The Erabor Chronicles

Chapter 1

In a time before time, there was a place with no life; no light and no feeling, a little trickle of water was present. No one knows the source; or the destination. Therefore, they decided to call the river the Err. Around this river; a settlement grew; first small, then larger and larger.

There were trees in this settlement. Abor trees, the Trees of Life, so they decided to call the settlement Erabor, after the Trees and the River that ran through the center.

What the citizens of Erabor did not know, was that the River held magical properties:  it would heal the wounded, nurse the sick and even bring life back to the recently departed. But that is a story for another day.

This river was kept full using an aquification stone, this stone was found in a hole in the ground below the River's surface. When people tried to touch the stone, it burned them, horribly.   Many attempts were made to take the stone, none were successful.

About a dozen or so years ago, before the aforementioned Finn was even conceived, a terrible war broke out. Born out of hatred never before seen, for the Erabor citizens were a peaceful people, it went on for so long that the sides didn't know who they were fighting in the end.  Turmoil reigned supreme. Someone, it was not known yet whom. stole the Erabor Stone, the aquification stone used to create the water in the River.

Death was rampant. People, animals and plants alike were dying, nothing was safe until the stone was returned to its rightful place and the aquification process could begin anew.

When Finn, still a youth by any standard, got the letter through his door, he decided to go straight to his one true friend, Alora, to see if she could understand the note where he could not make head-nor-tail of it. 

When he knocked on Alora's door, Finn was shocked to find it swung open, where was Alora, he thought.