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Texas warrior
April 20th, 2012, 01:40 PM
This is the first two chapters of my book, They still need work but I thought that they were ready to see the light of day. If you like the first two chapters then three and four will be ready in a week or to. Constructive insults welcome.




War for Avendasora
by Jackson
Edited by Sophia




















Prolog
3 Siblings


A wind blew on the west edge of the Mountains of Mist. Two men and a women stood on the peek with a 200 foot valley blow. The first
man Mar, was 22 and half a foot taller than most men. Mar had short dark brown hair and brown eyes. He was somewhat tan and wore red full plate armor and still had scars for two
men. In his home land he was renowned for being cunning and a deadly fighter. The second man Conner, was the same age as Mar, but a little taller than him. He had blond hair and green eyes and wore blue pants and shirt. Conner had hands stickier than glue, He was the essence of a rouge warrior. Conner liked to think before he act which annoyed the crap out of Mar, Mar thought that the only way to think was while you were doing the thing you needed to be thinking about. The woman was Elisabeth, she was 25. She was short and gorgeous, long brown hair and brown eyes and a stunningly beautiful face made her stick out in any crowd. Well that and the fact that she had arms more fit for a mussel builder than a princes. Stubborn and stalwart Elisabeth will act now think later, or not at all. Mar and Elisabeth are brother and sister, their dad is Andor. Conner is related to them because he is their cousin, Mars moms sisters son. Mars mom and Conners mom and dad were killed in a orc raid, and when Conners mom and dad died Andor adopted him.












Chapter 1
Ay Line ee ta Shay


Mar to spoke to Elisabeth “I know it is hard but think, a prolong siege would take forever and we only have 250 knights of Monetheren under Conner, 250 Red Guard under me , 250 Heart Guard under you, and 1250 moreiian
men-at-arms. And we to take need Davrine and defend Moreiia”. Conner cut Mar off and said “What if we split our troops. Move them to where they can see us and they sent a attack force, we move back to the valley and brace for a Charge. They come down the valley, and then you charge there flanks and kill them. Then we can go west and free Davrine”.
“Okay” said Mar.
Elisabeth said “I still like the siege idea”.
“shut up” said Conner. 1000 moreiian troops set out toward Davrine. they took the bate, Conner and his 1000 soldiers retreated to the bottom of the valley, there were pikemen in the first row swordsmen in the second and crossbowmen in center. One valley over to the north Mar and Elisabeth were getting ready to charge into Conners valley. As the enemy charged down the valley. Conner thought “Elisabeth is right, I will go in a bear cave just to see the bear. If I could do it and not get killed, on the other hand she would do it just for fun”. The enemy came down the valley. Conner shouted “crossbowmen at the retie .... aim ....... fire !!!! ”. thumb thick bolts with wicked spike heads nailed them in a wave. The ones that went down were trampled by the men behind them, and then they themselves tripped, all in all a funny sight. Conner raised his weapon a Staffsword and shouted as loudly as he could “Etya aranya ee Monetheren, etya tydashar ee Monetheren” witch translates to “Always honer to Monetheren, always glory to Monetheren”. Mar and Elisabeth heard the battle cry and charged in to the fray. Them and there army came on the north slope of the valley with the enemy still coming from the west. The enemy reached the pike men and tried to charge the line, but with no avail they just impaled themselves on the pikes. Elisabeth lead the Heart Guard cavalry down the north slope, Conner knew he had never been so glad to see Elisabeth. The heart guard had quarter inch thick full plate armor in blue, and swords some were in between a long sword and a two handed sword. The heart guard slammed into the enemy and literary cut a path through them. Conner gave the order “Forward men-at-arms”. The pikemen and crossbowmen drew there swords and charged. Mar lead his troops around the valley to the south end of the valley, and charged north. Mar carried a sword with a with a hawk in the handguard. It was a Andjru Amarlen Tierin, a Hawk Blood Blade. One of the worlds most powerful weapons. It could change in to any weapon or tool the user desired, Mar liked a sword or a scythe, the sword was indestructible and could take on a supernatural edge at will that could cut through anything. And last it could magnify magic 10,000 fold. But no one knew how make the last ability work. Mar cut a path through the the enemy. It was like there was a line 5 feet around Mar and were men entered they died. He was a master swordsman, He had trained with Jack Shanghigh one of the greatest swords men of the modern world. Mar looked at the enemy. The troops from Davrine wore dull cast iron full plate. They were the called the Knights of Teragiykeya. They deserved no mercy, they raped and killed those under there rule. They are criminals, even if they are also the police of the land. As Mar moved he saw Conner and ran to meet him. When he got to him he said “Conner you are awesome, it worked”.
“what a surprise” said Conner. and now most of the enemy was dead most of them were in groups of 5 and 10 and they were dieing fast, but then he saw something that turned his blood to ice, 8000 Knights of Teragiykeya at the top of the valley. “Block formation” yelled Mar , his strong voice carried even in the din of battle. The Monetheren troops formed a block. Mar, Conner and Elisabeth at the head. “Link with me. We could destroy them before they get here” said Mar .
“But what if we can not kill them” said Conner. “If not, they will be fucked up from the ground up any way” said Elisabeth.
“Thank you” said Mar. Mar though about who he really was and he embraced his aura. Aura is the power of ones personalty, will and force of mind. And through aura he grabbed magic and let go his of aura, and he held magic. It was pure energy coursing through his body. He directed the magic to touch Conner, he felt Conner try to bond there to energy he helped and then they were linked Conner and Mar linked to Elisabeth. The enemy still had not moved, there were thousands all waiting to pounce. Mar raised his hand and made flows of lighting. A bolt of white lighting struck , and were it struck the ground exploded. The ground were it struck had blasted 10 foot hole. The enemy charged, it was like ants flowing from a stepped on ant hill. Mar raised his hands and strung weaves of fire together, a jet of flame leaped from his hand, burning away anything unlucky enough to be in its path. But as many as he burned, froze, shocked, vaporized and ground to dust!, they still coming. “Mar stop, it is no use. You did your best” said Elisabeth.
Mar said “Okay”. And then spoke to his army “Men we stand here today to fight for freedom, maybe not are freedom; but is not the essence of good, sacrifice. And did not the Legendary Warrior Mar want freedom for all? Those who will stand and face the tide of Evil with me this day step forward”. They all did and the enemy was 15 feet from the moreiian army. Mar said as loudly as possible “Ay line ee ta shay”. Which means “for freedom, to the death”. A battle cry as old a Monetheren her self. The two armys met and the valley became a dieing ground. A hour later it was over and 1484 moreiian troop were dead. The only thing that let the moreiian army survive the battle was that they were the elite fighting forces of Monetheren. Mar, Elisabeth and Conner were arguing. “Mar you have to come with us” said Conner.
“No I help with the dead”.
“But why”.
“You will see”. And so Conner and Elisabeth with a 400 troop guard marched to Davrine. On the way Conner asked “Do you know what he is doing”.
Elisabeth said “I think so”.
“Then what is he doing”. Elisabeth smiled and said “like he said you will find out”. 30 minutes later they were at Davrine. Mar watched his brother and sister march west, away form the valley, away from the horror. Conner was not his brother but he thought of him as his brother, his little brother. “Troops move back”. They moved back fast. Mar reached for aura and grabbed magic . He used weaves of stone to make a green tower. The tower was full of coffins for the dead. The tower was called a battle-spire they were used to mark battle sites. Green meant that the battle had been won, while a red tower meant that the battle had been lost. Over the next hour they moved the bodies it to the tower. Mar prayed to the gods that the men did not die in vain. Despite his noble blood line he was a solider and a commander at heart. He had seen his friends die in front of him in the orc wars and had hated it. The orc wars started soon after Andor be came king of Monetheren, he wanted to avenge the deaths of his wife and the others that died in the raid on Moreiia, and take back the home land of the Wood Elves. The war began when Mar was 5, and when he turned 16, he Conner and Elisabeth joined war, he was a Lieutenant at Fort Forestree. The war was fought over the forest of Kyzar, that forest was a hellhole. He still had nightmares of that place. The war was still going on, the orcs have been pushed back to the northern half of forest of Kyzar, The war effort in the forest is to hold them back at that line. After soldiers moved the bodes in to the tower they marched to Davrine.



Authors note. the story takes place on a island called Avendasora, and on Avendasora
there are 4 lands or teras each takes up ¼
of the island. The teras names are Teragiykeya in the south west, Terabethiia in the south east,
Teraroonna in the north east, and last Teratarnay in the north west. 2010 years ago Teragiykeya attacked Terabethiia and fragmented it from 1 kingdom to several kingdoms, one of witch is Monetheren and its capitol is Moreiia. And that is were Conner, Mar, and Elisabeth come from. There dad, Andor, is the king of Monetheren. He sent them to take a teragiykeyan city and so they did . And if you are wondering why he ordered them to take a teragiykeyan city, keep reading.










Chapter 2
Spy


Davrine was dead smack in a flat grassland. The city had tall gray walls with watch towers and a gate. The gate was open, and so Conner and Elisabeth just walked in into the city. If it was a trap then they would blast there way out. They reached the town square. The towns people were all gathered here. As they approached the towns people became silent. A man approached. Conner would have guest that he was the towns Mayor by the word Mayor on his feathered hat. He spoke in a scared tone “Why are you here”. Conner spoke in a strong and steady voice
“To slay the 5 warlords and free Teragiykeya”. The mayor hopefully said “So you are not here to kill us”.
Conner said “No, The nation of Monetheren is the champion of good and freedom”.
“So you intend to break the 5 warlords death grip on this land”.
“yes, for Honorer and right” replied Conner.
“So there will be no more harsh laws and insane taxes, this calls for a celebration”. And so the celebrating began. Everybody was celebrating, even the moreiian troops, but they were celebrating for a different reason. They were celebrating the fact the they were alive after a long battle, despite the Lieutenants best efforts to get them killed. Conner was walking around eating chicken by the gate. “Had enough fatty” Screamed Elisabeth. “Wow it's been Five minutes, and you drunk”.
“So what fatty” giggled Elisabeth.
Conner raised a eyebrow and then said “Go have a hangover, I don't have time for this shit”. She stuck out her toung and stumbled away. A few minuets the gate opened and Mar and 80 soldiers walled into the city.
Conner said “You look like crap Mar”.
Mar walked over and patted Conner on the back and said “You just got enlisted”.
“Enlisted for what”.
“For mouthing of at me dumb ass”.
“I meant what am I supposed to be doing” Conner asked.
“I got a communication form Andor he said to go the White Tower and spy on the teragiykeyans and see how the react” Mar replied.
Conner groaned and asked “And what about you and Elisabeth”.
“We will wait to go back to Moreiia”.
“And how do you plan on getting there?”.
Mar looked at Conner as if he was retarded and said “How else? a portal, tomorrow early afternoon”. Conner realized how stupid the question was and said “Well then let us eat drink eat and eat some more, come on I know were some really good chicken is”.
“well then lets go” said Mar without hesitation. And so Conner took Mar to big pit with 4 spits on it. Conner threw a platinum coin at the man working the spit and said “2 chicken please”. “But sir this chicken costs 2 copper coins” said the man in a reedy voice. “Keep the change”. The man handed them there chicken legs. And they proceed to rip the chicken legs to shreds and wander around Davrine. As they were walking around they saw the mayor. Mar walked to him and handed him a note and said “Here are notes on what Monetheren intends to do”. Conner said “He's so drunk I do not think that he understood you, he will lose the note”. “Will you two ladles buy me a drink my cat said I am to drunk so he will not get me a drink”? “I think that you are right, I will give it to him in the morning”.
“But I want a drink now” wined the mayor. A hour latter Mar went to bed.

Mar woke to Conner poking him with the butt of his staffsword. Conner shouted “Wake up, hey WAKE UP”. Conner used magic to pick Mar up and drop him on the ground. Mar got up and said “What was that for”.
“You need to start getting ready to go”.
“that is fair, but I am feeling vengeful”. Mar hit Conner with spell that caused extreme confusion and delusions. Conner screamed “I am on fire” and started rolling on the ground, and Mar looked like he was going to join him. Then Conner said “The fire feels good”. but a second later he screamed “The fire tastes like candy what do I do”? And stared crying. Conner then whispered “I know I will lick a pink pony and it will make me fly”! Mar went out side and locked the door he did not want to bail Conner from jail, drug crimes in Teragiykeya were punished harshly. The spell would wear of soon and Conner could pick the lock. He found the mayor and gave him the letter, and this time the mayor did not ask him for a drink. When the time to go home came they left the city, because it impossible to make a portal in a well protected city. Conner was still enraged at Mar and was still trying to think up a revenge. Conner knew that he could not cast the spell that Mar used on him. Mar could cast extremely hard spells with no problem. If Conner tried to he would drive Mar insane, or kill him outright. Most spells could be undone but messing up that spell the effects would be permanent. They reached the limits of the spell.
Conner walked over to Mar and said “Portal”?
Mar replied “I'll be hear waiting for you, here is your portal”. A flash of blue light appeared and formed in to a square 7 across. Elisabeth picked up Conner and threw him at the portal and screamed “Faster fatty”. He landed face first. Conner got up and spit grass out of his mouth and said “What are you 12”? Conner did not stop to lesson to Elisabeth, he saw that 100 feet ahead was the white tower. It was carved from one slab of white marble. This place was the meeting place of the 5 war lords.

#1 Altaren, The Shadowed One. He is the master of the 5 war lords and more than 2000 years old.

#2 Krypton, Hell Bringer. He is physically and magically the strongest but lacks the skill of the others.

#3 Thornrin, He Who is Not There. He is master allusion maker not much is known about him.

#4 Seunon, The Mad Bitch Out of Hell. She is Thornrins brother and a skilled sorceress, necromancer and druid. She is flat out insane.

#5 Rinxon , the blade master. He is one of the best swordsman in the last 1000 years. his magic strength is unknown.

Conner slipped on a ring and vanished. Conner had a magic ring called the ring of ghost, it made him undetectable by any means. Unless he wanted to be. He walk up to the tower. There was a door, he banged on in. A man opened it and looked around. Conner slipped past him and stood in the center of the tower. It was 50 feet from wall to wall.
“So Thornrin who is there” spoke a man a good 7 feet tall.
“No one”.
“Seunon check if anyone is hear”.
“No Shadowed One”.
“Well sense we are all hear we shall begin. Thornrin you stupid dumb ass loser! How could you let this happen I order you to take Moreiia and if you do not, I will stick a copperhead up your ass, pour hot oil on you, and set you on fire, DO YOU HEAR ME!!!! I am out to rule the world, but I can not do that with weak people like you”. Thornrin squeaked cowered. “Meet me hear in one week. I will have your army” Yelled Altaren. Conners mind was racing, he had to run. He ran out of the tower and through the portal.
Mar asked “So what are did they say”?
“That they are going for Moreiia”.
Mar said “Dam it, we need to get to Moreiia now. Link with me so I can make a big enough portal for a army”.
Conner, Mar and Elisabeth linked, Mar waved his hands a enormous flash of blue light snapped in front of the army. Mar shouted “Charge”! It took them three hours of hard running to reach Moreiia. Moreiia is nested in in a valley 15 miles end to end . The hills around were as tall as a 10 story building. Mar saw in the distances Hero Mount, and on them the quarter mile high diamond statutes. Only the greatest heroes had statutes on Hero Mount, Mar Hawkwing who formed the nation of Monetheren after Teragiykeya shattered the the nation of Terabethiia. Theharen Hawkwing, Mars brother who fought beside Mar to help form the nation Monetheren. Ukamari Naru who saved Monetheren from the Teragiykeyans in 1832. All of them had done heroic deeds in there lifetimes and now stood god-like on the mountain. North of Hero Mount was the Kings Castle, the castle of the king of Monetheren. The guards knew them and let them in at once. Once in the Castle Mar, Conner and Elisabeth went to the meeting room, the guard had told them that Andor had a visitor. When they entered they heard some one say “I have to admit Andor you-got-balls, but no need to worry the wastelanders have always stood by the monethereners”. The man was Damos Elmandaren. He was strongly built with a weathered face and stone gray hair. Age had not softened him at all, he was 60 and looked it every bit, and yet he had the look of a dangerous animal. He had of the aura of a wolf, a wild dangerous blood lust, and of a bear, a powerful foe that could rip you apart and knew it. Damos asked “so Andor can you tell me. Is revenge really worth it”?
Andor thought a moment “Altaren has been killing monethereners for almost 2000 years and will kill us for another 2000. Unless we stop him now. 2010 years ago in Teragiykeya a prince rose to power. His name was Altaren. He killed all of Teragiykeyan royal family. He was the last of them so he was made king. He had 4 people under him and together they were the 5 war lords. They each have a piece of Teragiykeya that they control. Altaren decided to attack Terabethiia. 2010 years ago Terabethiia was a whole nation, today it is 3 kingdom Monetheren the Toreyaneal and the kingdom of Shang, The forest of Kyzar is sort of it's own kingdom, but not really. But back to the story, Teragiykeya overran Terabethiia in weeks. In Terabethiias capitol Talminaral, there kings wife was giving birth to twins. Mar and Theharen. All of them were taken as prisoners. Mar grew up as a prisoner, but when he was 25 his dad was killed because he refused to lick Altarens boots clean. It was then that Mar knew that he had to escape. It is unknown how he and his brother escaped the castle that they were held in, but once they were out they were hellbent on revenge. So they they went out on the sea of storms hoping from island to island gathering people that were tired of the iron grip of tyrants. 20 years later he was back in Terabethiia he settled a small town called Moreiia, old elven for last hope. Altaren was right behind him gathering the nobles Mar had offended with his wild ideas of freedom. He was still behind Mar by a few months. 40 years had changed Terabethiia. The northwest was ruled by the nation Ryentar, who were a nasty people. northeast the nation of Syrinyem was ruling with a iron fist. The southeast was ruled by a fare government, the nation of Shang. The 3 of them were at war. Mar knew that he would have to have a united Terabethiia to survive the onslaught that Altaren would bring. So he sought to unite Terabethiia. He sought a meeting with the king of Shang. They formed a alliance the , king of Shang wanted to give the land of Shang to Mar but he would not here of it. He said that the days of the single kingdom of Terabethiia were over. He next approached Ryentar, who attacked Monetheren for no apparent reason. But Shang was there to stop them . Things started to look worse when Ryentar and Syrinyem were alleys for now . Mar found the king of the Toreyaneal . The Toreyaneal were not part of the old nation of Terabethiia they were a tribe that lived in the deserts it the north part of Terabethiia . Mar convinced them to help him . In a matter of weeks the empires of Ryentar and Syrinyem were dust on the wind . All that is left is the capitol cites witch still here to this day . The Toreyaneal had gone from a small barely tolerated tribe to a nation . Monetheren, Shang and Toreyaneal made a pact to fight by each others side to the end . A month after the Toreyaneal helped Mar Altaren was ready for war . He had a army of 200,000 strong and Terabethiia had 150,000 strong . A long and bloody war ensued . The pact held strong and Altaren was beat back , but he tried again in
600, the years start at when the nation of Terabethiia falls, and fails and again in 1800 and fails again. He has proven to be relentless it his attack. The Confederacy of Terabethiia has a world class army. We will win, for honorer, for right and for the common good”. “Maybe your right, so the Toreyaneal and Monetheren ride to battle along side each other once again, for common good”.

Bones
April 21st, 2012, 06:02 AM
Just before I begin, remember that I am no expert and that this is all my own opinion. I did like the story as well, so take the suggestions with a large serving of salt :)



Prolog
3 Siblings


A wind blew on the west edge of the Mountains of Mist. Two men and a women stood on the peek with a 200 foot valley blow. The first
man Mar, was 22 and half a foot taller than most men. Mar had short dark brown hair and brown eyes. He was somewhat tan and wore red full plate armor and still had scars for two
men. In his home land he was renowned for being cunning and a deadly fighter. The second man Conner, was the same age as Mar, but a little taller than him. He had blond hair and green eyes and wore blue pants and shirt. Conner had hands stickier than glue, He was the essence of a rouge warrior. Conner liked to think before he act which annoyed the crap out of Mar, Mar thought that the only way to think was while you were doing the thing you needed to be thinking about. The woman was Elisabeth, she was 25. She was short and gorgeous, long brown hair and brown eyes and a stunningly beautiful face made her stick out in any crowd. Well that and the fact that she had arms more fit for a mussel builder than a princes. Stubborn and stalwart Elisabeth will act now think later, or not at all. Mar and Elisabeth are brother and sister, their dad is Andor. Conner is related to them because he is their cousin, Mars moms sisters son. Mars mom and Conners mom and dad were killed in a orc raid, and when Conners mom and dad died Andor adopted him.

To be honest, I think that the prologue is to short and completely redundant. Is there any reason why you could not simply slide the information subtly into the main book instead of dumping the information on us in a prologue that sticks out like a sore thumb?



Chapter 1
Ay Line ee ta Shay


Mar to spoke to Elisabeth “I know it is hard but think, a prolong siege would take forever and we only have 250 knights of Monetheren under Conner, 250 Red Guard under me , 250 Heart Guard under you, and 1250 moreiian
men-at-arms. And we to take need Davrine and defend Moreiia”. Conner cut Mar off and said “What if we split our troops. Move them to where they can see us and they sent a attack force, we move back to the valley and brace for a Charge. They come down the valley, and then you charge there flanks and kill them. Then we can go west and free Davrine”.
“Okay” said Mar.
Elisabeth said “I still like the siege idea”.
“shut up” said Conner. 1000 moreiian troops set out toward Davrine. they took the bate, Conner and his 1000 soldiers retreated to the bottom of the valley, there were pikemen in the first row swordsmen in the second and crossbowmen in center. One valley over to the north Mar and Elisabeth were getting ready to charge into Conners valley. As the enemy charged down the valley. Conner thought “Elisabeth is right, I will go in a bear cave just to see the bear. If I could do it and not get killed, on the other hand she would do it just for fun”. The enemy came down the valley. Conner shouted “crossbowmen at the retie .... aim ....... fire !!!! ”. thumb thick bolts with wicked spike heads nailed them in a wave. The ones that went down were trampled by the men behind them, and then they themselves tripped, all in all a funny sight. Conner raised his weapon a Staffsword and shouted as loudly as he could “Etya aranya ee Monetheren, etya tydashar ee Monetheren” witch translates to “Always honer to Monetheren, always glory to Monetheren”. Mar and Elisabeth heard the battle cry and charged in to the fray. Them and there army came on the north slope of the valley with the enemy still coming from the west. The enemy reached the pike men and tried to charge the line, but with no avail they just impaled themselves on the pikes. Elisabeth lead the Heart Guard cavalry down the north slope, Conner knew he had never been so glad to see Elisabeth. The heart guard had quarter inch thick full plate armor in blue, and swords some were in between a long sword and a two handed sword. The heart guard slammed into the enemy and literary cut a path through them. Conner gave the order “Forward men-at-arms”. The pikemen and crossbowmen drew there swords and charged. Mar lead his troops around the valley to the south end of the valley, and charged north. Mar carried a sword with a with a hawk in the handguard. It was a Andjru Amarlen Tierin, a Hawk Blood Blade. One of the worlds most powerful weapons. It could change in to any weapon or tool the user desired, Mar liked a sword or a scythe, the sword was indestructible and could take on a supernatural edge at will that could cut through anything. And last it could magnify magic 10,000 fold. But no one knew how make the last ability work. Mar cut a path through the the enemy. It was like there was a line 5 feet around Mar and were men entered they died. He was a master swordsman, He had trained with Jack Shanghigh one of the greatest swords men of the modern world. Mar looked at the enemy. The troops from Davrine wore dull cast iron full plate. They were the called the Knights of Teragiykeya. They deserved no mercy, they raped and killed those under there rule. They are criminals, even if they are also the police of the land. As Mar moved he saw Conner and ran to meet him. When he got to him he said “Conner you are awesome, it worked”.
“what a surprise” said Conner. and now most of the enemy was dead most of them were in groups of 5 and 10 and they were dieing fast, but then he saw something that turned his blood to ice, 8000 Knights of Teragiykeya at the top of the valley. “Block formation” yelled Mar , his strong voice carried even in the din of battle. The Monetheren troops formed a block. Mar, Conner and Elisabeth at the head. “Link with me. We could destroy them before they get here” said Mar .
“But what if we can not kill them” said Conner. “If not, they will be fucked up from the ground up any way” said Elisabeth.
“Thank you” said Mar. Mar though about who he really was and he embraced his aura. Aura is the power of ones personalty, will and force of mind. And through aura he grabbed magic and let go his of aura, and he held magic. It was pure energy coursing through his body. He directed the magic to touch Conner, he felt Conner try to bond there to energy he helped and then they were linked Conner and Mar linked to Elisabeth. The enemy still had not moved, there were thousands all waiting to pounce. Mar raised his hand and made flows of lighting. A bolt of white lighting struck , and were it struck the ground exploded. The ground were it struck had blasted 10 foot hole. The enemy charged, it was like ants flowing from a stepped on ant hill. Mar raised his hands and strung weaves of fire together, a jet of flame leaped from his hand, burning away anything unlucky enough to be in its path. But as many as he burned, froze, shocked, vaporized and ground to dust!, they still coming. “Mar stop, it is no use. You did your best” said Elisabeth.
Mar said “Okay”. And then spoke to his army “Men we stand here today to fight for freedom, maybe not are freedom; but is not the essence of good, sacrifice. And did not the Legendary Warrior Mar want freedom for all? Those who will stand and face the tide of Evil with me this day step forward”. They all did and the enemy was 15 feet from the moreiian army. Mar said as loudly as possible “Ay line ee ta shay”. Which means “for freedom, to the death”. A battle cry as old a Monetheren her self. The two armys met and the valley became a dieing ground. A hour later it was over and 1484 moreiian troop were dead. The only thing that let the moreiian army survive the battle was that they were the elite fighting forces of Monetheren. Mar, Elisabeth and Conner were arguing. “Mar you have to come with us” said Conner.
“No I help with the dead”.
“But why”.
“You will see”. And so Conner and Elisabeth with a 400 troop guard marched to Davrine. On the way Conner asked “Do you know what he is doing”.
Elisabeth said “I think so”.
“Then what is he doing”. Elisabeth smiled and said “like he said you will find out”. 30 minutes later they were at Davrine. Mar watched his brother and sister march west, away form the valley, away from the horror. Conner was not his brother but he thought of him as his brother, his little brother. “Troops move back”. They moved back fast. Mar reached for aura and grabbed magic . He used weaves of stone to make a green tower. The tower was full of coffins for the dead. The tower was called a battle-spire they were used to mark battle sites. Green meant that the battle had been won, while a red tower meant that the battle had been lost. Over the next hour they moved the bodies it to the tower. Mar prayed to the gods that the men did not die in vain. Despite his noble blood line he was a solider and a commander at heart. He had seen his friends die in front of him in the orc wars and had hated it. The orc wars started soon after Andor be came king of Monetheren, he wanted to avenge the deaths of his wife and the others that died in the raid on Moreiia, and take back the home land of the Wood Elves. The war began when Mar was 5, and when he turned 16, he Conner and Elisabeth joined war, he was a Lieutenant at Fort Forestree. The war was fought over the forest of Kyzar, that forest was a hellhole. He still had nightmares of that place. The war was still going on, the orcs have been pushed back to the northern half of forest of Kyzar, The war effort in the forest is to hold them back at that line. After soldiers moved the bodes in to the tower they marched to Davrine.

To be brutally honest, this chapter confused me the first three times I read it. I had to go over it again and again to get what was going on. You don't add enough description into the surroundings, and you don't really explain what is going on very well. It also seemed very rushed to me. In paragraph one they are talking about how they plan to attack the enemy, and in the second paragraph they are in the midst of a battle. This is way to fast, I didn't, and still don't get what there strategy was.You also try to dump to many new things into the readers lap to fast. In the first line we have learned about the existence of three types of soldier, but you never give us an image of what they look like, an explanation of what their purpose is or even why they are there.

We also learn about several kingdoms, and since we have already been told about the soldiers not even a line earlier, we have become bombarded with new names and concepts and as with the soldiers, are not given a single piece of information about them. On one final note, your dialogue seems a little forced. It's hard to read because it sounds like it has been written to suit the storyline, spewing the information we need right at us and getting on with it. No one in their right mind would ever speak like this in real life, or in a fantasy realm, and it really sticks out to the reader.



Authors note. the story takes place on a island called Avendasora, and on Avendasora
there are 4 lands or teras each takes up ¼
of the island. The teras names are Teragiykeya in the south west, Terabethiia in the south east,
Teraroonna in the north east, and last Teratarnay in the north west. 2010 years ago Teragiykeya attacked Terabethiia and fragmented it from 1 kingdom to several kingdoms, one of witch is Monetheren and its capitol is Moreiia. And that is were Conner, Mar, and Elisabeth come from. There dad, Andor, is the king of Monetheren. He sent them to take a teragiykeyan city and so they did . And if you are wondering why he ordered them to take a teragiykeyan city, keep reading.


As with the prologue, is there no reason you can not slip this information into the story, instead of just giving it to us? The information about the kingdoms is redundant anyway, as most works of fantasy tend to come with a map of the lands ;).

The second chapter tends to have the same problems as the first, although it is obvious you have learned some skills between the writing of the two. Other than what is stated, I think the book has an interesting premise and would love to see more one day. Just a note, I would also suggest the use of a spell check before you share your writing, to many errors sticks out to the reader. Good luck with the rest of the story :)

Texas warrior
April 21st, 2012, 11:00 AM
I will try to correct those mistakes. Once I finish Chapter 3, I well also re-release one and two.