Age of Dragons: From the Wind
Prologue
The world as we know it is not that different than most I am sure. In our libraries we have books concerning many worlds, all similar to one extent or another. Our lovely world is nothing special in contrast. We have separate races, separate communities, and most importantly separate desires.
Most know that the Gods watch over us, either for good intentions or bad. The Gods of good are as follows; Theodin, the God of Creation, Teloux, the God of Hope, Pandoras, the God of Inspiration, and Palidor, the Father of the Gods. The evil Gods are also well known and are as follows; Horuul, the God of Destruction, Heloux, the God of Despair, Fandoras, the God of Disease, and the God of War, Selifour.
The Gods in our world are not complacent. They are apart of our everyday life in one way or another. Temples have been erected in honor of all the gods and each have servants that would die for their beliefs. While the beliefs vary, the messages are all the same. The hierarchy of the temple faithful requires too many pages for this chronicle to adequately describe, so another such title shall be created at a later date. Suffice it to say that the gods of good work together in many ways and are in overall harmony with each other. While the gods of evil sometimes collaborate only when it is beneficial to themselves to do so. The Gods are always in a power struggle for control of the world, and sometimes the wars waged are not pretty and the deeds even less so.
There are clerics from all the religious orders, each gaining special privileges and abilities based upon their level in the temple. Theodinites, those following the God of Creation, are well known as grand illusionists, and wise beyond measure. They also have powers dealing with the elements and commune with nature. Telousians, have enormous healing and regenerative powers. Some of their members are said to live incredibly long lives. Pandorasians have gifted the world with its best leaders and have placed many rulers on thrones throughout the course of history. They also are the only ones able to bless a man into knighthood. Palidorites were once rumored to be the most powerful among the orders, but along the course of time they have lost their abilities, and the followers speak of a curse laid upon their house which can only be lifted by the chosen one. Horuulians are gifted with the ability of telekinetics and knowledge of demolition. Helousians can read the future and some even possess telepathy. Fandorasians have the horrible curse of disease. Some say they are all carriers and the only thing keeping them alive is their faith. It is fabled that one such member sparked a plague that smote the whole of a continent long ago. The there is the Selifourites, the most rare and despised religion known. They are, as far as I can tell, no longer in existence. But rumor has it that they once ruled the world with an iron fist. Their very words depicted as law. If this is true I have no actual record of anything like this ever happening in our history, but if it did I am glad they are no longer around to stir up mischief.
The holy orders are not the only ones who possess power though. Those willing to dedicate their life to the study of the finer arts of magic can also change the course of history. The Mage's Guild is known world wide and widely respected. True, some mages do not belong to the guild, but those renegades are sought out by the Guild Protectorate and let me tell you, they never cast a spell again. The guild is currently under the direction of a curious man by the name of Gaul Fel. A human, Gaul Fel earned his position of high esteem after he single-handedly stopped a fleet of dragons from ravaging the countryside. How he accomplished this is shrouded in mystery, but it is said he used an ancient spell, one that should have killed him. He survived but since then has secreted himself into the great tower that the order calls its headquarters. He has not been seen since.
This brings me to another odd occurrence. I only mention it because magic was involved. About two-hundred years ago, a storm stirred up the size of which had never been seen before. When it calmed a strange thing happened. A whole town, well half a town, appeared. The town was inhabited by a new race of beings, a race calling themselves Kender. They had no idea how they got here, but here they were. They claimed to be from a world called Krynn, a world which I have only recently gained further information on which I will be collecting into a separate book later on. I do know however, that somehow our two worlds are linked together in some strange inexplicable way. Further study of this is definitely called for.
So Kender are amongst the many races in this great world. Also, we have Minotaurs. They inhabit the northern sphere mostly and do not usually travel to our region of the world, save a few. They are mostly a barbaric people of warriors with fierce ancient traditions. Humans of course are all around, and yours truly is proud to count himself as one of them. Then there are the elves. While we humans are at war with the elves now, I think I should still remain objective and depict them in a decent light. While, like I said, we are currently at war with the elves they area good people. Just one thing lead to another and war broke out, it happens all the time. We are blessed with two races of elves though. The Trilinesti, which stick to the old ancient elven traditions, and the Polinesti who broke away from the traditions long ago and live free from their brothers. Another great race are the dwarves. We are blessed to have three of their kind here. They are technically all the same but don't try telling them that. They are separated by region as well as clan. Clan Wolf lives from the land and in the hill and are friends with Clan Hawk, who live in the high mountains. Then there is Clan Dragon, who does not interact with any race, and travel in their lands is forbidden on pain of death. They live isolated in the swamps and worship the god of war himself.
Other races that we have are lesser beings such as goblins and ogres, who while wholly evil to the bone; they do not possess much intelligence so are content to fight amongst themselves. Woe to us all if they ever become organized, what a force that would be. But who would be that bold to try and tame the beasts?
We are also lucky enough to have many guilds. In each major city you can find almost all of them, though some are secretive and hard to find. Why we have mercenary guilds, fighters' guilds, assassins' guilds, and the most notable of all, as well as the most powerful is the Thieves Guild. They control most things behind the scenes. A man known only as Essex is the head of that guild, and it is wise to never cross him. It is said he deals with his enemies in only the worst ways. He however loves attention and always parades himself through the cities as if he was the ruler. He is rumored to secretly control the governments of most major cities here and abroad. How much is truth and how much is rumor is still to be ascertained though.
Well I think that should pretty much give you a decent setup on how things are here. I am sure you knew most of this, but it is always best to assume the least lest you forget the whole. Or something like that. But you should be up to speed enough to read the chronicles I am about to unfold. It has a few twists and turns, and an unexpected ending but don't get discouraged. It may not end how you think but who's to say what's for the best? I now give you the aforementioned chronicles.
- Aaron Wagner, Historian
Chapter One
Prologue
The world as we know it is not that different than most I am sure. In our libraries we have books concerning many worlds, all similar to one extent or another. Our lovely world is nothing special in contrast. We have separate races, separate communities, and most importantly separate desires.
Most know that the Gods watch over us, either for good intentions or bad. The Gods of good are as follows; Theodin, the God of Creation, Teloux, the God of Hope, Pandoras, the God of Inspiration, and Palidor, the Father of the Gods. The evil Gods are also well known and are as follows; Horuul, the God of Destruction, Heloux, the God of Despair, Fandoras, the God of Disease, and the God of War, Selifour.
The Gods in our world are not complacent. They are apart of our everyday life in one way or another. Temples have been erected in honor of all the gods and each have servants that would die for their beliefs. While the beliefs vary, the messages are all the same. The hierarchy of the temple faithful requires too many pages for this chronicle to adequately describe, so another such title shall be created at a later date. Suffice it to say that the gods of good work together in many ways and are in overall harmony with each other. While the gods of evil sometimes collaborate only when it is beneficial to themselves to do so. The Gods are always in a power struggle for control of the world, and sometimes the wars waged are not pretty and the deeds even less so.
There are clerics from all the religious orders, each gaining special privileges and abilities based upon their level in the temple. Theodinites, those following the God of Creation, are well known as grand illusionists, and wise beyond measure. They also have powers dealing with the elements and commune with nature. Telousians, have enormous healing and regenerative powers. Some of their members are said to live incredibly long lives. Pandorasians have gifted the world with its best leaders and have placed many rulers on thrones throughout the course of history. They also are the only ones able to bless a man into knighthood. Palidorites were once rumored to be the most powerful among the orders, but along the course of time they have lost their abilities, and the followers speak of a curse laid upon their house which can only be lifted by the chosen one. Horuulians are gifted with the ability of telekinetics and knowledge of demolition. Helousians can read the future and some even possess telepathy. Fandorasians have the horrible curse of disease. Some say they are all carriers and the only thing keeping them alive is their faith. It is fabled that one such member sparked a plague that smote the whole of a continent long ago. The there is the Selifourites, the most rare and despised religion known. They are, as far as I can tell, no longer in existence. But rumor has it that they once ruled the world with an iron fist. Their very words depicted as law. If this is true I have no actual record of anything like this ever happening in our history, but if it did I am glad they are no longer around to stir up mischief.
The holy orders are not the only ones who possess power though. Those willing to dedicate their life to the study of the finer arts of magic can also change the course of history. The Mage's Guild is known world wide and widely respected. True, some mages do not belong to the guild, but those renegades are sought out by the Guild Protectorate and let me tell you, they never cast a spell again. The guild is currently under the direction of a curious man by the name of Gaul Fel. A human, Gaul Fel earned his position of high esteem after he single-handedly stopped a fleet of dragons from ravaging the countryside. How he accomplished this is shrouded in mystery, but it is said he used an ancient spell, one that should have killed him. He survived but since then has secreted himself into the great tower that the order calls its headquarters. He has not been seen since.
This brings me to another odd occurrence. I only mention it because magic was involved. About two-hundred years ago, a storm stirred up the size of which had never been seen before. When it calmed a strange thing happened. A whole town, well half a town, appeared. The town was inhabited by a new race of beings, a race calling themselves Kender. They had no idea how they got here, but here they were. They claimed to be from a world called Krynn, a world which I have only recently gained further information on which I will be collecting into a separate book later on. I do know however, that somehow our two worlds are linked together in some strange inexplicable way. Further study of this is definitely called for.
So Kender are amongst the many races in this great world. Also, we have Minotaurs. They inhabit the northern sphere mostly and do not usually travel to our region of the world, save a few. They are mostly a barbaric people of warriors with fierce ancient traditions. Humans of course are all around, and yours truly is proud to count himself as one of them. Then there are the elves. While we humans are at war with the elves now, I think I should still remain objective and depict them in a decent light. While, like I said, we are currently at war with the elves they area good people. Just one thing lead to another and war broke out, it happens all the time. We are blessed with two races of elves though. The Trilinesti, which stick to the old ancient elven traditions, and the Polinesti who broke away from the traditions long ago and live free from their brothers. Another great race are the dwarves. We are blessed to have three of their kind here. They are technically all the same but don't try telling them that. They are separated by region as well as clan. Clan Wolf lives from the land and in the hill and are friends with Clan Hawk, who live in the high mountains. Then there is Clan Dragon, who does not interact with any race, and travel in their lands is forbidden on pain of death. They live isolated in the swamps and worship the god of war himself.
Other races that we have are lesser beings such as goblins and ogres, who while wholly evil to the bone; they do not possess much intelligence so are content to fight amongst themselves. Woe to us all if they ever become organized, what a force that would be. But who would be that bold to try and tame the beasts?
We are also lucky enough to have many guilds. In each major city you can find almost all of them, though some are secretive and hard to find. Why we have mercenary guilds, fighters' guilds, assassins' guilds, and the most notable of all, as well as the most powerful is the Thieves Guild. They control most things behind the scenes. A man known only as Essex is the head of that guild, and it is wise to never cross him. It is said he deals with his enemies in only the worst ways. He however loves attention and always parades himself through the cities as if he was the ruler. He is rumored to secretly control the governments of most major cities here and abroad. How much is truth and how much is rumor is still to be ascertained though.
Well I think that should pretty much give you a decent setup on how things are here. I am sure you knew most of this, but it is always best to assume the least lest you forget the whole. Or something like that. But you should be up to speed enough to read the chronicles I am about to unfold. It has a few twists and turns, and an unexpected ending but don't get discouraged. It may not end how you think but who's to say what's for the best? I now give you the aforementioned chronicles.
- Aaron Wagner, Historian
Chapter One