Seven Dwarven Maidens : Prologue II

In my younger days, I use to stay up very late into the night so that nanna would tell me a story.  I always demanded a story about the fantastical unbelievable world long before our age of humans. A time where fanciful creatures lived and breathed as the battle against good, evil and mediocracy raged on. And usually, it went like this...
  
It started at the beginning. 

God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.  God saw that the light was good, and he separated the view from the darkness. And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the vault and separated the water under... 

And you get the picture. Won't bother going through all that. Let's just say God one day decided to abandon his creation, said his goodbyes to the forsaken world and took his quantum toys somewhere else to play. In his wake, he left behind a world known to the ignorant warring few who now occupy it as The Ageless Universe. 
  
We come across this place when the civilized world was quite young. It was a time where the unexplainable was everyday and magic was the science. An era at the dawn of the Time of Myths entering into the month of Granite the fifth year of our Lord. At this time recorded history is still quite young. Historical figures of note number in the thousands, only a few hundred record deaths.
  
But this story is not about the history of the world. It is about a young Nobel, Ethan Asobthosbut, the seventh and last son of the great Asobthosbut in a long line of dwarves. 
  
Being so far in lineage and under the constant shadow of his sixteenth other older brothers Ethan had not accomplishment much by the age of sixty-five..his father became tired of his shiftless ways and cast him out to extend the reach of the Asobthosbut name. He was given caravans full of supplies and allowed his pick of six women within his father estates that may attend him and see to his needs in the hope of creating a fruitful dynasty. 
  
Ethan begrudgingly accepted his father's decree, and he had little choice in the matter. He was to pick a destination at once. a place long and far from his ancestral home. In the end, Ethan settled for a continent he had only seen briefly in books. It was an island continent that the passing travelers had to describe as The Land of Fog. He would make the journey there and build the Fortress of Summitrock in a land known to the locals as the Steppe of Nuts. 
  
For his companions, Ethan picked the following women to accompany him. For now, we will only speak of their names and learn more about them as time progress.

• Ellen Itebshetbeth - Peasant
• Cristn Avlfkd - Alchemist Guild Member
• Kayley Rigothiseth - Peasant
• Pyper Lorbamkudust - Peasant
• Julianna Ostukkosoth - Peasant
• Susana Idthad - Smiths Guild Member
• Sylvi Trdshrst - Crater Guild Member
• Carlee Ubbulkerig - Peasant

If you wondering why these dwarves have human-sounding first names it is because female dwarven names are so unpronounceable I use to beg my nanna to name them something nicer.

And with that.. I guess this story begins.

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