The Mark of Ilman

Prologue: The Mark of Ilman

Dear reader, thank you for clicking on my story. All italicised words are elvish and their meaning will be listed at the end of each chapter. I did not come up with any of the elvish words, all credit goes to grey-company.org and arwen-undomiel.com. Other names and words with pronunciations will be listed. This is an unedited version but I hope you enjoy! Please comment and vote!

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Years ago - in a land far away - there was a country that was terrorized by demons. Creatures that stole and sacrificed children to their gods. It was a dark age filled with fear, blood, and death. Until one day they were saved by an angel.

The Ancient Scrolls say she descended upon the land as though she fell from the sky. Her hair was white as snow, her eyes more blue and brilliant than saphires, and a face that glowed with God’s favor. In her one hand she wielded her mighty sword Uuranor and in the other, a runya. This angel was called Gavreel. The angel of Peace who bore the Mark.  

The King of this land - the great beriadan Alistair Omand - fell in love with Gavreel. He had brought his people from the Dead Land to Lageria where they found the country plenty and fruitful. But they were deceived. 

Deep in the Locein Mountains, Man dug for precious gems and metals. They began to dig too deep and awoke a sleeping giant in which the angel and her people had kept quiet for thousands of years. The Rauko. Vicious demons who killed and terrorized the people of Lageria mercilessly.

The war progressed with the rise of the demon king Morion and all seemed lost as the angel could not defeat him. Amidst the war between the demons and Men, an alliance was made between Alistair and Gavreel. They bound themselves together - through matrimony - and their armies and the rule of Morion fell. He was finally defeated.

Years past, the land of Lageria flourished in this time of peace. For years Alistair and Gavreel lived together at the capitol of Heren, the grand city of Aeulin-uial . They had two children, the eldest was a son would inherit the throne but the daughter inherited the Mark.

This gravely worried Alistair and Gavreel, for they feared Gavreel’s people would descend on the earth and claim the children. For the one who bore the Mark would inherit the right to the throne of Gavreel’s people. The child bearing the Mark would inherit the kingdom of Ilmen. The realm of the Ilfirins.

One day, the King of Ilmen came upon Aeulin-uial in a thunder storm and demanded that Gavreel and her daughter be released from her union with Alistair and return to Ilmen. After many months an agreement was made for Gavreel to rule at Alistairs side as Queen and to represente the kingdom Ilmen and their decndants but if any should bear the Mark would return to Ilmen upon their seventeenth birthday and receive the Blessing.

Decades later, the Mark was bestowed on a young man called Andaer. Andaer was the son of a Heren nobleman, a distant descendant of Gavreel. Though the bestowing of the Mark was in ill time. For the previous Marked had died and the KIng himself hand no heir.

The inheritance fell on young Andaer who had no experience nor desire to be King. His only interest was in the family he had created in secret. He had planned to leave Lageria and Ilmen behind for the witch Neviah told him of another realm in which he and his family could live in peace and comfort.

The night of his departure - when Andaer planned to leave behind the two realms forever - he was deceived by his most trusted manservent. He fled from his father's home, gathered his wife and newborn daughter, and left the realms to a place known only as Eruumea.

There Andaer and his wife Melda raised their daughter Amarie. They lived happily, for a time. By Amarie’s seventh birthday the Mark had appeared on her. It was on that day that Andaer disappeared, leaving the young princess to find her own fate.

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Lageria, pronounced just like the actual country Algeria, only the 'a' and 'l' are swithed.

The following are elvish and pronounced pretty much as they're spelt.

Runya- flame

Beridan - Defender of Men

Rauko- demon

All other words and names not listed are pronounced how they are spelt.