“Here, drink this.” Soleira said as she offered a bowl of stew to the gaunt looking man. He had come from some place north together with his family. All of them looked exhausted. The plague had torn through them. Luckily his son, daughter, wife and grandmother were already looking better. As Soleira helped up the man she put her other arm on his back to support him. From her hand a golden light glowed for just a moment. It looked like how any other Oraeliari would heal someone. Except she cured the plague as well.

“Thank you.” The man said in between a few coughs, before he greedily devoured the meat stew. A necessity, but Soleira didn’t like it. Still, the people and even her own kin that came to her had to regain their strength. At least the people were happy to consume more meat. When Soleira was sure the man could hold himself upright she let him go. Soon the bowl was placed beside him and he went to sleep again. But Soleira was already upon the next patient. She gave her a bowl as well, while she cured the ravaging disease that was seemingly spreading throughout the colorful realm. People had seemingly come from all wind directions. Seeking the four-winged Oraeliari that could cure their illness.

Of course Soleira considered a great honor. To fight this horrible disease in the name of the Sun-mother Oraeliara. Who else would’ve blessed her to cure it? Though she wished others would be blessed with the same powers. At times it felt like too much to bear. To heal the sick and tired until deep into the night. But she couldn’t flatter now. The plague wouldn’t. So while she started looking equally tired as those she healed, she pushed on. Healing human, Oraeliari and even Neiyari that would come seeking to cure their illness. She gladly helped them all.

“My Queen!” Someone standing in the sick hall’s doorway said. Though Soleira didn’t need to look up to know who it was. The sharpness of his voice and the sudden sensation of dread that flowed over her told her everything she needed to know about who stood in the doorframe. “Something is coming from the south. Our scouts… we don’t know what it is.” There was something unfamiliar in his voice. Something Soleira never heard before.

She looked up to look at him. Nolari was always looking as if he was suppressing some great anger. As if he just saw his greatest hatred. He was also young. Born by Neiyari parents, not by the sun-mother herself. But now there was something else in his expression. “What’s the matter?” Soleira asked as she got up. Those helping the sick let her pass as she walked towards Nolari.

“We don’t know. I’ve never seen anything like it. Like, it’s a mountain in the air.” Nolari said, and Soleira recognized the other expression. Fear.

She remained calm though. She walked out with him and indeed, off in the far southern distance was a blot of blackness. Something deeply contrasting the multicolored clouds and bright sun. It was far still, but coming closer. If it had come this close though, the birds would’ve investigated it already. Some of them were flying over the floating stone and earth. Though none dove down. Put at ease she dismissed Nolari. If the birds didn’t attack then it was no threat. Still, it was a curious sight. With her eyes still on the floating island she walked over towards Kal’s small hovel. Bushes of strange berries were growing near his front door. They had grown fast. Very fast. One berry wouldn’t be too bad right, she thought. So she picked one and ate it. Making sure to spit the seed out in her hand and pocketed it the little seed bag she kept on her at all time. The berry was delicious! And so filling. Like she had just eaten a full meal! Quite satisfied she knocked on Kal’s door and entered.

The old man was packing. He looked up, momentarily surprised to see Soleira standing there. “Yes?” He asked.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to intrude.” Soleira said. Usually she was free to come in whenever. “There’s something coming for us in the sky. Like an floating island. I was wondering if you knew anything about it?”

“Ah… is it time already?” He opened the window to look outside. “Seems like old age really has made me slow. I’m afraid today is our last day, my dear. I must go. There are other places that will need me.”

“Wait, you’re leaving!?” Soleira exclaimed. “Why are you telling me this only now!? I-I need your help! How else am I going to make Soleras as great as we both want it to be?” She said in disbelief. “Please, stay a few days more. Just so I can prepare a feast! You can’t leave without a feast. I-I forbid it! As your queen I forbid it!”

But Kal just gave her an apologetic smile as he got u and threw his sack of his shoulder and picked up the gnarled staff. “It’s okay, my dear. You’ll do amazing without me. But I’m not yet leaving. Come, let’s go outside and see what this is all about a floating island.” The old man stepped passed Soleira into the sunlight of the Luminant. A bit meekly she followed him.

“Please don’t go.” She pleaded quietly. “I really need you. I can’t do this alone.”

Kal turned to face her. “Yes, you can. You were already leading the humans here before I came along. I just… gave you the right push. I’m sure that without me you’ll still make Soleras into the greatest place on this planet.” He said with a reassuring tone. “But come now. We shouldn’t tarry. Not today. Oh not today.” Kal then said with an almost uncharacteristic enthusiasm. “Oh and be sure you bring one of the rainbow eyed people. You will need them from now on.”
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Three hours later everyone was gathered further outside the burgeoning village of Soleras. Standing in untouched plains. The floating island was now looming overhead. Now that it was close, Soleira could see the full size of it. It was so much bigger than she thought it was! I threw them all in a dark, slightly colder shadow. “Do you hear something from it ,Kaïon?” She asked the Servant standing beside her. He had the rainbow eyes underneath his closed eyelids.

“There’s something.” He said as he tried to understand the kindred consciousness touching upon his. “It’s not human for sure. It growls but now in anger. I can hear clicks and clacks as well. Whatever is trying to talk it’s thinking in more than just another language. Whatever it is… I never heard it before.”

Kal was just smiling as he looked. He was looking at it as if he was just about to meet an old friend again. The fact that he wasn’t concerned put Soleira a bit on ease. Perhaps the island would just float over and that would be it? Though she doubted it. Kal didn’t gather people until it was important. Everyone was holding their breath and looking up as well. So almost everyone missed the old man tapping his staff three times on the ground. In front of them great roots burst through the ground. The quake knocked people over. Oraeliari and those few Neiyari that kept mostly to themselves still took to the air. Soleira remained standing, finding her balance quickly as she grabbed Kal to steady the old man as well. Above the giant roots coil around each other. Forming a titanic, twisted tree reaching out towards the island. Where the roots released from each other. Soleira could see each coil around the island and drill through it. When finally the ground stopped shaking, the tree spawned looked more like an arm outstretched from the ground. With its hand holding the island in place.

“What just happened?” A very frightened Soleira asked Kal, who still looked with bemusement at what just happened.

The old man looked the right in the eyes when he said: “The gifts are coming.”

Before the four-winged Oraeliari could even think about the strange thing her old friend had just said, light fell from the island and hit the ground beneath. When the blinding light finally dissipated several things stood in the field that hadn’t just a moment ago. They were large. Larger than the average human. They looked lizard like, with hard, dry scales. Wearing nothing but a loincloth.

Everyone armed raise their weapons. The few talented mages that Soleira or Kal had trained readied the spells on their tongues. The creatures before them growled something, and one of them stepped forward. Another series of lights fell down from the island. Once again forming the lizard-like creatures. Except for one. Instead of a lizard, this creature looked like a massive toad standing on hits hindlegs. When it appeared it immediately began to speak in a low, baritone grumbling language. Saying things Soleira couldn’t ever repeat. One of the lizard creatures – one that shared the same rainbow eyes as Kaïon – closed his eyes. Kaïon, having fallen by the quake first looked confused. They his eyes grew wide. He turned to look at Soleira.

“It’s.. greeting you. As Queen.” He said. “No… not just as Queen. It’s calling… There’s something else. I can’t- I don’t understand. The intentions its using with the words. It doesn’t make sense.” But then Kal stepped over to Kaîon and put a hand on his shoulder. “Daughter.” He whispered to the man. Who took a moment and then nodded. “Daughter of magic. It called you daughter of magic.”

“Magic?” Soleira said. She then turned towards the lizards and the bulbous, bipedal toad. “I’m sorry, you must be mistaken.” She said out loud. Kaïon beside her was quick to translate the words towards the other Servant. “I’m a daughter of the sun but… but not of magic.” More lights fell from the island above. Forming more lizards and toads.

The seven bulbous toads that had land so far let out a loud, deep throated rumble, before slowly bending over. Bowing before Soleira. The lizards kneeled and bowed as well. Kaïon looked up at Soleira. “They… insist. You are their queen now. Their god told them to come and that they would be grasped by a tree. When that happened, they were to step over the edge of their island at a specific point. They would land safely and find… and find the daughter of magic. That is what he is telling me.”

“there must be some mistake. I can barely use magic.” The pendant she wore opened up. It had happened a few times before. It somehow knew what it asked of it. But it reassured her, they were speaking the fullest of truth. Soleira looked around, then locked pleading eyes with Kal again.

He just shook his head. “It’s true.” He said. “I knew it the moment I saw you. You never asked why you’re the only of your kin that can perform magic? But it’s okay. I wa- I was told to leave you with a final few gifts.” He reached for within his pocket and took out the Grail. “First I offer you this. It’s an ancient gift. Something that will bless the people of Soleras with bounty beyond your imagining.” Soleira gingerly took the grail with both hands. Her body began to shake a little as tears began to well in her eyes. “And this is tome that will guide you. It contains all you need to know and more. How to build, how to farm, how to rule and how to improve your realm. It’s yours now.” Soleira took it as well. 

For a second she looked at the gifts in both her hands, and then at the lizards and toads. More were still falling as stars from the island. Then she turned to Kal. She hugged him as hard as she could as the first few tears began to fall. “I’ll miss you. I’ll miss you so, so much.”

Kal returned the embrace. Much how a father would embrace his daughter. “I will never be far. I promise you that.”
[hider=Summary]Soleira is healing the sick as she contemplates the plague. She’s offering them meat stew as well to help with the recovery. Something she’s not entirely fond of but realize she has to do for the good of the people. A neiyari disturbs her and says he saw something approaching in the skies.

Curious, Soleira goes to consult Kal. Though before she eats a houllin berry from the bush he was growing. Once she steps inside she finds him packing and tells him that something is coming from the south. He’s a bit surprised that it’s already here and says he is leaving. Soleira doesn’t take the news so well. She almost begs him to stay but he says he can’t.

A few hours later everyone who is anyone in Soleras is gathered in a field outside the village. The island now is massive, though luckily high up. The Servant that came along notes that there is a strange, inhuman consciousness trying to talk to him. Kal then taps the ground with his staff three times. From the ground massive roots coil around. Forming a gnarled tree that grabs and holds the islands in place. Then lights fall from the edge of the island and form Itzli and then also Eloxochitli. Through the Servants they explain that they’ve come as promised to swear loyalty to their queen, the daughter of magic. Kal proceeds to give her the Grail as well as a tome of Soleras.[/hider]

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[b]Qael’Naath Start:[/b] 5MP/5DP
- 2MP >> Create a titanic “island-sized” tree that grabs Xal-Zastarha in the air and anchors it.
- 2MP >> Create a teleporter between Xal-Zasterha and the field outside of Soleras
- 1MP, -1DP >> Create the enchanted tome of Soleras. Containing not just the knowledge to improve the realm but also magical teachings of Zephyrim and Nadir.
[b]Qael’Naath Start:[/b] 0MP/4DP
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[hider=Prestige]
[b]Post Length:[/b] +10K characters
+5 Prestige >> Kal
+5 Prestige >> Soleira
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