Post by Anathia on Feb 3, 2009 16:10:49 GMT -5
In certain parts of the land, a strange mist lurks in thick walls. This mist can be found in the woods of Eddalius, in the mountains of Talianis, or even in the open deserts of Nevyrn. There are, so far, no scientific explanations for this strange phenomina.
What is know, however, is that it changes people.
Most people don't survive it. Most who are exposed, even a little, to these misty fumes suffer from a strange and horrible sickness which rots their skin until they finally- painfully- pass on to the next life. For some reason, though, children seem more apt to survive it, though they too are always altered.
Sometimes these alterations are physical, ranging from a change in eye color or hair color to horrific physical deformities: distorted or extra limbs, paralysis and the like. Sometimes there's something more, some little quirk about them that makes them... unnatural. Perhaps they have dreams of things that are occuring in other places, or dreams that later come true. Some might get the occasional glance into another's mind. Little things like so.
But even the little things can be dangerous.
In every country, if such things are found in children, they are many times killed as being changlings, whichbreed fey who might contaminate the rest of the world and bring about destruction...
This mist has come to be known all over as the Anathem, and it's spreading, gaining in size all over... And, it seems, there might be a race against time before it covers everything.
What is know, however, is that it changes people.
Most people don't survive it. Most who are exposed, even a little, to these misty fumes suffer from a strange and horrible sickness which rots their skin until they finally- painfully- pass on to the next life. For some reason, though, children seem more apt to survive it, though they too are always altered.
Sometimes these alterations are physical, ranging from a change in eye color or hair color to horrific physical deformities: distorted or extra limbs, paralysis and the like. Sometimes there's something more, some little quirk about them that makes them... unnatural. Perhaps they have dreams of things that are occuring in other places, or dreams that later come true. Some might get the occasional glance into another's mind. Little things like so.
But even the little things can be dangerous.
In every country, if such things are found in children, they are many times killed as being changlings, whichbreed fey who might contaminate the rest of the world and bring about destruction...
This mist has come to be known all over as the Anathem, and it's spreading, gaining in size all over... And, it seems, there might be a race against time before it covers everything.