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LEGEND
OF LIGHT AND THE LANDS
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is the Legend of Light and the Lands as told by
Thomstrarustra to little Tosh. |
| Tellos
is a land of many lands -- made up of many differnt
realms -- inhabited by many differnt peoples and
creatures...!
Because
it is fractured and diverse a world -- much of
it not yet even charted -- it would be impossible
to bring the countless lands to Tellos under one
rule...
But
that hasn't ever stopped Evil from trying...
For
all of time remembered -- from histories passed
down by Mages old -- darkness has always had it's
eye on Tellos...!
Always
reaching out with cancerous fingers to claim bits
of Tellos in it's stygian grasp, imposing on it's
victims dreams of Dark Power and Conquest...!
At
times in the past, Evil has come close to seizing
all of Tellos in it's thrall, and sending it careening
towards absolute destruction!
But
there are always those who would resist... and...
this always hope. Each time in the past, when
darkness grew strong, brining Tellos to the Brink
of Cataclysm, forces of good have risen up --
no armies, but people-- to confront the darkness
and turn it away... they have always be quite...
fortunate...
But
the Darkness has grown stronger each time, its
power growing with every new campaign, and the
legend tells of a coming when the darkness will
be too strong... and the forces of good not strong
enough... there will be hope... and there will
be good... but there will also be loss... and
great, great saness...
there
will be bravery, but also betrayal...
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LEGEND
OF THE LANDS
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is the Legend of Light and the Lands as told by
Thomstrarustra to Jarek, Koj and Serra. |
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forces of the darkness are as ancient as the sands,
and they have struggled since before time to seize
and obliterate this living world!
Yet
while there has been hope, a spirit of the light
has always risen to challenge the darkness --
a magikal warrior, the last of the long-extinct
D'Jinn! Only two times before, in known history
has this Paladin of Light battled the cacerous
darkness... battled it-- and defeated it!
The
last time however, some two hundred winters past,
as their own dark champion fell, the forces of
darkness were waiting... and conjured a spell
that captured the D'Jinn... binding it in an edritch
prison... entombit it in a time-lost gem!
Prophecies
told of D'Jinns return, mightier than before,
freed once again and guided by the strength an
spirit of not one, but two brave, unlikely heroes!
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THE
LEGEND OF THE DARK
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is the Legend of the Dark as told by a shadowjumpper
mage to Sur-Azal. |
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the beginning, there was simply the darkness...
a roiling virulent blackness that struggled and
strained at the work of creation--
with
no light in the world, no imagination to guide
it, this nothingness tried to grow-- spattering
and sputtering out horrible mockeries of life,
producing groaning and mewling grotesquries, abominations
existing in continous pain and despair...
but
then... there came the light...
...and
Tellos was formed. Guided, it would seem, by the
fancy of a child, the cursed world above was created
with Magiks and wonders. Life thrived.
And
the darkness was driven into the corners, into
the shadows... and down, into the netherworld
below...!
There,
cramped and crammed together, the slither, shambling
aborted attempts at life merged together...
becoming
one from the many-one body, one mind... one goal...
to take back what was theirs. To take back the
realm that it once solely inhabited.
Soon
there were others who desired the same thing--
other creatures that worked toward the same goal...
of returning Tellos to the darkness...
The
Dark Scriptures told of Sur-Azal's coming... and
how it would be done...
They
told of a false deliverer, who would wield great
dark power, his campaign impressive... but ultimately
doomed... his only real purpose, to reveal to
the darknesses' one true adversary, the only real
threat to their cause... and to-crudely-ready
this from for Sur-Azal. For the scriptures say
that the body need to be re-formed to act as the
perfect host for Sur-Azal, the dark lord--
The
living embodiment of the primordial darkness...
the king... the god, Sur-Azal!
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Resources
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| The
Legend of Light and the Lands |
Dezago,
T. (Dezago et al, May 1999). Tellos
Prelude. Berkeley, CA: Image
Comics
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| The
Legend of the Lands |
Dezago,
T. (Dezago et al, July 1999). Tellos
#3. Berkeley, CA: Image
Comics.
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| The
Legend of the Dark |
Badendyck,
T. (Badendyck et al, November 2002). Rite
of Shadows. In T.
Dezago(Eds.), Tales
of Tellos: Sons and Moons (Badendyck,
2002, p. 31-41). Berkeley, CA: Image
Comics.
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