The Story of Ether
Ether is (everywhere your eye wanders)
a wonderfully artisinal craft to behold.
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As an outsider looking in...the granduer and purity of heart that nature holds in this realms soul is quite exponentially in your face wherever you go.
The Elements themselves are seemingly EXALTED and engrained into each individual so much so that in everything you see...there is an element, or nature theme, or something to do with the natural world as it is on Ether, but Everyone from Ether does not recognize this as so, because this is how it always has been, and so ever will it be that nature and the elements are above all things. This is thw way fo life, and life force where all magic is drawn from.
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For instance: Someone holding a shovel, hammer, or any tool...if you look closely it's crafted and adorned with art, beauty and grace, but it is a nature or elemental theme. Soemthign altogether familiar and basic...simple, but it is not that way for an outsider looking in. Someone not from this place woudl be in awe of a simple blade of grass, or the beautiful, autmnal air whispering melodically past your ears ever so musically.​
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It is awe inpsiring to see the wonderment, and beauty of the lush (fall colors year round) rich and sweet soil that gives the strength to all the natural bounties not least the size of trees and forrests of shireton and lil shireton where the wee folk live.
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You can see the amazment of the mighty Rock people of Rockonia who worship at the alters of the Red Rock Volcanoe...the Creator of Rock.
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You can see the Largest Docks in all of ether, and the construction and engineering feat of the town of baybridge (The Castle city in the Water) who offer their bridgemaking services around all the known parts of ether.
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You can see the advanced "Badge Brigade" Patroling an otherwise rough metro city with all its technological advancments, high rollers, and peak fashion.
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On Restaway Island You can see the beautifully and naturally sculpted old relics of the Monk order hinting at the elements as a state of calm, and well being as the order works tirelessly to train, to be, to not be, to exist in harmony with the elements around them, treating nature itself with a helping hand as an old friend or perhaps even a child.
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So many elemental wonders, places, and different living beings that seem to have been collected throughout the universe, and then there is the water.
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The Water is clean, crystal clear and beautiful and everyone loves the taste of the cool refreshing drink on Ether, but centuries ago (VERY few are still around when it started) something happened to the water surroundiung the the continents.
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Way back when it first happened.....Farther out in the ocean, the water started to become cloudy, but a clear cloudy...People started to get curious becuase they coudlnt see what was ahppening, so one day a fish captain jumped in to see if there was a large school of fish (getting more fish or better fish) he thought woudl give him the upper hand and increase the prices of his yield, but a few minutes later...he didnt come back up, The fishermans deckhand was worried a few minutes later so he jumped in as well...The bodies were not recovered. The cloudiness just grew and grew. This happened time and time again, wether a traitor were thrown off into the sea, or a full compliment boat was sunk by a pirate...forwhatever reason the water grew cloudier before it became discolored.
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For a long time the cloudy water was brown and brackish (hence the original name) but then it turned pitch black like the unknown universe. The blackness of the water (in time) brought with it a surrounding madness of darkened clouds, thunder and lightening that would drive someone crazy if they stood out at sea long enough, then came the wind...that was scary because it literally was knocking boats over...soon people just avoided the brackish entirely...
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...and thats when the stories came...
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...about all sorts of wickedness out there...
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...perhaps a monster the size of ether lurking in that dark underwater universe...
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The "Brackish" we know now has grown bigger, stronger, and has quite literally started to overtake some of the continents of Ether.
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...Be forwarned...Ether is in peril!
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Adventurers...are you strong enough to survive, and challenge that which would take your entire world away from you, only to not stop there, but continue its path of destruction similarly on other planes of existence? If not you, then who?
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