Doverii Cycle Epics

The Doverii Cycle Epics are a series of 10 epics written by Adius Urakki during his time in Akatha. They detailed much of his immediate family. Some were from the point of view of his father Adius Biblet Higaidi, while others are written from that of his older sister Kiko or from his other sibling Dion. Some of the last few epics are written from the point of view of Adius Urakki himself. While some epics were lost during a raid on Akatha, six epics survived in their entirety while two are available in fragments. The remaining two epics remain completely lost. They were the Chronicles of the Doverian Legion, Book of Kiko, Lilith (Lost), Morskayad, Adissey, Aspen, Dioniad, Andrew's Betrayal (Fragmented), Charmiad (Lost), and Akathanad (Fragmented).
== Summaries ==
=== Chronicles of the Doverian Legion ===
The first epic of the Doverii cycle follows Adius’ father, "Greater Adius." It narrates the fall of Doveria, his native land, and how they managed to escape the city, and, despite only being in their early teens, defeted the Bandits responsible. The Legion, on 7 ships of 8 and 1 ship of 6, raid a series of cities along the coast of Ummarnu, in the last of which all but Adius' ship of 6 were killed. They land in what is now known to be the mesa west of Ardat, and found Dandelia.
=== Book of Kiko ===
This epic follows Greater Adius' daughter, Kiko. Since Dion left to start his own kingdom, Kiko had to be trained to be the next ruler of Dandelia. She fails at first in her training, and in rage gives up serving her nation, burying her sword, as well as her crown, in the sand outside the city walls. She plans to run away in secret, but Greater Adius catches on and convinces her to stay, but letting her not become the next ruler. He asks her to take on a diplomatic envoy from a neighboring tribe. But while waiting outside the walls, what comes over the hills is not a diplomat, but an army. Retreiving her weapons from the sand, she takes up arms against the attackers, managing to repel them alone. She then agrees again to become Greater Adius' heir.
=== Lilith (Lost) ===
This epic presumably followed the witch, encountered by Greater Adius in the fifth epic, Lilith, showing us her backstory.
=== Morskayad ===
This epic followed Greater Adius' account of the Burgamerian Civil War, in which the numbers are heavily exaggerated, accounting 281 Lotus Coalition troops and 170 Burgamerian allies. In reality, however, it was more 50 Lotus troops and 10 Burgamerians. In the Epic, Greater Adius sets sail to Burgamere with 31 troops. This included Kiko, who convinced Greater Adius to let her come along. Arriving in Burgamere, Adius leads a small elite squad into the Battle of Morskaya. In the chaos, Greater Adius, Dion, Kiko, and a Dogius fall into two seperate pit traps. Grearer Adius and Kiko in one, Dion and Dogius in the other. Kiko is killed, and in his rage, Greater Adius massacres many Burgamerians, before taking all the bodies of the fallen and impaling them on sticks in front of the Burgamerian capital. That night, an elderly Burgamerian man comes to Greater Adius in the night begging for his son's body back. Greater Adius refuses, killing the man right there. Greater Adius goes to sleep that night, and the next Epic begins the next morning.
=== Adissey ===
This epic follows Greater Adius' journey home from Burgamere. In the epic, after raiding the Burgamerian capital, the Lotus survivors, now 234 in number, decide that they have done enough to help the Luscovian cause and leave for home. They soon run out of food, so Greater Adius and Dion ask locals on a nearby island, and they direct him to a nearby cave, which they say has a farm inside. They retrieve Greater Adius' 30 men and Dion's 20 and scout the cave, and after finding many animals inside, they prepare to take a few. Just then, the owners of the farm, led by the warlord Sambas, find the men inside and attack them, Greater Adius losing one man, Laphes, his best friend. On the other hand, they completely wiped out the attacking army, taking Sambas prisoner.
Greater Adius decides to execute Sambas. Unknown to him, a feared God, Nares, was related to Sambas, and so he pledged to prolong Greater Adius' journey. Just after Dion's contingent peels off of the main fleet, Nares emerges from the water and sinks all of the ships but Greater Adius' and Dion's, which is far away by now. Nares prepares to sink Greater Adius' ship as well, but Greater Adius throws a spear into the God's eye, causing him to reel back in pain, releasing his ship. They drift onto an island which has a city, unnamed to us, on it. Greater Adius laughs at the creation of the new Frosterium Empire, saying it would collapse within the month. They are refused food and so go out to hunt, where they have to kill giant multi-headed dogs, the Theosians. They lose two men, and so Greater Adius throws meat they hunted in the opposite direction, distracting the dogs and allowing Greater Adius' remaining 27 men to escape. Theu next find the island of Arkelia, where Greater Adius goes into the city’s palace, where he comes to a disagreement with it’s king, Pertonicus. Greater Adius is forced out by the Arkelians, and to get revenge he leaves a crate outside Arkelia’s city walls with a note apologizing to Pertonicus and saying that inside of the box is peace offerings. The box is taken to Pertonicus again, but when he opens it, instead of treasure, Adius and his 3best soldiers jump out, massacring the palace and then opening the gates for the rest of the men so that they can sack the city before leaving. They then drift onto the island of Lilith, where a scouting party finds her home and is turned to stone. Greater Adius prays to Hukar for a way to defeat her, and he is put through trials on the island to prove his worthyness, and afterwards he is given a magical plant which, when consumed, gives him resistance to Lilith's spells.
Greater Adius arrives at Lilith's home and tries to kill her, until Lilith's friend, Violet, convinces them to make a deal, Greater Adius' men in exchange for Lilith's life. Greater Adius agrees and they leave the island. On their way off the island. Nares emerges again, summoning a hurricane, killing all of Greater Adius' crew. He is imprisoned on an island by himself for a year with nothing to build a raft with, only a bunch of berry bushes. Dion arrives on the island by chance with a raft, having lost all his crew as well. Greater Adius escapes with him, and the father-kid duo has to fight a bunch of ocean beasts known as the drowned. Dion falls off the raft, presumably dying. Greater Adius lands in Arlia, Dion's kingdom, where he meets Dion's husband, Aspen. Aspen informs him that most of the Lotus commanders, including Greater Adius’ co-king Creeper, referred to in the epic as ‘Cresius’, had gone home by land, and so Greater Adius and Dion were the only two who hadn't returned home. Greater Adius departs, nearly landing in Pyriad, where he could get help getting to Dandelia. But right before he lands, Nares once again emerges from the water. Greater Adius attempts to negotiate with him, but Nares decides to try to kill Greater Adius, who manages to evade him and reach the shore. Nares finally decides that Greater Adius had been gone long enough and lets him live. Greater Adius learns that Audal is being attacked by the Hands at Sukrath, and so Greater Adius agrees to fight one last fight. Greater Adius is killed covering retreating troops from the battle, and the epic ends with Greater Adius waking up in the afterlife.
=== Aspen ===
This epic is from Aspen, Dion's husband's, point of view. At this point, it had been almost 2 years since Dion left for Burgamere, so Dion was presumed dead. The people of the nation thought Aspen was unfit to rule and so begged Aspen to choose someone to take Dion's place as king. Aspen holds hope that Dion is still alive, and in their anger Aspen is kidnapped by Arlian nobles and install a tyrant in his place.
=== Dioniad ===
This epic begins with Dion narrating his journey home after peeling off from the main fleet in the beginning of the Adissey to the Galadonians, whos land Dion had washed up on. They give Dion a ride to Arlia, where Dion finds out that Aspen was kidnapped. Dion sneaks into their old palace in the dead of night, finding their old bow from before they left for war. Dion comes out of the room to see the installed tyrant and his fellow nobles discussing executing Aspen. Just as they came to a decision, Dion let loose their arrows, all of their marks hitting true, wiping out all of the kingdom’s usurpers. Dion took back the throne of Arlia, being able to be next to their husband once again after years away from home.
=== Andrew's Betrayal (Fragmented) ===
This epic takes place 20 years or so after the Dioniad, and is the first one from the point of view of this Adius. The epics from here on are more realistic due to the fact that Adius is now writing from his own memory instead of stories from others. The epic is mostly lost, and the only surviving fragment was quoted in Adius’ wiki in the section titled ‘Andrew's Betrayal’. This epic could have just been the beginning of the Charmiad, the next of Adius' epics.
=== Charmiad (Lost) ===
This epic presumably told of Adius' deeds in the YA-Charm War, where he fought in both battles of Rhodia.
=== Akathanad (Fragmented) ===
The last epic, which we know of from fragments, told of Adius' flight from the Dande, the first and only one of the epics to take place on Abexilas. In the journey, Adius and the son of Cresius supposedly stole from a floating island, saw the mythical wither, and broke an ice field down the middle. It also presumably describes the beginning of Akatha up until the writing of these epics.
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