The Ailirian Legend: TLoZ Campaign

scarmiglionne4 · 09-10-2012, 05:27 PM

Vudalfa Historia Sefairia
A paraphrased wood elf history book

Long, long ago when evil was as yet unknown in this land of Fey’cthon and many of the creatures as they exist today had not yet been seen beneath the sun, the gods would visit their servants as they had done so many times before. This time they brought gifts.

Releia brought to us her forest children divine focus and grace. The next generation of each of the two clans of Invidim would become what man now calls the Elves and Halflings.

Obyn came down to the mountains and gave the children of stone the gift of endurance and tenacity. From this would be sired out of the Hebeorgim the Dwarves and Gnomes.

Theriaden came to the young plains people and gave them adaptability and wisdom. What was once known as the Aicirim would eventually call itself Humanity.

One Aicirim was said to have seen the gifts the other races were given and became jealous. The Elves were more agile than they once were and still held the long life of the Invidim. The Dwarves were tough and still had longer lives than the Aicirim. To this creature the great gifts Theriaden gave them paled in comparison to those other races received. This creature was the first to have evil in his heart. He was called Sefairek Nagdonir.

He gathered many Aicirim to his cause and even some young Halflings and Gnomes. With the powers of anger, jealousy, fear, and ignorance Sefairik would lead the charge and begin the first war the land had ever seen.

Many years would pass while the war raged. Aicirim from Kashayati loyal to the gods would leave their beloved city in the west and settle at the edge of the great forest allying with the Elves. The Dwarves would retreat deep into the mountains as the years passed becoming distrustful of the other races though still allied in the battle against the Molorgrim, those forsaken by the gods. The Gnomes and Halflings that remained would settle in no one certain place, many becoming wanderers.

When the gods came to visit for the last time they saw that their gifts had only brought terrible things on their people. In their misguided attempt to find a scapegoat they would bring plagues down upon the Molorgrim. They would warp their bodies with diseases and magical afflictions make their speech warped and varied to divide them. From this would rise the Viranima, creatures of animal shapes and strange bestial tongues. The gods scorched the land of Aiciria and brought terrible fiery punishment and death down on Kashayati, the once beautiful city in the west.

Sefairik would not stop his assault and as he became more powerful, he only lusted for more power. He learned of forbidden secrets that were as old as the land itself. Sefairik had heard of a great pyramid atop the mountain Dol Gurathos that was built by the first Invidim, Hebeorgim, and Aicirim thanking the gods for the gift of life. Atop this pyramid was a platform that leads to the heavens. The gods rewarded their people with a mirror that would allow entrance to the realm above from atop the ziggurat. This mirror was kept by the Aicirim of Fae’ri blood, ancestors to the Rikari, in the catacombs of a temple in Kashayati. So many years had passed that even the gods had forgotten about this mirror.

Sefairik somehow found the mirror and discovered its purpose. They say he found himself standing on a dark and yet golden glowing alter atop a ziggurat that dwarfed the very mountain the ziggurat stood upon in the middle-land. The light there was blinding but he soon became adjusted and beheld what no mortal eyes were meant to view and live: The Golden Trinity. This was what was left behind by the first god or gods. The Fae’ri were said to believe it was one god called Tellurasiel or Omnisiel; in actuality it was three goddesses called Naderu, Dydin, and Florinaeth.

Sefairik stepped forward, utterly entranced by the beauty of the sacred artifact. A voice spoke out to him saying: “Touch and make thine wish on this the holiest of alters.”

And so he did. He wished to be a god and it was so. He used his terrible new power to grant his people gifts to rival those of the other races. From this wish many of the creatures of evil known today came into being. These creatures would collectively be known as the Sefairim: Sefairik’s children; and also the forsaken.

The other gods knew of his most powerful wish immediately and sought to return to the heavens. Sefairik was now a god and knew they would be returning just as they knew of his new power and so he sealed the gateway into the heavens against the other gods. The gods on Fey’cthon made a plan to take back the Golden Trinity. They asked the greatest warriors of the age to come before them to put an end to the war.

These are the names of the brave warriors who heeded the call of the gods: Criadaeth, an elven warrior of the wood who had no sons, Vadela, an Elven Queen of the Mountains and wizard, and Rikara, a Princess of ancient Kashayati. These were the first to arrive. To fight against a god they were given abilities comparable to the power of the Golden Trinity. To Criadeith was given the Green Trinity Stone granting him the strength of the spirit with benevolence and courage. To Vadela was given the Blue Trinity Stone of the Mind giving her enhanced wisdom and intelligence. To Rikara was given the Red Trinity Stone of the Body granting strength, agility, endurance and sorcery.

Others would soon follow: Ceresaine, and elven youth in service to King Vaithyril I; Taniera, a Halfling maiden; Tauregrim, a dwarven hermit; Cuirmoran, a gnome who had mastered the powers of illusion; Gardion, a half-elf skilled in hand to hand combat; Kyanores, a devout human warrior, and Ariadera, a half-Molorgrim wizard maiden who was the product of rape.
The gods informed them that only through death could the ziggurat in the heavens be reached since Sefairik holds the Golden Trinity. All agree to be sacrificed and battle to save their people and the world.

They are sacrificed and after a lengthy battle manage to defeat Sefairik, though the three who would go first would die a final death at the hands of the evil god. Seeing this, the remaining warriors would each shed a single tear before charging. These tears would fall to the ground as crystals aglow with righteous sorrow. This power of the soul would tear a hole in the heavens filled with darkness.

As Sefairik was struck down he falls into this rift and is sealed there. These crystals would become known as the Tears of the Divine. This rift would blanket all of heaven in darkness making the land of gold and light a place of shadows and twilight with the Golden Trinity and the souls of the dead awaiting reincarnation the only lights to behold.

The power of the Golden Trinity lay before the seven warriors. Their new friends were no more, having had their very souls torn asunder. The seven all touch the Golden Trinity and wish that they may see their friends alive and well once more.

The gods hear this wish and are troubled when it does not seem to be granted. The seven warriors are granted godhood for their deeds and dwell in the newly created heavens to this day.

No one remembers how but our people learned of a prophecy concerning the wish of the seven warriors.

“On the eve of the return of the Silver Trinity a cerulean terror will rise in the land of the first evil with the power of Dydin upon his breast. The tears of the gods will gather in the Ailirhovan and the hordes will make the green lands forsaken. A child of the forest with the soul of the first knight and the Bane of Evil with the benevolence of Florinaeth about his heart and the wisdom of Naderu at his side will be the lands only hope.”

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The Journal of Isalar Raulu

The journals tell of his escape from service to an ancient Ogremage king, his time spent in hiding in the sunken and very haunted ruins of Kashayati. There are journal entries torn out in places. He writes that spirits spoke to him of a prophecy and showed him to a hidden crypt where he found books of magic and a magical staff. The spirits of what he calls his ancestors spend years teaching him magic and keep him nourished with conjured food and water.

He writes about studying murals deep underground but the details are torn out. He writes about finally making his escape through a massive underground complex attached to Kashayati and emerging several days later out of an opening in the base of a massive tree surrounded by a giant lake. He traveled across a great and ancient bridge that went on for miles to the east across the great lake. He turned south once he reached land and came to a dense forest that seemed to be sentient and stopped him from traveling very far south.

He would eventually run into an old half-elven farmer who had settled in the lush green hills at the borderlands near a stream. “The man was very friendly, and while he obviously knew Raulu was a man of the forsaken lands he took him in. Raulu was still very young then and the farmer had a daughter a few years younger than Raulu. She was very beautiful and kind, with long auburn hair and green eyes. Her name was Lyrena Malore. They seemed to fall in love almost instantly. They would soon be married and would have a child. They named their only daughter Nelyra. One day Lyrena would go to the stream to fetch water as she had done so many times before. She would not return. A few days later her body was found further up the river. She had claw and teeth marks on what was left of her corpse. We buried her beneath a peach tree. He writes that peaches were her favorite. Raulu raised Nelyra until she was 20 years of age and she married a young man who wanted to buy the land Mr. Malore owned. Raulu stayed for a short time but left to wander the Ailirhovan, instructing Nelyra as he had done so many times before to never go near the stream alone.”

There are further entries describing the Ailirhovan. He writes of the peculiar way the forest and the stone seem to be more willing to have him now than when he first escaped the forsaken lands. He writes about finding more entrances to a vast underground complex but so much is torn out here very little is readable.

He writes of returning to the farmland every 20 years to meet his grandchildren and to see how the farm slowly grows into the small community it is today. There are no journal entries for about 600 years and then they begin again. They speak of the prophecy and a Knight of the Line who had heard of him came looking for him. “I tried to escape but was found by this elf. He explained that he only wanted my help and that the Sefairim were going to invade the country having found a way to tame the Ailirhovan. He asked me about Kashayati and where it could be found. I told him the best I could. He would leave without telling me his name. I would never see him again and the Sefairim would invade and be quickly put down. I would build a hiding place beneath my great grandchild’s home.” The last entry says they are coming again...” The rest is torn out.

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