The world of Kestrill
Anankah had been searching for her husband for months. He had said that he was going to Avonshar to seek his fortune and would return to her and their children. Her dark blue hair blowing in the artificial winds created by the 7 league portal, she approached the guard. "please sir. Has the gate to Avonshar been reopened?"
The guard opened his steel visor enough to make the slight human woman out and said "No mam."
Anankah stood staring at the shining portal, the first and last time she had seen it was when her true love had left to homestead and build her and the children a place to live on the "Paradise World" as it was known.
The World of Kestrill was a harsh cruel world but the had made it home even with the frequent dust devil attacks and the lack of any Divine agencies. Ana (as her friends called her) was a strong and determined woman and decided that no guards or promise of further terrors awaiting beyond the portal would stop her from finding him. Before the guards could grab her she was through the portal, trusting in her brother to watch the children until she returned.
Time and space hichaughed around her and she fell butt first onto a raised dias where sat the Avonshar Portal. She had heard of the wonderous city of Bashad but had not ever seen it herself. She was surprised to see such a huge city so devoid of people. The market place was in ruins and deserted, she searched far and wide within the city clutching the one thing her husband had left for her, his crystal.
Then everything went dark.