Post by aaron on May 25, 2014 18:14:16 GMT -9
thanks Wild ...
ok I have one last sneak peek and then I'm going to disappear for a few days working on all this stuff.
everyone I would like you to meet
Queen Erasabeth
quite possibly the oldest living sane (if you can call her sane )elf that lives in the world. she is the queen of the Falien (pronounced: Fay lean) elves.
In the beginning of the world or the age of the Dawn, there were elves living in the Miasma of Magic that flowed through the world.
In that time there was only one race of Elves they are called the Dawn Elves. in this time Magic was in them and they in the magic were one. In the Dawn days there were Ancients who were not elves. they were masters and teachers they helped the elves use the magic that soon sustained them and they told them never turn to the Arcanum. it is a source of unspeakable power and the creatures that live there will devour any that they find. To seal up the Arcanum so that none could escape it or stumble into it unknowingly the Ancients created a magic seal and bound it with their lives.
the knowledge of this seal was held in 12 tomes that held not only the seal but the creatures that were trapped in each level.
Many centuries passed in peace and Erasabeth grew in both beauty and power.
Erasabeth turned her eye to a younger elf Barnof Crofthelm. He showed an aptitude for pulling magic into physical form. It is rumored that at one time Erasabeth loved him almost as much as he loved her. In their union of love a child was conceived.
Then the great calamity happened and the world broke. the magic that flowed so freely was absorbed into the world creating the mountains, the oceans and the most of the world magic formed into a collective conscious and became the spirit of the Splinterwood.
For the Dawn Elves this Calamity was the end of their world as the magic that sustained them was now gone and they faced the terrible reality of being mortal. As time when on the Dawn elves searched out Magic wherever they could find it in any form and like a true Junki only thought about their next fix. As they searched the world some of the Dawn elves found their way to the splinter woods and started to draw upon the life energy that was there.
Erasabeth lead many elves on her insatiable lust for magic until she found, on a large island, the neither. A rift in the world that opened a fissure in the earth spirit, and allowed her to draw upon the magic that was there.
When she presented this gift to her love Barnof he was sickened at the thought of drinking the worlds life spirit and turned from Erasabeth. For the first time in memory The powerful Erasabeth was powerless to stop him from leaving and she turned cold and hateful that day.
It is unclear if she turned to madness because of that or maybe it was by cutting the world and partaking of it's raw spirit she somehow forgot that life was precious and not to be controlled or crushed. Either way upon that day Erasabeth was never the same.
The Neither sustained her and granted her unnaturally long life it wasn't enough to satisfy her craving. It was then that she set on a quest to find all 12 tomes of the Arcanum with the intent to face the void and either draw on it's magic or face the long cold of oblivion that awaited.
In this time a son was born Galithose, an odd name for a Falien elf it the closest translation would be tinkers son. So Erasabeth hasn't forgotten her love for Barnof.
In the dawn of the first age of the empire Erasabeth lead her elves from the Falien isles and set on a crusade to find the 12 tomes.
With each tome she aquired she learned how to bind the creatures of the Arcanum and slowly stripped the seal away. Using her magic she combind the bloodlines of the Falien Elves to the creatures of the Arcanum and many new an horrible races were unleashed into the world. In the second age of the Empire she had recoverd eight of the 12 toms and discovered that one of the most powerful tomes lay in the city of Qell Ootharian under the seat of her younger Sister Queen Ellasaph. It was then that she laid up a plan to open the tome of Madness and poison the hart-stone which would send a sickness into the Splinerwood. While her dear sister was moping up the mess it made she would launch an attack on the capital city of Ootharian.
As the sickness took hold the Splinerwood proved to be far more resilient than anyone ever suspected and the soon the vigilant were born sussing out and curing or killing any who bore the mark of madness.
The attack on the Splinterwood was the largest in record. All denizens of the Splinterwood fought side by side to repel the invaders. Much of this battel was recorded by Romtador the Sage as he and his wife Anna fought in this battle earning themselves the title Splinter Kin.
The Noble elves and the 9 other Tribes fought along side the Knolls and beast men of the deep woods and together they defended the forest. Even with it's combined might it looked as though the forest would be lost until the Parduvan Dwarves swept out of their mountains and the Keth lizard men of the south came crashing into the battlefield that the tides began to turn.
Erasabeth herself landed on the shore so very far from the Neither but still not diminished in her power.
In an Epic battle for the city Ellasaph and Erasabeth met on the field of battle
in a final moment when Erasabeth stood nearly victorious it was Barnof Crofthelm King of the Clockwork elves of the eastern empire who drove Erasabeth back to the coast. It was their that he struck a deadly blow and Erasabeth was finely defeated.
Suffering a wound near to death Erasabeth was laid at the opening of the neither and soon recovered.
Not enough to strike out again but enough to draw her forces and prepare again.
Fearing Erasabeth would return for the tome and knowing it could not be destroyed, Ellasaph tore the book down to it's 900 pages and sent them into the world to be lost forever.
Some of the pages were sent deep into the Parduvan mines. Some pages were cast into the deepest part of the sea. Even still one of the pages were secretly crafted into the crown of the Emperor of Kelthose and Romtador himself carries the last page of the tome woven into his wife’s lute.
In the third age of the Empire Romtador left the Splinterwood to wander the earth and never reveal his secret.
Erasabeth sits on her obsidian thrown recovering her strength and calling her creatures and elves to her planning and plotting to gain the reaming three tomes and then launch an attack upon the world the like of which will make the foundation of creation crumble.
ok I have one last sneak peek and then I'm going to disappear for a few days working on all this stuff.
everyone I would like you to meet
Queen Erasabeth
quite possibly the oldest living sane (if you can call her sane )elf that lives in the world. she is the queen of the Falien (pronounced: Fay lean) elves.
In the beginning of the world or the age of the Dawn, there were elves living in the Miasma of Magic that flowed through the world.
In that time there was only one race of Elves they are called the Dawn Elves. in this time Magic was in them and they in the magic were one. In the Dawn days there were Ancients who were not elves. they were masters and teachers they helped the elves use the magic that soon sustained them and they told them never turn to the Arcanum. it is a source of unspeakable power and the creatures that live there will devour any that they find. To seal up the Arcanum so that none could escape it or stumble into it unknowingly the Ancients created a magic seal and bound it with their lives.
the knowledge of this seal was held in 12 tomes that held not only the seal but the creatures that were trapped in each level.
Many centuries passed in peace and Erasabeth grew in both beauty and power.
Erasabeth turned her eye to a younger elf Barnof Crofthelm. He showed an aptitude for pulling magic into physical form. It is rumored that at one time Erasabeth loved him almost as much as he loved her. In their union of love a child was conceived.
Then the great calamity happened and the world broke. the magic that flowed so freely was absorbed into the world creating the mountains, the oceans and the most of the world magic formed into a collective conscious and became the spirit of the Splinterwood.
For the Dawn Elves this Calamity was the end of their world as the magic that sustained them was now gone and they faced the terrible reality of being mortal. As time when on the Dawn elves searched out Magic wherever they could find it in any form and like a true Junki only thought about their next fix. As they searched the world some of the Dawn elves found their way to the splinter woods and started to draw upon the life energy that was there.
Erasabeth lead many elves on her insatiable lust for magic until she found, on a large island, the neither. A rift in the world that opened a fissure in the earth spirit, and allowed her to draw upon the magic that was there.
When she presented this gift to her love Barnof he was sickened at the thought of drinking the worlds life spirit and turned from Erasabeth. For the first time in memory The powerful Erasabeth was powerless to stop him from leaving and she turned cold and hateful that day.
It is unclear if she turned to madness because of that or maybe it was by cutting the world and partaking of it's raw spirit she somehow forgot that life was precious and not to be controlled or crushed. Either way upon that day Erasabeth was never the same.
The Neither sustained her and granted her unnaturally long life it wasn't enough to satisfy her craving. It was then that she set on a quest to find all 12 tomes of the Arcanum with the intent to face the void and either draw on it's magic or face the long cold of oblivion that awaited.
In this time a son was born Galithose, an odd name for a Falien elf it the closest translation would be tinkers son. So Erasabeth hasn't forgotten her love for Barnof.
In the dawn of the first age of the empire Erasabeth lead her elves from the Falien isles and set on a crusade to find the 12 tomes.
With each tome she aquired she learned how to bind the creatures of the Arcanum and slowly stripped the seal away. Using her magic she combind the bloodlines of the Falien Elves to the creatures of the Arcanum and many new an horrible races were unleashed into the world. In the second age of the Empire she had recoverd eight of the 12 toms and discovered that one of the most powerful tomes lay in the city of Qell Ootharian under the seat of her younger Sister Queen Ellasaph. It was then that she laid up a plan to open the tome of Madness and poison the hart-stone which would send a sickness into the Splinerwood. While her dear sister was moping up the mess it made she would launch an attack on the capital city of Ootharian.
As the sickness took hold the Splinerwood proved to be far more resilient than anyone ever suspected and the soon the vigilant were born sussing out and curing or killing any who bore the mark of madness.
The attack on the Splinterwood was the largest in record. All denizens of the Splinterwood fought side by side to repel the invaders. Much of this battel was recorded by Romtador the Sage as he and his wife Anna fought in this battle earning themselves the title Splinter Kin.
The Noble elves and the 9 other Tribes fought along side the Knolls and beast men of the deep woods and together they defended the forest. Even with it's combined might it looked as though the forest would be lost until the Parduvan Dwarves swept out of their mountains and the Keth lizard men of the south came crashing into the battlefield that the tides began to turn.
Erasabeth herself landed on the shore so very far from the Neither but still not diminished in her power.
In an Epic battle for the city Ellasaph and Erasabeth met on the field of battle
in a final moment when Erasabeth stood nearly victorious it was Barnof Crofthelm King of the Clockwork elves of the eastern empire who drove Erasabeth back to the coast. It was their that he struck a deadly blow and Erasabeth was finely defeated.
Suffering a wound near to death Erasabeth was laid at the opening of the neither and soon recovered.
Not enough to strike out again but enough to draw her forces and prepare again.
Fearing Erasabeth would return for the tome and knowing it could not be destroyed, Ellasaph tore the book down to it's 900 pages and sent them into the world to be lost forever.
Some of the pages were sent deep into the Parduvan mines. Some pages were cast into the deepest part of the sea. Even still one of the pages were secretly crafted into the crown of the Emperor of Kelthose and Romtador himself carries the last page of the tome woven into his wife’s lute.
In the third age of the Empire Romtador left the Splinterwood to wander the earth and never reveal his secret.
Erasabeth sits on her obsidian thrown recovering her strength and calling her creatures and elves to her planning and plotting to gain the reaming three tomes and then launch an attack upon the world the like of which will make the foundation of creation crumble.