Places

Prologue to Places

(Words in parenthesis are pronunciation keys, and will only been shown once when needed, note that not all names will have this. Also, I thank Willow for showing me this wonderful place of Wattpad.)

Once upon a very small world, very different from our own, lived a great many kingdoms, large and small, relative to the size of their world. In this world was a great many kings and queens to rule these places- The kingdom of Ardum, ruled by its kind king Atriim (Uh-trim), and his wife, Valena (Vah-Lay-na). The growing kingdom of Tetan, and it's first and lonely king Tetan himself. The crumbling kingdom of Zaneth (Zay-neth), it's old and cruel king Tarvuhn. There are many others, but one in particular is where we find our young hero, Heptum.

His small village of UnQuintus (Oon-Quin-tus), the first built in the small kingdom of Nonus (No-nus). And so we find ourselves here, at his small farm and forge called the Ferrous Mill, he being the son of Martha and Michael. He is not alone, however, being the last of seven sons. His daily life is mistreated by his older brothers Primus (Pree-mus), Doshum (Dough-Shum), Triptum, Quartin, Quintus, and Sextus (Yes, pronounced the way it sounds.). Each brother is born one and a half years after the other to the day, and Heptum has just turned twelve moons old. The aging in this world is different from our own, with one moon being almost two years in our time, making the smallest sound much older than they seem. At the age of twelve moons a boy, or even girl, is required to take a test of adulthood, unless proven to be unneeded by ten persons able to provide proof. The test can vary, and is chosen by the flipping of randomly sorted colored tiles, which five are flipped, and the resulting pattern of colors is used to find the appropriate task for becoming an adult. Our boy, or hero, is waiting in line for his twelfth moon ceremony, as this is called, and has more than this on his mind...