[IC] Ever Dream, The Worlds of Life (Closed)

[periculum]

Victory?

With the surge of undead and the misfortune of the demons, the battle was soon won on Prime III. The aelves were able to reclaim their ruined cities, but at what cost. Countless brethen were slain, great swaths of forest burned and logged, and undead now claimed a third of the planet.

Tocho's wolves quickly took up the call of Jemal, and gleefully tore through the demonic ranks within hell, a few even pursuing the demons into the abyss they had torn for themselves.

The humans were quick to capitalize upon the aftermath. The citystate was effectively dead, only a few such as malkavia surviving, as great kingdoms took claim to the scarred lands left by the demons, and weaker citystates being plowed under their heals soon after. Many great empires, republics, magocracies, theocracies, and plutocracys arose around the planet. Future invaders would discover much more cohesive and powerful opponents.

 

[periculum]

Ahem, I should have made it more clear. My "Tensok" post was backstory to Jemal's post. Thus Jemal was already freed, and was able to deliver a message out to the other planes, before Grenn arrived to heed his call. My bad, should have made it more clear.

 

[Jochannan]

Correction:

Grenn's strike team infiltrated the Demon fortress, arriving to find Tensok and Jemal.

"My lord, lady Alexandra sent us, we are your liasons to the resistance at Jo'Karr's forge. We are readying some battalions to join you."

 

[FreeXenon]

Shara (Light, Life, and Wisdom) @ Jo'Karr's Forge

Shara smiles to Eldelon. Her lumiescent eyes gaze upon the mortal Aelv who can see the unseeable.

"There is much healing to be done in the wake of war. Your people need your wisdom and leadership now, Eldelon of the Aelvs. You have counseled the Great King and now you will counsel your peoples to start anew. The forests need to be replanted. Homes need to be rebuilt. Lives need to be started and there are Rituals to be performed. Your eyes are keen and can see that which should not be seen. You know the path that needs to be walked. Now is the time for those that lived to counsel, to live to lead."

Shara looks to the humans and then says

"Hatred only begets hatred, Eldelon. Remember that."

 

[FreeXenon]

@ Jo'Karr's Forge

Eldelon watches as Shara fades from view. He looks around and sees many things that he and his people have never seen before Angels, Fiends, Humans, and Divinity. Many creatures have come to their world of Prime II to cause death and to bring life. Demons, Dinosaurs, and the Unnatural have brought death and devastation. Angels, Lycanthropes, Constructs and Humans have come to bring Life. The Unnatural, as well have come to put and end to the devastation that the Fiends have wrought. So much death and war has happened on their formerly peaceful world.

Why do the immortals come her to destroy and save us. The Godlings Shara, Jo'Karr, Jemal, NOS, and Yuneki have had a hand in this. The vile Fiends came to destroy everything and the Godlings come to protect us. Are we, the insignificant and powerless mortals, so important that the Godlings themselves would come to protect us from the depredations of the immortal Fiends. Why would the Fiends want to destroy us? Why would the Godlings want to save us?

Eldelon thinks about this for a while and looks upon the dead and dying as the Angels and others go about healing and setting up defenses about the Forge. Violence. Hatred. Death. Eldelon climbs to the highest point in the Forge that he can get to with his Aelven protectors floowing closely behind. He clears his voice readying himself to speak.

Eldelon looks down upon the mortal throngs and speaks in a magically amplified voice so that all can hear, mortal and immortal alike:

"Humans, hear me now. We, the Aelven peoples, have spent thousands of years training to destroy you. We bent our every thought and will to be able to destroy you when the moment came that your warring ways came to our peaceful world."

Tension fills the air as the Aelves eye the humans warily and poise themselves for action.

Your warring ways brought the Godlings down to smite you and resulted in the destruction of the world of Prime. The Great King and I were there to witness your wars and the Divine retribution that followed. You have brought the immortals and death and destruction to our world. Who of you would speak to me now to vidicate your peoples in the eyes of the Aelves."

Shara, The Light Bringer (Life, Light, and Wisdom)

 

[Wrahn]

Nos, the Sojourner, the Watcher, the Keeper of Secrets, the Knower of the Unknown

What Shara returns to her home, Nos is there, somehow his indistinct form looks haggard. He communicates with her without language, the multi-hued radiance that spills off of him conveys urgency.

You must stop them from travelling across the third barrier. Time travel will draw attention to this "place" that will be most unwanted.

Nos opens a small part of his mind to Shara so she will know. Othar was not the first to travel through time, in the Progenitor War Valkrath and Volkath used time as a weapon and had special agents, split off from the infinities that they were to prevent uncreation.

Travel across the Third Barrier, (what the first two barriers are, and what they are barriers to, is not explained) what he calls time travel, will inevitably attract the attention of these agents. How bad that is depends on whose agents notice. If Valkrath agents come, then they will more than likely just uncreate the offender and move on. If Volkath's agents are attracted, they will be less descriminate, ahnilating everything they can (which is a lot) before they leave.

Both of those are realitively benign (if you would call the absolute negation of something as large as a planet or plane benign), the thing that is of most concern is if both agents are attracted. Then a little piece of the Progenitors war will occur right here in this existance and there is a very, very good chance that it will not be able to withstand the strain and cease to exist, like popping a soap bubble.

I have spent effort obfuscating the tracks of Othar, but the more this happens the harder it will be. You must prevent them from doing this again, for the sake of your creation.

 

[magic_gathering2001]

Othar steps into Shara's domain as well adressing Nos, "If You have a problem with my actions you would do well to bring it to me. Also, at the First council I specifically stated that I would only timewalk if absolutely necessary to keep the universe alive."

 

[magic_gathering2001]

Korbin thanks Alyssa (and Alexandra if she is still there) and steps into thin air.

He reapears in between the human and elven leigons a replies to eldelon,
"I will. You presume much King of the Aelves. Those wars were more the fault of the warring godlings that smited us as they were ours yet you praise the godlings and prepare to destroy us. Further you condemn us for knowing war but you yourselves are better at the art than we are. If you are so deeply prejudiced that you cannot listen to your rescuer then nothing we may say will sway you and we will leave you to your pitiable existance

 

[FreeXenon]

@ Jo'Karr's Forge

Eldelon thinks for a moment about the stranger's words.

"How do you know the will of the Godlings? Do they speak to you as they do to me? They are Godlings and their doings are far beyond that of a mortal to comprehend. They do not justify their actions to us, nor do they have the will or need to. They have strange powers and unlimited knowledge. How do you know their reasons Human?

The Godlings struck down your warring Human settlements and fought because of your actions, and then the planet Prime was destroyed. The Godlings have come again, but this time to protect us from the predations of the warring humans and Fiends. We war with no one. We have lived in the quite of Prime II, and now war comes and your people are quick on its heels. Do you plan on destroying this Prime II as well?

We see that you came to help to destroy the Fiends. How do we know that you are not the cause their attacks and we are the hapless bystanders caught in your warring ways? We avoided it once, but we are not so lucky this time. Even though we are on a different planet you come with war and not just with each other, but with Fiends!!! Where does your madness end, Human??"

Eldelon's resolute gaze is cast to Korbin awaiting a response.

Shara, The Light Bringer (Light, Life, and Wisdom)

 

[magic_gathering2001]

Korbin replies,
"How do I know the will of the godlings, I hear one as you do but also I have observed them and heard tales from other's who have. Othar has shown me the spellforge, let me look at hell and the abyss. He has let me observe recreations of the first war of the explosions of seeohtoo ond ohtoo, he has shown me that the war was started by Endovior and Tocho, that it was fueled by Moss, Jamal, and Tocho. You say you were there for the end but did you see the beginning.

The fiends are many things but stupid is not one of them, if the fiends only wanted humans and not entrance into a gods realm they would have attacked one of our worlds full of less divinely protected humans"