Just a starter for my story Eternal Power. The name of the story simply comes from the English meanings of the names Amita (limitless) and Sabal (strong). I may or no go with the actual plot of the game. I change my mind so often which is one of the reasons why I don't make promises. We're going to see where the wind will scatter us to. Your opinions mean so much to me since I don't really know what to do in the next chapter. So feel free to leave a review or two. Enjoy! :-)
-Prologue-
Amita and Sabal. The two headed mythical creature of The Golden Path. The endless war of contrasts. The eternal competiton of the past and the future. The inner fight between the tiger and the elephant.
Amita was born in northern part of Kyrat, a country at the Himalayas under the manipulation of extraordinarily elegant King Pagan Min. She was raised by her aunt and uncle that she knew as her parents until an age, and became a constant symbol of feminism and equality among the women of Kyrat as she stepped up and took her leader role in the rebellious act, so called The Golden Path alongside Sabal.
Sabal was born and grown in Kyrat as well, under the influences of Mohan Ghale, who started it all, who lit the fire of rebellion against the dictating regime of Pagan Min. He was a man that respected his heritage the most after the gods and fought for his beliefs at all costs. With his death the balances broke and Pagan's pressure tookover the nation. This continued until Sabal awaken the nation and rebuilt The Golden Path with the support of Darpan, a smuggler who was one of the founders of the group back in Mohan's era. Then came up Amita, the young woman as she was, dug her nails way through the leadership.
However this wasn't appreciated by Sabal later on as Amita had a different vision of life than his. To Sabal, what could bring Kyrat to peace was the close relationship with the gods and the spiritual creatures that Amita didn't believe of none. Their argument was all about the same damn subject.
Also as the traditionalist man that he was, Sabal wanted women to know their places, not to get their noses in men's job and to marry a man and raise his children under the religious education. This was another reason why Sabal and Amita never agreed. Well, there could be millions of reasons if they tried to find.
In the beginning of Amita's rise in The Golden Path, she was treated like one of Sabal's assistants. They were a young group of women that worked for errands like informing the citizens not to go to certain places, making sure that everyone is safe in the towns while men fought back the Royal Army near the borders of the towns and such. Amita and her group still wore their traditional clothes as if this was a visual message that they were not accepted as a part of The Golden Path. Not like she was liking it, but Amita was aware of the fact that she wasn't experienced enough to go with Sabal and his men into the battles.
Amita worked really hard in her young age even before thinking to get in the rebellion group. Back when she was living in the north with her parents, instead of seeking to get under the wings of a man, she searched for the ways to get skilled on defense since the chaotic life in Kyrat required so. Despite her parents' willing of her getting married and maintaining a less stressed life, Amita has forsaken her home and travelled to the now base of The Golden Path, Banapur, to join the struggle. Since men of The Golden Path including Sabal saw females under a patriarchal vision, Amita and her supporters were not allowed to take training on combat fighting. But this never held Amita down. She even cut her hair short and dressed as a man to enter the training programme about how to takedown, how to cook a grenade and such many skills. Short hair around the women in The Golden Path later became a fashion as it was a representation of the Kyrati women stepping up the stairs of rebellion beside men.
Slowly but efficiently, women gained the acceptance around Kyrat. Well not totally, though. Traditions and the lifestyle centered around religion had its effects on the locals. As in many culture in relatively less developed or non-developed countries, women were not expected to take lead roles on anything in Kyrat. Despite the judgementals of the natives, Darpan supported Amita and encouraged her to not give up. He even claimed her against Sabal a few times, whom he now was simply a follower of and that made it easier for Sabal to admit that they needed women's help.
Through the years the gap between Amita and Sabal grew. Maybe because they both built their own mindset like a wall, the influences and youth experiences are being the bricks. Maybe it was the age difference the reason why they were seeing things differently. Anyway, they became more and more differed.
The Kyrati people were aware of the silent fight between the leaders of the Golden Path. They were aware of why Kyrat wasn't getting better, why wasn't moving forward or back even. Something or someone has been needed to make a change. Someone to save Kyrat from this chronic deadlock.
Ajay Ghale was the name. The son of Mohan returned back to his homeland for fullfilling her mother's dying wish, that being to scatter her mother's ashes in a place called Lakshmana in Kyrat. With his arrival, even just with the news of his coming a hope sprouted within the natives. A hope to rearrange the forces against Pagan Min's, though more promptly to break this eternal balance of the two contrary power, Amita and Sabal.
