Post by Ruskin on Jul 7, 2007 20:26:20 GMT -5
[glow=white,4,300]_________Tierra de los Vientos_________
[/u][/glow]Unlike the rest of the lands, Vientos started out in peace. Led by a leader named Gaetano, they prospered, thriving on the wind and feeding on its strength. It wasn't that there weren't quarrels, because they broke out quite often. It was the fact that the winds brought a thrill to the heart and a peace to the mind, though even that was brief when a Vientos member was not in the air. Most of the Vientos were air-dwelling creatures, such as dragons and hippogriffs, but others could also be found there.
Similar to Sombras' Nucci, they were careless at points.
Many creatures took mates from another species, until everyone was so diluted that their original anscetors would be unrecognizable. Gaetano's was the only line who stayed distinct; the winged cats were reasonably clean of dilution. However, a few of his daughters and grand daughters took the wolves for their mates, and thus created a different look to the cats, for their orignaly appearence generally remained the same. Gaetano, by that time very old, did not particularly approve, but could not bar his daughters and their daughters what they wanted, even if it meant including canines in their family.
After Gaetano's death, it got ugly.
A horrid brute of a wolf, somehow blessed, or in his eyes, cursed, with wings, was coming to power. Gathering allies and enemies, he became known only as the Shadow King. His dark and shaggy, matted fur covered a huge body; it was surprising that his black wings could even lift him from the ground. It came to a point where the Shadow King decided one of Gaetano's daughters would make a good mate, and he stole her, killing her mate, another winged wolf, in the process. Her name was Chime.
In other words, she was pissed.
She struggled fiercely against the brute, but was overpowered. He would take her as his mate no matter what. In the end, he wounded her until she was on the dge of death so she would be his mate. she still refused. He raped her. She did not get pregnant with his young the first time around, but she did around a year later. By that time, she had proved submissive enough to go out with only one other creature to guard her. Chime killed her guard while in the air, and folded her wings.
They found her body broken not far from the fire lands.
Predictably, the Shadow King was very angry. He killed another of the Vientos family, taking that wolf's mate and forcing her as well. She too killed herself not long after. In a blind rage, the massive beast killed nearly every member of the Vientos winged cat family, and then turned upon the others. He killed all the diluted creatures, leaving their bodies battered and bleeding for scavengers to find.
Then the Shadow King died.
It was suspected that it was poison, but no one could tell. His followers scattered among the winds, and no one could tell he had been, except for the survivors of his massacre. The Shadow King was no more, but the bitterness he left in his wake survived. The Vientos were no longer careless. They became strong fighters, using the sky to their advantage. They still had a kinder side, but as their enemies do, they favor the more pure-blooded creatures, so to keep their line clean.
As enemies will, they fight.
Scattered attacks and skirmishes grew and prospered between the Tierra de los Vientos, and the Tierra de los Sombras. However, all out war was never declared, and so the small battles continued. The families of those who died in the pointless fights grew to hate the Sombras, and their clan began attacks of their own. However, in the last couple hundred years, the fights have fizzled out, leaving merely the residual hatred behind. Unlike their enemies, the wind blows away any shadows that grow there.
But how long will the peace last?
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The Vientos are usually extremely cautious creatures, unusually suspicious and unwilling to trust outsiders. Winged cats are more dominant in leading the attitude, but after being born amidst it, the youg are rather hard-put to have a differnet attitude.
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Rivals: Tierra de las Sombras
There have been times before when the Vientos and the Sombras were allies... But wind and shadows will not mix forever.
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[glow=white,4,300]____________Vientos Status____________[/glow]
Leader : Nikita (Winged Cat)
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