Brief history of Anharth



Creation

Before time began, before life existed, five white Spirits known as the White Roses descended from a distant place upon the chaos that was the Land. These five Spirits were females whose names were Reloime, dominant of Time, Foralin, the provider of Power, Aelownia, the giver of Life, Molanore the the giver of Knowledge and Dystin, the controller of Destiny. The White Roses each infused the land of Anharth and its surroundings future kingdoms with their own powers. Reloronas with her unknown source she established Time and the first seconds of existence began. With Time created, the Sun, the Twin Moons and the Stars were hanged on the Heavens. Foralin, with her strong arms, created the earth shaping it at her own pleasure. Aelownia blew on the earth and created the beings that would walk the earth, fly in the sky, and swim in the waters. Among them were the humans which requirement to live was to have a soul. The second blow made vegetation to grow also from the earth as well as water to flow on rivers, to be stuck in lakes or to present their width as oceans. Molanore, with her brilliance, touched each creatures and life created and gave them the spirit of law to think, to reason, to communicate and to search for more as well as the laws of the Universe, science and wizardry. The last step was in the hands of Dystin which she wrote the lives of every single life on the Land and gave each a destiny and a purpose to live, not only to those created at that time, but also to the future lives of the Land.

As soon as their labor was completed, they ordered to all races to build a cathedral in their honor for the White Roses remembrance. Upon its completion, the White Roses departed leaving behind a power that controls all. This power, a bodiless soul of uncontainable control which belong the sixth Spirit, came to be known as the Key of Death. It serves to have control over any living thing with the power of death under the wielder’s hands. The Cathedral and its surroundings land came to be known as the Realm of Purity located somewhere in the Heavens. The Key of Death was giving to a powerful sorceress named Galahra and it will be her who will keep it safe on the Cathedral. She then appointed her sisters, the Seven Guardian Witches powers to help her in the rule of the Land.

Centuries passed when an evil life form desire the Key of Death for his own. His name was Erebos, the most powerful long-living sorcerer of all time. With his Dark Thauma, he invaded the Land with darkness and chaos after the creation of the Black Souls, an army of dark creatures. This dark sorcerer attempted the life of many just to obtain the Key, so Galahra separate the humans who were the weakest of all races as well as the biggest and gathered the remaining to battle against Erebos and his dark army. The war was set on the Land. Erebos managed to enter the Cathedral and take the Key, but the war was won by Galahra who with her thauma sealed Erebos in a fortress underground and took the Key from him before he could of use it. But survivors of the Black Souls managed to break the seal of the fortress and freeing Erebos with an enormous earthquake that brought the fortress to the surface. Erebos live in hiding planning to obtain the Key in that way.

One of the White Roses, Dystin knew the future for she wrote it so she spoke to Galahra and told her to put her soul on the Cathedral and to take the Key of Death for her for she has proven to the White Roses her loyalty. That way, if evil managed to enter the Realm of Purity, they will not find the Key of Death, but instead they’ll find Galahra’s soul.

Aware of the easy access to the Cathedral, Galahra and the Seven Guardian Witches decided to block the way with a literal key that was put on an orb in the ruins of the Fortress which with the help of the Elves they rebuild and sealed the Room of the Gateway with a wall that camouflaged with the outer walls of the outer room (although is identify with a symbol of the Key of Death on top) only to be opened with the Seven Souls of the Guardian Witches.

Ages passed and the Land created its own government. The races live together with their own laws, but with good relations with one another. The humans became the most influential race for they were the biggest in number in the entire Land. But many difference made the Land shattered in kingdoms dividing in the way the Land. The story of the Key of Death and the Cathedral were told and retold around the Land generation to generation and many desire it although legends says that the only way of getting it is through the Gateway that a key opens. Many knew it was impossible.

The Fortress of the Gateway was found by the race of murgans, mixture of men and elf. This discovery brought many to it and all try to open it, but none succeeded. The murgans claimed that land theirs, but the humans of that kingdom where the Fortress was located rejected them and the Omber Civil War uproar. The murgans lost it and the few that survived escape and spread around. Only time and nature rule upon the Fortress for it was destroyed. Fortunately, a forest grew on the debris and the Orb that holds the Key of the Gateway was hugged by a tree who accepted its dwelling on its inside.

On the west of the Land, five brothers who it says that fell from the sky, established five cottages and made friendship with the habitants of the western kingdom of Valdom. The five Molkan Brothers wanted a different kingdom for Valdom was a corrupted one. They gathered people that were against Valdomian rule and they began to build houses of rock. But it wasn’t until the construction of a castle that the newly kingdom was recognize. The Molkan Brothers hired Opolm Fombra and he design a city on the skirts of Molkan Castle. The city was builded within three years and it was named Fombra, after its designer. The new kingdom was established and it was named Anharth. No-one cared, not even Valdom who knew they were all it people for the kingdom was too small.

Years later, the half of the race of the Thaumocs, wizards and witches, rebelled against all living beings with the thoughts of being superior from all races. The other half thought differently, wanting peace with everyone, so the Thaumocian Wars began lasting an entire year. The consequence of this war were earthquakes and drifts that reshape in small manner the Land creating mountain range, hollowed lakes and creating or disappearing islands as well as decontrolling the climate. The war was only stopped by a powerful wizard who treated with each groups and made peace between them. This wizard was known as Osber and Galahra and the Seven Witches reward him for his peace treaty among them.

Due to the massive destruction caused by the Thaumocs, one of the races that use thaumas, which assembles to humans, a group of men decided to create an organization that will put order and control around the Land. Named the Commission of Laws and Old Magic (C.L.O.M.), this organization ordered a massacre of all magical creatures and living beings that deals with thauma. Elves, dwarves, Thaumocs (wizards and witches), dragons, krylocks, goblins, Murgans (mix of human and elf), and others were extinct from the face of the Land. A few of each group survived and live in hiding inside forests, caves and tall mountains. Many feared the Commission, led by men who thought their race was the purest of all. Only humans ruled the Land which came to be known later on as the Domain. They became the providers of food, materials and law example. Only three kingdoms affiliated to the Commission, but seeing that those affiliated kingdoms prospered and the others didn’t, the remaining ones decided to join it except for Valdom.

Then love came to Galahra. Both Osber and Galahra fell in love and decided to wedlock. Their lives were perfect until Osber discovers by the blindness of Galahra’s love that she holds inside of her the Key of Death and declares the plan that Dystin made. Osber, whose real identity is Erebos, made a plan to retrieve the Key. He betrayed her with one of her sisters, the Ruby Witch and she discovers him. The pain that she felt made the two sisters fight with one another on the top of Halasa Summit. Their fight ended with Galahra killing the Ruby Witch not before she cursed Galahra to death too. Both sisters died, but only Galahra’s body turned into a pile of sand. Erebos who watched the fight and knowing the right thauma, he took out the Key of Death from the pile of sand that was before Galahra. The remaining six witches were not aware of everything, so they build a small fortress and put the body of the Ruby Witch inside which became her tomb. But everyone ignored the pile of sand. The small pile began to spread and to spread until it covered the entire Morsara Kingdom bringing its death. A desert was created. Galahra reappear but with a body made of sand learning that the desert was her body. Her powers were weak, but she managed to put timing to the Curse her sister put on her which consisted of spreading the sand that is her body around the Land. With grief she lived inside the Ruby Witch’s Tomb (which was sunken) and never came out until the Curse unfolds on the established time.

While Galahra dwells on the tomb, unable to do nothing, Erebos killed five of the six remaining witches. The Emerald Witch escaped and disappeared. Erebos took the six souls and began to search for the seventh, which was on the Emerald one, as he declared war against everyone. Knowing that he managed to find the Key of Death, all living being surrender to him and he raised the Black Souls and took over the Land turning it in total darkness, terror and chaos. On the eve of extermination of mankind knowing that no-one can’t defeat Erebos, the White Roses descend and fought against him which he obviously lost after Dystin snatched the Key of Death from him.

Peace returned to the Land and its reconstruction once again began. Dystin, knowing that can’t be returned to the Cathedral for Erebos has the six souls of the witches, decided to hide once more the Key. She entrusted the purest man of that time who was curiously King Odus, king of Anharth and told him her plan. Dystin will wield the Key inside of her as she becomes human and live normally among Anharth while the King lies to the world saying that the White Rose Dystin entrusted the Key to him and future kings. Many believed King Odus and his descents. Anharth grew stronger and prosper in all ways. Many feared Anharth and taking that chance, King Odus conquered land from Valdom for his kingdom. Since then, Valdom had become its loyal enemy. After these events, Anharth ask for independence from the Commission which was granted for they feared to be killed by the King who had the Key. Anharth became the only kingdom, with Valdom, that provided themselves with food and materials.

Meanwhile, Dystin established a pact saying that Key of Death will be passed through generations in only females as a soul of her descents. She got married and had a daughter and the Key was passed to her. She search for men who had pure hearts and she established the Order of the White Rose. She taught its first leader, Tevil Thornhorn, all her knowledge and white thauma and gave him a book with all teachings and knowledge about her descents. The only thing she missed saying on purpose was that every descent will have the Key of Death as their soul.

The Black Souls rose many times in history, but they were always defeated by the Order who hide their true purpose with the mask of being a special thaumatic warrior groups on the services of Anharth Army to battle Black Souls whenever they rise. Erebos disappeared; no-one knew his whereabouts as well as the Emerald Witch, so everything remained in peace only for only a few moments of history.

At one of the rises of the Black Souls, a battle between them and the Order occurred in the Hael Fields. This battle caused a three-days storm, the creation of the Mountains of Winds and the course of the Great River of Elinor, longest in Anharth, was changed and flooded Fombra and the valley where it stand. Subsequently, the King of Anharth deactivated the Order of the White Roses and prohibited its reorganization for the rest of Anharth’s existence. The Order disbanded and the Black Souls didn’t rise for more than a decade.

The Royal Family of Anharth began to be killed by a Black Soul infiltrated who was one of the members of the Family. Farms and crops were being burned by dragons and the economy in Anharth went to the abyss. At the Festival of the Stars, dragons attacked Fombra led by Bolthron, once prince of Anharth and new leader of the Black Souls.

On the following months, the Ogres that lived on a separated land on the south of Anharth, rebelled against them after they thought that their queen was killed by orders of King. These caused that the Ogre War occurred in the south of Fombra. The War was won after they discovered that the Black Souls were behind it, although they suffered a lot of damages.

The Queen of Anharth betrayed the King after stabbing him for she was a Valdomian spy. The decision of the next ruler was taken by the ill king.

The Order decided to reorganize in hiding and after they discovered that the Princess of Anharth was the descent of Dystin and she had a twin brother a soldier of the Army who may share the powers of Destiny who Dystin became to be known. But the Order discovered the truth about them. The boy was the wielder of the powers of Destiny and not the girl which was established by Dystin herself that only females will have it.

Galahra Desert began to spread around Anharth and Omber. Thanks to the descent of Destiny that sands of the desert stop the curse that the Ruby Witch gave her and Galahra was put into a sleep for not a long time. In the confrontation with Galahra, the boy learned the background of Galahra.

Valdom, under the control of the traitor queen that stabbed her husband the King of Anharth, and the use of the Ogres, conquered Anharth and Fombra fell under their hands. The Order of the White Rose prepare the boy to battle Valdom and the Commission who also took control and finished Bolthron and the Black Souls that are behind the conquest of Anharth. On the battle, the boy discovers that the true mastermind of everything was Erebos himself living in hiding as the personal assistant of the King of Anharth. The boy manage to destroy and kill Erebos forever for he discover that he had the Key of Death.

Galahra wakes up from her slumber, and tells him the story from the beginning and ask him to return the Key of Death to her, although she mentioned that he will die. But before he died, the leader of the Order of the White Roses was killed months ago and his friend saved his soul for the boy because he was aware of his situation. So Galahra put the man’s soul on the boy and she took the Key of Death back. Her body returned to normal and she went back to the Heavens and talked to Dystin to return the Key back to the Cathedral. The White Roses agreed.