The Twins of the Feywild

Fylikiel invoked magic lights, revealing the cover of the old tome. The Book of Uld, the cover said in an ancient language, obfuscated by old magic. The turned the cover and passed the first pages where the author, Yogg'Sar, presented himself. He leaged through a few pages, then his eyes come to rest on a page with notes and sketches added in the margins; someone had deciphered these writings and added notes and comments to the text...

The Twins

The Sundering had left the world broken and the remnants of civilizations were struggling to find their place in a world without the enlightened ones. Few such races had taken refuge, or were dragged, into other worlds (planes) . From one such realm, a realm of dreams and illusions (feywild), came the moon folks (eladrins!) . Their world had strong ties with this one, through forests and mires, and their knowledge of magic was great.

In my time, two of their kingdoms stood as grand over the others. They were led by twin brothers of the same name. The Quel'Danas realms were properous kingdoms of high magical deeds, mirrors of each others. One such realm was in the neverending sunrise (eastern) forests (the dales? Myth Drannor?), the other was along the great sunset sea ( west, the sea of swords). The twins traveled and experimented through this world and others, until the day they released beast of untold power from a locked distant and twisted world (the farrealm? the elemental chaos?). The beast devastated the lands and the twins fought it. It was slain, but one brother died. And that was the beginning... So great was the brothers tie that the dead Quel'Danas refused to pass away and he rose back from the ashes of the cataclyms that had killed him. Death had claimed his mind though and with his resurrection, Quel'Danas of the Sunset sea discovered mastery over death and the undead, binding his essence with a world of tears and shadows (could be the shadowfell) .

The two kingdoms soon became opposites and the tie of brotherhood became one of rivality. The coastal cities were abandonned, the moon folks died by hundreds before finding other homes or worlds. And the twin battled for years. The coast was dark with night and crawling with the dead, spreading like an infection accross the world.

This part of Uld almost turned black, if not for the final sacrifice of the living twin...

Fylikiel closed the book. He was puzzled. The writtings in this book were somewhat familiar, yet he did not know who could have deciphered the tome before him. Maybe his father, or an ancestor. How did that book come into his family?