Hmmz...I like the character.
It could add some Warhammer Empire, like feelings to the RP.
It will take me a while to connect it to the World of Darjis but I think I can do it.
So is this Hegroth a technology based nation, like Steam engineering? (dwarf/gnome style)
My character is also a military leader and my race is also fluent with tech (though it is magic based tech)
The Celestial Elven airship fleets and all that...
The Great Clensing(First Tales From the Roleplay)
"High above in the skies over Ashen...The Celestial Elf Seers of the Silverstar Council sensed the winds of war blackened by a wave of Necromancy, and sent their fleet under the command of Elenai Lefein, to seek out artifacts, and to seek out the scource of this wave of undeath, and acertain it...should it's poison reach the Flying Kingdom.
Elenai went forth with the fleet, and their he met Gath, his long time friend. And a Dracon named Kamir, and a Wood Elf named Shanna..of whom held a bow that wounded Elenai's Grandfather...
They traveled together for a time, and came upon a Village being attacked by the undead, and so Elenai purged the village as the percepts of Etheriel state must be done.
And after traveling Elenai attempted to take the bow...but strangely...vengence no longer held his heart...and he returned it to Shanna.
They then came upon the scource of the Necromantic blasphemy. Arrillon the Mad-King, who was possessed by the first Mad-King who ruled over the kingdom of Theredor..as it was called when Larissa shined upon it. He was entomed in the very black tome that tainted him...The Tome of Malastar, and as Arrillion his descendent came upon it, and opened its pages he was consumed, and the Mad-King was reborn.
And so Arrillion imprissoned his people, and killed them, tortured them, and twisted them into abominations of undeath, and experimented on them...until he perfected his plague of undeath.
The only sanctuary that remained...was the Cathedral of Larissa and the Paladins who defended it....
Elenai then placed a fortress in the mountains...and called it Silven Tiran, and made the first foot hold on the surface.
Elenai then discovered the undead as they assaulted the Cathedral of Larissa, and sent his fleet to destroy them...It was there that Elenai fell...as he battled the undead fiend Arrillion in mortal combat...He was victorious, having layed the final blow, Arrillion shed his mortal shell, and his spirit fled into the wastes..but Elenai was doomed by his own weakness, when the Cathedral came crashing down, and he failed to hold it...and failed to keep it standing...The once shining temple of Larissa...was now a den of rats and rubble.
Elenai then fell into a deep depression..only Shanna kept him above the brink of slipping into madness...
It was then after recovering...Elenai sent Shanna away to saftey...and Gath took Kamir under his wing, to train in the woods....
Kamir then seperated from Gath, and went with the Crystalmen, and has not returned since.
Elenai and Gath then sent the fleet to guard Silven Tiran, and to keep Celestial Elven dominance intact, and to guard against the evil of Malastar lest its master return.
Elenai also sent word to the council requesting that an order of mages be sent to hunt the spirit of Arrillion, lest he be reborn.
Elenai then recovered set out with his fleet, to hunt a Forsaken, that they had caught sent of when returning from the Cathedral...Little did they know that they were being lead into a trap...and thus they fell into it. And were trapped in the mind...It was here that Elenai and Gath were tortured. And Elenai was tortured the most...For not only had he failed against the undead Arrillion..But he was trapped by a Forsaken...It was then discovered that the Forsaken was not a Forsaken but a servant of him...Being so easily trapped by a mere servant, and an undead servant at that....it was the last crack in Elenai's spirit..and he finally fell apart...He was so broken by his weakness, and failure to destroy the heresies...that only the intervention of Etheriel..A vision, was able to free him, and so he was freed, and with the aid of Gath, Destroyed the Heretic and banished the Forsaken to the hells.
But Elenai was broken, and by order of Etheriel..was sent on a pilgremage. His command, Find Wisdom, Find Lore, and Find redemption.
And so Elenai left the fleet, and with Gath, began the pilgremage. Gath however left, to find his own way. And so Elenai was left alone, and it was there that Aranith found him..and so they went together and found Silas, a High Elf.
And the three traveled together, and came upon a forest, inhabited by wolf men, and battled there....But from the darkness...A new enemy came...A Forsaken named Bal'Zammon.
And it was there in that forsest, that they fist battled the heathenous undead creature.
And after driving him from their path..they traveled onward to Grensintdale, and it was there that for the second time they battled Bal'Zammon.
Fore Bal'Zammon had come to that city, werein the Malice of Vergus, was held under guard, in the keep.
And so he broke the keep, and sent forth chaos into the city, and took the mace...And using its power, called forth an unholy demon...The Hell Mount Az'Guron.
It was here that Elenai was blessed...Fore Etheriel the most high, came down, and made Elenai his will made manifest, and in time, was fully possessed by his might, and he became one with the god, filled with his power. And it was there that he smote the demon down, and sealed his redemption.
Elenai was now free...and his failure, removed....
All that was left now...was to lay the final blow upon Bal'Zamon...But Bal'Zamon fled again, surrounded by his black tendrels, he escaped under the shadow, and traveled at once, for Malastar.
It was then discovered that the Tome of Malastar, had come into his hands, when Arrillion was defeated, the tome fell from his hand, and in the rubble, Bal'Zamon found it. And with its power, learned of Theredor, and of the secrets of Malastar.
And now...Etheriel who is Zerinias, has left Elenai's body...and has returned to the heavens...Leaving Elenai who has taken the name Illunfar, now redeemed, and fullfilled. But still his pilgremage continues....for Bal'Zamon still lives....
...And so...the story continues.
In the west lands of the mainlands, the geography is vast grasslands, blood stained with battle that have occured over the years. Ever since the revolutionary age had become, kings had become greedy, weapons were made, peasants recruited, it was a decade of greed, lust and human power. It was a decade of war. Hegroth, one of the largest of the human empires stood in the middle of the human mainlands. Making it a prime tactical location and a diplomatic center. It is reknowned for its strategies, and feared for its mighty "Liegon Cavalry" which have become feared as one of the mightiest mortal warriors for many miles. For the surronding empires to deploy their troops properly, Hergoth would have to fall. It was a dark time, things looked slim. Hegroth was in the middle of several human empires, fueled by war to crush the opponants, but to do so they would have to cross Hegroth first.
An alliance was not an option, as the humans naturally have a lack of trust, although this was still a rather wise move as they would have been backstabbed anyway. The war raged on for many years. Hegroth was on the defensive for many years, but decided they must attack to secure fronts in order to last against the other empires.
Were it not for the Cavarly and the clever tactics of its strategists, the most famous of which is Seth, Hegroth would have fallen ages ago.
Hegroths hisory is not much to be thought of as a legacy, which bothers its people. As agriculture began to develop in the early ages of humanity, many primative human tribes setteled in the middle of the plains, where the agriculture was excellent. It flourished, and had bountiful resources. Thus eventually over the years creating a mighty empire. One thing that all Hegotharians are proud of, are the walls of Hegroth City.
These walls are known to be legendary, to have only been cracked but never shattered, they are said to have been constructed from ores gathered from "Mighty stones from the sky" (Meteorite things with chemical and magical properties in other words). Its walls have never been breached, untill of course the 3rd War of Hegroth City. Which is where Seth supposedly "Failed" in a plan he did not even know of, nor a legacy he knew much about.
Hegroth now stands victorious as most of the other empires retreat... but there are much darker things coming its way... and not many are sure if its walls will stand much longer.
There was once a Wood Elf wizard who in his youth was named Tanath...But swayed to darkness by a lust for power, that his lineage could not give.
He began a search for a new scource of power...And in his travels...he found "the book".
It was said, that the book was written by the hands of demon sages...eons ago, when the roots of the earth were formed, and Zerinias was still in exile.
He found the tome..buried deep beneath the sands..its pages, sealed long ago, by names lost to antiquity. Its dark secrets held secure with in.
With great difficulty he broke the first seal..and the spells contained with in...cursed him with power not held by any of his kind.
With it, he would raise dead trees, rotted, and twisted...or call forth poisons from the earth. With its power, he summoned all that was corrupt and maelevolent in nature.
But still it wasnt enough...He lusted for more...
He came across a dark chapter...a chapter, that told of a demon lord...imprissoned with in a secret chamber...so arrogant, and so powerful, that the demons of Hell revolted against him, and imprissoned his power within a sacred stone when he attempted to destroy Hell, to create his own...
It was then that the Paladins of the order came upon him...
And so it came to be, that the secretive order of Paladins, known as "The Order of The Golden Lady", chased down the demonist wizard into the fertile lands of eastern Ashen...
It was there, upon that fertile ground, streaming with grass...that the holy warriors, cornered the wretched fiend...Found within his possession the black tome, that held great and terrible secrets.
It was in this land, that the Wizard found a great tomb...deep within a mountain...and found the gem there...held tightly by an obelisk of bone, and on its iron dias, was written "Cursed by Hell...and Cursed shalt thou be who dares take the prize."...And so Tanath used the book, and raised the very bones of the earth to pry the gem from its place...But the Paladins intervened...
They fought with the demonist...and for a while his powers remained...But the Paladins soon gained the upper hand...and were upon him...ready to strike the final blow. Victory was near...
In desperation, and arrogance Tanath grasped the stone, and as he did..the ground split apart, and a demon ascended from it. And with a loud roar, struck Tanath...
"The stone shalt remain." The demon said.."Fore neither by the Power of Hell, nor the Gods, shalt you release his power." Tanath tried to use the book, but the demon laughed...And the demon lifted his hand toward Tanath and laughed again as his aer was ripped from him, and his flesh sucked from his bones. And with a final roar, Tanath's very soul was forced into the book as punishment...But with his final breath Tanath screamed, "I SHALL RETURN!"
The Paladins, then were beset by the demon..and fled from it..And quickly by the power of Larissa they sealed the tomb...With a mighty door...And placed upon it runes of warding, and inscriptions of containing...to seal the tomb for all eternity.
And upon its face, but a curse appeared upon the door...and a spell was forged upon it, that should the prophecy of the tome be read by one of power, the door shalt open...
The Paladins feared this...and took the tome, and sealed it also within a secret tomb...and above the tomb they built a massive Cathedral, and above the tomb of the gem, a fortress...
And they forged a kingdom whos sole purpose was...to guard the secrets of the tombs...lest their evil spread forth, and the powers of Hell be set loose upon Darjis.
They called this kingdom...Theredor.
But it would come to be, that Theredor would grow prosperous...and loose sight of their sacred guard...King after King ruled under the blessed light of Larissa...but when chance came...A curious King found the tomb...and unlocking it, he found the tome...and was tainted by the whispered voice of Tanath...And so he used the books power for evil, and the gaining of wealth, and power. Soon he was known only as The Mad-King...But he would soon be destroyed, and the book lost for years in his secret archives...
But it is said that the book is abroad once again...
-The Chronicles of Theredor; Before the Reign of Arrillion-
It is whispered amongst the clergy of Larissa, that long ago a group of Paladins splintered from the general Ecclessiarchy, to pursue a different course on the road to spiritual worship of the Golden Lady...They formed a small nation in the north, and called it Inneria (aye-Nir-iya).
It was the interpretation of this kingdom, that it is better to wield the power of Larissa through artifacts, than to touch upon her Golden power directly.
And so this kingdom created great forges, to smith powerful artifacts, and weapons.
The people of Inneria, soon began to call themselves The Saint People, and saw the other paths of worshiping Larissa as Heresy, fore they communed directly with her holy power, that they though too holy to wield through their own hands.
It was then, that they gathered a massive army...and marched from their gates upon the Human realms...They started what was to be known to them, as The Great Dawn...It was indeed a crusade.
They broke upon the kingdoms of mankind like a tidal wave...Churches, Cathedrals, and Chapels, burnt to the ground...and entire cities razed and villages executed by the incredible weapons of Inneria. Hammers, swords, spears, axes, maces...All imbued with Larissa's might.
The human world was in sun-flames...The only nations left untouched by the might of Inneria...were the High elves hidden in their forests...and the Human City of Hegroth.
It was here at Hegroth, that the nation of Inneria, felt the death blow.
Hegroth was a devout nation...But it was also an incredibly inventive one. They had their own forges, and their own weapons...Steam power, and other marvels. They had not as much as the Dwarves in their mountains...or as powerful, but they had enough to turn the tide.
It was here that the Great Grandfather of Grand High Strategist Seth, led the battle for the North Gate, against the Paladin Austil...
Austil was the most devout of his order, his mighty Halberd forged from the highest of the metals...and forged with holy fire itself.
It was an incredible moment...all the weapons of Hegroth bombarded the man...but it was one priest that brought him down...one priest...one dagger...one blow...But the priest gave one blessing before Austil gave his last breath...He told Austil that he would return...if only to redeem himself before Larissa.
Hegroth was saved that day, and the human world was given hope. And Inneria was beaten, forced into a retreat that came to the very walls of the Saintly City...where it was destroyed..the ruins left to rot...The forges were broken, and Inneria was lost.
-Chronicles of The Human Realms-
that was my second option of a name, but i changed it to Cornillius, the character im using.the most famous of which is Seth