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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Aberton" data-source="post: 130855" data-attributes="member: 1518">*Gasp!!* an actual reply!! After so long!!And you actually want to hear more, too!!  Well, anyway, here it is:History (Post-Arthur)Second Age of Kings (1 ARD - 660 ARD*)During this era, which began ten years after the death of the High King, Aurelius Ambrosius Arthurius, King Arthur, as he was known, Owain Nherianthir took the throne of Avalon.  Around this time, Avalon was by now so separated from England that none could ever cross over again, though magic in the mortal realms did not die, but was persecuted, and none knew the magic to cross over onto the Isle of Apples.  Likewise were those who lived upon Avalon barred from leaving, for the quiet lake that had inold surrounded Avalon was become a limitless sea, whose ends could not be reached and which was, moreover, wracked with storms.  The Lady of the Lake, and her Fey attendent, could still at times cross over, for to the them the limitless seas were merely a quiet lake, and indeed the Magic of Crossing was known only to the Tylwyth Teg, and what few mortals they chose to tutor in magic, who, however, never to them did they teach the Magic of Crossing.  And so Avalon and the Mortal Realm continue in their separate ways.Now Avalon at that time was changed, for, as its connection to the mortal lands were severed, it grew closer to Faerie, the Realm of Spirits.  Thus, the land slowly changed.  Mountains grew where there had been none before.  Forests, grew too.  In the south, mountains grew, and a desert sprang up, the Allamid, where one tribe of Celts slowly adapted to the desert, becoming the fierce, woman-ruled Allamidians, whereas in the North, it became icy cold, being mountainous and far north in cold regions, and there settled a tribe of Norsemen who had come to Avalon many years before.  This was the Icy Wastes.  For nigh on 600 years Avalon enjoyed peace and prosperity, which was, however, not unmarred by conflict.In the year 342 ARD, Annlaw, then Merlin of Avalon, bethought himself of the opinion that Magic as the Druids taught, and some renegade sorcerers not of any religion knew, was the patrimony of all.  He created a circle of like-minded Druids and Sorcerers, which was derisively called the Sorcerer's Guild, which was the name that lasted for all time.  He disseminated Magic to people of all followings and faiths, Druid, Christian, and Allamidian alike.  Notwithstanding, in the year 357 ARD, he died a traitor's death and was buried in the Counsel Oak, the place where Caius Merlin Britannicus, whose name in the Old Speech was forgotten, was buried, he who had been Merlin to Arthur.Later, in the year 420 ARD, the Tylwyth Teg, whose forests had suffered greatly by the axes of Men, closed their great forest to all, and any who so much as touched an Elfin-tree was slain by the Elf-arrows of the Fair Folk.  In the Year 578 ARD, the Golden Age of Avalon was drwaing to a close.  Peace was finally brought to Avalon in this time by the death of St. Ursian, Slain by Druids, who with his last breath rebuked those of his priesthood who slew his killers, thus breaking God's Law against the shedding of blood.  Both Druid and Christian realized the full cost of their war, and peace was brought, after the destruction of many fairy glades by Christians and the slaying of many Christians by Druids.In 600 ARD, King Caradoc th Fifith was slain before his time, by poisoned mushrooms, and chaos came to Avalon, being that he had no heir.                                          -Arolas, Merlin of Avalon, in "Historia Avalonica," 23 ARQNext Up, "Avalon History Part Two: The Third Age of Kings, and the Ruinous Wars"Like what your hearing so far?  Oh, by the way, 600 ARD corresponds to about 1100 AD, RL.</blockquote>

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