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The Story
So Far
In time Solon returned to his Kingdom in
triumph, where he discovered Thorn’s actions
and used the power of the Warriors to vanquish
the Troll King, sending his treacherous race into
exile. Sadly that day would bring curses and
blessings in equal measure, as King Solon also
vanished in the wake of battle. His fate would
be anxiously disputed for years, but nobody
could ever say for sure what had happened.
History moved on, and Solon’s wife Theena
was left to rule the Kingdom with what
remained of her family. At least there was
peace once more in the tribal lands, and while
some said that Thorn had not been killed,
merely somehow confined, these doubts were
not enough to keep folk from falling back into
the simple pleasures of everyday life.
Eventually attention turned to Kameo and
Kalus, blossoming daughters of the Elfin
Royal Family. All in the Kingdom knew that
when they reached adulthood, one of these
two Princesses would claim the throne, the
Kingdom itself and the Element of Power,
that which once commanded the Elemental
Warriors and tamed the most infamous Troll of
all. Surely such things could only bring joy...
Trolls, as everyone knows, are
nothing but trouble.
Long ago, so the tribal elders say, they
were welcome inside Elfin borders. But
while other tribes respected the leadership
of King Solon and his Elves, the Trolls decided
that there was more to be said for sheer physical size and
aggression than wisdom and magical trickery. And so it
was that Thorn, by far the strongest of his generation, rose
quickly through the Troll ranks to become their own King.
Nobody suspected that behind Thorn’s impressive size was
a mind to match, and he took advantage of this blindness
to begin conquering the other tribes. Perhaps King Solon
could have seen what was happening, but as fate would
have it, he was away on the traditional quest of the Elfin
Royal line—the search for the Elemental Warriors, living
natural forces gifted to the Elves in a time long past.
Since the day that those Warriors were seized
by a higher power and scattered to the winds,
the Elves had been duty-bound to seek
out and return them to the pages of the
fabled Wotnot Book. Solon was even
more determined than most since he
had inherited the Element of Power,
which granted its wielder the
ability to take on the forms of the
Elemental Warriors themselves.
