Editing Athmyr (section)

= '''''<div style="color:#FFFFFF; background-color: #000012">Secret Origin</div>''''' =
<b>NOTE: The following is secret knowledge that should only by known by Plot and characters who have discovered it through Athmyr or Plot. If you can't keep it OOG, don't read it.</b><br><br>

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<div style="padding: 12px; background-color: #ffffff; color: #ffffff;">Athmyr believes himself to be born in the year 500 when in fact he was born several hundred years earlier.<br><br>
Athmyr's actual birth occurred during a war between the Barbarians and the Biata that was at its fiercest and most violent in what is present day Dyllaria. Both the Biata and the Barbarians had called great magical creatures to their sides as proxies, and battles grew so destructive as to level entire mountains in the northwest, creating the flat and fertile lands that exist today.<br><br>
[[Image:Athmyrnecklace.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The necklace found on Athmyr as a child.]]
Au Mir was born in a small Biata village on the eastern end of this conflict, his mother a simple potter and his father a fletcher. The village was led by a wise elder of 900 years named Au Tzu who was gifted in many different exotic arts, including the study of Earth Magic. Au Tzu had been a close advisor to the generals leading the Biata armies, but when the Biata were pushed back to the eastern mountains, the generals abandoned Au Tzu and his village to retreat over the mountains. Au Tzu knew his entire village was doomed and his people would have nowhere to flee. Rather than accept death, however, he prepared a ritual whereby the children would be saved. They would be put in a magical stasis, their minds wiped of all memories of their previous life, in the hopes that they would be awakened in a more peaceful future time. Au Mir's mother kissed him goodbye and placed a family heirloom necklace around his neck. The necklace bore what looked like a tooth but was actually the claw of a baby gryphon. Au Mir then went to sleep with a handful of other children.<br><br>
These children slept for hundreds of years until discovered in their underground sanctuary by Drae. The children had vague memories of growing up in a village but could not identify its location or their parents. Not that it mattered to the Drae, who promptly put them in chains and sold them to nearby biata tribes. The Drae had slightly mispronounced Au Mir as "Aay-thmeer" which is what he came to be called.<br><br>


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