Wings From the South

by The Ark of Stories

The New World is a big place. Far to the south over unknown seas and wilds lay kingdoms, empires, tribes, and beings to far away from Nazarick to be of any concern to Aniz. Yet here is were we find are story begins right after the shutdown of YGGDRASIL with another guild master wondering if he should have done things differently. Oh how the world will change. The world is all yours

1. Prelude

My king, you know how far we have fallen. We were once the guardians of this continent, our distant kin guarded the rest of the world. That all changed around a thousand years ago. Powerful beings from another world called Yggdrasil have been appearing sporadically over the past five hundred years bringing with them their troops, treasures, and homes. We refer to these beings as ;""players" the reason for doing so being lost to time. Of course they have their names as individuals and as a group yet most of those names are lost in time. History remembers them as such "The Five Beasts, The Four Titans, The Three Queens, and finally The Lords of Light and Dark.

Some have been supportive of are mission to guard this world while others are a blade to are throats. We had done well for are selves that was until the the Lords of Light and Dark came. We have faced tribulations before, yet these beings were religious in destroying us and are distant kin. They bare an unknown grudge against our kind, they have driven are kind to near extinction and to the most barren and inaccessible regions past the Queens dessert and over the titan fang canyons were their troops can't get to us, at least not easily. We used to be friends to those who now hunt us. We made pacts with their forefathers that we would protect them and guide their growth. Yet the Lords converted the people we once protected and lived in harmony with into enemy's out for are lives and still they try to bring more to their side. Yet this happened around two hundred years ago and we have avoided the other side of the canyon ever sense except for a few brave souls willing to go into the lands of death to gather information and try to save some of the kin we had to leave behind.

We have no way of knowing when or if another player will appear, yet, I've had a vision. A being with an overwhelming presence fighting against the two lords ,,, crying in both sadness and anger, old powers thought gone and dead walking once more, the return of are kind on a grand scale, and another presence across the northern sea. I know you only asked me what I saw in my most recent vision yet rehearing old knowledge is good for the mind and I also believe what I said before is of great relevance to you. I know you are doing your best my King along with your Queen. I know my visions aren't always accurate as we have seen in the past yet I feel that this world will go through a great change once more and I pray it changes in our favor. I will send forth more information when it becomes available.

Loyal Sage Bathrius Clearwind