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Heh, I thought you were like 14.
[spoiler=Current Story]The gods once walked upon the earth, just like mortal man. They ate, they slept, and they died. The corpses of the gods still lay in their resting places to this day, tributes to what the world once was. Their bodys have spawned mountains, oceans, and forests.The Ostolian Empire is built above one of the tombs of the god, the god of justice, Ostol. The Emperor, an ambitious, paranoid man, conquered many other nations to protect his borders. Countries he could not conquer, he made alliances with, out of fear that more just Kingdoms would conquer his territory.His General, a just man, had been a good friend of the Emperors for many years. His own daughter, his oldest child had been given to the Emperor as his wife, a sign of their friendship. The general believed that their marriage would give his wife a wealthy, sheltered life, but this was not so.The queen's presence was enough to cure the emperor's loneliness, but not his paranoia. The emperor became possessive of his new queen, not letting her leave the castle, not even to vist her father, or her younger brother. She became depressed, and her health faltered.With the queen's failing health, she was unable to deliver a child and died in the process. The emperor fell into despair, knowing that there was no one to continue his name. The general, knowing the real cause of the queen's death, was filled with tension towards the emperor.After losing his queen, the emperor ended his ambitions of conquest. He became corrupt, paying his allied countries off to protect him, and his influence became smaller as the corruption became deep-set.The emperor was known for his public speaking ability, and loved to give speeches to his people. As his influence weakened, people began plotting his downfall. During one of his speeches, a dart flew out from nowhere, hitting the emperor in the temple, and instantly killing him. The general and his son had attended the speech, and the son thought he saw the killer, but took no action to stop him, as it was a crime to speak during the emperor's speeches, and could have perhaps had more consequences than benefits.The death of the emperor caused an uproar throughout the empire, and there was no heir to the throne. As such, the general was able to take the throne. Many people believed that the general himself had assassinated the emperor, as revenge for the death of his only daughter.When the general became the new emperor, he swore to end all corruption, and allied himself with the just and good kingdoms to help him in his war.The general's son is his favourite commanding officer. Despite being only 24, the young man has shown more intelligence on the field than many men twice his age do. He was sent into one of the 'evil' nations as a scouting party, to hunt for militia and weaknesses. But coming across the capital city, he finds it ambushed and ablaze. Deciding to explore the ruins, he and his party seperate. The general's son goes into what was the palace of the King, and he finds an unusual creature. He fights the beast off, but it manages to scratch his hand. The beast escapes, severely wounded.After leaving the palace, he searches for the other men who came with him. He cannot find even a trace of them, and he leaves the city in despair. He sets out alone to return to the city of Ostol.As the days pass, the wound does not heal properly, instead scarring into a strange shape, no longer just a scratch, but a strange rune. He does not understand what the rune means, and he ignores it, assuming it will heal on its own.On his way he hears a woman screaming, and he goes to investigate. He sees a beautiful young woman being attacked by a group of bandits. After defeating them, he helps her to her feet. The woman is one of the last of the Mystics, a race of magic-users, who typically are peaceful. During the short months that the son had been gone, his father had begun to believe that magic is a corruption of nature and had ordered the death of any magic-user.The girl begs the son not to return to the capital, but he does anyways, and his father sees the rune. He declares his own son corrupted and the son is exiled.The night he is exiled he has a dream. He sees the young girl, and watches as he saves her, watching as if from another's eyes. Confused, he tells the young girl about his dream.The rune has begun to grow, slowly moving onto his left arm, the dark, red symbols becoming more and more complex as the time goes on. And every time the rune grows, he has another dream, always from the viewpoint of someone he never met.It was after several months that he had a dream of himself, in dark cave he had never visited before in his life. He was unsure what the dream entailed, but as he explored, he came across a young woman sitting on a slab of stone.She looks at him, and he sees that her whole body is covered in the runes that are growing up his arm. The woman explains that she was the one who scratched his hand, as the rune slowly made her lose control of herself and she became a monster. She explained that he had set her free, and she had indeed died after their battle.She tells him that he has the power to use magic, as he is inexplicably linked with a sorcerer, which is who's viewpoint he had been seeing in his dreams. Each time he tapped into the sorcerer's mind, he would absorb some of the sorcerer's power. Despite the fact that he had the ability, the general's son cannot learn spells the traditional way, instead, he must learn them from the gods themselves. The mages of the world use the language of the gods, which allows them to perform their magic, but as the words have been passed down, the power is weaker when pronounced incorrectly.As he journeys around the world, finding the gods tombs and learning their powers, he hears word that his father has also discovered the gods, and is trying to ressurrect the god Ostol, the god of justice. He wishes to revive the god to rebuild the universe so that everything is just and perfect.In the tomb of Ostol, the general discovers a hand print indentation in the wall, with the sons rune embedded inside it. He realizes that his son is the key to ressurrecting the god, and he summons his son to return to the kingdom of Ostol.When the son hears this, he wants to go, but the girl is reluctant. She knows that the general murdered her people and is afraid that it is a trap. But the son believes his father is a good man, and he returns, but she does not follow. The son opens the door to the tomb of the God Ostol.As the door opens, the general unsheathes his sword and attacks his son. The general and his son battle around the alter of Ostol, and when the son strikes the deciding blow, the general falls. His eyes, which had looked green for months returned to their original brown, and he seemed confused as to why his own son struck him down. As he breathes his last, the son hears clapping.He turns around to see a tall man with long blonde hair clapping and walking towards him. He speaks to the general's son, and explains that he is the last living sorcerer, and he had taken control of the general. He explained that only those of true royal blood can revive the god, as they were descendants of the god himself, children of his half-mortal son. The general's own blood line reached back into that, while the former emperor's in fact, did not. Now, with the general's blood staining the alter, the sorcerer could begin the ritual that would revive Ostol, and bring balance again, destroying all the non magical humans.It is then that the young woman rushes in, and seeing the sorcerer, she cries out to him. She calls the sorcerer father, and when he turns, sees that his daughter is still alive. He looks at the general's son, confused, as he had believed that the general's son was like his father and had murdered the woman, because she was a mage. He still continues to try to summon the god.In an effort to stop her father, the girl cuts the shape of the general's son's rune into her stomach, surrendering her power to the young man, and dying there.The hero is now free from the restraints of the rune, and the full power of the gods magic is unleashed. The general's son attacks the sorcerer, exchanging blades in a final clash to the death.With the final blow, the sorcerer is defeated, realizing that his actions caused him to lose his daughter, the one thing in the world he truly loved. The young man looks onward knowing that he lost everything. He is now the emperor of a fallen empire.[/spoiler]
Ellie: I had a slice of ham in my hand. I was going to drop it, so I slapped it hard. It attached itself to the wall
No, no spoiler needed, since the story is on the front page Archem.
Super fail, Arch. Super. Fail.
Btw, no contribution from you???
That's creepy. Kinda like that british 13 year old who looks 6 who had a daughter with his 14 year old girlfriend.
He is 14. AND HE HAS A DAUGHTER!!!*DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN*
No no guys I'm 14, my daughter is 20.
It's an adornment, hair clip sort of say
