(I'm still working on world name, but I like Oluve because it spells love u in code
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From here a rivalry is formed with battles and like Israel and her Judges, the tide turns in the Goeson line's favor whenever there is a white mirest to offer the people redemption and faith to empower them over evil.
My story takes place after a black mirest defeated the white mirest and stole the white staff. The black mirest hid the white staff somewhere in the mountains of Kunnadahl, the southern continent where Elkuund sought refuge after his exile.
The result of burying the staff cursed the mountains with a forest fire that killed most of the population of Kunnadahl. The survivors wished they died in the fire, because following the fire was famine, disease, and large boar like animals called "borusks" that came out of the mountains and ate children.
Eventually, men and a few women learned to ride the borusks, (through child sacrifice and ulex - a kind of plant that put them to sleep). From these ranks rose a king that enslaved the dark mirest, Ojik, to corrupt and empower more borusk riders. *
Once King Wutev took power over Kuunadahl (by killiing the dark mirest and stealing the dark staff), he chose the next dark mirest, Ojik, who then submitted to Wutev's reign (but on the inside has only been plotting how he would use Wutev to gain power until eventually he killed him).
The world has become increasingly dominated by King Wutev and Ojik, his dark mirest, with rumors that Ojik has discovered the location of the lost valley of Veol (where Goeson and Tesera once had fellowship with God before the fall). Rumor has it Ojik is developing a following under Wutev's nose to kill him and take over Kuunadahl (the fortress there is the head of all the strongholds who serve under Wutev's reign). There is some magical secret that Ojik is trying to obtain to end the line of white mirests that will involve ruling Kuunadahl and finding the birthplace of the white staff.
The story picks up with a girl, Amelle, in a poor village south of the Kuunadahl Mountains called Irelik, seeing an angel who told her to save a young man (maybe, because he would be the next white mirest, and maybe without a reason). When she tells her father, he shows her his old Keeper knife hidden away in their barn. He repents and wants to help, but the angel told her she needed to go. (People can still be redeemed by faith in God's provision when there is no white mirest alive, but then what is the point of having a mirest? This could be a problem... **) The angel told her to go to a pub in the village east of them, Unih.
The History of the White Mirest After time, either the people turn away or the mirest does. When the people turn away the mirest leaves to offer God's salvation to another group of people for a time until/if God leads him back. Once, the people rose up and killed the mirest. A group,
The Keepers, formed after that to protect the mirest and his staff after he died. (I thought about having the staff lose power after the mirest died, and then when the next mirest was born, he would have to follow God's directions for making another, but right now I'm leaning towards having one staff passed down from gen. to gen.) The Keepers took the white staff and fled until God told them to settle down where the next white mirest would be born.
* see thread on the magic of mirest powers
** see thread on salvation
