abandonedrealms.com 9000
|
|
|
Main Getting Started Classes Combat Economy Roleplay Races The World Help |
|
|
|
History Theran Mystique Player Essays Comic Strips |
|
|
|
Immortals Cabals Players The Graveyard |
|
|
|
Forums IRC chat Community Sites Banners Contact Us |
|
|
|
|
******* STORIES ******* Henry the Gardener's tale I was on my way to the graveyard hoping to look at the various tombstones and monuments there, when poor Henry the gardener stumbled into my path. He started mumbling to me in his drunken stupor about a paradise he has lost. I decided to take a moment with him, and see what I could learn of his tale Henry, his wife Sarahi and their son Stevie all lived in a small cabin in the Drkshyre wood. Sarahi was known for her ability to grant small enchantments on plants that would strengthen their roots and speed their growth. Both Henry and Stevie, with the help of Sarahis blessings became renowned throughout Thera for their ability to make even the barest of lands come alive with color and beauty. Just as Stevie was coming of age to marry and start his own gardening business, an evil sorcerer took over the magic tower and strange things began to happen in the Drksyhre wood. Peaceful creatures began vanishing, and at night the family would hear horrible screams and wails coming from the tower to the south. Fearful that her family might be killed or kidnapped, Sarahi used her ability to enchant the plants on the path to their cabin so that they would repel evil. Though it seemed at first that this would offer them protection, as the evil sorcerer gained power, he realized that this woman posed a threat to the army of evil beings he had created. Somehow, he used his magical abilities to avoid the path that Sarahi had enchanted, and stole her away in the night. Henry and Stevie awoke the next morning and, finding her gone, searched the entire wood for Sarahi without avail. Though they were sure that the kidnapping was the sorcerers doing, they did not know where he had taken her, or even if she was still alive. Henry, who was devastated by the loss of his wife began to drink brandy in excess and mourned near the graveyard south of Timaran. Stevie was angry that his father didnt want to try and rescue his mother, and spent many years searching for his mother while his father drowned his sorrows. After searching high and low for the mysterious entrance to the sorcerers tower without avail, Stevie began to lose hope He decided to return to the cabin his father had abandoned and find a wife to help him restart his gardening business by himself. But on his way back, he was attacked by strange evil beasts and became lost on the trail that used to lead to his home. Somehow the forest, both trails and inhabitants, had become more chaotic and evil since his mother had disappeared. He despaired, believing that the ruining of his home, the Darkshyre forest, to also be the work of the sorcerer and his minions who drinking brandy and moping about the southern streets of Timaran, muttering about his lost paradise, the Darkshyre forest. (Continued in story2) |
|