The History of Sagar

[coinilius]

Re-posting this here from the Infaceables thread so that it isn't as buried and is easier to refer back to so that I/we can do some more with the ideas

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The Ancient Ones rise to power on Sagar. They are technologically, spiritually and mystically advanced and create many powerful objects and devices including the Powerstar and the Diamond of Power. These two objects in particular would give anyone who wields them immense power, power to be 'master of the universe'.

The Ancient Ones undertsand the dangers of any one person, no matter how noble their original intentions, having such power and so place the Diamond of Power in a special vault deep inside the Castle of Power which can only be opened by the Powerstar. As a further security measure, the Powerstar is split into two halves - the Starsword and the Powersword and are given to two powerful and heroic warriors to wield.

The original Trobbit settlers migrate to Sagar. They are masters of metals and possibly assist in the creation of the Castle of Power. In any event, they place android servants made in their image as custodians of the Castle, the Silvermen.

Atlas and Overlord may not have been the first two heroes chosen to guard the Starsword and the Powersword, instead they are probably just the latest (and last) in a line of heroes by the time of the El Greco comic. In any event, they are joined by other heroes in their duty to protect the Castle of Power - Neptul and Leon. They guard the castle against many threats, including Scorpio, Tongo, Zoar and Gargo.

Tongo and his demons are sent to limbo during one such attempt to steal the Diamond of Power.

One (?) of Sagar's moons is destroyed and many warriors migrate to Sagar.

Eventually, Overlord begins to wonder why they spend all their time guarding the Diamond from falling into evil hands, when instead they could be doing so much more good with it themselves. Overlord becomes convinced that only he is wise and powerful enough to rule Sagar and begins to secretly plot against his friends to obtain the Diamond of Power for himself, so that he may become 'master of the universe' - for the greater good, of course...

He tricks Atlas into joining the Powersword with his Starsword so that he can enter the vault and take control of the Diamond of Power.

Following this, a massive war would break out across Sagar as the forces of good battle the forces of the Overlord. The once verdant plains of Tamboryon become a frozen wasteland and the Castle of Power becomes an Ice Castle. The once great city of Antika falls into ruin. The forces of good seek to hide the secrets of the Ancient Ones away in a hidden city they name Tamboryon after the once great country now turned to ice. Despite all his efforts, Overlord does not find out the location of this city (at least not until much later)...

In a desperate play against the Overlord, the forces of good (perhaps Atlas teamed up with a young enchantress named Mara?) manage to split the Diamond of Power into two halves - these halves becoming the Moon Stone and the Black Star and being scattered across Sagar. Whether by accident or design, the Star Sword is also lost in time and space...

...Where it eventually is rematerialised on Earth in a Cyclotron experiment. Human scientists think it is there own creation and use it to power an experimental spaceship.

John Blackstar, astronaut, is swept through a black hole into an ancient, alien universe. There he crashes on the planet Sagar where he is rescued by the tiny Trobbit people.

Overlord witnesses this new arrival on Sagar and sends out Tongo and his pack of demons (freed from Limbo) to investigate. Overlord is well aware of space travel and still has the ultimate goal to extend his reach further than Sagar.

Blackstar helps the Trobbits against Tongo and retrieves his 'Ionic Sword' from the wreckage of his spaceship.

Blackstar meets Klone and Mara, and also gains Warlock as his faithful dragon-steed.

An infuriated Overlord leads a group of his most powerful henchmen against the Trobbits as a way of striking at Blackstar. Balkar leads his people down into the safety of the Blue Cave. For their own protection, the majority of the Trobbit people remain in the caves while 7 Trobbits remain above ground to aide Blackstar and act as custodians of the Sagar Tree.

Blackstar is established as the leader of the resistance against Overlord.

[blackstar76]

Hey coinilius, since you're back with us, I have to say I'm dying for more of this!!! ;

Maybe the 20th century collector will give us some more info that we could add to this fantastic story.

[coinilius]

I hope so!

My plan now that I'm back is to finish translating the edition lugs comic (finally) an to also work on editing the el Greco scans to change the dialogue text to English

[blackstar76]

All right!!!!

[zimraphel]

Interesting ideas. I have my own idea of the past history of Sagar which is quite involved and goes back about 9,000 years. I had it written down somewhere back when I was writing fan fiction, but I'm not sure where it got to.

[Whitedwarf]

Oct 31, 2015 4:17:09 GMT -5 zimraphel said:

Interesting ideas. I have my own idea of the past history of Sagar which is quite involved and goes back about 9,000 years. I had it written down somewhere back when I was writing fan fiction, but I'm not sure where it got to.

Hopefully you'll find it!

[blackstar76]

Would love to see it too!!

[coinilius]

Definitely share your ideas if you can find them, zimraphel! These have been constructed based on drawing connections between the various Blackstar spin-off material like the comics and the even further afield El Greco toyline material. There's plenty of room to see other peoples takes on the history of Sagar!

[zimraphel]

This timeline I developed when writing my fan fics. The original material is stored on diskettes, which my present computer can't read, so I'm reconstructing everything as best I can.

(B.P. = Before Present)

32,000 B.P.: The spreading ice sheets of a global Ice Age spell the extinction for a species of massive tree. The Elai, a blue-skinned, matriarchal race of sorcerers, manage to preserve one seed and bring it south to what will one day become the kingdom of the Harani (the Trobbits), on the shores of Lake Imee. This seed eventually becomes the Sagar Tree.

11,000 B.P.: A meteorite crashes into the northern continent, into what will become the "Buffer States" between the kingdom of Sagar and the Ereshi steppelands. The Elders, an alien race, attempt to create a sentient weapon from the star-metal. However, they have not perfected the technique of fusing the symbiotic organism into the metal, and the resulting "Powerstar" is unstable. Breaking their work into two halves, the Elders scatter the pieces and abandon the planet. Later, they will perfect their technique and create the Eternian Sword of Power and its twin, the Sword of Protection.

9,000 B.P. The melting ice sheets raise sea levels across the planet. The seafaring Harani are forced by the rising waters to move inland. Some remain near the coast, but others migrate to the valley of Min Luin and settle in the shadow of the Sagar Tree. The community becomes known as Kal'en Haran.

6,900 B.P.: Marralasse na're Sensenari born at Nan Gondar in the Elai kingdom of Tathren.

6,700 B.P.: An unnamed Ereshi warrior is banished from his tribe. Wandering, he discovers in the permafrost half of the long-lost Powerstar. Empowered by the weapon, he takes vengeance on the tribe that made him outcast, then, gathering to him a band of outlaws and mercenaries, takes over the neighboring tribes. Soon, he is known as the Moredhrin, the "Dark Sword." Fearing mortality, he seeks out sorcerers and physicians, and through a combination of spells and the essence of the Power Sword, gains a kind of immortality. His descendants form the nucleus of the powerful Fifty Families, the elite of Eresh.

6,000 - 4,500 B.P. The kingdom of Sagar flourishes; its seat is established in the throne-city of Eldamar. In 4,502 B.P., the last king dies without an heir. After two centuries of civil war which devastates the kingdom and its surrounding territories, the first Lord Protector is elected to office. The Empty Throne remains unoccupied in the Citadel.

3,500 B.P. The Sagarese war chieftain Therras Corran discovers the Starsword in a crevasse in the nearby mountains. Lady Andalya, Marralasse's mother, is dispatched from Nan Gondar to counsel him in the sword's use. Corran becomes the first Eledhrin, "Keeper of the Sword." His ascension to power causes unrest across the border in Eresh. The Moredhrin (Overlord) sends out demons to kill Corran; he does not seek to take the Starsword, but to silence and send back into the hibernation the symbiotic being that Corran has awakened.

3,488 B.P. The last of the Sagar Tree's original guardians dies. The Elai appoint the Harani kings as the new guardians.

3,476 B.P. Lady Andalya appoints six loyal Sagarese warriors to act as Therras Corran's etteva, or bodyguards. Their number is eventually increased to eighteen.

3,218 B.P. Taleena na're Assanji is born at Nan Tathren. She is Marralasse's paternal cousin.

2,844 B.P. The kingdom of Kanos establishes relations with the kingdom of Sagar. A treaty of mutual support and trade is signed at Eldamar under the auspices of the Lord Protector and Miras Sheldar, the fourth Eledhrin.

2,300 - 2008 B.P. The Buffer States are created between the kingdoms of Eresh and Sagar. Control of these ten states swings back and forth.

2,228 B.P. The seventh Eledhrin is murdered by his tairu, or second in command. The etteva spend the next 30 years hunting the man down.

2,111 B.P. War breaks out when Eresh tries to seize Kanos. The Moredhrin, aware that the Eledhrin is about to take the field with 20,000 Sagarese warriors, sends a secret weapon with his chief general; the crystal detonates with thermonuclear intensity, laying waste to the entire region, and creating the Demonlands in the process.

2,088 B.P. Marralasse retrieves the Starsword from the Demonlands and takes it to Kal'en Haran; she and the king, Balkar's great-grandfather, undertake spells to purify the sword of the taint of radiation and exposure to the Demonlands.

1953 B.P. Andhur Medhras, the tenth Eledhrin, goes insane under the influence of the still-tainted Starsword. Under the delusion that he must reunite the Powerstar, he attempts to penetrate Ereshi territory but suffers a fatal aneurysm when exposed to the demon influence inhabiting the Power Sword. Marralasse and the etteva are barely able to retrieve the Starsword; Medhras's body is never recovered. It is rumored that his corpse has become a revenant haunting the bowels of the Moredhrin's stronghold. The Starsword is submerged in the ice-cold waters of the Well of Falas, in the deepest roots of the Sagar Tree.

451 B.P. Arvet Nevrasse, the seventeenth Eledhrin, disappears and dies under mysterious circumstances, as do his wife and young son. Marralasse returns the Starsword to the Well of Falas.

2 B.P. The threat of a massive Ereshi army gathering on the border of the Buffer States has Marralasse actively searching for a strong Sagarese chieftain to present to the Starsword as a candidate for Eledhrin. Her choice settles on Sulas Thanagail, who is decisive and not the weakling Arvet Nevrasse was. She starts to communicate with and cultivate him for the role. She thinks nothing of the strange foreigner who lies injured in a nearby Harani village, except that a fire aboard his windship has destroyed tens of acres of forest, which agitates King Balkar.

0 B.P. King Balkar has had the stranger brought to Kal'en Haran for observation and possible interrogation once the man learns enough of the language; he is suspected of being an Ereshi operative. Marralasse, meanwhile, is frustrated when the Starsword does not respond to Thanagail. But there is someone else nearby who does interest the Starsword's sentient being, and that one is the last person anybody wants or expects...

[blackstar76]

This is really good. I mean really, really good. Fantastic job. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[coinilius]

Very nice work - I remember seeing some of your fan fiction years ago, but even then I think it was only fragments.

[Whitedwarf]

Nov 7, 2015 7:09:39 GMT -5 coinilius said:

Very nice work - I remember seeing some of your fan fiction years ago, but even then I think it was only fragments.

Indeed.

I'm ultra-happy to host it.

[zimraphel]

Oct 10, 2017 4:04:07 GMT -5 Whitedwarf said:

Nov 7, 2015 7:09:39 GMT -5 coinilius said:

Very nice work - I remember seeing some of your fan fiction years ago, but even then I think it was only fragments.

Indeed.

I'm ultra-happy to host it.

You already have the Night Serpent.

[zimraphel]

Oct 10, 2017 4:04:07 GMT -5 Whitedwarf said:

Nov 7, 2015 7:09:39 GMT -5 coinilius said:

Very nice work - I remember seeing some of your fan fiction years ago, but even then I think it was only fragments.

Indeed.

I'm ultra-happy to host it.

You already have the Night Serpent, and it's not like anybody reads fan fiction.

[Whitedwarf]

Oct 11, 2017 17:36:42 GMT -5 zimraphel said:

Oct 10, 2017 4:04:07 GMT -5 Whitedwarf said:

Indeed.

I'm ultra-happy to host it.

You already have the Night Serpent.

Yeah indeed. That's it. I wasn't demanding more fan fiction or new stories from you at all. I was just telling Coinilius that I was 100% happy to host The Night Serpent.