nmyworld

Great idea in the making. Could be maybe a fictional history of Earth…a lost century? The story is about a boy whose father died honorably in battle, but greatly griefed the boy. The boy grows up never knowing why his father fought. The boy began to hate war and thought the entire idea worthless.

He becomes a scholar and finds (possibly in a cave or ancient library) a book with no author (anonymous) that details the lost art of wizardry. The boy (now a man), named Tuulen, eventually masters the art of wizardry and bends the very rules of existance. He starts experimenting, becoming more powerful and wise.

While visiting his parent’s grave he found inspiration for his new experiment. Why do men go to war? He never quite understood it, but now he has a chance to find out without much difficulty.

He sees men, who are generally good in nature, yet very different. But controlling the differences in men, he can truly find the traits which induce war. So he created 3 ’sub-races’ of humans.

His first creation were the Beyodin, or men of the coast, normally had darker skin due to their being exposed to light so often. They were larger than humans, averaging 6′8″ tall in stature. He made them to be defenders of the mainland from coastal invasion of the Velkors (evil men from across the sea - Vikings). These people he gave the traits of honor, seriousness, fearlessness, and respect - traits that people in a constant state of war often hold in high reguard. They lived shorter lives than normal humans, living only to ages 40 to 50.

His next creation were the Aliador, or men of gold. These people were usually thinner than normal men, but had very fair skin and long golden locks of hair. They were made to be scholars and purists, valuing knowledge, power, loyalty, and law. The were most definately not warriors, but honed their mind to be very powerful in the ways of manipulation. They usually lived as long as the Demwir.

His darkest creation were the Demwir, or men of the mountain. These people were normally more pale than normal humans, as they rarely ventured up from their mysterious underground cities and depended on fire for lighting and usually lived very long lives of up to 400 years. They were great wizards, or so it was said, but were usually isolationists. They valued knowledge, power, and above all, wizardry. One of them eventually became nearly as powerful as Tuulen before they were eradicated in the Last War. It was said that a group loyal to Feno’Line even knew of Tuulen’s existance and had many cults within their cities worshipping him.

His final creation were the Meer, or men of the trees. These people were almost identical to humans. The only difference was their love of the wood. They never used bronze or iton, but opted instead for the unlimited supply of wood and stone and bow and arrow. They never fought in ranks or lines, but used questionable tactics that mainly consisted of night raids and ambushes. They valued their homes, their forests, friendship, and trading. They acted as middle men to the rest of men and the Demwir, who had much metal to sell. It is said that the Meer were a hypocritical race, shunning technology yet peddling bronze and iron. The meer lived moderately long lives of about 120 to 140 years of age.

The main story of the men starts with the Demwir. Their leader, Foin’lin, has been a refreshing deviation from the Demwir’s traditional isolationist leaders, as he was educated by Aliadorian scholars and Beyodinians. He has created a strong yet liberated government, setup favorable relationships with all races (save the Beyodin), and given basic rights to their created slaves, the Kundi (a race created by the Demwir solely to work - maybe large minotaur-like creatures?). This doesn’t earn him much favor, especially amongst the wizards (or as they called themselves, the Wiizants). Their leader, who was especially powerful, Hak’rin. Hak’rin’s very powerful, blahblahblah, as strong as Tuulen himself. He assasinates Foin’lin and splits the Demwir into two factions. A long civil war ensues, many heroes appear fighting to keep the ideas of Foin’lin alive. Given Hakrin’s power, the resistance fought very well (lasting three years until the last defense at the capitol building of Had’Ess). The remaining defenders fled into the light and saught aid from other races.

The leader of this band of resistance fighters was the bastard child of Foin’lin and the Beyondin peasant woman, Hoigalath. This mixture of races created an odd hybrid that not even Tuulen forsaw. Feno’lin (was human pretty much but was strong, lived to be 300 years and up, and was very smart), son of Foin’lin, became known as the seeker of aid. For hundreds of years he traveled the world seeking people to help him in his cause, but failed. He lost hope and vanished from Tuulen’s sight for many years. The world passed as it did before the fall of the Lin family. The Demwir still traded with the Meer, etc.

One day, however, everything changed. For 40 years Hak’rin’s power grew tremendously. He sought more; more power, more control, more space. After conquering all great Demwir cities, he opted to go above ground. He spent years gradually exposing his people to the sunlight until he was finally able to remove the top of the mountain and let his people live in light for the first time in their history (which suprised Tuulen, but made him excited as he forwsaw that this would lead to war). After such a feet, he bred a creature to fight for him in the conquering of Meer lands. The creature was a mix of Kundi and Beyodin. They were strong, large, loyal, and completely fearless. They had very short lives of around 10 years (in which they would manage to grow up to 8 feet tall), but were perfect for their purpose: to kill all opposition to Hak’rin. These creatures were called the Jiri.

it’s late: keep going in the morn (remember: Feno comes back to lead the rest of man against Hak’rin’s armies and Tuulen has to fight Hak’rin).