Post by <EAGLE> on May 6, 2013 0:43:29 GMT -5
Heaven's Valley was virgin ground, untouched by human hands, a safe haven for equines of all walks of life. Many migrated there, made their homes, fell in love, had children, and died there.
Three different alliances emerged: lights or aurakins, neutrals, and the darks or shadowkins. By nature, the lights were kind and gentle, doing their best to do right by everyone. The neutrals just didn't really care, and tried not to pick sides. But the darks...oh the darks. How they hated everything about what the lights stood for, and tried to bring it down.
The first generation of Light royalty had set the stage for peace. Freedom and Lunacy of Sunset Beach, Cloud of Waterfall Valley, Lexis and Diamond of Flowered Tresils, and Eagle Feather and Day Lily of Bluejay Jungle. They ruled the Aurakins, keeping them safe from the ever-changing power struggles that occured in the dark lands. The threats of Mirror, Xavier, Adonis, Paradox, Rune,and Orannis, became more and more serious. A battle was inevitable.
But as always, time ravaged the first generation, and as they passed into the next life, in their place came new, younger equines, unsure of themselves. During this time, a great fire consumed Heaven's Valley, destroying almost everything. Equines died, disappeared, escaped. In the aftermath of the fire, an election was held to select one king and one queen to rule over the entire realm. Reese and Libby were chosen, and although they were both of the Aurakin alliance originally, both vowed to remain impartial and to try to restore peace.
The darks had other ideas. Rune and his mate, the dark Queen, Artemis, began a murderous group called the Thieves. The Shadowkin flocked to the group, with the intention of taking the neutral lands by force, aided by a neutral king named Aviance, and then advancing on the Aurakin lands. Before the plans could be set in motion, Rune disappeared from Heaven's Valley, leading Artemis to turn to her very dangerous counterpart, the dark King Orannis, to step into the leadership role. A shadow settled over Heaven's Valley, for before Orannis, only one other Shadowkin had ever been as twisted and cruel as he- a stallion now long-dead by the name of Mirror.
In order to protect the innocence of life, a young stallion by the name of Never Forsaken created a resistance to the darks, a resistance he named the Order. Joined by the King of Heaven's Valley and several others, they met the Thieves in a great battle. Never Forsaken and Orannis clashed, and fought a brutal fight. Neither could triumph over the other, and they were both forced to retreat due to the injuries they inflicted on each other. Before they could meet again to finish the fight, the decay left by all of the carcasses and the fire caused the air and water in Heaven's Valley to become toxic, making the land unfit for living. The equines were forced to flee.
Several years passed, and slowly Heaven's Valley purified itself. As the air and water became clean, the earth became green again. The land is now livable, and slowly, life is returning.
The only question is now...will peace reign? Or will there be another showdown?