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| Posted by Rosko - 06-9-07 16:13 - 6 comments |
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The Unknown
I am the unknown. I am what you have yet to understand. All of what I know you will learn in time. Read the passages I have left for you and you will understand much more of this world in which we exist in. We may speak again in the future. Don’t try to contact me for if I have need of you within this world, I will find you. Pleasant Travels within the world of .
The Beginning
The world started out as nothing more then a barren wasteland. Scattered across this wasteland were hundreds of tribes of men. The tribes fought with each other constantly, each trying to get enough food to survive for a little longer. How long the world was like this is unknown. The only thing that is known is that at some point, a little more than a thousand years ago, the greatest happening of this world occurred
What happened at this point was never really explained. All that is known is that six prophets came out of the wasteland to the tribes. Each of the prophets taught of their element unknowing of the other five prophets in existence. The six were, Gruldw who taught of death, Ignatius who taught of fire, Aleron who taught of the air and wind, Kesha who taught of the forests and nature, Siayanda who taught of life, and Dax who taught of the waters. Not only did they teach of the element, all of them were extremely skilled with use of magic over this element. The explained part of this was that magic was unknown to the tribes of the land and where exactly these prophets came from. All that is known is that as their fame grew they became increasingly more aware of the other prophets to the point where they were competing for followers. They made promises of great lands built from their element for the people to live in if they were to follow them. As each of the prophets made these promises, they became less affective in attracting more tribes. The tribes were still starving on their barren land and their faith in the prophets slowly started to fade. The prophets not wanting to lose their followers kept to their promise, corrupting the very lands about them to their element. Each with its benefits and drawbacks. The tribes flocked to these lands and soon nations were formed within them, and the prophets were looked at as gods. The nations were Elghinn, death nation, Chath, fire nation, Makan, air nation, Akamu, earth nation, Niar, water nation, and Loff’ta, life nation. The formation of the nations only made the tension between the gods more fierce and it would only be a matter of time before war broke out
Gruldw would be the first to go to war. He allied himself with Ignatius and the two together attacked Niar, capturing all the mainland ports of the nation. Leaving the islands, they controlled and their capital alone for the time. Most figured their next target to be Makan, but for some reason war was no declared on Makan which was positioned very close to both Elghinn and Chath. Instead the forces were split, hoping to catch both Akamu and Loff’ta by surprise. Gruldw took an army of both fire and death soldiers toward Loff’ta while Ignatius took a similar army into the jungles of Akamu. The armies under Gruldw met with the armies of life outside their land in neutral territory. A great battle followed, in which Gruldw’s army began to take the advantage in as the armies of life began to fall back. It wasn’t until reinforcements came from Niar that this army was pushed back. Hoping their ally faired better in Akamu, Gruldw moved back into one of the port cities of Niar with his entire army. Meanwhile, in Akamu, Ignatius was having much greater problems. He had pushed his troops into the nation of Earth only to be met by ambushes from all sides. They barely ever saw their enemy who hid within the trees, firing arrows. They were extremely affective and very few soldiers escaped, Ignatius not being one. No one is sure when exactly he fell or where, but he would be the first of the gods to die.
The news came to Gruldw, who decided that it would be better to quit no, knowing that he could not stand against all three armies on his own he retreated all his armies back to Elghinn. Most of the armies of fire that were still under him disbanded, though some remained under the banner of Elghinn. The other gods did not want Gruldw to get off that easy for starting such a war. Wanting him to be punished they brought an army to Elghinn made up of those from Akamu, Loff’ta, and Niar. The battle that ensued remains one of the bloodiest in the history of the world, as the single army of death tried to withstand the armies from three separate nations. The battle may have been lost for them if it had not been for Aleron and the armies of air who came up behind the allied forces crushing them. What started out as a battle turned into a slaughter as the armies under the three allied nations struggled to escape their new opponent from the rear. Most were unsuccessful including two of the gods. Siyanda and Dax laid dead by the end of the battle. Leaving only three of the gods alive. No one is quite sure how Kesha escaped the battle. She was a target for all the soldiers at the battle, but yet she escaped and the majority of the survivors of the battle were Akamu. Though they had endured great losses just like the rest. Many believe that Gruldw and Kesha had some kind of relationship and that Gruldw had let her and her army escape. This was never confirmed before they were both killed.
Out of this battle came the news that Aleron and Gruldw were extremely close friends, at least for now they were. Also news came from Chath that a man had supposedly had a dream of Ignatius telling him to go to the temple, where he was given the powers of Ignatius. The people of Chath believed him and he gained followers. Eventually this happened at all the godless nations. It was learned though that they were not nearly as powerful as the originals, in fact they held no more power then a normal man but held the title that controlled the nation. This fact was learned when the god of Niar challenged Aleron to a duel as he blamed him for the death of Dax. This new god lasted only a few seconds against the great power of Aleron.
The next event to occur is still shrouded in great mystery, as everyone knew of Gruldw and Aleron’s great friendship, yet Gruldw and Kesha joined together and led an army up the great mountain of Makan. They believed that Kesha was able to get inside Gruldw’s head and turn him against his friend which also pointed toward the fact that they had some kind of relationship, but that was never confirmed. The combined armies pushed up the mountain of Makan until they reach the blizzard-covered caps of the mountain where they had enough difficulties moving let alone spot their enemy’s ambushes through the constant blizzards. The armies were scattered and many of the soldiers froze to death trying to escape the mountain, Gruldw being killed during one of the ambushes. Kesha did escape the mountain and reformed part of her army to move back to her jungle. She had an army of Aleron’s following her but unknown to her, an army of fire moved to block her escape. She really didn’t have a chance with the small force she had but fought anyway and was killed in the battle. Aleron was infuriated and moved his armies in Akamu learning the same lesson that Ignatius had many years before as he could not even prepare for the arrows that flew from trees, easily killing his soldiers and keeping him from escaping that jungle. He fell there with the entire army he had brought
and thus died the last of the original gods.
The Great War
Most of what happened in the years separating the original gods and this time is unknown. As most of the written records, were lost during this great war. History had named this war “The Great War” and it is truly the only way to describe what happened. There cannot be just one event that caused this war, as it was caused by a series of events that put one man in power who would seek to change the world and he would be successful in changing the world though he would never succeed in making it exactly what he wanted it to be. The story of this war does not begin with him though, rather a few others.
It all started in Akamu where a man used assassins to attack and kill the current god of the nation as well with the person he figured would be placed in power. They succeeded in killing the god of earth but not the man whom he figured was next in line, a soldier known as Strega. This man wanted to place himself in power of Akamu and he figured if he killed all those that would take the place before him he would be granted it. With Strega surviving the attack, his plans were foiled. He changed them as he went to hunt down Strega with the army he had built up. Strega quickly gathered followers of his own but they were no where near the strength of his foe’s. He then looked for help in other nations, and found it in an unlike place. Elghinn had given orders to send a relief force to Strega under the command of General Rosko. Unknown to Rosko another army was sent from Elghinn, which was more of insurance policy for Elghinn. This army aided the other side of the civil war. The politicians of the Elghinn figured that whatever army one, they still would have an extreme amount of influence with that side and could ultimately control Akamu at the end of the war. As the war raged on in the nation of earth. To everyone’s surprise a woman had a vision for Kesha who told her of her destiny as the goddess. This woman was known as Luthien. With the aid of Rosko and Strega, they were able to bring her to the temple and get the control of the nation for her, with this help their enemy posed no threat.
As the nation of Elghinn tried to come in control over Akamu, unknowing that a goddess was now in place, it only infuriated the people of Akamu. Not only that but the soldiers of Elghinn who had aided Strega was angry with their own government for pitting them against their own nation. Thus, war broke out between the two nations. Rosko lead the army into Elghinn and kill the god of the time, but there was no god to take his place and thus Elghinn was left leaderless. Rosko assumed control but without being named god, it was difficult for him to do so. Elghinn remained in a sort of chaos for a time as Akamu was left to rebuild itself. Now it was know that Luthien, goddess of earth, and Rosko had fallen in love which made people of the nation question his intentions within Elghinn. On top of their suspicions, it came out that Rosko wasn’t born in Elghinn, in fact he had grown up in Loff’ta. These facts made the people of the nation shun him and ultimately run him from their country, at which point he moved to Akamu leaving Elghinn to fall into chaos without a leader.
A chaos continues in Elghinn, a man emerged known as Ceibe in Chath claiming that he could live out what Ignatius really meant for the people of fire. He spoke of the destruction of the other nations and enslaving of their people. He gained a lot of support from not only Chath, but Elghinn as well. He wanted to try what was already tried in Akamu, so he sent an assassin after the current god. The assassin was successful. Now Ceibe didn’t believe he would become god, but he figured he could corrupt whoever did to his thinking. To his amazement though, Ignatius came to him in a dream, Ignatius gave him control over Chath and it would seen if he could really pull off destroying the rest of the nations. Ceibe rose to power with his two main followers, Aradia, who he would marry, and Faye. Both of them had been born in the nation of Makan and both were corrupted by the words of power and protection of Ceibe. Though Faye joined with him more out of fear, she would become the far more famous of the two.
Not long after Ceibe had taken his position of god of fire, a new god took his place within Elghinn. Ceibe knowing he would need an ally, and also knowing that he already had some influence within the nation of death it would be easy to get this new god, Thanos, on his side. Thanos was a very shy figure which made him easy to corrupt, but made him a horrible leader. Ceibe wanted insurance that he would remain on his side and thus had Faye marry him to ensure their alliance. Faye would end up being the one with all the control within Elghinn as Thanos slowly slid out of the picture and Faye grew to control all of the death nation and Ceibe controlled both of these dark nations. He knew it was time for him to start this great war.
Their first target was the nation of Makan, which was caught completely off guard as the armies were led by Faye and Aradia, who knew this land well. Makan did not last long at all and the god of the country was imprisoned to ensure that no other took him place. Ceibe destroy several cities on his way to their capital and slaughtered hundreds of soldiers and civilians but for some reason left the capital in tact. He had planned to burn that in the future but for the time he wanted to make sure that he didn’t have a use of such a city.
Next he moved onto Niar, and took their mainland port cities with ease. At the same time he commissioned hundreds of pirates to start hitting Niar ships across the waters. With all the pirates in the water, the Niar navy had to pull around their floating capital to protect it, leaving their islands to fall to Ceibe’s armies. Niar was the only nation with a navy, as it is only one of two nations with coastlines. The other being Elghinn, who only uses it for pirates. Ceibe would not be defeated by such a navy though and planned how to destroy it. He imported took large quantities of gunpowder out of Chath and built hundreds of boats in the occupied ports. He then filled these boats with the gunpowder leaving only one without, which was his flagship. Bringing only his most trusted upon it, they sailed out with a navy of explosive ships behind them which Faye controlled using the wind around her, which she was adept at doing. Whenever they came close to the floating capital surrounded by the enormous navy, the water currents began to change as water mages tried to keep the explosive boats away from their capital and they were affective. They would have save it, if it hadn’t been for one of the greatest feats ever accomplished by an air mage. Faye after hours of meditation lifted the entire navy they built out of the water and flew them into the Niar navy an right next to their capital. The rest was easy as Ceibe had a man fire a flaming arrow into the ships, creating an explosion that shook the entire world and destroyed the entire fleet and killing every last person in their capital. Though there still is a skeleton of the original capital that still floats about. Thus Niar had been defeated and Faye had gained the nickname, “The mistress of death,” Even though she couldn’t even wield a sword. She was beloved back in Elghinn and in Chath as was Ceibe.
Their next target was Akamu and the goddess Luthien, who has since married Rosko. They marched into the jungles of Akamu and withstood the ambushes that had destroyed every other army to enter this jungle before. They had made their march straight to the capital and the battle was well in the favor of Ceibe. Ceibe along with Faye and Aradia moved into the temple of earth to kill Luthien. They were met by her bodyguards who were led by Rosko and Strega. As a fight between the soldiers behind Ceibe and her bodyguards broke out, Strega killed Faye and Aradia. At the same time Ceibe finished off Rosko. He turned to Strega in a fit of rage and beat him very close to death. Just before he killed him though his anger turned to tears as he thought more on the only people he cared about dead next to him and in one of the greatest surprises in history, he took his own life showing that even the darkest of men have hearts, but also leaving the war to Thanos who was unsuccessful in killing Strega and Luthien, who escaped to Loff’ta, he then failed again attacking the nation of life and would eventually his army would be pushed back to Elghinn bringing an end to such a great war. |
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| 1,000 Posts |
| Posted by Rosko - 10-18-06 23:26 - 1 comments |
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We have reached 1,000 posts on our site today which is quite an accomplishment, but with looking at the time span at which it took to do this detracts from the accomplishment. So we need to keep active and, I know I say this everytime, but invire anyone you know who enjoys rping to come to this site because the more the merrier as they say. With more people it will open up for more plotlines and more people to rp with making this a better place for everyone.
Also on another note I am planning on rewriting the rules. Don't worry there will only be minor changes if any. This will only be to further explain what I mean by them and give others a better understanding of what I mean by these rules. I also hope to add more to the history of our world because there is a thousand years that are just left out and I want to fill that and give people a better idea of the world before we come in. If you have any ideas for happenings prior to our current time please pm them to me. I also plan on going further in depth with the descriptions of the nations so that everyone involved will be able to have a good idea of not only the enviroment but also the people within the nation.
Lastly I am asking anyone who thinks that they are able to make a map for the site please pm me. All my attempts have ended in failure for one reason or another. I have an idea of what i want it to look like but I do not have a program to make such a map. If someone is able to or is able to point me towards a program that I can make a map using please pm me.
In closing I will summarize all that was said. 1,000 post(WOOT), rewriting rule and adding more to history and nation description, looking for someone to help with map, and most of all invite members to this site so that our community may grow. |
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| Update |
| Posted by Rosko - 08-29-06 03:13 - 6 comments |
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Those who came on earlier today might have noticed that the site was offline for a little. I was working with various features of the site and other codes trying to make it an all around better place. I did not change anything yet though I plan to change some stuff, most likely the skin will change yet again along with other graphics on the site. There will also be some other changes that the majority of you won't notice but they will be for my use mainly. There may also be some other slight changes but if you see the site offline like it was today again do not be alarmed. |
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| War! |
| Posted by Strega - 08-23-06 15:56 - 7 comments |
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For those of you who do not know their have been stirrings within the RP of our site. For any of those interested if you read the Topic The Return Home, The Beginning of the End you will see the starting of a War that may change the entire rp as it is a civil war within Akamu. Even though it is a civil war all are welcome to join and Rosko is will be adding a part later to get more people in as well as add a little twist to the war. To any interested take a look. There will be a post made in the plot discussions thread that you can read for a brief recap of the what has happened thus far which will be updated throughout the entire war. |
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| INACTIVITY |
| Posted by Rosko - 08-12-06 00:06 - 3 comments |
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FIRST OFF. BE ACTIVE. You all are driving me crazy with how inactive this site has become. I will be contacting those of you who should be active yet are not. I know some may have an excuse and such but others and I will not name anyone have no excuse what so ever. *stops himself from ranting because the only ones reading this are the active ones.*
Secondly, if you have any friends who rp or anyone at all that might be interested in this site I hope that you would invite them for the more people on the site the more fun we can have with it. With more people to rp with it will create room for more plots and such which I know is good for everyone. So please spread the word about the site.
Thirdly, I placed a new skin on the board as I am guessing you have all already noticed. Brown. Ya well for now I like it, it is a change. There is a small glitch at the bottom of the screen right now with the new skin and the cbox and word counter but I will be looking into that. Also don't know how well the banner fits. So tell me what you think of it and if we all like it I may look into a new banner that fits it better and I will also download new buttons for the site that will match these. (probably will do that anyway but hasn't gotten around to it)
edit:The problem at the bottom of the page has been dealt with. AHHHH, just noticed another problem with the skin.......the pm box is whiter then ever.....*goes to fix that as well as other things* |
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