The Travelers

The Travelers are people who came from another time, another semi-dependent instance of Mithcast. They are rarely seen by the peoples of Aplacia and their number in the year 245 A.F. (hereafter, Aplacia-245) is low. At any one time, it is estimated that around 20 Travelers are present in Northern Aplacia, but there are typically more seen during pivotal events occurring in Aplacia (or elsewhere in the Mistcast Universe). They can come from the past or future relative to Aplacia-245, but they always seem more powerful and more *advanced.* Some look like the hominids of Aplacia. Others have higher or lower brows, or have hairless bodies. Some even have wings. But they all appear to be bipedal hominids, or at least all the recorded cases in Amiran history are.

They come and go in Aplacia, some taking part in the events of the world at the time, and others existing merely as non-meddling observers. Others still are never even seen by the peoples of Aplacia. As their name implies they are mostly traveling, in both time and space it seems, with only rare exceptions staying put for very long.

## Known Travelers in Aplacia-245

### Benjuls

A funny traveler. Likely born in the past. Short and unimposing but witty and has a charismatic knack to get what he wants most of the time.

### Tarsuun

A serious man. A man of business. A man of getting things done. Appears larger and more hairy than the Humans of Aplacia-245, but less so than the Pithicai, the Thrals or the Aruktai (the speaking peoples of Northern Aplacia in 245 A.F.).

### Maegan Alae

A woman from the future that is physically stronger than the majority of the hominids of Aplacia-245. Not only is she stronger and slightly larger, she is also much keener, wiser and more shrewd. She carries a type of ranged weapon that fires an ammo appearing to be a spherical bundle of blue plazma that varies in size from a bb-pellet to a horse.

### Drakfell

An androgynous figure wrapped in dark clothing, Drakfell is known to have sharp teeth and feeds on the blood of animals, but never the speaking hominids of Aplacia-245.

### Burenfill

A wise old man who loves books and history and peace. While he enjoys time by himself in the wonders of the Forrests of Zorendal, he is the most seen of any of the travelers in the cities of the Humans. He is one of the oldest beings ever to set foot on Aplacia, though it is unknown if he is from the past or future. He is not immortal though, nor are any of the Travelers.

### Greya

A traveling hominid who can fly. Her wings resembles a moth's, but she is lithe and nimble. She flies faster than any known thing in Aplacia-245 and can travel to anywhere in Northern Aplacia in only several short hours. She wields a small but powerful rapier that she almost always keeps at her side.

### Valdor (Val)

A traveler resembling the Humans of Aplacia-245 who was born and raised on a lonely ship. Only Val knows how long he was on that ship and if there was anyone for whom he he cared, loved, or even knew back "home". Val told King Corlon in the year 5 A.F. that his home was "an immense, annular disk of death." Val is a solemn man. A veteran of many tests of might and will. He is counted as a friend of the Amirans, but he has not been seen since the death of Queen Aiathia. It is theorized that Val has never left Aplaica since he arrived there some time before the Founding of the Aplacian Empire.

### Tarkulna

A mighty being that closely resembles the Aruktai of Aplacia-245. He is their champion, living in their midsts somewhere within the Arachiker Valley. He fought with the Aruktai in the Battle of Nysos against the Aplacian Humans commanded by King Corlon in 3 B.F. He is responsible for the deaths of Joharus and Arsenian Volmont; two nobles of the then ruling family of Nycia.

## Known Travelers in Aplacia before the Year 245 A.F.

### Ralas'adianen (Ralas) Myhim

A human Traveler that appeared in Aplacia some time around 1400 B.F. Ralas is said to have lived most of his life in Amira along the banks of the Arichiker River. Ralas was killed in 554 B.F. during the Battle of Suríse during the 4th Human-Arkutai War. The Cliffs of Ralas at the mouth of the Arichiker are named in his honor by the Proto-Rangar peoples.