Chapter the Second
Young Eragreen was a stout young boy, with hair as golden as the morning sun, and eyes that glistened like limpid liquid pools of liquidity. He was just shy of his sixteenth birthday: the day that he would become a man. But already he had commanded the respect of many a man in the vast expansive country of Quest'vernia. He had a proficient talent with the sword, was an able bowman, and had afore slain both a lion and a bear with his bear hands. He had first strangled the bear and then ripped its arms asunder from the bear's mangled corpus and used the great claws to unceremoniously disembowel the lion. 'Twas quite a sordid, bloodstained affair.
He was called Eragreen Bearslayer, Lionsbane, lifter of ten thousand bushels, swimmer of twelve thousand leagues, tamer of wild boars, and bringer of presents to small younglings. He had been born at an early age, in a house he had helped his father build. But his father was dead now, and he had no mother. Forsooth, this lack of parentage caused him great pain and suffering deep inside his soul. "Twas a pain so deep, so intense, that he swore to find his father's murderer and bring him to justice by fighting crime on the sordid, dirty streets and byways of the muddy and slimy city of Go'ttam. He had donned a black cape and cowl, and lo! He did call himself the Man of Tree-Squirrels, dark avenger of doom and deathly doom of doom.
But alas, these are tales for another time. They are written in the Book of Komixe, which cannot be read by mere man, being a mortal such as he is. This legend begins with the Sending of the Luminescent Topaz of Shar'delqoq to the heroic hero Eragreen, so brimming with heroism.
It came upon him like a star, falling from the heavens themselves. He set his ocular orbs high in the firmament, hoping to see what strange magics had chanced to bring forth such an apparition. It did land just before him, sending a great exploding into the atmospheric area. But this was no asteroid that had chanced to fly into the earth's atmosphere! Behold! It was the Luminescent Topaz of Shar'delqoq itself, brimming brilliantly with the coloration of liquid daisies. He did grasp the jewel with his manus and held it aloft as a great orchestration played behind him, heralding his astounding moment of discovery. The call to adventure had come at last.
Ever stoic, Eragreen stood, contemplating this fate. He at last spoke, breaking the eerie silence about his personage.
"Ay, what magnificent treasure hath the gods seen fit to give me! At last may mine poor uncle and I eat chicken for our morning nourishment!" he ejaculated.