Heroes of Aurivyn

Hail and well met, you Truly Adventurous Souls!

In our last exciting episode, you remember that I shared with you the dubious beginnings of the Aurivyn line.  So today I thought it would be nice to start telling you about some of the heroes who live in that world!

First of all, there's Darg Demandrov.  He's a human, he's a warrior.  Pretty healthy, pretty strong, not too bright.  He lives in the Kingdom of Kordania, but comes a the native Vogadaran family.  When our story begins, he lives in the village of Ramalov in the easter side of the kingdom, and is a guard at the local Keep.  

He has only lived in Ramalov a few months, though.  His hometown was a village on the western side of the kingdom, which has been razed to the ground by a warband of hobgoblins less than a year ago.  Darg was actually found wandering the countryside, obviously the victim of some harrowing ordeal and suffering from a bout of amnesia.

Vlad Ludeski, Lord of Ramalov, treats him like an interesting brain teaser, and tries to help him peice together who he is, where he is from, and how he came to be in his current circumstances.  

Darg does not make this easy.  He is understandably frustrated, impatient, and has a strong abhorrence for the Trycadian immigrants and wizardry in almost any form.  

Secondly, there is Maxalla Trigostian.  She, too, is human.  With a Trycadian father and Vogaradan mother she is one of the "New Kordanians", a new generation uniting two disparate cultures into one.  She is a priestess devoted to the Holy Troika of the Church of Vogadara.  

She has lived in Ramalov her entire life, and has endured several attacks on her village by a pack of gnolls who wish to reclaim tribal lands which were once theirs eons ago before humans ever arrived.

Her Vogadaran mother was once under the thrall of a vampire, who induced her to deliver her own daughter to members of the Cult of Zolgon.  The Cultists planned to sacrifice the baby to their demon lord.  The mother-daughter duo was saved when they inadvertently led a band of priests and guardsmen to the Cultists' shrine.  Maxalla was only months old and has no memory of this, but this incident renewed her mother's faith, and she, in turn, pushed Maxalla into her service to the Church.

A dutiful young woman, she strives to live up to all that is expected of her.  Secretly, she harbors a doubt about her worthiness to serve the Church.  Is it the natural trepidation that plagues us all, or some residual taint placed upon her by the Cultists?  She does not know, but she fears what damage can be done to her loved ones and her neighbors if...or when...she fails.

These two, together, discover a wrinkle in reality caused by some Evil Entity that tried to free itself from the pocket dimension it was locked it long ago, and escape back into an unsuspecting world.

Can this unlikely pair stand fast or fall beneath the attack of some unspeakable Evil?  Follow their adventures and see if they can face "The Wrath of the Ancient Prisoner"!

Until then, I wish you all...

Good Adventuring!

Timothy A. Sayell