Yes. Auggers. Generally described as humanoid lizards who eat rocks. That's the basics. The timelessness/memory part of Auggers is an invention specific to this. Nevertheless, you have heard of Auggers. And you WILL Remember them. It's my informal goal to get them regarded as a base fantasy race up there with orcs and gobbies and stufff.. help me with this goal, here... :P Never write fantasy without auggers.
Part LXXII: Looking Forward
Date: Yippah 21st, 114 A.U.
The campfire popped and crackled as the new wood was thrown into the fire. Around the fire, seated on stones, were the seven members of the Xavier Team, along with Brother Tomas and Monty. Augger munched on the rock that he held in his hand as the other members of the Xavier Team watched him curiously out of the corner of their eyes, still trying to figure out how he was able to eat rocks of all things.
“So,” Brother Tomas said, asking the question that had undoubtedly on the minds of the members of the Xavier Team for a long while now. “What are you going to do now?”
“I can fix your machine,” Augger said, putting down his rock that he had been eating. “Using some of the lava from this volcano, I can construct a device that will act as an engine and fuel to get us a good ways. At least until we should be able to come up with some civilization. One of my ancestors was a bit of a genius with heat-based technology.”
“Somehow,” Brother Tomas said, “Although that will help, something tells me that getting out of here isn’t your only problem.”
“No. You’re right that it’s not,” Reynyagn said gravely as he put down his plate of food. “We have learned that Emperor Jaigran is a whole lot harder to defeat than we had before planned. Somehow he survived a mortal wound, and that puts him on a whole new level. He now knows that the races are not as much in subjugation and in fear to him as he once thought. He may have survived. But he’s going to be a whole lot more cautious and careful to make sure that there isn’t a next time. And we never figured out what was so important for him to get to Tzel-Maret.”
“We need to work to turn the tide,” Zarien said. “We’re not going to be able to get him the same way—not unless we show him that it’s the only way to work. We need to show him that we’re powerful enough to wage a full-out rebellion against him. We can do that by striking at his bases.”
“What do you mean?” Jroldin asked.
“The slave camps,” Zarien stated bluntly. “The entire elven empire rests on the brunt of their slaves, made up from the races that have been captured by them, as well as disobedient elves and orcs. Entire cities are comprised of these slaves and their masters, having the work of bearing the brunt of providing for the entire elven civilization. We want to take them down? Disable the slave camps—at least enough of them that it sends warning signals to Jaigran that he can’t just ignore us.”
“There is another important item that should not be discounted,” Augger said. “Namely, the golden corsha weapons.”
“You mean my axe?” Jroldin asked.
“At the beginning of time, a golden corsha weapon was given to each of the seven races of Arquenia,” Augger said. “An axe to the dwarves, a spear to the humans, a rezquiet to the Sla’ad, and so on. They were given for the purpose of defense, with the promise that they were to be our salvation if things go wrong. That the golden corsha weapons would bring peace again to Arquenia. You have one, Jroldin. From what you told me of the battle, Jaigran has the weapons of the orcs and the humans. It is likely the orcs that give him his powers over the orcish magic.”
“What do you think we ought to do, then?” Flek asked.
“Find the golden corsha weapons,” Augger said. “Find the weapons and wield them against Jaigran. If the promises are to be believed—which they are—we will want to use them as we fight against the Emperor. And continue to follow the prophesy.”
“The prophesy,” Reynyagn said. “You knew of the part of which we knew not. Are there other parts that have been lost to our memory?”
“The full prophesy is outside of my knowledge,” Augger said. “Xavier was alive during my ancestor’s time and the prophesy was not told to my ancestor in its completion, but I will recite what I do know.”
“The wars go by the kingdoms fade and new kingdoms will come.
New nations rise new earthly powers and yet the world endures.
But yet a greater threat than any that have come before.
A greater threat now rises yet and still will break the shore.
Its power grows the kingdoms fade and all becomes entrapped.
The greatness of the nations will all be ascribed to it.
But yet a hope still stands!
But yet a hope still stands!
A team will rise out of the dust and out the ashes sure.
A member one from every race will bring it to a close.
And when it’s fruition is met it will go out for sure
To smite the power that has come to take away its peace
The power that is above and beyond all that lives and breathes
A power that yet threatens to destroy the earth with fire.
But now a hope doth rise!
But now a hope doth rise!”
A human named Astrid and an elf with ambition.
A Sla’ad will lead the group and Augger late will come to join.
An orc will help elf and goblin will show great expertise.
A dwarf who has a sign upon his head for his fixed place..
The seven will be unified in purpose and in mind
But yet a hope secures!
But yet a hope secures!
A healer for the party and one who bears Old Weapons.
A warrior seeks to lead and yet it won’t be granted him.
One will betray his friends and another will lose them all!
An outlaw yet by birth and one who saw a slaughter great.
These qualities they all must have if they will seek success.
And now a hope will rise!
And now a hope will rise!
A sign will arise in the sky to call the team together
A burning ember dark will rise and proclaim an emergence
The sign will gather together the team to rise to fight
To fight for good, to fight ‘gainst evil, to fight against the darkness
And now a hope is here!
And now a hope is here!
Far North the party now must go if it wants to succeed.
The trials that will try the group will bring it to the brink;
Despair must run o’er them before the culmination comes.
Till purified with fire it will stand against fire.
And now a hope is tried!
And now a hope is tried!
For darkness now is rising that will spread throughout the land;
A Watcher wakes and seeks to gain a pawn to help himself.
But the pawn seeks to be a co-ruler with the Watcher.
The Watcher makes a plan to give all power into their hands.
To destroy all with burning fire poured out from the sun.
Will now the hope rise up?
Will now the hope rise up?
The rising hope must rise if it will destroy the darkness.
Two leaders from among them will seek to lead them as one.
Although in unity, yet one from the group may rebel.
The traitor seeks to undermine what all their work have wrought
His struggle with the demon will determine victory.
Will the hope yet go on?
Will the hope yet go on?”
Augger stopped speaking and suddenly light shone forth from the star, a blue beam hitting the fire, estinguishing it as a pillar of light rose up to the star, now directly ahead of them, as they stood and looked up in awe at the star, now blowing bright, and the words still ringing in their ears of the promise of the prophesy.
The Xavier Team was now complete.
Part LXXII: Looking Forward
Date: Yippah 21st, 114 A.U.
The campfire popped and crackled as the new wood was thrown into the fire. Around the fire, seated on stones, were the seven members of the Xavier Team, along with Brother Tomas and Monty. Augger munched on the rock that he held in his hand as the other members of the Xavier Team watched him curiously out of the corner of their eyes, still trying to figure out how he was able to eat rocks of all things.
“So,” Brother Tomas said, asking the question that had undoubtedly on the minds of the members of the Xavier Team for a long while now. “What are you going to do now?”
“I can fix your machine,” Augger said, putting down his rock that he had been eating. “Using some of the lava from this volcano, I can construct a device that will act as an engine and fuel to get us a good ways. At least until we should be able to come up with some civilization. One of my ancestors was a bit of a genius with heat-based technology.”
“Somehow,” Brother Tomas said, “Although that will help, something tells me that getting out of here isn’t your only problem.”
“No. You’re right that it’s not,” Reynyagn said gravely as he put down his plate of food. “We have learned that Emperor Jaigran is a whole lot harder to defeat than we had before planned. Somehow he survived a mortal wound, and that puts him on a whole new level. He now knows that the races are not as much in subjugation and in fear to him as he once thought. He may have survived. But he’s going to be a whole lot more cautious and careful to make sure that there isn’t a next time. And we never figured out what was so important for him to get to Tzel-Maret.”
“We need to work to turn the tide,” Zarien said. “We’re not going to be able to get him the same way—not unless we show him that it’s the only way to work. We need to show him that we’re powerful enough to wage a full-out rebellion against him. We can do that by striking at his bases.”
“What do you mean?” Jroldin asked.
“The slave camps,” Zarien stated bluntly. “The entire elven empire rests on the brunt of their slaves, made up from the races that have been captured by them, as well as disobedient elves and orcs. Entire cities are comprised of these slaves and their masters, having the work of bearing the brunt of providing for the entire elven civilization. We want to take them down? Disable the slave camps—at least enough of them that it sends warning signals to Jaigran that he can’t just ignore us.”
“There is another important item that should not be discounted,” Augger said. “Namely, the golden corsha weapons.”
“You mean my axe?” Jroldin asked.
“At the beginning of time, a golden corsha weapon was given to each of the seven races of Arquenia,” Augger said. “An axe to the dwarves, a spear to the humans, a rezquiet to the Sla’ad, and so on. They were given for the purpose of defense, with the promise that they were to be our salvation if things go wrong. That the golden corsha weapons would bring peace again to Arquenia. You have one, Jroldin. From what you told me of the battle, Jaigran has the weapons of the orcs and the humans. It is likely the orcs that give him his powers over the orcish magic.”
“What do you think we ought to do, then?” Flek asked.
“Find the golden corsha weapons,” Augger said. “Find the weapons and wield them against Jaigran. If the promises are to be believed—which they are—we will want to use them as we fight against the Emperor. And continue to follow the prophesy.”
“The prophesy,” Reynyagn said. “You knew of the part of which we knew not. Are there other parts that have been lost to our memory?”
“The full prophesy is outside of my knowledge,” Augger said. “Xavier was alive during my ancestor’s time and the prophesy was not told to my ancestor in its completion, but I will recite what I do know.”
“The wars go by the kingdoms fade and new kingdoms will come.
New nations rise new earthly powers and yet the world endures.
But yet a greater threat than any that have come before.
A greater threat now rises yet and still will break the shore.
Its power grows the kingdoms fade and all becomes entrapped.
The greatness of the nations will all be ascribed to it.
But yet a hope still stands!
But yet a hope still stands!
A team will rise out of the dust and out the ashes sure.
A member one from every race will bring it to a close.
And when it’s fruition is met it will go out for sure
To smite the power that has come to take away its peace
The power that is above and beyond all that lives and breathes
A power that yet threatens to destroy the earth with fire.
But now a hope doth rise!
But now a hope doth rise!”
A human named Astrid and an elf with ambition.
A Sla’ad will lead the group and Augger late will come to join.
An orc will help elf and goblin will show great expertise.
A dwarf who has a sign upon his head for his fixed place..
The seven will be unified in purpose and in mind
But yet a hope secures!
But yet a hope secures!
A healer for the party and one who bears Old Weapons.
A warrior seeks to lead and yet it won’t be granted him.
One will betray his friends and another will lose them all!
An outlaw yet by birth and one who saw a slaughter great.
These qualities they all must have if they will seek success.
And now a hope will rise!
And now a hope will rise!
A sign will arise in the sky to call the team together
A burning ember dark will rise and proclaim an emergence
The sign will gather together the team to rise to fight
To fight for good, to fight ‘gainst evil, to fight against the darkness
And now a hope is here!
And now a hope is here!
Far North the party now must go if it wants to succeed.
The trials that will try the group will bring it to the brink;
Despair must run o’er them before the culmination comes.
Till purified with fire it will stand against fire.
And now a hope is tried!
And now a hope is tried!
For darkness now is rising that will spread throughout the land;
A Watcher wakes and seeks to gain a pawn to help himself.
But the pawn seeks to be a co-ruler with the Watcher.
The Watcher makes a plan to give all power into their hands.
To destroy all with burning fire poured out from the sun.
Will now the hope rise up?
Will now the hope rise up?
The rising hope must rise if it will destroy the darkness.
Two leaders from among them will seek to lead them as one.
Although in unity, yet one from the group may rebel.
The traitor seeks to undermine what all their work have wrought
His struggle with the demon will determine victory.
Will the hope yet go on?
Will the hope yet go on?”
Augger stopped speaking and suddenly light shone forth from the star, a blue beam hitting the fire, estinguishing it as a pillar of light rose up to the star, now directly ahead of them, as they stood and looked up in awe at the star, now blowing bright, and the words still ringing in their ears of the promise of the prophesy.
The Xavier Team was now complete.
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