Post by SotB Staff on Feb 13, 2013 19:47:45 GMT -5
RULES | RULER APPLICATION | CITIZEN APPLICATION | SITE PLOT | GETTING STARTED[/align]Thirteen-thousand years ago, the Light Realm was anything but “light”. Taint spread like wildfire, intoxicating the Queens, and drugging their triangles and courts... It began in Raej. Hungry for more power, for more control, the Queens started with their men, first ringing them out of “protection”. The control and domination started out slow. If the males forgot the Blood rules, specifically obey, if the males argued, or refused to service the women pain would ensue. Over a few hundred years, generations of females became more and more tainted, turning to control and domination and torture for the thrill of it. The joy in watching a male do whatever they said, bowing down to them in fear. They'd forgotten about the beauty in the offered service; they'd forgotten what it was like to be voluntarily served.
It took several hundreds of years, but the males, sick of living in fear of their women, decided to rise up against them, effectively turning their backs on the Blood Laws as well. Cherish and obey were not habits they outwardly exhibited any longer. It was harder to ring a man when he didn't have that innate trust and blind loyalty for his lady. A few Queens were strong enough to forcefully ring a male, but the sport had gone out of it. Those that were already ringed had stopped fighting, and those that were still free would rather end their life than enter into servitude to any woman, Queen or otherwise. The damage was done and the Queens weren't of a mind to repair it. While most of the lighter-jeweled Blood had gone into hiding or managed to come up with enough funds to flee to Kaeleer, Warlord Princes, Princes and Warlords alike were rising up, gaining power, acting more and more like the Jhinka from Askavi in their savage and bloodthirsty ways. Now there was no one else to fill the void; no one but the Landens.
And so time passed, until the spreading taint and waging war had ravaged the lands and the races for six-thousand years... It's been seven-thousand years since the destructive war, but Terreille has only just begun healing their wounds. Some wounds may never heal; some rifts between territories may never be bridged. In the present day, tendrils of taint have begun slithering through Kaeleer, with whiffs of evil rotting the souls of the Blood. Will the Kaeleerians recognize the signs before it is too late? Will Terreille learn from its past mistakes? Or will history repeat itself and cause a societal cataclysm the likes of which has never been witnessed? Only time will tell... These are the Sins of the Blood.
Sins of the Blood offers members an easy application, the ability to transfer past BJT characters, creatures and characters not offered on most other BJT sites, a site shop to buy goodies with award points for your characters, and no word count! If you like fantasy and a unique setting, come give us a try. Everyone is welcome having read the Black Jewel Trilogy not necessary!