As epochs moved on in Valarn, history was rewritten time and time again. Things that had once been truths became distant memories, as new narratives took shape. Written, changed and told again, one such example were the elementals. A few moments in time highlight the changing role of these enigmatic creatures.

  The court document goes on like this. All in all, thirty-three people were found guilty of high treason. There is only one name not on the list of the dead and that’s the guard that carried out the verdict. However, one additional court document lists the guard and his crime of killing thirty-three people. The punishment was death.

  Like this, Valarn has always been vigilant about what it can tell and what must be unknown. Sometimes, the two worlds of truth and fiction blend together in weird ways as one lecture protocol can attest.

  It must be noted that this was Leichtmeister Postaliscz last lecture. He had quit shortly after with the by now legendary words that he couldn’t teach a bunch of horny teenagers to not fuck their benches on lunch break. This became a popular saying for people that refused to learn when it came to relationships that were doomed.

  However, when it came to the fairies, the obsession with them wasn’t always sexual and curious. Following the collapse of the Dalman Theocracy at the end of a rebellion and the twenty-year war with the fairies, many orders sprung up in Valarn.

  Pledges like these were frequent as many nobles build up their own paramilitary troops. To avoid political issues, guilt was cast on all sides: Sprites just as much as the established religion. This naturally led to the war of knights about a century later. Where there is power, there is an abuse of it.