One thousand, four hundred, fifty three years ago a little human child was dragged behind a horse for a mile and a half. His mother was the one riding the horse.Seeing that he had survived being dragged through the rocky terrain a crowd gathered, and whooped and hollered as the child's mother jumped off her horse and strangled her only child in a blind rage. They then stoned the body, defiled it, dismembered it, and scattered the little limbs to the four winds.
An enormous pillar of blue fire arose from where the child was strangled and burrowed into the earth, forcing its way into the empty core of the planet. A rain storm gathered over the tunnel, of an intensity that has never been seen again. The water fell straight down the tunnel, surrounding the Flame, which wrapped the water around itself like a garment. It stabilized out and the Water and the Flame floated, forever to stay. A moment later and the mother of the victim fell to her knees, sobbing uncontrollably. The mob followed suit a moment later, as the Flame that had been long snuffed out returned. Across the entirety of the world elves, dwarves, men, trolls, orcs, spiders, dryads, wolves, and roden, races who had been created by the Khen-Zai to serve their many needs before they had left the planet to fight the Nameless, experienced the birthing of goodness within their hearts, and along with that the birth of guilt. For there is no goodness in us without our ability to mourn its lack of strength.
Most of the sapient races would have fallen into a confused chaos if not for the elves, the elder of the Slave Races of the Khen-Zai. They formed the continent nation Liekkin Mah and reached out to the races nearest to them, enlightening them or fighting them as necessary. For six hundred years the immortal elves reigned from Liekkin Mah. They helped the humans on the continent of Helmi form the Herculaen Empire, unsuccessfully tried to free the continent of Golau from its immortal mistress, and mapped out every last area of the world they could.
And then in the year 667 the entire continent lifted into the air and broke apart, forming the Thousand Islands below and The Ring of Tears above, circling the lower stratosphere. The ensuing tidal waves almost sunk Golau, not to mention Helmi, but somehow the world survived the cataclysm. The elves investigated as they could, but they found that their ships, so famous throughout the world, had been left behind. So they made new ones, ones that could fly in the air. And then the Nameless, who had been held off so long by the flameless Khen-Zai, arrived. Shifting priorities from discovery to defense, the elves continued their care for the other Slave Races the only way they could: by completely devoting themselves to fighting the Nameless until the day came that they would come no more.
When Anneli was an eager and restless little girl, living on the island of Nelya Yousta, in the nation of Kotaemah, in the Ring of Tears, a human woman with raven hair, clothed in scarlet, came to port. She sat with Anneli, and explained what she as doing here. She had come from the Island of Youth, a mysterious island somewhere on the planet, and had received eternal life from it, although she could have asked for anything she wanted. Fascinated, Anneli continued to listen. The woman told her that one needed an object from the person who last visited that was important to that person to be able to find the island. She took out a small wooden sword and handed it to Anneli, got up, and left, "to talk with those who had more perspective than she".
Anneli never lost the little wooden sword and eventually became the captain of a ship, the Sidereal Companion. On its maiden voyage, flying low over Helmi, the Sidereal Companion mysteriously crashed in the nightmare city formerly known as Argentum Prime, capital city of the now shattered Argentum Empire. The city is now a place of nightmares, filled with horrific Flameless and Anti-Flame creatures. A horrific dragon has been seen flying low in the skies, settling down atop what was once known as Sabina's Castle. And all Anneli wants to do is get the hell out so she can continue to work toward getting to The Island of Eternal Youth, to see what she could wish for.
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