There are few corners of this land which are unclaimed by the Kingdoms that inhabit the land. The Bloodied Valley was one of these places. There had been many clashes in this neutral land, with various Kingdoms locking horns, and confrontations of other more fantastical kinds. Not far beneath the dew covered grass are thousands of artefacts, most of which have been preserved much better than the ancient kingdoms of dust.
Much to archaeologists dismay, all excavation is forbidden. This land is a sacred reminder, and a terrible reminder of previous wars, and how that past is buried. Now is an era of peace, made real by free trade of goods and services, and general goodwill. The world discovered that the best way to deal with problems is to sit and talk.
So every year, an annual meeting is held in an old hall built on this land. Every kingdom tries to attend, and ask for help in their problems. Hunger and plague no longer ravage the lands, as food and healers are promptly dispatched to deal with these problems
It is closing in on midday, and though the sun is high in the sky a chill still weighs heavy in the air, a foreboding sign of winter coming in. The meetings are held in late autumn, after the harvest, so Kingdoms can supplement their supplies before trade freezes up for the winter. Upon quick inspection you can tell 30 or so tents are speckled around the hall in the middle, small smoke stacks floating up from the gaps between. A thick flow of travellers is just arriving, hoping to set up before lunch. Since the annual meeting is tomorrow, you can expect most people to arrive today, and staying for the feast held in the hall over the next week.
Because Kingdoms are only allowed to bring 35 of their number along with them, most retinue’s travel together just in case. It often makes a humorous sight to watch a lavish diplomat of Ashalumnia speaking politely to a shambled spokesmen of Zegol, or a poorer kingdom. You all have a general idea of the problems every kingdom is facing. Low fishing yield across the far west. A copper shortage in the north. Nothing too serious.
But there is something no-one knows. Or more specifically, everyone ‘knows’. Most people will wax lyrical about legends and rumours, although most of it is superstitious rubbish. Anyone’s guess could be taken as truth. The rumours are that The Forbidden Kingdom will attend this meeting.
From the ancient libraries in Bothiel to the religious tomes of Anah, there is no mention of The Forbidden Kingdom. The only place you would hear of such a province is scary bedtime stories and the occasional inspired curse. Who is The Forbidden Kingdom? How do we know they will attend? Where is this kingdom based?
Many officials wave The Forbidden Kingdom off as a joke, but the camp’s atmosphere, although friendly, is cloaked in speculation. And not the good kind.
Many people are watching the road for unexpected visitors. They see banners for a couple of kingdoms and shout as they spot one of the more famous ones…
(describe you retinue and character now)

A Man was walking down the road coming up from a hill, He had a hat with a rainbow colored star on it, and a black trench coat, He was carrying a Large Banner with a Red background and a Star is multiple colors, the Banner was a fancy one, the Pole was Golden.

a king would stop and stare at the banner.

The Man was carrying the Banner up high, as if he was showing it off.

but He was coming alone, but their was a Army hidden under a big hill not to far from the camp. in case negotiations didn't exactly go to plan

The star..the dreaded Rainbow star. it was a star everyone feared, it was the Star of the Sephi Empire, the big. ever expanding hungry country, the very thought of it could make one cringe.

he approached the camp, and looked around to find a nice patch of green land he planted the banner to the side of it, and token out a tiny camp, and started setting it up but with no avail, he turned around to see a young man in his 20's holding a tiny ragged banner,

this person was from a Kingdom known as the Hikans. it was a Tiny Kingdom of two cities. one of the Cities was enslaved by the Sephi Empire and left the other city fearing the Sephi, the boy looked scared in a way, like he was looking at a Monster in a Suit.

You. he said to the 20 year old and pointed at him, Set up this camp he commanded the kid, the kid silently nodded and almost immediately started setting it up. the Hikans were a pathetic Kingdom, literally anyone could boss them around, Even the Representatives who were supposed to be strong, could still be bossed around.

Senokan marched across the field, dragging his large blade across the ground, some would find it's size humorous, but those that knew of Senokan would tremble in fear at the sight of that blade.

He brought some of the armada with him as well as 5,000 chained slaves armed with swords and daggers. Arming your slaves was dangerous, but none would dare betray Senokan. He stood beside his only superior besides the king, Esdeath, who had brought her armada of 100 humans as well as the rest of the demonic army which accounted for about 200 demons with blade or magic. Senokan and Esdeath were the two representatives of Ashalumnia and they planned on getting some food to feed the new slaves even though they fed them very little already. Their food supply was short since some demon had decided to demonstrate his skill of fire in the crop fields. With no harvest their slaves would die, no slaves meant no iron, no iron meant no weaponry, and no weaponry meant a weak kingdom that would die at the first attack.

"So, Esdeath, what do you think of the rumor about the Forbidden Kingdom, any ideas on whether it may be true or not."

Jari had been hired as a guard for the meeting, and was guarding the pass leading into the neutral area of the meeting hall with a number of other guard forces. he saw the banner of the Ashalumnia retinue as the marched across the field toward the pass, with far too many among them.

Jari stepped forward calling for the retinue to halt, the nearly 8 foot tall beastman stood before the two Ashalumnia representatives looking down at them "only 35 are allowed to pass" he was prepared if the demons decided to challenge that, behind him the other guards had their hands on their weapons as well.

Fortunately Deniska was a Listening one, he overheard the conversation at the border and was almost filled with glee. He could easily start a war, He scanned the area around him. their was a bush that was good enough for Deniska to hide inside,

he could shoot one of the Guardsman and in a Fit of panic the other guards would probably sound the alarm against Ashalumnia, the Sephi would be a viable Asset to take them down. Deniska hated the Ashalumnia's.

they were a large ungrateful Country full of evil men. He wished he could see the day when each and everyone of the Demons are Enslaved under the iron grip of the Sephi.

But however, Deniska didn't come to start a war, he came for a other reason. Causing one would probably fling the Sephi Into Destruction, or prosperity if they participate to Enslave the ungrateful Ashalumnians. But alias. he wasn't the Emperor. if he was he definitely would've started the war. but their was too many variables. damn variables.

Deniska put his hand into his pocket, feeling the Cooper feel of his Crossfire, trouble was going to happen. the kid behind him finished and left quickly.

"Fine" Senokan said looking over at Esdeath, "pick 17 of your men, and I'll pick 16 of the demon nobles." After this was done Senokan looked back at the rest of the men, "stay close if a large scale fight breaks out including Ashalumnia, we're going to need all the man power we have, although hopefully our guard friend here," He said gesturing to Jari, "will keep things under control and we won't need you."

Galvar stood on top of a hill, where he and his men had set up camp several days before, where he had a perfect view of all the camps set up around the meeting hall and its surronding towers. Galvar had been the representative of his nation at these meetings for a couple of years now and knowing all the procedures he fully expected the meeting to run smoothly like every other year.

With his train of though begining to lose itself, Galvar cast his eyes to the front of the camp where he saw a small army of demons. If he was in this position only a couple of years ago he probably would have rushed head first in a naive and extremely zealous attempt to slay all the demons. However he had seen many of his comrades do just that to no avail, for the demons were tough and the Knights inexperienced.

Still staring at them, Galvar wondered if he should keep out of their way for most of the meeting or attempt to make friends with them?

Esdeath was silent all during all the march, she could only think about how many strong enemies see would find in the meeting, how many could she kill and who would have the honor of taking her head.
She did hear Senokan's question about The Forbidden Kingdom, but did not answer, instead she started thinking about how much fun she would have fighting this kingdom.

Luckily for Jari, Esdeath reacted when he talked about only allowing 35 to pass, if not Esdeath's huge horse would have stepped on Jari without even noticing him. Esdeath pulled the reins forcing Kalush, her huge black horse specially trained for war, to stop, the animal looked as if it was posing for some heroic painting.

"Alright..."

She replied to Senokan, then got off her horse and gave it to one of the guards, who seemed to be a little afraid of being near the animal, after a few seconds of hesitation he finally took Kalush away.

Esdeath looked at his men, they slowly started walking pass the guard one by one, when the 17th walked behind the guards Esdeath did the same, the rest of the just waited.

Deniska was waiting for all of the grand meetings and whatever to start. but in the meantime he just watched the entrance and watched who would go through,

and then he noticed one of the Representative was a girl...and damn good looking one. It must've been years since he seen a girl this good lookin'

Deniska Blinked and a couple times and slapped himself, Why Am I just sitting here? He thought and waited for her to enter the camp. waiting for the right time to make his move.

@TheSecret @Kronshi @Zetsuko Galvar sighed as he walked down from his camp and to the remon representatives. He decided that interracting with them was inevitable and while he would still grit his teeth while talking to them he may as well try to make some allies.

"Greetings..." Galvar said as he approached them before realising he didnt know what to call them as they certainly were no humans and so he moved on quickly "I am High Templar Galvar Schwert Gottes, the representative of Anah. I bid you welcome to this land and council. Might I know your names?"

Esdeath could not help but to grin when Galvar walked towards her and the others and asked for their names, her soldiers stood silent, a little nervous as they knew Galvar and Esdeath were once comrades.

"Oh dear, don't tell me you have already forgotten about me~"

She said with a teasing voice.

Galvar at first did not recognise her but once he heard her speak he immediantly knew who she was, Esdeath his former friend comade but now traitor to Anah. This was the first time he saw her since her betrayal and he knew not how to feel, and while he was happy to see her again he remembered how furious and upset he was when he learnt that she deserted, for he developed feelings for her but she wounded him deeply.

"Esdeath..." He began "I... I did not expect to see you here"

@TheSecret

A stone statue of a gargoyle stood directly in the middle of the meeting place. It was at least as tall at two men, and had strange runes marked on it. It stood there, listening to everything that was going on, for in fact, it was not a statue, but a living creature. Specifically the representative of Botheil. The gragoyle's eyes glittered in the sun's light, burning a deep orange. The gargoyle would not move until it knew it was necessary and so just stood, waiting.

Deniska spied on the young yet tough Representative and noticed that she started a conversation with a Templar of Anah, Deniska gotten off of the warm grass ground and walked towards her little conversation

Hello fine people I'm names Deniska and I'm the Representative of the great grand Sephi empire, and how are you doing lovely ladies He Charismatically joked, especially on the ending, since two people their were males.

Deniska held his hand out for everyone to shake and let his other hand stay near his pocket in case someone did something

@TheSecret@Vortex

"It seems that like me, you are trusted enough to be given a task like this. I can tell you have matured a lot..."

Esdeath said as she fixed her hat, the same hat she used when she was part of Annah's army, she had a huge grin on her face, she was about to make fun of the Templar when someone else interrupted them.

Esdeath just watched Deniska as he talked, something about him irritated Esdeath, so much she just wanted to behead him, maybe it was his voice or his overconfidence but she did not want to think about it.

"Galvar, we shall meet later..."

She then walked towards the great gargoyle staue slowly, the then turned her head over her shoulder and looked back at Galvar

"...In the battlefield I hope"

She and her soldiers then left Galvar and Daniska alone.

@TheSecret Deniska lowered his hand, and thought about her words, must be part of a rival kingdom or something He thought, and felt buzzkilled by how she barely acknowledged his existence and went to talk to a statue

but still, Deniska was trained in the art of hiding emotions, a single scared representative wouldn't scare a mouse, he turned to the other person who must be named Galvar

well, I'm guessing your Galvar of the Anah Kingdom Deniska guessed

He had so many questions for Esdeath that he had waited many years to ask, and so many answers to give her, so many things to tell her and so many emotions to unleash on her, and so he was irritated when a young man interrupted them with the arrogance of his youth and made Esdeath depart from their company.

Galvar sighed and turned to the man "Yes, I am, who might you be?"

@nerminator

Edge had walked for many miles.

Though he didnt tire so easily, the walking was begining to become boring. His boredom was dispelled a few miles back however when a small group of bandits tried to hold him up. At first he laughed "Are you serious boys?", spinning his curved blades in his hands. Poor fella's seemed intent on their purpose, and so he drew his throwing knives. They made the first move, but Edges blades were the first to strike.

4 dead, 3 seconds. This disappointed him. Edge blamed the hot sun and his long time on the road.

He toyed with a small stone, spinning it around his body and firing it at other stones, his aim was rather off, he had too much on his mind. Today could be the day, everything could finally come into focus.

As he broke over the brow of the hill he saw a camp to the east on a high hill, Knights of Anah; Tough armor, fine swords & wise elders.

Passing by them, Edge strolled up the path to the meeting area, firing a small stone off into the hills dense tents, to his own amusment a small yelp rode the bitter air.

@Vortex didn't I just tell him?, are the Anah really this forgetful.. Deniska, representative of the Sephi empire. Deniska told him a bit more seriously this time and more strong

And you ar- Deniska Started to tell him and then as if on cue, a rock came flying out of nowhere and impacted the back of Deniska causing him to make a huge Yelp.

Deniska immediately turned around with a Tiny Wooden hollow stick in his right hand at a headlevel (Flintlock) his face went from a happy representative to a Serious Fanatic, Deniska yelled with a booming voice Show yourself stone-thrower!

the other representatives turned and stared at Deniska, one started whispering to the other

Galvar placed a firm hand on his blade, for while his comrades did not see the rock hit Deniska he for one did and he was unsure if the thrower was a harmless child causing a small havoc or something more sinister. Galvar turned to Deniska to see he had some sort of Wooden-Metal contraption in his hands, he snorted at the sight of it as it looked rather daft being hollow and all "Put your stick down son, your not going to be able to do much with that".

Galvar then turned his attention to where the rock came and saw a man, who looked out of place, standing there and so Galvar assumed the man is the culprit "You! Step forwards!"

@nerminator @MonstrousMan