Aedenoa: The Amulet of the Immortal Ichor

The Crescent Moon Shore

My heart is so hollow, how many years has it been now? One, two, maybe three or even four years; I've lost count. The rain continuously falls onto the roof of my estate hearing nothing but the sound of the water drops, the roaring crackles of thunder, and the flash of lighting with the melody of my love's music box playing before me. Ah... Yes, the music box, the only thing I have left of her. Oh how its melody hauntingly captures my soul and seizes my heart just as my sweetheart Emylyna has... How I miss her, how I long to hold her, and feel her warm embrace again. Memories of her flow endlessly within my mind, what is, what was, and what could have been... I am forever tormented in despair because of what happened many years ago...

I am forever immortal, not undead, but still completely human as any man can be. I am forever cursed to walk the earth as a lycanthrope or as what one may call a werewolf. I was born on the continent of Aedenoa in the country of Qibath within the capital of Crusieg on Paha 12th of the Covert Era and my parents drifted apart as the revolution raged on. My father believed in Patriotism, but my mother on the other hand was a loyalist in secret due to an affair she had with a Haron soldier named William. I was taken away from my father when I was about six years old when my mother and I took a ship to Epryae. I did not want to go to the island country because I wanted to be with my father, but I had no choice in the matter and my mother did not want to stay anywhere on Aedenoa. My mother and I arrived in Ceskurg, a small little town located in South East, Epryae. During that time thousands of men at the dockyard built hundreds of vessels including the most famous of the time the Fandango.

My mother and I did had not become citizens of Epryae until she finally married William. It was then I decided to keep my biological father's last name Stryker because I had no respect for my stepfather William taking me away from my father. Afterwards, I became enlisted to Epryae's Navy at age fifteen because of the revolution and it was there I met my best friend Dusan. His family, the Aekleys were the wealthiest on the entire island of Epryae. 

Dusan's father Holmert owned a monopoly of businesses within Epryae including the Ceskurg Building Company where ships of Epryae's Navy was built. I had spent five years in the navy with my best friend Dusan by my side. He and I saved each other many times during skirmishes against the Felnach Navy at sea. One day our new orders were to embark upon The Crescent Moon Shore to retrieve an amulet. The Navy was suppose to take this amulet to the current king of Aedenoa to help fight against Prince Asterisk of the Halcyon Realm and his naval forces the Felnach. The current king of Aedenoa Rearenth holds complete control of Aedenoa within the country of Bastroestein. Bastrostein is the central country within Aedenoa and it's the heart of the Rearenth Empire.

King Rearenth is a cruel and vile man who heavily taxes the people of Aedenoa to enrich his empire with unspeakable power for his own greed. He cares not for the people of Aedenoa and many back on the continent starve, live in poverty, and die of disease. However, Epryae due to its isolation from the continent is not in such conditions. For it's reasons as well, Epryae's navy the Edruyar is part of King Rearenth's empire and the king believes in having well fed also healthy soldiers for his armies. Those who appose Rearenth wether it's foreign or domestic are sent to the guillotine for beheading. Often within the capital of Bastrostein is Gublium where the king holds frequent guillotine executions to utilize fear as a weapon against his own people.

Prince Asterisk from what I've heard is the long lost brother of Rearenth and desires to liberate all of Aedenoa and take the throne. Why am I in the navy fighting for a ruthless tyrant? Well, not only because it's law that I have to enlist because of my age and gender, but I don't want to be like those less fortunate starving and dying. The night my regiment found the mysterious Crescent Moon Shore is when everything was sent in motion.