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Post by Senior Pheonix on Jun 2, 2011 21:32:37 GMT -5
Everything in the Spiderlands seemed to be improving when the riders came. The group of young people, some only children bonded to the great griffins of lore, the Simourvs controlled the population of the terrible lizards, the Xymokoxi who ravaged the land of Pohono. The number of people bonded to simourvs, the numbers of fighters working to stop the xymokoxi only inclined as the population of the Eyrie, the nest of the great griffins and the hub for the organization of riders, grew. After two large hatchings from the great queen of the simourvs, the riders were beginning to become more powerful and to become a true defense against the terrible lizards. At the height of the hope of the Northern Eyrie, a blackrider from the Southern continent arrived. The Northerners found themselves in a muddle, as they thought the Southern Continent remained uninhabited. The Southern rider asked the Northerners to travel to the Southern continent with him, to add to the numbers of Southern riders barely able to control the increasing koxi population in the South. Not one of the Northern riders, of the first generation or the next generations, anticipated the disaster which disrupted the entire structure of the growing Eyrie. Because they did not know of the times to come, they thought they had no reason to leave the North. They refused to accept the invitation of the blackrider.
The earthquake hit in the middle of the day, the land splitting apart under the great hatching ground of the simourvs and sprawling under the Eyrie, destroying the structures and caves which shaped the Eyrie. The buildings that the riders painstakingly built to house the rider recruits or the merchants which supplied the Eyrie fell to the ground. The nesting sands split in half, leaving a gash in the middle of the sands, and only the original caves stood against the shaking of the Earth. Now, the large population of riders had nowhere to live, and the community of the Eyrie was destroyed. Some of the riders vowed to rebuild the Eyrie of the Spiderlands, but some of the others realized that the newly reduced space of the Eyrie was filled beyond capacity. All the sudden, the foreign blackrider's offer to lead the Northerners to the Southern continent became a powerful pull towards flight. The Northerners who wanted to leave accepted the blackrider's offer, and they left to travel across the ocean to a new home.
So, a group of the Northern Eyrie riders left to fly across the ocean on their great beasts. The riders from the North were met with a welcome party from the Southern Eyrie, the simourv riders from the new continent. The two groups soon realized that the South was colonized by humans not long after the North was discovered, but because of the limitations of the technology of the Northern colony, the two groups never knew about each other. The Southern Eyrie, far larger than its Northern counterpart, agreed to accept the Northern riders into their ranks, and the two groups began to merge.
However, the Southern Eyrie is not quite the haven the displaced Northern riders needed. The riders all live under the tyrannical rule of the Senior gray rider, the leader of the riders. The gray rider plans on seizing complete control over the Eyrie, before she expands her power throughout the Southern continent. The Northern riders are just more pawns to use in her quest for power. The xymokoxi are still a constant threat to the safety of the people of both continents, and the riders are mixing, technology and cultures as they interact together. When the two groups of riders combine, the Southern Eyrie will have to change.
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