Pupil of magicians of a rainbow

– It is one of the properties put in a ring – automatic healing of the carrier of an artifact – Siuris explained – so, and now it is a high time to look round and understand why nobody meets us. Here in a wall the hollow pocket has to be near a crystal of management of a citadel.

Light moved next to me, following my thought orders. However, without being surprised to anything, I decided to look round. The room appeared meter four in height, a cylindrical form in the diameter of meters of fifteen, judging approximately. From the room conducted five closed identical doors located around and very impressive by sight.

– More carefully, do not touch doors, on them there have to be security spells if they did not lose the energy yet though there passed so many years. But we will check it later, now it is necessary to find a crystal of management. Well light here, indeed, you see this symbol on a wall in the form of the Iridescent Sphere with a sword inside, the looking edge up. It is a symbol of our award.

– Vladimir, touch with a ring this symbol. – The ghost indicated the center of a symbol.

When a square piece of wall at chest level drove deep and sideways, it appeared to hang in the air, a slow rotating, dull glowing crystal in projection as a rhomb, only with many faces that reflected the light from the light very beautifully.

– Siuris, what should I do further? – For some reason I became scared to touch this crystal.

– In principle the crystal cannot recognize you and then protection will work. – Thoughtfully the magician said.

But we all the same have no choice, not to die to you here without water and food.

– Well, prospect – I thought, weighing everything pros and cons.

– And can eat other way? – With hope I took an interest at the ghost.

– Is, for example, members of an award can teleport here and will save you from starvation, but judging by the dust lying around on a floor, to hope for it at least silly.

Having sat, having reflected on the past life, I understood that I am very hungry and actually I have no choice. Decided not to postpone more and, having risen from a cold stone floor, accurately brought a ring to a crystal.

Occurred at the beginning of nothing. But later seconds I felt five how – as if me X-ray pass. The crystal started blinking in different flowers as if the computer processing data then lit up dim equal yellow light. Around as if visible magic lighting appeared from nowhere. Two of five doors were illuminated by green light.

– Here you see, the citadel accepted you at least as the guest of honor, it means now you have an access to guest rooms and as I guess to the room of negotiations. Here the others are not available to you yet. – explained me the ghost.

Having opened the first door, I found behind it not remarkable berths / beds with bedside tables calculated on four persons. In the bedroom there were two doors conducting in a toilet and the swimming bath. Having returned back to the hall of a teleport Vladimir surveyed the second room which appeared quite big hall of negotiations with a round table in the middle of the room and chairs oak by sight with high carved backs. Except an entrance door to the hall of negotiations green two more doors shone, having opened first of which, Vova, having caught pleasant aroma of fried meat nearly choked with saliva and having let out joyful cry began to observe as the food is magically cooked.

– Do not stand the idol, go mine hands and sit down be supported – Siuris murmured.

I long did not force itself to ask and already through two-three of minutes sat at a table in the hall of negotiations, observing as by air food in plates moved directly to a table where I sat.

Having sated I understood that I terribly want to sleep and without remembering, how exactly limped to guest rooms, fell heavily on a bed.

It was the strange dream, it was very real. I ran somewhere in the woods in the dark, and after me on the heels of a gloomy laugh didn’t even run, and as if I was floating through the air some monster in the form of a big eye with a thousand eyes on creepy processes. Here having turned back, I stumbled and head over heels departed down. Having painfully hit a forehead against some snag, I regained consciousness on a bed in a citadel and with surprise groped at myself on a forehead a fresh cone. Having told Siuris about the dream and the real cone received in it, Volodya understood that the spiteful demon Lyutoglaz tried to kill him through a dream and that it is even worse to take control of his soul.

– Vladimir if you undergo dedication in novices of guild, then the demon will not be able so just to get you through dreams. And I suspect that it spent a lot of dark energy for this failed attempt and will be able to repeat it not soon. You should learn to put protection on the mind. Plus the citadel will actively protect you after dedication.

– Siuris, by the way you can call me Vova or Volodya, tell me to what idea serves your Guild of the Magicians of the Rainbow? What gods patronize it? Tell about this world, I almost do not know anything. I cannot blindly make the decision.

– Centroniya is the Central World! It is some kind of intersection of the worlds to which in immemorial times came to this day there live people, orks, goblins, pangolins of snakes, dark and light elves, gnomes, centaurs, trolls, fairies, dragons and also kinds of magic experiments of mad magicians of ancient times. Three continents wash oceans, which are inhabited by mermaids and different types monsters who eating magic energy grew to the huge sizes. The benefit these monsters mutating due to the magic energy absorbed by them without measure cannot give posterity, however, as well as the experiments of mad magicians created for war.

According to an ancient legend the continent initially was one. At that time all people lived in peace. But after the volcanic eruption which entailed global cataclysms millions years ago the earth broke up in the center of the continent into three parts. And in the center there was a big island with a big extinct volcano inhabited by dangerous magic beings. The mountain itself is surrounded by a ring of small islands dissected with water from the North and South. Since the split and began irreconcilable enmity. Even the Gods, who failed to prevent this scourge, began to blame each other for this and eventually split into two camps.

Kingdoms of people, light elves, centaurs, fairies and gnomes are on the western continent washed by three oceans. On east continent dark elves, trolls, goblins, a pangolin of snakes, orks, necromancers and cultist (servants of demons) live. In the north there are dragon islands, which are from far away the habitation of dragons. And the Southern Mainland, divided by a chain of mountains into two parts, is inhabited in the northern part by skeletons, dead, foxes and other uncontrolled births of death. In the southern part of the Southern Mainland there are so-called damned lands inhabited by the fruits of experiments of crazy magicians, storing artifacts and knowledge for which ordinary mortals are ready to pay mountains of gold. Many adventurers are missing in damned lands, so dangerous. Only the most powerful magicians, not blinded by the thirst for knowledge and riches, returned with tiny of knowledge and artifacts extracted from these lands.

– Siuris, tell me more about human kingdoms and from where you are?

– My ancestral Stongblaind Castle is in the Grand Principality, located in the southeastern part of the western mainland. The Grand Prince rules there, transferring his power by inheritance. At the head of the feudal state is the grand prince himself. It is directly subject to the graphs that own their own feuds, which are inherited. Then there are the nobles, usually having no more than one village in possession. The main force of the principality is represented by its own team and magicians trained in the Guild of Rainbow Magicians.

The southwest friendly neighbor of the principality the Sultanate inhabited by tribes of steppe soldiers, which is famous for the military traditions and a strong steppe cavalry. Also presents sultanate force to guild of magicians of Transformation. Their werewolves are very fast and strong in infighting. In their state the polygamy is authorized. The sultan, as a rule, has a big harem of very beautiful girls.

To the west of the Sultanate in the Radiant kingdom there lives the mixed population headed by the priests worshipping the light god Luchezar giving to the followers strength for fight against the evil. The radiant kingdom is strong the priests and paladins.

To the north of the grand duchy the rich Trade kingdom which does not have own regular army was located. Instead of own army they have on service mercenaries from different other kingdoms. Governs council of merchants led by the chairman of trade guild elected for short term in five years there. They live craft and trade with other kingdoms. Support this force Guild of Spontaneous magicians. The population consists generally of people, gnomes and elves half-blooded. Have the strongest merchant marine fleet.

In the North of the Western continent there is a northern kingdom inhabited by barbaric tribes of the people-worshipping god of Svetozar’s light – to Luchezar’s brother. Priests and Svetozar’s paladins astride the tamed griffins are the terrible force with which even the dragons who are occasionally making raids on the cattle and living creatures of a northeast part of the Northern kingdom reckon.

In a mountain isthmus, stretched from northern tribes to the Sultanate in the south there live gnomes. These the hardworking race was famous for the armored infantry in fight. They traded with all races on the Western continent though they disliked elves, fairly including them too arrogant.

To the west of a mountain isthmus of gnomes the woods of light elves, surprising on the beauty, stretch. They live in a neighborhood with fairies and Ent’s. As a rule, they do not let people to the territory.

On East continent in its southern part there is a kingdom of necromancers, headed by the king necromancer Grobindus the second living thanks to the force not the first hundred years. Force of the kingdom is represented by guild of necromancers, and their ordinary soldiers are the raised skeletons, the called spirits and not the privates operated by necromancers skeletons dragons, received from remains of dragons at all. Their altars darkened from blood of the sacrificed light beings in glory of god of darkness or Gloom, so it was called too by some tribes.

To the west of necromancers, their allies cultist led by the called demons from the other world freely settled down. The mixed population consists generally of people, pangolins of snakes, succubus’s and the lowest demons. Exactly there is Lyutoglaz, one of the highest demons called by these, the dark fanatics who sold soul.

Apart from human races there are far north dragon islands, a chain of mountains towering over water. Dragons nest in mountains on these islands. Very terrible force, but in itself they are neutral in relation to other races, to tell more precisely they do not recognize any authorities and worship nobody.

In the mountains of the southern mainland lives a race of cannibals – wrinkles. It is the only race of half-intelligent beings who on Centroniya in its majority worship the goddess of death Morana.

Our award of iridescent magicians was based more than one thousand years ago by the arch magus Gronos Wise. He was born in princely family of the Grand Duchy the younger son, with unique abilities to all types of magic. For couple of hundreds of years of training and wanderings on the world he grew up in the magician out of categories (arch magus) and was so mighty that many magicians and masters of kingdoms began to envy his force and power. Probably he created this confidential citadel in which we are now. About five hundred years ago Gronos Wise rose at the head of the union of light forces in defense of all population of the Western continent against attack of infinite army of necromancers, cultist, orks, trolls, a snake of pangolins and dark elves.

This fight happened on the southern continent, at that time the disputed territory between alliance light and powers of darkness. The army of the integrated light forces of people, elves and gnomes suffered a defeat, the number of forces of a dark side which are saved up centuries was so big. At the moment of triumph of a dark side Gronos in despair appealed to the goddess of death Moran, asking help to save let not their lives, and at least their souls from enemy magicians who after the victory over the enemy were going to enslave souls of the killed light soldiers.

Also death essence in the battlefield was so big that the goddess of death of Moran responded to his call, having installed in Gronos’s body, bearing death and rest to all soldiers without analysis, having covered as if with a cover – death fog all battlefield from the coast to the coast and to border of mountains. And at the place where she appeared, there was a deep dead lake filled with the essence of death. Echoes of this great wolf touched the southern part of the mainland and went mad the wild magicians and their creatures who lived there. And it became the southern part on that side of the mountains to be named since the Cursed Lands.

– And what became with Gronos?

– It is said that since then he has served Morana, thus paying her huge debt to her, helping to do her work, escorting souls into the afterworld. After all, if you don ’t do it, not stubborn souls can deliver many problems alive.

– Siuris, so you died, you likely have to know precisely, so?

– Yes, I died, but my soul is tied to my ring on your finger, so I didn’t go the last way. For my soul to leave, the ring must be destroyed, perhaps I will ever ask you to do so, but not yet ready. I want to revive the guild. This requires magicians who have taken the oath of the Order, ready to defend the citadel and the interests of the Order. But for starters it takes at least one magician, otherwise the order sooner or later will go. After all, there is always a chance that this is unclear as a preserved citadel will be found by the enemy and erased from the face of Centroniya together with all the invaluable knowledge stored in it. So now all hope is for you.