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Danelia; Protostory by me and Georgije Marinkovic
Topic Started: Jun 13 2007, 11:04 AM (327 Views)
Sigfried
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This prologue and background story was made 5 years ago by me and Georgije Marinkovich, AKA Karl Georg. We worked together to make this story, but he died soon after we finished this prologue, afterwards i havent made anything about it until i found the file recently, so what do you think about?? ((take notice we worked on it many years ago, and with age i learned much more than its present in the prologue,
so obviously im gonna polish it more when i have more time, and also its a copy paste, so there may be some errors, i edited as much as i can, but he sure fast typed, a lot)):

[size=7]Chapter 1
Geography
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About Danelia generaly.About it’s geography,and constitution of it’s surface.About it’s past in generally.


Planet Danelia was formed few thousand years ago by the God of the unknown name,known as Omnicreator.First the Omnicreator created two lesser gods, and gave them half of his powers. Then He invoked Danelia, the only planetary system in the universe. After, He has dissapeared from the universe He has created and went to create other universes. Two Gods lived in peace during a long period of time but then one of them wanted to became greater, more powerfull and mightiest in the universe. But the other God did not alowed him to become that.And so broke the first great war. Of course,people of Danelia fought on each sides but from that time it is little known. The only thing known for certan is that the evil God was banished from the existance in great exsplosion that has destroyed every living creature on Danelia.But the good God was also weakened and by his last will he renewed Danelia,and gave it Life Essence, one of five elements needed to create life. And so,the new race came to Danelia,the new world, regenerated from the death desert it was. Now Danelia had three continenst and one archipellago,full of live.

The greatest continent known in the beginning as Asthenia,has 900 leagues from east to west and about 600 leagues from north to south.In it’s middle lies the greatest mountine in Danelia,now known as Mt.Elena. From it on all sides there are slopes to the great valley,with three rivers: Edviga,Moena end Urca. On the east of continent lies the Escarpa peninsula with the Mt.Escarpa.And also on the south-east there lies th mountine range of Doclea,much steeper then the others on this continent. Five different Civilizations appeared in Asthenia(see History Chapter).

The next continent by size is Quiridan,in elder days known as Gertz-Howes, which means Green pastures in the elder language.It is somewhat less then Asthenia.It has 550 leagues from north-south,and about the same from east to west.As It’s name says,it was the richest continent in life forms and civilizations,but terrible things happened later,and this beauty part of land is transformed into endless bog,and it’s peoples are enslaved by The Enemy.

The third and the smallest continent is Dacaan, the desert, unfertile land with no water. It’s people are savage and speak not any of known languages to any other people in Danelia.

The Archipelago,or Antilian Islands,are small group of islands made by volcano activity when the Danelia was regenerated. They are mostly rocky and unfertile so dwelers had no choice but to fish for food. And so they became the sea people.

[size=7]Chapter 2
History of Danelia
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About Danelian nations, about each of them.

As it is said in the former chapter when good God gave it’s life to wounded Danelia he has not died but became one with the land. Unfortunate thing is that the same happened with the evil God,and so their struggle begin again.
On the surface,the first people appeared and they all count their years from the moment of Creation. On Asthenia there were five different cultures and each of them was independent. They were:
Thuerlan
Fed
Escarpia
Urcladia
Morinos.

Thuerlan was feudal monarchy,with it’s capital city Arun.It has been built in 1500 after Creation(AC). With the dynasty of noble kings they were the mightiest kingdom on Danelia at that time. Their religion was mostly naturalistic.
Fed nad Escarpia were teocratic (Teos.greek for God;Cratia.greek for Rule)
monarchies that worshipped two moons of Danelia with the high priests on their throne.

Urcladia was the kingdom of norhtern parts of Asthenia,mainly dedicated to science and arts. Their capital of Moen-Urc bear it’s name for the two rivers of their kingdom. They worshipped the spirits of rivers and forests.King was the head of state.

Morinos was also the kingdom on the western border of Asthenia,on the shore of Eternal Sea. Their capital Morinos,was the masterpeace of architecture of that time. King,with the help of the high priest as a councelor was the head of the state.
There were never wars among these lands until the year of 1605 AC. That year king of Morinos,Eklar II married queen Edviga of Thuerlan,daughter of king Loth.The unification of these two lands is known as Grand Union and it was the beginning of great misfortunes for the Asthenia.

Seeing the unification of the two western lands Fed and Escarpia belived that these events will destroy stability in Asthenia and they formed an alliance that both priests signed: Orodric of Escarpia and Umaveric of Fed. After the aliance has being signed the preparations for war were made. It lased for 19 years,and during that time many things changed on the west. King Eklar and queen Edviga got a son they named Roak the same year they married (1605 AC). But two years after king Eklar died in the hunt,from the arrow of the uncarefull archer. But the young boy grew and he was like his father in strenght. It was his 19th when Eastern Alliance declared war on them and he went to war personaly leading the army. Negotations with king Boyeric of the Urcladia were successful and young Roac got help in the army with the two armed corpuses of the Urcladia.

Roac marched into Fed passing through the southern pass of Doclea range where he won his first battle,while his ally,king Boyeric kept the norhtern pass from Escarpia.
After two more smashing victories young King Roak entered into the city of Fed,capital of the Fed theocracy. But soon he got news that the great army under the personal leadership of high priest Orodric is closing to the city of Fed.

Roak gathered his troops and waited the Escarpian troops near the city of Saa,on the slopes of the northern Doclea. It was the bloodiest battle in history,when 500000 soldiers under the Orodric attacked 250000 soldiers of Roak,and were slaughtered remorceleslly. Now nothing stood in the way to Roak to march into the city of Escarpia and slowly,his army advanced toward it. The cities surendered one by one as his army approached. And soon without a battle he entered into capital of Escaripa. There the peace was concluded,under the folowing terms: The kingdoms of Escarpia and Fed are anecting to the great western kingom of the united Morinos and Thuerlan. And now came the greatest supprise: King Boyeric proposed marriage to Roak with his daughter Elena, accepting the unification of his kingom with all other kingdoms in Asthenia.

It was a great celebration when marriage was held in the Holy Wood. There the new kingom was called: The Union of Five States or simply The Union.
But the problem now was how to feed many people in many parts of country. Many had died in battle,and king was returning with his wife to his capital Edviga,city built by his mother,when he saw some strange flags in front of the entrance of his castle. When he entered it was explained to him that the Great Council of Antalian Republic wishes to speak with him and that he is waiting here almost a year. Soon,the diplomatic state was created and king Roak agreed to alow trade with Antalian Republic.Soon no man in his kingdom was hungry.

Antalian Archipelago lies on the south south-east of Asthenia,and it is a republic by it’s constitution. It consists of 29 islands from which one is the greatest and it is called the Capital island with the capital city of Antalos.It’s government consists of Senat which has 30 seats in the main chamber.Every island sends it’s reprezentative,only the Capital island sends two.Now,every decision must pass through Senat if it is to be alowed in public.The chief of state is Council which is chosen for every 5 years.

In the early years of it’s existence Antalia was a confederate monarchy and every island was on it’s own. But soon people saw that they have not posses all needed goods if live so separately and formed first the trade confederacy and later the republic. They were good mariners and they explored the Sea of emptiness,and named it so,for they found no island in it. Then they turned to the south and disovered the new continent they called Adversos-The land on the South.Soon the first base was established:Syr Antalos-the New Antalos.But they discovered that continent is nothing more but the desert inhabitated with some strange people whose language they could not understood. They tried to trade with those people but they evaded every contact with settlers. Then Antalians discovered that the desert have something very valuable in it’s sand - ruined cities full of strange mashines and many other things they could not unerstood.But one night the city of Syr Antalos was attacked with fire and thunders and many people died. This provoked the Senat to declare war upon the Adversos inhabitants. The great fleet of the finest ships set sailed on a journey with no return. No one has ever discovered what happened to them. Then they tried with the army but when they would approach to border of sand,soldiers would die with no cause. Soon the city of Syr Antalos war rebuilded and new setlers came. Never again has any of them steped into a desert and never again has any inhabitant attacked colony of Syr Antalos.

A few years after that a sailor named Hano,has sailed to the north,and soon discovered a new land which he salled: Uversos-the land on the North;but soon he sailed into a harbour where he found people different than Antalians. He stayed there for two years,learned a language,and discovered that he is in the harbour of Kalion,the south city of The Grand Union,and that the king is on the military campain in the east.After that Hano sailed back to his homeland, informed Senat about his discovery,and returned once again to the continent of Asthenia,but this time with Council as a reprezentative of the republic. They waited a full year until king has returned to his capital and negotate about trade agreement that will help to both countries.

Now better relationships were conecting two lands.Anthalians imported:wine, grapes,honey,silk,iron,copper,gold,silver,and food from The Union and exported: skins,pearles,cheese,fish,milk,marble,jewls and dye. The richness flew through the sea trade and both countries were pleased.

The Roak soon got a son,Selvast. But the happines lasted shortly,for his beloved wife died shortly after the prince was born. The King lived ten years more and died from sadness in his 34. The prince Selvast,now king Selvast,was crowned and proclamed as King 8 years after in his 18 (1647 AC). Until then the Kingdom was ruled by the council of ten greatest noblemans in country.But soon after his coronation the young King proved himslef worthy son of his father.He built for himslef a new capital: Selvastion,on the junction on Edviga river,and changed the name of the Kingdom into Selvastia. His capital was amaizing,but his reforms were even greater. He devided Kingdom into five parts by their historical tradition: Thuerlan,Morinos,Urcladia,Escarpia, and Fed.

Those provinces were govorned by five Dukes,each in capital city of province. The economy florished as a result of these decentralization,and people lived happily and peacefully. King Selvast lived 75 years and died leaving his son Roak II on the trhone of Selvastia.

The Eternal Sea and Sea of Emptiness represented the end of the world for centuries. Nobody thought that the Danelia was round.And so,under such conditions the continent of Quiridan was left to his own.

In the beginning itself,it was a glorius land,with green pastures full of cattle,sheeps and goats,with steep mountine ranges that hold iron ore in it’s breasts,with rich sea full of fish. And so the people prospered. They were monarchy with king as head of the state.But one day the queen Kereboza,gave birth to a child.It was named Razor,later called The Foolish. Although he was smart and clever in childhood,he easily fell under the influence of councelors and dukes.He took throne in his 22,and ruled without any problems until he was 25.

That year (it was 1568 AC),a strange man appeared in Gertz-Howes (their name for Quiridan). It is said that he came down from the Central mountine (on which king Razor,wanted to build his city,apparently it was a dead volcano). Soon he got kings thrust and became main councelor and king’s chamberlain.

With every passing day his power on court has risen,and one day (1570 AC) he killed the unfortunate king and proclamed himself Emperor. He built castle in the throat of volcano. It is said that this castle was more underground than overground.Soon under his tyranic rule,once fertile land has transformed into soilless bog.The people were banished from homes and forced to live in bogs.

He opened many mines and began constructing a great army. His soldiers were deamons from the core of Danelia.He was reincarnation of Evil God. On border islands he built fortresses and began exploring the Eastern ocean. He created a great navy in the Dark waters armed with heavy catapults and balistas.

A whole two centuries,these explorations have lasted,until in 1763 his sailors reached the shores of Selvastia,and entered into the harbour of Nordstroma. They represented themselves to king Elric I,as sailors from the far west,and wished to trade.But in secrecy they spied the defences and returning to Quiridan informed the Evil God-Rauroq (who is still live,for he is immortal) about their discovery. And so the conspiracy has begun.But they didn’t know that king Elric is son of Selvast II the son of Roak II the son of Selvast I the son of Roak I the son of Eklar,who was descendant from the ancient guardian from the times now forgoten and wrapped in the mist of past that coveres entire history of Danelia from everyone but the Rauroq,the Evil God.
An so the struggle begins…

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Very nice Sig. Apart from some spelling it seems quite good. It has a very Norse feel to it.
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