The World Of Mianite - The Beginning

 

The World of Mianite started at the 29th of May, 2014. At least, in our world.

Our archeologists have found a document about the beginning of this world called Mianite.

We had so many questions, for example:

Who are these Gods?

Who are the two "leaders"?

Why did they call the world Mianite?

How was this world created and why did it start with only two human beings?

 

Thanks to this document, we could figure out the lore behind Mianite.

 

The Lore

Mellin and Deryn were two brothers. Their story begins way back when they decided to become Druïds of the Order. The study was tough. Really tough. But both Mellin and Deryn were great students and would be finishing their study later that year. But one morning, Deryn woke up. He started mumbling. He told Mellin that he had a dream. A voice in his head said that he should start to study the way of necromancy. It was the unwalked path of nature according to that voice. Mellin tried to talk Deryn out of this idea and asked the Order for help. Deryn started to become filled with fear because he realised the voice in his head was taking him into the darkness. Each night his dreams became clearer and clearer, until he woke up with bloodshot eyes and heavy breathing as he saw the light fade from his sight. Everything became dark. Mellin saw this and tried to help him. He called in the Order, who took Deryn under their guard. For weeks Deryn lay in a bed in the sacred circle of the Order. Druïds prayed for the spirits to clean his soul. After a few weeks, Deryn started to clear up. His eyes and breathing went back to normal. Or at least that was how it seemed. Mellin knew this and he saw that Deryn wasn’t who he used to be anymore. For two days Deryn seemed to be back to normal, until Mellin stept into the sacred circle and saw it was broken down. Deryn stood in the middle of the circle. With a deep voice Deryn said that he had expected Mellin to come by. And that there was nothing else he could do, then what he had done. Mellin told him that there was another way, but he didn’t believe it. He said the only way to silence the voice inside his head was to do exactly what he was told. He had to study the way of Necromancy. Mellin tried to convince him not to step into darkness, but it was too late. He had already lost his brother.

 

For years, Mellin didn’t hear a word from Deryn, as he had dissapeared after their last talk in the sacred circle. But then, after twenty-five years, Mellin received a letter. In this letter, a line was written. One single line: “I lost the voice…” Mellin immediatly knew that the letter had to be from Deryn. He thought that this had to be good news. Deryn got rid of the voice which meant that he stept out of the dark. Maybe he even turned away from Necromancy. But he couldn’t be more wrong. Deryn lost the voice, because he fulfilled its wishes. Deryn had learned the way of Necromancy and was named: “The Shadow”. People heard of this name before, but weren’t entirely sure of what was true and what was not.

 

People started missing. Farmers, mine-workers, bakers, fishermen, even children. The news spread fast and people started to get suspicious of one another. Woads were taken prisoner because people accused them of doing experiments on the missing people. The Seers blamed it on the nature religion. They accused their Nature Spirits to have turned against the people of Esgar. Barin Hollowbrand tried to stay out of this. He did not want to risk the lifes of his warriors for a religionous war. Instead he started to train everybody who was able to fight and prepared them for the darkness that was coming closer with each day. But The Seers saw this as a threat and on the 16th sunrise of Olom, in the first year of Yóhn, The Brave attacked The Clan Of Hollowbrand. A war that would continue for years, had started that day. Mellin saw everything that happened. He tried to reason with the two enemies, but he got locked away in a deep dungeon. The battle continued while Mellin could not do anything to stop it. He saw the darkness come closer each minute while the two biggest armies of all Esgar, fought against each other instead of uniting against a common enemy, the darkness. Argo Théfreì and Barin Hollowbrand were trying so hard to destroy each other that they didn’t see the real danger anymore.

 

While armies were being slaughtered, through the mountains a big shadow appeared. The color started to fade from the grass and the trees started to become ill. An epidemic started to unfold in the land of Esgar, and then… What no one could foresee… Barin Hollowbrand and Argo Théfreì dissapeared.

 

On the 9th sunrise of Trinn, in the fourth year of Yóhn, a dark man appeared in the dungeon where Mellin was held. When the man, shrouded in a dark cloak, started to speak, Mellin could hear the voice of his brother. After twenty-eight years, the two brothers stood in front of each other once more. The cloaked man started laughing, while Mellin told him that the darkness was controlling him.

‘Darkness is not controlling me… I am darkness.’ The cloaked man touched the prison gate, whereby it crumbled into ashes. He told Mellin that the two of them had great things to do. After this he dissapeared back into the darkness.

 

For months Mellin thought about what his brother could mean by “Great things”, but he could not understand it. On the 24th of Cyrt, in the fifth year of Yóhn, he heard that The Seers and the House of Hollowbrand were marching to Mount Dastar, where a dark shadow had been seen. Mellin too, wanted to know what had happened on that mountain and he tried to get there as fast as he could. 

Unfortunatly, as soon as he got to the top, he saw that a huge battle had taken place. Bodies of dead warriors and knights were spread around on the ground.

 

In the distance Mellin saw the cloaked man, his brother, standing in the middle of a circle of bodies. For a second he thought back to the day that his brother had turned to the dark side. Mellin walked to his brother while survivors of the battle started to gather the bodies of their fallen friends. They stopped when they saw the two men talking to each other.

 

Mellin told Deryn that this could not be what he wanted. Deryn in his turn told him that this all was for a greater purpose. He told Mellin that something big was about to happen. Mellin did not understand what he meant, so as the clouds began to rumble, he started praying to the spirits to cleanse his soul. A big light appeared around Mellin while a shadow was cast around Deryn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mellin opened his eyes and saw the shadow coming towards him. He got on one knee and as soon as the shadow had come into his reach, he jumped forward. The two formed a ball that combined the shadow and light, whereupon it dissapeared. It became quiet on the top of the mountain. The clouds stopped rumbling and the men from both sides gathered around the place where the ball had dissapeared. For minutes they stared at each other, until two objects started to form. Barin and Argo started to appear. The two men smiled at each other. They wanted to settle this war right here. Not with a fight, but by talking.

 

The men talked and discussed the new rules of Esgar, and on the 25th sunrise of Cyrt they had finally come to a compromise. As they finished their discussion, the clouds started to rumble. They looked up to the sky and nodded. They looked at each other and reached out their hand. As they shook hands, the mixed ball started to appear, followed by a silenced explosion. The people on the mountain had dissapeared…

 

Memories of the surviving people in Esgar were erased. People still knew that a war had been going on, but they forgot what the reason for this war was. And so came the end to a war that would be known as “The Forgotten War”. It was the beginning of a new era, and the start of a new world.

 

Argo and Barin had forgotten their own names as they woke up near an ocean. The only thing they remembered was their mission to build a new civilization in a world called Mianite(Howynne for Bright Light), and to pray to their gods who would be known as the Mianite and the Dianite(Howynne for Dark Light/Shadow).