My fated tale begins as it ends fore the events of the past shall repeat once again. The dark tide was sweaping across the land, carrying away all who stood against them. The people of Cartania had lost all hope for a salvation. Their gods had abandoned them to the fury of the Shadow nation and its Dea-lords, and their heros were either struck down or converted. Enmass the people of Cartania were bowing down to the Dea-lords and their armies. No-one and nothing stood before the Shadow nation and complet dominion over Cartania. Nothing, that is except an order of monks who lived high in the mountains of Faidlah. These monks where the greatest wariors in the land they were living legends among the poor they protected and struck fear into the hearts of the Shadow legions,  and the wariors of the Shadow nation had good reason to fear them, to fight a single monk was though you were fighting 100 men who had lost all they held dear and nothing left to live for. They were the epitome of all that was just and right and fought with blades wrought from steel sent to them from the gods. If the wariors were dangerous they were nothing compared to their wepons, wether they be knife, sword, spear, mace, club, ax, or lance they each were alive, with a mind of their own and a life force deeply conected with their weilder's own. Each monk, when they came of age was brought to the sacred ground of the Sky Forge, where the gods paired him or her with their partner. Upon aquireing their partner they were finaly granted status of Kalinre monk the most honored rank in the land, kings and queens bowed before them. Though roalty bowed before them, monks of Kalinre bowed back just as low, for they are humble and dislike the need of using their rank to achieve results, prefering to go about their buissnis quietly and unabtrusively. They moved in the shadows and were the final judges in matters, if a Kalinre declared it, then it was so, and they had no fear or reluctance of using their power when it became necisary. These  monks were all that stood against the Shadow armies for as long as anyone can remember but now there are few left and our last sheild will soon be gone. Gods spare us.....