Backstory

Complete Avalon Wybern's Backstory.

After a long day of riding a boat I had finally reached the lands of Apâl. It was a desolate place with nothing much to look at. Their were some rocks and some trees that looked dead and it was foggy giving this place that eerie feeling. I got off the boat and started walking down the road to the town. nobody was around probably because it was so cold and the wind was starting to pick up. I wasn’t getting that cold, I came prepared for the cold weather. I had packed a nice warm jacket with some gloves and boots to help keep me warm during my time in Apâl. I didn’t think that I was going to spend that much time here so I didn’t bother to pack up a lot of food. I just ended up eating all of it on the ride over to Apâl.

The town was completely vacant of life. There was no one around, not even a whisper in the wind. It felt like a ghost town with it being so empty of life. I looked around, looking in the windows of some of the houses but there was no light or anything. I continued on walking on to the center of the town while continuing to look around for some sign of life. In the center of the town there was a large stone post with the word //Helorus// engraved at the top of it. Suspecting that I had figured what the name of the town was I took out a map that my master had gave me back in the east. It was a map of Apâl, there wasn’t much on the map but I was able to find the place on the make were it said “Helorus”. This gave me a rough idea of where I was at. I was at a the most south eastern point of Apâl.

Something then blew over and made a loud crashing sound. I looked around and then gave a shout “Who’s there?” But no one answered, and all I herd was my own echo and the whisper of the wind.

This worried me. This town used to be busy and full of life as one of my friends said but something must have just happened. I looked around and pondered on what I should do next. I was planning on getting a room and spending the night and then start off on my quest in the morning. The fog was rolling up really quick and soon enough I had trouble seeing anything. I then noticed a sign on a building at the end of the street that said //Inn//. I then headed on down to the building and nocked on the door. The door the creaked open and I peaked in.

The place was empty and the fire was out and by the feel of the room, it had been out for a long while since it was colder then it was outside. I then walked in and took a longer look around. I then strolled over to the fire pit and crouched down and felt the ashes and it was ice cold. This puzzled me then a large gust of wind came in and slammed the door shut and it was pitch black. I then took off my gloves and then snapped my fingers and created a small light. I looked around then took some peaces of wood and some paper like material and put some it the fire pit and then the touched the paper with my light and a flame had formed. I then looked around the place and lit some candles that I found on this table and then made my self right at home. I figured that if know one has been around for a while that they would not mind me spending the night.

After a couple of hours of looking around the Inn I sat down at the dinning table and took out a scroll that my master had gave me. The scroll was old, really old and was wrapped in a red ribbon. I undid the ribbon and opened the scroll. The scroll spoke about a place in Apâl called the Mountain of Souls. This place in the mountain was said to be the place were energy magic were to have started. It had a sketch of a temple at the top off the mountain. My master told me before I had left for Apâl that the answer of my gift. This was the reason the I have decided to come to Apâl because I wanted to know the answer of my energy magic and why I was chosen to have this type of magic. This question has been puzzling me my whole life and I would like an answer to it. I then sat back and started pondering my life. It’s been mostly un-event full for the most part.

I was born into a family of people who were among a group of middle class people who practice fire magic. When my parents learned that I had electricity magic instead of fire magic they knew I was special. I didn’t see what was so special about my magic. I just saw my self as different as everyone else. My childhood wasn’t the greatest but it was still decent. I didn’t have many friends since I was no good at talking to people. I mostly just studied and read. When I turned the age of 13 my parents sent me off to this master to was going to teach me how to use my magic. I spent 8 years training on how to use my magic and learning how to control it.

Soon enough I noticed that I was having trouble staying awake and started to fall asleep. It had been a long day traveling on boat. I then got up and add some more wood to the fire and then went over to this bed that was near the fire and climbed in. I then starred at the fire, I remembered the first time that I used my magic. I was about 11 years old when my father was trying to see if I could use fire magic. He showed me some technics but they didn’t work. When he was about to give up he handed me this peace of paper and told me to concentrate and then touch the peace of paper. I concentrated strongly and then touched the paper and a form of yellow lightning that engulfed the paper. My father was startled and then left me and then ran off to find my mother. For the longest time my parents wanted me to be a fire mage but after that incident they stopped pushing me to do fire magic. They then had me practice my magic constantly. I could not help but feel like I disappointed them because I did not have fire magic like the hoped for.

In the morning I was awoken by a shock. I heard some whispers “3... 2... 1... Now!” Then before I could wake up I was being dragged out of my bed by my feet outside by these two scruffy looking men. I started to squirm and one of the men had let go and then I kicked the other man in the back of the leg and he fell to the ground. I then scurried to my feet and started to run back away from the men. I then turned around and faced the two men. The two men were rather big grunts. They were skinny and had filthy clothes on.

“What do you want?” I yelled at the two men. The men stopped and looked at each other about 5 feet in front of me. “We want your money and clothes” one of the men said.

“Why?” I asked and slowly raised my fists. I did not bring any weapon thinking that I would not need one. “We just want them, give them to us!” The other man said. The two men then reached around to their side and pulled out their weapon. One man had a large two handed broad sword and the other man took out this whip. I stepped back and the man with the whip took a quick strike at me but missed. He defiantly wasn’t skilled in that weapon at all. I then turned around and started running down the street to the town center. The two men followed right behind me slowly catching up. I ran as fast as I could until I almost reached and the man with the whip had a lucky swat at my legs and I went crashing down on my face. The fresh morning frost felt extremely cold on my skin. I rolled over and the man with the sword had pointed it at my neck and said “We don’t want to hurt you, we just want your stuff.” I then looked at the man and the shine of the sword got caught in my eye and then I realized the sword was metal. I then grabbed my hand and caused an electrical charge down the sword to the mans hand and he then screamed in pain and then let go of the sword and stumbled backward. My hand started bleeding when I grabbed the sword but I quickly grabbed the two handed sword and got up and wielding the sword.

“What the hell was that?” The man who go zapped said.

“He has energy magic” The man with the whip said. The man with the whip then took a swap at me and hit me right on the shoulder releasing the sword from the hand. The man that I had electrified then grabbed his sword and smacked me across the head with the handle and knocked me out. Then next thing that I had remembered was waking up with me head blind folded with my hands and feet tied. I tried to hear what was going on there wasn’t much to hear. I could hear two men whispering about money by the sounds of it. One man was offering 100 for something and the other was arguing that it was worth way more then that. After a while the men had come up with a price of 175. At the time I was able to recognize one of the voices, the man with the whip. A person then walked up to me and grabbed me by the arm and pulled me up and then removed my blind. The man was wearing a suit and smelled of flowers. He kinda looked like a business man or a rick aristocrat. He then started to look over my head. There was a giant bump on my head from where the guy with the sword hit me. “Do you under stand me?” the man in the suit asked. I nodded my head hesitantly looking at both of the men. “Do you know where you are?” The man asked. I looked around. I was in a small room that had one door and one window. The walls weren’t made out of wood but out of some stone or metal like material. I then looked out this window and there were people walking around out side and there were these metal things moving around and making noises. The man in the suit noticed my puzzled face and said that I was in the city of Elpida. I had no idea where that is.

“I herd that you have electricity magic, is this true?” the man in the suit said abruptly. Unknowing that the answer that I would give next would cause me to be imprisoned for 3 years I said “Yes” That view from the window would be the last sign of civilization I saw for 3 years. He then asked me to take this round thing by the bottom and use my magic. The thing then started to light up with a light as bright as the sun.

The business man smiled then handed over some money to the man with the whip and then had him remove my bindings. He then asked me to follow him. We left the room and he led me to this place far above ground were I would be spending my next 3 year. He took me to this room and told me to grab this round ball thing had have me use my magic. The electricity was then absorbed by the round metallic and was then gone. Then then smiled and said “Excellent! I will see you later then.” He then walked out of the room and closed the door behind him. I then walked over to the door and tried to open it but it was locked. I then tried to use my magic but it ended up just coming back at me causing large amount of pain.