On the first of Suren, On a Sarrowday's morning (The first of june, on a sunday),

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On the Morning of the first of Suren, The prophet's body was buried after it was purified and cleaned, it was a sober moment for every man and woman, the day was filled with rivers of tears from men and women of every race around the world, the prayers after that were long led by Hiderion Tonanzuir, the prayers lasted from morning till dawn.

Zokkason, stood up among the people, his tall powerful build as one of the most powerful generals of The Jadd empire already showing with his muscles and the respect the people showed to him upon his sight.

Zokkason fearsome face showed his old scars as he said, "The Prophet Jaddar Jexiszuir died on the first morning of Suren of the 78th year of the Jaddari calendar, He died after living a long beautiful life, he died at the age of 361, as the only heir to The Phoenix Empire, the son of Jexis Jaherzuir, the Prophet himself has ordained the council to choose an heir from among themselves to become the leader of the Jaddari legions, upon the Prophet's great task we have chosen from among us a leader that you may find pleasing to your eyes and hearts, that he may bring peace and happiness to this great empire The Prophet has made, We have chosen only the best among us, we have chosen Hiderion Tonanzuir"

Hiderion walked up to a small stone just a little higher so people can see and hear him, "O people of The Sun Cult, today we stand here to cry over the death of The Great Prophet himself, But I shall remind you o people of The Sun Cult, that who ever prayed to the Prophet shall know that the Prophet is dead, But The Most Bright is immortal, and he The Prophet himself was no more than a messenger, and the Most bright was his God, so o people of The Sun Cult, today we shall sorrow for the death of the most beloved creation of The Most Bright, But tomorrow we shall celebrate, The Prophet was happy for his elevation to The Most Bright, and we shall be happy for him too," Hiderion voice thundered among the people.

It was a beautiful scene, Hiderion standing upon a small rock while the very sun was setting behind him, an orange aura of utter majesty and beauty diffused into the air, it was like Hiderion person was being possessed by The Most Bright to speak today, to clarify what happened today, to lighten the soul of the most beloved to him, Fate was being controlled by The Most Bright, to stop the darkness from seeping into his followers.

It may have looked beautiful to the normal eye, But it was a dire sight to the more sharp eyed people, it signified that dark times are coming, and that the time of struggle is upon us.

It is time to protect the light.

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On the second of Suren. On a Newsday's morning.

Eilzar and Jaerel were sitting in a carriage ready to leave Ebbuubtu through a hastily made teleportation gate to the city of Sareyand, they were sitting in the same carriage as Hiderion and Jaddareesa, with the only person out of place in the carriage being the half-elf who is holding a huge bunch of papers within his hands and back.

The half-elf was something of an oddity within Bulwari history, as elves were highly discouraged of mixing with humans and sometimes ostracised if they ignore the warnings, But that all was within the New Sun Cult era, when elves were seen as saviours and people who to be looked up to and seen as divine, they were seen as harleds of Surael himself, Absolute compliance was not a suggestion, But an order that will be enforced.

As a backlash for The New Sun Cult, The Old Sun Cult came to be, the old sun cult follows the old tenants of The Sun Cult before the elves came to Bulwar, But such tenants were highly warped to become almost genocidal against elves, seeing elves as beings of darkness and to be completely exterminated or at the very least expelled from Bulwar.

Such kind of laws against and for the elves ended when The Jadd, which was brought by The Prophet Jaddar, came to be in the far deserts of Salahad where the legions of the old Jaherian Empire, and the legions of the new Phoenix Empire were forced to stay in, after being pushed out of Haless, under such conditions that Jaddar came to be, he is the grandson of the great conqueror Jaher, and the son of the Sun queen of Bulwar, Jexis, he was able to unite the disunited legions of the Jaherian Empire, and the Jexisian phoenix empire, able to unite the Mašnsih tribes and forge an alliance with the harpy queen Jasiene Elayenna through marriage.

It was the historic rise of the Jadd under Jaddar which established it as a major opponent of the two dominate sun cults, and now this great empire fell into the hands of Jaerel and Elizar's father, Hiderion Tonanzuir, And he is meant to hold it together with strong will and ruthless mentality.

The Hiderion in question was holding the hand of his wife with closed eyes. While listening to the calming voice of The half-elf, "My Divine Herald, watchtowers on the border of the command saw suspicious movements of small armed forces coalescing together, they seem to be forming armies on the border," The half-elf finished the report and looked into the eyes of the divine harled.

The Divine Herald, Hiderion Tonanzuir, is not known for his military exploits But for his almost supernatural power to control the bureaucracy and the will of the people.

Any town, city or governorate that seemed to fall into his hand only seemed to flourish and prosper with unprecedented speed, The territory that was given to Hiderion always seemed the most clean, the most powerful, and the most united. His nobles, Lightbringers, and mages, seem to love him and respect him deeply. He was a leader that was not chosen because of his relations to the prophet But because of his skill and his ability to gain the hearts of whoever is under him.

Hiderion Noded to the half-elf, "That is not much of a problem, everything concerning enemy movement will be discussed when we reach the Council in Sareyand," Said Hiderion, with his eyes still closed seemingly undisturbed with whatever he was hearing, while his left hand was playing with his wife's hand and feathers.

"The command, didn't they have enough? They have fought for their freedom from the jade dwarves, and now they want to make everybody else their slaves," the one who commented was none other than Elizar, He seemed more then perplexed upon the reason why the Hobgoblins of The command are fighting the Jadd.

"Our unprecedented expansion into Haless is seen as an alarming threat to the command, they see us as no more than another kind of inslavers that just want to take them down like the Jade Dwarves," Hiderion answered softly, he was always soft spoken, But his words were always heard, no matter how softly they were spoken.

"Elizar, I think it's very clear why they are going to attack us, with grandfather's death and with the coming of a new leader, they want to destabilise us," This time the one talking was none other than Jaerel, answering with a matter of factly voice, while looking at his brother as though he asked something dumb.

Elizar Looked at his brother with a cheeky smile, "I don't think I asked for your opinion on the matter brother," said Elizar while coming closer to his brother to hug him, "And brother, should we tell father about our dream?" whispered Elizar in the ear of his brother.

Jaerel felt goosebumps form on his entire body as his entire body became red, "Get away from me Elizar, You know how sensitive my ears are" Jaerel said to his brother while pushing him away with his hands, "And no, not yet at least, I want to check out something, If it comes to be true it will be highly interesting, If it does not come to be true it is fine, We tell it to mother and father either way," Jaerel said to his brother, highly uninterested from keeping any secrecy from their parents, Nothing comes from hiding truths, and hiding truths only gives chances for darkness to plant its seeds.

Hiderion and Jaddareesa opened their eyes to look at their sons, Jaerel and Elizar had unique personalities, Highly different from one another, with Elizar being more energetic and brash, while Jaerel being more logical and methodical, they were highly different and sometimes seem like oil and water at first sight, But they mixed well together, to the point they never separate from each other unless necessary.

"What are you talking about with your brother Jaerel?" Asked Jaddareesa, Interested in whatever her two children were talking about, It is not everyday you hear about a secret being hidden from you right in front of your face.

Elizar looked at his brother with a slightly frowning face, "what were you expecting Jaerel? Now mom is asking about it" Elizar said. He was not expecting that dumb of a move from his brother, to say it right in front of their parents like that.

Hiderion was baffled, His two sons were ignoring them right in their face, and not only that they were discussing keeping a secret in front of them, he was not even angry, just surprised and baffled at the audacity, "Elizar, what are you and your brother talking about,"

Jaerel and Elizar exchanged a couple of looks before Jaerel said, "Elizar, Explain what is necessary, while I write everything else down" Jaerel finished what he said and moved a little closer to the half-elf and said, "Uncle, Could I borrow a piece of paper and some ink please?"

Hiderion and jaddareesa's bafflement grew and so did their concern, their children never have done this before, their behaviour and way of acting was highly suspicious, "Mother, father when we were forced to sleep by grandfather, we awoke in a golden realm, it was made out of golden clouds with a huge orange sun on the horizon…."Elizar carried on with explaining the realm and what happened after

While Elizar was describing what happened to his parents, Jaerel was writing his father's speech on a piece of paper, the same speech he heard within the dream, Jaerel knew there was barely any merit that will come from this, there is no harm either in telling their parents what they have seen, maybe not all of it now, But for sure later.

Jaerel did not know if he will ever be entering that Golden realm again, did not Know if it was something that was exclusive to him and his brother, nor did he know if what they saw was the future, But he did not mind providing proof to his father for their ability without influencing the future.

"And we heard grandfather shout about something, it was about you becoming the heir and the new protector of The Sun Cult, and something about you being father of morning and dawn, And, and then we were transported into a huge city," Elizar told, But his telling was cut short.

"That is enough brother, Here father take this and only open it when I tell you," Jaerel spoke cutting off his brother, while giving a piece of paper to his father, "I think what we saw father was a piece of the future, nothing serious really, just something interesting for you and mother, so please don't open this paper till I tell you to father," Jaerel further explained seeing the expression of interest upon his father's face, and the angry look upon his mother's further redding face.

Jaddareesa stood from her seat and walked up to her son Jaerel and pinched the tip of his ear, "What do you think you are playing at here young man, tip toeing around the subject in front of your father and mother, do you think we are too old to see what you are doing, come here," Said Jaddareesa pulling her son to sit on her lap.

"Mom, Mom, please not here, please not now," was all that Jaerel could say before Jaddareesa pulled a piece of cloth and started to clean his ears slowly.

Jaerel punishment started with a red embarrassed face and the laughter of Elizar and Hiderion.

But Elizar's laughter did not last long as he was pulled to his father's lap too for a slow ear cleaning.

This was all happening while Verazuir's expression was flipping between bafflement, a horrified face, and laughter.

Bafflement upon what he just heard from the two youngmen, horrified to discover they may be able to see the future through some unknown realm or power, and laughter upon the redding faces of the two young men in question.

Kelador Verazuir is the personal assistant of Hiderion Tonanzuir, and one of his only family members left, He is the grandson of Hiderion's Sister, Vehari Tonanzuir who died under the pogroms against the elves in the east after the death Jaher, the sun King, and his son right after, Jaerel the sunrise emperor.

Sun elven rule in Haless was highly shaky after the assassination of Jaher the sun king, with the Yanshen realms moving into full rebellions, and the Raj falling into complete and utter civil war, the only Land that Jaerel held was south of Haless and they were barely accepted anymore, as Jaerel was not as competent as his father, nor was he as charismatic, and his main marriage falling into the hands of a harimari princess and not a sun elven one already Left him alienated within much of the Jaherian legions.

After the assassination of Jaerel, The sunrise empire was disestablished with much of the pogroms that were put against the elves in Yanshen Haless, being forced on the local population of the disestablished Sunrise empire.

With the only cities even slightly accepting of the now Sunrise elves were the porcelain free city states, and even then, they were barely tolerated, and sometimes even killed on the streets by angry mobs or some local angry criminal.

The sunrise fled away from the porcelain city states with the help of the "Natural" Arawkelin, who thought of elves as their friends thanks to them establishing a civilization in the barbaric lands that was Arawkelin, to the point that the Capital of Arawkelin was used as a natural trading hub and jumping point of trade through sea to the Yanshen realms, explaining their naturality.

The Arawkelin allowed any elves to come on their ships to be shipped back into Bulwar free of charge, But even that momentary happiness was cut short by the huge civil war that The Phoenix Empire was embroiled in at that point in time.

The sunrise refugees were forced to stay with the Mašnsih tribes and the Jaherian legionaries within the Far Salahad seeking and demanding only peace after the pogroms, they were as tired as Jaherian legions within the Far Salahad.

Here where Hiderion stayed with his family, and here he was when Jaddar came to The Far Salahad, A child of no more than 3 years of age, draped with a golden blanket, he shown the majesty of his bloodline by just having the looks of his grandfather, Jaher, even though Jaddar's bloodline was disputed by the quarrelling elves and humans in the west, within the Far Salahad it was already an established fact, and that was the only reason he was named Jexiszuir, and not Jaherzuir.

And here Hiderion met his grand-nephew, raised him, groomed him, and protected him till he was the man standing within the service of the Jadd empire today,

Kelador will make his uncle proud.

As the carriage passed through the gate Jaddareesa and Hiderion put their hands around the heads of their children, turning off their senses or at least their eyesight and their ability to hear, so they don't feel the sinking feeling of teleporting as badly.

Jaddareesa, Hiderion and Kelador's face whitened from the horrible sinking feeling they felt the second they passed through the teleportation gate.

With a horrible taste of bile at the back of their throat, the family reached the front gates of Sareyand, The capital of The Jaddari legions.

They reached the centre of Bulwar today.