Secret Gelvani History

Secret Gelvani History:
Tellanyr
Tellanyr is the son of Gelthena and Loran. He is one of the Nu'Valathan'Gelvani (2nd Blood). He was most like Loran than all the others.

Tellanyr was the god of illumination, knowledge and wisdom. He was a warrior poet, gifted with great skill in battle and also an artists heart. He was, for a time, the protector of Aelvanis.

Tellanyr loved Morwyn, and fathered of a race of Fey (the Tuatha'De'Morwyn) who were much like Gelvani in appearance, though more like Fey in nature, and were tied to the Moon, Loran, because of his power.

The Other Worlds of the Fey

The realm of Aetheria, the Other Worlds, where in resided the kin of the Gelvani, the Fey, bordered Aelvanis realm and often the gods visited there. The way between was made by Loran, who exists as an Elder God in all realms (mortal, Aetheria, eternal).

The War of the Shadow

Then came the Shadow, and a war began in the other worlds. Morwyn was corrupted and turned upon her own kind. Our gods fled back to our own lands and welcomed any of the Fey who wished to come with them. Tellanyr fought the corrupted, but the tide was overwhelming. When Adinion was attacked, Orwyn, King of that realm, sent his bride, our Aralyn, back to Aelvanis. Tellanyr escorted her back through the portal between the worlds.

Tellanyr, though, wished to aid his children and so wanted to return to Aetheria. Gelthena forbade him from doing so, warning him that if he passed through the portal he may not be able to return.

Tellanyr loved Morwyn and his children so much that he defied the mother. He rallied an army of those remaining loyal to him and, ignoring her command, led his host through the portal. He was terribly surprised to find that this part of the Aetheria was already under the control of the shadow. The fey they encountered were already turned to the shadow. He and those who went with him fought valiantly. They pushed deep into the heart of the realm, but soon realized the shadow was too great. It had surrounded them, and they could not return to the portal.

Gelthena held the portal open as long as she could, and the shadow began to come through into Aelvanis. It corrupted the forest around the protal, and the Gelvani gods fought it back. However it grew stronger despite their powers, and Gelthena knew there was only one way to end it. When too much of Arvanis had been lost already, she finally closed the portal.

Tellanyr and his remaining host finally fought their way back to the portal, but when they tried to return home they found it was already closed. Many lost hope then, and the shadow crept into their hearts. They each in turn gave over to its temptations or died fighting it. When Tellanyr was the last of them and the shadow worked dilligently on breaking his will. It told him how the Gelvani didn't care about him or his kin. Slowly his despair turned to anger, and eventually hate. He blamed Gelthena, and the other Gelvani gods for the loss of his own children. When at last his heart was totally overcome by corruption, Morwyn withdrew her army and brought him to her castle. There she made him her king.

Gelthena had closed the portal between these two realms, sealing it with a powerful barrier, so the Shadow could not come through. So it was that the Gelvani had turned their backs on their kin. But the way was not totally closed, for it had been made by an Elder God, and only an Elder God could seal it entirely. When Tellanyr had battered against it with all his might, trying to return to Aelvanis, he had broken his spear in it. The blade, though, had created a small crack. It seemed no significant thing at the time, but eventually it would prove to have been a terrible wound.

Morwyn and Tellanyr

From within the shadow realms, Morwyn and Tellanyr plotted against the Gelvani gods. Morwyn bore him a son, Elghinn, and he was raised in the shadow.

It was in this time that Loran gifted Aralyn with a child, who would be Fey Kalyn.

Eventually Anwyn retook Adinion and other worlds in the Aetheria.

Elghinn and other Fey, both shadow and glamour, learned the various portals between the Mortal World and the Other Worlds. In time Elghinn also learned that there was a secret way between the Aelvanis and the shadow realm. He discovered a tiny crack in the barrier between those worlds. Through it slowly yet steadily had seeped a tiny bit of shadow. Elghinn, being knowledgeable in many of the secrets of the shadow, could become shadow, and so it was that he mingled with that deluminescent mist and flowed into that realm and visited Aelvanis.

Elghinn wandered the strange corrupted forest, but eventually came into Aelvanis. It wasn't long before he was discovered and brought before Gelthena. He spoke charmingly and told her partial truths so that his words seemed both honest and sincere while hiding his true nature. Gelthena, having never before dealt with lies or deceit, allowed herself to be fooled. Elghinn was a strange and mysterious man and Gelthena became intoxicated by his charm and exotic nature. She could not see him for what he truly was, or chose not to. He laid with Gelthena and in time he convinced her to exact her vengeance against Loran and Aralyn, who had parented Fey Kayln, and to bear him a daughter, who would be Vilrithia.

Vilrithia and Kelamin

Vilrithia's heart was filled with the shadow upon the moment she was born, and she grew in Aelvanis under the careful tutelage of her father. Soon she came to womanhood and was a perfect mixture of her parentage; powerful, beautiful and graceful like her mother, exotic, charming and cunning like her father. However, there was a malevolence in her that even her father was often taken aback by. She was often cruel and malicious. She also kept her secrets well, for she often visited her in her dreams by Morwyn, who told her the will of the Shadow. Vilrithia set her sights on Fey Kalyn and eventually she had seduced the unsuspecting godling. From their union she bore Kelamin. She knew, though, that soon the other gods would know what she had done and so she demanded her father find a way for her to escape into the Shadow.

Elghinn, the constant consort and advisor to Gelthena, had eventually learned from her how to open the portal to the Shadow realm. He told Vilrithia and she secreted away with her son into the Forbidden Forest and opened the portal, fleeing into the Shadow realm.

There she raised Kelamin to hate the Gelvani and particularly Fey Kalyn. He was trained in war by Tellanyr and tested against the strongest of the Dark Fey. When she sent him back, Kelamin was prepared to battle his father, but he was not prepared for what he found in Aelvanis. Kelamin was too much like his father and when he returned to this beautiful realm his heart turned to good and he threw down his weapons and asked to join them.

When Gelthena asked Kelamin how he had entered her eternal realm, he told her of the fault in her barrier and of his raising in the shadow, of Morwyn of Kelamin. Thus it was that Gelthena learned all of these dark tidings, and that the portal was not totally secure. Therefore, she bade that Kelamin should build a great wall around the forbidden forest, which encircled the portal, and only one gate should be built, and around that an impenetrable gate house to defend it. This would be his duty in Aelvanis, to take the place of Tellanyr as its protector. The forest beyond was forbidden and none dared pass the gate. Kelamin did not know about Elghinn, though, as his mother had kept that secret from him, so he did not know the god and did not suspect his true nature.

The Forbidden Way

All this occurred before the sixth blood were born.

When we were born into Aelvanis we were told that the great gate that Kelamin had built was there to protect us from an ancient enemy.

Blood Wars

The Gelvani began a blood war among themselves, and eventually Gelthena cast the 6th blood out of Aelvanis.

The Orc Lords

The Orc Lords were the children of the Corrupted Titan, Vornikar, and as such they themselves were corrupted. For a very long time their only residence was the Mortal Realm. There Vornikar eventually fell, and in line so too did the Orc Lords, all except G'morgh. G'morgh was the Orcish Lord of Death and as such he was the last to retain power. As the orcs all turned to him, he set his eyes upon the eternal realms, wishing to make himself something more than just a corrupted giant lord.

G'morgh allied himself with Morwyn and Tellanyr and convinced them that he could aid them in their vengeance against the Gelvani. He claimed to know how to open the portal so that an army could march through. They asked what army, and he showed them the host of dead orcs he had held back from reincarnation, for they were his army he could summon upon his command. So they agreed to his plan, and together the three of them threw their power against the barrier and it began to crack. In a devastating blow that rocked Aelvanis, G'morgh threw his mace against it and shattered the barrier.

The armies of dead orcs were summoned and joined a host of dark fey, which stormed through the portal into the forbidden forest and marched against the gates of Kelamin's Wall.

There they found the Gelvani Gods awaiting them, and a great battle ensued.

Kelamin and Fey Kalyn were mighty warriors, Sheliak rained arrows of fire upon their foes, and Reahnyn destroyed the undead orcs with her brilliant light. Gelthena, though, was more powerful than any and when she came in her full wrath she drove back the armies of G'morgh. Morwyn and Tellanyr were the first back through the portal into their own realm, but G'morgh refused to flee back. He took his army further into the forbidden forest, beyond it and into unknown eternal realms.

Gelthena found the portal open and resealed it, but saw again the flaws and now saw more due to the break it had suffered. Elghinn came forwards, then, and offered to stand as a vigilant watch over the portal. There were those who spoke against him, but Gelthena had great wisdom and gave Elghinn this duty, to be the guardian of the portal and contain the shadow that constantly flowed from it. She knew that Elghinn was already corrupted by the shadow and yet he seemed, unlike most, to be its master rather than its slave. She believed he had the power to contain the shadow here, and absorb that which might destroy the rest of Aelvanis. So it was that Elghinn took a permanently place amongst the Gelvani. He built a city over the portal and used the shadow to fuel his power. This was Neth Noril.

G'morgh's Realm

G'morgh and his host had fled beyond the forbidden forest and so powerful had he become that he was able to become master of his own eternal realm. A great dark forest filled with death and the trappings of it became the after life for all orc souls when they died. From here G'morgh often led an army of dead orcs across the forbidden forest to attack the gates of Aelvanis.

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