The Birth of Telan

Telan is a mytho historical figure in Haliur's culture.

The Birth of Telan
In the age before, there was a great kingdom. In that kingdom lived a king wise and wonderful. He desired to know all. He had spent his life searching the world questioning all that there was. For a time this pleased him. Yet, he was so wise that it was not long before the land had no more secerets to give him.

So he turned from the land and asked questions of the sea. For a time this too pleased him for the sea was deep and had many secerets. But, in time the sea too had no more secerets to give him. He turned to the clouds and the sky and sought questions of the heavens. In this he was not displeased for the sky quick and heavens were brought and both held their secerets tight. But, in time these two offered up all they had.

Then the King looked to the stars and began to wonder how he might reach them and uncover all their secerets for they alone lay beyond his reach. For years he sought Songs deep and powerful to bring him to the stars but, it was all for naught. For at last he could find no song that that would bring him to the stars. Then he tried to bring the stars to him and sang the most beautiful of songs, songs so wonderous that the stars yearned to come to him. But at last the King despaired. He returned to his kingdom and forgot the stars and their questions. He married and soon his wife was with child.

It was then that a star choose to find the king that had played such wonderous songs. The star wandered far and wide and by the time it had found the Kingdom the kings wife was about to bear the child. The star in jealousy flashed toward the earth and cursed the kingdom with a sickness. The King's wife suddenly became ill and perished just before naming her son, "Telan". The king in his rage ran from the kingdom and sang a song in defiance of the stars. the star in his fury crashed to the earth and released a horde of creatures who slew the king and began destroying the kingdom. But, the child Telan who had his heard his father's song and had grown in those hours the length of many years and now roared with the power of those years a song in memory of his mother and father who had sacrificed for him and raised four towers to bind them on the island of Iross. That is how the the Towers of DeMere were made.