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Minethria was born from mist, shaped and moulded by the Elder King himself. Many cultures have different names for it. The Bayrish language calls it the Haar, yet the higher beings name it Nif. Though its shaping comes naturally to the higher beings, talented mortals have also shown a proclivity for being able to mould it into equipment or magical objects.
“But along with it came the rising evil in man’s heart. We brought about decay and tyranny despite the King’s generous gift and thus he created time.”
Two ailments in particular threaten our world. The first being the rot. It is indiscriminate who it affects and eats away with its touch. It is an ailment so black as if it had dripped from the night-sky itself. The second is that of the forgotten. Those who disappear from sight and from memory without any trace. How do we know, then, that the forgotten are even a thing? Because the hole they leave behind is unmistakable.
An average, fully grown akar has a greyish-to-black charcoal hued skin. They range between seven to eight feet in height and are double the width of your typical Clerian soldier. Generally speaking, they are far more formidable in comparison to humans. However, their propensity for charging without any forethought, and their typically small companies due to lacking leadership make it easy to lure them into our formations and take them out one by one with minimal losses.
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The akar who named himself as Ji’sura took the blade and imbedded its end to his neck again, deeper this time. His one good eye was wider and more alive than it ever was during our bout. It went ablaze with the last vestige of his ignited soul. What fanaticism, what veneration stared back at me in his moment of truth. There was no hesitation in his final moment. Ji’sura’s fist bled across the blade as his quivering hand pulled the steel across his throat and opened an even greater gash. I gasped and shuddered as if his soul had left through my lips.
Stories had a bad habit of taking on a life of their own, spreading like a disease, growing until it no longer could be contained.
