The Lantine Chronicles

The Tale of the Lantines leading up to Judgement Day

The Tale of the Lantines leading up to Judgement Day

Of the Peoples of the Gods, the subjects of Lurka were among the most honourable and although they dwelt of old in the south and were known as Islanders by the Men of Sarlon, the Mutorls of the Swamps begin to colonise their land.

The mutorls were a strange people by the standards of the world at this time. They were not a people of the Gods so they were not pure of blood, and so, like the beasts that inhabit much of the known world, they could not speak. But most merciful of the peoples are the Elves, and as the High ElvenKing Illeidar son of Elleidar son of Illuvine ruled in the first age under the watch of Illuvine, he saw a small people make way for his ever-expanding realm in Illidor. They were the Mutorls, cross-breads between snakes and apes, half-reptilian half-humanoid, similar to Goblins in looks and stature. They could not speak but High ElvenKing Illeidar took pity on them and he taught them the spoken arts instead of their hissing animal tounge that they usually spoke, and his people showed them lore, and smithcraft, and gave them boats and sent them south to find refuge in other lands. Thus the Mutorls remembered the High Elves as Gods far into the third age, when Farlsarc used this growing people for dark purposes.

So they sailed south, and many saw their thousand ships. They landed on the shores of the homeland of the Islanders, later the Lantines, who also gave them pity, and the Mutorls looked upon Lorto, the greatest port of the southern world, with awe. And these ships were also mighty, bigger and better than anything the Elves had crafted in their fair ports, for the Lantines were masters of ships and their naval power streched far and wide. So they shared the seaside island city with this new green skinned race. But one thing the Lantines had not forseen when they opened the proud gates of Lorto was how quickly the Mutorls multiplied.

And so throughout the latter half of the first age the Mutorls multiplied, and they gradually inhabited more and more of Lorto, and many Lantines set sail north and came across the Lantern Isles in the huge Gulf of Trahn, and here they set about the building of two proud places- the Haven of Forst Madro at the mouth of that great river, and they built their second great port, Torlone, on the island of Rarne. It was the mighty place, as powerful as Lorto, and a centre of trading, for several babarian clans of men, the Orm, the Rairn and the Crain, (the allies of Sarlon) as well as it's city Legotine, that was on the great plain named the Arrachnor.

At last the last Lantine ship set sail for Torlone, with Tarl-ah-Kabar, the Last of the Kings whom had their thrones in Lorto onboard. He left Lorto in the protection of the Mutorls, and its majesty dimmed and dwindled, and in the last year of the first age it seemed to many that one of the fair havens of the world was lost, and the dominion of Farlsarc in the West upon his Farl Island was growing. But Tarl-ah-Kabar was yet to prove his worth as a King. Under his Lordship Torlone prospered from a port into a mighty tower and city, with a new banner fluttering on the courts of the King. He wore now a new crown, red, gold and scarlet, and his line was feared and held in awe by many on the Earth.

Thus Torlone became as fair as Lorto had been, and although many proud Lantine men fell when the Navy of Tarn-ah-Kabar, Son of the King set sail at the end of the first age for the Battle of the Farl.Many men dwarves and elves fell in that battle before the gate of Farlsarc, but when the navy of the East entered the fight the evil goblin hosts were routed before the red ships. And then the Gods and their host of Heaven came down and drove evil from that place.

So at last Tarn-ah-Kabar returned home, and his people lived on, through the ages, watching the world of men elves and dwarves from their city. And although their navy sailed again to the mainland to aid Legotine and it's allies against the goblinoid legions, they generally forsook the rest of the world, and their power and glory increased, and still the Red crown passed down from King to Prince.