Aabahran

The Chronicles, Vol.12

The Chronicles · by Historian Eril

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|                    * * *                 * * *      Firstday 41st  |
|  Vol. 12            * *  THE CHRONICLES   * *        Fall, 1451PC  |
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| - The Blackwatch Guard, Then and Now   | - Dar'Veila, Lost Nation  |
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| /    | ir Geoffram Galanosis was once  | |  /  yris Zyther is a    |
| \____  a protector of Royalty when     | |_/   man in search of a  |
|      \ Val Miran was ruled by Queens.  | | \   home, but not for   |
| |____/ The Blackwatch Guard was the    | |  \_ himself.  A former  |
|        final line of defense against   |       native of the very  |
| assailment.  When Geoffram was named   | distant and ruined city   |
| "Captain Commander", a jealousy grew   | of Dar'Velia, Kyris now   |
| inside the heart of one of his many    | serves the One, and a     |
| companions -- a man named Jasin -- who | life-long promise to      |
| enlisted the help of a dark priestess  | protect the innocent.     |
| to imprisson Geoffram inside a static  | With his immediate family |
| sleep, dreamless and everlasting.  As  | taken by assassination or |
| fate would have it, Geoffram awoke to  | illness, Kyris has vowed  |
| learn that the treachery had robbed    | to build a city over the  |
| Blackwatch of all trustworthiness, and | ruins of Old Thalos to    |
| had been long disbanded.  The devoted  | bring his lost nation to, |
| Pixie now recruits for the Blackwatch, | where Dar'Veila may live  |
| hopeful that one day royal blood will  | and prosper once more.    |
| again need an agreement of faithful    | A people of 500 years may |
| defenders.                             | yet stand free.           |
|                              =Eril=    -                   =Eril=  |
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| - The Mysterious Design    |  - Times Gone, Meekly Filling the Gap |
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|  /    | aracci of the Firm | |\  | othing is quite so annoying as  |
| /   ___ deserves care in   | | \ | having too few details.  Of the |
| \     | the mentioning of  | |  \| most important events that      |
|  \____| his name -- not    | |   \ occurred while I was a sprout,  |
|         for fear of what   |       or while the Halls of the       |
| is known, but what is not  | Heralds were recovering, only few of  |
| yet known. The Heralds are | them do I have any authority to write |
| able to boast an access to | about.  Sir Anamus has gone missing,  |
| ancient secrets, but in my | a man I never knew; a Regent of the   |
| foolishness during the     | Crown.  Rheydin was obliterated, and  |
| outset of my investigation | Archfiend Thulgan essentially told me |
| of the Weaver, Psychopomp  | that he wished Maelbrim would suffer  |
| Garacci Imbrusse, I could  | the same fate.  Fizzie Ironsprocket,  |
| not have foreseen the      | another individual I never knew, has  |
| time it would take to      | gone missing.  Of the Tower of Time,  |
| learn the nature of the    | Veraz must have retired to the Time-  |
| Design - The Pattern - at  | Stream, along with Azini and Zhavic   |
| the levels needed to write | Krisnov.  The Unhinged Achskel Joan   |
| adequately about it.  In a | must be a trophy belonging to the Mad |
| discussion with Eskareth,  | Demon, for he is also missing (I at   |
| I was tempted to believe   | least *saw* him). One of my own,      |
| for once that Garacci was  | Balim Stonebreaker, has gone missing. |
| telling the truth: that    | If there is one thing I can do for    |
| there is one Creator, from | distinguished events and names of     |
| which the residue of all   | Guilds, Cabals, and Leaderships,      |
| creation is written.       | it is to immortalize them here.       |
|                     =Eril= |                                =Eril= |
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|Chief Editor: Historian Eril | The Library accepts any articles of  |
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