Asauria
You may have heard the stories of cave people living long ago alongside dinosaurs. What wasn't told is that these cave people lived long before dinosaurs existed. Arcadia...was once home to a tribe of proud and mighty people known as the Arcadins. These people thrived on the blessings showered upon them by the two guardian deities who ruled over Arcadia and the isle to which these people resided. As the Arcadin people grew and flourished, they built four shrines across the islands to show their devotion to these deities.
The tribe believed that should they honor the deities of land, air, and sea, their people would continue to be blessed, and their resource abundance would continue to thrive for generations to come. Thrive they did. Many generations of the Arcadin people came and went, and the rich history of their existence on the island was passed down through oral tradition during celebrational days.
Over time, two travelers from afar arrived, seeking better resources for their tribe. The Arcadins', never having seen others like themselves, thought of these two travelers as their deities. Instead of sending such things to the shrines, the Arcadins showered them with praises and offerings. After all, why worship at the shrines when your deities were with you in the flesh? All the while, the two guardian deities slowly faded into the shadow cast by the false Gods.
This slight enraged the rightful deities of the islands, incurring their wrath upon the Arcadin people who would dare thumb their noses at the benevolence of the Two. In their rage, the deities cursed the very land they ruled over. The Arcadins' - none the wiser - knew not of the change to the land, nor what the deities had in store for their future.
The 'disease' ravaged the tribe over the course of the next few weeks.
It began with the infants; their soft, supple flesh turning scale like and their limbs morphing to disproportionate sizes. Their little bodies soon shifting to become that of unrecognizable creatures. The mothers of the Arcadins' mourned for their babes as they left what they believed to be diseased ridden infants out in the trees for the wilderness to claim.
Next, was chaos.
The disease spread like wildfire through Arcadia.
The wilderness had become filled with ailing people who had been left to the wild the moment they began to show signs of scaling flesh. Their painfilled cries and bellows as they underwent the transformation overtook the natural song of nature over the course of three weeks.
All it took was four weeks to twist and mold the bodies of the islanders into the beasts of old. Four weeks for the deities' curse to overtake the Arcadin people as a whole.
One month, and the people of Arcadia were no more...all was not lost however, unbeknownst to the Arcadins, the two deities had a child. This child could not understand why her parents had cursed the people they ruled over. After all, everyone made mistakes, even her own parents, though said parents would deny such claims if asked.
Displeased with her parents for what they had done, this child chose to protect the new people of Arcadia herself, though would do so in disguise. She cast away her celestial form, choosing the form her parents curse had given to the people. Protect them she did. Each century, she was reborn as a new dinosaur allowing her to continue to protect the new Arcadins, but unbeknownst to her, each time she used her powers, pieces of her memories and how to use her abilities began to fade.
A new century now begins, and with it…a new journey. This is her story.
SilentEnigma · Fantasy
