Chapter 2

The land of Panthanus is now one completely divided.

Estel in the North is the land of light, its city Galadenost spanning most of the country giving off a bright light and its knights covering most of Panthanus protecting the weak, and defending the innocent. Galadenost is a proud city, full of tall buildings and castles, it houses some of the most powerful inhabitants in the land. The country of Estel is dotted with towns, many knights begin their journey growing up and training in the small towns, then going into the mountains in the northern parts of Estel to fight wild orcs and trolls to prove their valour. Once they are old and strong enough they set out for Galadenost to prove their worth then one day set off to explore and do their part to rid the land of evil.

A couple weeks ride south of Estel is the great Dae forest, a thick and dangerous forest that spans for miles in the center of Panthanus. The great forest almost entirely fills the country of Aduial, and filling the thick center of Aduial is the great treetop city of Enquie home to the shadow dwellers. The people living in Aduial are a quiet people who love to keep to the shadows and use stealth incomparably well. Enquie is well guarded by many skilled archers perched almost invisibly in surrounding trees, and contains a great underground temple housing the powerful shamans cabable of great elemental power.

Another couple weeks south and the air begins to stink of sulfur, the ground begins to feel hot underfoot and signs of life disappear off the horizen, its then you know you've reached the desert of Gul. In the centre of the cursed desert is the tunnel leading to the underground city of Gurth, but no-one but the blackest of hearts can enter as it is guarded by a werewolf that never sleeps, never eats, dosent feel pain or exhaustion. It cannot return from its wolf form and is forced to guard the entrance of Gurth for all eternity. Its strength is supernatually strong, and its saliva is so poisonous the ground hisses as it drops from the creatures fangs. It knows a persons heart apon sight and can decide who is loyal to the evil city, and who is not.

To the east of the Dae forest is largely unexplored as its collossal mountains prove to difficult to span for most explorers, and those that manage never return. To the east lays the Rhun ocean, full of wonderous creatures however also largely undiscovered as many ships that have set off to discover it havent returned, and the crews of the ships that have are locked away in the mental asylum as their stories are to wild to believe. All three country's are curious of what lies to the east and west however, and eagerly await explorers brave enough, and skilled enough to find out. Perhaps other whole countries? Nobody knows.

The creation of Panthanus and the establishment of the three nations spanned the first age of the lands history, that age ended nine years ago. With the signing of the peace agreement between the three nations the second age began, an age heralded as an age of peace between the nations after the horrific wars that spanned the previous age.

This story begins now, in the ninth year of the age of peace, on the twelfth day of the tenth month when on a tall tree on the outskirts of the city of Enquie, an elf sat with his bow, watching the forest, guarding Estel.