[CITY] Bastion's Rise

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[Dungeon Master Lyra]

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Bastion's Rise was one of the first cities to be hit by the Plague. It ravaged through the city so quickly that they didn't even see it coming. It had once been a Human stronghold, the glory of the Great Redmane Empire. The Empire collapsed when the Plague happened since the Humans thought they were strong enough to withstand it. During that time the city was called Lion's Keep. The Humans of Lion's Keep were proud people who had no love for other races, they were conquerors bent on making the world their own regardless of anyone else. It was for this reason that they refused help from the Wood Elves that lived in the forests outside the city. All the Elves could do was watch as the city tore itself apart, though it wasn't long before they had issues of their own and by the time the Humans were ready to except help it had been much too late, they had sealed their fate.

By the time Eliana and her group had come along, the city was infested with monsters and undead, unfortunately, there had been no survivors. They spent years cleaning the city of the vermin that had nested there. When the Wood Elves realized what was happening, they were the first race to join the entourage, needing a new place to go since the forests had turned on them. It wasn't long before the word spread that there had been Humans trying to retake the city and others joined, giving rise to the new civilization.

 

[Dungeon Master Lyra]

History of The Plague and Bastion's Rise​

Queen Eliana Pasida was born to a human man and an elven woman. Her parents were farmers that did well enough to take care of themselves, but upon her birth tragedy struck and her mother died two days after she was born from heavy infection.

Not long after, her father remarried, this time to a human woman, as he was unsure he could raise a child on his own. The marriage was beneficial to both parties and expanded their eventual farming empire. Though the marriage was for profit rather than love, the two did grow to admire each other and soon enough bore a son, naming the boy Yamin.

For a few years, the family was happy and successful, becoming pillars of their community. However, at about the age of 7, a strange illness started to stretch its way into the town. For close to a year, the Pasidas did everything that they could to cure the illness but it eventually infected Eliana's parents. Their mother sent the children to live with her sister, but Eliana watched as the sickness seemed to follow them to the new village and she watched more family waste away.

Being a child, Eliana began to believe that she was the cause of the sickness spreading. So after her aunt died, she sold the farms for what little they could and grabbed her brother and they left in the middle of the night, not wanting to subject anyone else to that fate, but what they found was even worse. Every town they visited had someone infected, in many places, there were scores of people already dead, it was spreading. The children decided to live alone in the woods where no one would ever find them, far away from civilization where they could no longer harm anyone else.

While Yamin became strong of arm, protecting his sister from any savage beast that thought they were food, Eliana began to find faith, praying every night that the sickness would disappear. She eventually found that through her faith in Chasuer (the God of Healing) that she could heal small wounds on various animals that found themselves injured. Yamin encouraged her to go back to the cities and find a temple that could hone her abilities.

At the age of 14, Eliana finally found a temple that hadn't fallen to the Plague. The temple took her in and trained her for several more years on how to use her talent to help those suffering from the sickness. Yamin remained by her side, learning how to fight from the paladins and warriors that protected the temple. The happiness that she felt at the temple wouldn't last. Many priests went out to help the people and many never returned. It wasn't long until it was only the youngest and the oldest still around in the temple, and even they were beginning to show signs of the sickness.

The two were hardly adults when they were encouraged to leave the temple and make their own way. With Eliana's talents, the priests strongly believed that she might hold the key to combating the Plague and didn't want to risk her falling to it. They were smuggled out and sent to live in a new land they had never even heard of. The priests told her of a temple there that could teach her more than they could, and the two set out.

It wasn't easy. While this land hadn't seemed to have fallen to the Plague just yet, it was littered with more monstrous beasts, things that Eliana would never have imagined in her wildest nightmares. In many instances, the two almost lost their lives and would have had they not joined a guild that taught them about the things that lurked in the wilds.

After earning a lot of money while adventuring, the two finally earned enough to make the trek toward the temple that they sought. It took many years, but the two finally arrived and with her new confidence, Eliana was taught more about her power and the god she served than she ever thought possible, but she never once forgot about the illness that had ravaged her childhood home, but that hadn't changed the false hope that had started to form inside of her.

She remembered the day that a small child was brought to the temple showing all the same signs that her father had when he first came down with the Plague. A dread filled her heart, but with all her training she surely should have been able to cure it. She spent days with the child, determined to do whatever she could to change her fate, she worked with her until she passed out. When she awoke five days later, Eliana was told that the child survived, but that many more had been brought in while she was out and they had passed. It was then that she realized that one person couldn't change the fate of the world.

She began to do what she could to teach the other priests what she knew, however, by that time there weren't many left in the city that had survived. She gathered the priests with her and they began to roam the continent, trying to find any survivors that weren't too far gone to save. Using this method, many still died but they were able to boost the immune system of those who hadn't yet completely fallen to the illness, saving as many as they could. They sent priests as far wide as they could, teaching as many people along the way until all traces of the Plague had disappeared.

The Plague lasted and spread around the continent for close to 40 years, killing hundreds of millions of people, more would have died had it not been for Eliana and Yamin's heroic acts. Due to their leadership, many people began to follow them and they knew that they had to find a place to settle down. They eventually found the remains of a large walled city, and though the city had largely been unoccupied for decades, they began to clean it up and make it a home. They renamed the city Bastion's Rise, and though parts of the city are still in disrepair, even after being occupied for an additional 30, they are doing their best to bring it back to its former glory with the limited supplies and people they have.

 

[Dungeon Master Lyra]

The Magical Cataclysm​

To many scholars there is no proof that The Magical Cataclysm even happened. There has been many arguments about what had caused the Plague and why, many believe that blaming the shifts in magic to be preposterous. Their argument has been that it wasn't uncommon for magic to have influxes from time to time and that everyone is over exaggerating what has happened. This has, of course, pissed the Half-Dragons off as they were the race to most suffer from the magical ties being off, however, the Half-Dragons' reputation for blowing things out of proportion hasn't helped. Because of this, not much is known at this time about what truly happened. The Elves that do believe in the Cataclysm are attributing to something being wrong with the gods, but no one has any proof since the gods have been less active in the world for some time. Even though no one is sure of what has happened, it is obvious that something strange is going on.