《The age of Liorenth》 Prologue - Snatched from the pitiful reality known as existence ''BEEB BEEB BEEB'' "Uggggggggghhhhhh" Awakening to the noise from which one can only assume to have originated in hell, I slowly open my eyes before picking up the dreaded annoyance that is my alarm clock and flinging the blasted contraption at the wall. As I lift my body up, I prepare for the trial of yet another day experiencing the pitiful reality known as existence. "Why won''t it just end" I mutter to myself in slight annoyance, I drag myself half way across my bedroom before stopping and looking in the mirror. Staring back at me is a middle aged woman around 45, her plain brown waist length hair covers a slightly chubby frame, as I stare into her face I can''t help but feel disgust at her features. Thick eyebrows hover over uninteresting brown eyes with a nose that can only be compared to an owls beak, lips in a perpetual frown with lines indicating a lifetime of unhappiness. Pulling myself away from the reflection I stumble over empty bottles of alcohol and towards my phone, its been flashing red for some time now, pressing the button I read the text. ''Twenty-two missed calls'' Seeing as the only people to call me are my landlord or my psychiatrist I pray it''s the former before checking my call history. "Fuck" I decide I may as well call him back, although I already know what this will be about, I push the call back option and wait for a total of a second before it picks up. "Maria, thank God do you know how many times I called you?" the doctor asks as though my phone doesn''t notify me. "well now that you''ve decided to grace me with your call, what do you have to say for yourself? We''ve been seeing each other for five years now and you seem to only have gotten worse, do you honestly want me to re-admit you" "No Mr. Angelo, I have no desire to be put back in the ward" I huff out in annoyance He pauses before he replies " Well good, I''ve made you an appointment to come and see me in an hour, I''m sure you know the consequences of not attending miss Young?" Bastard "Of course I know the consequences I''ll see you in an hour" clicking him off before he can say anything else I think back to why I had to begin therapy in the first place....... ''40 years before...'' A young girl is drawing a picture in a white room, a man large as a house with plain brown hair matching the girls own, steps into the room reeking of alcohol, the girl looks up with eyes dead to the world as the man picks her up and puts her on the singular bed in the corner of the room he slowly starts to undress, a woman stands in the doorway, hair bleached blonde she looks on disinterest in the crime against nature that''s about to begin. If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. She informs the man "Dinner will be ready in an hour" before shutting the door, the tap tap tap of her heels can be nearly felt as she leaves. The man having turned to watch the woman then returned to the task he was interrupted from before....... It was another year before authorities were called by a neighbor who reported his neighbors across the street looking into his window, unknown to the officers this man was a severe sufferer of paranoia, a simple check in resulted in the worst crime in a decade to be discovered in the small town. The couple were soon sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole whereas the young girl was sent to live in a hospital for those with extreme mental health problems, every doctor gave the same diagnoses depression and complete misanthropy. ''Present day.....'' Shuddering at the memory I prepared to leave my home it was only in the last 10 years that I was allowed to leave the hospital under the pretense of making major improvement, now instead of life crippling depression I had bad days and good days, instead of extreme misanthropy......well lets just say that human beings are something that don''t deserve to be considered in my opinion, a cockroach is more approachable. Well time to go to that appointment, don''t want to end up a prisoner in some hospital. As I opened my front door, there was a giant eye staring at me, stunned at the unreality of the situation I admit......I screamed then before I could do anything a giant hand made of what I could only describe as stars and darkness came and grabbed me I felt a squeezing sensation and then nothing. ''Authors note'' sorry for the abrupt ending but yeah I''m working out where to go with this got a lot darker than I thought it would in no time at all but ahhh well....never written before this is to pass the time also my laptop is crap, Peace out ;-) Meeting the creator Among the endless void I floated.......time could be seen passing me by, a kaleidoscope of color in a seemingly endless black. Insanity had come and gone in the chaotic maelstrom of silence that I suffered broken up by periods of sobbing and begging for the harshness and stability that reality provided. "GOD PLEASE LET IT END" I screamed one final time and it did. The entirety of the black eventually coalesced into a single being whose body was seemingly made up of the vast universe, the swirling of the galaxies, suns, planets....all of it was before me it held its hand up and slowly began to transform. The beings body in a near instant formed muscles and nerves soon covered by skin and hair, before me stood a man plainer than even myself neither ugly nor pretty but comfortably average his hair a dull shade of gray, his age could have been around 50 however his eyes were almost unfathomable in their agelessness. "Greetings child, I welcome you to my home" He spoke with a voice that resounded in my mind and echoed across the empty expanse before finally returning to us. I floated dumbstruck at the sheer beauty of his voice before realizing that he never actually moved his lips. "Such would not be good for you child, you would shatter out of creation were I to use my true voice although truly I am surprised you endured for so long journeying inside my mind." he frowned I didn''t understand and he knew I.....felt it, it dawned on me that this man must have been God, his smile of amusement actually irritated me slightly at the fact he could obviously read my mind. "Of course child God is merely one of my infinite names if not the most well known" his response verified my thoughts. "So...why did you bring me here, why did you leave me for so long?" I asked the anger clear in my voice it was enough time for me to have gone insane a few times so this bastard had some explaining to do. In response his smile became even greater, there was mirth being emanated at a level from him that I actually felt a bit sickly just witnessing it. "Why but because I was bored of course, as to why I left you floating endlessly for so long well.......I forgot......" .............. .............. .............. "You are actually an idiot aren''t you?" His look of sadness was even more annoying than his previous happiness "So grabbing people out of their homes is entertaining for you is it?" I again asked with an annoyed scolding voice. "Actually about that I have a proposition for you" he said with a dangerous smile appearing on his face "Of course if you refuse I can return you back to your home at the exact moment you were taken, however I would ask only that you listen to my idea." the excitement in his........mind-speech thing was strangely enticing. The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement. "I suppose I could listen to you, this better be good though" for some reason I felt intrigued by his.....idea or whatever it was.....it helped that I didn''t completely feel disgust from him I wonder why that is. "I propose a new life for you as a creature thought only myth in your old life in a world where no such creature has existed before" the rush of words with no break in between showed how exciting this was for him I had one question. "Why?" I questioned with a raised eyebrow The response I received was one I would never have expected "Because it will entertain me of course, by fulfilling special requirements I have removed you from following a linear path in time....any decisions you make from now on will require me to actively watch you, what greater entertainment can there be for one such as I who knows all from a glance to be left in suspense and or surprise" His sadness at the end made me feel slight pity for him however I had to be sure of something before I agreed. "Will I be strong" His smile once again burst forth "But of course my child, but of course given enough time and effort you will have the potential to become the strongest being that world will ever know" I nodded my head in acceptance "Then I will agree to your deal" as I said the words I suddenly felt myself start to crumble away, it didn''t hurt but was shocking to watch. He merely watched as I became dust, when the final particles of my former life began to crumble away I heard him say. "Let the age of Liorenth begin" And then the existence known as Maria Young ceased to be. ''Authors note'' Yay finally got the first official chapter out would love some reviews this is a practice story for another I plan to write hopefully after chapter 5, any advice is welcome also I make this up on the spot so there may be large mistakes and errors I apologise :-} again peace you lovely people you! The Beginning and the Great Separation In a dusty tower a young boy with dirty brown robes and a shaved head with an eye painted on his forehead was staring at a huge tome with Gold lettering on its cover labeled only as ''TRUTH'' he opened the tome and began to read. Long long ago in the age of birth the mother of creation decided the vast emptiness saddening and with a three breaths she willed into existence the heaven realm, the mortal realm and finally the abyssal realm. The heavens and abyss she split into three levels each with some of her essence being absorbed by her two dearest creations, the mortal realm was left well alone for she found it insignificant, truly in comparison to the majesty of the heavens or the brutality of the abyss how could the mortal plane with its own blandness possibly be considered relevant. Finally the mother of creation slept, during her slumber the heavens and abyss gained life from her leftover essence with the heavens holding all of the positive energy and the abyss holding all of the negative energy, the beings formed were respectively eternal opposites the heavens were the domain of the Gods and the abyss the domain of the Deva. The Gods and Deva knew nothing of each other for many uncounted ages and each began to experiment with the leftover essence, this was the birth of the energy known as mana, when finally both sides met at last on the mortal realm there grew an instant hatred for who could ever love their opposite. Naturally there was war of such ferocity that both sides losses were within the trillions and the mortal realm was almost utterly ruined but even still the Gods and the Deva fought on with the greatest of both sides finally being at a stalemate they both returned to their own realms to recuperate. Finally she who had slept for so long awoke and what she found shocked her for although she had disregarded it the mortal realm was still a creation of hers and she loved it, she summoned the leaders of the two sides and ripped open the very fabric of reality the two leaders faced with the unimaginable amount of power she possessed could do nothing as she threw them into the hole where the chaotic energies tore them apart until only a very small amount of the energy they formed from remained, she scattered it all across the mortal realm which in turn created all mortal creatures. Even so the mother of creation was just that a mother and to have destroyed any of her creations direct or indirect was not in her nature, she cried a single tear which she split into three and from the three droplets she formed barriers separating the realms, the Gods and Deva naturally did not accept this and tried everything to escape from their former homes now prisons, using the natural essence she left before in its purest form and with the sacrifice of the majority of both sides remaining populations they finally succeeded in forming cracks in her barriers. she looked upon them with sadness at their actions then sadness gave way to rage. This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.Looking upon the mortal realm an idea had formed using the elements available only to it she formed the great guardians to watch the barrier the elementals and to them she gave a portion of her own power the Gods and Deva knowing they could not defeat these monstrous creatures finally retreated into their realms with fear. With her work done she finally returned to another eternal slumber knowing her guards would watch the realms in her stead. The elementals did just that and as the mortal realm started to bloom with new life they too grew to slumber with an awareness of the barriers at all times, there was however a loophole in the guardians sight, the heavens and the abyss still contained much if the mothers essence which seeped through the cracks, the elementals took no notice of such a thing it was their creators essence after all however the Gods and Deva both knew they could use this essence to observe and to some extent interact with the mortal realm, they did just that as the new life began to form they would use the essence to mold and change it into creatures of their own essence as the mortal creatures eventually gained sentience they grew to worship the Gods and Deva. The essence when returning to the heavens and/or abyss would bring across the power of faith which both empowered and delighted the Gods and Deva they then used the essence to slowly but surely trap the elementals who awoke too late to the disaster destroying the elementals was nearly impossible instead they dragged them through the cracks and placed them in cages where they could learn to create their own elementals albeit a lot weaker. When finally they succeeded the two sides decided that it would be in their own best interest to avoid the mothers now favoured realm lest they risk earning her ire instead they were content with the worship of her less powerful creatures who unknowing of their loving mother were only too happy to be led by these charismatic forces. Eventually the two superpowers used the essence to bestow their followers with mana and waged war again but at a much lower level than they had before this is truth as learned by every seer blessed be to the mother. The young boy looked at the book before placing it down and wandering off he had many questions to ask his master when he returned.