Coera

I. Godswordsman

• How David learn of his Parentage and is Confirmed
  
• Riel comes to Ae'verion to adop David as his protoge and finds that Bethani has made herself his matron. He weans David and overthrows Vashti's uprising in the capitol.
  

II. Brothers

• How David is established as the Right Hand of the GloryWolf Returned, and is Declared.
  
• Riel completes David's training ans they sail from Ae'verion to rescue the other two known rithahnder. David learns he is the son of Eva and learns his future. Riel confronts Bethani and repulses her, but admits her eventual future victory.
  

III. Death

• How War comes, and Riel dies.
  
• With Riel established in Daethan as General Godswordsman, and fulfillment of the Lion's prophecy that his General-Mentor would be reborn (though, in fact, David is the rebirth), Riel draws a full army to slay Lilith's Get. They take the North with the help of the Sapphire Eye, but Riel is betrayed in the South and falls.
  

IV. ReBirth

• How David is married, enslaved, liberated, and elevated.
  
• David is spirited away and nursed back to health by the river people. When he is whole, Eva takes him to the spring where Beckari is bathing. They are married inside the year, but the South is still at war and David is called to it. David is captured and sold to Bethani, who releases him after the requisite seven years. David makes his way to Daethan and is named Riel's successor.
  

V. Son and Heir

• How David leads the world to victory.
  
• David now leads the armies of the world against Lilith's Get in the South. He goes from battle in the field to battle in the throne rooms as he tries to build coalitions amidst the contries trying to grab power in the vacuums left by the wars. Some coalitions are hard, like the Ancients, Bethani's Brood, and the Obscured Throne. He banishes Lilith to the moon.
  

VI. Animmortal

• How David loses Beckari, and is incited to a slaughter
  
• With Lilith dispelled, Advid is free to retire and disband his army, whether or nor they will. Bethani's daughters misconstrue her longing for David and slay his household, including Beckari. David Slaughters Bethani's Brood in response, including some innocents. Rather than return in shame, he gives himself to Bethani.
  

VII. Relations

• A Prologue
  
• Millenia earlier, David is Illen GloryWolf, chief counsel to the Lion, another son of Eve. He meets the young Keralai and tells her the future.
  

A. Palin's Breath

• David's childhood friend escapes the slaughter to deliver a message to the Daethan Council.
  
• Palin awakens from a thump on the head to see the slaughter on the battle field, and a throng of the triumphant Get reaping their harvest. Palin finds a bow, fits an arrow, and lets fly. He hears the howl of horror behind him, but he is already on his way, a few steps ahead, to Daethan.
  

Palin escapes from the battlefield where Riel dies. The casualties are plentiful - the living have fled, and now the vampires and their servants pick through the wounded for meals or torture victims. Before they get to him, Palin awakens from a bump on the head. He sees a gaudily dressed vamp several score yards away, guesses that she is important, and puts an arrow right through her heart. She drops down, immediately dead. Palin slips off to the edge of the trees and just makes it before he hears the cries. He knows they've found her body, and she was important indeed.

The enemy hunts Palin ruthlessly, and he is unable to escape the forest. He begins to turn the tables on them, and hunt them in turn. By luck and skill, he becomes quite good. He rescues another young boy from the vamps, and trains him as an apprentice. During one attack on the vamps, he learns a secret - a secret that could mean the difference between winning the war or losing utterly.

His apprentice is capture, and eaten before his eyes. Palin realizes that to attempt escape is futile. In the captitivity of the vamps, he commits suicide, so they cannot eat his soul. He imprints on his memory the information he needs to pass on. On his death, he demands to be returned to the womb immediately, and breaks protocol to do so in Daethan. He also learns his true name, which is similar to Palin, but not quite.

The Daethen culture does not believe in re-incarnation, or even a significant life after death, so his choice is momentus, and based on what he heard Riel say about his conversations with Eve. But as soon as Palin is re-born, he is trying to speak, and he bears birthmarks of his suicide. His young parents can tell he is special, but it is not until he is 5 that he is able to gain an audience. By that time, he is considered a prophet of sorts. This period of 5 years is the same that David spends in recovery, with Bethani and with Beckari, then being confirmed in the Daethan temples. Palin reborn sees him, and remembers exactly what to tell him. This helps to confirm David and set him on the path to win the South.

The story begins with the recount of Bethani's daughters' slaughter of Deyvid's household on the Savannah. As they toy with the survivors of his home, Deyvid appears very suddenly and alone and wreaks his vengeance. He storms like a war god, slaying the Get he has allowed to remain, until his Remnant reappears as well, following him back over the wall to join him.

Deyvid disperses the army and hands over the power to his Lieutenant, and gives himself over to Bethani.

When Deyvid is finally unfettered, and wages full war against the Get of the South, he is able to drive the armies out of every land, but they keep spilling over the mountain walls. Defying the orders coming from Daethan, he leads what remnant of his army that will follow him over the walls and into the desert lands of the southwest to find the ruins of Bal Abillion - a city that had been great in the time of the Lion. A scrap of a note left from Illen to Riel leads Dafyd on a quest for this mirage city, and amidst the perilous traps laid to disrupt his every step, he finds the lonely Lil, who has isolated herself to prevent the treachery that allowed the Lion to undercut her.

The story ends after Dafyd has banished Lil to the moon, and colonizes the city with many of his own troops and Lil's unwilling slaves. Just as he is able to catch his breath and begin plans of return, he is cut to the heart - he feels Beckari die back at their home on the Savannah.

There is a parable in Deyvid's world - an esoteric story known to the elite in the south - of the spider and the flies. I need to write up the story in character later, but the gist of the story is that as people own the herds, the spider owns the flies. The flies don't need to know that they are owned to be owned, but when the spider eats the fly, it is by right of ownership, by right of superiority. The flies don't have the right to protest, nor should we spring the fly from the web. The spider doesn't eat only the flies, only what it needs or wants, and the rest of the flies go about their way, not knowing they are owned, that they are potential dinners. The meaning of the parable is known only to the elite of the kingdom ruled by Lil's Get.

When Deyvid is confirmed as a Rithahnder, he is formally cast out of the church of the God of Daethan, for his violent ways. The greatest crime against the God is murder and killing, and the Rithahnder, as the Godswordsman, is the man of death. To leave him in the church and excuse the knowledge that he will kill in the future is anathema. Many of the priests of the church are vegeterians.

But as the Godswordsman, the Rithahnder cannot be cast out of the sight of the God. Instead, he is placed in "the Pocket of the God", seperated from the church and its sacraments, but not the God.

When the Barrier was closed at the end of the first Age, much of the army of Patar-Ori (and Adam's personal troupe) returned to their stars, or left to explore matter, but many stayed behind. Of those who remained, many of the greater became the gods, and the lesser chose to bind themselves to flesh. These are the elves.

In the Underworld and the Garden, the elves were the stewards, both of the verdency of Coera and of Coera herself - they brought her from a husky bulb to a thriving, teaming, but beautiful and artistic jungle. But the Patriarchal Age was the age of men, and the elves disappeared into the wilderness - they went where men were not. Some Elves chose to lose their identity and become men - granted, they were greater than nearly any man - but they cut their ties to their star and became mortal - these lived among men. When Lil built the Tower of Babal, she did it with the aid of Elf and delver - she played on their fears of being pushed from their gardens, she made men to be their enemy instead of their care, and she won a surprisingly large number of them. But the majority of Elves redeemed themselves, and were instrumental in leading Seth against Lil and undermining her.

During the Tower period, the Elves no long retreated, but claimed their own lands, and did not suffer instrusion. They were suspicious of all outsiders, until the peace of Ando brought stability, and with stability, commerce, and with commerce, acceptance. Marion, Prophet queen of the Elves, told that all but the last of the Elves had been born, and it was so. No longer was it permitted for the Elves to create another of the flesh, or of spirit - the barrier was full and stifling Coera, they were told. No longer was it permitted for an elf whose flesh was destroyed to re-enter flesh, and suddenly they became very preservation-conscious, and very conservative.

Beckari was born during the turning of the age, and she knew it was for a purpose. She was the Virgin jewel princess of the Elves, and was held in high-esteem across the clan and even the world. Her birth was accompanied by portents and signs, and with prophecy of the coming of Deyvid. It was curious indeed to the Elves when Illen Glory-Wolf came through their lands to meet the Jewel Princess, but did not come with the signs. He had a secret that he would not tell them, and Marion would not share.

Beckari's death is the death of the Elves - they retreat to the bowels of Coera, to give up their flesh and never be seen again.

After the destruction of Riel's army in the South, Deyvid awakens to find himself trapped beneath a dead horse. The horse is being pulled off by a hungry victor, who his sword slays. Not far way, the victors are gorging on Riel's body, and Deyvid rises to avenge him, but a hand stays him, and he hears the words, "Come! Flee! You must not die."

Deyvid is chased from the battlefield and skids off the edge of a cliff and into a deep lake.

When he wakes again, he is underwater. He struggles for a minute, thinking he will drown, but hands once again still him, and he hears, "Relax. Breathe the water. You are among friends."

Deyvid is with the riverfolk for an unknown amount of time. There is no talking under the water - just fishing, healing, and loving. Some of the riverfolk will surface to speak briefly with him, and he learns that they are very old, but not particularly worldly or wise. After he's completely healed and strengthened, Eva appears to him and takes him up the river to the spring where Beckari is bathing.

As a SamEveya moves from life to previous life, not every memory is retained, just as you don't remember everything that happened last year, or even yesterday. You certainly don't remember everything your high school English teacher told you, even though it was "Very Important".

Riel remembers the themes of his life, but many of his particulars involve music. He remembers how to play the guitar, and learns to play many of the contemporary instruments of Deivyd's age. He also quotes "words of wisdom" from songs of his previous life, like the Indigo Girls "Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable, the Light has a call that's hard to hear"... I need to collect other saying for Riel from popular songs.

Riel also introduces the cadence section to the Daethan army.

"The God" of David's age, the "Great Shepherd" and the Sun God is none other than Patar-Ori, god of the Sun, champion of Coera, son of Baod, etc. Patar-Ori's interest in the people of Coera waxes and wanes - he is their shepherd, but he is also busy waging a cold war against Baod. This is not explicitly revealed in the story-lines, only hinted at in esoteria. Adam and Eva are the servants of Patar-Ori, and exercise more direct control over humanity.