Project Athrel

The sight in front of him was nothing short of beautiful. He had never noticed it before, always distracted by the enemy in front of him. But as he knelt on the cold hard ground surrounded by pristine white snow slowly being dyed red by his blood. He finally had a moment to pause and see.

The cold was biting through the padding on his knees. But he didn't care. He just continued to stare at the frozen lake surrounded by tall trees and soft snow.

"What's so interesting about the trees?"

"There is something wrong with the birds here. Unnatural."

Kazi felt shivers run down her back at Sappho's flat tone. Trying to remain calm she replies,

"Don't be ridiculous. What could be wrong with the birds here?"

"None of them sing. None of them move. They all just stare."

Kazi had not noticed the eerie silence of the forest until then. The lack of bird songs and the moving of branches. It felt that not even the wind dared make a noise. Sappho was right there was something wrong with the birds.

Drawing of a side character, Kashto, a birdman.

Leonard Valevnin was said to have been the lover of a Goddess, and that she was the reason he founded his country.

The Goddess had resided in the forest near the town he grew up in. While walking through the forest one day in search of deer he spotted her resting in the tree. He found her to be the most beautiful being he had ever seen. He quickly returned home and brought many things to make a small shrine.

The Goddess was touched by his eagerness to worship her. For years he would visit the small humble shrine he created for and they would talk. As they would talk they fell in love. He wanted to create something bigger for her. Wanted more to know and worship her.

He asked for her help to create something bigger than them. She blessed him with a fraction of his power and he used that to convince his town to make him king. But a single town wasn't enough to be king. So he convinced the men of the town to travel around with him turning other towns to his rule.

Okay. So me and a friend have been working on creating a story for about two years or so now. We dubbed it Project Athrel. That doesn't really mean much but it sounded interesting enough.

So much time and effort has gone into writing and creating art for this project and we have finally decided that it's time to start putting it somewhere. So why not Tumblr where we can maybe get thoughts and opinions from strangers online about our hard work?