The Alinyu
VIII. The Fall of Baûl
The Age of Shadow lated for
nearly 500 years. Baûl furthered his
magical studies and rednered himself impervious to he passage of time,
or nearly so, with magical artifacts of pure evil: the Ring, the Crown
and
the Rod of Baûl. With a force unheard of, he steerd the
peoples of Alina
down a dark path.
Again, the Creator loked
upon his creation and saw the pendulum
had swung too far once more. He gathered himself from his otherwordly
realm and descended to Alina to disperse the shadow of Baûl.
Even for a wizard of such
great power, the dfeat of Baûl was no
simple task. The Dark Emperor derw his power from his lands,
siphoning the magicks inherent to the world of Alina itself.
the Kyie,
though powerful, was but one man against millions in the service of
Baûl.
There stood but a single
weakness in the great armor of the Dark
Emperor: his general, Don de ruthe. Granted a strange sort of
immortality with that of his sovereign, don de Ruthe had long since
withdrew from the realm of the warrior, regretting his former actions.
A good man at heart, he had sought initialy only to bring order to
the f
ragmented lands of men and return peace to Ruûn. Tied to
Baûl by oath
and blood, de Ruthe had marched his victorious armies further and
further, subjugting the entire world for the evil ambitions of Baûl
alone.
The Kyie gathered a great
army of elfin warriors and mages, for he
knew the Emperor would send his trusted geeal tothe filed. In
the the
battlefield of Darmoc, in the north of Ruûn, surrounded by hills
and troll-
infested swamps, the armies clashed. Here the legendary Don de
Ruthe
felt his first defeat and the forces of Baûl were scattered to
the winds.
The Kyie appeared to Don
de Ruthe and offered him salvation: to
lead the armies of the Elder Races in revolte against the Dark Emperor.
The idea horrified and fascinated the general: to betray his sovereign
was
unthinkable, yet his conscience haunted him. In the end, the
forces of
Good received the fortune of de Ruthe's immortality: to remain in ths
moral torture forever was unbearable.
The armies of the Elder
Races swiftly rallied about Don de Ruthe
and the Kyie, and the victories were swift and terrible. The
empire of
Baûl tumbled with enormous force. Yet long before the end,
the Kyie
removed himself from the world's events, having sent the pendulum on
its
way.
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