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There was a world lost in time called Midgard. It will soon enter a second dark age...
There was a world lost in time called Midgard. It was a world where many races lived together. Human, Elven, Drehul, and many others together. It was peace until a growing darkness started to rise. A dark being who calls himself the Tyrant (The Master) sends his Drakerns to attack the Kingdom of Iserhaus. Only Drew and his friends stand fast against the growing second Dark Age.


There was a world lost in time called Midgard. It was once a peaceful planet filled with joy and happiness. Honor and family was abundant across the world. It was before the humans and the Drehuls came. The race was called Midgardian. They were elven in appearance and created by their God, Freyr. He ruled over the Midgardians, taught them everything. Peace. Prosperity. Love. In return, they grew and prospered. They even scoured the skies with airships just so they could be with their lord. They even discovered the floating lands of Dusk. Those were the lands that appeared only twice in the midsummer's eve and four times during a full moon. Midgardians prospered for the next one hundred thousand years until one day they vanished. Died of an illness or turned to stone. No one knows. All the history stated was that they entered a period of what was called a Dark Age. That was when all known technology ceased to exist. Airships fell from the skies. Soon, the Midgardians vanished from all across the world and leaving only a trace of their ancient civilization. Ruins. Even the statues crafted out of stone and clay in their image across the grasslands and forests.

When the dark ages ended 900 years ago, the lands of Midgard was finally at peace. No one knew exactly how the darkness ended, but when it did, new Elven races popped up all across Midgard. Each one of them was divided into 8 different distinct specie. Each were of the Sky, mountains, caves, night, forest, Glacier, water and desert. They all were coexistent with each other. Survived through many harsh winters and long summers.

Eventually through time as each one of them grew, so did other races of Midgard that evolved. Tooks and Hulks evolved from a typical farmland pig known as the Snorts. However, they were the exact opposite. While the Tooks were short of about a meter and a half, the Hulks grew to be about of massive height of two feet and weighting two tones. Also, Tooks were vegetarian preferring only to eat grains, potatoes and other vegetation typically grown in any fertile lands. The Hulks were the boar like creatures who preferred only to eat meat and were typically cannibalistic meaning that they would eat almost anything that were meat. They were the scavengers.

The Reptilians, Jumbilayas, and Troods used to be one race called the Draconians which was bigger in shape and crawled on all fours. They were semi sentient. The Saurians was a type of classification for ancient reptile like creatures like the Draconians, the Ancient Dragons and the Kyrats. Reptilians were the only one closest in evolution to the Draconians except they can walk on twos. They still crawl on all fours and have the thickest long tail. The Jumbilayas and Troods looked similar except for a few differences in size, skin texture and color, and their teeth. Jumbilayas were herbivores while the Troods were Omnivores but ate mostly meat. The Reptilians kept mostly to themselves and lived only in the desert and swampland marsh areas. However, the Jumbilayas and Troods were abundant across the world of Midgard and at times crossing each other in an aggressive way of territory. They just have disagreements sometimes.

Finally, there was the slow moving ancient being known as the Yggdrasil. They were simply called that because they were half tree and half animal. They were the one responsible for the floating lands they carry on their backs. Some were tethered to the ground while others were free floating. They live for a long time and were mostly telepathic. When they die, the lands fall to the ground and is reborn into another Yggdrasil. They could communicate with other sentient beings through their thoughts. They were also neither good nor evil. It depended on who controls the land that they float.

The World of Midgard had floating lands known as the Yggdrasil. They wanted to reach them, so they crafted airships to fly across the sky and dominate each land. Aside from them, they Sky Elvens also had the ability to fly as well and they lived in several floating islands.

Now, as years passed while the races of Midgard flourished, their lives were about to be interfered with the world's first arrival of two different species, Humans and the Drehuls. They began to arrive 500 years ago. Their large ship, an ark, crash-landed on the world in the middle of the desert. When they emerged from their crash, they worked together to create a new world for them. They had the technology and implemented a few of them with other races that over time they expanded it. They even updated their airships. So they also do have gunpowder. They just don't use them often anymore over the years.

The humans, we all know of, but the Drehuls are humanoids. They are alike or similar to humans in appearance, but are taller, sturdier and intelligent. They grow to about two feet, are naturally stronger than humans and are able to foresee the future. Most of them become seers or storytellers. Some of them become wizards or sorcerers. However, a lot of them have chosen a more earthly way of life through being farmers tending to their crops and vegetation. Most of the lands of Midgard had been tilled with pride by a Drehul family at one point or another.

During their spread and growth over the course of the years, they met and became allies with elvens as well as other races of Midgard. The Sky Elves were among the first they flew from the floating lands of Yggdrasil and helped the humans of the world to build their new civilization. They travelled from the desert and spread to each corners of the world. There they conquered new lands and made names for themselves. The clan Iserhaus was one of them.

The clan, Iserhaus, moved south to the middle of the forests beyond the shallowlands and the dark forests. For the next 500 centuries, they ruled the land in peace and prosperity with several other races including their counterparts, the Drehuls, the pig like Tooks, and the Hypsilophodon like Jumbilayas. However, peace was always not possible. Not while there was a growing threat within the dark lands far west of the kingdom of Iserhaus and south of the desert. In the middle of the Crimson Ranges only accessible by a long, treacherous narrow strait through a valley of jagged rocks. This small road was said to be carved by the giant like mountain elves. Not only was that path available to the dark lands, but there were caves leading to it as well. It was where darkness remained and was growing. Spreading its terror.

Evil lurked and slinked among caves to the lands of Midgard. It was the second dark ages again and this time, it was there to begin the countdown to what happened with the Midgardians before their time. A warning of things to come. Prince Drew Shiren of Iserhaus, sire of Lord James and grandsire of Belkadan III the strong. Lord James ordered his son to lead a band of travelers to discover a growing threat on the north west near the Crimson Ranges, a town of Drehuls constantly under attack by an evil new threat that they must discover who it was. It was a new threat they never heard of before but it was said that they were invulnerable to the weapons of man. Nothing could hurt them.

So, thus begins the journey of Drew Shiren of Iserhaus, descended of Belkadan the first. His bodyguard and close friend, Justin Tieron of Iserhaus, son of Urthwhyte. A Drehul farmer by the name of Tis'Lya God'ert, a loyal and proud servant of the Iserhaus family. A Took and good cook at that name of Trudge who might be a coward on the outside, but inside is the stoutest of all hearts. A speedy Jumbilaya messenger called Dro'dge who takes up his pike and armor in the defense of his prince. Two lost children, both of the Troon race, distant relative of the Jumbilaya but meat eaters named Thodore and Jess.

Two humans, one Drehul, one Took, one Jumbilaya and two Troon in the face of darkness against all odds to discover that they are not alone in this world. There is something even more evil lurking within the horizon and they must find a way to quell it or risk plunging the world into another dark age again.
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