Reethax

The Beginning The girl stood on the rocky out-cropping, the wind blowing her blonde hair out away from her face.  She looked across the sun-baked landscape to the horizon.  On a day as clear as this, you could see forever.  Not a tree grew in the land of Tarrel, Nature long ago giving up against the massive amounts of magic pollution that poisoned the wildlife and had reduced the girl's clan to a mere handful of people. "Rael! Come back inside! You know it's not good to stay out in this heat!" Rael turned and looked back towards the ruins of Bright City where the remaining clans now lived.  Brought together by hardship and suffering, the c

Meeting With An Old Seraph A man walked into the King's Library, his dusky brown wings marking him as a member of the Seraph race.  He walked to the Head Librarian's desk.  He pushed his hand through his head plumage and talked in lowered tones to the Librarian.  The Librarian nodded and pointed to a man at one of the tables in this area of the library.  Nodding, the seraph man thanked the librarian and walked towards the table.  The man at the table noticed him and placed a bookmark on the page he was writing and closed the book as the Seraph man approached him.  The braziers keeping the moisture out of the air flickered as his passage stir

Family Reunion A small group stood on this rainy day around a grave.  The rain fell in a steady downpour over the group as they said farewell to a woman who had lived her life to the fullest.  A priest of the newly formed religion of the Twelve, stood at the head of the grave with a small child as the coffin was lowered into the ground.  The child buried her eyes into the priest's legs and cried.  This was understandable, being as this was the child's mother. Among the small group of mourners, new friends mixed with old to celebrate the life of the person who had just died.  Such a friend was an Allumian captain who had long ago travelled w