Fiction #4: The Tower of Haeol

The civil war between the Nekrabali Khaverans and Aksuri has been ongoing for thousands of years, all because they worship different deities. (Reference image purportedly is that of the War of Wrath from The Silmarillion. Artist yet to be identified)

The great lava-river of Anghar flows out towards the Ekrab Sea of Nekrabal and is flanked on both sides by chasm-walls thousands of feet high, known as the Akrabal Gorge. (Reference image sourced from https://www.artstation.com/artwork/R4PXv)

The story focuses on a civil war in the territory of Nekrabal, as two factions - one devoted to Bershaevol, Goddess of Deception, and the other to Haekrabal, Many-Armed God of Perfection - fight to secure the Tower of Haeol in the middle of the Anghar river of lava; only to discover a centuries-old secret locked within the tower itself. What secret is it? Will it liberate the factions and end the civil war? Or will it spur the deaths of many more in the names of their lost gods?

​AKRABAL GORGE, Nekrabal (10 Augury, Tae 2484), The Territories of Zargandar

"Move!" Against the torrent of ash-clouds and geysers marring their field of vision, General Keshande ordered his lieutenants and twenty thousand armed Khaveran warriors to charge down the southern wall of stone-hewn cliff-side steps of the Akrabal Gorge.

It was midday but with the ever-present rain of ash and dust, the sun was lost in the darkness and it might as well had been night. Strong-muscled, teal-eyed and pointy-eared, his long braided hair caked in the blue-green paint of sheepskin leather known as the Embe, and his ebony-black skin already coated with layers of powdery volcanic dust, Keshande knew they had to reach and reinforce the tower before Uruth and his Aksuri army emerged from the north side of the gorge.

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