Okay to put some meat on the rather shabby bones of the Digest. A little tale from Fonrit.
Cheers Simon.
THE STORY OF THE SWORD OF DWYA NANGA.
Once amongst the people of Laskal there lived a mighty king. He ruled the
jungle tribes with
a rod of iron. Order ruled and the dread fear of anarchy. However the king
was an enemy of
the aldryami, and each growing season their raiders would come to destroy
his lands. The
king was wise and so he turned to his blacksmith and had him forge a sword
of iron with
which to slay the evil children of Errinoru. The sword was created, a
mighty thing with two
great blades. The sword however was unusual, for upon its blades were the
words Dwya
Nanga, or 'Warrior Comes' in the native language. No hammering or forging
could remove
the words. The king found that the weapon had the power to slay the very
trees themselves
and used it to defeat even the wicked council of the Green Witch. Peace and
order returned
to his lands.
Many years later a man of Fonrit was walking in the woods of Laskal, when
he heard a
voice. The voice told him that his first wife was with child and by the
command of Azmurad,
Lord of Destruction he was to call it Dwya Nanga. The masarin was good and
pious and so
returned to his house and called named his son as he was commanded. The
child was as big
as a titanothere, and strong as one too. He was a mighty warrior, but had
no sword, so could
not be in the jann's army. One day while the boy was cooking a spirit of
fire rose up from the
hearth and told him of the sword Dwya Nanga. Without a word to his father,
the son left to
lay claim to his destiny.
The King of the jungle tribes heard of Dwya Nanga's coming and did not
want to lose his
favourite weapon. He decided to trick the boy by placing the sword at the
bottom of a well
filled with swords, with the hope that Dwya Nanga would never find the real
sword. As
Dwya Nanga approached the jungle king, there was a great ringing sound and
the sword
raised itself from the well and placed itself into the boy's hands. He was
now truly a warrior.
The Jungle King bowed before Dwya Nanga and swore fealty to one so blessed
by the gods.
Dwya Nanga became a great general in the armies of Istam the first, and
his house grew in
power until it was one of the mightiest in all Afadjann. The house claimed
that the sword
held their power and without it they were lost.
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