It has been a nerve warcking day so far, but my exitment just wont die down, as after the stories of old my friends and me are finally allowed to go out the forrest and see more of the world instead of just the hanging gardens we can see from our houses high in the trees, we are finally able to explore the plains,but first we need to listen to the stories of old about the time where the gods still interacted with us.

"This is from the time where the gods still communicated with us" begins the Elder and everyone begins to quiet down "It is said they created us as servants to help them during the day, just like they made the beastmen to play with and protect their other servants or the anchient dwarfs to mine, build weapons and mentanines of their sky citys." there is complet  silence in the ritaul hall as the Elder talks about the gods long gone"The gods left the world for us to trive and explore, and every race did trive in many years after the gods left, then came the monsters from the sky, pushing the races back, forcing the dwarfs into their mines, the beastmen fought the monsters on the plains and where pushed to the brink of extinction and we where pushed to the forrest, but the gods saw our plight and gave us magic and other powers to survive in this world of monsters.

It toke many thousind of years before we where able to push the monsters back, so we could do more then just survive, when we got in contact with the beastmen again we learned that they where in a worse postion then us but they got help from the dwarfs that after the whent into their mines trived and build massive fortresses and powerfull weapons to help push the monsters back and they helped the beastmen survive in their hour of need"

"it is said that the dwarfs learned of their magic trough there crafting that helped them build stronger weapons then any other  race, but they still lost the knowledge to build the weapons of  the gods and with the loss of the gods they also lost the way to learn about it again. The beastmen split in different sub races that each learned different types of magic, some learned illusions others learned to improve themself or others making them stronger and/or faster. then there is us that learned to communicate with the forest and the animals within, help them grown stronger and more powerfull."

I could clearly feel the atmosphear begin to grow restless the boys in our group where begining to shift in their seats and the small whispers have started again, to low for me to hear what they are talking about but knowing we are soon to leave here to go into the old temple of Mistiker goddess of wisdom and knowledge.

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Shanon leans over leans with a look of mischief on her face whispering if i want to join their group celebrating after our blessings to go out and explore the wilderness with them, of course I agree with nobody else having invited me to join them after our blessings, after agreeing to join them Shanon leans down whispers something to a mouse close by her before it runs acrosse the floor with a piece of papir to Thoramir proberly telling about me agreeing to join them afterthe  blessings

The Elder seems to realise that we have been told enough about the stories of old for now as it seems most of us are not listning anymore, but instead seems to be making groups for after the blessings, the Elder begins the last part of this ritual before we can go to the old temple to get our blessing indicating we have become adults."ATTENTION YOUNGLINGS! you are all about to join the ranks of adults, some of you will stay here working in the Grove, but i guess most of you have the same adventure lust as everyone else had in their youth and will go explore the world and maybe even see some of the citys of old or what is left of them" a hardened look comes over the Elder "just because you are adults new does not  mean you are invincible so take care and remember to always listen to the forest and let it guide you when you are lost. now go join the guards outside so you can get to the old temple in time for your blessing"

with those words of the Elder it is like a dam just broke as everyone springs to their feet and begins grouping up with the people they know .

"Daenan!""Shanon!"

hearing my name shouted from further in the hall I turn and wait for Thoramir to catch up to us, so we can join the flow of young people moving out the hall onto the squar before the great hall at the Groves life tree and nexus of power, that also gives name to our fair grove Irminsul,where all important events take place.

As the last people leave the Great hall build around the life tree we are guided trough the streets of our grove seeing the plants and flowers hanging down the side of the trees and higher streets we move trough the grove, toward the ancient passage to the old temple, as we move trough the streets Thoramir asks"do you guys belive in the stories of old about how the gods semed to be able to pull massive mountians down from the sky or destroy planets in a matter of days, kill whole citys in the same span of time it takes you to blink" "of course they are blown out of proportian if they are that strong why would they leave all the monsters free to roam around us and not have helped us more directly during the arrival of the monsters" says Shanon.

still not done

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