Atlantis, a great city surrounded by water. Its heavily fortified walls surrouned by dangers, only the bravest warriors among us would even think of going to this place. The city itself belongs to a race called The Ancients. The Ancients are a peaceful race with a great knowledge. In the years they started building their grat city they tried to keep it a secret, and because of many dangerous creatures living in the outer ring of the city this wasn't much of a problem.
Many of the Ancients where bright scientists and dedicated most of their life researching new technology. However there was a group of scientists who did not believe in the so called "Code of the Ancients". This group built a secret laboratory deep beneath the city, and experienced with a new mean of power generation. THe experiment failed and a dark creature was summoned to this world. Many of the scientists working on the project were never to be found again.
Teams of
the best soldiers and mages were sent into the depths, equipped with the best
possible equipment. After many days they reported back to inform the people at
the city they were getting close to “something”. Several hours after this
report all contact was lost…
Desperate
the Ancients decided it was time to find new heroes, but with the small
population of Atlantis they needed to be found elsewhere. The only possible
solution was calling to the people of the mainland. Because they did not intend
to reveal the city to everyone they decided to send out a group of five people
onto the mainland. Arriving at the mainland the group began to spread out the
word among the people, and hoped to find a hero which could defeat their
greatest enemy ever.
After only
a couple of days one of them found someone whom believed in the sayings of this
city called Atlantis. However when they did send him to the City itself the so
called hero seemed to be a thief whom was just after the secrets of the city.
The person was placed in a holding cell and the Ancients partly needed to think
of a way to prevent this from happening again. They decided that the heroes whom wanted to go
to the city needed to prove themselves to be worthy of entering it. The group
of five people spread over the land to different locations, and every person
wanting to go to the city of Atlantis
would first need approval from all of
them.
The first
person of the group, a noble warrior, went to a city in the south-west of the
mainland. Arriving at this city he found it to be under siege of a group of
creatures. He fought his way through the creatures trying to save as many lives
as possible. Reaching the centre of the city the Ancient warrior found the king
of the city, together they fought the
group of creatures side by side. At the end of the fight the king, with all his
wounds, was barely alive. With his last breath he handed the Ancient warrior
his crown, apparently he was impressed by the way this stranger fought. Now as
king of this town the Ancient warrior decided to stay, and help out the
villagers in the town. As time passed by many battles were fought with the
creatures that kept attacking, but with him as they’re leader the town always
were at the winning end.
The second
person of the group, a person with great knowledge of chemicals, went north. He
walked far, until he reached mountains. He decided this would be a good place
for him to stay since the mountain grew various herbs he could use. He settled
in a cave and continued his potion research which he was working on when he had
to leave Atlantis. In time people passed by his little laboratory inside the
cave. Most of these people he told the story of Atlantis, but only few believed
him. Only fewer thought they should meet up the requirements of “becoming
worthy” to him.
The third person,
a trader, went to the east. He entered a large jungle with much wild growth. He
went deeper and deeper inside the jungle. Finally at one point the traveller
came to a small abandoned outpost. He decided that this would be a good place
to stay, since only the greatest heroes would dare to pas trough a place like
this. A couple days later the trader met a person passing through, he told the
Ancient trader that he was looking for a special item inside the jungle. The
Ancient trader gave that person his blessings, and that person left to go even
deeper inside the jungle. The Ancient trader never saw this traveller again.
The fourth
person, a blacksmith, went to the west. After days of walking he came at the
outer edge of a dessert, he decided to enter this desert. Just when he was
beginning to ran out of water he found the runes of what seemed to be a
training ground. He settled there and started rebuilding the training ground,
as he thought that this would be a great place to test a hero of his skills he
possessed. In his spare time he continued the work on his finest master piece
ever made.
The fifth
person and last person of the group, an astrophysicist, went to the southeast. He
encountered a city with elves. The elves, knowing the Ancients from a very long
time ago, offered him a place to stay. The Ancient got a small, but beautiful
place to live. This person also dedicated his time to think of a way to test
heroes that would pas by from time to time.
As time
passed by, many tried to prove themselves worthy of accessing the city of Atlantis, but only few
managed to gain the trust of even one of the five Ancients on the mainland.
In one year
time not a single hero went to Atlantis, but then people heard of a new person
entering the land. This person was seen as a hero by many. Maybe this person is
the one the Ancients are looking for….
Are you this hero?
Subject: Atlantis 
Sat May 17, 2008 4:43 am
