Baldire: Book1
an excerpt

Note: Actually, the book is in spanish xD

Prologue

I don’t come from this realm. I don’t remember how I got here neither where I came from. I just happened to be at the shores of an island, from where you can see a huge, endless landmass, covered by a green veil just some meters after the sandy shores.
Luckily, this island had big connections with the continent itself, and a fishing ship offered to take me there for free, and its captain gave me some pounds, and also pointed the direction of the nearest town.
I just followed a road in the deep forest, hoping to reach somewhere. Upon the way, I noticed something really odd: a group of people, (I’ll have to say warriors) were seemingly fighting a creature as twice as tall as them. They were dressed in armors, others in light clothes. The scene ended as the giant was burned down by a spell.
After 10 hours of walking, starving and thirsty I made it to a huge town, and spent the pounds into food, water, clothing and a room in an inn. After having wasted all of them, I realized I should get a job in order to survive. Looking that I lacked of any fighting skills, neither I had learned magic at all, I realized the only thing I knew to do, which by the way other people lacked was something really, really simple…writing and reading.
So, I made my place in this world just by helping mayors on making letters, wanted posters, common posters, sending messages, etc, until I got a decent amount of money. Then I decided to collect tales of this land and write them down.
I just found what it seems to be a really… really long book about some chronicles and tales about the continent itself, abandoned in a room on a popular inn around the town of Anhrem, a really famous and well-known place. It is a really peaceful town, if you don’t go around the grounds near the coliseum, where you can see all sort of people fighting either for practicing or money, multiple criminals, along with multiple security guards.
It was also home, it seems, of a talented mage, in fact, many people considered it an Arch Mage or a living Wise one. According to the locals, he disappeared about 2 years ago, not without leaving pupils, and lots of magic books around, though most of them were burned down in an incident.
The story I am going to write, (in a much better version, and in a book, for all future generations) begun here, at this same place, and according to an old white-bearded man, which, according to the barman, is named William, it wasn’t long ago, as he states that he saw the many of the things that happened.
This seems to have happened 700 years after the clan wars begun all around Baldire. Here it goes…