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Long, long ago, the world of Gilgiria was beginning to fall apart.
The mysterious, dark Shadow Creatures from afar had long since settled into Gilgiria, feasting upon the hearts of the people and birthing evil among the lands. Several heroes and knights set out to fight the coming of darkness. Many failed. However, one left a small hope … a little-known hope, but a hope all the same…
In the desert, there lived an elf named Nisipuri Sands. He had grown up in the desert tribes of the south, and sought to quell the Shadow Creatures. He left his home with his longbow and many arrows, prepared to give his all for his world.
Nisipuri trekked deep into the Great Forest, an unexplored and feared land. He met many foes, nearly perishing more than once, often saved only by luck and determination. Still Nisipuri went on, refusing to be daunted and living now only for the sake of his world and his people.
One day, Nisipuri met a young dwarf named Micde Wander. Micde was a hardy young man, traveling alone like Nisipuri. Nisipuri asked why Micde was in the middle of the forest.
Now, Micde was a clever dwarf. He saw that the elf standing before him was a hero, seeking to drive the Shadow Creatures away. But Micde was being given all the gold in the mountains for services to the Shadow Creatures.
So Micde deceived Nisipuri. He told him that his mountainside village had been raided by Shadow Creatures, and he had sworn to live from then on to drive them from the lands. The innocent Nisipuri could not see the clever dwarf’s lie, and so, thinking that they had a common purpose, agreed to travel with him.
Micde told Nisipuri that he knew of a Shadow Creature encampment to the west. Nisipuri, however, had other plans. He had been wanting to go east, to gain news from the werewolf tribes, who were one with the wilds and knew what news the wind brought more easily. After some debate, Micde agreed to follow Nisipuri. Nisipuri saw this as another reason to trust the dwarf – a man who was willing to humbly change his mind was surely a wise one, after all.
And so, for two moons, the duo traveled the Great Forest, having many adventures and mishaps along the way. The two became good friends, and Micde began to question his role in the war between shadows and light.
The night came when the pair arrived at the nearest werewolf tribe to find it abandoned. The other villages nearby were in a similar state. After many days of searching, the dark crest of the Shadow Creatures was found in the rubble of a destroyed village. Discouraged, Nisipuri and Micde left, taking Micde’s original path to the west.
Nisipuri was surprised when their path was unsullied and easier than he had expected. He saw it as a sign of luck, but Micde knew it was a sign that the Shadow Creatures were waiting for him.
Finally, Micde decided to confess his true position and join his friend’s cause truly. That night, however, as he began to speak, he fell as if struck, and Nisipuri could not wake him. Although none but the dwarf know what happened, when Micde finally arose, he was renewed in his loyalty to the Shadow Creatures. He did not dare tell Nisipuri that he was a traitor.
However, Micde was true to his word; he led Nisipuri to the ‘enemy’ encampment. But Nisipuri soon discovered that it was not simply an encampment, but a key base. He fled, pursued by many armed guards, and barely escaped.
The next morning, Nisipuri arose and prepared for battle, preparing many quivers of arrows. He did not know what had happened to his dwarf friend, but assumed that Micde had been misinformed and was now a prisoner. And so Nisipuri set out to rescue his friend.
He crept through the growth and killed many guards without raising any alarm. He was a patient hunter, picking them away one by one until he knew there was no more time to use. He loaded his longbow and stood, shooting down the startled guards in only a minute. But the alarm had been raised.
Nisipuri fought bravely for his dwarf friend, standing his ground and steadily shooting the attacking guards. Finally, the battleground was cleared, with Nisipuri still somehow standing tall. The Battle of the Eastern Encampment is still renowned today as the most amazing and odds-defying battle in the history of Gilgiria.
Then, across the fresh battlefield charged a small, muscular figure – Micde Wander, who would be known from that day forward as Micde the Traitor.
At last Nisipuri saw what his friend had truly been all along, and a great rage overwhelmed him. His arrows and strength spent, he stood squarely against his opponent, prepared to die fighting.
Many people say that there is a magic in all people, awakened when their true spirit arouses itself. This magic took Nisipuri that day as he stood spent seeing that all he had done with his friend had been a game, a trick, and he decided to die there, giving his life for his people.
And in those last moments before he was slain, Nisipuri Sands, a strange, hidden magic possessing his body, laid a curse upon the evils that had taken his world.
“You have betrayed the world,” he said to Micde the Traitor, “And so the world will turn on you. One day, a revolution will come against the dark Shadow Creatures that take this land now. And a hero will stand as tall as the trees and as strong as the mountains, no matter the challenge. And as Nisipuri Sands falls today, the sands may yet return in this hero.” And as he finished his curse, Micde the Traitor of the Shadow Creatures struck down his friend with a mighty stroke of his axe, and thus fell Nisipuri Sands.
Few know of the legacy left behind by Nisipuri, and fewer yet know the true story. But still, silently, secretly, the faraway land of Gilgiria waits for the Hero of the Sands to arise and fight the battle to overthrow the Shadow Creatures.
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