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ou are 8 years old when in a summer night
your family is suddenly being attacked. You
father has been quite agitated the days before.
Did he know about what might happen? You
wake up when your mother opens the door to
the room of your sister and you.She tells
you run, to run away as fast as if the hounds
of hell were after you.Being afraid and hearing the noise below in the house you climb out of the window and into the town to hide yourself. But alas, you have been spotted. You hear one assassin calling out to his comrads. Before you arrive at the banks of the river Strom you are hit by an arrow in your right shoulder. You make it into a small boat and manage to flee. Through the cold and your injury it is hard for you stay awake. You fall asleep... 
he first thing you see is an old man shaking
you and giving you water. You are taken to
the town center of a small island. The man
who found you was Oran, fisherman of the
small Hamlet belonging to the Island of the
Lycaeum. A monastery and a place of wisdom
which has been visited for many years by
many travelers. But since the war broke out
between the cities Talas and Saeport none
have ventured there anymore. Only a few of
the order still reside there.You are brought to the town priest. Darius and Selena, the innkeepers of the "PilgrInn" and a fresh married couple, gladly agree to take you in. You spend 8 following years living with your new foster parents. Ganom an old sage in the Hamlet teaches you about the world and to read and write, while besides doing your chores in the less frequented inn you help Barion, ex-guard and now farmer, tending his farm. 
ife seems to finally have calmed down again.
But you never forgot your family. You never
stopped to wonder what became of your parents
and sister and to long for them. You have
always wanted to venture to your hometown
and return.But "Dah and Lena" just would not let you go and also dare not venture themselves because of the war.
here is something about the Island that
made you feel uneasy some months now. But
you could not really place it. It is spring
now, but it feels like autumn. Although the
days are warmer the trees will just not bloom
as they should. The forest animals are acting
strange. Oran's nets hold more rodents than
fish, that fled into the river paniced trying
to flee from the Island. Barion had to kill a
fox that was suddenly after him and not
just his chickens.Everybody in the town seems to be struck by some weakness. Everyday labour is getting harder to manage for everyone.
hough strange, you are the only one who
is totally unaffected by this weakness. The
town priest eyes you suspicously. Hell, you
don't know yourself what is happening and
for what reason you seem to be immune to
all of this. There is not much you can do.
hen one day
Selena takes ill you decide to venture out
to find a way to help her. Maybe you can
find a person who can help. Maybe the few
monks of the Lycaeum can help her... |
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