There was once a powerful and majestc race of creatures that lived on Exzalia, they were the wolfs. Strong and intelligant, they respected their role in nature killing only when needed. Truely a noble creature but, they are no more. No one knows who spilled who's blood first, but a bitter hatred grown from fear began to sprout from a new creature, human kind. Enmity between humans and wolfs grew like a weed, fear of these misunderstood creatures soon gripped the humans of Grove. It started with disturbing discoveries along the roads leading through Groves many forests, humans torn apart; half eaten with terror still etched on their faces. The findings of children were most common for they were too weak to fend of the attackers with magic, they made easy targets. People began searching for the culprit but to know avail, and as time went on the attacks became more frequent. Then the spark that started it all, "It most be the wolfs." No proof had been given that it was the wolfs who were attacking caravans in the night but people were dieing, they had to blame something. Wolfs were certainly the most common beast at the time, they were also cunning easily capable of learning human speech. Perhaps they lured children with promise and merry calls, no one knew. And so the great mid night massacre began, the humans raged war against the wolfs, slaughtering them with a ruthlessness that rivalled devils. 10,000 silver coins for each wolf pelt. Slowly the wolfs were exterminated fearful howls and whimpers echoed through every night for almost ten years. Finally one wolf pack remained at the northern tip of Grove. Wolf hunters and trackers formed an army of 500 to kill this one wolf pack, lead by general Vandal, 500 years ago they marched into the frozen wastes of wolf haven forest. There, on a frozen night they raged war with the wolfs driven by hatred for love ones lost to them.Finally one wolf remained. The queen of wolfs, Luna the silver the last wolf. According to legend Luna killed 50 men before finally sucombing to the humans fury. Vandal raised his sword over the last wolf. "With this you monsters will be ended!" He said triumphantly, his men cheering behind him. As the wolfs blood flowed in the pale moon light she looked at the human standing above her. "No, we will live on, in you." And she with her dying breath she cursed them. Her last words being, "You will now be the monsters you so fervently hunted." And thus, the were wolfs were born. It is said that were wolfs are humans possessed with the spirit of one vengeful wolf. As part of the curse, each werewolf will have the incredible craving for human flesh. Indeed turning them into monsters. As for the killings in the woods well, they still happen despite the fact the wolfs are extinct and if anything, they are getting worse.
Exzalia is outside our dimension and so things work differently in that world. Not only is the land endless but the sky. You can keep flying and all you'll find is blue and clouds. Fly high enough (about as high as the moon is from earth.) and you'll find huge land masses actually floating up there! A matter a fact, Exzalias moon is not a moon at all but the underside of a huge continent called Zalium. This floating continent may have its own people who are perphaps unaware there world is the moon for Exzalia are living on the top side. Who knows, maybe Exzalia is a moon to another world below it.
There was once a powerful and ruthless dragon. It's terror being known through out the land of Grove, were ever it went it spouted destruction like no other. Many men had tried to vanquish the beast, but to no avail not warrier nor mage could best it in battle for it was not only strong, but cunning and cruel. Out of all it terrorized it hated human kind the most, unlike the passive elves they, simply refused to learn thier place. Every once in a while an overconfident mage or knight or better yet a thieve, would sneak into his den. He killed all he caught yet still they came, challenging him. Finally he had enough, "I will drive human kind off my land with great fire and rath, that they may know that next to Origin, I am their master." That night great terror struck the kingdom as a massive dragon as large as the storm clouds but with more fury, descended upon them. As he lay waste he was suddenly confronted by an old man. The man stood before him with out fear yet with no rage, "Fool! are you blind that you do not see who you challenge?" The dragon roared spouting flames with the brightness and heat that rivalled the sun. The old man was unfazed. "Oh great serpent of fire and rath. Why do you terrorize human kind with such unforgiving ruthlessness?" The dragon scoffed. "When I was a hatchling you men would of gladly killed me for I was weak. But now that I am strong and it is you who are weak, you beg mercy?" It growled angryly. "I see what you mean oh terrible dragon. But perphaps you should walk a mile in our shoes. Then you willl understand your folly." "Enough!" the dragon roared, "I did not come here to disscuss philosophy!" It lunged for the old man in a blur, stabbing the sorry fellow with its talon. the dragon grinned, and suddenly magic! The body of the old man vanished into an insurmountable amount of eather, it swirled and coursed through the air all around the dragon. Suddenly a change! the dragon started to shrink, it's claws became fingers, it's horns hair. It shrieked in panic a cry of fear no dragon had ever uttered. The great dragon had been turned into a small human child no bigger than a boy. He fled into the wilds and has never returned. There are many who search for him some to kill, others to study but to this day his location is unknown. He wonders Exzalia in the guise of a human, searching for one to break the curse. Oh dragon child who will have mercy on you?
When the world was young the Godess Origin created the very first of life. It was a seed, smaller than a grain of sand, frail and brittle. With love more tender than that off any mortal mother; she planted this seed; and watched it grow. Seasons passed, years turned to decades, decades to centuries and centuries to millennia, and countless millennia passed; the tree growing ever taller. It dwarfed the mountains, then the clouds, then even the stars in the night sky. it's roots spread across the land, through the oceans reaching barren wastes and along the way sapling forests sprouted. Exzalia was turning green this one tree giving birth to all forests. Then, a new creature appeared, a creature who knew not it's place, a heretic who knew not the Goddess but worshipped a God. and it's name was human and nature was it's foe. And with axe and barbarous fire magic it lay waste to the sapling forest, for they needed wood for their homes and to fuel their wars. The tree kind of heart and long suffering viewing every bade of grass as it's own, still gave gladly for it cared for them too; but they took too much. After they had enough they took and took and what they could not take they burned, the tree was grieved. And So, to save her children she bore fruit. and in this fruit were her children, and the fruit ripened. Out of the fruit came the elves of Underwood. She charged them to protect her forest for that is why we were created. And so the first great war in all of history took place. With hearts of fury with drove them away from her then her forests flourished. Oh great mother tree with your children round about you both elf and green we serve you always As you have served the Goddess so we serve you.
In the blazing hot belt of the star line, a searing pace where thousands of small suns shine with out end there lives the fourth and most misunderstood race to be created. The term scorch fiend is a derogatory word used to describe their devilish appearances, But they are no more hell bound then any other mortal. They come in shades of red and bronze, with a humanoid frame, burning tails and bright horns that curve back on their head. There face has the typical two eye's one nose features of other humanoids, but the shape of their heads is unique in that there nose is is sightly cat shaped, but with dragon like nostrils. Their eye's and maws constantly glow with fire aether, and each one has a unique set of rocks that form on joints and other outcroppings on their body. Only specimens of these creatures have been found, for no one dares travel into the hellish Starline to meet them. And they rarely leave there scorching domain. Only the Mers have had any close contact with them and sadly, only through brutal wars. Mers and scorch fiends hate one another with a venom that could kill a god. What we have figured out is that they can interbreed with humans suggesting their genetics are not too far from our own despite the differences. Adept at fire and earth magic Scorch fiends share a love for metal craft, and a passion for jems and gold, and other metals creating entire empires out of the precious stuff. They complete the picture of the people of Exzalia. Humans creatures of earth Mers creatures of water Airmids creatures of air Scorch fiends creatures of fire In all there are 8 known races in Exzalia, but these were the first four, the original, colonizing this world thousands of years before the first elf ever set foot.
It is said that an Air mid never touches the ground through out their entire lives. Airmids are people of the the sky and what a strange sky it is. Exzalia's skies are a whole world onto it's self, giant land masses migrate thousands of miles across it's skies housing strange and forgotten secrets, whole continents adrift on a breeze blocking the sky over some area's for years. It is these places the airmids call home. They are a small race standing a little over 5 feet, but that's with out the gorgeous and colourful feathers that decorate their bodies, often adding a good two more feet. They are humanoid with arms and legs but unlike humans they very slender, even the males have strongly muscled but thin chests, light weight with falcon eye's each Airmid has their own unique style of feathers. They are a brightly colourful race groups of them forming living rain bows in the sky. Unfortunately not much else is know about them. They never come to the ground willingly, and those who do rarely speak. They are ignored by most other races, how ever many humans have a keen interest in them. Their ability to fly endlessly has sparked an envious desire among human kind and many search for them hoping, that they will reveal the secret of flight. But the Airmids are a stubborn race, and the few that do speak will not even on pain of death, reveal the power of flight to any land dweller. What we do know is that Airmids can use wind, water, and light Aether and they may have been the inspirations for the legends of angels. They watch us from their perch in the sky, perhaps even observing our conflicts and I feel it won't be long, before events beyond mortal control will bring us together.
The merclans are all united under one giant merkingdom called Lethross. Now there are dissenters within the kingdom who do not agree with the leader who rules Lethross and her tolerant view of Land dwellers. While many mers don't mind and even like the land dwellers there are just as many who hate and despise them for various reasons. The relationship between mers and land dwellers thus, varies from places to place. On the island of Charon mers get along well with the human populace even escorting their ships through ruff sea's and violent storms. In Lore how ever the two have a bitter hatred and disturbing rumours of fried merfolk perminate the area. The queen of Lethross desires nothing but peace with all land dwellers and as long as she stay in power, I doubt we will ever go to war on a large scale. This is a frustrateing fact to those who hate the land dwellers and they vent their frustration by attacking ships and becomeing sirens. All mers can become a siren if they choose, A siren is created when a mer delves into using dark and wind aether, When they sing their deadly songs their notes become infused with aether (magic) All who hear may resist at first but all will eventually be overcome their minds cast under a dumbing spell. Some of these sirens have ruthless contests to see which one can lure land dwellers better. The one who drowns the most victims wins. In all The merclans are no different from humans doing both good and evil, makeing their mark on this world.
yay mermaids! beautiful innocent and they like to sing. Perfect Disney material right? Not on Exzalia. Exzalia's merclans are very similair to humans in that they share a love for adventure and conquest. A curious and mischievous group the merclans can use water, air, and dark aether. Most merclan have smooth skin like a dolphin only sporting scales on their fish half, all merclan have a fish half though it varies from indivdual to individual. They have deep blue, to blue green skin. Slick hair that is streamline and greasy. fins are often found on ears and elbows and their eye's can be a range of different colours. most of them have small shark like teeth. despite this all mers have a beauty to them and unlike humans do not show signs of old age. This makes them very desirable and it is not too uncommon for mers and humans to intermarry. mers are the second of the four original races to be created on Exzalia, they are by far the most like humans out of the four.
Humans are creatures of earth, how ever they are the only race that can use all six kinds of aether this is because humans are very adaptable. Their the only races to be so diverse, They can live in any environment from shard blade mountain, to the northern cloud gate. You wont find an elf with dark skin and red hair. Only humans adapt in such ways But this diversity is also a curse. Their differences is cause for endless wars and conflict, many humans don't see other humans as even members of their own kind. This is most common among the humans of Charon their dark skin combined with red eye's and hair spark much superstition among the other races. Damirians and Lorians are especially cruel to them. humans are also more vulnerable to disease than other life forms. On Exzalia many diseases are more magical than bacterial a familiar example in vampireisim. in this world vampires are not a separate race, they are simply cursed humans. Only humans have been seen to be affected by such ailments. Despite this humans have still grown to be a powerful and dominant force on Exzalia spreading to every point on the known world, Accomplishing as much good as evil.
There were actually four races that were originally created on Exzalia each one to represent a basic element, The first was humans. Humans are the most numerous and diverse of all the sentient beings, they have many cultures, physical traits and religions. They do not however have different languages, no not on this world. The humans of Exzalia have a few key differences that make them unique, They can live up to 300 years, there usually stronger and taller than the humans of earth and, with less deformities. But they are by no means perfect, they are subject to the the same faults as we are. Now there are five kinds of human on Exzalia they are. Damirians. A tall group with dark milky skin, white to silver hair, and yellow or gold eye's. Lorians. Fair skinned with black hair and sapphire blue eye's, not quiet as tall as Damirians stopping at around 6 feet. the Charon. shorter than both of the above, the people of Charon have darker skin than the Damirians, but their eye's are a bright red or orange colour, as with their hair. Grovians. They are most like us having a varied array of eye and hair colour though their skin is usually fair, it varies in shade. average height 7 feet. The lost ones. A mysterious group of humans spotted living in cloud gate, an area completely covered in mist continually. legend has it none of them ever see the sun. The shortest type, the lost one grow little more than five feet they have skin as white as snow, their eye's are pitch black, not much is known of them. All humans have the ability to weave all kinds of aether and it is this along with their adaptability that has allowed them to be so successful. But they are not by any means the only race on this world. View attachment 4233
Exzalia is thee original world, the place were the elements were birthed and were the first divines took wing. It is an ever growing world constantly spawning new lands at it's rim making it literally an infinite world. It is not however a planet like earth, the dimension Exzalia exists in is different from ours, there is no space, no other planets. Exzalia takes up the entire dimension, one world the size of several galaxies, and constantly growing. it is here that life originated, this is the ultimate mother world and has a great and powerful secret. the Aether spawn, at the centre of the world lie's the power that made this all possible Aether is a strange force, It is like energy in many was, formless, eternal. But unlike normal energy Aether has a strange affect on reality, the laws of nature and the universe are changed, suspended and down right broken at it's presence. We speculate that this is do to with the fact that aether is, it's self that was used to create the laws of reality in the first place. This force has another name, It is called magic. The aether spawn is a mass of energy that continually pumps out mountains of aether. It is this aether that gave rise to the basic elements of fire, water, wind, earth and the two divine elements light and shadow. Literally these elements are a physical manifestation of aether. It is from this that Exzalia grows, and grows. Aether being spawned then forming into elements which then created Exzalia's lands. Aether can be found in all dimensions in all worlds, but it's presence is strongest on Exzalia. Now there is actually six type's of aether, each one manifests it's self into either one of the four basic elements, or the two divine ones. Every thing we then see is a result of these elements coming together. On Exzalia humans are believed to be. 3 parts earth aether, 2 parts water 1 part air, 1 part light, 1 part dark. A phoenix would be. 4 parts fire, 2 parts earth, 3 part wind, 0 water, 3 light, 0 shadow. This can be applied to everything in around us. Now when aether was first around it was wild chaotic. Exzalia was unsubtle for life. Then, perhaps an eternal god, perhaps blind chance. Weaved aether into an orderly struct-er, and combined it together to get the first life forms. We know not what it is, and so we have dubbed what ever it may be, God or chance, Origin. From Origin everything came. Now have you ever wonder how a mage, or creature is able to do physics defying feats? Like telaport, duplicate, shoot lightning from there fingers, fly with out wings? That because there using aether, though they may not realize it. Aether created reality, so only aether can break reality and this is how magic works. and Aether plays a big part in all my stories. And so here ends the first glimpse of my world, there are many details to be covered like how aether is used, and Exzalia's early history, the different races on Exzalia ect, ect. But that's for another time.
After seeing the increasing number of visits to my profile page I decided to start this blog. To give people a glimpse into my creative mind. Here you can learn about my thoughts my worlds and most importantly, my stories. Many stories I have written and plan to write have complex mechanics behind them. If one understands these I feel one may have a better understanding of my epic tales. Every story is a journey to another world, you step out of earth and into another time and place were the impossible happens. Consider these blogs as a guide to my world, the never ending world of Exzalia. Now Exzalia is not my only project, there are any worlds in the works. It is by far however the most developed.