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Chapter 1 - AETHRYN: the kingdom that forgot time

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The map that never drawn:-

Long before kings wore crowns and before god's learned to lie , there existed a land called " AETHRYN ".

AETHRYN did not appear in maps not because it was hidden but because maps didn't want to remember it.

The travellers who passed through AETHRYN could describe it's forests ,it's skies,it's rivers of silver light - but once they left , their memories left and dissolved like ink in the rain. The things remained with them were only emotion like love, sadness, wonder, fear. And one more thing , a feeling that something precious had been lost. aethryn was a kingdom balanced on the edge of time not future, not past but the fragile now.

The clockless city :-

At the heart of AETHRYN there stood velmora, the clockless city. No bells rangoli there. No shadows moved predictable. No seasons followed rules.

The children were born during sunsets that lasted days . Elders sometimes grew younger for a moment , just long enough to remember what they had forgotten. At the center of the city Rose a tower made of translucent stone - The Chronospire.

Inside it lived the most powerfull entityint he realm not a king ,not a god. But time itself, bound into a living heart called The Aethryx core. As long as the core beat the AETHRYN existed. And the core was failing.

The boy who didn't age :-

His name was kael Ardyn.

He is seventeen years old or the city believed it.

Kael had lived in velmora for as long as anyone could remember- and that was the problem.

He never aged not even a single year.

Children who played with him in their childhood have their own child now yet kael remained unchanged.

He had dark hair , sharp grey eyes,a faint scar accross his left palm that never healed and never faded.

People whispered -

"Time doesn't want him "

"He is cursed "

"He belongs to Chronospire"

Kael hated the tower

He hated the way it was watched him

Especially at night.

The next morning was something so weird that the daily routine of that land changed on that day and something hilarious happened that day.

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