Storyline : first part

Torotoro

Storyline : first part (thanks to Lithrel)

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In The Beginning
Creation

In the beginning there was a great fusion of matter, and Atys came into being. Then the life giver heaved the new planet’s crust in spasms until the first breath was wrenched from her throbbing bosom in a great burst of energy, and the train of life was in motion.

Seeds of existence were sown on the wind. Trees were soon sprouting their green sleeves, fowl soaring on the wing, beasts romping and fish jumping in the frenetic miracle of Life.

Deep in the bowels of the green planet the Kamis were engendered with mind and consciousness by the life giver herself, and sent to keep watch over her creation.

The Kamis surfaced to explore the lands under their protection and before long their path met that of the natural adorers : the homins who had taken root in the Tree of Life…

Elias Tryton

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Close Encounters - A Kami story told by a Tryker

A long long time ago, when Atys had just gone into her peaceful slumber after her laborious rising, a Tryker fella named Wiksie was about to fall into a fishing-doze when, there on a hillock across the water, he saw a funny looking specimen he’d never seen before. He gave his eyes a good rub and took up his drawing pad by his fishing rod, but in a twinkling of an eye the creature literally vanished without so much as a squeak! The young Tryker set his mind to work and attempted to sketch the creature from memory when… he felt a strange presence over his shoulder…

There, perched on a branch not five yards from him was the creature staring wide-eyed at the drawing as blithe as a sunny afternoon. Wiksie introduced himself and the creature pointed at the drawing while looking down from his fuzzy belly to the fish in Wiksie’s keep net by a rotten tree saying “Kami, hungry”. Wiksie laughed and told the Kami that dinner would be ready in a jiffy.

So off into the woods went Wiksie to gather some firewood, then placed the fish on a spit and lit the campfire. All of a sudden the Kami jumped up and down in a wicked temper with eyes as moody as stormy weather. No sooner had Wiksie realized that it was the flames that had given grief to the Kami than the furry creature was waving a hand and the fire was stone cold out.

In another wave of the hand the Kamis had sizzled the fish to a tee. Joyously the Tryker took up the spit and lobbed a fish to the Kami’s muzzle but the Kami just watched it soar past its nose and splatter on the ground. Wiksie took another fish and this time in a more civilized manner handed it to the Kami. But the Kami immediately dropped the fish and pulled a cross face when Wiksie gave it a pat on the head. In fact, Wiksie was guilty of over-familiarity, he’d judged the Kami by just its cuddly looks. Soon, however, Wiksie would come to appreciate the Kami force behind the falsely innocent appearance.

One day Wiksie and a company of mates were out mushrooming when a pack of gingos picked up their scent and before they knew it they were surrounded on the ledge of a precipice. The predators were about to move in for the kill when Wiksie’s Kami appeared. The blithe creature held up a hand and the whole bloodthirsty pack suddenly freaked out and scampered away as though they’d just bumped into a whopping pack of kinrey kitins! Wiksie and his mates fell to their knees in thanks.

Trykers quickly learnt to humble themselves before the Kamis who were placed on an equal par as the venerated Karavan. But as time went by the Kamis began to favor the weird jungle lands of the weirder Zoraïs, birds of a feather… eh?! Though still today the Kamis more often than not cast a smiling eye upon their Tryker friends.

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Tears Of Serenity - A Kami story told by a Zoraï

Many years ago, when hominkind had barely ventured forth from the darkness of pre-existence, a nomadic tribe was camped in the heart of the ancient forest lands. The Zoraï chieftain, whose name was Cho, was set back from the campfire under a tree in contemplation of the night sky when a strange presence enlivened the fiber in his body, warmed the liquid within his temples. He closed his eyes. He experienced an inner completion which soothed the wounds within as his eyes welled exuding the first Tears of Serenity.

He slowly opened his eyes and through the blurred vision he saw the source of his inner peace and harmony established upon a tree. The visitation blinked back at him, vanished and then reappeared in front of him. Cho bowed in an act of prostration and the entity spoke : “Kami, hungry,” and placed its hand on its chest. Instinctively realizing that the Kami was hungry of heart, Cho rose to his knees and moved his hand to his heart likewise : “Yes, Cho desires more friendship, divine Kami, how can I earn your love?”

The Kami pointed to the tree upon which it had first appeared and Cho immediately understood that the infection of goo there gave rise to the Kami’s concern. “I shall settle here, Kami, my people shall serve you and cleanse the land of the devouring sickness as you have cleansed my spirit.”

Cho spread the word to his brethren throughout the lands to bring them together around the Kami experience so they too might feel the peace and ease their anguish within. The first magnificent temple to the glory of Jena and her Kami Guardians was built on the very spot of Cho’s enlightenment and grew into Zora, the ancient capital of the Zoraï. And let us remember Cho’s words : “It is within the grasp of every homin to feel the Tears of Serenity".

Lunar_Knight

 

Kind...of..weird...,

but so is the whole game

looks like it might be some very different in-game content then what the genre has given us typically. I'm kind of looking forward to it.

…but time flows like a river…
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…and history repeats…