People of the Mourning River

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## Info

### Location

The Mourning River Valley, Muneyan Continent

### Subgroups

Avuthene, Night Choir

For dates, refer to this Timeline

## To Pya re to Djodes Orda

The People of the Mourning River, mostly known for their truncated name Djorda (D-yorr-dah), are a collection of tribes living centrally on the larger island of Muneya, called Montuneya. Each tribe differs in culture and customs and occasionally language but each share a common origin called the Apyetrites.

### Leading up to Terra Tales

#### Chapter 1, The Empire

Their story began hundreds of years before the beginning of Terra Tales 3.0 on Montuneya, when previously unknown gods called down from above, a prophecy. The people these gods called down to would ultimately become the Djordans, but not for some time. The prophecy told them of a place among the skies where they may leave the harsh world they lived in, and enter a place where they may live among the gods in peace simply and without worry or trial. But to leave the grounds of Valeon and join the gods, these people would need to build a city that reached the height of these gods. To enter into the land of the gods, this city must be built taller than the tallest mountains, higher than the greatest clouds, and must touch the skies on which the gods walked. When this was done, with the last brick in place, the people may enter the land of these gods. The gods would then send down Magi or Avu to guide the people in making this city. Many heard this message and the people began building a city and called themselves Apyetrities for their city was to be called Apyetro, meaning a City On High. The Apyetrities would build their city towards the skies for hundreds of years, with their message touching many throughout the land. In time they had grown large into an empire covering the continent, headed by a King. The empire had colonies and outposts on other continents far and wide as well, one of which would later become the Nation of Cerania.

#### Chapter 2, The Fall

All was well within the empire of Apyetro, and in 14 ES the city was nearly at the necessary height to reach the gods and after hundreds of years of strenuous construction, the city was glowing hot with progress and hope, and was predicted to be finished in 14 years. It was then that the Fall would begin. A series of relentless attacks from almost other-worldly powerful raiders and famines would strike the empire like a hammer on this glowing hot steel of an empire. The empire would be hit from all sides, and villages would fall one after the other all while the King strangely sat silent. The city would be taken by raids and Fall on 0 ES. The loss of life was unparalleled and the empire suffered a total collapse. What colonies on the outskirts that survived became islands among a sea of rubble. All civilization within the mainland empire collapsed, with survivors fleeing and becoming what are now known as the People of the Mourning River. They banded together and formed a tribe, dodging and enduring the last of the raiders before the raiders had all disappeared in 1 NS. They eventually settled in the south end of the Mourning River Valley.

#### Chapter 3, Mourning

Many within this first tribe could not agree on why the empire fell. A few just took it at face value, the raids and the famine came at an unlucky time. Others, particularly Avu Sven, believed it was other corrupt Magi that were trying to use the city as a gateway to overthrow the gods. It was purported that these corrupt Magi, or Dark Magi as they were later called, corrupted the King and made him into a puppet, that they may enter the land of the gods first to overthrow and become like them. The gods are said to have heard word of this, and so shut down the prophecy. It is claimed that the raids and famine were caused by the Dark Magi, not the gods. But some, particularly one known later as Trades With Stars did not believe this. She and other butterfly-like people called the Pre-Flannothe believed that the gods caused the Fall and betrayed the People, causing the raids and famine too. Three years after the fall the pre-Flannothe had decided to leave the main tribe, heading west into the Dark Valley (Nihila Salay). They left to worship "Those who Swim Between the Stars", and became moth-like in appearance and were called the Flannothe race. From then on, two tribes existed on the Mourning River, those who still followed the gods and the Magi, known as the Avuthene composed of surviving humans, Pre-Flannothe, and Magi, and the Night Choir, composed of the Flannothe.

The two tribes of the Mourning River would largely coexist, until in 19 NS something known as the "Dark Forest Event", in which a number of Avethene people would be killed by Flannothe, would spark a roughly 10 year long war called the Flannothe War. The war would take a significant toll on both tribes, and would eventually fizzle out when the populations of each tribe could not afford any further losses. From then on a long quiet would claim the land, with both tribes keeping to their own. In 37 NS the last of the Pre-Flannothe would die off due to underpopulation and continued hunting by the Flannothe. The silence wouldn't be broken for nearly a century, when Terra Tales 3.0 begins.

#### Beginning of Terra Tales 3

Upon the beginning of Terra Tales 3.0, in the year 166 NS, the Avuthene have reported increased Flannothe sightings and within the Night Choir tribe, the aforementioned Flannothe "Trades With Stars" has awoken from a regeneration coma. In the Avuthene tribe, a young, rambunctious man called Talyse (Tal-ee-seh) has been pushing to rebuild the city after years of seemingly empty promises to do so by the leading Magi, as the Magi are quite hesitant knowing the outcome of the previous attempt to fulfill the prophesy. He has grown a following and tensions are increasing among the leading Magi, both due to Talyse's presence and the increased Flannothe sightings. The Avuthene and Night Choir initiated conflict after over a century due to the death of an Avuthene man to Flannoth. The war is ongoing, and has had currently 3 major battles.

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