This is the Prolugue in the first book of my trilogy from which the whole of the story is derived. I'm trying to combine the worlds of vampires and werewolves, fairies and elves, and humans via genies. I've written the first novel, half the second, and finished the outline of the third. I was just wondering if the legend behind it all was believable and also if I wrote it well. This is my first attempt at a Fantasy novel, I usually write more technical things and some short stories. D.
In the Land of Nor many legends are told but none as much as this:
"Many years ago when mortal men first came to the Land of Nor there were no twins among
their people. For two generations they were welcomed here by the magical inhabitants, those who live beyond time.
But the third generation was numerous and began to quarrel amongst themselves over petty things like more land and extra food, though there was enough to go around they always wanted more.
The fighting grew so violent that it threatened to tear apart the very heart of Nor. In an attempt to help restore the peace they once enjoyed the elves called on their enchanters from across the land to gather. They beseeched them to cast an enchantment over man using the power of the stars to control them.
Using a pair of stars aptly named the Twin Stars of Destiny, from which many fortunes had been told, they brought the birth of a set of peaceful rulers to the realm of man. Leo who was fearless in the face of evil and Lorin who knew only love were the first set of twins; born at the end of the third generation.
Amazement quickly spread among the people as these miracles grew. At first it was simply the fact that they were identical in every way save one was a boy the other a girl, but later it was their extraordinary wisdom that captured and held the peoples attention.
Once old enough to speak the wisdom that spewed forth from their mouths was unlike anything man had ever known. At the tender age of four Lorin halted a bloody feud by uniting two great villages with mere word play.
By their twelfth birthday Leo had a legion of faithful warriors who had fought for peace, and they were the leaders of a council they had formed to rule over half the territory of man.
Though the Great War of Men was fought during their lifetime a great many lives were spared due to their leadership. When the war was finally ended, a mere three weeks after it begun, a definitive sense of peace rested over the land of Nor.
The fourth generation of men became such an inspiration that the inhabitants of Nor decided to model a council of there own after Leo and Lorin's idea, they called it The Great Council of Elders.
Representatives from every race sat upon the council. The twins greatness grew among the people until they sat at the head of the Great Council itself. They dispensed justice, kept the peace, and helped all those who had need of it.
Seeing that their power had far outgrown the realm of man and its intended use the elves began to fear that the power might corrupt their frail human hearts and bring about the downfall of their great civilization.
After several years of these worries getting the best of them the elves once again came together, this time to cast a powerful enchantment upon the Twin Stars themselves. To counter the power of the stars they gathered all the elven and fairy Dark Enchanters, those who chose to live outside of society in order to study the most powerful and darkest of arts.
These Dark Enchanters were offered a refuge in the mountains, which they rightly named Safe Haven, in exchange for their help. The enchantment they cast slowly forced the stars to move farther and farther apart until they could no longer be seen during the same season of the year.
Because of the dark nature of the enchantment used Leo and Lorin found themselves growing weaker and weaker the farther the stars moved apart as their very life force was entwined with the connection of the stars.
On the last evening the stars could be spotted in the same night sky Leo and Lorin, twin heroes of Nor, lay down together never to rise again.
Two generations later there legacy of peace still rang true as the Twin Stars of Destiny once again found themselves in the same night sky. As they drew ever closer to one another the realm of man became abuzz with news of the stars return and what it could mean for them.
Pregnant woman started clamoring about feeling two heartbeats inside their swollen wombs. Each was given the royal treatment as everyone awaited the birth of what was sure to be two wise and noble leaders like their predecessors. But when the stars finally aligned themselves a tragic thing happened.
Only one of the twins born under the Twin Stars survived for more than a moment. Many claimed the death of Darco's twin was the beginning of all the evil that followed while others believed that it was his life not his birth that started it all. The only thing everyone agreed on was that it was the saddest hour the men of Nor had ever faced.
Without his counterpart to balance him young Darco seemed an ordinary child. He did not posses the wisdom of Leo and Lorin, he did no brave deeds, and most people forgot his name within a fews years of his birth. Sadly those who did remember him only thought of him as a reminder of what they had lost.
Some even blamed the boy for not being great and that blame grew until young Darco could find no welcome among his own people. It was not long before his rejection by his own kind turned to resentment then bitterness, until finally becoming hatred.
Darco would have lived out his life quietly hating his fellow man if on his sixteenth birthday he had not happened to come across a genies lamp. Trapped inside the lamp for far too long, Luscious, the genie inside had gone mad. Considered undesirable before his confinement to the lamp he was down right evil by the time Darco found him.
Luscious's insanity and Darco's bitter hatred did not bode well for mankind as Darco made selfish and cruel wishes.
Immortality, a brutal blood lusting army that could blend in until the time of the attack each loyal to the death, and finally the ability to make others immortal like himself were his three world altering wishes. The age of the vampires and werewolves had begun in the Land of Nor."
Throughout the generations the Twin Stars of Destiny began to be looked on as a curse instead of a blessing. As Lord Darco ruler of the evil forces of darkness grew ever more vengeful and cruel, the land grew darker until all who opposed him had to do so hidden away in dark rooms and empty corners.
So when the stars appeared to be drawing close once again it was not hope but fear that were watched with.
