The Story of Aina

Our setting is the peaceful land of Aina, a wonderous

and prospering country with beautiful people.

All had lived in happiness and sunlight for as long as

anyone could remember or learn in history from far, far

back in the ages.

There had been only an echo of a rumour of a legend of

an evil deity, and black, desperatesouls living in a

barren place of existence to far away to matter.

Then suddenly one day, the Divinities sent down a

warning to the Oracles.

The three readers stood before their King, King Taetius

Ainaen, aghast and ashen with the news of visions of

violent and desolate scenes forthcoming in their lands.

But the mighty King just laughed at their worries,

reminded them they had never known anything but peace

and prosperity.

The Silver Maiden, Oria Allyahan, fairest in all of

time and being was loved and adored by many, but namely

in secret by Torek Ainaen, Prince and future King of

Aindahaj.

But Talon, brother of Torek, also pined for her

affections unbeknownst to anyone in the land.

On the very day that Torek was making arrangments and

gathering up the corage to proclaim the fair Oria as

his choice for future Queen, Talon happily announces

that he Oria are deeply in love and are to wed ere the

month's end.

Torek goes to Oria, begging to know if it's true. She

says that it is indeed, whereupon he professes his

love, asking her to be his bride.

She refuses, saying she loves Talon, not he, powerful

though his position may be.

Furious and heartbroken, Torek storms out of the Castle

of Ainaen, never again to be seen.

Filled with ever-blackening rage, Torek sets out and

travels far beyond the known realms.

He finally comes to rest in a forsaken land where a

hideous breed of creature dwell: the Krakhôn.

They immediately name him their Lord, as they believed

in and worshipped the evil god Sorvahr, and believed

him to look as Torek did upon his arrival; mean and

bloated with the menacing power of hatred burning in

his eyes.

There they bore him gifts and build him a towering

fortress of cold metal that sucked away warmth or

beauty out of its surroundings.

This new home he chose to nurse the great hatred

growing within him, destined as his empire, he named

Naschtok.

As time goes by, his hatred mounts, along with his

desire for revenge.

And as his harted grows, his body swells to accommodate

it and he becomes a great and evil beast of profound

strength and terrifying menace, becoming unrecognizable

to any who once knew and loved him as Torek, Prince of

Aina.

He becoms Sorvahr, god of blackness and destruction.

He nurtures the grotesque and horrific Krakhôn, making

of them a loyal army of deadly force.

The day comes many years from when he dissapeared from

Aina when he marches his armies there, destroying much

and killing many, brutalizing and defiling his once

beloved land and people.

But his eye is on the Castle Ainaen, where his brother

Talon now rules as King - and Oria.

He storms the Castle, defeating Talon to a bloody heap

on the floor and drags Oria out screaming, leaving

their new-born daughter, Oriana, with her beloved and

now lifeless King, Sorvahr leaves Aina, having his

prize in his arms, and marches victoriously back to

Naschtok.

His army stays awhile longer to further torture and

bring terror to those of the blessed land, but

eventually withdraws back to the stench of Naschtok.

Talon is tended to by the great healers and makes a

full recovery, though his heart remains crushed and

torn by his loss.

He bids his kinsmen to take Oriana away into the

foothills of the Mighty Mountains of Lucienne, as she

is their last hope.

She's given the name of Nalí to disquise her true

identity as the Princess of Aina, and proves over the

years to possess an incredible power and beauty even

beyond her mother's, the likes of which no one has ever

seen before.

Oria was taken back to Naschtom where she was raped by

Toek again and again, and eventually bears him a son,

given the name Syrius.

He is raised to love destruction and war and hate the

land and people of Aina, especially King Talon and the

House of Ainaen.

Oria is kept prisoner, barely able to keep her wits

about her high above in the fortess of Naschtok. She is

allowed out only to eat and to tutor Syrius, whom she

loves despite the evil teachings of his father.

She dreams of and longs for her land, her people, and

her sweet Talon, mourning her loss of all of them.

And on occasion, she is visited by Sorvahr, who

whispers his cold desires in her ear and chills her to

the bone.

One day, Syrius is riding across the plains with a band

of his soldiers when he comes to a lake at the

foothills of Lucienne.

There he sees a beautiful maiden bathing in the waters

and bids her to come talk with him.

The find much to say to one another, and make plans to

meet the following day by the water.

As their meetings continue, they grow fond of each

other, each oblivious to the other's identity.

Syrius finds a strange warmth growing in his chest

where he only knows cold hardness, and the beautiful

maiden feels confused by her feelings for this dark and

mysterious taveler.

Over time their meetings become more intense and the

feel more and more of a connection between each other

that neither fully comprehends, as though they were

like souls destined for a like purpose.

Finally, Syrius arrives late one evening, explaining

that he's needed to make preperations for something

monumental that is going to happen which will make him

a powerful man indeed.

A powerful man who needs a Queen to rule at his side.

The maiden falls into his arms and they make love, and

ever-darkening sky brooding above the, and the tides of

fate flowing their way.

In the midst of this budding love, Sorvahr is planning

another attack on Aina, as the Ainae are growing in

strength and preperation for war against Naschtok.

Messengers of the House of Ainaen are sent to the

foothills of Lucienne, where it is announced that Nalí

is needed to aid her father and people of Aina's last

efforts for freedom to overcome the evil Sorvahr. Days

before the armies of Naschtok are to march over the

plains of Aina, Syrius goes to seek comfort in his love

onle last time before they shall rule together.

He fines, however, that she is not there and can find

her nowhere.

He is torn between the evil preparations of his father

and sweetness and light he has known with his lovely

maiden by the water.

His mind is preoccupied and cunfused as he speeds back

to his dark homeland to lead his father's forces to war

on the land of the hated Aina, this time to rule

completely and indefinitely occupy the land.

Its people are ready for them, however, and led with a

new hope in their hearts by the return and wonder of

their Pricess Oriana, whose powers have grown to

unimaginable strengths.

As the armies of the House of Ainaen come to the

borders of their land, headed by King Talon and the

Princess Oriana, they meet oncoming Syrius and the

demons of Naschtok.

A confused Syrius sees his precious Nalí at the front

of the defence of Aina and hals his company, holding up

his hand in a token of parley.

He suggests a meeting of leading commaders to perhaps

come to a truce and seek some answers for his reeling

mind.

Sorvahr sees what is happening from afar and reaches

his hand down out of the sky, crushing and killing his

own son.

His face appears in the swirling dark clouds, screaming

to Oriana how dare she turn his own son away from

him...and lover her own brother!

Crouching down on the battlefield, cradling her dead

love in her arms, who, she now realizes, was of her own

blood, a sadness and wrath seals over her as she's

never known before.

A white light pours froth from her as she rises into

the sky, singing a song of lament for all the people

manipulated and attacked by the menace of Sorvahr.

The purity of her own love and pity reached out across

the distances to Naschtok, following the line of hate

and dispair and destroying Sorvahr and all his evil.

The Krakhôn flee, abandoning their weapons, retreating

back from whence they came.

The company of Aina march on to Naschtom to destroy

what's left of the fortress and behold their victory.

And lo! There emerges from the rubble the fair Silver

Maiden Oria Allyahan Ainaen.

The family of the House of Ainaen is reunited and peace

is restored.

The people of Aina emerger better, stronger, and more

beautiful and full of love then ever before.

Oriana is forever haunted by the revelation of

prosperity, becoming the greatest Queen in all time.