The Demon Sword: Sorataki (Side stories)

The High Hymns of Hemeraly

Hemeraly; or better known as the Hemerlains, is a colony of migrating hymns singers who often travel in packs of two to three hundred. Said to originate in the deep southern mountain range their home base tends to be on the highest slope or hillside of any land that they find themselves traveling upon.

Seeking the songs of times forgotten they travel to the ancient ruins, high up places and locations where the power of the lay lines intersect strongest all in the hopes of gaining a higher sense of knowledge and inspiration of them long forgotten and untold truths of the world by catching winds of there history.

They pride themselves in how their mastery of the winds allow their voices to project and unify in a harmonious sound that can be heard from miles around thanks to their skill over there gale affinity as well as their clothes that are tailor-made to carry and control those vibrations.

They are essentially a walking choir, with correct positioning among themselves they can turn a whole town into a choir hall for their harmonious hymns.

In their inception, none of them were taken seriously at first, often mistaken as a splinter sect of the Callers of winds even though they were birthed at opposite sides of the world and a hundred years from each other.

It was not until they were able to correctly recall events that had taken place shortly after the second winds with great precision, before even the scholars of Hallow Peak could later confirm them true with solid evidence that they began growing their own identity. With then able to tell so much just by 'catching wind' of the past unlike the more religious teachings of the Callers of the winds, the High Hymns of Hemeraly were more accepted by the masses even overshadowing the Callers of the winds in it's later years.

Ever since they proved the validity of there ways the western temple had always made it a point to keep at least one or so of their own scholars and historians among the Hemerlains. This was an olive branch of sorts to express their alliance with them, gather any knowledge they may unearth on their travels as well as understand how it is that they can gather such knowledge just by catching the winds as they called it.

Hemerlains being rather accepting of anyone to there fold took them on more on simple policy to accept anyone that the winds may bring there way than a true alliance but other nations saw otherwise.

To the masses, the presence of the Hemerlains coming to there homelands is considered a great privilege, many a great ruler would welcome them to their kingdom with open arms just to hear them sing hymns of ages long gone as well as songs for good fortune, fertile lands, glad tidings and blessed days to come. Mainly inspired by what they feel through the winds and known to travel in many groups by following where the winds carry them no two groups of Hemerlains are the same.

Besides some of their older and more keystone hymns, each group tends to have a different rendition of the same song or the liberty they have as a collective tends to be unique to another group simply because of there different experiences and inspirations.

Some of their most well-known hymns are:

Clench of the fog war's, (a tale of the worst days when the winds stopped and the champion of ruin who won over his enemies only to be left with a greenhouse covered world, destroyed further by his sheer act to claim it.)

Life in a desert, (a tragic tale of the first kingdoms to build their empire using the demon sword after the return of the winds, how they turned a desert into an oasis, and in their effort to defeat one another they had destroyed one for the greatest wonders that was ever built in the new era).

Legend of the four pols (a tale of the four heroes who founded the for poles temple).

And the birth of Alexander Persephone (an odd telling of a frost bear king, perhaps the most powerful creature to ever live. Who slumbers in wait within the black dome that covers the whole of the north pole with a great warp gate that takes one to Titans creek. Preventing anyone from entering the north pole that surrounds it).

Hemerlains can have a family but they tend to do so whilst traveling, the ones who do settle down never tend to go back to singing the hymns even if they are able to find and re-enter the same group they left. It is said that they are looking for someone before Alexander Persephone returns and cries the hymn to end all hymns known as the cry of judgment.