pain, and upon burning into the fat stores left in their almost completely dessicated bodies, they burst into flame, causing their unlife to wither and the enchantment to fade. By the end of the first few attacks, about a thousand undead litter the field before the wall, but it is clear the enemy army is now marshaling its strength for a full assault. <br>
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			<div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'"><u>Mayor's Palace, Holenwoln</u></span><br>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">"Well," Rosa began, without much confidence, "they've never been wrong before. At least not by more than a few thousand. And the men who bring the news to my father's manor seemed to think it was rather serious. So I don't know what to say. Then again, the national armies of the north comprise altogether enough to stop a force of even that size. Unless, of course, they use it as an opportunity to weaken their rivals."<br>
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She laughed at the mentioned of the idea that the Lich Kings would try to control the weather. "No, Prince Harrison, I very much doubt the Lich Kings would ever come to control the weather. They are petty sorcerers, you see. Not enlightened. They care for money, and comfort, and power, in their own queer way. I cannot see the appeal in living up there in the frozen cold and torturing already dead folks for an eternity. But then again, I've never tried it." She chuckled again. "No, the Inberi are in control of the weather. You know? The storm-spirits? They sank the Magisteri Imperium nearly three thousand years ago now." She sighed. "But that's just old legend. That's what I do all day, immerse myself in old books. Isn't that right Untock?"<br>
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</blockquote>Harrison scratched his chin. It seemed more and more likely that the Drachen would war in the North. His father was hardly war-ready anymore, so it was likely one of his cousins or other relatives would fly into battle. Maybe Emma would go north. She loved a good fight.<br>
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He breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the Lich Kings wouldn’t try to control the weather. That would be a truly frightening concept. The talk of storm spirits were interesting as well, but probably not a major concern.<br>
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“We have old tales of the Fall of the Wise. In our version, the First Dragon was born shortly afterwards. His skull is mounted above the Throne, in the Obsidian Palace.”<br>
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“I may as well stay. I do hate cold weather, after all,” he said with a smile. “I’ll attend the Festival, but I’ll probably need to leave shortly afterwards. There’s only so much game to be found around here, and my Lord Father will need to hear about the undead.”</div>
				
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At Elgoth Bridge</span></span><br>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">Marching forward to take the temple, the first detachment of undead to reach the complex performed an about-face and marched to the bridge, unlimbering their pikes and sending them to the front to hold the enemy's advance. They advanced to the halfway point of the bridge, pikemen at the ready to receive an enemy melee charge. Meanwhile, their skirmishers pelted the Galarian formation as it approached the bridge. At first, the skeletal archer fire was not particularly accurate or powerful. What arrows did land fell more or less uselessly against the upraised shields of the legionnaires as they double-timed to make the bridge. Unfortunately, the enemy was able to bring up a company of wights with crossbows who loosed a volley into the side of the formation. A score or more of Galarians fell in their armor, clattering in a spurt of red upon the white snow. The majority, however, reached the bridge to face the enemy's pike wall. Archers were pelting them the entire time they advanced across the bridge, but holding their shields above their heads they were able to take the fire, most of the arrows bouncing off the glossy metal surface of the Legion shields harmlessly. Yet, the angle of approach made it impossible for the enemy's crossbowmen to engage. <br>
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Meanwhile, the undead reached the temple on the far side. The first few dozen skeletons who stepped over the threshold began to waver and immediately caught fire upon entering the gardens that surrounded the temple. They clattered uselessly to the ground, and the troops behind them readied to attack the temple's heart and extinguish the Fire of Halaria, which was now burning white-hot in a blackened bronze brazier the size of a horse, high above the battlefield on the heights of the temple complex. It would, however, buy Bellator and his legions time to carve a path through the undead, if only they could overcome the press of pikes. </span><br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">The Gates of Tublika</span><br>​</div><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua'">While fighting on the bridge was getting underway, the other Legionnaires were being allowed inside the city gates to help prepare for a siege assault. Upon trooping into the gates, they were greeted by a grim-faced populace watching from the rooftops and upper windows. What they did not know was that this city was the last best-defended Tulian stronghold in the valley. If it fell, the rest of the valley was vulnerable to a fate worse than death, all of the northern fortresses had already fallen to the attack. <br>
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Talking with the Tulian commander, General Illurian Tulius, Legate Saturnus would have been struck by the general's enormous stature, even for a Galuthran, and the steely determination in his eyes. Tulius locked Saturnus's arm in a military salute, then bowed to one knee. "We who followed the Tulius name, we Tullians ourselves, have prayed you would come. It has been many years since we called you brothers, Galarian. Yet, what pride tore apart let the glory of battle mend. May a million foes break against our shield wall." <br>
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Pleasantries such as this out of the way, Tulius rejoined his men on the north wall. Just as the Galarians suspected, the undead split their armies into two forces. The bulk of which assaulted the northern wall, about 60 thousand, while another group of a little under 20 thousand assaulted the gate. As the formations of enemies advanced past the walls, they took fire from archers on the walls, fire mages, and mangonel shot, thinning out their ranks as they advanced. While the bulk of the enemy's forces attempted to dock ladders on the walls, the other attack group finally reached the gate after taking fire along the length of the western wall. They advanced their ram first as the Galarians made ready to defend the breachpoint. A huge thud could be heard, rhythmically coinciding with the gigantic wood and steel-reinforced door buckling against its hinges. With unexpected rapidity and violence, the massive gate was flung open, the doors flying off their hinges and crushing a few unlucky auxiliaries standing too close to either side of the breach. The Undead of Illthak set upon the Legions with unexpected fury, jaws hanging slack, axes and swords raised above their heads. Their voices raised a sickening chorus of, "Death! Murder! Kill!" <br>
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They collided with the Legion's shield wall and stumbled back all at once, giving the Galarians a chance to step forward and bury their blades in ichorous flesh. Putrid, black blood fell out on the snow-covered paving stones as the legionnaires hacked through the first rank of the undead, confined in the breachpoint. Behind them, a mob of closely-packed enemies was massed, some of them still on fire from being shot with flaming missiles. Tulian defenders were throwing small boulders through the murder holes atop the gatehouse, crushing two or three undead corpses at a time and clogging the entryway, slowing their advance. Casting their eyes to the north wall, however, they could see that the enemy had docked their ladders and were fighting, despite at a trickling rate, with the Tulian professionals manning the walls. It was now do or die, they would break the undead here or be broken. <br>
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"Not yet," his first mate commented, "there are no plantations here to cultivate the stuff. That's why King Vanian wanted us to come and speak to the locals. Remember?" <br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><u><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">The Battle of Tublika</span></u><br>
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The Elgoth Bridge<br>
</span>​</div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">Captain Olivia Piscatora watched grimly from her ship as the First Detachment held itself against the undead horde. "Are the Onis Draco ready?" she called out to her crew, receiving yells of acknowledgement from below decks. "WELL THEN, LET THEM BURN!" At her shout, the Onis were lit, and from the mouths of dragons came liquid fire, that fell like heavy rain on the pikemen of the horde. Her smile shone behind her derevs as the fire of<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"> other 10 ships joined her own, and the roars of the undead turned to screams of pain. Further downstream, the 20 other ships of the fleet began to finally leave their moorings, moving to add their flame to a slowly disintegrating undead line. </span><br>
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Above, Bellator saw the undead beginning to waver, and with a roar he swung his sword, glowing a bright white as it cleaved though the dead like a knife through butter. "Come brothers, to the Flame!" The Galarians rallied behind him, and their shields sparked as the mages in the Testudo allowed their magic to flow through the runic arrays of the shield wall. Walls of purple force pushed the undead back, and with a final heave they broke, slaughtered and trampled as the remaining legionares rushed to the temple.<br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">Above Tublika</span><br>​</div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">Felix watched the battle unfold, and as a horn blew from inside the city his attention was drawn to the battle raging on the battlements of the city. He smirked at the wooden ladders the undead were using, and with a sharp nudge he led Ragnar into a steep dive, and with their claws he tore ten ladders from the wall. Felix laughed as the dead that were climbing them fell and splintered against the ground, and his fellow riders soon stopped their strafing runs of flinging undead in the ranks to join him. With their combined efforts, they made quick work of the remaining ladders, and with a few passes on the wall itself, the defenders were able to return to hailing fire and arrows on the undead below.</span></div>
				
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Loud banging was heard throughout the large holds within the Nachima domain, Forges roared and the bubbling of magma was dominant. Inside one of the production chambers laid steel frames of to be Nachima, spread out one foot apart with a robed figure floating above the rows and rows of husks that were to be given life. The robed figure was attached to various cables connecting to the ceiling, with sparse Nachima assistants running up and down the rows tinkering with some of the machines that the husks were on. The robed automaton went from one husk to another, working on each frame with various multiple limbs coming from it, welding and bending metal. Once complete the assistants would go around to each frame to attach a cable to each, it was a long and tedious task but they were used to it.<br>
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As the cables lit up, the Nachimidian frames started to glow with the energy that was present and familiar to all the Nachima. As each was given life, they looked around confused as the robed construct floated over them, seeing from the vantage point of one of these many husks, the construct was akin to a ball with multiple eyes that obsessed over every detail of the person, connected to it were hundreds of limbs that were used to build the Nachima. One by one it went from one Nachima to another giving them their own little designs and designating them their names, its voice did not emanate from itself but rather the whole room, it was a low monotone voice that seemed to drown the room whenever it spoke. "Sinteael, welcome to the world of Morfea. I am Grand Architect Atmortan." it spoke to one of the Nachima which was then assisted by the assistance to guide him to the correct place. The Grand Architect moved to another frame. "Nurnuth, welcome to the world of Morfea. I am Grand Architect Atmortan."<br>
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This continued for longer more until it reached to a certain frame, it was not specially marked, nor had it anything that would make it stand out, but Atmortan seemed to stop and paused at the Nachima before it, and the Nachima stared back. Having only been given life just a few moments ago it stared into the mass that was eyes and limbs glaring back at it, "Hel-" It was about to speak before the Grand Architect cut it off. "Sinsal, there are things that may happen, that you will not fully understand, and you must adapt to those circumstances." Sinsal stared in silence at the Grand Architect contemplating the words of the ancient being before the newborn. "Welcome to Morfea, I am Grand Architect Atmortan." but unlike the others Atmortan Marked Sinsals Chest, with what looked like a star before moving to the next frame.<br>
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<u>Late Fall 5420</u><br>
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The heavy footsteps of three Nachima echoed in the halls, one with a red cloak behind him, two circles glowed from where his face would be and a non moving silt not two inches beneath them. He had been made to look most like the Ven'Plendari of the old, however it is only merely a slight imitation of them for the nations beyond the Nachima to feel more at ease. No combat limbs, but with apparel that would be considered prestigious to some of repute. Those Flanking his sides were much more plain in their aesthetic, their face is smooth metal, their bodies more function than form, the left limb a crossbow, their right, a simple hand. They had no apparel unlike the one before them only paint and emblems signifying their rank and specialties, a blade to their side they silently followed their brother down the hallway to the large adamantine doors of the council's seat.<br>
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The hallway was empty, the floor, walls and ceiling were metal, no guards were present as there was no need for guards this far within the Nachima Captial of Suthrus. As the three Nachima approached the door it opened seemingly automatically without anyone around to the presence of the three. Walking inside the three were met with the Council of Archons, they had only the end of an argument before the Archons stopped and look down upon the three from uptop their pedestals.<br>
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			<div class="bbCodeBlock-content">High Archon Arosha's form was dominated by a black alloy admantine shell, forged onto her after decades or centuries of life and experience, one could say she had the frame of a female humanoid, the imitation of gender that was common with the Nachima. Her face was dominated by three glowing ports resembling eyes, the head is smooth from the front and as it goes to the back there are curves following three large cables that resembled hair, however the cables were connected to something above that was unseen. Making her look much larger than she actually was, the body frame itself was rather thin and slender, with the metal being smooth and rather shiny for appearing black.<br>
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Archon Nasses' form was practically the opposite of Arosha's, Bright Adamantine mixed with lines of the bright blue of mithril, she had by far the most facial features out of the five council members, as well as a head full of long while hair that was on closer inspection thin tendrils of a flexible material. Her mouth was actually functioning and her eyes rotated like they would a Ven'Plendari with pupils and a blue iris, rare implements for most Nachima. The body was much bulkier than Arosha, less sleek and more round with more natural angles and curves, and unlike Arosha she had various garments and clothes on her, a white cape lined with gold, with similar robes matching the cape.<br>
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Archon Cornash's Appearance is more form over function, bulky in the sense that his skin was much thicker, and smoother to make his body much harder to grapple with few unnecessary ornamental parts. The face is smooth with no features, but his body had many markings of insignia to signify his rank the material he was made was also that of a adamantine however it was much more dull'ed in color, faint scratch marks can be seen all over his body, enough to be mildly noticeable if one were to take a close look but not enough to warrant a repair.<br>
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Archon Inon had the least customized look out of the five, he had a single glowing slit of light going down his rather standard head, his body resembled that of your average Nachimidian frame save for the much more rare materials put into him, adamantine, un-customized.<br>
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Archon Erathis was Similar to Arosha's appearance, sleek, slender, black adamantine but no facial features, except for a extension growing into the back like a bladed horn. The head was elongated, and the body was made with sharp angles made to look aerodynamic, as her body was built for speed. She had various red insignia with red tinted mithral alloy lines going through her body, though overall much less pronounced than the blue of Archon Nasses'. There were several bladed and sharp extensions all around her body, potential weapons spread throughout.</div>
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As the three walked into the center of the amphitheater-like Council hall they kneeled before the archons head down, right hand to the ground and left arm to the side. "Ambassador Sinsal," Sinsal stood back up, there was a short pause as the high Archon spoke before she addressed the bodyguards. "Nurnuth, Sannash." The bodyguards flanking Sinsal stood up as their names were said. "You have been summoned here to establish a diplomatic connection to the Kingdom of Kyvernitaas. We have ignored our neighbors for far too long, though the imperium has fallen, they are still the descendants of those that created us. Because of our previous negligence and sole drive to fight those of the north it has allowed a necropolis to claim land right at our borders to the west." The other Archons were silent, but faced Arosha as she spoke, occasionally looking down at the subjects of the high Archons plans. "You Sinsal are tasked with cooperating with the Kyvernitaans, establish trade, make sure they view us in a positive light."<br>
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Sinsal simply looked up at the High Archon, as still as a statue taking in the orders wondering how he will approach the Kyvernitaans, Nachima information on the Kingdom was sparse. "But most importantly the main purpose of your mission in the kingdom is to collaborate with the Kyvernitaan military to plan a joint strike on the Necropolis of Ainar. Though there may be no doubt we can purge the undead of the region it may weaken our northern borders too much for a single military incursion, and there is no doubt the Kyvernitaans will be unnecessarily wary if we were to do so. As such a joint strike will also strengthen our relations with them." Sinsal nodded to the High Archon. "I will carry out my tasks, however, i question the effectiveness of their military against such a foe." The High Archon stood still, unphased at the question was it was rather reasonable. "Their weapons are simple yes, but do not under estimate simplicity in numbers, we can share plans on how to approach the necropolis to use both our strengths to an effective degree."<br>
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Sinsal place his left hand on his chest and lowered his head toward her followed by a very slight bow. "I apologize for questioning" Arosha put her palm up, "there is no need to, now go. After Ainar is dealt with we may continue to need their assistance with Gunar" With that Sinsal and his companions turned around and walked out of the Council hall, conversing with themselves with how to get to Kyvernitaas and their plan to reach with the king of the land.<br>
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<u>Early Winter 5420</u><br>
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Sinsal had procured one of the metal ships of the growing Nachima navy, though still at its infancy the ships were extremely slow but they had the advantage of weapons, however those weapons wont be of much use for this mission. The sea was rather dull for the Nachima marines, Sinsal and his two bodyguards walked about the ship to pass the time. The lslands of Aramente were distant, but much more aesthetically pleasing with many colors than the frozen ridges of the north and mountain peaks that the three were used to. Their destination for this mission was to go to the Kyvernitaan port city of Sahsun and from there hopefully get directions or become escorted to their capital<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><u>Winter 5420, Pale Sand settlement,  Off the coasts of Enchanted Vacapenidinia, Luminion</u><br>​</div>A burning sun's rays are broken by the still waters overhead in the small township of Pale Sand. Splashes of colour, red, blue, purple, and green bring a sense of life to the stark white structures that are scattered strategically along the golden hillsides of the shallow coasts. In this alien yet modest township, the Malkid continue their business as though today were any other. Fishing, gardening, and playful sports are the common forms of chores that many choose to fill their time with. Some prefer the terrestrial air upon their skin, and lounge on the beach above just beyond the reach of the waves on beds of wet sand and drift wood. Until recently the inhabitants of Pale Sand had known a very different life. Many were eager to forget their past and appeared to do so with success. That is until unusual occurrences forced the memories of their past to resurface.<br>
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A young male with skin as dark as a fading shadow propels himself through the arched and circular openings of many of the structures in the village, kicking up sand and drawing the gaze of the inhabitants who resided within. In annoyance, those who had been disturbed came to the panicked male with violent gestures and motions in their hands. The male did not care. He reached out his tendrils and made strange shapes with his fingers. The hands of the village folk are stayed and the calm of the water returns, though the atmosphere of moments prior had been swept away.<br>
He moves his hands again, tendrils dragging into the sand beneath him and writing their native script. "The eaters of children, shelled beasts, hunters of the depths, darkness chases us. Cower, hide, flee, die!" He goes to move again but feels his tendrils grasped by the others of his village. They make hand gestures to ask where he saw these beasts, how many there were, and if they truly were beasts of the darkness. He succumbs to his panic and begins thrashing incomprehensibly before being let go. The largest of the Malkid present look to one another and begin carving up the sand below them. "He is scared, fearful of the dark. Hide the women and the newborn."<br>
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"The light illuminates. The surface is safe."<br>
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The conversation between the Malkid eventually comes to a halt as the figures disperse from the area in agreement with what must be done. They go about rallying up all of the townsfolk and moving them to designated hiding spots around the village and beyond. Small gaps in underwater rock formations, crude basements, and even above ground 'integration ponds' are all quickly filled and hidden away. Those that choose to stay outside do what they can to conceal the shelters of their friends and family. By the time the hulking crustaceans arrive to the township of Pale Sand there is no one in sight.<br>
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Within the Luminion's designated ambassadorial chamber of the royal palace, How'eu sits upright on the only arm chair inside the fairly large room. Much like the personal guards standing either side of the door, or the immediate family that lounge around on the recliners taking small naps or passing the time with idle reading, it wasn't native to these lands. How'eu found that by bringing in what little he could in terms of a piece of furniture or his beloved would make his stay in this foreign place all the more bearable. With a sigh he surveys the room and slowly rises from his chair looking at one of the gold veined marble pillars that stood off center from the middle of the room.<br>
In a stroke of coincidence the doors are flung open at the exact moment he happened to rise and his eyes are drawn now to the sudden intruder who is halted by the personal guard and their large spears. It takes a short moment for him to recognise the intruder but once he had, How'eu waves his hand and gestures for the guards to raise their weapons. They do so without hesitation and return to their posts either side of the door.<br>
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How'eu takes a deep breath, composing himself before the conversation he was inevitably going to be forced to endure. Many of the races of the world adored their talk and while ambassadors were among the most talkative of Skorosi it remained a laboured effort to keep up with others. With a hand to his stomach he offers a polite semi bow and begins to speak, "You have come to summon me, sir? I pray it is of the utmost importance. Shall you lead me to they who summon me or shall here suffice?"<br>
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Archmagister Irakli paced back and forth, awaiting the arrival of the final men. For years he had studied and prepared for this, and at last the time had come. Vasilos Avtandil had granted him permission to launch a large scale expedition into the Emerald Keep and whatever lay past it, to gather much knowledge as possible and acquire something deep below that the Lightborn showed the Vasilos via a series of visions a few months prior. Coin had been amassed and dozens of soldiers, explorers, mappers, and magisters had been recruited alike for this mission. It would be the single largest undertaking by the nation yet seen within its own territory, to a place so close to home yet so mysterious.<br>
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As the minutes ticked by Irakli grew impatient and stormed over to Thareal Dal'Rhalas, head of the military component guarding the explorers. "Is everyone here yet? We haven't all day to begin this expedition and the longer we dally the longer we are without any information on what the Lightborn wish for us to discover."<br>
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"Fear not Archmagister, they will be here within the hour, it's not exactly the most simple task to bring supplies through the Undercity to this ruined keep, much less enough to supply a hundred men for weeks and then those who are supplying us." Thareal let out a sigh. "I'm sure that we will be able to get within the ruins before days end."<br>
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"By the Lightborn we had better, I will prepare the other magisters and explorers then. We <i>will</i> begin this expedition within the hour whether or not the rest of the supplymen arrive." He turned and made his way to where the other members of the expedition had gathered and notified them on the start time, and they waited.<br>
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As the time ticked away the last of the supplymen arrived and as the clocks struck 4pm everyone gathered at the base of the keep. The Archmagister and Commander stood atop a pile of crates and stones, with Irakli speaking first. "The time has come my fellow explorers, after months if not years of preparations, we shall begin the largest exploration of the regions under our capital since the founding of the Undercity. We do not know what dangers or boons lay ahead of us, how big the Emerald Keep is, or what lays behind it, but this will not deter us. We are over a hundred men strong, and have all been trained in our respective paths to the utmost skill. The main goal of this expedition is to gather information on these ruins, retrieve artifacts, study architecture, and overall grow to understand this place and its builders. Our only knowledge is that this place is either as old as the Drostilyra, or even possibly predates them, we are not certain. Seeing as we know so little it is vital that we all stay connected, there will likely be a point when our large group will split off into smaller groups to explore, but for our safety, we shall <i>not</i> split into any groups less than four people unless it is <i>vital</i>. In the parts of the keep we marked explored we will put manned supply depots and establish guard patrols, as to prevent anyone from getting lost and always having a route back. But now onto the last piece of information, not only are we exploring for this material knowledge but for something much more important as well, the Lightborn have shown us something immensely powerful resides deep within the keep, something that may help us find the ancient Drostilyran capital or grant us greater arcane ability we know not for certain but nonetheless we will find it. Now, onward, we have a ruin to explore!"<br>
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As the archmagister finished his speech he turned and motioned to the gates of the Keep, and the expedition began. Explorers, arcanists, and guards funneled into the ruin and down the first main hall, a grand hall with ancient arches, giant roots and moss having overtaken the stones of old. The floor had been overtaken with grasses as waterfalls and creeks forced their way through the ancient building, adding to its reasoning for being called the Emerald Keep. The arches were dotted with letters of an ancient unknown language, with the room warming up in a golden tinge as the explorers pass with torch and lantern. There were those that chose to stay and examine the first hall, but the primary group would descend further down into the unknown, determined to succeed and uncover every secret of this place.<br>
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The great port city of Sahsun bustled with life, merchants and horses alike pulled carts down the streets, fishers brought in their catch, laborers were hard at work building new ships for the Kyvernitaan Merchant fleets, every part of the city breathed with activity, even the dark ally's or the slums by which the less fortunate gambled and conducted their own business. This day however would be different from others, Sahsun had unusual visitors, men of metal in ships of steel, crowds gathered at the docks as these foreigners began to arrive, curious of these mysterious folk. As the ship laid anchor and arrived within the docks a group of city guardsmen and the local captain made their way to the strange ship, additional guards being called upon to keep the observing townsfolk a safe distance away. As the final ropes were tied onto the dock the captain approached the ship and its exiting crewmen, flanked with members of the guard, equipped with gleaming spears and helms, their mail armor adorned with crimson capes.<br>
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“Home. My father is an old man. I’ll need to bear news to him, especially if your father finds anything on my Uncle Myos.” Harrison sighed. “My siblings are probably squabbling even now. I have a Throne to inherit. After that’s all said and done, I’ll send a relative or three north against the Undead.”<br>
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200 years, 200 hundred years in the shallows and only now the Confederacy had sent out a party to contact the drowners. A generation had been dedicated to the civil war, and a generation had been wasted fighting each other instead of growing and expanding. Now they were stuck within the central sea, unable to escape into the open ocean due to the battle lines, while the rebels are able to add other Casts from the homelands into their ranks with evidence of easy food and plentiful hunting grounds within the shallows. They used safe migration routes to bring in many Malacs from the homeland, only to send them into the meat grinder immediately after.<br>
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Now this would be the second official contact the Malacs will have with a talking, breathing being. The Coneheads were less then friendly to Ovry's scouts, so any chance of a quick alliance were dashed and had only made the Elder believe that this expedition will bring nothing but unwanted hostility to the Confederacy from the drowners. But perhaps, these new strangers, proper water breathing folk it would seem, would be more hospitable. <br>
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Upon reaching the town, the Elder King, 3 Elder Guards, two dozen Linemen and a half dozen Trench Craw riders were met with the strangest sight. The Malac eyes are more accustom to the darkness and dim lighting, but it didn't take advanced sight for the Malacs to recognize that something was off. There was no one there to see, not a soul in sight. No sign of a struggle, no mention from the scouts of a mass exodus. It was the most foreboding thing a Malac can come across. In the homeland there are tales of entire Casts going missing, usually due to a migration of great predators such as Depth Sharks.<br>
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It brought on a bought of uncertainty within the scouting party's ranks as there were grumblings that they should head back. However King Ovry wasn't going to let this anomaly frighten him off. The Confederacy was depending on the Vanli Cast to bring back allies, no matter the cost. He turns to his Elders. "Usi, Lestiam, Ugwi, listen and listen well. We search the settlement, for dead or alive. If alive, then we can perhaps find the reason for the disappearances, if dead, then we hunt down the reason they're dead. Usi, you shall take 6 and search to the left. Lestiamm, take 6 and search right. Ugwi, take 6 and the riders to form a perimeter around the settlement. The rest shall move with me." He orders, the Elders nod in acknowledgement and split the Linemen into 4 equal squads, each taking a squad for themselves with the most veteran squad going to the King, as is expected.<br>
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Usi, the middle of the three, took his squad into the left section of the town, Lestiam, the youngest, to the right, and Ugwi, the oldest, had the riders chase away any large beasts, whales and dolphins mostly, while her squad patrolled the outskirts. King Ovry took his squad deep into the center of the town. It didn't take long for the Malacs to find that their hulking bodies were too large to enter the smaller doorways of the settlement. It was pain to get a Linemen through, and impossible to get an Elder inside. They were not able to search inside of the houses, but it didn't mean that they weren't able to look inside. There were signs that they previous occupants had left in quite a hurry. Food left uneaten, and tools left out in the open were the biggest evidence of it. The Malacs' heads were on a swivel as they scoured the town, still unable to find any evidence of why the townsfolk had disappeared.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><u>Near Nai'eria, Winter 5420</u><br>​</div>The Nai'erian forced wandered through a temperate rainforest for quite some time after leaving their base-camp. At least several days were spent on the march, with no sign of Neaeru or of any other living creature larger than a rodent. They made camp under the large fronds of great deciduous trees taller than most of the buildings of Ra'Kelli, and dined on their rations and assorted rabbit-like rodents they could catch. Once or twice, a herd o Heort tumbled by in the forest, but too quickly for any of the soldiers to bag one. By the fifth day, it was starting to become unclear whether this area was even still inhabited.<br>
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Then they broke out into a small clearing. There was a ruined house off to one side, and the remnants of a dirt road that led to nowhere. This left the soldiers somewhat spooked, not expecting any trace of civilization out this far from any declared nation. The house was obviously a work of human hands, as was the road. They looked to their captain for guidance.<br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><u>Off the Coast of Ainar, Winter 5420</u><br>​</div>"A special mission," Captain Teodoro Salvicci grumbled through clenched lips as the spray of cold northern ocean whipped up along the hull of the <i>HMS Quicksilver</i>. "Special mission my—"<br>
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"Captain!" Reported a swain, "Black colors off the starboard bow!"<br>
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Teo took out his spyglass and looked in the direction the sailor had indicated. Sure enough, rising over the crest of a wave was a Black Ship, a three-masted warship covered in pitch and ichor, black sails and black colors, making its way in rough seas—laden down with the loot of a Solicazian treasure ship.<br>
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"Bosuns to stations! I want point-of-sail shifted four degrees, and open up those mainsails! Let's get some wind here!" He ordered. "Oarsmen! Double-speed!" As men went to relay the order below decks, the oars that had been, up to this point, hidden, emerged from belowdecks and began to, in unision, slap the water with intense regularity. Under power of oar and sail, the Solicazian ship was gaining on their quarry with remarkable rapidity. The seas were beginning to roughen, and thunder crackled overhead. <br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><u>Ainar, Near the Border with Kyvernitaas</u><br>​</div>The Ainarian necromancers were not fools. Their spy networks and common sense had told them that the Kyvernitaas had been uniting for a bloody purpose. The fortresses they had built on the border were only the most obvious sign of their unwillingness to coexist. It was a pity. The Kyvernitaan navy had been so ineffectual at stopping the slave trade that they never even needed to raid the countryside for slaves except perhaps once in a blue moon. What they had not expected was the Nachima to make some sort of confederation with them. That had them worried. Late in the evening before the Kyvernitaas and Nachima truly mobilized for war, Dreadlord Ainar, the necromancer who had founded this necropolis hundreds of years ago, met with his inner circle of dreadwights and other fellow necromancers. The Guradian glanced this way and that with his eyeless face guided by a magical inner sight. <br>
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"My confederates," he began, "the tides of history are, once again, against us. I wish to rejoin my brothers in the Halls of Illthak, but before I do, I must take on an ascendant form. This robust yet mortal coil no longer suits my needs. I need, innocent blood. And lots of it, if I am to complete my horocrux," the eyeless thing held up a lantern in an iron frame. It was unlit.<br>
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"When the ritual is complete, I will smuggle my soul away onboard one of my ships, and reform in the east."<br>
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"But, Dark Master," one of the dreadwights bowed and scraped, "what about us?" <br>
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"What about you?" Ainar asked, with a biting and sardonic tone. <br>
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"Your lordship, I have served you for..."<br>
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"And your service has run its course. You will serve me by dying the second death to the Kyvernitaan dogs. Pick yourself up, Inkar. You who died upon the blade should not be frightened to repeat your performance."<br>
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"Your lordship, I..."<br>
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"Silence! Bring me that blood!!!"<br>
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In the slave pits below the depths of the black towers of Ainar, there was screaming and weeping that night. Advance scouts and those atop the walls of the tallest Kyvernitaan fortresses would attest they saw a burst of light in the eastern sky, and then a pillar of black smoke. <br>
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Before Elijah and Nora left their home, Lylth supplied their caravan with several more carts loaded with tools and equipment for erecting checkpoints during their travels. Without Nora's knowledge, knowing she would disapprove, her siblings hid the parts needed to construct several of Elijah's 'crossbows'. While it would slow down the journey East, it would hopefully allow the traveling beast horde to head across the river first, keeping Nora and Elijah out of danger. If things went well, the weapons could be used as gifts. If not, they would provide adequate levels of protection in case the caravan was attacked. Before the oligarchs could establish an empire, they needed to present themselves and their nation to the world as civilized. They felt the best place to start, was with roads.<br>
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Days passed before the diplomats finally made it to the bottom of their mountain. Tall, thick, metal archways had been erected every five thousand feet, acting as physical claims to the land and the mountain. The cold did little to slow the journey, and soon enough the two young oligarchs were passing through one of the abandoned settlements where their slaves used to reside.<br>
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Nora sat inside her metal carriage with Elijah, looking through the window at the frosty landscape before her. "Do you think the beasts will come to our home?" The idea of such a large horde of creatures filled her with more awe than fear. Elijah, on the other hand, relished the prospect of obtaining new creatures. Especially ones accustomed to warfare. "Well," he began, "we aren't hiding from anyone. And since we are heading in the same direction as them, I don't doubt we'll inevitably encounter them. If I were them, I'd be very interested in finding out what a city is doing on the side of a volcano."<br>
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 Behind him, 19 other eagles took off, and those below watched as their torches bobbed in the sky, before becoming streaks of light as for each torch two flaming masses fell onto the enemy encampment. The defenders cheered, as explosions of fire were seen across the camp, and the enemy's fortifications began to smoke.<br>
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The Omoron group could quiet clearly make out the black silhouette of several hundred bat like figures that circled overhead. But they did not dive down to attack. Oh no, they were waiting for something. But what? That question was soon answered as first one Hridir, then another, and more still, began pouring out of the treeline. Their cloven feet dug into the ground and tossed tufts of grass and dirt behind them. And judging by their raised weapons and animalistic shouts, they had no intention of slowing down to talk things out.<br>
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Soon enough, right as they had loaded and prepared their weapons, the beasts were above them. To their surprise, they weren't swarming down on the group. The five guards didn't break their aim away from the trees, trusting Elijah to command them appropriately. The beasts that pulled the chariots and carts were uneasy, turning their heads from side to side trying to see the enemies they could hear. "As soon as you see anything come out of those trees, I want you to fire as many bolts as you can."<br>
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The shouting of the beastmen filled the Anak with excitement. It had been hundreds of years since their last actual battle. When the first Hridir showed himself, then the second, then the third, and so on, the Omorans all took a second to really look at them. Their excitement, their thrill for blood and battle, was replaced with... amusement. A couple of them even started laughing at the sight of these little furry beasts charging at them. The first five Hridir were immediately pierced by long, thick, metal bolts. With any unlucky souls behind them also being torn partially apart by the bolts. In a few seconds, a second volley was fired, then a third. It was like clock-work. Pull, place, aim, fire, and repeat.</div>
				
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	</div></div>Bored had begun to set in amongst the brothers. Elnor could feel it as much as anyone else there was little to do on the surface aside from wait for if they were to leave then they connection they had to the rest of there brothers would be cut off making any deals done without addressing the concerns of everyone, to begin with. So far they had found that the being of the surface the once that carried no tools where incredible aggressive they refused to communicate the worst of them where the ones with a fang for a face that could take to the air. They were horrible warlike creatures having immediately attacked them when they tried to approach of course this started a rather short and pitiful war against them. Was it amusing yes? But was it useful no.. Elnor began to wonder if the winged ones would show there face, after-all it seemed the geldek has reached this light they spoke it highly of yet it seemed to disappear every few hours and reappear sometime later Elnor and the other geldek had come to the conclusion that if this light was on the roof of this “surface” then it was clearly alive or at least something pushed it, the only other idea that came to the collective minds of the geldek was that maybe they were the ones moving? To Maby it made just as much sense leaving them all as a whole In a agree to disagree situation. Though even with this oddity Elnor questioned why any of the winged ones would bother leaving this strangely mesmerising place for the dank murky depths that the geldek had called home since there Father. Looking out into the horizon the large armour crystalline being would hum a soft tune the sound of reverberation of crystal and metal it produced a surprisingly pleasant sound, in the end, his brothers soon joined the wordless melody the music carrying far and wide form the imposing fortress of gleaming black, it was just a bit of fun for everyone involved in this expedition, the music was essentially a little bit of home they could actually relax for once the surface wasn't as hostile as below ground they could afford to be a little lax, even the fortress itself seems to join in the song as the sound resonated off its walls and outwards carrying on the wind to wherever it might take it, let it be across the large pond in the distance or across borders.</div>
				
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					<div class="bbWrapper"><div style="text-align: center"><u><i>Lucazia, The Sea Kingdom of Solicazia<br>
Winter 5420</i></u><br>
<i>Captain T’oma a Ro’maha</i>​</div><br>
<br>
It was a cold day in Lucazia. The clouds hung heavy and low over the city, a foreboding grey colour that promised nothing but rain. The docks were busy, as usual, all sorts of people scurrying to and fro, running from ships to warehouses to carts and wagons. It was never quiet in the docks. People talked, word spread between ships faster than the cargo they were carrying, and it was never, ever boring. Only one flag in the harbour bore the blue flag, emblazoned with a tentacle grasping the sword–the flag of the Ascendancy.<br>
<br>
“Ta’aokae!” Came the cry. One man was running along the deck of the ship towards the gangway, waving his arms. “Ta’aokae! Stop!” The same man called, gesturing wildly at the men attempting to load cargo onto his ship. The men stopped, sighing. “What for?” They called back to the man, exasperated.<br>
<br>
The man stopped, as he got close, catching his breath momentarily. “This,” he said, in pointing at the boxes. “not mine.” He finished in broken, heavily accented Magesteri.<br>
<br>
The men sighed, once more, exasperated. “Whose cargo is it, then?” One asked, speaking almost sarcastically slowly, presumably as a result of the captain’s terrible speech.<br>
<br>
The captain gestured, wildly. “I do not know!” He said, frustrated. “Not mine!”<br>
<br>
He pointed back at the dock. He sighed and waved over his First Mate to deal with the problem, making his way down the gangway onto the docks.<br>
<br>
On the docks, he walked quickly to the Harbormaster’s office. He needed to inform the Harbormaster that his ship was leaving. Once there, he paused, looking at the man in the window of the office. He opened his mouth, before closing it quickly. “We are…” he paused, searching for the word. “Departing.” he said, turning to point at his ship.<br>
<br>
The Harbormaster smiled patiently at the man. “Ah, yes.” The man nodded slowly. “Heading home, then? Right.” The man paused for a minute, inspecting his files. “All set!” He said, looking up at the captain.<br>
<br>
The captain smiled and nodded slowly. “Thank you.” He said, giving the Harbourmaster a grateful look. He turned and began to walk back to his ship.<br>
<br>
He only got halfway there before a voice caught his ear. “...new outposts...from the sea.” The captain paused, listening in. He edged closer to the man who was talking, trying to figure out what was going on.<br>
<br>
“New outposts?” One of the other men asked, confused.<br>
<br>
“Yes.” The first man whispered back, gesturing wildly. “Manned by bleedin’ giant crabs. The size o’ ‘em, is just unthinkable.”<br>
<br>
The captain stopped eavesdropping and walked over to the man, pausing. “E-... excuse me. What you have just said…” he began, leaning in intently.<br>
<br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><i><u>On’e’atema, The Ascendancy of the Western Sea<br>
Winter 5420</u><br>
First Secretary Hane’okora a Onoke</i>​</div><br>
There was a knock at the door. The woman at the desk sighed, setting down her pen. “Enter.” She called to the person outside the door. One of the guards standing by the door reached a hand out and opened it, allowing the person outside to enter.<br>
   <br>
“Your Excellency,” the man who had entered began, speaking quickly. “There’s something you must know about.” He wore the simple white robes most government officials wore, but his were different. Silver thread hemmed the edges of his robe, and a comb of a silver hand sat in his hair, marking him as a hand of the First Secretary.<br>
<br>
Hane’okora nodded slowly, taking in the serious look upon her spymaster’s face. “What is it, Ad’ae?” She asked, concerned.<br>
   <br>
“Your Excellency, a rumour has been brought in on the tides.” Ad’ae said, looking at the First Secretary. “They say new outposts have been spotted on the shores of the Great Strait.” He paused, considering. “They say…they say they are manned by giant crab-like creatures.” He said slowly, looking at the First Secretary.<br>
<br>
Hane’okora paused, rising from her seat behind her desk. “You’re sure?” She asked, gliding slowly to the large windows which looked down onto the city. She wore identical robes, save for that they were hemmed with gold, and her single braid had a pearl comb in it. Her dress whispered softly as her tentacles moved smoothly beneath it.<br>
<br>
“It is… but a rumour, Your Excellency. But, if it were true…” the Hand trailed off, thinking. “If it were true, they would seize the only way to the Central Sea.” He paused again. “They say the people come from beneath the waves.”<br>
<br>
The First Secretary stroked toyed with the end of her braid idly, thinking for but a moment. She turned back to the Hand. “Inform the Assembly I am on my way,” She ordered, striding purposefully from the room. “It appears we have something to discuss.”<br>
<br>
By the time the First Secretary arrived in the Assembly Hall, it was already chaos. She entered through the main doors, flanked by several Secretarial Guards, having exchanged the pearl comb for a silver circlet. The room was arranged so that rows of desks set in a semicircle, facing a raised dais in the centre. A few chairs behind a long desk sat in front, and behind that sat a single, higher chair–no, a throne, carved from a single piece of polished white coral. Behind the throne, set into the wall was a large sheet of glass, behind which sat an old document, written in a flowing hand and pressed between the glass and the wall. Around the room, people were shouting, each trying to make their voice heard over another, but none were sitting, paying attention, or doing anything even remotely productive.<br>
<br>
“Enough.” She called to the room, settling into the throne in the front of the room. No one listened. One Secretary paused, looking at her, before returning to arguing. She looked around the room and sighed. “Enough.” She said again, slightly louder. This time, no one listened.<br>
<br>
She stood, grabbing the stone gavel that sat on the desk in front of her and brought it down on the polished stone desk, hard. A crack echoed throughout the room, in the wake of which she spoke again.<br>
<br>
“SILENCE!” Her voice rang out through the chamber as it fell silent. The people throughout the room fell silent, looking sheepish. “You are all dismissed, save for the Small Assembly. The rest of you will leave, now.” She ordered, setting the gavel down and sitting back on the throne.<br>
<br>
The people in the room slowly filed out, murmuring amongst themselves quietly, until there were only a handful of people left in the room. Ten of them sat at the desks closest to the dais, while the guards in Hane’okora’s retinue took up positions around the room. A few clerks settled into the seats just before the throne, ready to record the events that followed.<br>
<br>
The Small Assembly was composed of the First Secretary, and the ten Secretaries besides her who represented the largest clans. Officially, under the Grand Charter, the Small Assembly didn’t exist. But my default, they were usually the closest thing that the First Secretary had to advisers.<br>
<br>
Hane’okora sat, her posture perfect as she looked down at the Secretaries in the first ten desks. “My most esteemed Secretaries.” she began, folding her tattooed hands in her lap. “We have heard rumours from Solicazia. Rumours which we do not yet understand.” There was a quiet murmur throughout the room.<br>
<br>
“And what, Your Excellency, would these rumours be?” The question came from the Secretary in the seventh chair, Secretary Du’eme. A slight man, quite young to be in the Assembly, but respected.<br>
<br>
“There have been sightings of outposts, cropping up along the shores of the Great Strait,” she began. As she did so, a quiet murmur spread throughout the hall once more. She held up a hand, and the room fell silent. “The word of the waves is that these outposts are manned by crabs, several times the size of a man.”<br>
<br>
“We must attack!” Roared one of the men, standing. Secretary Kagae’o was an older man, quick to anger and belligerent. “They mean to control the only means of passage to the Central Sea. That cannot be allowed!” He spoke loudly, looking at his colleagues.<br>
<br>
Secretary Du’eme rolled his eyes, giving the other man a look. “You always want to attack, Kagae’o.” He said calmly, looking at him. “You jump at shadows in the waves, you fear when a cloud crosses the sun.” He turned back to the First Secretary. “Besides. It is clear, the Her Excellency has already decided how to act.” he said, perceptively.<br>
<br>
Kagae’o turned to him, face turning red. “And one day, you will thank me for it.” He roared, looking at Du’eme. “We will never be respected as long as we negotiate with beasts, much less giant crabs.”<br>
<br>
Hane’okora brought down the gavel lightly, and the ten Secretaries swivelled to look at her. “Secretary Du’eme is correct.” She conceded gently. “I have already ordered the First Hand to investigate. He takes with him his guard, as well as a Magister of the Sea.” She raised a hand as Kagae’o opened his mouth to debate. “It is decided. I have also dispatched with him a Projector, so he might better represent our people.” She paused. “I merely came here to find your opinions on this matter.”<br>
<br>
Du’eme stood, looking at the First Secretary respectfully. “All in favour of investigating these outposts shall rise.” He said, formally.<br>
<br>
All of the Secretaries rose, save for Kagae’o. He glared at them all angrily, each in turn, before rising from his seat and striding across the room to the door.<br>
<br>
“We will come to regret this.” He said fiercely, striding from the room.<br>
<br>
Hane’okora sighed, and brought the gavel down again. “I hereby do adjourn the Assembly for the day. All debate shall cease until next sunrise.” She said, standing before gliding gracefully from the room. Her guards fell in behind her, and one by one the Secretaries trickled out and the room fell silent.<br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><i><u>The Great Strait</u></i><br>
<u><i>Winter 5420</i></u><br>
<i>First Hand Sohana a Nakemo</i>​</div>   <br>
The wind whistled through the long hair of the First Hand Sohana a Nakemo. He was a tall man, his slender face framed by the two braids that marked him as married among the Ate’oyan. In his hair sat the golden comb of his office, and he wore a long white robe, embroidered at the edges with silver thread. He breathed deeply, taking in the cool sea air. This was where he felt the most alive, on the deck of one of his people’s sky-barges, It was excessively large, given that he was bringing a very small team on this investigation with him, but there was no way he could have fit the whole team into a single chariot, so the barge would have to do. He turned, looking at the edge of the Great Strait as it came into view. The ocean gleamed like a beautiful jewel, the whole world laid out before him beautifully.<br>
<br>
“Put us down there!” He turned, calling to the skipper from where he stood at the prow of the barge. “We’ll disembark there and investigate.” He turned, sweeping across the deck in his long robes. He paused in front of the mage who had been sent along with him. “Are there… any disturbances?” He asked quietly to the mage.<br>
<br>
“No, sir.” The mage replied quietly. “I can sense no magic, and the skies will be clear here for the next couple of days. Everything should be fine.”<br>
<br>
The First Hand nodded slowly. “Thank you.” He said, turning away. It was slightly odd that he had been sent here with the team he had. Not the soldiers, of which he had a squadron of six, but the fact he had additionally been sent with a mage and a protector–some of the most valuable people in the Ascendancy–spoke volumes about how concerned the First Secretary was of this new arrival.<br>
<br>
There was a resounding splash splash as the barge settled into the water, followed by the shrill squaking of the team of eagles that pulled it as they settled into the shallow waters of the northern shore, displeased. “Captain!” Sohana called to the skipper. “Keep everything ready to go. We may need to make our exit with some… expediency.”<br>
<br>
Sohana waved a hand to his team and stepped off the barge, into the shallow waters of the coast, hiking up his robes as he did so. He sighed pleasantly as his tentacles settled into the water, before walking to the shore. His whole team followed him; the armoured soldiers in segmented armour and cloaks, the Magister in his sleeveless robe and mask, the projector in his long dark robe, and the First Hand himself.<br>
<br>
The group walked to shore slowly, wading through the waters before emerging onto the sand. Sohana turned to look at his team. “Right.” He said, in crisp Aten. “You,” he said, looking at the soldiers, “will form up around us.” he gestured to the Magister, Projector, and himself. “The first outpost should be this way. We will approach peacefully.” he said, giving them all a meaningful look. The soldiers nodded, slinging their bows over their shoulders. They checked their swords briskly, before standing at attention. Sohana patted the hilt of his sword reassuringly, and then began to walk forward, the soldiers falling in around him.<br>
<br>
It was about an hour later that they spotted the outpost they were looking for. Sohana held up a hand, bringing the squadron to a stop. He sank into a crouch, squinting at the outpost from far away. He paused before turning to the mage. “What do you hear?” He asked the mage softly.<br>
<br>
The mage paused, looking at the outpost. He gently brought his hands to his side and opened his mouth slightly. From it emerged a low keening noise, a single note held pure. Gently, the mage made a pulling motion towards his body. Sohana felt the air stir, just barely, and he knew what the mage was doing. Sound simply moved through whatever it was in, the Ate’oyan had discovered that when evolving. By forcing the air to allow sound from the outpost to move through it further, the mage could hear the noises from the outpost.<br>
<br>
The mage turned to Sohana. “I’m… unsure, sir.” He said, pausing. “There are loud but muffled footsteps in the sand. And… some sort of… snapping?” He said, pausing.<br>
<br>
Sohana nodded, standing. “Let’s approach, quietly.” He said to his squad. “We make no move unless they do.”<br>
<br>
The group stood, and began to walk slowly towards the outpost, not bothering to try and hide. They were sure whoever was there would see them coming–they just hoped they were friendly.<br>
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					<div class="bbWrapper">Abrechan fought even as he was dragged down by the metallic net, gnawing futilely at the interlocking links as he fell to the earth. And as he gracelessly crashed into the earth, the Stedonare reached their foe. A thunderous roar of hooves and the clashing of metal engulfed the surrounding area. Most of their weapons did little more than dent the armor, some of the poorly kept blades even shattering with the force of the impact. A single swing of the Anak's could cut a Stedonare in two, and soon topless carcasses were littered just past the titans, as the momentum of the recently deceased carried them further.<br>
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But even the superior quality of these gargantuan troops and their equipment could not stand up to the tide of flesh that was crashing upon them. All it took was a lucky strike for a fault in the armor to appear, or for a blade to slither in between the joints, where some compromises had to be made so as to allow movement. Soon one blade penetrated the armor, followed by more, and more still. The Stedonare alone were not to bring down the Anak, but they had done more than enough to allow the Hridir to finish them off. Their two handed axes rose and fell, like they were felling a great tree. Raet nimbly avoided the lumbering giant's massive hands and weapons as they climbed up the back of the giant to sink their long knives/short swords into their prey. Even with these advantages for the Deoram, each Anak was able to bring down tens of these creatures, the sheer number of the Deoram however did manage to kill the five Anak to the last.<br>
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Those that chased the carriage, however, were doing far worse. Their momentum nullified, the Stedonare could do nothing to the armored beasts that pooled the equally armored carriage. The few Raet that had managed to stay on the backs of the Stedonare (a risky proposition not because of the rough shod way the Stedonare ran but more for the loss of ones throat for doing such a thing), tried to hop onto the carriage but either slid off the armored sides and were crushed underneath or were pushed off the side and crushed. The effort of running alongside the carriage and futilely swinging their weapons at it soon drained the Stedonare, allowing the carriage and it's rider escape.<br>
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The Arch-Cantor Polyphonos XII laid sprawled out upon the floor before the great interior window of the Great Temple, a cone of line issuing forth to bathe him in its glow, a simple woolen mat of grey and red all that was between him and the cold stone floor. The sunlight felt warm on his wrinkled skin, soaked through the timeworn exterior of his body to warm the interior, his soul. And thus was his custom to lie, prostrate in prayer, feeling the sunlight hit his back and soak through his simple white robes, to his very marrow. And such had he done every day for forty years, beneath this very window. <br>
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But what had never happened was for him to be interrupted in his morning prayertime. Not interrupted by one of the cantors that filed in and out of the temple, walking the ancient steps up and down, chanting their prayers, singing their pleances for the sins of an old and darkened world. No, for they would know better. He was interrupted by a shadow that fell across his ancient frame like the great mountain casts its own shadow over the valley at eventide. He looked up. <br>
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It was an old man, like Polyphonos himself. He was dressed in pilgrim clothes: a tattered robe, a green hood, worn walking stick in one hand and a bindle in another. He wore a beard, still brown, and his robes concealed a form that was thin and yet quite powerful. At the very least, the Arch-Cantor could sense some sort of power in his presence. Perhaps this was a hard-handed man, whose last labor in life was a sojourn to the Great Temple of Morfus. Polyphonos rose from to his knees, then his feet, and made a gesture of blessing over the man. <br>
<br>
"Greetings, pilgrim, I am—"<br>
<br>
"I know," said the pilgrim with a matter-of-fact, neutral tone. Polyphonos lapsed into stunned silence. It was not that the stranger had offended him, there was no malice in the face or voice, it merely bewildered him. The pilgrim stepped through the threshold and began walking across the temple's interior sanctuary, a circular room populated by ancient columns and dominated by a healing font in the center. Polyphonos, curious, followed him.<br>
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"Well, if you know who I am, allow me to greet you, traveller, in the name of Morfus." The Arch-Cantor said earnestly.<br>
<br>
"Very well, I will accept your greeting," the man said with a wry smile. He dipped his fingers into the font and watched as the water ran over his fingertips, all of this seeming rather odd to Polyphonos who had, now, thoroughly sprung from his usual meditative, half-aware state into one of wary alertness. The pilgrim retracted his hand and let the cool water drip onto the cold stone. <br>
<br>
"I believe you wanted someone to repair your bookshelf." The pilgrim said at last. Polyphonos knit his brows. "I did?"<br>
<br>
"Yes," said the man. "It's never been quite complete." <br>
<br>
Polyphonos looked dumbly after the pilgrim as he began to stride off, curiously in the direction of the library. Polyphonos, after a hesitation, soon followed the pilgrim wearing a curious expression. They walked out of the north doors to the sanctuary and under a wide ambulatory that led to the library complex. On the way, the pilgrim spoke to Polyphonos of the threats that were but a few days from the walls of Vosra'vin, of a ravenous horde. To be sure, Polyphonos knew the danger, but not the extent of the threat. <br>
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"There is something you don't know, however," the pilgrim said, as they nearly entered the library. The pilgrim paused and held Polyphonos's shoulder. "The Deoram have been promised aid by infernal powers—specifically in the form of great siege engines. These ancient walls that have beaten back the tide of years will hold them back no longer, my son."<br>
<br>
<i>My son?</i><br>
<br>
They entered the library, a room with a ceiling three stories tall all lined with books, with gigantic ladders propped up here or there. On either side of the rectangular room with a rounded ceiling great circular windows allowed in pillars of light. <br>
<br>
"They are magnificent," the pilgrim admitted. "But you have one tome missing."<br>
<br>
"And that would be?"<br>
<br>
The pilgrim had already strode to the far end of the room and found a place the shelf was bare. There, he untied his bindle and produced a book, and a large one at that. The cover was engraved with all sorts of strange carvings, letters, runes, symbols. It radiated holy magic. <br>
<br>
Polyphonos was thoroughly confused at the sight, and advanced closer to read the cover of the book. "What, what is that?" He stammered. <br>
<br>
"This is the Book of Chords," the pilgrim explained, opening up the tome to a seemingly random page. Light leaped up from the pages, and...music? A veritable symphony emerged from the book, voices of all kinds, stringed instruments some of which the Arch-Cantor had never heard before. It was beautiful. So beautiful that he had to force tears back from his eyes. The pilgrim noticed his expression and looked up from the tome. "Ah, you like that one?" He asked. He smiled a small, tender kind of smile. "It is the sound of an infant whose soul has climbed to heaven. Think ye it sounded like a dirge?"<br>
<br>
Silence, for a moment. Then Polyphonos stuttered, "No, my, it sounded like..."<br>
<br>
"Celebratory, light, happy, joyous." The pilgrim smiled again. "Think ye the little ones weep in my arms?"<br>
<br>
"I... your..."<br>
<br>
The pilgrim closed the book. "Take it, Polybius, my servant. You have done well." He handed the tome to Polyphonos, who was almost afraid to take it, and as he did so the hood fell from the man's face revealing a careworn face, yet full of vitality, and eyes as grey as a cloudy morning. As he took the book, he felt the man's fingers—calloused at the tips, like a lutenist. He held the tome against the folds of his robe. <br>
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"There are many books in this library, Polyphonos, that say many beautiful things. Perhaps every thought and deed of mortalkind for over ten millennia is stored in this room." He turned back to Arch-Cantor. "They will not survive the sack of the my Temple, and they are of no consequence anyways, all things considered. But this," he pointed to the book, "this is a treasure. I gifted it to Plendar in the First Age, to teach his people the Chords, the underpinning of all reality. He taught his people the Way, but they have since left the tide of history and gone home. Darkness like that of the First Age is all around you, but you must dispel it. And you will, with that book." He pointed to the cover again for emphasis. <br>
<br>
Polyphonos looked confused, although a light was beginning to envelope his mind. Could it? Was it?<br>
<br>
"You keep saying that 'I gave this to Plendar' and '<i>my</i> Temple,' but who—"<br>
<br>
The pilgrim closed his eyes and began to hum softly. Once again, a song Polyphonos had never heard, but one that filled him with a kind of ecstatic joy such that he had never felt in his life, like so many threads of light had wrapped themselves around his spine, his heart. He heard a voice say, disembodied, from all corners of the room. "I am He that made all things, who formed you in your mother's womb, who wrapped you in the swaddling clothes of Being, who held you through your childhood, and He that hobbles with you in old age. As I was with the first, so I will be with you, even unto the End of the Age." The voice added. "Take the book, my son, and teach my creation to sing again."<br>
<br>
"My God, my God!" Polyphonos cried out, like a child that had lost his mother, had searched for her for long hours, and had finally seen her cresting over the hill. He threw his whole body upon the form before him and—the humming stopped, the pilgrim had vanished, and nothing save the massive tome could cushion his fall. For a moment, there was silence and stillness. Then Polyphonos blinked and opened his eyes. He was surrounded by cantors in white robes. "Are you alright, your holiness?" One asked plaintively. <br>
<br>
"I...I... Where did he go?"<br>
<br>
"Who, sir?"<br>
<br>
"The pilgrim?"<br>
<br>
The cantors gave him a strange look. "Why, Holy Father, there is no pilgrim here? Are you sure you are well?"<br>
<br>
"Quite well," Polyphonos said, rising back to his feet. He felt the weight of the book. If nothing else, <i>this </i>was real. <br>
<br>
Just then, a temple guardian dressed head to toe in plate armor and carrying a mace and shield burst into the library. "Your Holiness," he began and kneeled, "the enemy has erected their siege camp outside our walls. What orders have you for the defense?"<br>
<br>
"I..." Polyphonos looked around. "I..." He glanced into all their faces, then down at the book. "Evacuate the Temple complex." The cantors and especially the guardian seemed shocked by this order. "We must prepare to retreat. Captain, your men must buy us some time. What of our reinforcements?"<br>
<br>
"They will be here shortly, Your Holiness, surely we can last out the siege?"<br>
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"No," Polyphonos declared emphatically, "not this one." He glanced down again at the book, then sighed. "Morfus protect us."<br>
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Spring 5421<br>
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Emperor Archibald flexed taloned fingers, wincing from his arthritis. He’d felt the fire calling for a long time now. The pale scales crawled across his flesh, and he leapt from the balcony.<br>
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White fire illuminated the dawn sky, and the eldest dragon of his era took flight.<br>
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Weeks later, Emperor Archibald was no more.<br>
***<br>
Sun Prince Harrison <br>
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When he descended upon the white towers of Faircourt, the bells were ringing. His blood ran cold, and he dropped to the courtyard. The Fiery Swords slid off, and he assumed mortal form in a flash of fire.<br>
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Princess Grace was there, golden eyes flickering with tears.<br>
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“Father is dead,” she said as soon as he was within earshot. <i>Dead? </i>Harrison thought. His father was heathy.<br>
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“Where is Emma?” he asked.<br>
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Harrison grinned a dragonbone smile, black and fierce.<br>
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“Who is with us?”<br>
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“Jasan, Alaen and Jenner. They are coming now, to see you on your throne.” All three were proven dragons, large and in their prime. With him and Grace, they had far superior ties. The Imperial Banks were his, and their private armies as well.<br>
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The sun held high in the sky of the surface land. It was a strange experience, being on land. Iekki's entire life was spent in what the older Elders called the Shallows, but here the water was more shallow then back home. The waters here near the surface was so shallow, that the seemingly endless sea ended here. Maybe the Drowning Lands was more vast then the ocean, but the Elders told her that their homelands, as dangerous as it was, is an even greater land then the surface. It apparently had a brutal beauty to it. A land where hunters and hunted were one and the same, and the line between predator and prey was non-existent. But despite that, it was a land of beautiful crags, plentiful hunting lands and was much like Malacs themselves. Simple, hungry, and violent. <br>
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She didn't see her homeland. She was one of the many thousands of "Shallow Grubs", Malacs who were born in the Shallows. She knew only the waters of the Shallows, until her Second Molt, and now she knew the Drowning Lands as well. Outside of the water was a completely different experience for her. Without the water to support her weight, everything she did felt cumbersome and heavy. Even the simple movement of simply lifting one of her front legs, pushing it forward, digging it into the ground, then kicking up the dirt and sand felt strangely heavy to her.<br>
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Perhaps she was still too soft for guard duty. It's only been a year since she's had her second molt, and Iekki was distracted with shoveling with her claws and feet, forming small holes and hills of muck and dirt then keeping an eye out for rebels or wildlife. Everything acted differently on the Drowning Lands. Everything sank faster, and held together more strongly up here. There was new colors she could never describe, and she wanted to collect it all. Soft things that fell of the surface fish and danced in the air, too fragile to hold in a claw, so she carefully used a stick to put them in her mouth to carry. And hard broth things that was covered in hair and that had soft white inside. Her favorites were things that grew on the brown bones that were colorful and soft, and like the soft things, she carefully picked them up in her mouth and dropped them in the holes, burying them all for safekeeping. The King would never let her bring these things back. They had no place for them. Iekki would make places for them.<br>
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While tending to her collection, making a new hole to fill, she hears the sound of rustling in the green scales growing from the brown bones. Perhaps it was rebels? Or maybe surface wildlife? Either way, she had trained for this and kept her claws up and her stance tight, as she waited for the threat to reveal itself. What she saw was...not what she expected. People who looked like the squids and octopuses of the Shallows came out of the green scales, and she was visibly confused. She didn't know what to do. No one taught her what to do if you find water wildlife on the Drowning Lands.<br>
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Perhaps they were a threat? Or perhaps not. She stayed quiet, and shadowed their movements, keeping them in front of her at all times. There were two of them, but she was larger and had a harder shell then any squid or octopus. As they moved closer, she snapped her claws and slammed her larger battle claw into the ground, to hopefully scare off the intruders.<br>
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<i>First Hand Sohana a Nakemo</i><br>​</div>    Sohana held up a hand, bringing his party to a halt as the strange creature before him snapped its claws. Neither he nor his party flinched as the creature banged its claws into the ground, glaring at them. Gracefully, the First Hand took a few more steps towards the creature, but not too many, his long robe gently brushing against the ground with the barest whisper as he did so. Cautiously, Sohana raised both hands palms open towards the new creature, in a gesture of peace accompanied with a gentle smile. He gently allowed his cloak to swing open as he did so, revealing the hilt of his slender sword in a way he hoped would sufficiently indicate to the creature that he wasn’t interested in a fight.<br>
   <br>
    “Loka’tete!” Sohana called to the creature in a loud but friendly manner. “Hello!” He said, switching to heavily accented Magesteri. It seemed unlikely that the creature would speak Aten, and he wasn’t exactly qualified to debate the differences in phonetics with it while trying to converse in Aten. Sohana gave a small half bow with his arms at his sides, the custom among his people for meeting others whose status one was unsure of, before returning to his upright position. “We mean you no harm.” He said, watching the creature carefully. It was a most fascinating sight, the creature, its shell was beautiful in a strangely aggressive sort of way.<br>
<br>
    Sohana turned, gesturing to his team and giving them a meaningful look. The soldiers lowered their bows, still eyeing the creature and prepared attack if they needed to defend themselves, but not ready to initiate conflict. The First Hand then turned back, giving the creature a reassuring smile. “Who are you?” He asked kindly, looking the creature up and down. Sohana was curious about what this creature was too, and what it was doing burying sticks and leaves in the sand, but those questions could come later once they had established the… necessary introductions.<br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><i><u>On’e’atema, The Ascendancy of the Western Sea </u></i><br>
<u><i>Spring 5421</i></u><br>
<i>First Secretary Hane’okora a Onoke</i>​</div><br>
    “There’s a letter for you, Your Excellency.” Hand Ad’ae set down an envelope of thick, white, pristine vellum, sealed with gold wax. The seal bore the symbol of a hand, inside of which was the coat of arms of the Drachen Empire. Ad’ae knelt across the desk from the First Secretary and slid the envelope across the desk so it rested in front of his ruler. He folded his hands in his lap, looking up at the First Secretary calmly.<br>
<br>
    Hane’okora picked the envelope up and turned it over in her hands slowly. An envelope held… implications. This one especially. The seal alone told her multitudes, the hue of the wax relaying the envelope’s great importance, while the seal pressed into it told her that it was from one of her Hands: Eno’aka, Ambassador to the Drachen Empire. But even the envelope in and of itself was important. Anything that had to be written down had to be important, otherwise word of mouth or mind would be enough. A letter told that whatever it contained either held something of great importance or something that was confidential. Perhaps both.<br>
<br>
    The First Secretary picked up a letter opener from the desk and slid it under the seal, opening the envelope gently. She withdrew the letter from within, unfolding it so she could read the words written in a flowing hand. After a moment, she set the letter down silently. Hane’okora reached down, opening a drawer in her desk and removing a sheet of vellum, an envelope, her seal, and sealing wax from within before setting them on the table in front of her.<br>
<br>
    She looked up at Ad’ae, deep in thought. “Eno’aka has sent word from Faircourt.” She said slowly, picking up her pen which sat in an ink pot on the desk next to her. She gently wet the nib of the pen with ink, looking up at Ad’ae again. “Emperor Archibald is dead.” Hane’okora said calmly, tapping her pen gently against the inside of the inkpot. “Princess Emma is next in line, but…” She set the pen down, still thinking. “Eno’aka says that Prince Harrison intends to make a play for the throne.”<br>
<br>
    Ad’ae paused, thinking. “He wants a civil war.” The Hand said, reflecting the calmness of his First Secretary. It was a statement, not a question.<br>
<br>
    Hane’okora nodded. “It would appear so.” She murmured, setting her pen down on the paper and beginning to write. “And I would bet a thousand shells,” she said, using the large unit of currency of her country, “...that the Sun Prince intends to win as well.” She finished, engrossed in her writing.<br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><b>✥✥✥</b>​</div><br>
    The Assembly fell silent as the Hand sitting in the chair beside the empty throne cocked her head to the side, listening. Behind her ears, her fins fluttered indicating that she was using her gift, and receiving a message from someone. A moment later, she turned to look down at the chair in which sat Secretary Kagae’o–the Secretary presiding in absence of the First Secretary–giving him a pointed look.<br>
<br>
    Secretary Kagae’o sighed, turning to look up at the Hand. “Can it wait? The Assembly must vote-...” He trailed off as the Hand shook her head, still silent. He sighed, before turning back to face the Assembly. “The Dais recognises the Most Honorable Eighth Hand of Her Most Holy Excellency First Secretary Hane’okora a Onoke,” the Secretary said, reeling off the official statement he had to make quickly in one breath. “...representing Her Most Holy Excellency before this Assembly of Secretaries, most duly convened.” He banged the gavel, turning to look at the Hand.<br>
<br>
    The Hand stood, facing the Assembly before opening her mouth to speak. “Be you all informed, Most Eminent Secretaries,” she began, inwardly rolling her eyes at the extreme formality of the Assembly. Ah well, it was tradition after all. “That the First Secretary has instructed me to deliver Her will unto yourselves; that Her Most Holy Excellency has sent word to the Drachen Empire, offering support to the Sun Prince Harrison in his bid for the throne, for the purpose of maintaining the peace and defense of our colonies in Loshen.” She sat, bracing herself for the impact of the words on the Assembly.<br>
<br>
She had not even finished speaking when Secretary Kagae’o’s caucus exploded into outrage, answered in kind by others.<br>
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<div style="text-align: center"><i><u>Faircourt, The Drachen Empire<br>
Spring 5421</u><br>
Thirteenth Hand Eno’aka a Rama, Ambassador to the Drachen Empire</i>​</div><br>
    Eno’aka leaned forward, examining the statue in front of him. It was beautiful, a magnificent dragon cast in solid gold, set with precious stones. He returned to his normal, straight-backed standing position and turned, walking towards the windows which looked out onto the city. Faircourt was a beautiful place, he mused as he waited. There was the soft sound of a door opening behind him, at which Eno’aka turned to look at who was there. A servant in imperial livery stepped towards Eno’aka, giving a slight bow. “Your Honour,” he began nervously. “The Prince will see you now.”<br>
<br>
    The servant led Eno’aka through a set of massive double doors opened by two uniformed guards, into a room where a throne sat at the end of a long hall. The room was… magnificent, to say the least. Every available space on the wall depicted a painting of some kind, mostly of dragons in flight. Everywhere he turned, there were dragons. Dragon claws, dragons in flight, you name it. He paused as was led to the foot of the raised dais upon which the throne sat. The servant cleared his throat, looking at the man who sat on the throne. “Your Royal Highness,” The servant began, giving the Hand beside him a slightly nervous look. “May I present The Most Honorable Thirteenth Hand of the Ascendancy of the Western Sea, Eno’aka a Rama, Ambassador to the Drachen Empire.”<br>
<br>
    Eno’aka gave a deep bow of respect, using the bow which–among his people–indicated that he was facing someone of much higher standing than you who was well respected.<br>
<br>
    The servant spoke again, now looking at Eno’aka. “Your Honour, may I present His Royal Highness, the Sun Prince Harrison of the Drachen Empire,” He began, before giving Eno’aka a deliberate look. “...rightful Emperor of Drachen.”<br>
<br>
Eno’aka straightened slowly, giving the Sun Prince a warm smile. “Your Royal Highness.” The Hand said respectfully, giving another bow, before straightening up again. The golden hand-shaped comb in his hair glittered gently, catching the light as he did so. “Thank you for granting me an audience on such short notice.” He said respectfully, looking up at the prince.<br>
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			<div style="text-align: center"><i><u>Faircourt, The Drachen Empire<br>
Spring 5421</u><br>
Thirteenth Hand Eno’aka a Rama, Ambassador to the Drachen Empire</i>​</div>Eno’aka leaned forward, examining the statue in front of him. It was beautiful, a magnificent dragon cast in solid gold, set with precious stones. He returned to his normal, straight-backed standing position and turned, walking towards the windows which looked out onto the city. Faircourt was a beautiful place, he mused as he waited. There was the soft sound of a door opening behind him, at which Eno’aka turned to look at who was there. A servant in imperial livery stepped towards Eno’aka, giving a slight bow. “Your Honour,” he began nervously. “The Prince will see you now.”<br>
<br>
The servant led Eno’aka through a set of massive double doors opened by two uniformed guards, into a room where a throne sat at the end of a long hall. The room was… magnificent, to say the least. Every available space on the wall depicted a painting of some kind, mostly of dragons in flight. Everywhere he turned, there were dragons. Dragon claws, dragons in flight, you name it. He paused as was led to the foot of the raised dais upon which the throne sat. The servant cleared his throat, looking at the man who sat on the throne. “Your Royal Highness,” The servant began, giving the Hand beside him a slightly nervous look. “May I present The Most Honorable Thirteenth Hand of the Ascendancy of the Western Sea, Eno’aka a Rama, Ambassador to the Drachen Empire.”<br>
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Eno’aka gave a deep bow of respect, using the bow which–among his people–indicated that he was facing someone of much higher standing than you who was well respected.<br>
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The servant spoke again, now looking at Eno’aka. “Your Honour, may I present His Royal Highness, the Sun Prince Harrison of the Drachen Empire,” He began, before giving Eno’aka a deliberate look. “...rightful Emperor of Drachen.”<br>
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Eno’aka straightened slowly, giving the Sun Prince a warm smile. “Your Royal Highness.” The Hand said respectfully, giving another bow, before straightening up again. The golden hand-shaped comb in his hair glittered gently, catching the light as he did so. “Thank you for granting me an audience on such short notice.” He said respectfully, looking up at the prince.
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</blockquote><i><u>Faircourt, The Drachen Empire<br>
Spring 5421</u></i><br>
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The Emperor smiled slightly, and inclined his head. He wore a simple crown, a band of gold adorned with the graceful letters of Old Imperial. It was an old crown, but not the eldest. The oldest crown was at the Obsidian Palace, an elaborately carved thing of dragonbone.<br>
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“Well met, Eno’aka a Rama. It is always good to receive visitors in these trying times. It is good that you arrived when you did, for I will be leaving on the morrow. But enough about me. What do you desire, to seek an audience before me?”</div>
				
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