Mithalandria Saga: A Tale of Two Brothers Part 1: The Knights of the Emerald Sphinx

By Patrick Ryan Joy

In the hundred thousand years that I have lived I have borne witness to the great and many changes in this world; from the direct rule of the gods to their fall from grace. I have seen great and mighty hostilities that created and exterminated kingdoms and empires alike....But this was not what brought me to where I am now, and as my skin that was once pure fire now smolders as mere embers I now realize it was a single answer to an old firedrakes question that made me who....no, what I am now and that answer was "I am Erish".

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jul 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312378513

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Mithalandria Saga: A Tale of Two Brothers Part 1: The Knights of the Emerald Sphinx

Mithalandria Saga: A Tale of Two Brothers Part 1: The Knights of the Emerald Sphinx

Patrick Ryan Joy

Mithalandria Press

2014

Copyright © 2014 by Patrick Ryan Joy

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First Printing: 2014

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Dedication

To my Father

You started it. Thank you.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank my teachers, my editor, and my family and friends without whose help this book would never have been completed.

Thank you for your patience and guidance, your use of the editor’s red pen…

Prologue The Beginning of Time

In the hundred thousand years that I have lived I have borne witness to the great and many changes in this world; from the direct rule of the gods to their fall from grace. I have seen great and mighty hostilities that created and exterminated kingdoms and empires alike. Now it is with extraordinary comfort I can feel my lengthy existence finally coming to a close and I now wish to express my chronicle so others may learn from what has occurred in this time. So I shall start with the beginning as that seems most befitting.

The Great Mother was the first to come into existence and she was alone with all of the power in the universe. This was something she could not bear so she created gods and goddesses of good, neutrality, and of evil for she knew that what she created needed to be balanced so she created seven of each all of equal power.                                                                      She then created our world and gave them dominion over it. The gods of good possessed Mithalandria and Arumogen in the North, the gods of neutrality shared the Wild Lands to the West, and the gods of evil dominated The Dark Lands to the South. She also gave the gods the power of creation so they may appoint beings to follow and revere them and do their bidding.

I was born of some of the first Orians to be brought to this realm I had a twin named Darien and though his transgressions caused the Great Mother to strike his name from all records and all forms of speech I have been given permission to use it here.

We grew up as all children did at that time. It was said that my brother and I were nothing alike. I was strong, muscular and very intelligent, were as my brother he was well, very much the opposite, he was weedy and not nearly as astute as I, but he was my brother.

When we were ten a group of druids came and spoke to my brother and me. They took me from my parents. My parents seemed elated they said this was a great honor to have been selected by the druids.

They said this meant I was destined for extraordinary things. My brother however was very furious. He said I was abandoning him if I went and that he would hate me evermore, if I went he cursed he would destroy me.

I did not want to leave my family, but my father told me I must so I did, and in a way my brother kept his promise; for in my inability to save him from himself I was destroyed. But this was not what brought me to where I am now,