After tinkering with it a a bit, I've re worked the "Epic Tale" prologue and worked on it a little more. And given it a name!
And I realized the other day that this story has been a work in progress for ten years now...That's a little scary!
An introduction to all things.
Elves are not graceful, beautiful creatures; fairies are not small dainty beings. They are like you, or I, with good qualities and bad ones too.
It is written that once, long ago, there were five Kings, rulers of the land and rulers of the Elements Fire, Wood, Sand, Water and Air.
Now these Kings had ruled their lands well and kept their people in order, but one year decided to seek out the Goddess and ask of her a wish to make them better Kings.
They travelled on for many thousands of miles before reaching the highest point of a mountain. There they waited for a week and day before she appeared before them.
"Kings of Land, what wish do you wish?"
"I am King of Fire and I ask for beasts of flame, winged beasts that my people may tame."
"I am King of Wood and I ask for eyes to see what cannot be seen and ears that are sharp and keen."
"I am King of Sand and I ask for better feet to run upon my land."
"I am King of Water and I ask for an under water ability so that my people may live in the sea."
"I am King of Air and I ask for balance and wing so up in the skies your praises we may sing."
The Goddess obliged them; she gave the King of Fire his beasts and named them "Dragon." She gave King of Wood his sight and his ears and named him "Elf Kind." For King of Sand she mounted his body upon the body of a horse and named him "Centaur." For King of Water she gave him a promise that underwater he would transform into what she called "Merpeople." And finally for King of Air she gave him strong thick wings and perfect balance with the name "Fair Kind."
The Kings went back to their Lands to share their gifts and all was well for many, many years. But squabbles began to break out amongst the races. Differences began to appear and land was being taken from all around. Wars began to start, battles to the death. The Five Kings were no better and would continually fight with one another, just to prove who had the better gift.
The Goddess looked on at her World, bodies lay piled up as a Great Battle happened throughout all of the races. The Lands were scorched, the water polluted, woods chopped, sands kicked and the air filled with awful smog. She ceased the fighting and created great boundaries of the lands, The Goddess, angry and scorned, then told the Kings that their gifts would be taken and their world destroyed unless a peace treaty was signed there and then. The Kings accepted this offer gratefully and went back to their lands, separate ways, never to live in peace together ever again.
So the King of Fire took his beasts and riders to the North, across the seas, where there were many high mountains to rule over. The King of the Sands also went across the seas, but to the East, where he ruled over the sandy countries, riding the dunes and rocks with his hooved kind. Then the seas were ruled by the mighty Mer-King, building a vast and beautiful city beneath the blue oceans where
He and his Mer-Kind swam free.
Then we have the Kings of the Forest Elf Kind and of the Air, Fair Kind. There was no land to west and only icy coldness to the south, the Elves and Fairies would have to share the largest spread of land together.
A large border wall was put in place, laws decreed and both kindred kinds each went their separate ways once more.
The elves were fast in building sprawling cities, vast in size and height as well as technologies. There was very little of elvish land that wasn't made of woodland or forest and their cities adapted to this, winding around the natural, building their buildings around the trees and roots. The elves too adapted and from a young age an elf could swing freely from branch to branch without a moments thought or pause.
The Fairies however took their time; their cities were small in comparison and the way of living a little more rustic. But they nurtured the growing of the tallest trees, some so tall that the tops were sometimes lost in the clouds. And within these nurtured trees they lived, some preferred tree houses nestled among the branches and others lived within the tree itself, hollowed out and made into a home.
Over time the fairies began to evolve, separating into two kinds; the Woodland fairies with their shimmering green leaf like wings, councils and democracy and the Flower Field Fairies with their colourful petal shaped wings and a more liberal way of living.
And this is how we find our selves now, many hundreds of years from the first Kings of kinds to one forest fairy named Arine.
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