Chapter One
By Kavnil

Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.
Added 08/08/2002.

While on my quest for the Dark Majesty, I realized that I was in over my head.

What! Could this be my last stamina elixir! I have to retreat and now! But I can't turn my back on the Evis that would be fatal. (The ground starts to shake) What is happening! The massive swarm of Olthoi scatter away. Behind me I see the dark fiery clouds storming upon me. I turn and run for my life! I must hide underground but where. The fire is burning my back and my armor is smoking from the heat. Fire is shooting from the sky! A cave! I can make it! I run as I drop my looted treasures on the ground to relieve my burden. I know I can make it!

Oh!... I'm knocked to the ground. My arm is on fire! I peal off my burning bracer, no time to see if I am hurt, I must keep running! Streams of fire are hitting my back! I'm getting weak! No, don't quit now! So close! Hard to breathe. I can't breathe. Oh! .........(silence...than the sound of a crackling fire)

I smell.... mosswart on the barbie? Oh!.. I'm so sick. The pain! Cough! Cough! ...Blood? I'm coughing up blood! I hear a deep voice but I ....can't make it out. It's getting closer, the deep voice is getting closer. "Help" I say. "Please ...Help me" to the shadow I see in front of the flames of the fire, I reach out and grab a hand. .....All goes blank.......

What? I smell mosswart on the bar bee! I made it! I feel so strong! But who saved me? "Hello?" My voice! What happened to my voice? I turn the other way. "Hello!" Who is this on the ground? Dead? It's .... It's me? What happened? How is this...What magic is this? My hands! These are not my hands! It can't be! I'm a Lugian? I'm not a Lugian, I'm Yodah a great Aluvian warrior! But it's true, my face! I'm a Lugian! Oh, but I'm so hungry. After a rest and some BBQ mosswart, I find the courage to look out the cave. My Lord! Will it ever stop! The fire is consuming everything! I will just have to wait it out. But how can I go back to my village like this? They will kill me! I am a Lugian. My own people will kill me!.... Oh it's hot in here...taking off this heavy Lugian armor...What's this? This inscribed in this armor? Kavnil? That must have been his name. He saved me and somehow I am him. That's it! I will be him! I will have to live as a Lugian. I will be Kavnil... I am Kavnil, I am Kavnil!