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The land was dying. The world was changing. The animals where running.

Humans had destroyed the world that they had come to know and love. The air was filled with chemicals, and the water was not safe to drink. The humans where warring with each other, and did not care about the animals any more. Horses where set free, or left to die.

But horses where smarter that man thought. They all joined together in a great herd, and set off across the barren lands looking for a place to call home. Many died of dehydration and starvation. But when it seemed all hope was lost, on one foggy morning, they found a land bridge. The land bridge was just under the surface of the ocean, so the humans had thought that it was nothing more than water. But the horses started to trek across it, with hope in their hearts.

The Bridge led them to a series of islands. Here the sky could be seen, and the grass grew tall and green. For a short period of time they drank and rested, but the paradise was more than what it seemed.

The world they had left died behind them, the world they had found flourished around them. The Bridge broke with the dying of the world they had left. But not without allowing a small number of other mammals and birds to the island. A small handful of predators came, wolves, coyotes, pumas, but so did deer, falcons, eagles, and fish.

The horses named the land Sonofar.

Soon changes started to happen to the horses. Some of them grew horns, or wings. Some became different colors. Others still became shadows that could turn invisible. Some grew the tails of fish, and went to the sea.

This caused a separation of races. Gradors became the ones that had changed so dramatically that they no longer appeared all horse. Aves became the ones of great strength and beauty. But there was one more race to be shunned. The Shadowed Ones. These horses looked different from all of the others. Some where shadows. Some had bat wings. Some had flamming manes and tails. These horses wanted to live among the other ones, but the others feared them and tried to hurt them.

The horses claimed the three largest of the islands for each race. Each was split up among the stallions of The Three Great Alliances. Sonofar was divided. Are the horses any different from humans? Can they live in peace?

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V2: The Storm Breaks

All stories have a turning point. And for Sonofar that turning point was the arrival of The Monsterous Ones.

They emerged from underground caves around Sonofar, finally coming into the light. They had been hiding. The changes that a plagued thier bodies where hideous, but they where still horses, and thought like horses. They where only monsters on the outside.

The monsters tried to join the herds. But what happened to them was worse than what became of the Shadowed Ones. They where attacked, injured, told they where monsters and driven away. Even the Shadowed Ones would not accept them. But unlike the Shadowed Ones, the monsters did not run away, curl up, and wait to strike. They struck.

They settled on the surrounding islands, and began to attack the other Alliances. They where outraged at what the other races had done to them. And, some how, the older Alliances went to war with each other. The story of how the Gradors, Aves, and Shadows went to war with the attacking of the Monsters is plagued and rotted with rumors. The true reason was lost in the river of bloodshed.

The storm that had gathered over the island has finally unleashed it's rath. But when it is over will there be peace? Or will one win and the others fall? You decide...
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V3: Discovery

The war raged on. But something was about to happen that would change the war forever…and the very future of Sonofar…

It begins with an elderly Alandor by the name of Eliza. She was pure white, with a white circle on her forehead. Winter was in Sonofar, as you know, and though she had not been claimed by any stallion, she was in Cliffhanger Falls. The mare was digging in the snow, pawing at the ground, and ripping the frozen grass she found upwards. Then something landed on her back. She ran forward, slipping on the snow, and feeling claws dragging down her back. She galloped right out onto the frozen lake and waterfall, and skidded along the ice on unsteady hooves. The puma that had leapt upon her back growled and clawed her, as she tried to stand up again. She bucked, and threw the cat to the ice. But the cat regained footing, and tore at the mare, clawing her face.

She screamed, and turned around launching a deadly kick in the cat’s direction. The creature roared with outrage, and scampered away, it’s shoulders badly bruised. Eliza, being old and not exactly fit, was panting. Blood was flowing down her legs, hot and steamy in the cold winter. She began to limp across the lake, feeling her strength slowly leaving her as she went. She was dying, and she knew it. The mare walked to the frozen water fall, and leaned against it. The ice was so thick it supported her weight.

Suddenly, she saw something. Through the ice there was something sparkling. Fascinated, she walked to the edge of the waterfall, and saw that there was a gap between the waterfall, and the cliff it resided on. She saw that the gap was just big enough she could squeeze through, and so she did. She stepped into a freezing, almost pitch black cave. But what was in the cave was what was important. Her wounds throbbed and tingled as she walked towards the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. It was a huge sphere of white light, surrounded by glittering white dust and blue sparkles. It was just laying on the floor, pulsing slightly. Fascinated, she approached it, and all over her body she began to feel warm. She was starting to feel better. Her wounds began to tingle and throb more then ever, and when she looked down at herself, she saw the wounds where closing…magically.

She did not pay much attention to this though. Eliza moved closer and closer to the sphere of light until it was right at her hooves. She leaned her head down so that she could peer at it and then…it pulsed so bright it blinded her, and she felt strange. Eliza could suddenly could no longer move. She tried to spin away, or twitch an ear, but she was completely immobilized. The sphere was still just as bright, and then there was a soft male voice in her head…

“What do you want Alandor Eliza?”

Eliza didn’t say anything, she couldn’t say anything, she was frozen. But she tried to talk in her head, “Wha- how do you know my name!? Let me go so I can move!”

“I don’t think so…” The voice said. “I cannot allow you to leave this place, unless of course, we make a deal.”
“Deal? Deal? I don’t even know who or what you are!”

The voice chuckled, and then spoke, “I have many names. The Destroyer, The Enforcer, The One Who Knows All. But my most common name is The Core. I am The Core.”

“Core? What Core? What are you? Who are you? Why have you trapped me here?” Eliza said, still panicking.

“I am the heart of this place, this place you call Sonofar. I control everything that happens here, everything that goes on here is my doing. I can change you, hurt you, kill you, heal you, make you younger…anything at all.” The voice said, matter-a-factly.

“What? You’re the one who changed us? You’re the one who made us the way we are?!” Eliza said, now becoming fascinated rather than scared, and beginning to calm down.

“Yes, I changed you. For this place is growing and you will need your gifts later. Things are changing in Sonofar…it is growing, becoming more than just an Island of strange horses. Soon the predators shall change, and then the birds, and rodents. And soon other creatures, creatures beyond your imagination, will emerge to populate the new planet. ”

Eliza was silent, and so was the voice. She was thinking. If this…being… was truly what he said he was, then it was his fault that the war had come at all…and then The Core spoke again, “Yes, I know of the war, do not worry. It was an unfortunate side effect of the creation of this land. I did not mean for it to happen at all, you horses are rather…touchy about appearances aren’t you?”

“How did you know that I was thinking that!?” Eliza exclaimed.

”I know all,” The Core answered, simply. “Now, are you done with theses questions so that I may propose my Deal?”

“Yes…” Eliza said. “What is it you want of me?”

“I need a body. If you accept, I will allow you to leave this place. I need to do other things, and can no longer sit in a cave behind a waterfall, waiting.”

“But, if you’re all powerful, can’t you just…make something to be your body? Or make something come to you?”

“It is not that simple…and I do not feel I have the time to sit here and explain the cosmic forces to you. I cannot control the minds of the beings that live here. They think independently, do independently, but I do have some control of them as I have already demonstrated to you, but in order for me to live in a body, they must allow me to enter it. In return for this favor, I will heal your wounded Aves, and give them strength.”

Eliza knew that he could help; he had shown her how he could stop creatures, and heal wounds already…but to actually let another creature live in her body…now that was a big deal. But if he could help her kind…help her kind to win the war…then perhaps this was not a huge loss. Eliza said, her voice cracking, “Yes...”

Then she could move again. Suddenly, she could move. She could blink, and she could talk. Her head raised, and she looked around, searching for the light, but it was no longer in sight. And then her forehead began to burn. The circle of white that was on her forehead began to throb and sting painfully. She gave a low nicker, unsure of what was happening, but then things where running down both sides of her neck and body. It felt like water, but burned like acid. She screamed, but it stopped. Eliza was panting. She stood in the cave panting, her legs spread out in all directions. Eliza looked at herself. She had strange glowing green lines traced all over her body, starting at her forehead and spreading down her body.

Then the voice spoke, “If you don’t mind, I would like to get out of this gloomy cave and see the world I have created…”

Eliza obeyed, moving out of the gap between the waterfall and Cliffside, and she began to canter across the lake. The Core gave a low sigh, “Ah, fresh air, snow, trees…what a wonderful place I have created…”

Eliza cantered to Emerald Valley, almost bursting, her mind thinking of what she was to say to the others…
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As you all know, there are many worlds, with many Cores. But what happens when one Core wants the world of another Core? Complete and total chaos…war.

The Core of the Shadow World invades Sonofar upon the wings of a host beyond imagination. The creature was huge, bigger than horses, bigger than anything that existed in Sonofar; a dragon. The creature of human legend that often destroyed villiages, fought knights and stole princesses. But this dragon was more terrible than any that was in a story. It was huge, gargantuan even, and black as black could be. Its head was adorned with foreward facing horns, and its paws ended in deadly curved claws. Running down its back where huge spikes, and all over it’s body where lines that glowed bright red. Residing in its black heart lived The Core of the Shadow World, the very embodiment of evil.

This Core cannot create Worlds, and therefore steals the World’s of other Cores. Now he wanted Sonofar to join his growing kingdome of destruction, undead, and shadow. Unfortunally the horse must fight against the minions of the shadow world. War has broken, even the shadowed have battled against it, and the horses of Sonofar must work together and put their differences aside and rebel.
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Light always shines bright in the darkness. Thus, the world of Sonofar, full of light and life, triumphed over the shadow. Eliza, The Core of Sonofar, battled with the creatures alongside her fellow horses in a heroic struggle that will forever be written in the lands history. Many died, but many survived through the healing powers of Eliza. She defeated the dragon with a single sphere of white light from the bright green circle on her forehead. The dragon died, falling to the ground with a force that made the earth shake, and as he died so did the black core within his heart. The creature had been defeated, and the balance restored. The war ended. The horse alliances had learned to fight together, as one.

With the defeating of the Shadow, the Core of Sonofar was able to continue his work. The world expanded, becoming even more mysterious and beautiful as the Core shaped it to his will. It took him three thousand years, but he managed to do it. Then he gifted more creatures with intelligence, wolves and big cats. From this, a world was born. Sonofar became Zanzira, and the Core uttered the famous words…

“Welcome to the dawn of a new age. Welcome to a new world. Welcome to Zanzira.”

Languages and cultures where beginning to develop with the Mighty Three of Zanzira, horses, cats, and wolves. Soon they had a language that they could all understand upon issues with each other, The Language of Everyone, and languages that where designed for speaking with others of their species. Horses where no longer a source of prey. The predators with intelligence only ate those that where not sentient as they where. The horses did not allow themselves to trust the predators fully, for instinct and fear was still strong in their minds. But peace reigned.

And then they mutated. For three long years the wolves and big cats changed dramatically, just as the horses had. Alliances formed, elemental alliances, Ice, Fire, Wind and Shadow. The Core gave each alliance two gods, a male and a female, two creatures that where more powerful than all of the others that could rule them with kind words and fairness. He gave Eliza, his host, a mate, a perfect mate, as thanks.

The new world of Zanzira is new, but old. It is fresh and ready for lives to fill it. Are you ready?
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Zanzira has been through many different things. The land has been torn apart by war, terrorized by demon shadows and used as a safe haven for the creatures that had been forced from their own world. But nothing, nothing has ever been this bad for the Zanzirians. Something worse, far worse, something that could completely and utterly destroy the world they call home forever is brewing. The Rain of Fire is coming.

The sky became of fire. The world is shaken by a great thunderstorm. Lightning streaked the sky. The cold breath of winter blew across the land, signaling the start of the season, but this was no ordinary storm. It was worse. Far worse. Something was wrong and the animals knew it.

Then, it started.

Fire came pouring down from the sky. Large rocks ablaze with red flame to scorch the flesh came hurtling from the crimson sky. Animals panicked. The creatures ran, fled, but all did not make it. Some where struck by the rocks and burned to death. Then the world was set ablaze. Fires streaked through the land, burned the trees and scorched the ground. But then, once again, Eliza came to our aid. The fire was so large and so hot, that if she had not done so then Zanzira would surely become nothing but an empty shell.

She stood against the flame, and she commanded toe heavens to do what they should. Dark grey clouds filled the sky, and down, down, came more rain than Zanzira had ever had before. The creatures of Ice came and helped her, using their powers against the horrid blaze. The fire, like an angry beast, became tame, and died. But all was not well. The world had been destroyed. It is blacked, grayed, and dead. The beauty had been erased. It has become skeletal.

And then the worse thing of all happened. The Core, Eliza herself, was struck down. She became weak and dropped to the earth. The markings in her flesh is only barely aglow and she breathes deeply. The Gods, feeling her pain, came to The Core’s aid. They took her to the grove where the meetings where held and kept her there where they could watch and care for her. But it was no ordinary sickness. Every creature in the land is worried, terrified. Food is scarce; there is hardly any prey or vegetation left. The Core, in its weak state, does not have the strength to regrow the planet. Something in their bones is telling them that The Rain of Fire is not over. And now they are only waiting…


(You can now roleplay THE RAIN OF FIRE coming down in your threads. God Meeting-1 is to be "interupted" by this.)
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