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RIVERS OF DAWN.

There was a time on my world, long ago, when magic ruled the land. But it all ended in a single moment as an ancient gem was shattered. Mankind breathed a sigh of relief as life returned to some sembance of normalcy. As time passed, magic became more a thing of myth and legends than an occurrence of everyday life.

And so, the world that I grew up in was a simple one. Courtships... honor... and battles gave our lives a satisfying consistency. I was the prince of Dawn, and as the king's son, I had lived a particularly rich life.

But, in one swift stroke, the wizard Dornamu, a surviving relic from the ancient times of magic, came to our lands and decimated our forces. He was searching for a single stone fragment which we had recently uncovered beneath the rivers of Dawn. It was in fact one of six pieces from an ancient gem that had once sustained magic on our world. Doranamu hoped to reassemble the long lost artifact and usher in a new age of magic under his dominion.

Understainding the hell that we could be cast into, I decided to risk everything to stop Doranamu. But I was no match for his magic, and I soon fell.  However, I did not die. I awoke in an unfamiliar land...and in my hand I found the very stone fragment that had brought Doranamu to our lands. I suspected that I had been helped by unseen allies. Regardless, I knew that I would have to find the remaining five fragments of the ancient Gem of Magic if I were to keep my world from facing the same fate that my own kingdom had suffered.

And so I cast my old life aside and set out to save all that I held dear....




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