Known and documented history of the land Higala
Taken
from the original, child-like mind of a very young Kim Kaze
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Note: Higala
spans an entire continent, roughly comparable to Earth’s Africa, though less
large.
Higala actually
means in the native tongue of its people, ‘Land of warriors and much prosperity’.
Formerly a
relatively pleasant and peaceful land, Higala was once overrun with Blakland
savages who flooded most of the continent with their kind, settling and moving
in packs. Thereafter began a terrible
generation of crossbreeding with any Higalan survivours still living in any of
the areas Blaklanders had stamped their authority upon. This generation created a new breed of
Lelunder; half Blaklander-half Higalan.
The Blaklanders,
who were at that time both the largest continent and military force to contend
with on the planet, wanted to make Higala part of their ‘empire’, a section of
their own, vast continental lands. But
the remaining Higalans didn’t want to lose their independence or become ruled
by the Blakland King. So, they revolted!
A large number of
the original Blakland savages who invaded the nation were slain, but almost all
of the true-blooded, native Higalans died.
Whilst this was
taking place, somewhere in Higala (the third largest continent & land mass
in Lelund) the crossbred generation were becoming not only savage and militant,
but technically advanced in house construction, weapons forging etc., bringing
the best of their former nationalities with them and combining them into a far
more stable and broad intelligence.
Whilst the
remaining Blakland invaders were rooting out what they could find of the
Higalan natives, the crossbred generation were left with virtually a blank
slate to draw upon; almost a whole nation and continent to absorb and settle
in! They gladly did precisely this.
By the time that
the pockets of original Blakland-bred nationals realised that their own
half-brothers had become a mighty nation to contend with, and had spread
throughout the continent of Higala, it was too late to merely push them into
the sea or to conquer them. They had
swiftly expanded to become a powerful nation.
There were too
many of them to contend with – what’s more they carried Blakland blood as well
as Higalan, not to mention a streak of their savage father’s attitude!
This new breed
and nation still had no name. They
didn’t want to join with Blakland, seeing it as rather backwater. Due to their size and power, Blakland didn’t
push the matter!
But, equally
there was little true Higalan influence left in the nation, so a new name was
needed.
A leader rose up
from a forceful band of men. These were
a gang (or small army) of males leading a settling pack or group/town known as
‘The Falcons’. They were a particularly
nasty bunch of crossbreeds; acting like wild, savage Blaklanders and yet,
wanting nothing to do with either of their parent civilisations.
The leader’s name
was Galian of Gath. Gath was the
capital city of the land at this time.
Galian roughly translates across to ‘Goliath’.
Over several
generations, the family of Galian of Gath became known as the Gath family. But then on one strange day, the grandson of
Galian discovered that the letter ‘a’ was the first letter or symbol of a
religious alphabet and writing, language system, and that ‘o’ was the last
letter or symbol.
He loathed this
religion; it was known as ‘The Red Lion Sunset’ amongst their nation, who did
not revere it and hated those who did.
Its worshippers were settled mostly in the land mass & continent
next nearest on the world map to that of Higala, where the Falcon’s crossbred
nation lived. Here they occupied all
the land quite thoroughly, and had called it Redland. The continent was second largest in the whole world save
Blakland, and their Red Axe and Red Lion armies surpassed the military numbers
of any known to Lelund; at least ten thousand fighting men flocked beneath the
banners of the Red Axe forces alone!
So, in order to
take a wild stab at the Red Lion Sunset people and their faith, the grandson
renamed his birth town, Gath, as Goth.
Strangely enough, this translated into the local tongue ‘converted,
different or convertible one’.
This was a direct
insult to their alphabet; changing the first letter to the last. Just to finish the job completely, the
sneering grandson of Galian renamed his whole family, including himself, as
‘Goth’. He found it rather amusing that
the name he was converting to meant ‘the convertible one’.
Little did he
know that the same meaning was to apply to the Goth family forever onward – the
evil that could be swayed from its path, and changed.
The ancient
Falcon gang had grown with two or three generations and was now more of an army
than a gang! So, the next Goth King
(for that is now what he had become; a man with a castle, an army and a nation
under his rule is a King!) decided to rename the Falcon Gang as the Falcon
Army, the official, national armed forces and militia of their proud
nation. They were also the King’s personal
selection as his Guard, the official protectors of the royal Goth family.
Goth had dreams
of greater things; an empire with his family name stamped on it! His people & their country needed a
name. Legend has it that the ruling
King was gazing out across the azure, crystal blue lakes of his continent when
he gave the order that the land, state and whole continent be named the Blue
Land. Basic but again, it set them at direct loggerheads and in opposition to
Redland.
So by this time
in history, Lelund had seen the Blue Land establish itself in place of Higala,
with the Falcon Army controlling & protecting the nation, and the Goth
family ruling from their various forts and castles.
Now, the
Blaklanders had also attempted after mostly conquering Higala, to continue
until they had a global empire themselves; but had fallen flat on their faces
and failed dismally when attempting next, to overthrow Redland.
Redland hit back,
and Blakland found itself in a bad way; and locked in a deadly crossfire
between their rebellious, half-bred Blue Land creation and the mighty forces of
the Red Axe army. Blakland begged the
Blue Land for an alliance and when that failed, promptly surrendered their
kingdom over to their half-brothers, considering this the better of two evils
and effectively forcing the Blue Landers to defend their new territory; thus
preserving Blakland culture.
And so Blakland
became the first segment of the Goth family’s planned global empire!
The current,
ruling Goth King became the first ever Emperor of the Blue Lands and
Blakland. He decided under advice not
to merge his two lands, armies or borders; so they merely remained separate but
ruled by the one Lelunder, and fought side by side, especially against the
onslaught riled by Blakland’s attempts to conquer it, coming from Redland and
its current King, King Jacob of the Potar family. And indeed, since that fateful era Redland has remained at war
with its bitter rivals Blakland and the Blue Land.
The second
Emperor was a Lelunder named Altensho Goth.
By the time this wicked fool took to the throne of his father, King
Fiver ruled Redland with a just hand; Redland was said to be in its golden age
(in modern history, now known as the first golden age, since a second has been
predicted).
Shortly after
this (promptly heralding the end of the first golden age!), the massacre of
women took place, known as women by this time due to Lelund’s links with Earth
in the Sol system. They had no
genderised term for their females, and so borrowed much terminology from their
friends on Earth, the race of Men.
This terrible
event was a hairline religious drive by Altensho and his most feared generals;
Sir Blake and the young peer, Lord Demitri Fear. It involved the insane and wicked,
twisted logic that to destroy the wombs of Redland would disable the nation
from procreation. Also, Goth reasoned, the female of the species was less
capable of defence; females were not at this time allowed fighting roles in
war, yet, though all that was to change later.
And so it
happened. In one, vile push of forces
with nothing on their zealous hearts bar the death of as many females as they
laid their eyes upon, the two Imperial nations surged into Redland and parts of
another country allied to it; a desert nation known to them only as ‘the yellow
desert’.
Women everywhere
were slain. The evil Lelunders even
threw themselves into situations they knew they would never live getting out
of, giving their own lives in the sick quest for streets flowing with the blood
of females. This not caring for the
hopelessness of their own position or lives threw off virtually any attempts to
guess their next move or to stop them.
Their plan did
not go too badly; for thousands of females were slain, many carrying sons and
daughters, many married, many mothers.
Because they had no fear of death, the quest went shockingly well. So quick was the strike, so unexpected was
the total dropping of all honour and codes of the warrior ways. Nothing seemed to stop every attacking Lelunder
getting to at least three females each and slaying them, before he himself
could be felled. 80 per cent of the
fertile female population of Redland was wiped out in a single week. It was the
single most calculated and yet crazed, successful yet evil military movement
recorded in the history of the planet. 90 per cent of the men sent to war fell
to their deaths on the attacking side, which was composed of 65 per cent
Blaklander, 35 per cent Blue Lander. Yet,
the total army losses to the combined forces of Blakland and the Blue Lands
were a mere, shocking 30 per cent. The female population of the yellow desert
was slashed (literally!) in half. Military losses in Redland were called in
when it was all over at 20 per cent. The yellow desert had also lost 30 per
cent of its armed forces.
Perhaps most serious
of all was the large number of centrally important women that were slain when
Redland’s capital Gosham was attacked.
The King’s Wife, the Wife of his son Olivius and the Wife of his young
grandson Ultra (who had been married at a very young age) were all slain. The wives of many Army generals fell
(Lancelot’s wife and that of Benji, Helmet along with many others) as well as
locally important women; figures in the schools and shops, public groups and
clubs. Many Fathers lost their wives
and were left to raise their children alone, one of these being PC Loomer, one
of Gosham’s finest Policemen.
Altensho’s eldest
son was named straight after himself, Altensho Italic Goth, or Altensho Goth
Jnr. At this time, Fiver handed the
throne of Redland to his eldest son of two, Olivius Potar. The younger, Etoyok,
was quite content for this to take place and for his part, King Fiver felt
after careful prayer and thought, that he was being led and called to hand it
over. There was something different
about Olivius. He had something no one else had, nor could accurately
place. One mystic had called it ‘soul
energy’, but what that meant, no one knew.
So, OP as he was
usually known, took the Throne of his ageing father, Fiver.
Two segments of
history slated to appear here have been separately documented as ‘The Last
Battle’, an era of war and fighting between Redland and it’s arch rivals, and
‘Fort Knoxx’, a time of fulfilment of ancient prophecies, the death of Olivius
Potar, Ultra Magnus’ rule as King and the return of two significant, historical
figures.
For the first
time in over one hundred years of Goth family rule, the current Emperor, Murg
Goth (eldest son of ‘The Master’ Altensho Goth Jnr.) was trying to turn The
Blue Land (formerly Higala) into a democracy, where it could work with Redland
and all the other nations surrounding it.
Murg’s former
bodyguard and one of the most feared Generals in his army, Sir Blake, led a
serious portion of the Falcon Army into Redland forestland, meaning to topple
the Throne of Redland and rule the three largest land masses in Lelund himself,
usurping Murg!
However, his
undoing proved to be his inability to finally destroy a group of young Redlanders
who had been selected to become ‘Vortex warriors’ by the ‘Spirit of the forces
of goodness’, which has no other name and is to this day a mystery. The Awesome
Power Foursome as they were known were sent to their near-deaths at the hands
of Sir Blake, before finally toppling him and almost ending his life. He narrowly
escaped death, thanks to the mercy of the group’s leader, young Jason Trask.
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