The Pine Village

From Aethier

An isolated floating village within the pine trees of the northwest, consisting of a population nearly entirely of Aervan. They have made their home in the trees, bridges making the main infrastructure of the village as it goes between them. The forest is that of legend that the inhabitants of the Pine Village have made their home on, being made entirely of Iron-soul with the central tree being a Hero's Ebony. The dryads of the forest, seeing that the villagers suffered constant attacks from the murderous beasts of Angarvunde, made a home for them by strengthening the trees. The inhabitants moved up off the ground, and into the skies. When Angarvunde came for another raid, they found that they were unable to attack those of the Pine Village, for they could not even cut down the trees the village rested on. The land was hostile to Angarvunde, as the dryads worked their nature magic to help protect the Aervan from their twisted ways. Since then, the Pine Village has remained content and happy with their isolationist policies and ways, working closely with the local dryads of the woods. The Pine Village is lead by a humble and simple 'mayor', a leader of the village.

Yet, such was not always the truth. Before their desolation by Angarvunde and the burning of their city, the Pine Village played an important part in the role of history in regards to the sprawling Drakonspyre Empire to the south. Their homeland was colonized, and at the time, they had a heavenly Kingdom that sprawled through the forests and geysers of the northwest. Lead by a military junta, they still retained their ideals of isolation and keeping to themselves, and remaining prosperous through the diligence of their people. Everything had changed though, when the Drakonspyre nation attacked. A Drakonspyre fleet had assaulted a port city of theirs. Flames and fire reigned over the people of the city, and when the morning rose, the city was reduced to ashes and sacked for the exotic goods that the city held. But, for the people of the Kingdom known at the time as 'the Kingdom of Dawn', this meant war. A proud people, they would not sit so easily as Drakonspyre violated their sacred lands. Under cover of night, the men and warships of the heavenly Kingdom set out against Drakonspyre. They sailed southwards, seeking vengeance and retribution.

But they were met with fire and death.

The fathers, the brothers, sons, grandchildren, were all charred at the bottom of the ocean before they made landfall. A scouting expedition from the Drakonspyre forces had spotted and intercepted the incoming force, and what ship could possibly defend against dragons and the hellfire that rained from above? With their army decimated, Drakonspyre sought now to show who was in charge, and set it that way for good. A city was established on the southern coast of the northwest for resupply and logistics, and to have a foot in the door. The dragonriders and their main forces drove through the heart of the Kingdom of Dawn, and by the end of it all they mocked the people, noting that they had become 'The Kingdom of Dusk'. Their sun had set, and they were reduced to mostly ashes and ruins, with those surviving learning the wrath and hell that came from sparking the ire of the grand empire.

And to the north, news spread of a weakened state.


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