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  ==The Moons of Bigworld==
  
  The are three moons that orbit bigworld, they are called [[Ranisha]] the Red, [[Asferenn]] the Blue and [[Wolfen]] the White. In the elven language, they are known as "Snarfa", "Skorta", and "Svertzika".
  
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+ == Kingdrom of Brittany and the city of Brest ==
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+ Children in Scorn usually love the stories of their quests. It is much better so.
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+ That's indeed weird to have so many easy travels to Brittany, while the whole point of the Exiled was to be hard to reach :)
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+ While Brittany is the area where the Last Men went to hide from the Werebeasts. Strange thing, actually, that "Brittany" comes from the old Khelentari meaning "Wide Plains". Well, it is nowaday strange, of course. When the first explorers reached that area, there were no mountains separating that from the region of Scorn.
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+ No, definitely not. Juberness the Erudite found out that this common belief came from an erroneous transcript of the Codex Magirata by Furnenn during the XXIIth century.
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+ You see, it was a harsh time. It was during the Great War against the dragons. Scorn itself stood firm, but many people doubted that it would be able to resist against the Great Dragons that had crossed the Wall.
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+ The Baron of Quay-Vy, a small state-city that was allied to Scorn, then sent messenger all around in the few territories still free from the dragons asking for any possible help, promising a huge treasure as a reward. Many came, but with no real proposal.
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+ Then, a Mage came. The story forgot his name - or maybe he made it forget - but he was powerful for sure. He sent his creation to help men: the terrible werebeasts. And, as we now know, the Allied People vainquished the dragons. And so did the mage ask for his bill to be paid. But his price was way too high, and the ravages of the war made it impossible for the Baron to pay him.
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+ "So be said, then !" said the furious mage, "You'll pay with blood what your purse refused to spit out !"
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+ Werebeasts then attacked those they once helped. Already weakened by the dragon's war, the remaining Thinking Races were on the verge of becoming extinct. The College of Wizards of Scorn then took a drastic decision: selecting 100 young men and 100 young women across the country, the "Last Men", they organised an exodus to the south, and used all their powers to prevent the werebeasts to kill those survivors.
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+ First, they raised mountains all around. High. Dangerous. Nasty Weather and stuff.
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+ Of course, it meant that the Last Men were now cut from the rest of the world completely.
+ Then, they built two fortresses guarding the two passages that existed through the mountains they had raised. And, to ensure they'd stand against the werebeasts, they cast a spell of Temporal Lock on them.
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+ Temporal Locks are very powerful and dangerous spells.
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+ As long as they are in effect, the people they protect never get old, and are harder to kill than simple mortals. On the other hand, invaders and enemies of all sorts perish much more easily.
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+ There is a drawback to Temporal Locks, though, which is why it is usually banned by most white wizards.
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+ When the spell comes to its end, it "runs out of magical energy". Then, it finds energy to try to maintain itself at all costs, and sucks the very life of those it protects. Turning them into people that are neither alive or dead, or even undead, but both and neither at the same time. Finally, the spell dies, having exhausted everything and everybody, and only ruins remain, that look centuries old even if they are only a few months old in fact. That's what happened to the two fortresses for sure.
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+ but
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+ What about the werebeasts ?
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+ Well, unknown to the inhabitants of Brittany, the Five Ones tracked them, killed them, and saved not only Scorn, but also the Thinking Races, from total destruction.  The Five Ones then were able to reach Brittany and tell its inhabitants that they could stop hiding. The Five were actually a team of five, well, heroes that are still famous today.
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+ But, so confident were the Last Men in their magical defenses that they didn't believe what they told us, saying that they were just poor comedians in desperate need of easy money. Disgusted, the Five Ones left Brittany. And no other man crossed the mountains for 2500 years.
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+ During that time, Brittany flourished, completely convinced that it was the last human kingdom in a world dominated by monsters of all sorts.
+ Then, Mer'eric the Walker discovered by accident that a light could be seen, on clear days, from above the top of Nursen, the high mountain that dominates Brest, the Capital City of Brittany.
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+ He spent ten years of his life to build the Great Heliograph, a device that could focus the sunlight into a wide beam, that could be used to send messages.
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+ On the other side, the man now known as the "Mad Mage" was holding experiences about the properties of light. It was him that inadvertently attracted the attention of Mer'eric. And he quickly noticed the signs sent by the Great Heliograph, and built on his side a similar device.
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+ But in Brest, things weren't as joyful as one could have thought.
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+ People were thinking: "Those are dragons, trying to fool us ! Mer'eric as doomed us all !"
+ And Mer'eric himself became afraid of the consequences of what he had done. So he hid his machine, and decided to cross the mountains to see by himself what had happened.
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+ When he came back five years later with some companions, Brestians were forced to admit that they weren't the last ones on Earth. And they felt angry and spoiled from what they said was their heritage. Tension rose between Brittany and Scorn, and shadows of War became longer again.
+ It is then, when everything seemed to go to another butcher's feast, that the Five Ones reappeared. It is said that it is the "Mad Mage" that called them through the gateways of time. Who knows ? One thing is sure: they prevented the war, about 10 years ago. One of them, a brave warrior with hairs of the color of the sun, is still the only and true ruler of Brittany.
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+ But where is he ? And what about the four others ? That I don't know, and probably few people can answer that question. The "Mad Mage" is now grumbling alone in his solitary tower about his younger days, when he ran on the Earth to save people with his four friends, but who is to believe the bearded man with foolish, tearful eyes ?
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+ As for myself, I don't know, and here ends my knowledge about Brittany's Past.


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