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The Ethereal Cascade

🇩🇪Marcian_Noxx
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When the thanks-giving feast comes close to its end in the sandmarches a hot wind from the east will come up and bring chaos to the empire. During its turmoil a long hidden and imprisoned evil is released from its prison. A wild hunt and struggle between the forces of order and those craving for power emerges in these dark times. Rovan is drawn into the whirlstorm of official and secret powerful forces to either fall for the seductive allure of evil or walk his destined path. Can he stay on his way when his comrades right and left fall prey to evil and it schemes? And what will happen to him, when he finally meets Lenja, the love of his teen years, and recognizes what time and ambition did to her. Will he be able to save her? *********************************************************** Schedule: 1 chapter / day Western fantasy with a strong emphasize on the characters. Building a large world with many factions, desires and destinies. Do not expect to read about the MC all the time. Audience: Due to its complexity and the effort to transmit mental growth, backround and emotions it is most certainly difficult for children below 14. Sexuality and brutality will not be narrated in details. ************************************************************ Please leave your comments and questions. I am also able to provide backround material of the world an it´s people seperatly if you are interested (like maps, family history, religious systems, catalogue of magical academies and so on.) I will publish this material as auxillary Volumes.
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Chapter 1 - Introduction

A tall, slender figure stood motionless in her simple black robe in front of the mirror, or rather in front of one of the mirrors. The upper side of the mirrors was bordered by an arch, which was provided with equally dark blue signs that only said something to the users of this room. Each mirror had exactly 6 of these signs, but they were never the same, even if one or the other sign was repeated on one or the other mirror frame. The black-robed figure stared motionless into one of the mirrors and made hand-wiping movements. The images in the mirror changed at a frenzied speed. Hardly imaginable that someone could have taken the pictures in itself at this speed, yet the figure was still extremely satisfied with what he saw. With a finger sticking out from under the wide, heavy robe, he painted signs in the air that took on a light blue colour and sank into the mirror. Shortly thereafter, the robed man wiped the pictures aside to take other pictures, which he also provided with bluish characters. Eventually, a single picture emerged from the chaos of different pictures. A stream of dancing lights in all the colors of the rainbow were seen rising from a mountain. The lights formed a thick pillar of a spiraling stream of rainbow-colored light spiraling up to the sky. The figure stared spellbound into the mirror and used the fingers to draw further characters in the air and let them sink into the mirror. But the picture did not change. He repeated the process, but nothing happened. Furiously, he clenched his fists and made a wiping movement over the mirror and the image disappeared and only the silvery surface, in which the blue light of the Kronur coals was gently reflected, remained. With an energetic step, the figure left the room through one of the mirrors.

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"Lenja"

"Yes?"

"Lenjaaa"

"Yes, I'm here, who are you?"

"Lenja"

"What do you want from me?"

"Lenja I was looking for you."

"You're scaring me."

"Don´t be foolish."

"Yes, I'm afraid."

"But not because of me Lenja. You are afraid of other things"

"How do you want to know that? Who are you?"

"You have never been afraid of me."

"But now I'm scared. Please tell me who you are."

"I can not do that."

"Why not?"

"This is a dream."

"A dream?"

"This is your dream."

"My dream?"

"Yes, when you wake up I'm gone."

"I ... I don't know if I want to wake up or not."

"You don't know too much Lenja."

"I'm still a child!"

"And yet you have to want to know"

"What do I need to know? I do not understand anything. You scare me."

"No you scare yourself."

"No! You scare me."

"You scare yourself because you don't want to."

"What do I don´t want?"

"Everything."

"What do you mean?"

"You will understand."

"You sound like old Gronak. I want to understand now."

"Ah. At last you want something."

"Yes! I want you to say what you want from me and if you are not going to tell me go away."

"I was looking for you."

"You found me, what do you want now?"

"That is the wrong question."

"No! I do not like this anymore. What's wrong with the question?"

"If you understand that, you won't be scared anymore."

"What does this question have to do with my fear?"

"Everything. And nothing. If you understand it - everything. If you don't understand it - nothing."

"Then it has nothing to do with it."

"You will remember today and then you will understand."

"You are silly I don't like you."

"But I love you. I've always loved you."

"I'm only 11!! Only my mom loves me."

"But it's true."

"Do you tell me who you are? You must be a magician if you talk to me in a dream. There are no magicians in our village and I've never been outside - you can't even know me"

"I know you."

"I'm going to get angry."

"Don't open the red closet."

"What closet is it? Please leave me alone."

"Wake up, it's time."