Once upon a time, in the Age of Legend, lived an ancient and powerful beast of Chaos. With awesome might, the creature rampaged freely, destroying at will.
Unchecked for uncounted ages, this Old One roamed through land, sea and void; traveled between planes, dimensions and worlds; churned primordial soups and rent landscapes asunder. Neither mortal nor immortal could catch, tame or kill one as clever and powerful as she.
By turns, the destructions of the monster seemed indifferently random, hungrily specific, or as furiously gratuitous as the unbridled wrath of the elder gods themselves. Still, there would always be those who would pursue, attempting to challenge her prodigious might.
Everywhere the fearsome beast would go, something would follow in its broad wake, even if only Death. One day while in the midst of ravaging the surface of ancient Tarakk, the beast of Primeval Chaos found itself weary and decided it would disguise itself, fluidly reshaping great sinews and
Child of Fire and Blood, Part One: A Distant Storm Description:
Lar Kwa is the Lost Prince of Alban, absent from his frozen homeland of proud warriors for twenty years. Bearing Tshan’casai, the ancient sword of his fathers, he has returned to use its potent magics and new technologies to become savior to his troubled people. In the presence of the Crimson Throne and Princess Treutelaar, Light of the People, he declares a quest to bring nothing short of the reformation of the fragmented empire forged by the royal family in days long past.
Many oppose Lar Kwa’s ambitions, resistant to the changes he invites, but the prince has opened himself to guidance by forces beyond mortal ken. Of what consequence then are the wishes of mankind, the power of dragons, the intervention of isolationist warlords or the concerns of neighboring nations to a one willing to plunge half the world into war in the name of his gods?
Can the disturbing visions of one young misfit be of significance as elements of strange prophecies continue to manifest?
As truths struggle to find their way to light, they will threaten not only sanity, but to unravel the very fabric of reality.
