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Post by GM ADMIN on Feb 4, 2011 11:35:44 GMT -5
When Emalanth was young, it's people sill primitive and wild, a great change swept the world. It happened over night and at first nobody noticed it. They felt no different, in fact it was almost as though nothing had happened. People woke up. They went to work. Then they slept. Which is why no one can name the exact day in which the Change had begun. But it had no doubt started.
Soon children who were coming of age began to exhibit odd behaviors. And when the first ones transformed, the people were so horrified that they lashed out in terror. Many young people were brutally slaughtered those first few years. The land was bathed in the blood of thousands of innocent children. It was a dark time. But eventually the older ones began to change to. Their changes triggered by anger, or sadness, even intense joy. Any time they felt an emotion fill them to overflowing, the animal inside of them would wake as though rising from hibernation. After a while no one was left who could not change. And the people had no choice but to accept their new abilities. Their societies and laws evolving to their new needs. A world where man and beast were one. Emalanth started as a world much like ours. It's people were normal, human. But the Time of Change made everything different. As a result it has evolved differently. Despite some old fashioned tendencies they have technology. They may not have many guns, for many of the men and women of Emalanth consider themselves their own weapons. But they do have electricity. Their larger cities have skyscrapers, condos, and apartment buildings. They have phones. They wear modern clothing. But like the humans have their two sides so does Emalanth. Some of the people still dress in the old styles, still live in stone castles and live as they did hundreds of years ago. It's a split world of old and new. The Change, though accepted as a part of their existence and their vary life, is often considered a curse rather than a gift. It is always physically painful. But sometimes it can damage a person both mentally and emotionally. Many families have been forced to break apart because a child has changed into something different. 'A deer can not live amongst wolves' as the elders say. And long ago it was decided that children who become something else, must go to live with those of their own kind. For their own safety.
A darkness in Emalanth?
Recently some people have grown angry with the way things are in Emalanth. They grow tired of the often painful changes from human to beast. They don't understand why they must be separated from family, friends, and children. Why they must pray for their children to be like them. And so some have started looking for ways to stop the Change. Rumor has it that a group of men are mixing the oldest magics with newer sciences to try and end it once and for all. But so far all experiments to separate man from beast have only caused death. Rumor even tells that those who survive the experiments turn into horrid monsters, before dying only days later. If this is true it must be stopped. For no good can come out of the old magics. And though science has done much to help Emalanth, it is no match for what ever spell combined man with animal.
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