03-08-2016, 09:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-08-2016, 09:14 PM by DM Surranó.)
[OOC - well my assumption was that "kind of" calls out for a background that has roots in Faerun... this way may be a bit more challenging, hook-wise...]
Toot realised the celestial body that rose is known as the Red Sun. Its light is as beneficial to plants, animals and all living beings as that of the White Sun. The Cosmology as Toot knows describes them as twin stars orbiting around each other, with Kyralion caught right in the focal point. There are six seasons in Kyralion:
White Summer. The power of the white sun is stronger but there are no true nights because the Red Sun rises before the White would set and the other way around too.
White Autumn. The power of White diminishes and Red rises sooner and sooner. There are short nights, up to four hours of darkness, between Red sunset and White sunrise.
Red Spring. The power of Red increases and nights get shorter until once again, Red sets no sooner than White rises.
Red Summer. The power of Red is at its highest but there are no true nights as the White, weakest as it is, rises before Red sets.
Red Autumn. Red loses power and nights get longer as White sets before Red rises.
White Spring. White regains power and nights get shorter.
The seasons are thirty days each with a year being 180 days total.
It is now the second tenday of White Autumn.
The Red Sun is shunned by many as the superstitious think that it enhances the powers of necromancy and the magics of the redhead high elves. Speaking of elves, they are rumoured to be the social kind, yet Toot had to meet the first of the species. According to Landgrave there are six subraces of elves in Kyralion (as this land is named after its original natives):
The fairest and most social light elves.
The fiercest grey elves.
The haughty and essentially evil high elves of flowing red hair
The nature-loving black elves that are often mistaken to drow who shun the light of both Suns.
And the cursed Thessalonian elves that are actually half-humans though they claim to be fully elven.
The Thessalonian claim is incredibly ridiculous considering that elves of Kyralion are known to be no higher than gnomes and Thessalonian are actually much closer to humans in height.
The former natives; or Kyralls, are even less frequent sight on this part of the world. Now withdrawn to their island kingdom that lies southeast of Kyralion it's much harder to find the magic-wielding; the religious; or the guardian types. The few are said to live in the Tower of Shembar the Multi-faced; aspiring to become the most talented magi of the continent in the hardest school of the surface; or so they say about Shembar's tower.
The Grand Master of Wizards, Hierophant Beyond Ages, Master of All Weapons and who knows how many titles are stuck upon Shembar the Multi-faced, is told to be over five centuries old. Some say he has angelic or other immortal origins. Others say he was once a man like anyone else but rose through the ranks of druids until he reached, and eventually surpassed, the rank of the Grand Druid; the sole leader of the entire druidic older throughout the known world and possibly beyond. However, once he resigned from this position, he turned to wizardry and is now known to be the most powerful wizard of all mortal realms. Of course, Landgrave told his own version of this legend to Toot as part of his usual lessons and it was hard to make out what the elderly druid really believed from the tall stories.
As Toot got this far in his contemplations he realised that the thorn protruding from the back of Mother Earth could be no other than Shembar's Tower, said to be thousands of feet high. Was it possible to approach the school of such a powerful high wizard without proper invitation? Was it a lethal hazard? Toot had no memory of this aspect.
Toot realised the celestial body that rose is known as the Red Sun. Its light is as beneficial to plants, animals and all living beings as that of the White Sun. The Cosmology as Toot knows describes them as twin stars orbiting around each other, with Kyralion caught right in the focal point. There are six seasons in Kyralion:
White Summer. The power of the white sun is stronger but there are no true nights because the Red Sun rises before the White would set and the other way around too.
White Autumn. The power of White diminishes and Red rises sooner and sooner. There are short nights, up to four hours of darkness, between Red sunset and White sunrise.
Red Spring. The power of Red increases and nights get shorter until once again, Red sets no sooner than White rises.
Red Summer. The power of Red is at its highest but there are no true nights as the White, weakest as it is, rises before Red sets.
Red Autumn. Red loses power and nights get longer as White sets before Red rises.
White Spring. White regains power and nights get shorter.
The seasons are thirty days each with a year being 180 days total.
It is now the second tenday of White Autumn.
The Red Sun is shunned by many as the superstitious think that it enhances the powers of necromancy and the magics of the redhead high elves. Speaking of elves, they are rumoured to be the social kind, yet Toot had to meet the first of the species. According to Landgrave there are six subraces of elves in Kyralion (as this land is named after its original natives):
The fairest and most social light elves.
The fiercest grey elves.
The haughty and essentially evil high elves of flowing red hair
The nature-loving black elves that are often mistaken to drow who shun the light of both Suns.
And the cursed Thessalonian elves that are actually half-humans though they claim to be fully elven.
The Thessalonian claim is incredibly ridiculous considering that elves of Kyralion are known to be no higher than gnomes and Thessalonian are actually much closer to humans in height.
The former natives; or Kyralls, are even less frequent sight on this part of the world. Now withdrawn to their island kingdom that lies southeast of Kyralion it's much harder to find the magic-wielding; the religious; or the guardian types. The few are said to live in the Tower of Shembar the Multi-faced; aspiring to become the most talented magi of the continent in the hardest school of the surface; or so they say about Shembar's tower.
The Grand Master of Wizards, Hierophant Beyond Ages, Master of All Weapons and who knows how many titles are stuck upon Shembar the Multi-faced, is told to be over five centuries old. Some say he has angelic or other immortal origins. Others say he was once a man like anyone else but rose through the ranks of druids until he reached, and eventually surpassed, the rank of the Grand Druid; the sole leader of the entire druidic older throughout the known world and possibly beyond. However, once he resigned from this position, he turned to wizardry and is now known to be the most powerful wizard of all mortal realms. Of course, Landgrave told his own version of this legend to Toot as part of his usual lessons and it was hard to make out what the elderly druid really believed from the tall stories.
As Toot got this far in his contemplations he realised that the thorn protruding from the back of Mother Earth could be no other than Shembar's Tower, said to be thousands of feet high. Was it possible to approach the school of such a powerful high wizard without proper invitation? Was it a lethal hazard? Toot had no memory of this aspect.
