Year 1: Telos

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[Abandoned unknown ruins - Interior, Enter Alessandra Zalori as she pursues the faint glint of light that has drawn her to the ancient structure]

Alessandra Zalori: [aside] It's so big, who could live in such a big place all by themselves? it must get so lonely. I remember how that used to feel.


[Alessandra Zalori traces the palm of her hand along the ancient ruin's walls, when suddenly a glyph begins to activate, a symbol of a four-horned deer lays in the centre as faint writing in a language lost to time begins to appear]


Alessandra Zalori: [startled and pulls her hand back] What is this? 


[Despite being of an unfamiliar language to Alessandra Zalori, she is able to read it with ease]


Alessandra Zalori: "I am Virithuir, King of Telos, Bastion of the Yaaraerea. Here lies my Final Rest"


Alessandra Zalori: "The Promised Land is where all servants return, where all Kings return, where all life returns".


[Alessandra Zalori continues to walk down the path, noticing other faint glyphs, she approaches these, resting the palm of her hand against it, revealing more messages scribed in ancient tongue]


Alessandra Zalori: "To this Tomb, I entrust the guardianship of our treasured knowledge, to our Children, I entrust the Future" [aside] a tomb?! that means whoever lives here, is dead.


[As Alessandra Zalori ventures deeper into the the temple, a mist begins to envelope the floor, it is dense and as she walks into it her feet are no longer visible]


Alessandra Zalori: But where is this light coming from? what if somebody is lost? I cannot just leave them by themselves!


[Alessandra Zalori continues deeper into the temple, there are pedestals and carved out sections within the wall, it appears that a sphere-like object was once embedded throughout the tomb of this self-proclaimed ancient king. Not before long, the mist grows heavier, making the path ahead for her impossible to see, until it resides before a great grand hall, where a tomb lay above the surface of the room]


Alessandra Zalori: [completely astonished by the structure within as the mist seems to almost run away from the risen tomb in the centre of the room] What a lonely place to be buried, no friends or family, not even beloved pets to keep him company.


[Alessandra Zalori's thoughts are interrupted when she hears an abrupt yet subtle movement for a split second coming from the other side of the room]

Alessandra Zalori: [begins to slowly raise her bow as her hands and legs tremble] Is anybody there? Virithuir? is that you?


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