The Beginnings

When the times were most wicked and the people most starved, the grande saviors arrived. They, who were holy creatures descended from Avalon, had come to save those that were left from the slaughter and sorrow. The grande war of destruction was over and initiated was the rebith of Mereldia. For this rebirth, we were the chosen ones who should start this new age. In the female folk's wombs, our offspring shall grow, for our children will be the first generation born in this new and glorious age.

No grudges were held, even when we were of different kinds and came from different lives and lands. The saviors brought us all together and this is how it shall be. They built us shelter in what the ancients left us and gave us food in a land of cold and snow.

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The gryphons were the first burden to take. They had been here long before us and claimed the land by the name of Sraderham as theirs. They did not share what they owned and basked in their own gloriful pride. They did not need to be saved, so they looked down on us, who were nothing but refugees lead by the most glorious six creatures in existence. It was then, that those very same gods declared themselves to be our guardians and that we should henceforth refer to them as such. And so we did.

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A border was drawn between our land and Sraderham. While the guardians argued that borders were the reason that lead to the grande war of destruction, they also agreed that there was no way to appease the gryphons otherwise. Our land, then was Nordberg, called that after the grande mountain in the north that even lay beyond Cailleach, the impassable mountain border. This mountain, that was grander than all, reaching into the sky, was the Nordberg, called so in olden times. The guardians called our land so, to let it become just as grande as that glorious mountain in the north.

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Monsters, beasts left from the war or even before that native to this land, were roaming these grounds. They killed young and old, not concerned who it was they slaughtered. To protect us from them, the guardians built walls around our land, keeping the evil out and the good in. The gryphons, who had been too proud to build walls to secure themselves, benefited from this and so, some of them decided to move to our land, to live in safety.