AN: This is my first story in RRL, if you have any suggestion or criticism please post in the comments, and I'll be trying to improve my grammar since English isn’t my first language.
About the world, I was thinking about posts that explain the system's like magic and etc. and also add the explanation when it comes to the history how you guys prefer, that I post an info dump of everything and also add when stuff appears in the story or just ?
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Third Point of View
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A woman has been pursued through the snowy forest, her path illuminated by the light of the two moons in the sky thru the canopies of the pines. In the distance, there were lights of torches and the sound of horseman that slowly crept closer letting her waste her energy.
She is a tall woman, with a pale skin and silvery hair and golden eyes she wore, what once were fine clothes now the only remained tattered, in her arms there was a small bundle of furs and inside a little child who has been crying for hours.
As she ran she begged in a murmur to her gods and among them all, especially the goddesses of the hunt and the moon, not to save her because she knew that her future was doomed, as she had been targeted earlier by an arrow now in her shoulder, but to save her son.
She prayed "I am one of your chosen, one of the last of this race already corrupted." She spoke while looking to her son. "And this is the last child of our bloodline that did not fall into the clutches of that terrible curse." Tears start to form in her eyes, knowing what she will pledge. "I swear to serve you for all eternity both of you, my goddesses and I only ask in exchange is that you will save and protect this child."
As she ended her prayer, she approached a clearing the sounds of the forest were starting to dying out, there was a moment where the only sounds to be heard where her hoarse breath, the cry of the child, and the sound of her pursuer horses in the distance. Then she heard the howl of the wolfs and her frown start to shift to a smile, and she saw the once half lit path start to beaming the moon's light, now she was crying no longer of sadness but happiness like a child because not one but both of the goddesses heard her prayer and two voices answer her together.
The first voice was a female, all who could hear the voice would feel the sadness in her voice akin to a mother who lull to her terrified child started "You're my child one of my creations and one of the last of the untainted that had not turned your back to me akin to the fallen of your race I will accept your pledge my child and will protect your offspring." this was the goddess of the twin moons.
And the second voice was like the first of a female but this didn't show sadness but anger not towards the mother or the child but to those that hunted her chosen and she spoke "My chosen thou was betrayed and are now being hunted by those dishonorable's scums I shall protect your son and I accept thou pledge of servitude and in exchange I will send some of my pack to also protect the child" This was the voice of the goddess of the Hunt and as she ended to speak the sound of howls and growls of anger could be heard from thousands of beasts like wolves, bears, and lynxes towards those hunters that dare to hunt her one of their pack.
the mother gazed at her son and gave a gentle smile even with all the pain that she suffered in those last days, now she had the certainty that her son would survive and be protected she gave him a kiss on the forehead and took her pendant and put in his fur bundle and spoke while tears started to form in her eyes "My son you will not remember this because you are still a newborn but know this in your soul your mother loves you and I shall serve the gods that protect you"she kissed the boy once again and gave him to the ethereal body of a woman that started to form where the moons beamed their light and her side an enormous wolf.
As she turned around now where the gentle smile that she gave to her son now turned into a savage grin as she glared to her pursuers and she growled and spoke "You the betrayers of my race you shall now face the Daughter of the goddess E'kate of the twins moons and the Chosen of goddess Dyweena of the Hunt, come and face your end"she spoke while transforming into a werewolf but she was bigger and didn't have the savage look that those creatures had her fur was like she was made of silver threads and with the twin moons irradiating in the sky she started to glimmer, her old tattered clothes ripped in the ground she turned her head once again to where the ethereal woman was holding her child she smiles gently again and look to the now woman that sits in the back of the giant wolf and gives a nod then she glares back towards where her foes will appear then she prepares herself for the onslaught, with anger towards then for all the struggles that she went by and sadness that she will not be with her son as he grows older, she runs towards her enemies in her four limbs.
While she was running, E'kate was in the same place where she received the child but now she wasn't ethereal anymore she was a woman with pale skin and silvery hair and eyes, she looked at the child that was crying as if begging for his mother to come back then she spoke to him. " Child you are the last of my creations that weren't cursed and as your mother, you are one of my own kin now you should rest because this battlefield is not one that you will participate" as she stopped speaking she cast a spell that put the boy to sleep. The other goddess approached E'kate as she was riding her wolf and spoke to her "We will protect this child to the end but yet we cannot take his free will, and we cannot always intervene or the others gods will start to prevent us we need to think what shall we do with this little one, as I said before I will grant two of my pack, my offsprings to be with him and I will grant him the perception of the hunters, so he will have keen senses like his mother, thou what shall you do E'kate?" Dyweena asked E'kate not with disdain but with respect since E'kate was one of the older gods akin to an aunt to Dyweena. The older god answer "First I will grant him a place to live with a family of a Chosen, where he will receive familiar love, next I shall make him immune to all the curses that I can and none of the hunters will be able to find he is one of my kin till his 17 birthday and lastly I will grant him more affinity to 2 of his elements, and my dear Dyweena which of your offsprings shall the boy bound his soul?" and the goddess of the hunt answered "After the battle is done I shall call my whole pack and those that have interest in the boy shall be granted to him" and they started to watch the last stand of the one of last of the blessed Werewolves.
The Werewolf approached the end of the clearing where her enemies were starting to appear there were ten horsemen, all of then using leather armor and cloaks made of fur for the icy climate, they were armed with silver swords and axes, they thought like it was the common sense that cursed beings like Werewolves are weakened to blessed metals like silver, what they didn't know was that this werewolf wasn't cursed but blessed so there was no weakness to the metal, at the back of the line there were two Demon Hunters wearing garb's with sigils of some god and their spirits they had crossbows in their arms and silver rapiers around their waist. The leader of the horsemen spoke to his men "Kill the beast, and the Lord promised us her weight in gold boys, Kill that cursed beast and I bet all the woman that hear our tale will call us heroes, And you Dogs of the church this kill is our don't try to steal it fuckers" He spoke to the men in the back line and spoke once again to his men "Don't let those Cock suckers take our gold" the man started to laugh and signaling to his men to start the galloped. The demon hunters look at the man with anger but the horsemen can't notice this because of the mask's that their order uses to keep their secrecy.
The horsemen and the werewolf dashed to each other, she couldn't move as the best of her performance she was tired she lost a lot of blood she didn't have any of her weapons besides her claws and her teeth, nor she could prepare spells to use at the moment and besides she knew she would die so her intentions were to kill not to survive, the werewolf and the leader were looking at each other, they were 10 yards apart and she leapt towards him and clawed at his head, the horsemen didn't expect a front assault, because werewolves even if they were savage beasts they were a bunch of cunning motherfuckers and this one coming for a front assault like that she must be insane, so he strike his swords towards her and he wounded left arm at the cost of his head. All of the horsemen saw their leader die and anger started to boil in their hearts they would kill the whore and torture her with the silver weapons.
The two riders that were closer to their leader, they were only 10 yards behind him, started to gallop at full speed at the beast, they thought that she would be weakened after receiving a blow of a silver sword and her wound that dyed her silver fur with the crimson of the blood, but contrary to their expectations a primal bloodthirst appear in the werewolf face as she rushed at them Clawing and biting and went to massacre the rest of the retinue, but she also was receiving her fair share of wounds.
One of the demon hunters looked at the dead horsemen and spoke with disdain "that's what we get when we recruit those so called 'adventures' now lets end the beast for the glory of the High spirit of the Light" as they took their crossbows and started to take aim at her, the closest one is at least 35 yards from her, he shoots but misses.
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The two moons lightened and started to shine the white snow and her silver fur, now with spots of crimson, as she was moving limping a bit towards then she started to run at her maximum speed she crossed 30 yards between then in a couple of seconds, then leapt towards the first demon hunter as he shoot his silver bolts that hit in her chest but he too took a deadly blow from her claws now there was only one more enemy to her, she started to glare at him with her eyes starting to lose the light but she begins to grit her teeth and prepared herself again to rush only after killing him she could prepare herself to her slumber and soon servitude toward her goddesses.
The other demon hunter was 15 yards from her as she started running in her four legs once again the demon hunter shoots with his crossbow and take his rapier the silvery bolt hit her back she whimpers in pain but she will kill then all she jumps and bites at the shoulder of the demon hunter who at the same time impale one of her lungs with his rapier and they fall to the ground she moves around and look to the sky where the two moons shine and the snow that falls towards the earth and she give her last howl.
As a response to his mother the boy that was enspelled leaves the trance and starts to cry, the goddess takes the body and the spirit of the woman as the soul would need time to be able to serve them and the body would be taken so it couldn't be desecrated.
As the night kept going they walk until they find another clearing there Dyweena call upon her offsprings and spoke to them, " Here is the son one of my chosen she will serve me until the end in exchange to save and protect her child, who, upon you ,my child desires to be bound to the last of the blessed werewolves the last of the E'kate untainted creations?" then an uproar of all kinds of beasts starts to form some howl in sadness towards the child, some growl in anger towards the mother's killers, a lot of the magical beasts looks towards the kid as if was one of their own pups most of them would want to be his protector, but they knew it wouldn't be an easy task and if they failed to protect the kid they wouldn't be able to forgive themselves one of the most special chosen of their mother gave her soul so the child could be protected, failure wasn't an option,so most of the beasts didn't move until two wolf pups started to go toward the child one black as the deepest night with red eyes and the other one azure with blue eyes all the beasts nodded as they approved the match, those are demigods born from their mother and high spirits of the other deities, one from the deity of the darkness and the other from the deity of the lightning, even though they were still young those two both had a lot of potential to be the strongest of Dyweena's pack. The wolves looked towards their mother and spoke together "Mother we wish to be bound to the pup!" Dyweena couldn't stop grinning at the antics of her daughters as she spoke: " so my two pups are trying to act mature, so be it."
The wolves went towards the boy that was resting on E'kate arms when the boy and the wolves looked at each other the boy started to smile and giggle. As the daughters of Dyweena used their spell, runes started to flow between the boy and both of the wolves in different colours and shapes for two whole minutes and then the wolves noted that the soul link was formed now they were soul bound, they expected the boy to be afraid of them yet as soon as they got close enough the boy leapt from E'kate arms and fell from the top of the black wolf and started to hug her and at the same time he started to send his love towards the two wolves by the link created by the soul bound. As the boy curled into the fur of the wolves he started to sleep and both of Dyweena's pups curled around him so he would be warm.
As E'kate saw the scene happens with a gentle motherly smile on her face she looked at the sky and then cleared her throat and spoke to Dyweena " Dyweena the day is almost raising and my powers will dwindle we need to find somewhere to take the boy and I don't think any settlement would accept a boy accompanied by two wolf's at the start, they shall be separated for now and when the boy reaches some age they will unite" the other goddess nods and the pups whimper a little bit but they know that the goddesses are right so they don't protest.
As if the goddess of Fate was upon their side they notice using their powers a man walking through the forest and using their powers to be certain that the man wasn't a fiend they look upon his soul and notice that he is a good man and his wife was one of the chosen of the god of the earth, they then navigate the man towards the boy and they became invisible using they godly powers.
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Tane P.O.V.
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I've been walking through the Fallonde woods going back towards the village that I live with my Wife and I couldn't stop laughing to myself as I kept remembering the memory of why we live in such place, since she wasn't so fond of cities because in her words there isn't enough space to practice her magic without destroying others propriety and since she does have some power in the magician's guild she also dislikes the politics. As I have been walking I kept shivering from the cold and I couldn't stop badmouthing that shit old shaman that told me that this winter was going to be mild. For the gods, if this is mild I don't want to see what is a harsh winter in those lands I just want to go home stay with my wife and stay cosy by the fire.
As I was thinking about how I would make that old shaman apologize for lying to me, I felt something inside my own soul as if it was looking and trying to pull my attention, it wasn't some sense of danger or some dreadful feeling but it was strange as if something was calling me making me move towards it making me miss the road to the village by only a couple miles out of the path, as I start to follow the call, I can't stop myself thinking about the stories about people who say things like "I felt like I was being tugged by the gods towards something wonderful" or "those people who found they first love or something of the kind" and here I was not being tugged but being called by something so small that no one would be able to call this a god at most a lesser spirit. As I followed my mind couldn't stop thinking about a good cup of hot tea under some sheets and this thought kept me smiling as a kid until I reached a clearing. What I saw make me want to apologise about my earlier thought, under a tree in the corner of the clearing there was a bundle of fur on top of snow where it was obviously cold and inside the bundle, there was a baby a couple weeks old at most. I couldn't stop thinking who would abandon a baby in the middle of a forest in the fucking winter of the fucking Ullar mountains.
I approach the baby he was a boy with a babies round face, thin silvery hair and with different colour of eyes one being silvery as his hair colour and the other some kind of brownish and in his chest there was a stone pendant probably the last something the parents of the baby left to him some kind of memento. the boy was breathing but in this cold, if I left him here he won't have a chance against the cold or animals, as I was taking the baby into my arms he starts to look at me and giggling; that reminds me Marifa was starting to want to have a child. I start to walk back to the village at a rapid speed but not that fast that would make baby uncomfortable. I enter the village and didn't even respond the guard as he also doesn't leave his sentry-box and I go to our house, as soon as I put my feet inside the house Marifa starts to glaring me as if i did something wrong as she looks at me from head to toes and stops in the little fur bundle in my arms with interrogative look as I take the baby from the bundle she grabs him from my hands as I mutter to myself "Welcome home too darling..." she looks me angrily and asks " Did you say something? and who is this cute thing?" how can she changes from angry to lovely in the same phrase, I think to myself as I start to explain how I found the baby and why I came so late home.
"So you found him in the snow in the middle of a clearing with only those tattered furs and this pendant? Poor baby what should we do with him he was clearly abandoned." Marifa spoke with a sad voice as she starts to cradle the boy and starts to look at me as I was starting to answer her "I think... he was abandoned and I don't think people from villages would take care of a child that isn't from their community... and the orphanages in the cit.." she starts to cut me off " WE'RE not sending a baby to that hellhole they make those orphans to work akin to slaves, No we are going to keep him here, we already started to talk about to have kids, I'm almost 29 and I want to have kids"as I look towards my wife with a look that meant that was the exactly the same of what I was thinking. I look towards the boy and speak to Marifa " Well, now that it is settled what name should we give him?" she smiles, to me with what I could tell would be a motherly and mischievous smile and spoke "Hmmm... we never talked about what names we should give towards our kids and I always liked the name Remus for a boy. What do you think?" I start to think about her suggestion, "Remus its the name of her great grandfather he was an astounding adventurer" I like the sound of it as I was going to answer her she looks at the baby and speak " Hello little Remus, I'm your mother and he is you father" and the boy starts to giggle, I mutter in a low voice "Thanks for your opinion darling...." and she starts to glaring daggers to me and spoke " Did you say something darling? I think we should put little Remus to rest".