YEAR 259.1
In Streamland, a son of a wealthy nobleman has been pouring inordinate amounts of time into learning Light magic, a type of magic incredibly rare in the human kingdoms, in hopes of using it to end the menace of Hagatai, The Black Qhanganate and the Aetherials.
Rheis Vairn the Second, so named after his grandfather who fought in the Second Crusade, grew up in the aftermath of the great lizard, Gojira's attacks on his home. Of course, his family has always been well off, even in the wake of the devastation. And while Gojira was a very real and immediate threat, over time, The Black Qhanganate has become a sort of a boogyman for Streamland, everyone is always told that they could strike at any moment, just like they did on the day that the Sandstone Qhanganate fell, and BECAME the Black Qhanganate.
So Rheis has been pouring over old tales and accounts of the various conflicts with Aetherials and Hagatai and came to a realization: Never has anybody ever been ready or prepared to fight them. No warrior is taught to fight an Aetherial or a Chaos Dragon and are almost always ill equipped. But in the tales of the survivors of the Battle of The Blackened Sky, he discovered that the single most effective weapon against the Aetherials was the Cleansing Star, a small star-shaped diamond that could cast a powerful ray of pure light and it burned every Aetherial it touched. The artifact mysteriously disappeard after the battle, and hasn't been found since.
He hopes that powerful enough Light spells will have the same effect, but one man, even with the world's most powerful Light magic could not defeat the Aetherial menace. No, he would need an entire army. But mages have fought Aetherials before and got completely demolished by their claws or blades at close range, so magic alone would not suffice, anyone dedicated to fighting the Aetherials would need to also be proficient in melee combat too. While Rheis had some training in swordsmanship, it would not be enough to fight Aetherials, whose knowledge and skill seem to be collective.
Thankfully, warriors are easier to come by than Light magi, and probably easier to teach Magic to warriors than vice versa. But before he could teach others, he would have to learn himself. He hoped that perhaps by praying to some God of Light, he could ask to be granted the powers of Light but alas, try as he might, there were no gods or goddesses of Light to answer his prayers. Truly the world is a dark place. But he would not give up so easily, and if there were no gods to grant him power, he would learn it entirely by himself. Thus he has been pouring inordinate amounts of time into learning Light magic, in hopes of using it to end the menace of Hagatai, The Black Qhanganate and the Aetherials.
And he's been making slow but steady progress and he's got the basics down.
The red ribbon he ties his hair with, is the same one his older sister used to tie her with and it was her favourite. But she went along with the failed crusade to reclaim the eastern fort from the Black Qhanganate, and presumably perished in the battle.
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Topic: Bay12 Communal Worldbuilding Game (Read 70100 times)