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Post by Daze on Feb 21, 2010 17:34:03 GMT -5
It happened again. The old ones warned that it would happen when the final wolf who had witnessed the truce fell into the otherworld. United, the Corrupt wolves squared off against the last Devout pack that remained. Many a great wolf died at the claws of another, and it fell into the same pattern that history had set not too many years before. In the backs of minds, the fighting wolves remembered the stories told to them as they slept as young pups, and they waited for the sound of the rumbling, of the volcano, the only thing that had stopped a war on this scale before. And it did come.
It was not alone.
The mountain rumbled and spewed deadly ash and lava onto the lands of Translucence. The ground shook out deep in the ocean, not far from the Bay, felt only by the air, and brought back the dangerous and violent wave, the Val.Together the forces of nature swept through all of Translucence, wiping out many lands and replacing them with unfamiliar territory, and killing many wolves. To the ones left alive, saved by the pockets of territory that had escaped largely unscathed by the devastation, it was the end of their world. The apocalypse of the Corrupts and Devout. Prey succumbed to the destruction as well, and fights broke out over the tiniest bits of meat that could be found. Black and white became shades of grey, and the wolves became skeletons of their former lives.
Some wolves rose up amongst the fighting, angered that their kin had stooped so low. It didn't matter which alliance they were from; they were alive, and lucky to be so. These wolves demanded order and organisation in the bands of survivors and though the wolves - who had fought against each other only half a year before - fell in line together uneasily, it was still a moment of unification, as the grey shades solidified themselves. The wolves who had been cut off in Sunset Valley called themselves Uzdati, and those in Wenkis Peak, Marwolaeth. And finally, the wolves began to creep from their safe havens, and examine the destruction of the only world they know.
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