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Nameless: A Fairy Tale
by A Very Tall Oak Tree in City Park
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After centuries of ceaseless fighting, the Great Wars
of Corosa had finally come to a close. These wars had by far been the
most horrible, the most destructive, of all of the wars ever fought
between the East and West. The Easterlies had again been forced back
into the mountains while the Westerlies could once more return to
their farms, castles, and manors within the safe confines of the great
Western City’s walls. There had always been a great rift between these
two peoples; the embittered Easterlies were been the weaker of the two
groups, putting up with poor treatment and contempt from their
stronger Westerly neighbors. They lived deep in the mountains and
forests. Most were farmers, but some were said to possess arts of
inconceivable strength—ancient magics that were long forgotten by
humankind.
Despite this unusual skill, the Easterlies’ bad luck in wartime
persisted diligently and continued to procure failure whichever way
the Easterly military happened to turn. After each war, the Easterlies
would begrudgingly return to their mountainous homeland and plot the
next offensive against their oppressors, determined to achieve
greatness at last while the Westerlies would march jubilantly back to
their secure location on Bassings Hill and wait patiently for the day
when they would have to crush the rebellious Easterlies once more.
However, on this day, the end of the Great Wars, one Westerly knight
did not obey these unspoken laws of retreat. After the Easterlies had
fallen back and the Westerlies had begun the ascent of Bassings Hill,
Morgan Kinwyr urged his white pony, Windswept, forward over the
Easterly lines. His name was known well throughout Corosa; his family
had fought for the Westerlies for many generations and was noted for
its exceptional courage and loyalty to the Corosan crown, an ancient
Westerly by the name of Roald Winchester. He had been alive for close
on to five hundred years, a fact which called some particularly
skeptical Westerlies to question his blood—living so long could only
mean a trace of Easterly genealogy.
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