Immindru

It was the Year 535 by the calendar of Man that a third race was placed by the gods upon the Lamarian Plane, and the name *Tallmaya* was found upon them. A mist of green descended upon the forests in the east and cloaked the trees, trees of red, brown and golden, in a fog so utterly impassable that from then on out the very things it touched were imbued emerald. And when the mist lifted, the leaves of the trees shone not the colours of dying embers, but of jade, pine, and fern, and so were the trees were named by the new peoples.

## Immindru the Benevolent

An entity came to the skies from a distant land, and with it brought unsolicited peoples to threaten those of Men and Dhaarls. Like mother over children, Aela swept out to greet the challenger and protect the Plane that had stolen a piece of her heart. From the Plane, over the heads of Man and Dhaarl, the sky flashed white and crimson as the two clashed.

But so it was that the new entity bested Aela, and threw her down upon an eastern mountain, where she lay wounded, unable to move or fight. And against the pantheon’s peoples the entity turned his own race, the Vande. And the Vande grew to live to be cruel for the purpose of denouncing all that Aela stood for, and into them the entity instilled a thrill for bloodletting. They built temples called skrykers, in which were found the skyking beds. But then they discovered to the west the dhaarls in Nordsondre, and they fed them to their skrykers. And for a century, the sky was red.

And the pantheon quailed at the being who had bested their queen, and they retreated back from the Plane, and for a while even Man and Dhaarl were alone at the mercy of the Vande. But into the chaos came Immindru to the top of Aela's mountain, and for a time he protected and tender to her, enshrouding he against harm.

It wasn't until he red bled away from the skies and once more blue shone through the cracks like a long forgotten scent of home that he allowed his recovering queen to return back to her kin in the Heavenlands. And isolating a corporeal pride of his endeavours and service he came down upon the forests at the foot of the mountainside and set about giving Lamaria a greater guard, a further defence of peoples so deeds like those to pass may never come again. And as he set to place his first, the moon came overhead, the fullmoon seen not in Lamaria for over a hundred years, and he cried beneath it, for it was sheer beauty.

## The Growing of the Tallmaya

With pride and will, Immindru places Laquandae the First, the father of Tallmaya. Laquandae is free to walk the forest Immindru has given him and culture it to grow. He was the most powerful of all the tallmaya, and some even consider him a god, for great powers from the empyrean he received.

He took a seed from the forest and brought it to the sacred springs atop Aela’s throne. There he soaked it under the full cycle of the moon so it could see in the blessed stream every moon to shine upon it, and capture each of their lights. And then when the moon was full, on the Immindru Moon, he planted the seed, and watered it every Immindru Moon with a drop of his own blood, imbuing it with the powers invested in himself. And thus the tree began to grow, and quicker, and greater, and stronger than all the others it was.

## The Pillar of Immindru

By the Year 622 Immindru felt it time enough to leave his peoples, and erected the first of the Pillars as a beacon should anything similar happen again on Lamaria. Ostre and Velgen followed suit in later years, and each gave their peoples a Pillar.