Archive for August, 2010

Valen Returns with the Sword of Glory

Posted in The Fey People, The Sherriff on August 5, 2010 by coyoteandthunder

“But were not for Great Evil threatening my land that I would have been retrieved from my grave”

Valen Guildensong returned to his ancestral home at Ravenswell in The Dreamwater as a Revenant and knight, avenging his family and activating the potent magics in his blade, the mighty Larassa, which means “the River from the Sun”

Larassa, A Glory Blade wielded by Valen at Ravenswell.

The Evil Monkey Cormojo planned to hold Ravenswell for his own but could not stand against the coming of Larassa, the second sword of Glory, wielded by the Revanant knight Valen as he was assisted by the Sherriff of the Dream Water, Tim Tigean. Cormoko did manage to escape at the end of the battle.

Valen’s middle daughter, Giladna, was imprisoned by the Monkey Lord Cormojo. Valen freed her soul and activated the Second Sword of Glory, Larassa.

Valen’s trusted servant, Arghast the Legionaire,  followed Valen back from the Grave.

The servant of Pelor, Highpriestess Alanna found Valen in Ravenswell and coaxed him to consciousness and duty.

a portrait of Lord Valen as he was in life, when he was King of GildenSong.

To read more on the Tragedy of Valen Guilensong, click here.

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Maiah, rural utopia in the year 1111

Posted in Maiah, Men, Orcs, The Sherriff on August 3, 2010 by coyoteandthunder

a rural map of the farms and wilds around Maiah, click to enlarge

More notes on the culture of the community of Maiah

1. The leaf of the Oba tree is brewed to make a caffeinated beverage that is most regularly served with milk and honey

2. The Center of Maiahn culture is a large festival hall called “The Fellow Song”. The structure is over a hundred years old and run by Eric Besallyn, father of Ari and Judicia. pictured below

3. Orcs are deeply integrated into Maiahn culture.

4. PoolisTyr is a henge for the worship practice of druids. The leader of the Maiahn orcs is called Hearthys and is a wise although grim elder of the community.

5. The head druid is named Gareth, a man, a good friend of the sherriff. Gareth is also the chief vintner and head brewer of the town.

6. Maiah is the ritual center of the human population in the South Dreamwater and festivals are common. Every two weeks or so there is an astologically significant date which means that a party will happen.

7. The most common breed of dog in Maiah is the wolf hound.

8. Carl the Red has been mayor of Maiah for over forty years and he is now bed ridden and not expected to survive the winter of 1111.

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Cities of the Dead Legions

Posted in Lesivith, Men, Niskantel, the Fey Dark, The Sherriff, the Talisman on August 2, 2010 by coyoteandthunder

From beneath you it devours. With the Ebon Boon, the Feydark has invaded Ethilistyr. Under the City of Copper and Gold, Niskantel, the ancient eladrin masoleum of Marukel has opened and from its horrid maw comes fire, plague and dread warriors who know nothing but violence.

The Ebon Boon was not successfully completed, much to the torturous frustration of the Horned King. There were suppossed to be ten necropoli that sprouted wrathful terror across the Dreamwater. There would have been but not for the efforts of the Sherriff and the risen Revanant, Valen Gildensong, and the deconstruction of Rendgray…a story for another entry. Suffice it to say, that only five cities were able to rise. Bessenthia was closed by the Paladins Zarconus and Ferrus, leaving four cities alive with necotic energy at the coming of winter, year 1111, when the Crew of the Talisman needs to decide where best to put there resources as the sherriff scrambles to muster a defensive strategy against the burning of the cities of men.

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The Tragedy of Valen Ravenswell GildenSong Stormhand

Posted in the Archfey, The Fey People, The Sherriff on August 2, 2010 by coyoteandthunder

Alicia was the wife of Valen in old Khepathia. For several hundred years, this Eladrin-Raelfaen couple ruled lovingly over a large and verdant manor and vineyard known as Ravenswell. Together they bore three daughters: Oamrissa, Giladna and Gif’r’nay. Oamrissa, the eldest, was cold of heart although grim toward the ceaseless doings of her duties in life and love. Gildadna was the closest with her father as together they made the finest wine that creation has ever known. The youngest, Gif’r’nay, would grow to marry Blendhaven, the first sherriff of the Dreamwater.

Alicia was a artisan of unsurpassed skill and grace with eladrin anvil and tempering hammer. Such was her power, so trustingly given by the Court of the Archfey that she contructed the three Swords of Glory: Stykarein, Laressa, and a third whose name is lost to the Ocean of Time.

Wee Jas, who deceived all the family and influtrated their circle as the fey creature called Amadae, pitted the daughters against their parents in relentless games of jealousy and power to their eventual undoing. In the confusion of the Fall of Khepathia and the rise of the First Sherriff, the daughters saw their mother as the enemy and while Valen was defending the land from the scores of demons rising from the Abyss with his son-in-law, the sherriff, they cursed their mother to become the Anethamancer. Then it was that, forever changed, by once gracious eladrin hands, the three Swords of Doom were forged and became the most powerful tool of evil the land could ever know. The Anethamancer killed her own daughter Giladna in the courtyard of the family home of Ravenswell.

In future centuries, Oamrissa would become the Blind Queen of Old Fang and Omonyr, and Gif’r’nay would go one to bear three sons of her own with Blendhaven. Valen, in self exile, would journey west to the verdant valleys of Gildensong and form a nation of peace there. As the sad King, Valen would rule Gildensong for over three hundred years.

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The Return of the Stickarein Blade, the First Sword of Glory

Posted in Maiah, the Archfey on August 2, 2010 by coyoteandthunder

“A well placed sharp dagger is often more deadly a hundred hammers.” -Zarconus

Following the Ebon Boon, Zarconus of Bahamut, Ronin of Sinys Oebyr and Ferrus of Kord spearheaded a three man, lone operation into Besenthia to face the Death Knight ruler of the newly risen Necropolis, Besenthia. There in the courtyard of the ancient city, the three knights faced not only the lord Kurkeliodon but also his Vesper Ghoul (undead creatures of potent elemental power) and a standing guard of many ghouls.

It was the Dark Pana who watched and hope for men to destroy the Death Knight, indeed a figure she had a long relationship with when Kurk was himself a man. There was no trace of his former humanity in the evil thing that was ruling Besenthia and to whom she watched Zarconus smote by righteous hand. So impowered by ancient and unknown whispers, The Dark Pana made herself known to the three knights upon completion of their duty. Ferrus, who held the shards of the Stickarein blade, revealed them at the archfey’s request. With a word, the blade was remade and Zarconus could feeling the overwhelming of Glory radiate from his one time honor blade. “Avenge now young knight…” she whispered to the knight of Bahamut. With Besenthia overthrown and the Stickarein blade return, it seems the power of Ethilistyr is amassing powerful weapons against the Black wave that continues t beat back the world of men.

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Map of Arboria, the rising of Oesenthia

Posted in Maiah on August 2, 2010 by coyoteandthunder

Below is a map of Arboria, the country to the west of Maiah. Click to enlarge. The account that follows relates how the Necropolis known as Oesenthia (or East Church which has been an eladrin masoleum reaching back to antiquity,) has become an active, furious and military force with the coming of the Ebon Boon on the Hunter’s Moon, year 1111. It is these legions, lead by the Beholder brothers, Merdel and Oaxthen and their fel leader, Proticulus the necromancer who continue having pinned Daelfort, imminently move against Maiah.

The Storm Herd, a name for the enormous herd of undead pegasai that issues forth from the a confluence in the rivers of Barrenton and Fed’l Fein that will soon no longer exist.

Heading south, history will come to know this moment as when the Horned King made his presence know across the Dreamwater and darkness covered DaelFort.

The City, with the exception of the Library and the Church, are evacuated within an afternoon under the protection of the Deeptread Merrow, a group of eladrin whoworship Osha and Melora.      

The Necropolis of Oessenthia rises at the confluence  of the rivers, forever changing the course of the Fed’l Fein River.

The rising of the City of the Dead sends forth a flood across the fields of Sindoe, killing nearly 10 families who had farmed the land since before antiquity.     

Rumors abound of a terrible floating monster with one tremendous eye and an insatiable maw that eats children and spits out the bones.

The Dream Thush, a servant of the Archfey known as the Thunderbird, escorts hundreds of other innocent souls to safety.     

The Absolver Thrull, Absencion, a being of Gavin Wel comes to aid the families of the Deluge of Sindoe and together with Terese, a fey power with a golden spear called Pollenbright, encounter the thing with the eye, whom they called Merdel and having defeated it returned in triumph to Daelfort.     

Merdel was reconstituted by powers then unknown and attacked Daelfort with stalks of ray like destruction that spread wanton violence killing hundreds.

It is learned by the Dwarven Miner, Jamul, how once lived in HammerGuard, that there was an angel of Gavin Wel, known only as the Wings of Aesthir, who betrayed the people of Dreamwater and infomed the Storm Shaman Lovisa Balduvian, an acolyte of the Horned King, the secret of Everlife: a mystical process that may or may not include Ebonstone.     

Ebonstone is mined at BlackMine and it made into art and currency by local artisans at Daelfort.     

A legion of wraiths issue forth from Oesenthia and only fire from the fey pyres of the woods keep them at bay. The place known as Accesltamn becomes the front line of a horrid battle. There are angels of fire from Gavin Wel that come to defend the rural people north of the Diamond Meadows.

Saffri Erikthael, a ranger woman of Gavin Wel infultrates Oessenthia  with the help of young Isus Tigean, a loyalist of the Sherriff and indeed carries a royal name. They are armed with the Wanderer’s Twig, a potent divination, a gift of Osha. They learn of the EbonBoon, a power that is rising in the Dreamwater and will destroy most of South County.     

The Suspensia, a patrol of Men and Elves from Daelfort, armed by the Sherriff hold the line that defines the suburbane center of Daelfort. A patrol of demon-like zombies, whom en now call Shades, march across and do battle mightly with the men of uspensia at the site of Rockir. The timber forts of Eaglin and Marnyr are erected and enforced with crystal underpinings at the funding of the mayor of Farthrow, an honorable man named Chaeska Tresserhorn.    

Three-headed undead horse-like beasts called by men Mispmares descend on Eaglin and the Angelic Curator of the library at Berrenberg meets them in combat, both are condemmed to die by the Cabal Archon, Proticulus, a necromancer in service of the Horned King. Joined by the Executioner and the Disciple of Malice, Proticulus has become a major force in South County.

The battles still rage. Isus contacts his great uncle, Elmer, cousin of the Sherriff, a beast of a man who spent many years in Hyth Amir and has taken on the title Riftcutter, joins the mayor of Beglum, Chaeska, Together they build  Dael fort as a military stronghold of Men.     

It is then learned that Merdel is one of two, so called Beholders, the other, named Oaxthen, lies north of the town and exists to vex the people of Arborea.

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