User:Serzahnk

Serzahnk is the given name of the World in the World of Serzahnk series, written by James C. Woodall from 1999 to an as yet unspecified date. It has comprised, so far, one book out of a planned twelve books all-in-all. The first book, The Apprentice of Farhymn is available at OurMedia.org and Archive.com for free, and is registered under the Creative Commons license.

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Serzahnk is the given name of the World in the World of Serzahnk series, written by James C. Woodall from 1999 to an as yet unspecified date. It has comprised, so far, one book out of a planned twelve books all-in-all. The first book, The Apprentice of Farhymn is available at OurMedia.org and Archive.com for free, and is registered under the Creative Commons license.

Introduction

Serzahnk is a very wild, new, and diverse world. It is only around one million years old and, miraculously, already supports a bustling community of uniquely evolved species. There is no known appendix of creatures available to any in Serzahnk that comprises the entirety of all the intelligent and cognizant species on the planet and there are no maps that fully detail the world due to the world's wide diversity; but one can try and try this one does! [-Barasi, Talagon. Of Serzahnk and Time Anyathield Library Print, Red Copy; 1228 AD]

Concerning the Book Series and Wikipedia

The World of Serzahnk is a series upon itself, I should hope to write. There are so many stories to tell of so many adventures, perils, finds, binds, wars, lust, romance, bloodshed, sacrifice, magic, and prayer that I would hope to never run dry of material for my readers.

Unfortunately, writing a tremendous amount of backstory that will never hit a fiction's page outright seems almost unrewarding if the reader never gets to read what we authors write. This is both the driving purpose and reason for this Wikipedia article. I'd rather not have another write up some sort of hierarchy of my fictionary universe without having a hand in its creation somewhere down the line. The World of Serzahnk is vast, sublime, and without mercy to those who wish to traverse the deep depths of its history.

In short, researching the history, affairs, and business of this world would be a terrible taxation to some archivist down the road; as a recompense for their efforts I have decided to put up a 'source' of kinds so that they may say "Aha! Though it leads to assume one did this in the book, in actuality, it happened thisway!" without fear of misquoting, misreading, or misunderstanding some shard of history I put up for them to read.

I will endeavor to be quick, concise, and without bias on this page and this page alone. This is my gift to the readers of the future and perhaps other future endeavors upon my fiction, a small history, encyclopedia, dictionary, and what-have-you of, concerning, and exhaustably complete timeline of this World of Serzahnk.

Mahamaluk Area/Legend

The Mahamluk Area, Mahamaluk and the surrounding islands, are all that are known to the select few species which the series of books concerns itself (excluding some of the text in the Twilight Codex, available below (soon to be added). The species that the series of books primarily concerns itself with are the Firryn, the Sepharin, the Sarin, the Wingless, and the Mraemen; some sub-species of these major species would include the Habishans, the Grynan, and the S'huutjan.

The Main Islands of the Mahamaluk Area [so named because Mahamaluk has rapidly become the 'null politica' zone of this region of Serzahnk. There are representatives of nearly every member of the White Union [being comprised of the Sarin, Grynan, Sepharin, Firryn, Habishan, Analestian, Draconian, Wingless, Felkin, and Old One races and councils] residing here, as well as numerous races of the Outcast Society present as well [the Mraemen, Aizkoh, Brino, Waranga, and Kynan races].

Legend [W]= White Union Controlled [B]= Black Hand Controlled [N]= Neutral Region/Zone]

Myths and Legends

The S'huutja, the Firryn, and the Firgof

Quite possibly the most prominent, wide-spread, and known myth is that of the relationship between the Firgof of the Firryn, Firgof Umbra and the S'huutja King, Malice. Though the original source for the myth has long been lost, and the story has long been twisted and mangled to suit the desires of it's teller, the original concept remains the same as it was in the beginning:

At a time long before any recall or written history, there was the Rule of the Firgof and the Rule of the Old Ones. Long before the age of Men and Magic, there were Shephards of the World, called the Old Ones, who supervised all of the races and watched over each with a protective warmth. They were as Gods to the people, and to the Old Ones felt as if messengers for their masters; their Twelve Gods. So it came to pass that the Old Ones, without permission of their Gods, spread the Gospel of the Twelve Gods amongst the world.

For ten years, the Churches of Old were abandoned and the new Gods praised and worshipped as the masters of the Old Ones. The Old Ones, themselves, were displeased that their flock had flown to their Gods, and asked of the Gods what they should do to keep rule over the Simple People; the Gods gave no answer, as they felt betrayed themselves for their Sacred Words now spread across the world by word of mouth, as if so much grain and rice as to feed the world.

The Old Ones then tried to enforce their Law upon the Simple Ones, but, emboldened in their faith of the new Gods of their Gods, they protested and decreed that the Old Ones were not the Gods; that their Law should be treated as Common Law. The Old Ones, enraged and betrayed by their populace, struck down the New Temples of the Gods across the lands until they reached the Forbidden Plains of Mahamaluk.

Strong and mighty as they were, the Old Ones were by that point full of ego and contempt for all the Simple People; decreeing themselves masters over life and death. Their original purpose was all but forgotten and there was one last powerful wizard in the world who sought to end their reckless savagery: Kilratos the Beholder. Kilratos was a mighty Priest of the Dark Fist, the direct servant of the God of Dark Powers, Kirzikal, who had been sealed in the Void for his earlier near-apocalypse of creation, but had not enough power to stop the Old Ones. Wearily, Kilratos called upon an unlikely hermit of the Firryn People, one Fayorn Kazanan, to summon the most bright and gifted of his people to combat the Old Ones before they consumed the world's freedom.

Fayorn sent his son Farhymn Kazanan, a promising acolyte in the Light Arts of Felanor, God of Light and Knowledge, to the Forbidden Plains, to the Mountain Cravenshow where he, along with Kilratos, sealed forever the Old Ones in the Void which Kirzikal consumed. Delighted in an immediate showering of dark gifts and powers by Kirzikal, Kilratos decided to favor his God more by killing his opposing God's mos promising progeny; Farhymn.

Kilratos stabbed Farhymn as they watched the portal close and clasped his greedy fingers about the boy's throat. Already hearing the words of a curse on the boy's lips, Kilratos snapped the boy's neck, but was too late to stop the quickly-spoken curse; the boy had memorized it. Kilratos immediately found himself in a crumbling sea of brimstone and lava; his Kingdom of Karken sank into a sea of magma and sulfur, and he, himself, was sealed along with it, but not before he let out a curse of his own. He cursed his dead people, the Giants of the Ashes, the "S'huutja", to inherit the Earth and, more to the point, crush the Firryn people in the name of Kirzikal.

Since the first S'huutja set forth in the Firryn Lands, the Firryn people waned in power and populace; the S'huutja were all but a blight upon their lands. After thirty long years of struggle [the number is debated avidly amongst lorests] to find some way to banish the S'huutja, once and for all, from their lands the Firryn people finally were graced by a gift from the Unspoken One; the Thirteenth God, exiled from grace, Mneihus. He spread, unto a man and a woman, the miracle of a child who could transcend all physical bounds and become mightier than any warrior who ever lived.

From birth the Firgof knew how to use a knife and grew and lived in the blood of the S'huutja giants who invaded his lands. After fourteen years of training, battle, and loss, Firgof lost both his mother and his father to the S'huutja King, Malice; a reincarnation of Kilratos' former self. Desperate for revenge and at wit's end, the Firgof charged into the Army of Malice and rent it asunder with his keen blade and speed in only two days. On the third night, the Firgof and Malice fought toe-to-toe on the bloodied grounds of Bladesend and, on the Ledge of Lagifus, the two fought for the fate of the entire world.

The Firgof smote Malice with a mighty blow to the King's head; then severed it from the still-breathing corpse. He took with him the head of Malice and with it, commanded the S'huutja to return to the Underworld and never return to the Firryn Lands; elsewise be forced to rise once more to the aid of their maniacal King Kilratos. The S'huutja vanished from all sight and knowledge and the Firgof was celebrated and immortalized in myth, legend, and song. Tales of his bravery, speed, and skill spread far throughout Serzahnk, but Firgof soon after died of the Black Fate; a disease spread to him by a glancing blow from Malice's blade weeks before.

There were none who could save him. The Firgof assured his people that he would return on the Eve of Chaos, and each time the world was in Peril, he would return to the soiled lands of the Firryn People once more to combat Malice wherever he may appear, no matter his shape nor form. With all his energies spent, the Firgof then passed away and was buried at Bladesedge.

So was established the title of Firgof of the Firryn; forever entrusted to the one who earned it.

[As of 22 November 2005: This page will be further updated as the author has time to devote towards it.]

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