The Destiny of the Earthmates
Chapter 1
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INTRO-
Back in the beginning of the world, when the gods finished orchestrating their intelligent design, there were six "Supreme Races"
The Humans, that is, the most common race on the planet, they maybe numerous, but lack the great natural abilities of the other races... But they use their greater imagination and invention to make up for it.
The Dwarves are the longest living race and are the wisest. They prefer to live secluded by themselves in the upper mountains and canyons, and thus usually encounter humans.
The Elves have great magical abilities and the agility, they also have quite a long lifespan and are currently the second most populous of the six races.
The Univir also have great magical abilities and great regeneration, however, conflicts with humans have dwindled their populous.
The Vampires are another great magical race with the greatest speed and power out of the six, these have since thought to have been long extinct.
And lastly the Earthmates, the greatest out of these six... They were designed by the gods to be some sort of "Ultimate Life Form", but they are so rare that they have also been thought to have gone extinct by the majority.
However, Humans, with their limitless aspirations and imagination, despite having the frailest natural body, came to dominate the planet. They conquered through force or sometimes through peace, but surely enough the other races came under the wings of this race for unity and protection.
They built small villages, and from those small villages arose city-states, and from those city-states arose kingdoms, and from those Kingdoms arose Empires and even greater dominions.
On our current setting, in this time, on the continent there are only two nations that we need to focus on...
The Kingdom of Norad to the north and the Sechs Empire to the south... The Yin and yang, the Cain and Abel, the Capulets and Montagues, the U.S and the Soviet Union...
The Kingdom of Norad flourished from a small confederation of lordships on the north and quickly established itself as a regional power after it defeated the Thorsin Republic of the dwarves and assimilated it. From there it continued expanding to the superpower it is today.
On the other side of the wall, the Sechs Empire arose from the previous Sechs republic, but unlike its northern neighbor, this was only possible through the sword and blood... Not through peaceful alliances and diplomacy. The Sechs Civil war between Republicans and Imperialists ravaged the country so much, that when the Sechs Empire first arose, it would have been easy to "smother the baby in the crib", as it may be said. However, through even more blood and iron, the Empire established itself as the dominant force of the south, and with its ingenious inventions, it managed to even challenge the Kingdom of Norad in the war that forever shook the firmaments of history.
Rewind to about 60 years before the birth of our first Protagonist, Raguna... The Sechs Empire and the Noradian Kingdom have been at each others throats over a small patch of territory in between the two large powers. In an act of dominance, the Noradians occupy the land with a surprise attack, but their gamble failed, the Sechs no longer tried talks, they extended their military arm, even further shocking the Noradians when they retook the territory in less than a week.
The Great War was on... for 6 years the battles raged on, ravaging the entire continent as the two superpowers and their allies brawled it out, causing millions of casualties from both the combatants and the innocents.
It ended with an armistice and a downright tie between the two, no land or dominance was gained, but millions of lives were lost, as well as hundreds of kingdoms and independent states.
Since then, both nations have been calmed from their zealous rivalry and have been more open and friendly. Or so they say...
Both have in secret searched for ways to annihilate the other, either through indirect war or through sabotage of governments...
However, a recent discovery about the great race known as the Earthmates may change how these nations interact... and may lead to another war... another Great War, but this time it might not only be seclude to this continent, but the realm out in the East.
As of now, there are few known Earthmates, this includes our friend Raguna and his brother, Ivan, one of who resides in Trampoli and the other in Kardia.