Thread: Blood of Legends ((Kiandra&Mephilis))

Prologue It has been almost twenty years since the bloody civil conflict between the Xeytrox, and their larger cousins, the Rastrez. Both of these peoples made up the sentient feline lifeforms on the world of Verilo. At one time this unified feline race had conquered the entirety of the world with the help of a warrior, whose name was never known to history. The formation of this One-World Empire brought about the creation of the calendar. In the year 643, some ages after the nameless warrior's death, the larger Rastrez began to believe themselves superior to their Xeytrox cousins. This created a thick tension that escalated into a civil war. in 702. During this conflict, the once subjugated non-feline races rose up against their rulers and used their division as a means to destroy the One-World Empire in 1025. In the aftermath of their fall, the feline races were enslaved by their former subjects. This slavery lasted for several ages, the division of the two races remained, making the possibility of freedom distant. However in the year 1204 a Rastrez named Leo Terafax sought to end the strife between their people and unite them in a fight for their freedom. Along with his friend Tigron Alane, another Rastrez, they formed an alliance of sorts of the unofficial leader of the Xeytrox slaves, Vicor Almec. In the year 1207, the flames of war were again ignited. The war went poorly for the slaves,Terafax, Tigron and Vicor where stalwart as three warriors could be but their soldiers were not. Most of them where talentless, those that had some prowess were novice at best. The war seemed lost in the year 1212, until a nameless Xeytrox appeared wielding a magnificent holy blade that turned the tide of the war, bringing the masters to their knees in just one year, despite how well the war had gone for them. Several months after their victory, Terafax held a celebration in honor of their newfound freedom. Their former masters had willingly left their lands, and their people to their own devices. Even the nameless hero made an appearance, bringing his wife, son, and twin sister. Terafax called this warrior up to honor his deeds, or so everyone thought, he quickly slid a dagger into the hero's chest. This 'celebration' was little more than a way of gathering the most prominent warriors of the Xeytrox and eliminating them. First and foremost was this 'hero' that could sunder entire army with but a swing of his holy sword. The nameless warrior's sister managed to escape with her nephew, but the boy's mother was captured. The two managed to evade the massacre, but could not escape the following re-enslavement of their people. It was not long after her capture, and forced servitude to Terafax started, that the boy's mother attempted to murder him, she failed and was executed after leaving a nasty scar on his chest. Upon hearing the news of his mother's fate, the boy silently swore he would slay Terafax. Kill a boy's mother and vengeance festers in the son. In the year 1230, the rage finally reached its boiling point, the young boy began to fight back against his masters, enticing a rebellion in his fellow slaves. This civil war would prove to be much more brutal than the one before it. Both sides were intent on ending this age old feud, all the pent up aggression and resentment was felt in the waves of blood that spilled out on the landscape. Through it all, one thing remained constant, Terafax, nor any of his family seemed to be defeatable in battle. That is, until the battle of the scared canyon in 1232, where the son of the old hero slew Derance, Terafax's oldest son. It was then that he got his nickname, when Terfax demaned to know who dared to take the life of his son. The boy was from then on known as, He who Dares. Since, like his father, he refused to reveal his name. Between the tides of battle, this rising hero met a young Xeytrox named Myline, and the two began to fall for one another. She, like many, desired to know his name, but he refused, promising to tell her after the war was over. This love did not go unnoticed, Gerth, a Xeytrox who believed the war unwinnable, learned of this affair and sought to sell the information to Terafax for safety and riches. Terafax agreed to shower him in gold in exchange for learning this wretched boy's weakness. Upon hearing it, Terafax kept his end of the deal... a little too literally as he had Gerth drowned in a pool of molten gold. At the apex of the year 1233, the hero returned from a battle, to the village of Talameet, were Myline was staying. Upon arrival, he found the town in flames,and bodies of both Xeytrox and Rastrez in the streets. In the center of town, he found her body, burned and broken, nailed to the side of their home with Vengeance written in her blood over her head. This caused the nameless warrior to snap, he forgot the concepts of strategy, and tactics, and marched headlong for Terafax's castle. Every Xeytrox that could wield a weapon picked up and followed, many battles where fought between Talameet and castle Terafax, but he did not stop marching for anything. The battle of Castle Terafax of a short, but furious one, where the hero and his followers all unleashed their rage, knocking down the castle gate with nothing but their own bodies to throw at it and swarming the city within like a killing wave. He Who Dares would directly challenge the undefeatable Terafax to single combat. There have been many retelling of this duel, many detailed remain unclear but the end, Terafax fell, defeated by a shortsword on which the hero can carved the names of his father, mother, and Myline. This blade would ironically meet the same scar his mother left on the tyrant years ago. Unfortunately, the hero would die shortly after, his wounds too great from the battles to the castle, at the castle, and with Terafax himself. But not before the hero uttered his final words, We will fight, we will die, and we will kill from now until time eternal We. Will. Be. Free. The war did not end there, it would take the deaths of Terafax II, and Queen Incid to end the war. In the fighting, Tigron would also fall, he never truly believed as Terafax did, but he fought for his cause simply because if he did not his family would be executed. His daughter Tigra was heard screaming through the carnage as her father fell, reaching for her as his life faded. The war would end, finally, in the following years, castle Terafax was rebuilt into a palace in which a council made up of both the Xeytrox and Restrez representatives. The holy blade, used by the nameless warrior to end the first civil war was recovered from Terafax's chambers and enshrined in the main hall. The sword that slew Terafax, that had that warrior's name carved upon it was never recovered, it seemingly vanished. A statue featuring He Who Dares was erected in the courtyard of his palace with his final words carved upon it. In the year 1240 Rastrez and Xeytrox become obsolete, as they became the unified Rastrox. Unknown to everyone, but the woman Clair, He Who Dare's aunt, was at Talameet when it was attacked, but she was one of very few who escaped, she took with her a young boy, promising to name him after his father who did not yet know of his existence because a series of battles had kept him away from nearly a whole year. It was her hands that held her dying nephew as she failed to reach him with the news in time. Her hand that plucked the blade of Terfax's dead body. With a heavy heart, she returned to where she had kept the boy, stowing his father's blade away to give to him another day. She would raise this boy to the best of her ability, but noy before giving him the name of his father, and his father's father, Thyverian Nycle Kyronis.