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Tales of Aphal
- Author Centinuus
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In the dark eons before anything, any trace of life, consciousness, or notions of existence, there was the Void. not so much a thing as a total lack of all things, it is pure space. Void is all that occupied everything for a uncountable ages, until the unknowable and mysterious force known as...
upon a cold winter night in the far western lands, brushed against the looming nameless mountains of the midwest stonestaln chain, a farmhouse sat, in that farmhouse sat a young boy and his father. this boy was Anok, a young lad whos destiny would become intertwined with the fate of Aphal in...
After life had been made from nothing, Allunas and the spirits watched there creations from the sky. Beasts, powerful and dominant ruled the open plains of the mainland for the first many years, and it was not until men came that resistance grew. the first man, Centinuus was a brilliant mind and...
Alphim Calinstar was the younger brother of Davin Calinstar, the winner of the great war of Candexes and the rightful king of Gimson, as well as the owner of castle Noroche and watcher of the town of Olde Smana. when the time came and Davin died out of grief of the loss of his last son, a new...
The Ghanjo, they have always been and always will.
The Great Ghanj was raised from the very earth by the mighty Gor, king of dragons and men and chiefest lieutenant of Xo the god dragon of flame and life.
The Great Ghanj was unlike any city, with its entrance hidden through paths in the...
The Unitine Empire, truly the
shining jewel of Aphal.
Founded by midlon, son of Centinuus in the second age of men, it stands as the largest organized military and collection of settlements for the last 700 years.
The events that occurred during the first age culminating in the...
Aeton had lived by a blade for most of his life by the time the Rothian wars had begun in earnest, he had grown up the son of a minor mercenary Bravo who was always struggling to find work since the peace established by the good king Verrim had stabilised much of Aphal, but nonetheless there was...
Rirahmat Aybasi Ban Jafa Al Lanah, commonly referred to merely by his shortened name “Rihrahm”, was a legendary and mythical prophet, warrior, and hero of the Halas people of northern Aeophora.
Born in the desert outpost of Osahia along the amber road to Umussia from the Akarian Empire, it is...
For a thousand years the Zgreli were kept safe, hidden from the greater realms of men that existed beyond their shores, guarded by their titanic savior, the mighty Sea Wyvern Vorgorian who would sink any ships that came too close to the shores of Linea.
Vorgorians' price for their continued...
The ancient empire of Ak began after the cresting of the great sun but in the very earliest days in the dawn of the new world, so early that it is said that the great Amber sands that separated north from south and dominated Aphora were instead a vast steppe valley. In those earliest days, when...
Tribes and Clans of the northern Ustagrad Linunkin inhabiting Gravenund, a Study by Ragus Coldclaive, prince and heir of the kingdom of Archov.
Firstly a brief summation and classification of those specific clans as identified regionally;
The Cobalt Mountains Clan, the Barbian Woodland Tribe...
Alphim the Cold was the catalyst, the first man to truly begin the rise of Gimson as the predominant power on Aphal, seizing power after the death of his brother Davin through sheer force of will.
Alphim was, however, a reflection of mankind whom the Aphalians had not seen extensively in power...
Lord General Johan Scarrim, the Eagleking, the red haired Dragon of Wyrmport, a man who will forever live on in history for thrusting both himself and his homeland of Astrarch out of obscurity and into the competition of great powers from the 17th to 19th Age's.
Johan was a product of a long...
Goroslov Mactova, posthumously known as Goroslov “The Sackbag” is the most infamous combatant to ever emerge from the already infamous pit fighting leauges of Aphal.
Pit fighting has a long tradition on the continent, supposedly stemming from the Ryavi region in the north, and spreading...
Finris Braykn was nothing less than a manifestation of the suffering of his people, and would be turned into their greatest weapon. born the son of a lowly tanner and tavern whore who would pass of sickness soon after bringing him into the world, he saw suffrage and pain in Gailen first-hand...
Halistus was born in Imro in the 14th Age, he had been a boy during Alphims rule but was one of the most ardent defenders of king Verrim, even replacing Ethaine as Knight Commander upon his death and protecting queen Eraine during her regency from inserection with tenacity. Upon the birth of...
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-East Rivenian Woodland-
My thoughts also strayed here and there to another aspect of my brother's harsh rebuke, the mentioning of Halane. It felt like an entire lifetime ago that I had even thought of Halane.
All of my memories of him were so doused in childish...
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-East Rivenian Woodland-
Soon enough though me and Tinus were walking through the shoddy and innocuous gateway that denoted the entrance to our camp.
It was a silly thing, something me and Redricos had erected to seem like perhaps a suspicious natural falling of...
Men of Clan Halese
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“Do you suppose peach pits float on water?”
I announced the question loudly as I enjoyed the last few morsels of succulent fruit my teeth could scrape from the nearly bare stone at its center.
It was a harmless question, the type of...
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My men slowly approached from behind. Over the last few years most semblances of military decorum had faded away, and although they still saluted me and called me their Legate, at this point I felt I treated many with them as my own sons...