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The Beginning
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Welcome to the Enchanted Plane, where myths and legends are commonplace. Here I tell the stories of The Picks of Defending, a mighty dwarven civilization that grew quickly at the beginning of time.
According to the stories, in the beginning there were the gods:
Rubal, the deity of oceans
Limul, the deity of earth
Akur the goddess of chaos, war, and fortresses
Otel the Carnal Cook of loyalty, oaths, marriage, and family
These deities created The Picks of Defending, and assigned great dwarves to great positions. The first general was named Bomrek Boatstyphoon, blessed as a masterpiece by Rubal, god of oceans. The first king was Zan Agedlabors the Smoke of Mountains, blessed by none other than Limul, god of the earth. They created great things at the beginning of time, constructing "The Sanctum of Perfection", "The Warm Girders", The Abyss of Palisades", and so forth within the first year. In this first year our king married Zulban Mirrorscoured, and all seemed right with the world.
In the year 2, Bomrek even went to the depths of the earth and tamed the cave crocodiles. This great beginning would not last for long however.
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Zan Agedlabors the werecat
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It was not to last long though, as the chaotic Akur had other plans. In the second year, she cursed our king, Zan Agedlabors, to transform into a cat-like monster every full moon. The town of Lengthoil was not safe, so Zan fled into the Mountain of Talons, in an attempt to save his own civilization from his monster nature.
When rumor spread of his curse, suspicion fell on his wife. Rumor was that she prayed to Akur for this as a blessing, and the goddess cursed the king in a misguided attempt at giving strength. Zulban denied these charges of course, saying she worshipped Otel the Carnal Cook and denied Akur any prayers.
Regardless, Zan was considered an enemy of the civilization. Every full moon though, Zan is believed to rampage throughout the area. Several dwarves in his hometown of Lengthoil were taken in the night, and few escaped his hunger.
Zan's curse though proved be a barely controlled blessing though in the following years. He moved toward nearby goblin civilizations, and reports say that he devoured more trolls than any other in the next few years. Zan was becoming quite confident in himself by year 8, and wandered back near Lengthoil. His wife visited him regularly, and the two had several children.
Our general, Bomrek Boatstyphoon, soon became suspicious of Zulban, as reports that she was leaving at night started to reach him. He followed her one day, and found where Zan was sleeping at night. This danger to his home would not do! He went home to contemplate this threat. Zan saw him as well though, and at the next full moon the great werecat chased Bomrek through miles of mountains. Bomrek escaped no less than 4 different assaults, each time successfully leading Zan away from Lengthoil.
This was the pattern for near two decades - Zan devouring trolls, goblins, and random animals. Each time that Zan fought a dwarf, the dwarf was left unharmed.
During this time, his Zulban moved to another place - Giltshoved. This, it turns out, was both the rock of their relationship, and the eventual downfall of the werecat once-king. Here, she became friends with another dwarf, Bomrek Questedhame, the wife of an old friend of Zan.
They became great friends, and when it was time to move, they both went to a new place - Echoedinked. Suddenly, with the stress of a move and with someone other than his wife around, Zan ceased to have so much control during the full moon. He attacked this new friend of his wife once every decade of so for the next few years. Eventually, in the year 48, after Zan killed several dozen trolls, a half dozen goblins and dwarves, and who knows how many animals, he went to far. His attack on the dwarf Bomrek Questedhame backfired, and she killed him.
Zulban Mirroredscoured, wife of the first king werecat and terror to trolls, was later lost to history. Nothing is heard of her life after, though her children say that she died of old age in the year 114, never forgiving her friend, never apologizing, and never moving on.
Bomrek Questedhame did little as well for the rest of her life. After the death of Zulban, she killed a few goblins, but for the most part she did nothing more in life until she too died of old age in the year 161.
So remember, young dwarves, this story. A monster may be a great king, slaying untold enemies and protecting his loved ones. Yet even some of the greatest may fall to the wrath of a single unremarkable dwarf. This is why it is the duty of a dwarf to stay strong, at all times.
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More to come! The early history of this civ is amazing
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