Portfolio Index

The Queen's Army
Read how Mazus helps overthrow a mad king, but do they succeed?

Death of a King
See how the king mysteriously died and how his son assumed the throne.

The Soul Eater
Follow Mazus on his journey to find how to use the Ring of Purity.

Start of a Journey
Enter the World of Solitude and follow Mazus as he retrieves the Ring of Purity.

Falling to the Shadows
Read of how Mazus came to be and creation of the world he lives in.

Week 4 Storytelling: Death of a King

King Vogner rules the prosperous kingdom of Sette Diavoli. His people very well like him because of his kind nature. The kingdom under his reign has been flourishing with crops and housing for all the people residing. His reign started when a wrathful god named Peshmerga terrorized the kingdom. Peshmerga attempted to destroy the kingdom because the people refused to worship him. The Black Knight, Mazus, defeated Peshmerga. Ever since then, King Vogner, his wife Windy, and their son Argus have ruled over the kingdom to protect the people.



My Vision of King Vogner
Source: Wikia


Over the years the king has started to strike alliances with other kingdoms to form a connection between them. The king’s advisors and Argus was against this idea because they were already the most powerful kingdom in the country. They could dominate the whole land with little resistance. The king disliked the idea of one powerful kingdom and believed that the whole country needed to be strong to be able to fend off intruders.


The blindness of his father made the Argus angry. He believed that the king should be ruthless to intimidate potential enemies. Argus started to resent his father and he always thought his father was a weak king, despite being beloved by the people. Over time it started to cause him to think that he could rule better than his father. Argus persuaded his father’s advisors that his idea of ruling was better. He met with some of the advisors in secret to discuss the plans to get what they all want.


On the third year anniversary of the defeat of Peshmerga, the kingdom held a celebration feast in the palace. At this time, Argus planned to poison his father to assume the throne and to wage war against the other kingdoms to conquer the land. So before the king went to bed, Argus proposed one last toast and with that gave the king laced wine that wouldn’t hold affect until the king went to sleep.


The next morning the shrill cry of the queen woke the whole castle. Everybody in the kingdom discovered that the king is dead. Faking his sadness, Argus assumed the throne and ruled with an iron fist. He immediately declared war against the other kingdoms to dominate the land. The kingdom started to become disordered and there was chaos everywhere. All the people were afraid to do anything about the sudden change of life style. People were dying and there was nothing they could do about it.


The queen started to suspect what has been going on. She started questioning the advisors that had quickly started accepting Argus’ transition. She learned that the king had been poisoned but didn’t know who poisoned him. The queen gathered that Argus has assassinated the king in order to become king. She gathered her belongings in the dead of night and set off on a journey to find someone to help her take her son down and reestablish what her husband did. She went off to find the one that defeated Peshmerga those many years ago.


AUTHOR’S NOTE:


This story is from the Ancient Egypt unit, specifically the Death of Osiris story. In the original story, Oriris was a beloved ruler with the people. Set, Oriris’ brother, wanted to rule instead of Osiris, so he made a chest to lock Osiris in to kill him during a feast. The queen, Isis, went out to look for her husband’s body. Set ruled with an iron fist and caused disorder. The story goes on with Isis’ journey to find Oriris’ body. The story ends with Isis being sheltered in a poor woman’s house. The woman’s child died by a scorpion sting and Isis raised the child from the dead.

I changed the setting and characters to the ones in my previous stories but this one has a more independent nature so it would be easy to follow without the knowledge of my other stories. I wanted to flow all my weekly stories together with the same characters, settings, and artifacts but keeping them independent enough for readers who didn’t read the previous ones to follow without getting confused, but if you had read my other stories, you can see how they all tie together and hopefully by the end I can have one large story.

I also changed the purpose of the queen’s journey. I made it to where the queen searches for Mazus. I also made this story with a slight cliffhanger because this story had one without resolving the fate of Set and if Isis found what she was looking for.

Story Source: Egyptian Myth and Legend
Author: Donald Mackenzie
Year: 1907

Week 5 Storytelling: The Queen's Army

Argus was a king that ruled over Sette Diavoli Kingdom. His ruling with an iron fist caused a deterioration of trust with the people. The people found out that he ascended to the throne because he poisoned his father, the king, which caused the queen to flee the kingdom. This led to Argus to keeping a tight hold on everyone with the use of the military to preserve order over people that were starting to rebel for the loss of their beloved king and queen.

My vision of King Argus

Source: Zerochan

Meanwhile, the former queen visited a neighboring village to find a man named Mazus. She heard about him being a great hero that could help her to defeat her son and reclaim the kingdom. With the help of the villagers, she found him and his traveling companion, Lucia, along the shore by the river. When she told them what had happened, they quickly agreed to help.

The queen and Mazus assembled an army consisting of villagers, allies from neighboring kingdoms, and those who opposed Argus within the kingdom. They gathered weapons and magical objects given to them by Lucia, who was trained in the mystic arts. With everything at hand, they had enough warriors and weapons to go against King Argus head on. The only obstacle in the way was the river that divided them. It was the largest river in the kingdom and difficult for such a big army to cross, so Lucia created a bridge made of ice big enough for the whole army to cross.

The queen’s army carried flags and chanted “Victory to the Queen” while they marched on the castle where King Argus was waiting. The battle started and both sides began striking each other. Mazus was sweeping his sword across the chests of the opposing army and his body count was higher than any other soldier there. Lucia was using her magical abilities to summon apes, bears, and other animals to aid them. The animals helped out in ways of fighting, building, and transporting injured soldiers to the medics.

The battle was leaning their way when Lucia sensed something wrong. She felt a very powerful force coming from King Argus’s castle. The king was summoning the power of the Earth Rune, which has the ability to control plant life and the Earth’s plates. This meant that he was able to use plants as weapons such as using trees as barriers and poisonous pollen to pollute the air. This also meant that we was able to create earthquakes. Lucia tried to find Mazus to warn him, but it was already too late. She felt the earth quake and the earth began to crack beneath her feet. She managed to find Mazus and teleport them in time to escape the earth swallowing the queen’s army. They realized that they had lost the battle. They reported to the queen to tell her about the defeat and what their next plan was.

My vision of Lucia

Source: Wikia

Author’s note:


I used the story The War With Ravana as my storytelling. The setting, characters, and artifacts are from my previous stories but I tried to make it so that you could read this and understand what was going on without reading my previous stories. This story was different because I ended it with a defeat instead of a happy ending. In the original, Rama’s bridge was created by the apes and bears, but in my story, I changed it to it being built with magical powers. I changed a lot of details of the original to fit the characters and setting of my portfolio story but the overall events of the story are still there from the War With Ravana story. It was sometimes confusing to remember who was on whose side because the names were unfamiliar. I ended it with a defeat and cliffhanger so that i could extend it in the next story.

The original story included Rama’s army of apes and bears against Ravana’s. In the beginning Rama asked the King of Ocean for help getting across the river. The battle continues on with Rama shooting arrows at Ravana’s crowns, knocking them off his heads and making him retreat. Rama had 10 heads and each head has a crown. The Rakshasas were desperate and tried to awaken Kumbhakarna, the strongest demon but Brahma said that he were to sleep and only awaken for one day only. They managed to awaken him and it ends with him asking where the apes are so that he can eat them.

Story Source: Indian Myth and Legend
By: Donald A. Mackenzie
Year: 1913