Post by L.E. Ott on Oct 23, 2006 0:37:24 GMT -5
A primitive tribeswoman in what would one day be Adaven, Sherda led the peoples just south of the mountains. She was the Thrade, the Great Leader.
A day came when Sherda felt a compulsion to travel into the mountains to the north. Many days she wandered, with no companion save her horse. In thier third week of travel, a trail gave way and they tumbled into a ravine. Sherda was throne into an icy stream, and the horse broke two legs.
After her eventual return to her tribe, Sherda said that a man, large and foreign looking, had swept down from the mountains and borne her up to a high cave. There he sheltered her and took away the illness that had settled in her lungs. He also took her to bed, leaving her pregnant. When he let her leave the cave at last, she found her horse in perfect condition and rode home as fast as she dared on the treacherous paths.
The shamaness of the tribe declared that the Thrade's savior had been Tal, the God of Winds. The child Sherda was to bare him would be a great hero. When the child was delivered, she was called Talia.
Sherda had hoped that her daughter might follow her as Thrade of the Plains. But Talia took to the traveling life, and the title of Thrade passed to a cousin, Carlin.