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    Legacy of the Crow: A Gathering at Ayeshastra Part 1: Adijari
    Legacy of the Crow: A Gathering at Ayeshastra Part 1: Adijari
    Legacy of the Crow: A Gathering at Ayeshastra Part 1: Adijari
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    Legacy of the Crow: A Gathering at Ayeshastra Part 1: Adijari

    By S.P. Jayaraj

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    The God of crows is no longer

     

    In order to destroy a totalitarian nation that assumed power through manipulating the pantheon of animal gods, the god of crows has turned into the mortal woman Kalisha to undo the nation's darkest spell from within.

     

    Relying on the magical knowledge she retains from her transformation, her wits, crows, and a damning level of secrecy, Kalisha also struggles to protect her sanity from the horrific evils around her.


    An origin story of the qui-lahk people of Adijari, this tale highlights the link between animals and the qui-lahk people bonded to them, who can choose to live harmoniously with their totem or abuse that relationship for power.


    This begins a series of globe spanning Adijari stories forever changed by the Legacy of the Crow.

     

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherS.P. Jayaraj
    Release dateMar 25, 2022
    ISBN9798201916145
    Legacy of the Crow: A Gathering at Ayeshastra Part 1: Adijari
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    S.P. Jayaraj

    Satish Pothery Jayaraj loves telling stories. The world of Adijari and the stories in it are his lifelong passion. He loves drawing inspiration from global mythology as he weaves his own epic tales.  Satish received his Masters in Fine Arts from Hamline University and lives in Saint Paul, MN with his wife Azure and their two cats Mouse and Myles.

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      Legacy of the Crow - S.P. Jayaraj

      Introduction

      Dearest reader,

      I am so happy you are here. Some people say that a writer’s first fan should be themselves. But what fun is there in being a fan of a story if there is no one to talk about it with? Stories, like most everything, are better when they are shared. But, because this tale is the beginning of an epic adventure spanning continents, characters, cultures, and conflicts, I have been sitting on this story for a while, writing forward, backward, sideways and upside down, to arrange the pieces and to make this beginning all it can be.

      There are so many people who helped make this story happen, so many things that took years to figure out, where I questioned whether I should just ‘settle’ on lesser ideas and move on- like the design of the Ocean Soul that went through many transformations before it evolved into what it is. Thankfully, storytelling won out over complacency and I continued to tinker to make it the story I am proud to present.

      So here we are, about to embark on a grand adventure, and all so that I will have people to geek out with. Enjoy.

      S.P. Jayaraj

      The Four People of Adijari

      Qui-Lahk

      The qui-lahks share a special bond with animals. Though connected to all animals, each qui-lahk has a deeper connection to a single species which is their totem animal. This totem defines their magic ability. Aside from subtle physical traits that indicate a qui-lahk's totem, such as frog-lahks having above average eyes and elephant-lahks having a greyish hue to otherwise brown skin, lahks also have a natural black tattoo that is indicative of their totem animal.

      Elves

      Elves are bonded to the atmosphere. They can sense and tap into the magic within air and process it through their breath into a variety of spells. Elves are more powerful in the season they were born in which also affects what spells they are best at. They have pale to tan colored skin and hair that is either yellow, brown, or red. They often have slivers of another color of hair running through the rest of it that is related to their birth season. Elves born in winter for example can have blue or white slivers of hair.

      Devs

      The devs have a profound connection with light. Though physical beings of flesh and blood, light energy is also part of their makeup. Devs’ connection with the daily light cycle is visible through their very appearance. They are blue in color, but the darkness or fairness of that blue changes throughout the day. They are at their fairest in the early morning and darkest at night. The color of their hair also changes as the sun and moon rise and fall. It is dark brown when the sun is at its peak, and black when the moon takes its place.

      Amesha

      Ameshas are one with the earth. The density of their bodies adapt to whatever landscape they are in. Ameshas living on mountains have strong flexible feet to handle the hard ground whereas those living in jungles have long arms for swinging. They are the color of the different soils, be it black, dark brown, or red and their hair is often black. Because of their ability to tap into the energy in earth materials, of the four people they are easily the finest makers.

      Legacy of the Crow

      Chapter 1

      Kalisha gazed at the vessel floating toward her. Though she had summoned it herself, she never expected it would actually appear. She wasn’t even sure it existed. Yet the gigantic dome was too bizarre to be anything else. She couldn’t tell from the shore what the aqua-colored thing was made of, but what bothered her more was that it had no sails, and so she didn’t know how it was moving.

      The ship, known as the Ocean Soul, stopped too far away for her to make out any new details. Not long after, she spotted the longboat coming from it. This was another perplexity. It was a giant black oyster shell large enough for the five people in it.

      Kalisha chuckled at her naivete. All this time she thought she had seen and heard of everything, and that her life ahead would be mundane with no surprises. But this Ocean Soul; beyond the little information her old self passed on to her, she wondered if her once pantheon knew anything worthwhile about it.

      Before Kalisha assumed her current mortal form, she was Jale, the Crow Spirit. She had been Jale for millennia, and for the latter half of that time he, for Kalisha remembered herself to be male at the time, and eleven other powerful animal spirits formed an alliance known as the Kingdom. As a collective they held sway over the other animal spirits, as well as the qui-lahk people on this continent. Qui-lahks have a divine connection to animals. It is said they even share a common ancestry with them. Every qui-lahk mortal is born bonded to one animal species which affects their magic capability. Crow-lahks, for example, who are qui-lahks with the crow totem, are particularly adept at disguising their appearance. Through a deeper association with their totem animal, qui-lahks empower themselves further through worshiping the corresponding animal spirit.

      But because of the accumulated power of Jale and the Kingdom, all qui-lahks of this region worshiped the Kingdom, regardless of their totem. The Kingdom had raised their hierarchy from animal spirits to animal gods.

      Qui-lahks who were fortunate to have their totem represented by the Kingdom had more magical and political power over those who didn’t. Such a hierarchy was necessary, believed the Kingdom, for progress to occur. There were after all other humanoid races and civilizations in the world, and each had their own source of magic and corresponding spirits of power; elves drew energy from the atmosphere, amesha took their power from the earth beneath, and the devs made their magic out of light itself. Societies were advancing everywhere, and the Kingdom wanted to be part of the very best.

      For so long it seemed like everything was going right. The most ambitious qui-lahks of this region came together in a settlement named Muthka. The Kingdom gifted these qui-lahk with raw power, knowledge, and magical abilities to help them make Muthka into the greatest nation in the world. Those who were granted boons by the Kingdom had to adhere to one law, that they make Muthka a place that served all qui-lahks, those within and beyond its borders.

      For a while, those terms were graciously met. Muthka provided generously for the lesser villages and towns that surrounded it. From what the Kingdom could tell, the nation they were allied to was on its way to greatness.

      As the oyster shell boat neared, Kalisha wondered if there was a specific point when everything started to go wrong, or if it had been doomed from the very beginning. More so, she wondered when did the cracks begin appearing that the Kingdom was too arrogant to notice? Rithsilk, The Rat God of Cunning, had tried to warn them. He said he smelled something foul in the energy plane that connected animal spirits to the physical world.

      But Rithsilk had conned his way into the Kingdom and, out of resentment, was often ignored. When he accused Muthka of treachery, the Kingdom refused to believe him over their nation that showed their appreciation through daily worship. That was until Rithsilk forced the Kingdom to acknowledge they were so drunk on Muthka’s praise, they didn’t notice that no praise was coming from outside it. Only then did the Kingdom agree to cast a divination spell that taxed their collective power and imagination.

      They uncovered that for decades, if not centuries, Muthka had been lying to them.

      Muthka, while providing for their neighbors to keep the Kingdom pleased, had simultaneously created ways to secretly steal from those same neighbors. It hadn’t started as a citywide scheme, but throughout the hierarchy and over time, those who were granted Kingdom boons created methods of theft hidden from the Kingdom. Muthka employed thieves and saboteurs, killed rebels who would have exposed them, and implemented systems of trade rigged in their favor. When greedy sorcerers of the city discovered greedy politicians, they made deals that did even more damage to the downtrodden.

      Seven sorcerer lords had risen to prominence in Muthka. They called themselves the Authority of Fiends. They employed horrific magic to empower themselves at the expense of people and animals, and cast devious spells that seduced the Kingdom into mass oversights. Yet that was not the worst of it.

      Spirits’ power and relevance was dependent on their connection to mortals. Without allying with mortals, spirits couldn’t cast spells that affected the

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