| Berig | Created on Saturday, 05 August 2006 22:19 |
| Xing-Normador Family |
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The story of the Xing family is one that finds its beginnings with the commencement of King Yuri's reign. Soon after King Yuri ascended to the throne of Koguryo, Leodaris founded the Xiang family. Leodaris Xiang at the time was a young Koguryian mage without any family left, who travelled alone and adventured in solitary. After several years she found herself to be all alone, however quite self sufficient. It was at this time, she adopted Muckish. Muckish was also a mage however, much younger and less experienced than her. He also had no family members and spent his days among the streets of Kugnae bartering goods to survive. Leodaris took him into her home in central Kugnae, to which they later moved to the east of the city, quite close to the great crab-apple tree at Kugnae's Eastern gate. Muckish learned much from his new found mother, including how to become self-sufficient and the ways of the earth. You see, Leodaris from a very young age felt her connection to mother earth and the great forces within. She understood the Tao and Qi in a very incremental way, for she understood them not through study but through experience and her deep feelings within herself. It was after Muckish grew strong and a man in his own right that Leodaris changed the family name from Xiang to Xing to reflect her understandings of her place in the world around her. For Xing refers to a 'form' or 'shape', and is often combined with 'Yi' to represent the mind or intent. 'Xing Yi' illustrates the strong emphasis placed on the motion of the body when it is disciplined to be subordinate to conscious control. Thus, the form (Xing) the body assumes is merely an external manifestation of the internal state of mind (Yi). It was at this time, before the Shattering of the twelve sub-paths that Leodaris already showed adherence to what would become her future path. Leodaris took on many roles after the adoption of Muckish. She was for a long period a Poetry Revel judge in the Poet's Guild. In fact, impressed with one of Leodaris' poems, Prince-Regent M'hul of Koguryo named the great crab-apple tree at his capitol city's eastern gate after one of her poems; "The Tree of Reflections". This tree had long been associated with Muckish's mother as it was a place where she taught and contemplated. Also, after Muckish reached adulthood, Leodaris took in many other children in need, teaching them her ways and how to be productive and lawful citizens of Koguryo; all around this great tree. Muckish took what he learned from his mother and tried to follow her path, however it was not his. He instead found his place serving the Koguryian Crown. He joined the SunMoon Clan, to which he served as Primarch for over 25 yuris. He also served as the Royal Peace Minister of Koguryo, to which he is known for the building the Royal Coliseum, the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Yuri 50 and much of the pre-eminence that the Ministries enjoy today. Leodaris married three times, first to a renown Poet named Augman, who died in the Buya-Koguryo War. Her second union was to Captain ElTigre of the Buyan Imperial Army, who was a nobleman within his Kingdom. He showed Leodaris a life she had not known within the imperial courts of Buya, a life she was less interested in than he. However, it was not until around the fortieth year of King Yuri's reign that Leodaris met Chongun Vini Nomad'Or. Vini was a Koguryian noble sworn to protect King Yuri and Koguryo. He was a man Muckish knew from often encounters within the Royal Courts of Koguryo. Leodaris fell in love with Vini and they married in Y47, forming the union between the Xing and Nomad'Or Families; becoming the Xing-Nomad'Or Family. The story of the Normad'or family starts from back before King Yuri and his legends. It's said that the first of the Normad'ors fought along side with Yuri in many battles until the day he assumed as King of Koguryo. Keron Normad'or then became one of the most loyal Royal Guards of the King and it was inside the royal walls of Kugnae Palace where he met the woman who would be the love of his life, Laisa. She was a temporary hired Seamstress of the royal son, Prince M'hul during his youth. Keron and Laisa met under some strange circumstances, the kingdom was being attacked by Yuri's brother, Sagu, in a moment of bravery during Sagu's attacks Keron jumped in front of her to prevent a mortal strike from the evil mage. After that, the love between these two only grew stronger. The Sagu menace was contained, helped a lot by Keron, the two of them got married and had three sons. Keron used to travel a lot, guarding the King and spent most of his time in the palace. Laisa left her life was seamstress to take care of the children. Sadly, during a Zibong attack to the kingdoms, Laisa received the news that taking care of the children was all she had left. Keron was killed during battle while defending King Yuri from Zibongs. Laisa fell in depression after that and couldn't care to handle the education of the children alone. The oldest son, Sojiro, then started assuming the place of the father. He took care of the other two, taught them how to fight and how to hunt. Soon enough he followed the way of his father and went to serve the kingdom of Koguryo by joining the Koguryo Army Special Forces. The second son, Vini also joined the army, but stayed in the infantry field, so he was one who went to most combats. Moomo, the third son only joined the army after, but followed the path of Vini as well. These two went on many battles, fought during the war against Buya as well as fought for Prince M'hul being neutral in God war. For 2 yuris they were sent by the Prince on a special assignment to contain the Sonhi advancement and obtain information of Kaming's plans and progress. Their mission was quite successful and Kaming's soldiers slowly stopped being a large threat to the kingdoms. As they returned to Kugnae, they found their older brother, Sojiro was then a guide of the Chonguns. Vini who was interested in the ways of the chongun since before he left to the Sonhi mission quickly asked his brother to be trained, but Sojiro assured to him that for them having family bonds he would have to be even more severe with his training trials. After many moons of hard training, Vini was ready to walk among the lands bearing the title of Chongun warrior and defender of the kingdoms. Moomo soon followed his brother and was trained by Sojiro was well, up to the point that the three brothers were now united again, now as Chonguns. Being a Chongun and serving the royal army wasn't easy. They had to enter many battles, contain invasions and help keep peace to the lands. Love was also reserved to these three, Sojiro had married to another Chongun called Lyn, Moomo married to BronzeDragon, while Vini got engaged to a young and ambitious lady called Arcoiris. The relations of these two weren't stable. Vini was too busy with his army and chongun duties while Arcoiris just wanted to have peaceful life with a wealthy man. She left him, pregnant and went to live in another city, as she couldn't stay with a man who was nothing important or rich. Depressed, Vini took a break from the army and went to live alone in the fields. He returned to Kugnae only after a strange warning of Pirate's raid in Dae shore. He wasn't an army officer or one extremely strong to be really necessary to the battle, but he returned and received the terrible news that his brother, Moomo had been killed in battle. Since that day, the anger for pirates on Vini started to grow and with all his forces he fought to set them away. But life still had more surprises to him. During the Ethereal temple battle, Sojiro who was already one of the strongest warriors in the lands was reported to be dead. While others, said that he just left to the western lands saying he would never return. What happened to Sojiro no one really knew for sure, but the fact was only one Normad'or remained alive and two widows left behind. At terrible moments like this, is when people know who they can count with. It was when Vini met Leodaris around the fields of Tree of Reflections. A great friendship sprout between those two and the winds of changes started blowing again in their favor. Arcoiris had returned to Kugnae, seeing that Vini was now not only stronger, but also an officer of the Royal army and with a wealthy pocket then. She brought two kids with her; Ruff and Disturb were their names. Twins she said, although they didn't look much alike, actually one looked older than the other. If they were both really children of Vini, we will never know, while he didn't care either way, he took them both as sons while they were really young, and after their mother vanished again, the kids could never have a memory of their mother. Single, father of two kids, Vini's life wasn't easy, but due the help of a great friend, he was really happy with all he had. Soon Vini realized that what he had for such great woman Leodaris was love. How to know that was love, it was hard, as he had never felt it before, but it was surely love. It was this love for her that brought him to the Tree of Reflections with a ring and proposed to her. Surprised by his attitude, Leodaris didn't know what to say. They both were really different; he was a Chongun warrior, with a long history of wars and military devotion while she had lived all her life as a Geomancer, enjoying peace and neutrality in all matters. How could a couple like that work, is a big question but the fact is that it worked pretty good and from their marriage it was formed one of the biggest families around the kingdoms, the Xing-Normad'or. |
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