The Stormgovan Guardian

The Stormgovan Guardian
The island of Stormgova is a cold and hardy place with mighty mountain's, ancient jungles, dark forests, surrounded by relentless and deadly sea's. The people of Stormgova are known to be as cold and hardy as the land they call home. Most travellers disagree with that stereotype though, instead being warm and welcoming to all, be warned though they tell of a being that wanders the isles of Stormgova. Some call it a beast, monster or a guardian. It seems some think it is two different beings, but they would be wrong. The one some call a monster or a beast is just the guardian of Stormgova. She is a nature and balance guardian, some Stormgovans tip the balance and bring her wrath upon the isles.

Poem
The Guardian of Stormgova

She is the land and sea

The soil, the trees

Also that breese

Don't you agree?

You make the flowers bloom

You protect us from our doom

Stormgova will keep on fighting

If it's the last thing we'll do

Beliefs and practices
The Guardian will bless you with light if you:


 * 1) Respect nature,
 * 2) replant lost forest
 * 3) replant sappling after cutting down a tree

The Guardian forgives all those who have sinned

History
The history of the Stormgovan guardian is not well known, and most is lost to history. What is known has been told to the maiden by the guardian, and is remembered by the old ones. We know the Guardian has been here since Stormgova came to be. The tale of the Maiden is well known in Seal_Cove seeing as that is where the maiden lived before becoming what she was. The Maiden was always happy to teach people about The Stormgovan Guardian in her temple, always teaching to respect nature, warning them to never pillage the lands of Stormgova. She warned that while The Guardian was a powerfull spirit, het energy was fueled by nature. Respecting nature meant respecting the Stormgovan Guardian.

The Maiden
The Maiden was the only person recorded up to that point that was able to see and commune with the Guardian, there has been only one Maiden so far in Stormgovan history, that was a woman called Onixsaphire. She became the Maiden on a stormy night in Seal_Cove. By mistery, she was led out of the safety of her home, through the gates, and into the storm. She was found many hours later in the middle of the night by SirSealX who had gone after her. But when SirSealX had found her she had changed from the cute and innocent girl she once was into the Maiden.

The Death of the Guardian
After the birth of the maiden there began a golden age on the island. Everything was flourishing, towns prospoured, roads were build and trade began to increase but after a while problems began to arrize. A lot of raiders and new settlers came on the island hapering trade and road contruction. internal affairs whereby the towns only cared for themselves stopped many communications between the island. And the final blow were the new settlers from rathnir. A lot of settlers put up town on the island but in the long run this really helped on an industrial level. With the help of the simulami empire which took the island as a vassal into the country helped the island flourish once again but it had consequences. A lot of forest was marked to be cut down, destroying the energy that the Guaridan used. This made her very angry and she tried to rid these 'invaders' with strong storms and harsh winters. This backfired on her completely since many people now thought she was a vengefull and evil spirit even though this was far from the truth. Eventually when more and more trees got cut down her storms decreased and winters were not so deadly. But when the last dark oak tree got cut down, she died. The maiden, who was spiritually connected to her disappeared from the world with her abscents. The people of stormgova stopped believing in her. Most converted to Soleviel as the island was now fully intergrated into simulami. But a few people still believed she could come back. But without any natural energy she could feed of, that was impossible. Mansmile was a devout believer from birth and after returning to his hometown of Samhälle and being Harshare for a bit until he signed away stormgova. Signing away the island he felt was one of his biggest mistakes and he didn't step out of his new which he know what the mayor of for years. After he accepted what he did he tried to better his life. After he met new people around stormgova he saw how people lost faith. He thought it was his fault. He could've stopped this. But he still had a chance to make things right. He knew the Guardian could live again. He assigned himself as the new head of religion of the Stormgovan Guardian trying to recindle people's faith. Next he signed a contract with Ornn Ludwig, the royal family controlling most stormgova at the time, to preserve the forests of stormgova and put effort into replanting them. This was a controversial contract since the Ludwig family was known for burned down a temple a few years ago. Despite everything the trees as by the contract were protected and Mansmile got a little bit of hope to resurrect the Guardian.

The resurrection
Mansmile was doing his nightly chores, getting more saplings to regrow the forest in name of the Guardian. While out putting new roots in old grounds he saw a faint light in the distance. He thought nothing of it, probably the moon he thought. It began flickering, like it was trying to grap it's attention. Mansmile was quite certain that the moon doesn't flicker and he went to check it out. He couldn't believe his eyes, right in front of him, was the Guardian. Her light was faint. She clearly didn't have any energy.

"Mansmile" she spoke with a soft but tender voice. "Thank you". She was clearly struggling to say anything. "There is something I have to tell you. You, you are of royal blood, the blood of svarkor." "What," said Mansmile with a confused tone, "that family died out right, or a least hasn't been seen for a long time." The guardian began to glow more softly. "I can't explain. I have to go, do your bloods work and unite our people, I will return." Just like he found her, she disappeared in thin air. One thing was for certain, she was back alive.

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