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makairodonx · 2 years ago

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For those of you who are curious, here’s a rough outline of the world of Sekaia’s backstory:

First Age: Shortly following the Primordial Age of the Gods, which witnessed the magical creation of the world at the hands of supernatural beings such as the Aesar and Vanar, Men lived alongside Centaurs, Dragons, Dwarfs, Elves, Fairies, Fauns, Griffins, Goblins, Mermaids, Trolls, etc. and were given ability to master Water, Earth, Air and Fire by the gods; the Dark Lord Angroth, who was himself a former memeber of the Vanar, tried to conquer the world with his mastery of the Fifth element of Void and the the Seven Golden Orbs, but got vanquished by the Four-Element-Confederacy, which was led by the armies of two of the mightiest Kingdoms among Men. Nevertheless his corrupting spirit lived on through the millennia and centuries in the form of the Golden Orbs, the last of which would turn out the be the most powerful of them all. It was also during this time that a dragon allied with the forces of Angroth would destroy the Fastness of Bin Hesarnath with his fiery breath and scatter the Folk of Haman, a great, wise king among men who resisted the Dark Lord’s temptations, across the world, and over time his descendants, the Children of Haman, would soon colonize distant lands and islands and remember the exploits of their forebears only through song and legend as they graduallylaid the foundations for the establishment of new human nations, kingdoms and states.

Second Age:

The mighty kingdoms of Men that once worn the war against Angroth got caught up in a war with their allies for world-domination. It was also during this time that Human nations conquered nature with greed and industry and grew powerful with their utopian sophistication and waged wars against each other

Gods led by Nemesis punished humans for their consumerist greed by sending in a meteor upon them

Tidal waves and fires destroyed cities, followed by the devastating hundred-years winter, which few humans survived

Third Age:

Centuries following the meteor impact that destroyed much of civilization,

Old-growth Forests covered much of the world,human civilization was very slow to recover, and the few human societies who survived the meteor lived hunter-gatherer lifestyles and lived more in harmony with nature and its representative gods/spirits, some of which came in the form of Mesozoic sauropsids

Race of blue-skinned giants felled down nearly all the forests/trees-resentment and war with the forest gods/spirits

Alliance of elves and men helped them defeat the giants-

leader of the alliance given the Golden Orb by the Elves of the High Heavens

-Used to wipe out the giants, and allow nature gods/spirits to flourish

Alliance leader-First Trian, who was the son of a powerful Elf-King and a human princess

Dynasty of Trians ruled Triannia and eventually all of Sekaia itself for the next 2,500 years ,

Mankind continued to live in harmony with nature and its representative gods and spirits

Elves and Fairies taught man to tame the bird-beasts and live in harmony with nature, while

Goblins corrupted humans to conquer/exploit the earth and into ways of delusion, greed, ill-will and malice -resentment of the gods/spirits

Some ancient civilizations somehow succeeded and tried to challenge the rule of the Trians but failed

An angry god conjured a great flood that eventually engulfed the world, and the Sky-Farers rescued humans with their great airships.

It was also during this time that Prophecy of Magellon emerged as the Trians were about to reach the peak of their power.

Fourth Age:

Vast oceans initially covered much of the world, continents like Aetheria emerged from the shells of great island-turtles, and humans reach the peak of their cultural and technological prowess, exemplified by the Skyfarer civilizations and the four Great Realms of Ardia, Chuseiia, Triania and Tiania

Hundreds of years-Trians continued to use Golden Orb’s power to maintain peace and order throughout their lands, including their major tributaries on the magical continent of Aetheria, where humans had the power to conjure/control Water, Earth, Air and Fire

Fifth Age:

One night -the evil sorcerer Mazaruul (once a former adviser to the Trians) usurped the throne of the Trians for himself by killing off the reigning Trian and his family - except for one baby boy -

Stole important Trian artifacts for himself, and imposed his dark will upon the Trian’s’ lands

Baby boy is taken down a stream, raised by a kind old lady and her vixen friend for twelve years- soon finds out the truth about his dynasty and its past - sets out on a quest with four loyal comrades to reclaim his dynasty’s throne and possessions from the hands of Mazaruul and defeat the sorcerer in battle

Afterwards: Last Trian reigned over Triania for a hundred years,

-faced war for control over his lands by an alliance of the Goblin Empires of Arpan and Thuban-but once he died, though, Arpan and Thuban would be divided over who should take control over the Trians’ lands and possessions and rule the world with the power of the Golden Orb - leading to the Arpan-Thuban War foretold by the Prophecy of Magellon

It was also during this time that the dark forces of delusion, greed, industry and ill-will took over the world once again

During the fifty years war, the Thubanians invaded the kingdom of Basilia, whose ruling family had papers pertaining to the Golden Orb’s use,

and killed its king. Thus his daughter tried to put up a fierce resistance to prevent the Thubanians from seizing the papers…but unfortunately she was captured by the goblins, along with the papers, and thrown into their cargo ship, which was later attacked by a flock of pterosaur spirits and crashed...on the night right after the young sorceress Keiko Yamamoto was celebrating her fifteenth birthday.

Events following the Thubanian Invasion of the Southern Glens and Keiko’s trip to the Borderland Woods with Robby and Venki:

After the Elf and Raccoon take the fifteen-year-old girl to the secret cave beyond the stream to see the great tapestry that chronicles the events of the Prophecy, Keiko Yamamoto embarks on a journey with her companions that takes her through the former tributaries of Triania known as the “Lands of the Trians” in order to reach the ancient, sacred Forest of Hope, within which the Lonely Tree stands with the Golden Orb glowing upon its great branches. Along the way, the sorceress will also find the four elemental gems that the Dwarfs of the Black Mountains found and scattered all over Aetheria, and they are also needed spell to destroy the Golden Orb: the Sapphire of Water, the Emerald of Earth, the Diamond of Air, and the Ruby of Fire.

The whole story itself, including Keiko’s journey to the Lonely Tree, will also be dived into four books which themed around each of the four elements:

Book l: The Paths of Water will cover the journey through the Green Marshes and the train ride to the Black Mountains.

It is in this first book of the quadrilogy that Keiko will be exercising her ability to conjure/control Water and come across Water-based beings, creatures, gods/spirits and people who possess that power. The sorceress and her friends will also find the Sapphire of Water, which can be useful for creating powerful Water-based spells.

Book ll will cover the Black Mountains and its surrounding lands, as well as the Kingdom of Compteia.

It is in this second book of the quadrilogy that Keiko will be exercising her ability to conjure/control Earth in the form of boulders, rocks, plants, trees and the like, and come across Earth-based beings, creatures, gods/spirits and people who possess that ability. The sorceress and her friends will also find the Emerald of Earth that allows her to create powerful Earth-based spells.

Book lll: The Paths of Air will cover the Sky-Realm of Luftia, the Forest of Despair, and the Silver Plains. It is in this third book of the quadrilogy that Keiko will be exercising her ability to conjure/control Air via wind, storms, tornadoes, etc. and encounter Air-based beings, creatures, gods/spirits and people who possess that power. The sorceress will also find the Diamond of Air that allows her to create powerful Air-Based spells.

Book lV: The Paths of Fire will cover the Sands of Fate, the Amber Caverns, the Hills of Fire, the Red Mountains, the Great Canyon, and the Forest of Hope. It is in this final book of the quadrilogy that Keiko will be exercising her ability to conjure/control Fire and encounter Fire-based beings, creatures, gods/spirits and people who possess that power. Keiko will also find the Ruby of Fire that allows her to create powerful Fire-based spells.

The use of all four elemental gems will also be necessary for Keiko to use in her spell to destroy the Golden Orb once and for all.

An overview of Keiko’s journey to the Lonely Tree after she and her companions leave the Southern Glens:

Soon after they’ve entered the Green Marshes, the trio encounter three bellicose pachycephalosaur spirits that get pacified by Keiko.

Keiko saves a troll from getting enslaved by a couple of goblins by freezing them with an ice-spell.

The trio have coffee and a lunch of eggs and ham at the house of the friendly Farmer Ramos, who later takes them to the observatory that was owned by Keiko’s

Keiko “purifies” a polluted River with one of her spells, and the sorceress and her friends later find a nodosaur spirit that got sick from drinking the polluted water. Keiko feeds it a herb that cures the creature of its sickness.

The next day, the trio enter a human village that gets attacked by a raging ceratopsian forest spirit. Keiko is able to calm it down with her magic and she and the local village matriarch find out that it had been attacked by human hunters via a long spear embedded in its side. The matriarch thus holds a village council to discuss the problems surrounding the corruption of the Green Marshes’ nature spirits. Afterwards the villagers give Keiko and her friends a wooden canoe as a gift for saving their lives from the corrupted forest spirit.

The trio cross the cypress swamps on the canoe.

Along the way, they encounter the Swamp-Elves and an enchantress who lives in a treehouse, enthralls them with local tales surrounding the Green Marshes, and tells them that they have to cross a flooded battlefield in order to reach the watchtower of Aol Soinen.

After she and her companions cross the swamps, Keiko enchants a lone vine to swing by itself and she and her companions use it to cross a river full of hungry Deinosuchus spirits.

One night, the trio cross a vast marsh that was once the site of a great battle between men and goblins that got flooded. Keiko also helps protect Robby and Venki from the undead soldiers with her spells.

Afterwards as night falls, the trio see some fireflies, hang out with some woodland elves, and sleep on the branches of a huge oak tree. A small herd of hadrosaur spirits soon emerge to browse on the oak leaves under the moonlight.

The trio encounter a friendly Spinosaurus water spirit whom Keiko christens as “Mizuchi”. Mizichi helps Keiko destroy some Goblin gunships, heals some human villages that were burned by Goblin attacks with her water-breath, and later rides Keiko and her friends across the River Meandros while giving the trio fish to eat along the way.

The trio come across a village market at a river, and Keiko uses her magic to cure a nature spirit of the junk it ate.

As they head further north, the trio see two flamingo-like theropod spirits fighting over a large morsel of food at a stream.

The trio encounter a company of Compteian knights led by Beziel son of Fimiel, and then they ascend the top of the wooden watchtower of Aol Soinen in order to observe the surrounding landscape…and spot the Black Valley Express heading for a station to stop by.

The trio board the train for a border town near the County of Compteia, which is situated not far from the Black Mountains themselves. Upon arriving they see a Thubanian bomber dropping leaflets onto the populace below, and Keiko and her friends see it as propaganda.

Along the way to the small kingdom, the trio see distant caravans of human civilians crawling across the landscape with their livestock, riverside towns that have been bombed by goblin warplanes, and an Arpanian airship dropping food and other supplies to crowds of desperate civilians. Along the way, the trio also stumble across Titanosaur earth-spirits and see the Thubanians going into battle in their huge mechanical war-elephants.

Upon arriving at Compteia, the trio see Beziel and his company of knights returning from a campaign launched against the Thubanians, and they bring in some Thubanian war-machines that they captured.

Beziel, the captain of Compteia’s armies, was the son of Fimiel, the previous Army Captain of the county. He served the Countess of Compteia, who was struggling to keep the peace between the two goblin empires, she repeatedly resisted their offers to join either side in the war for control of the Trian’s lands and possessions, and the armies and resources of her kingdom were exhausted. Beziel also strives to help Keiko end the Arpan-Thuban War that has ravaged the Lands of the Trians through indirect means.

Upon arriving at the Black Mountains, Keiko, Beziel, Robby and Venki see an Arpanian warplane that was shot by Thubanian planes soon crashes into the ground in front of them. Keiko and Beziel interrogate its pilot, who tells them that the Arpanians recently lured an entire flock of kangaroo-like dinosaur spirits into attacking a Thubanian garrison situated in one of the mountain valleys and then proceeded to “slaughter” everyone from atop a tall cliff with bombs and grenades. Appalled by the shocking crime that one of the major goblin kingdoms committed, Keiko and Beziel decide to agree on their resolve to bring the Arpanians and Thubanians to justice.

As they trek through the mountains, Keiko and co. Stumble across the ruins of a once-powerful Dwarf civilization, and they later encounter a huge Azhdarchid air spirit whom she christens as “Arashi”. Arashi proceeds to fly the company over the mountains and into the Sky Realm of Luftia, which is home to floating islands and human residents used pterosaur spirits as a means of transportation. The Matriarch of Luftia tells Keiko that her realm has faced countless goblin attacks earlier during the war, and the sorceress later helps her forces resist an invasion of Thubanian airships. Afterwards, Arashi flies Keiko and her companions down towards the outskirts of the Black Mountains and lands them at a huge grassy hill which overlooks the infamous Forest of Hope. It is in the cottage that a kind young girl and her mother and grandmother provide the travelers with food and a place to sleep. After a good breakfast the next day, Keiko and co. leave the cottage and head straight into the Forest of Hope. After facing off the venomous Fell-Serpents that slither around the trunks of the tall pine trees, Keiko breaks the spell that brought dark enchantements upon the forest, and she and her friends encounter the ancient therizinosaur forest spirit that once kept the place sacred for centuries before the war began.

After leaving the Forest of Despair and the Black Mountains, Keiko and co. enter the Silver Plains, where they stumble across a flock of kangaroo-like theropod spirits. Keiko bonds with one of them and christened it as “Kyōfu”. Once a party of giant Thubanian warplanes arrive to hunt the dinosaurs for sport, the trio ride Kyōfu and Keiko leads the flock away from the warplanes repels them with a few spells, one of which creates a false doppelgänger image of the flock. Afterwards the trio traverse the plains on Kyōfu and encounter the nomadic Tengrians who also happen to ride the kangaroo-like theropods for transport.

Kyōfu soon leads Keiko and co. into the Sands of Fate, a vast desert which the two goblin empires once heavily exploited for oil to fuel their war-machinery. After a long, tiresome trek through the area, the trio stumble upon two oases, the Sand-Wurms, and nomadic warring desert tribes such as the Rudrigians and Prochians who fought each other over water and were now trying to resist Goblin encroachment upon their lands. The trio spend some time with the Rudrigians, and one night they tell Keiko and her friends that the Amber Caverns has a secret passage that can lead them to the Hills of Fire… guarded by a fearsome half-centipede, half woman monster who savors the meat of men, elves, goblins and trolls. So the desert nomads give the sorceress a magical amulet that could protect her and her companions in case the monster attacks them.

Keiko and co. go to the Amber Caverns, the huge, circular door to which has been locked with runic spells that only the sorceress can activate with magic using the light of the half-moon. Once inside, the three travelers find murals of helpless men getting eaten by giant spiders and stumble upon the skeletons of the monster’s helpless victims. As Keiko and co. explore more and more of the tunnels, the sorceress repels hordes of huge attacking spiders with her spells, and the trio finally reach the cavernous lair of the half-centipede, half-woman monster. After she engages the trio in a tense battle, the monster gives up and she magically reveals to Keiko and co. the secret passage to the Hills of Fire. It is in that land of Jackalopes and giant leopard-lizards that the trio will encounter a horned fire-breathing carcharodontosaurid desert spirit named Julius who will guide them through the patchwork of cacti and rugged terrain, help Keiko and co. fend off goblins, trolls and other monsters faced along the way, and lead them through the Red Mountains on the way to the Great Canyon, which separates the other Lands of the East from the Forest of Hope. Keiko summons Arashi to fly her and her companions over the canyon and straight past the legendary Four Cliffs, a landmark that marks the western borders of the forest within which stands the Lonely Tree. Along the way Keiko and her companions spot airships and bombers of the two goblin empires heading towards the forest, and right after she lands her huge flying steed at a nearby village, she urgently warns the local populace of the coming battle for the Golden Orb and tells them to head for higher ground in order to avoid the onslaught of the two approaching Goblin armies. Keiko also finds out from the resident elves that Tarius the Just has recently built a factory-fortress where he is marshaling his forces for a final assault on the Lonely Tree. The sorceress and her companions rushed into the fort, fended off Tarius’ guards, and urged the Goblin emperor to call off his assault in a tense interrogation. Tarius the Just agrees to call off turn off the attack and shows Keiko and co. the sight of goblin airships and bombers on both sides bombing vast portions of the Forest of Hope in order to pave the way for the ground-based troops and scattering away its resident gods and spirits. As the Battle for the Golden Orb threatens to destroy much of the Forest of Hope, Keiko summons all the sauropsid nature gods and spirits to disable the war-machines of both sides as she goes to the Lonely Tree and destroy the Golden Orb, but she gets knocked unconscious by a Thubanian war-elephant robot which Julius successfully fights off in order to save her life. Afterwards, as the great battle between goblins, men, gods and spirits rages on, Keiko climbs up the Lonely Tree, places the tip of her staff upon the Golden Orb, and tries to destroy it with a very powerful spell that uses an ancient apocalyptic Trianian incantation and the might of the four elemental gems. Right after she and the tree are seemingly killed in the initial blast of golden light, the object, much to the horror of the human civilians gathered atop the tall cliffs surrounding the forest, turns out to be an egg that hatches the “Lotus of Death”, a massive monster that once wiped out the world countless times in the past. But, since it’s power was greatly weakened by Keiko’s spell, the Lotus of Death self-destructs in a massive explosion that kills off the forest and its surrounding lands and much of the war-mongering Goblin armies on both sides. As the monster’s form heals the land, though, The nature gods and spirits re-emerge from the ruins and use their magic to resurrect Keiko, who opens her eyes to the sight of a “hundred-thousand white birds” flying over the newly-risen Forest of Hope and thanks the gods and spirits for helping her complete her mission. After the prophecy is fulfilled, Keiko starts a new life with her companions while a seedling germinates from the place where the Lonely Tree once stood.

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