I have lived for a thousand years, and I have the knowledge of a hundred times that, I have been called All-Powerful, All-Knowing, and even sometimes, I was called Mythical, yet, for the few who have met me, I know that I am none of these things, I simply am, The Chronicler of Agartha.
As such, my sole duty is to document all the events that affect Agartha, whether these events happen directly on our fair land, or if they happened on the surface World.
I took to the job of documenting a very special period of time, a time when a prophecy as old as Agartha itself took place, and the book you are reading now, is but a glimpse of this very special period.
During the third age of Agartha, a great war devastated the land, one that turned the Agarthans against each other, split the continent in two, caused three of the land’s nation to cease to exist, and they called it the War of Colors.
Agarthans don’t identify themselves by color of skin, religion, or even ethnicity, yet they identify to the colors of their auras. Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Orange and Purple were the colors involved in that world splitting war. Each with their own gifts granted by the aura, each completely different from the others, yet all originated from the same tribe one hundred thousand years before.
Some other people called this war, the second war of Vrill, which is the name the Agarthans give to their aura granted powers, but the name never stuck as the actual war of Vrill which happened more than a thousand years earlier was not between the colors, but rather between individual overpowered Agarthans. May be one day I will decide to write another book about that period, another fascinating era that deserves to be told in song and book, just as our story is.
In the war of colors, a woman known to some as the green lady, and to others as the dragon lady whom I knew simply as Rowida, led an army of beasts and mythical creatures to destroy the city of Zarzura. Yet the city persevered and withstood the onslaught, until a man by the moniker, The Grand Wizard, managed to unite the nations of the blue, red, and yellow auras against the other races, calling them “Impure colors,” or mixed colors, and this man was the one who eventually started the actual war of the colors, and helped the dragon lady to destroy the city of the green aura nation, Zarzura.
That single devastating event turned the tide, and because of it, the war eventually came to an end, albeit at a great price, the blue and yellow aura nations were banished from Agartha, some say that they were banished from the whole world, sent to the eternal abyss, where the mythical creatures go to die. Thus, the red aura nation had to seek a cease-fire. They realized that they couldn’t fight against the joined fronts of the purples and the oranges, for even though the reds possessed immense strength, and through their Vrill they could draw on the power of any other creature, the oranges could communicate and order nature itself, while the purples were what most people call, wizards and mages.
After these events passed, as all events eventually do, our story began. It was twenty years after the war ended, and a boy by the name of Ethan, who attended the prestigious school of Nafoura, found out that his aura, is green.
Against all the odds of such a boy existing, he was the key to fulfill the ancient prophecy I mentioned earlier in this missive, which mandated that all the colors should be united to decide the fate of Agartha, and the surface world.
Faced by his exotic and believed to have been gone from this world aura, Ethan decided to leave the school and go to search for the greens because if there is a single green child, there ought to be at least a mother and a father for said child. Ethan also hoped that by finding the greens, he would find a family and a home to call his own.
As there was a prophecy behind Ethan’s tale, the fates nudged him this way or the next, to reach their predestined paths. On his journey, he got to know and love Mara, a girl who mysteriously managed to cross through the highly protected portals from the surface world to Agartha, and even if this was a feat to recon, she did it without alerting the purple guard of the portals, another feat worth of a legend. And then he met Darren, a boy with a red aura who was an outcast for being a shapeshifter, the lowest caste among the red aura nation.
Each of these three was special, fate chosen in some way or another. Ethan was the last of the greens, s boy needed to fulfill a prophecy, Mara was a girl whose very presence was considered an abrasion or a miracle, and Darren, was a red who wanted to change his aura to orange, and to achieve that, had a nefarious Deal with one of the mystical spirits called The Others.
They decided that the best route to take was the one that led them to me, the chronicler. Yet the journey was not an easy one. From slaying a wyvern, to aiding the people of Mountain’s Child, a village of mixed aura colors, to evading the attempts of the dragon lady of capturing them, the journey was more than eventful. They even crossed paths with an agent of the fates themselves, a man who goes by the name of Vlad, a traveling merchant who manages to end up in almost every story about this period that I documented.
They eventually fall in the trap of the dragon lady, escape the city of the purple aura nation, meet a helpful purple wizard who was called, Annias. Annias then helps them to escape the El Dorado, the city of the purples because he knew that the dragon lady had spies in the city, and the last of the greens, Ethan was in danger.
Alas, the escape was not successful, outside the borders of El Dorado, the dragon lady caught on to them, stripped Ethan of his soul, and left the rest of the group for dead.
Yet, they managed to survive, and upon finding what happened to Ethan, Annias decided to accompany him to the surface world, to the one man who might be able to help him regain his soul, the Eternal Wizard, Merlin.
Mara feared that her very presence was what caused Ethan to suffer this loss, and because of that, she decided to remain in Agartha, joining Darren in a renewed quest to reach me.
But that was what came before, now, the story continues.
This is a simple recap of the story before The Chronicles of Agartha Book 2 – Red’s Soul, Available soon
If you want to check other tales from Agartha, check these: Merlin, The Eternal Wizard, Archery with Miss Julia, and Last Days of Zarzura.
Or you could check our books, with a lot more stories from the world of Agartha: The Green Boy, Through The Strom, The Eternal Agarthans, and The Trinity’s Dream.