One- two- three- four, four sources of light, four wells of power.
A white light that grants life, makes once dry wells become filled with clean drinking water, returns the undead to normal living beings, can make the soil fertile and makes plants grow instantly.
Why is this important?
Remember that religion I spoke of earlier and the fact that people just came and went whenever they wanted, the undead being brought in, inside cages and the undead that just kept showing up.
Those people didn't fight the undead, no they just let them walk inside and the town or village capture them and take them to father, I guess they thought that father would just bring them back to life if they were killed or heal them if they were injured.
They were right you know, but still, it just seems wrong now that I think back on it all.
Anyway, with all of that out of the way, there was a group of blood elves that didn't leave like everyone else that went to visit their loved ones, sure there were some people that stayed behind to live with those that had become forgiven because when they returned to their old homes, the people there didn't accept them anymore.
They just saw them as undead and nothing more.
Getting back to the blood elves, one-day father was walking around trying to keep his boredom away when he found himself staring at a group of blood elves, okay he found a group of women splashing water on each other and they noticed him.
"I mean how couldn't they have, there was nothing to hide behind" it said as he pointed in the direction of where the elven women had been passing the time.
"They called it the day of the deal or the day their prayers were heard."
"Father like any other man found the women attractive, and had I not interfered we would have been dealing with even more problems than just having that girl running away."
"I made his eyes see the color orange, the color of greed, not strong enough for it to completely overwhelm the women, but not weak enough for them to ignore it."
It was a hot day, so it made sense that the blood elfe women would want to cool off, why they didn't just use magic, was simple it wasn't as nearly as much fun.
he had already been noticed so father decided to walk up to the women and try something out.
"Come with me" he said to them, the women hesitated but followed behind.
No other words were uttered they just followed him, some elven men saw the group walking and fearing something had happened they decided to follow them.
You know try to defuse the situation, more and more people gathered and by the time they arrived where the wells were located a huge pilgrimage had formed.
"You should have seen the look on fathers eyes that day" Ion noticed his brothers smile, it was filled with regret.
"Father is just a human, nothing more and they treat him like some holy being. Something that must not be corrupted..."
He knew what the energy of hope could do, how it could heal, any injuries or sickness, be them natural or unnatural, so he pointed his ring at the well of blue energy and the waters overflowed.
A beam of hope, the energies that kept people going, the power to kill gods was suddenly unlocked, it was a peaceful feeling, calm warm and somehow cool at the same time.
He looked at the group of women and moved his head signaling to them to go ahead do what they had to do, the women hesitated, but not knowing what they had to do they just stood there, then a little boy who saw his mother amongst the group ran up to her.
he tried to hug her, missed and fell into the well, the next thing everyone knew was the boy landed next to where he had tipped.
He looked around confused, before a bright smile formed on his face and jumped right back in, soon his laughter could be heard.
It was a safety placed on the wells just in case someone fell into them.
It worked and soon all of the women had jumped in.
Father turned to look at everyone that had gathered and said.
"What are you waiting for, go in, there plenty of room for everyone"
Everyone took a turn, some jumped in and felt the pain of the years they had lived, suddenly vanish, others regrew lost limbs, blind men and women could suddenly see, as well as those that couldn't hear or talk found themselves able to do so.
Some people ran to their loved ones and told them what had happened and they ran back with them to have a turn and jump in.
They say all good deeds have to be punished and word spread by messengers be they magical communications, animal familiars or spies living amongst the forgiven, regardless of what they were word reached the Hord and the Alliance.
Everyone was so concentrated on being heald and cooling of, that no one noticed the blood elves, men women, and children all looking at each other, their hunger was gone, replaced by the warmth of hope, the love of the world, the love of animals and people.
Some wept, some too young to understand what was going on just said they were full and others tried to keep face and not show their emotions.
It didn't even take a week when the first holy men and women arrived, they said that they had heard stories of the light making its presence known, not going to lie, seeing forsaken and palatines standing at the door and not kill each other was something that made everyone.
"We were all confused alright, that doesn't happen"
Father didn't care, he could just restore the wells if something happened to them, so he let the group in, again not the brightest idea he's ever had, the men and women watched as the waterways flowed with the energies of hope, will, and compasion\empathy.
They all noticed that nearly everyone, but not all of the people wore white rings, mostly everyone that was an adult wore the rings and all of the newborns didn't.
The thing is there weren't just people living in those lands and those animals drank from those waterways,
The energies finally had something to work with, no one knew where the creatures came from but in the end, no one questioned it.
In all of the waterways, fish moved back and forth, in and out of the wells, sometimes they would be floating above the waterways, sometimes they were swimming on the land itself, regardless the fish were there and weren't a threat to anyone around them.
The group finally arrived at the wells and found minotaurs orcs and trolls standing around them, there were humans and elves there two but most of them were keeping watch over the wells that weren't actively shooting energy to the sky.
They did their rituals and tried to see if there was something darker going on, but when they found none,m the pilgrimages began.
Fathe put on one rule, no religion will be forced on people, using the wells as an excuse, because when he finds out that anyone tried to force it on other people he would just take the wells away.
Regardless things were peaceful, then the undead attacked, it wasn't an attack per say, more like overwhelming numbers arrived and tried to take control of the well of hope.
But that's not important, we all know how that ended, what's important was when that girl's mother stood in front of father, her most trusted guard stood next to her with their weapons drawn.
Father had an army made of white light behind him, the fight went this way, sheer numbers overwhelmed the undead army, none of them were killed just pinned to the ground.
"You're scared of something, not someone"
"...You came here knowing that all I had to do was simply snap my fingers and boom all of your army would suddenly be alive" father snapped his fingers and all of the undead were covered in light and found themselves becoming the owners of a white ring.
"I'm going to do something for you, something special. I'm going to give you half my life, normally it wouldn't work this way, but you, you went off the deep end" he said before she was forced to stand up and immediately father blasted her with white light.
"I thought you said all of the interesting stuff happened now. Nothing happened" Ion said to his brother.
Hunger, exhaustion, the feeling of life, the fact that her soul was once again fully intact, made her eyes widen in shock, she could hear feel her heartbeat once more.
"Now what am I to do with all of you?" father said to himself, it was stupid for him to turn his back on them, but he didn't care, they were all in shock unable to understand what had happened to them.
"I mean they knew what happened to them, but they never believed it was that easy, they always thought some sort of catch was involved."
"By the way Ion your inpatient"