Divinorum

[Electric Wizard 78]

~ ~~~~ Divinorum ~~~~ ~

The Discovery.

Our story of Divinorum starts with the opening of the portal to the Verge. Stolistes, a young monk of the Temple of the Sun, travelled through the portal. He trekked to the further reaches of the Verge, finding anywhere to survive in this new lands. The monk was attacked and he fought off the monsters, often being close to death.

One day, Stolistes was walking along the shoreline, he gazed over to the sunset, and saw it was setting behind a small treeline out in the sea. He pitched a tent, and rest for the night. As the sun was rising, he swam out to sea towards the distant treeline. Now illuminated by the sun, he could see that the treeline was two small islands surrounded by aquatic-growing trees, forming a large swampland around it.

The Settling.

Using only a dull stone axe, he chopped a few trees down, and created a small wooden house on one of the islands. He stayed for the night, protected from the mainland. The next day, he awoke and saw that the island was surrounded by submerged loose cobblestone, a rather large amount. He began to collect the stone, and he made a small cobblestone floor in his house. He made a small path around the small island.

The Energy & The Naming.

After a few weeks, he began to notice that the trees were growing rather quickly. He noticed a strange feeling, like hair standing up on your neck, around a certain part of the island, and it had so happened that the tallest trees were growing there. Stolistes named this energy, "Divinorum". (( Being a monk, he believes this newfound "energy" to be divine, or part of a spiritual being, while not necessarily being holy, it is just unexplained. )) After a few months, Stolistes had begun a rather formidible settlement at "Divinorum". The swamp began to spread, the trees had stopped growing at a rather large height and had formed a well closed canopy over the water. A few ships had sailed by the island, rather close. He feared one crashing into the island and killing the Divinorum energy, the trees, or him. He had placed several small stone, light holders just above the sea level.

The Beginnings of a Settlement.

After more months, a full lighthouse was built in the distance, to warn of the island's presence. A large obelisk was built over the energy source, it reaches to the top of the treeline, but not any higher. Stolistes named it the "Altar of the Thirteenth Path of Reth", the Thirteenth Path of Reth is story told to Stolistes as a child, where a mystic travels to a new land and finds sacred ground.

(Pictures will be updated and story will be added to later...)

[Lykos 276]

Ha. Stumbled by this place a bt ago.

[Danny 2232]

The area looks really cool, I hope more people notice your thread.