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At a Falmarian village full of humans in the morning…
Farmers are tending the wheat and barley fields and vegetable gardens surrounding their settlement for next week's harvest. In the distance, they spotted a traveler on horseback coming to the village at a relaxed, slow pace. As the person come closer, the villagers notice the green-colored elven robe covering this figure's head and body. When face-to-face, they see a dark-skinned woman with brown hair, grey eyes, and beautiful complexions. The natives believe her to be a dark elf without seeing her ears.
"Hello ma'am! What brings you here to our village?"
"Exploration. I am taking a very long stroll across the whole land of Falmarius to witness events unfolding everyday as we speak."
"Don't you mean Falmart, ma'am?" the farmer only get a blank expression from the horse rider. "Huh, I guess it doesn't matter to you then. Anyway, our homes are in peace for some time now. Haven't got caught in battle for many years since the last war ended but we are still worried about bandits raiding our belongings and people."
"Don't worry about me, it is not in my holistic nature to do such horrible acts. Curiously though, would your village mind that I'd be staying here as a guest until some time after sundown?"
"Are you sure? We may not have enough meals for you to have until the next harvest. And as I said before, we don't have as much amazement as those found in a town or city."
"Rest assured, I've already made meals for myself while adventuring the lands and I had several still with me today. I'm also not a heavy eater so I will be eating small samples at a time. Another thing to add is that I had a fair share of visiting cities and towns on this continent, thus it is a nice change of pace to experience a more simpler lifestyle like this community of yours."
"I will see what the chief have to say about your visit. Just please stay where you are while I notify him."
"Will do," said the female traveler as she bow to the farmer. While that villager is away to look for the village chief, the lady land on the ground from the saddle with her outdoor shoes and wait very calmly for the chief's permission. Ten minutes later, she sees the leading person walking to her direction.
"Well ma'am, you can stay in our village just as long as you don't cause trouble for us."
"Thank you for your permission and I will respect your wishes, sir." The woman follow the chief to the buildings where all the inhabitants lived in. There she received curious looks from children, teenagers, adults, and elders, which the rider faintly smile in return. The female explorer is guided to a guest room for her to relax. After looking around the room and placing her travel gears, she head out from the small living quarter to the outdoors for observations on the villagers' way of life. Evidently, the children proceed to get a nearer view on this visitor out of curiosity. Smiling a little bit, the traveler put her hood down only to reveal a headwear fabric that covers her head except for her graceful face.
"Lady, why are you wearing that funny scarf like that?" asked one child.
"You could say that it's a custom I chose to follow while taking a very long sightseeing of this giant land," replied the female visitor.
""Madam, can you tell us what you saw out there?" questioned another kid.
"Most certainly, young one. Listen carefully children, I will tell everyone about my visitations across this 'world' as of today." And so she tell the younger humans very much in detail about her travels all over the continent for a few hours. The vast information included her personal explorations on various human kingdoms with their own culture and societies, the larger empire made by the city of Sadera with their rules of governance and societal 'advancements,' libraries dedicated to the study of magic and the natural world, and humanoid tribes dotted across the landscape such as the elves, feline demihumans, anthropomorphic wolf beings, and rabbit-eared vierans. By the time the foreigner finish her conversation, lunch dishes are prepared to feed the villagers. She decided to take small samples of the food being provided.
"Milady, that is quite a small meal you have! As our guest, you could have been served more than that," observed a villager.
"This is actually fine. I had done this many times over the course of my journey here. Besides, I still have meals contained in packages that will keep them fresh and unspoiled for over a month or more if need be," the woman acknowledged.
"That long? I never would have thought of it as being possible! But considering that you're an elf if I'm not mistaken, you must had use a form of magic to make food last longer."
"It was more likely that this 'magic' was studied so thoroughly for centuries that no spells are actually needed to maintain such deliciousness for longer periods of time," smirked the female traveler.
"No spells required? That is quite an amazing magic to have! So miss, can you teach us how this sorcery work?"
"Honestly everyone, it would be much more appreciated if this process was learned all by yourselves no matter how long it takes to understand the benefits and consequences of having such ability. And let's not forget the gods and their apostles judging us on our responsibilities in fairness when handling new skills. Thus, I'm not in favor of cheating problems out," the guest answered in a neutral expression.
"Oh, I guess you're not literally going to guide us about any special skills you have now, aren't you?" the settler said in a bit of disappointment.
"Sorry about that, although I do have a story that might be worth telling in exchange for this hospitality. I'll get started after finishing my meal right here."
"Fair enough ma'am."
After eating her lunch, the nomadic lady meditate near the guest room while the rural community enjoy their meals. Soon enough, they finished consuming the food and many children move toward the foreigner's location for the storytelling. Some the parents also went there to make sure the offsprings are safe.
"Hey lady, we are here! Can you begin your storytelling now?" asked a young person.
"Sure thing, youngster," she replied with a pleasant smile. "As reminders though, this story would be very long and it came from a different area outside of these lands."
"You been to places beyond the oceans?" a question raised by a child.
"Yes indeed I did, little one. With all due respect everybody, I will now commence the beginning of this story," alerted the explorer to the audience. It goes like this:
Once upon a time…
A big fleet of ships appeared in a flash among the stars. The people inside the vessels found a world full of life and magic. They explored everywhere across this place which include many kingdoms, people, plants, and animals. These visitors from the cosmos then stayed in and watched the activities of the magical realm for many centuries. Within that time-span, they saw the rise and fall of many kingdoms, construction and destruction of magical libraries, life-and-death struggles of countless individuals, and so much more. But alas, the outsiders very slowly grew tired of looking at the same way of life over and over again. The same problems and the same answers to them repeatedly, I might say. With time, they developed an eagerness to help the world's inhabitants to build a better place for themselves. And yet, these 'star' people did not do so as they long realized that all the souls of the lands continued to be naive, arrogant, and ignorant around many gifts of knowledge already discovered. Keep in mind that all the travelers remembered what the locals did: several wizards overstepping the natural laws and either got killed or became corrupted by dark magic; barbarians raiding villages and towns while thinking that there are still more places available to raid; power-hungry leaders leading large armies to their so-called glorious battles only to have thousands upon thousands of warriors chopped to pieces in bloodbaths; and there are plenty more of mistakes and irresponsibility that numerous others had yet to learn how to not repeat them. Although the visitors did not forget all the goodness that many people living in this world had shown toward each other, these moral principles often get overshadowed by the evilness appearing within the hearts of men.
Now imagine a power that could provide lights of a sun to banish the darkness in every city and town for miles away or annihilate an entire country full of cities, towns, villages, grass plains, forests, and everything else in an instant. It's hard to believe that kind of potential could ever exist but these 'heaven' travelers already have that capability along with an abundance of abilities that can bestow either great wonders or hellish nightmares. How, you ask, did they achieve this amount of progress? Well… this may surprise all of you here but there was a time in their very ancient past when they once talked, acted, and walked like the people living on this discovered world. However, the gods of their home-world never seem to manifest themselves as physical entities; if they ever did at all. Another thing missing in that reality is true magic that only mages were capable of doing. In a sense, the existence of wizards and magical beasts was not there to begin with. As such divine interventions never materialized, these mortals proceed to acquire knowledge about their world unabated for millenniums. This would mean greater understandings of life, how the cosmos work, building seemly impossible structures, and the changing state of warfare.
You see, the thing about their wars is that swords and arrows were no longer the primary tools for fighting. Instead, they got weapons utilizing new sources of energy to pierce through armor with ease. In fact, the art of war was so refined that these people could easily kill each other in the millions for a few days. Which is why they need to come up with new ideas to counteract their deadly devices and rethink their views about warfare. Even so, there were abundant members of their race who still wanted to believe in idealistic glories of battle and dominate neighbors by force. All of this tainted dreams came to an end when tyrannical forces declared a final war against the whole world that lasted for ten years. They're utterly defeated by an alliance of free nations but the conflict left behind so much dead, wounded, and homeless by the hundreds of millions on both factions that it would make the death toll of previous wars on the magical lands seem so puny in scale. The ones who suffered the most were the civilians like yourselves caught in the bloodbaths and made up half the total casualties. These innocents lost their homes, got killed or wounded in the fighting, or systematically murdered by the villains abusing their powerful tools just because of different beliefs, the color of their skins, or simply disobedience on what is wrong. This was very different from the good guys who appreciated the diversity of people and culture and respected every life on their earth as they believed and proven that their diverse races were always one big family and it was better to love each other than to allow hatred to take over and repeat the cycle of violence. After such terrible confrontation, the survivors peacefully rebuilt their civilizations and eventually reached countless stars of the universe to ensure their survival.
Imagine what the explorers of the stars saw after numerous years of watching the activities of the people living on the magical realm. They recognized that the races don't have the right mindset or enough of it to seriously handle powers that could possibly backfire them with devastating results. In other words, the inhabitants were like children too eager to play with fire that can destroy everything they hold dear. However, there was another reason why they would not intervene. Still confused? Don't worry, I knew it would be difficult for anyone here in giving me an exact answer so no harm done. Anyway, let me expand this excuse related to the gods and their 'guardianship.' In comparison to the religions on the star-beings' world, all the different gods and goddesses were real and worshipped by practically every person living on their lands as the visitors soon found out. Strangely enough, they're not really bothered at all by the magically divine presence for the first time since these religions helped people create societies, develop a sense of order, continue living in the midst of death, and other good things to do. So… what was it about the deities that irritated the foreigners very much? Well… this all came down to the actions of the divine entities and their ascended disciples.
Here's the thing, the gods and goddesses considered the world of magic their garden or tree for that matter. Thus, they nominated themselves as 'gardeners' of the enchanted domains who maintain the balance of order and chaos. Oddly though, these godly beings somehow had limited interactions with their mortal followers in order to influence the state of the world. Therefore, they have chosen several individuals to be their disciples gifted with incredible powers to help them make sure that the 'garden or tree' has the right needs to continue working and look out for unwelcome weeds or overgrown tree branches. That's all fine and said to the explorers when dealing with individuals abusing their newly advanced tools to cause more harm than good. The bigger problem to them though was the true intent of these managements and how often the deities intervened. For example: let say you discover something that would allow mortals to live longer, grow more food, build taller and better houses, travel faster, or other great dreams of benevolence. You proceed to make new potions or tools based on that knowledge and being careful not to become evil. Your umm... 'inventions' are revealed in a town or city and proven to be successful in improving the quality of life. But before these items become widespread in every part of society, the empowered disciples show up and destroy all of your hard work and possibly kill you if necessary. Shocking, isn't it. Quite unfortunate to be an inventive person since that kind of tale has happened many times on the realm of magic for eons. Consequently, the essence of religion, warfare, hierarchy, culture, magic, farming, laws, learning, and the rest of the elements on that world stayed relatively the same. To the gods and goddesses, that unchanged situation was perfect and beautiful. On the contrary, the star-faring race felt 'wrong' about this as they continued to watch similar activities repeatedly for a very long time. As anyone right here can remember, the visitors were much more advanced than the people living on the earth and they realized that all the different races had no real advantages when facing a powerful adversary like the foreigners themselves.
Now that I mentioned it, why didn't they just outright conquer such a supernatural place? Let's think about the questions that may pop on the heads of those strangers: Do they really want to conquer and rule like corrupt kings? Would they descend to barbarity to achieve a goal? Will there be anything pristine left from their onslaught? Can they go back to their moral principles after committing horrible acts to the people and the environment? Series of debates like these most likely convinced them that being conquerors or liberators would bring in more troubles than they could handle. Another important question was how to fight or even kill a god. These beings represented the respective emotions of every mortal in that world as well as a number of aspects related to nature. It was also found out that several disciples achieved godhood after spending around a thousand years or so being divine servants to their patron deities. Does that mean that the outsiders have to destroy everything and everybody to erase such godly existence only to leave behind a dead landscape? That didn't sit well for a life-loving race and thus having a reason not to: they had no clue how to stop this meddling without becoming villains.
Nevertheless, the people from the stars began to study the magic that permeates everywhere on the lands and experimented it with their knowledge, philosophies, and beliefs. Hundreds of years had passed and it seemed that they made a supernatural concept based on their discoveries that would keep the diverse divinities in check. The name you asked? Well, this new power was just simply called the 'Force.' So what exactly was this Force anyway? Quite honestly, the explorers were not really sure what was it that they just created but they knew the Force was something that could bind the cosmos together, flow thru and around every lifeform and inanimate object, guide them, and possibly be manipulated. By this time, thousands of tests had been used to see any viability of this 'energy' and several members of their kind managed to interact with it albeit limited. With the desire to confront the gods and goddesses remaining, they took a gamble to use the full potential of this phenomenon by creating an entity strong enough to contain and manipulate the incredible power. Years of hard work and plenty of resources in artificial creation has led to the birth of a baby boy sensitive to the Force. Afterwards, the travelers carried the baby toward the mystical lands and placed him near the home of the wisest wizard ever to live at that moment. Unexpectedly, a woman from a village close-by spotted the newborn when the visitors left and brought this young child back to her community. Once there, the entire group raised him as one of their own for a few years teaching the boy their culture, customs, manners, skills, and all other manners of their livelihood to the villagers' best effort. While growing up, the youngling slowly experienced new senses related to the mystical power that ordinary people do not have. The wise, mortal sage noticed this concentration of magic within the small child whenever the highly skilled mage visit the village and decided to make the infant his new apprentice when the time is right.
A couple of years later, the expert practiced his supernatural skills and review his scrolls of knowledge within his house in preparation for the boy's training that was months away. On one fateful day however, the magician suddenly sensed a powerful soul coming toward him while doing his usual activities. He went to his door where the intense source actually stopped and open it to reveal the same youngster that the wizard was willing to teach. Both looked at each other with curiosity in mind, which of course began the child's training earlier than expected. For years, this young person learned a lot about the wizard's teachings in magic, knowledge, responsibilities, and everything else that the master sage knew. Unknown to the magic user, the boy carefully peered into the memories and experiences of his teacher with the new abilities he has in one small step at a time. Eventually, the student gained a clear understanding of the complex life that the older mage continued to go through and an appreciation for his master's commitments . In return, the apprentice steadily revealed his observations on how the natural world work to the magician from a different perspective when using the Force. The wizard found this unique insight very intriguing, although he's more focused on getting lessons available for his pupil than to be curious with the mysterious phenomenon.
As the boy grew closer to being a teenager, he got mixed receptions from the village and native travelers from other areas. Many praised him for being an excellent 'mage' while there were others felt jealous of his powers; and several had wondered about his place in the future. Obviously, the student cautiously read and saw the thoughts and memories inside their souls without alerting them. From this quiet endeavor, he learned to acknowledge and respect the viewpoints of different people from all walks of life even if their intentions and actions weren't always pure. Along the way, the developing child slowly got better with his connection to this flow of unknown energy; which allowed him to do amazing feats of physical skills like jumping across a forest and levitating a heavy object. The Force also guided this apprentice to avoid dangers and protect himself when necessary. Surprisingly, his physical fighting skills for self-defense actually came from secret classes prepared by the people in the stars when he had enough time to spare. Thus, it's very certain that all of this development happened under the watchful eyes of the hidden otherworlders who were only detected by the growing individual ever since his childhood started. Once he entered his teenage years, the youthful man was given instructions by the teacher to build his own magical staff. With the lessons learned from the sage, the student methodically completed the tool that was composed of an enchanted wood pole and a solid crystal orb. After that's done, the wizard taught his apprentice plenty of spells that require a magical staff to work for several years. Simultaneously, the young person expanded his understanding of the other mystical wizardry as he was educated with his instrument. When this type of training was finished, the aging master prepared his apprentice and himself to visit a city dedicated in studying magic and nature. Subsequently, they began their trip to the center of learning with enough supplies to support them. While on the way to that academic place, the juvenile scholar contemplated on what he's able to do with this unexplored power.
A week later, the two travelers under the night sky stopped at a settlement midway to the city for rest and some resupplies. As the older sage went to sleep, the young Force wielder decided to meditate on a spot nearby with his staff for the rest of the night. Before the sun rose up, he levitated the magical tool while in his long meditative state. Once the first ray of sunlight struck his location, the apprentice transformed the instrument into a unique item that absorbed an unbelievable amount of energy from the sun. Hours gone by and the floating object then contained a power source as intense as a star. At that point, the student changed it to a new device in the shape of a long sword handle for two hands. Oh, I said a sword didn't I? Then you would be correct that this guy had made a weapon… except there was no metal blade. Just a long hilt with an astronomical quantity of energy sealed inside. Harmless… useless? In the hands of a special 'mage' like him… definitely not in this case when he influenced the tool by the Force to emit a blade of solid light that could cut through anything in its path. The male owner examined his new defensive instrument for a while before he disabled the lethal power and move back to the settlement. The teacher wondered what happened to his pupil's staff when they meet again, which the young man told him that he 'lost' the item in his 'sleep' overnight. Even so, both of them resumed their trip to the educational city. After reaching their destination, the wizard gave his student an extended tour of the large town lasting for days. The young newcomer got the chance to meet many teachers, students, visitors from other places, and the rest of the inhabitants serving diverse roles for their urban community. Additionally, he witnessed plenty of experiments and discussions related to the studies of magic and the physical world in their own unique ways. Over a week later, the duo head back to their home while they reflect the many experiences that came from the journey to the academic center and being inside the same place. Thankfully, their residence and the nearby village were still in one piece as the master and apprentice finally arrived there.
In the next decade, they more-or-less researched a lot of mysteries in the world and how much of these elements could be revealed. On the other hand, the young adult continued to study the power of the Force and secretly attend self-defense training with the foreigners. As the years had passed, the wise sage in his very old age found himself having trouble doing everyday activities at the house. By the end of a decade, the elder was slowly dying and on his bed. While waiting for death to come, the nearby villagers prayed to the gods for his soul's safe passage to the underworld. Unlike them though, the former pupil wished the senior mage luck to the afterlife without the divine pantheon's blessings and hoped that the Force would guide him to a better place. In the meantime, this ex-student stashed away all the scrolls, books, tools, and other valuable items from the house inside a hidden cave which was then sealed by the unrevealed power only known to him. When the aged magician finally died, the local residents gave a funeral paying respects to his dead body before the cremation process. After attending the ceremony, the former apprentice got himself ready for his personal exploration outside the village. Once the preparation was complete, he said his goodbyes to the villagers and proceeded to go out toward the much wider world. For many years, his global expedition led him to scores of friendly people and places as well as dangers inhabiting the magical land. At one point, the lone traveler fell in love with a beautiful lady who had been very good in using magic for a long time. Together, they learned much about this mystical art and their lifespans greatly expanded by the Force. Yet the man had not made a move against the gods and their disciples since his beginning. This special person would have reasoned that he's still cautious around fighting deities despite having immense capabilities to disable or destroy them and doing so could lead to unintended consequences for this land. Another explanation might be his wariness with the outsiders' over-commitment to the destruction or management of the divine beings as there's a possible message hidden from eons of observations.
Near the end of their centuries-long investigations, the couple conceived a baby girl sensitive to the Force. Once she has grown to a certain age, the parents trained her to the ways of this special power for many years. In a faithful moment of her education, the young girl met and befriended a boy who grasped the workings of the particular magic. From there, she taught and shared the male child the available knowledge related to this unique energy under her parents' supervisions. Meanwhile, the young girl often visited the sole mother of the magic-using boy living in a small town whenever she got the extra time since her family and the native child constantly travel across the world. By the time both became young adults, the two youths gradually formed a bond of love to each other and were very powerful with the Force as well as their hand-made weapons of light. Would they live happily ever after? Well... I still have more to tell on this story... and sadly, things had turned for the worst. You could say that the tragedy started with the nomadic group experiencing visions of what to come. For one young man, his terrible dream showed him the fate of his mom suffering and in pain. Worried, he set out to find what has happened to his only beloved mother with added help from the youthful lady who saw the same dream and had another vision of a darker path for her lover. Regrettably, both her mom and dad could not come as they shared a different vision that they need to investigate and thus the small party was divided into two separate directions.
In days, the juvenile couple reached the mother's small town already devastated by a barbarian attack that left few survivors in its wake. From the information that had been gathered, several people were captured in the raid and the pair started searching for the attackers to free the captives. Eventually, they found the camp that happened to have women and children of the barbarians. To make the rescue work, the female partner risked herself as bait to draw most of the aggressors away from the site while the other one sneaked into the area. He ultimately located his badly abused mom inside the camp... only to see her die in front of him. This was really devastating for the young man to lose a precious parent in the harshest manner possible. Immediately, he went into a state of grief over such loss... which then changed to an intense form of rage. In his anger, he proceed to kill every one of the barbarians that remained onsite including the women and children. It didn't go unnoticed for the lady in battle as she sensed a great disturbance in the mystical energy. After she annihilated the attackers, the young woman move toward the encampment and saw the aftermath of his fury. The reunited couple assisted the surviving captives to a safer place along with carrying the dead body of the mother. During that assistance, the female lover did as much as she could to help her partner deal with the surge of emotions as the result of this personal tragedy. Once a safe location was discovered, they held a simple funeral for the deceased mom of the upset man and the pair later departed from the survivors to search the whereabouts of her parents.
A few months had gone by and the parents were yet to be sighted. After several discussions, the two partners reluctantly decided to split from each other for different intentions. The male magic-user headed toward many areas under threat from barbarians and thieves while the woman continued the quest to find her mom and dad. A decade later, she was still a figure of beauty but couldn't locate the presence of her parents... if ever. With her concerns on her partner growing, the Force wielder started a new search for him. In time, she gathered rumors of a mighty mage destroying bandits and monsters across the lands. Steadily however, the lady became deeply disturbed by the devastation in several small camps, villages, towns, and even cities where almost everybody was slaughtered... and I meant every man, woman, and child. All the destruction that the female individual visited in every case was done by the use of a lightsword and the Force. By the time she finally tracked down her lover, that beloved person had changed into a much darker entity. The lady asked questions on his actions that happened over the course of a decade and got shocking revelations: each of those dreadful massacres was all done in the name of his love for her and had made himself a vow not to lose his partner the same way he lost his mother; regardless of the previous teachings taught to him. The horrified woman begged the man to rethink his choices and stop this act of violence but he remain unmoved in his desire of creating a global empire for him and her to rule so they can make people do what they want them to do. Realizing how far her dearest partner had fallen to evil and the greater threat this tainted sorcerer represented, the purer magic wielder immediately attacked him with her light blade to end his terror. Quite frankly, the corrupted individual blocked the first assault with his own sword of light and felt truly betrayed. The ferocious duel to the death continued on for hours as their attacks decimated the surroundings like the gods they meant to combat. Tragically, the victory over darkness was bittersweet because the heroine got mortally wounded before landing a death blow to the villain. As she was slowly dying, the sad lady gave much thoughts on how their love had going horribly wrong. After a while, she succumbed to her serious injuries.
Following that unfortunate event, the visitors of the stars created more powerful beings to replace this significant loss. Decades later though, these mighty individuals rebelled against the people now behaving very coldly to their creations. This new conflict depleted the strengths of the foreigners before the artificial beings were ultimately defeated. With not much choices left, the travelers split into two groups: one sailing toward another world and the other set staying in that magical realm and live as best as they could over there. The separate populations made their own decisions to move forward and the mystical lands pretty much kept the same as it was for eons.
The end.
"So, how was that story?" the female guest in elven robe asked.
"Well ma'am, your tale is certainly... something. I'm just glad our gods are taking great care of us and let's hope that we don't have to meet those scary people anytime soon," commented an adult resident.
"I really feel sorry for the poor lady to have her boyfriend becoming an awful person," stated a child.
"I know the meaning young one but that's what can happen if superpowers, selfish desires, and unstable emotions are mixed together unchecked," replied the dark-skinned traveler. By the time the sun comes down over the horizon, she answered all the questions about the story from the intriguing villagers. An hour after sundown, the foreign visitor said her goodbyes to the locals and gradually leave the settlement in the night. Still within short distance to the village though, she head toward a medium-sized hill and lay her back on the slope for contemplation related to that spoken fairy tale. Importantly, the lonely woman didn't tell the native inhabitants that story was based on actual events in the past and her own experiences. If she told them the authentic version of that tale, then their reactions would be very different. And it would consist of the appearance of a stargate, extraterrestrials' intertwined nature of robotics and biology, controversial experiments on sentient natives in the thousands, their complex interactions with high-tech Eldar, gun-toting Orks, and the ever-evolving Zergs; the interventions to annihilate paranormal abominations, transformation of a barren continent into a chaotic environment full of lifeforms, and other previous actions on the wider scale in the initial period of six hundred years. In terms of mystical information, the Force is one of many viable countermeasures to keep the gods and apostles in check and this supernatural energy is also being used by several highly-skilled Eldar to supplement their personal development like martial arts and meditations.
On a personal level, the artificial man was a modified human capable of wielding the magical power to its full potential... as well as being her 'biological' father. The traveler's mother was really an adventurous Eldar with two hundred years studying the nature of the Force when they first met; which essentially makes the now-adult daughter a hybrid. In their exploration for a few centuries, apostles sometimes harassed the odd pair but got defeated by the two every time. At the age of fourteen, the female offspring befriended the human mage who was four years younger at the time. Both were together for twelve years before the death of his mother. Her parents faced a threat on a kilometer-wide island so immense that a greater sacrifice was made to bring the ultimate power of the Force to wipe out this danger for good. Regrettably, the father made the final offer to generate a massive energy explosion that disintegrated the hazard and himself. Surprisingly, this resulted in having the isolated island devoid of all forms of magic to be manipulated thanks to an invisible field created in the immediate aftermath. The sole survivor of this highly dangerous mission was the exhausted and sadden Eldar mother who had been retrieved by her own kind for psychological recovery. Unlike the fairy tale, the hybrid felt the loss of her dad through the Force after one month separated from her partner... not to mentioned her pregnancy in its second month. Several months later, she arrived on the island to look for remaining battle scars on the landscape for days while being followed by an apostle. In a twist of fate however, the demigod found out too late that its supernatural abilities ceased to function due to the presence of the disabling field all over the water-locked land. The unaffected, pregnant explorer approached the powerless individual and just discussed their complex lives instead of making an attack. After spending hours of odd chatting with this divine disciple, she continued her investigations on the terrain which eventually provided enough evidence to confirm that her father was gone. With that done, the woman took a long time to think about the depressing information until being extracted by robotic soldiers of the interstellar visitors. They transported her to an urban town in Eldar territory where she complete her one-year gestation period and gave birth to twins: a boy and a girl.
As the new mother raised her kids for six years, she received visitations from many people like Eldar Force-wielders who sensed a strong connection of the special energy coming from her children; scientists and doctors checking her unique biology and 'natural' nano-cybernetics; military personnel; and curious Eldar civilians. Within that same period, she occasionally met her mother recovering from the demise of her husband while also providing assistance to an order of Force-users finding the right balance. The mother and daughter talked a lot about their past memories, dangerous journeys, and other specific topics of the day. Although back on the magical continent, the lonely magician got enraged when he discovered that several Terran scout teams had observed the suffering of his mother... and did nothing to stop it. Thus added another factor in his motivation to bring peace under his rule... by any means necessary. The cross-breed woman got very concerned by military reports and her telepathic readings showing terrible acts made by her lover. By the time she had her six-year-old twins recruited to the monastic order, the lady went back to Falmarius to see the destructive aftermath of her partner's fury with a company of Terran soldiers and an Eldar company following her path. Not only Falmarians took heavy casualties but also dozens of platoons, both Terran and Eldar, that tried to stop him or been unlucky to get spotted in the past seven years. Same goes to the unfortunate apostles that received a really bad beating from the angry mage.
Like the fictional story, she was horrified and disgusted at his dreadful actions for selfish desires and his love to her when the woman eventually found the magician in a volcanic site. After he ignored her requests to reconsider his crimes, the military units intervened and initially lost two platoons and their two gunships to the sorcerer. Daring the fighting force to take him down, he then heard the activation of a plasma sword coming from his lover committed to make the fallen man stop. As a shock to mage, she turned her blade against him which he blocked the attack with his own energy sword. The disheartened lady told her partner to surrender one last time, only to fuel his anger at the ramifications that she was aligned with these people all along. The battle to neutralize the outnumbered Force-user intensified as two companies were destroyed in the process. How the corrupted person actually died was more gruesome than a sword slash. Near the end of this fight, both super-powered beings lost their melee weapons while gotten caught in a large explosive blast caused by a supercharged grenade. As the female located her tool at last, she suddenly felt a strong grip on her neck and slowly been lifted in the air without physical contact. Behind her back was the human sorcerer using the Force to strangle her at a distance and levitate her sword to his hand. He came closer to her for a death blow before his whole body got paralyzed with just inches away from a sword tip. All due to the woman's greater concentration to influence the mystical energy that now immobilized her former lover despite not disabling the invisible grip on her neck. Alarmingly, their telekinetic hold on each other tightens increasingly with every second. As this was happening, the high amount of this special magic in one small area unwittingly allowed all the memories, experiences, fears, future visions, and everything else inside their minds to seep into both combatants uncontrollably. Despite the psychological maelstrom, they continued to Force-squeeze each other to greater lethality until both the lady's neck and the mage's entire body were utterly crushed simultaneously. Reinforcements arrived in the nick of time to recover the injured hybrid and quickly put her inside an advanced medical emergency capsule that would keep her alive. The airborne transport carrying the patient flied towards a floating ship in the sky for her to have proper procedures to repair the severely damaged neck. Even so, it didn't heal the heavy remorse she had for her former love since the widow psychically saw his last fear before killing him. After her neck was newly healed, the survivor was relocated to a rehabilitation facility to deal with her guilt and failures relevant to the deceased mage for many years. Meanwhile, more magical experiments were commenced by the mechanical foreigners in the efforts to develop better arsenals that could stop or even trap the divine pantheon. Gradually however, an abundance of sentient 'products' in rebellion either run away from or lashed out at being nothing more than tools. The extraterrestrials sustained large casualties for decommissioning the dangerous attackers but they still have a massive presence in the star system; considering that their numbers are in the billions.
Back to the present, the lonely explorer on the hill has shed tears from her eyes as she recalls painful memories. While looking at the night sky full of stars, the lady take out a couple of inactive plasma sword hilts and hold them in front of her sky view with one hand. "Not much has really changed for decades on this continent, father. Then again, there still plenty more to learn from this place beside the Force... heh, even at the age of seventy-two. Well then dad, may the Force be with your soul, me, and the rest of us on this strange planet as always. Especially in reopening your collections inside the cave after being sealed for some centuries," said the female traveler. All of a sudden, she sense a source of malcontent located at a distance from the nearby village. The woman immediately speed up her move toward the location with her supernatural abilities. As she get closer, the Force-wielder switch to stealth investigation and shortly find a bandit group of forty-two preparing to raid the settlement at sunrise. "Hello there! What are you gentlemen doing here at this time of night?"
"What the... a dark elf? Why would a darkie like you want to know?" asked one bandit.
"Well men, there are alternatives to live well other than all of this meaningless pillages on hapless towns," answered the lady.
"Are you that serious elf-bitch? Blame the rulers' taxation and forced compensations for us surviving like this! Hey... how about you give us your body to relieve our 'stresses' for today?"
She irritatingly responded, "That's not going to happen, sir. For my second question: how many of you actually want to get out of this ugly business?" Silence come with no criminals and newcomers making a response. "Nobody? In that case, how about you leave this village alone like forever?"
Another bandit coming closer said, "In your dreams, woman! We are not that willing to starve to death for your demands! Anyways, you're not going to be leaving here until you satisfied our plea-" Before he about to finish, the female hybrid punched the intruding man in her personal space with such force that his skull severely crack into fragments and splatter the brain inside his intact head. As the dead bandit laid on the ground, she lowers her robed hood and the headwear fabric to reveal ears more akin to humans than elves; which causes confusions to the marauders.
"I have no idea who you are right now! But you will pay that rudeness! Men, get her!" commanded the bandit leader. As the raiders come toward her for their attacks, the calm Force-user easily avoid their assault like a ghost and hit them back hard thanks to her stronger physique, decades-long martial arts training, and the guidance of the special energy. She continued to do so flawlessly even as the antagonists coordinate their violence against her. Half an hour later, the lady reduced the fighting capability to a third of the pillagers. The leader grows in frustration when he saw something out of her elvish robe and landed close to him. He pick up this handle without a solid blade by his left hand and wonder what does it do. Unfortunate for this villain, the skillful traveler landed in his personal space without warning and instantly Force-activate the yellow-colored plasma sword that pierced through his throat when she placed her right hand on the weapon facing him.
"I would like to take that back if you don't mind," stated the nonchalant female foreigner who then slice the leader's head in half with her fighting tool. "Forgive my trespassing on your plans but I cannot let you make more people suffer by your hands," the woman in her re-positioned stance let the marauders know that they're going to die.
"Like hell to you, darkie!" replied a charging man who then get slashed into pieces by her energy blade combined with superb sword skills. Quite obviously, she terminated the bad guys that attacked her in lightning succession... even towards the injured bandits that previously tried to hurt her.
"No! Wait! I give up, I give up! I won't do this again! Have mercy on me!" begged a wounded raider.
"As I said before, I cannot risk the chance of letting violent offenders like you to live."
"No! Please! Sto-" his head is cut off from his body. After dealing with the injured, the mix-breed use her telekinetic powers to grab and bring the three escapees to her. This last group has one experienced marauder and two teenage newcomers lying on their backs to the ground in a row.
"Please, let us go! We didn't lay a finger on you!" the older bandit told her.
"It's very certain you didn't today. But you did put your dirty hands on several women raped by you in the past; when I read all of your minds before this mess happened," stated the Force-wielder holding the active plasma sword with its distinctive, humming sound.
"What! That's just impossi-" this man's head get stabbed thru by the yellow blade which she later yank out.
"Before you two say anything, let me clarify the situation: you gentlemen are new to banditry and haven't yet made a single crime in your lives. I already knew this is your first time experiencing a nightmare as of the present time. Luckily for you two, I have spared all the horses and much of the equipment in one piece so that you guys have a chance to remake your lives for good. However, should you choose to go back to being dreadful bandits or murderers then there are no guarantees that I'll be merciful next time. Or any apostle that finds you pair. Promise?" notified the lady.
"We promise not to be bandits again, ma'am!" the men agreed.
"Good, then what are you waiting for? Gather your necessities, and leave this area for a better life!"
After the former bandits left the area, she give another long look at the decimated camp littered with corpses. The visitor felt a strange sadness for the men whose lives were taken away like that, especially so on the cold killing of the disabled marauders. Even if this course of action was for the safety of the nearby village, it can be a bit disturbing for herself to see the similarity between this scarred scenery and those made by her former lover. Nevertheless, she goes back to her horse and proceed to head for her father's secret collections. As the adult daughter continued her travels, she take the chance to self-examine her journey and the equilibrium with the Force: both the light and the dark.
I have not made a fictional name for this 'Jedi' yet. Thus, any suggestion for her identity will be respected. With that aside, I will see if I can make a examination story about a large collections of military vehicles of the past that the interstellar 'robots' can use or had used for missions on the magical planet... or even on the other side of the gate after it opens again. Speaking of which, I am going through my mind to think if it's worth the risk to write side stories that had AI military units intervening global issues like we have right now after they sneak through the magic portal. Currently, I don't know how much interference this robotic force want to do on the other side. It might depend on how horrified they are at the overall situation, the types of orders the artificial soldiers received, the length of time they stay there, their appreciation of the natural world and its 'symbiotic' connections with technology, and other factors to consider. So then, feel free to say whatever you want about this latest story.