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Chapter 8 - Arc 2 Magic: Chapter 1: Liora, the goddess of healing and life

Long ago, before men, elves or goblins ever roamed Pelisarius, gods and goddesses inhabited

Pelisarius almost as a zoo of some sort. Liora in fact created Pelisarius. Some call her 'mother

nature.' She created it for the enjoyment of other gods and so that she can find pleasure in

these little beings that live; find pleasure, not love. A lot of time passed and the god's and

goddess's of creation began to feel powerless and too humble; they needed something or

someone to worship and live after them. So they urged Liora to allow them to place men, elves

and goblins on her planet. Due to her gentle and soft heart, she allowed them to do so almost

instantly. Hence, the birth of knowledgeable, mortal beings was at hand. Liora felt proud of her

choice for the first couple of centuries as these creatures did as they were 'told' and they were

peaceful and served as better entertainment. However, after a period of time, the gods and

goddess's of creation got bored of them and moved onto another planet. Liora, the goddess of

healing and life, was now left to tend and care for these creatures. Unlike the other gods and

goddesses, she was gentle and loose with the humans; allowing them to create create

structures and buildings and empires. Before Liora could even process the fact that she was

now their main goddess to worship, the world had already been split into 195 different factions.

Liora was horrified at their inability to corporate. She wept for days. Days turned into weeks and

weeks into months. Months into years and years into decades. Decades into centuries and

centuries into millennia. The people of Pelisarius heard her cries for millennia and finally, after

hundreds and thousands of wars, united under one name: The kingdom of Pelisarius with a

human king. Liora saw this and her tears stopped. Her tears of sadness turned into tears of

gratitude. This peaceful era of Pelisarius lasted for 4 millennia. Every day of those 4 millennia,

Liora would come down to them, along with other gods and goddess's, and bless them and live

with them. However, one day the great civil war happened and the rest was history. Liora was

saddened by this and had no tears to shed. She still visited Lumin frequently yet it never felt the

same. More gods had to watch over Pelisarius to prevent another war and they were no longer

her little babies.

One visit, she was having a stroll in a royal garden along with some of her attendants and she

noticed Eldrinor. Eldrinor was young and rapid, not as he is today, and Liora never saw a being,

especially an elf, as beautiful as Eldrinor.

'He had sparkly green eyes that were pointing towards the heavens and inside of them was

sprinkled diamonds and jewels. He had hair strands that could be used as the strings of the

most exquisite instruments. His hair was silver and flowed all the day down to his bottom. He

sometimes tied it up in a bun and held back his beauty but when he let it go wild, I went wild

too. He had these lips which I could kiss forever; thin lips, thin like paper yet also thick as a

pillow at the same time. They were rounded with not a single flaw in them. He had hairy yet

perfectly crafted eyebrows and upon each of them was a peculiar yet pulchritudinous design.

He had a wonderful, little moustache paired with an exuberant goatee. His skin was a pale tone

of green, extremely pale. From an angle he was even white! He was tall, very tall and was as a

tower over me. He was wearing a ripped shirt with his properly crafted muscles leaking out. He

had ripped garments all on him and held an axe with which he was chopping down trees. He

had an incredibly sharp jawline with even more incredible cheekbones and his ears were small

yet also sharp. Oh, and he was also covered in sweat!'

These were the exact words of Liora when she had described him to her goddess friends.

Liora gazed at this man to the point where her attendants were urging her to continue walking.

Eldrinor was truly the most beautiful mortal to ever exist; not as beautiful as Liora as she was

immortal but more beautiful than any other mortal that ever existed and that ever will. Eldrinor

noticed her staring and smiled and waved at her. She smiled and waved back. He then saw her

attire and noticed she was above royal status, making her apart of the godly status, so he

immediately threw his axe to the ground, ran to her, bowed down and began worshiping and

apologizing for greeting without proper respect. Liora laughed and blushed to death,

"No!" She screamed, "Arise mortal!" She kept laughing. Her attendants were now down on a

bench waiting.

"My Goddess," Eldrinor said, towering over her and looking down, "I sincerely apologize!"

"Hm, perhaps I do find offense in your height," Liora said mockingly, "Bow down mortal."

Eldrinor bowed down immediately without a second thought and Liora put her barefoot on his

wet, sticky, sweaty back.

"Your grace!" Eldrinor shouted, "I am dirty!"

"Am I queen now?" Liora responded, "Am I no longer 'your goddess'?" She asked.

"I'm sorry my goddess!" Eldrinor responded hastily.

"Arise." Liora said. Eldrinor arose. "This cannot go unpunished you know."

"Yes, my goddess." Eldrinor replied, "I would be honoured to die by your hands!"

"Die!?" She laughed. "Who said anything about dying?" Liora then told him to get a bit lower, to

match her, eye for eye. "I was thinking of a punishment along the lines of this," She then kissed

him on the lips. Eldrinor was about to kneel and worship,

"Oh, please." She said, "I've had enough worship treat me as a mortal for now."

"Yes my goddes..." Eldrinor tried to say,

"Mortals aren't goddesses now are they?" Liora said.

"No; how should I refer to you then?" Eldrinor asked.

"Call me Liora," Liora replied, "Mortals are called by their names now aren't they?" Liora then

pulled him up from his 'half-kneeling' stance and began to walk with him.

"So," Liora asked, "Where are you from?

"I'm from here, my" He stuttered, "I mean Liora."

"Ah, you're a Solyndrian," Liora said, "I never had the pleasure of meeting someone from

Solryndria besides the royals. The royals bore may I say, I'm glad I met a commoner.

"Oh. M'lady" He stuttered, "Don't let my humble demeanour and clothes fool you; I am indeed a

lord of the east of Lumin and wield a great dragon!" Liora burst out laughing,

"Dragons!" She screamed, "I'm surprised dragons don't wield you!"

"Why thank you!" He replied. They both continued laughing and then Liora pushed him into a

fountain. Eldrinor was about to bow down and apologize but saw a mischievous, playful grin

emerging upon her face so he pushed her right in besides himself. The water was cold and his

big body didn't even feel it yet her petite stature suffered the frosty water. Liora teased him with

a small blow of pure-energy and he went flying into the wall of the royal palace.

"Oh my!" He grunted, "I shall spend my whole life in debt trying to fix this!"

"Perhaps you shouldn't have dragged me into the water!" She laughed, "Don't worry, nothing

will happen to you. I am one of the lower goddess's of Pelisarius after all. Even the lowest of

gods is higher than any living mortal- royal or not." Liora then made her way over to Eldrinor,

both still covered in water, "Now that you know the true power of gods, will you ever disobey me

again me mortal?" She asked with a more lecherous than mischievous smile.

"Never again M'lady." Eldrinor leaned into Liora and Liora grabbed his built stomach. Liora flew

up to his head and kissed him again.

"M'lady, that was two kisses," He said, "From where I'm from, one kiss is for friendship, mercy

perhaps even forgiveness. Two kisses however, they are for love."

"I'm well aware of your tradition Eldrinor, I come here almost daily,"

"So then why-" Eldrinor got kissed again.

"May I ask what three kisses mean?" Eldrinor was stunned and he couldn't help but kiss her

back. They were now at four kisses. Liora kissed him once more. Five. He did it once more. Six.

She again. Seven. He again. Eight. She again. Nine. They both then kissed at the same time

for the tenth time

"That was now ten M'lady." Eldrinor said,

"What is it?" Liora replied, "Did you only want one?" She said laughing and fiddling with her

hair.

"Never, M'lady. I want twenty, fifty, one hundred!" Eldrinor screamed.

"I do too." She whispered, hovering around his ear, "Let's marry Eldrinor of house Silverleaf,"

"Marry?" He replied, "My father is dead he can't give me away!"

"I am a goddess, I do as I wish," She replied,

"Indeed you do M'lady." He added.

After their little interaction, they saw each other again many times; daily matter of fact. They

would sneak off behind the castle and kiss-and feed their lustful monsters together- almost

every time. Eldrinor would be crowned as a god for kissing a goddess let alone sexing her and

marrying her. However, Liora was shamed after the gods found out. They cursed her and kicked

her out from the lower ranks of god and goddess and banished her to the permanent realm of

men. She had not lost her godly powers of course but she had lost her divine right of heaven

and of transversing the realms. She could no longer be everywhere and anywhere, she could

no longer enter and leave the heavenly and manly realms at command. Worst of all, she had

lost her immortality. The one thing that defined her godliness and her reason of worship. People

on Pelisarius still worshipped her of course out of love and gratitude but she could no longer gift

them anything. The death of a goddess is the love of a mortal. Love is the only thing that can kill

a god or goddess; and Liora had fell victim to love. After being with Eldrinor for a long time and

watching how he climbed the ranks of soldier and how she descended the ranks of god, she

decided to have a child. Eldrinor and Liora finally conceived a child. The child was beautiful, he

had a gem in his forehead, just like his mother, and had green skin and eyes like his father and

also had silver hair like his father. However, everything else was from his mother; and he had a

gift too. Liora's final gift to humanity was this child. Was he the Solaryn? Never. Was he the

Solaryn's companion? Indeed. This child had a gift no one in all of Lumin had however. A gift

from the gods. He had the power of pure-energy alongside his nature energy. Eldrinor hid his

from him for his own survival for years. He also hid Liora's past from him too; only saying that

she was another peasant girl like him who helped him climb the ranks to becoming the king's

right hand man and lord lieutenant of the army. However, the undeniable truth had to be

released one day. This child was named Aelion Silverleaf the 3rd.

Liora held the little babe in her soft, white hands and looked down at him. The child looked up

and saw a beautiful, aging woman. Her immortality leaving also meant her youth left. Liora had

long, brown hair that spanned all the way to her feet. She had these hazel, almond eyes that

looked like little gems that fell from the heavens. She had chubby, little cheeks that shone with

youth yet covered in age. Her lips were dry but signs of youth and beauty once being there was

present. Her nose was short and upturned and full of bumps. She had little lines on her chin

and those same lines were above her brown eyebrows. She had the beautiful type of oldness.

She also had a radiating, ivory gem that became dimmer and dimmer every day; it now

appeared nearly black. Liora smiled hopefully at the babe; she knew her time was over.

"Eldrinor, my truest love come near." Eldrinor came near and grabbed the baby and put him in

an attendants arms. He then held his aged wife.

"I should've told you this before," She whispered, "The price for a god or goddess giving birth, is

death. It doesn't matter whether they are immortal or mortal"

"What!" Eldrinor raged, "Why did you have us make a child then!" He cried out.

"I wanted you to have a companion after I die," She whispered, "I was on the walk of the mortal

death except I was running and skipping. See, I look twice your age."

"My dearest Liora..." Eldrinor pressed his head against her soggy chest and cried, Liora hugged

him one last time.

"It's all right, my love." She said, "Now that I'm a mortal, I can inherit the heavens as you do; we

will see each other there, I promise you that, Eldrinor." She then gave up her breath and died.

What followed was horrific. An entire year of mourning and crying. The king, Velentinus, and the

family all mourned along with Eldrinor and his servants. They all mourned the death of the most

loving goddess. They all mourned the death of the Mother of Nature.