The Mother

The Earth mother slumbers now, but once she was a force of creation. Everything that we have was created by her of her own flesh. She hung the Stars, shaped the mountains, carved the river beds and filled them with her tears as she wept in awe of what she had accomplished. She grew the forests, and from the strongest oak she commanded the roots to rise into the shape of the first man and woman. She brought us rain, birthed the Sun and Moon, and shaped animals from clay to feed us. Only after she had seen to all of our needs, caring mother she is, she rested. She still rests today. Her most precious creations, the Beloved, reside in the islands at her hearts center. Sheltered from anything too savage, they live in relative peace. Those people and animals who have turned away from her love have been banished from the islands by the Ancient Ones, those two first man and woman grown from oak roots. They speak for Mother as she rests, and their rule is absolute. The world is quiet now, in the 67th age of Adectza, though her rain is nearing it's end. Tenoct is nearing his 20th year and it will be time for him to begin to take control of the island nation. Before he can, Adectza must decide how best to handle the recent sighting of multiple Banished off the coast of Tet, the smallest island. No Banished has set foot in the Heartland for 32 ages, since the War that destroyed nearly half of the Beloved and left them for the first and only time in recorded memory without an Ancient One to guide them.