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Cilean

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'''Name:''' Cilean (She’s had so many last names she doesn’t even remember).

'''Age:''' About a buzillion I would think.

*Approximately 65,000 by the time the series takes place. Only about 5,000 years older than time itself, which is not bad =P

'''Physical description:''' Tall, fair skinned, silver grey hair, purple eyes, very sharp features.

'''Current place of residence:''' The Royal Palace of the [[Loup Garoux]], on [[Moon Garm]].

'''Family situation:''' Cilean, having lived for so long, has an extensive family tree although she only stays in touch with a few of her relatives, including her unaging grandson Darious who lives with her as one of her top advisers.

'''Friends/romantic interests:''' Cilean has a thing for [[Caleb Bur'I]]; rumors exist that [[Uther]] had one for her as well as a rumored on again off again relationship with [[Laytami Gudersnipe]]. She’s also part of [[Joshua Jusenkyou]]’s bowling team and close friends with all her team-mates.

'''Education:'''

'''Occupation:''' Queen of the Loup Garoux.

'''Hobbies/outside interests:''' Horseback riding, bowling, making fun of stupid people in such a way that they do not even notice they have been insulted.

'''Quirks/eccentricities:''' She has an odd way of treating her descendants as though they are close family that she has known their whole life.

'''Strong points/weak points:''' (Still not sure, feel free to fill in) Strong points include her experience, because she is older than some planets; weak points include impatience, especially at people's stupidity. Like all Loup Garoux, she is vulnerable by magical materials (though much less so than any [[Lycanthrope]]) and has strong olfactory senses.

'''Favorite song/type of music/TV program/move:''' Cilean likes classical music from just about any era. She doesn’t watch a lot of TV but she likes old movies like most older people.

'''Favorite Book(s)/magazine:''' She finds books unamusing now because she’s read pretty much all of them.

'''Favorite Food(s)/restaurants(s):''' Loves all kinds of foods and tries to constantly expand her taste palate.

'''Favorite type of Architecture/furnishings/décor:''' Old Victorian style.

'''Contents of medicine cabinet:''' (Will fill in later)

'''Contents of purse/wallet/car’s glove compartment:''' Immortal Queens find little use for things like wallets but she doesn't keep things like hard candy, tissues and tea bags in her purse that she carries primarily for fashion purposes.

'''Favorite/least favorite way to travel:''' Favorite is by horseback or carriage; she doesn’t like cars because they can be loud, and space/air travel always seemed unstable to her.

'''Favorite car (same or different from type owned?):''' No car

'''Favorite Sport(s), if any (fan only or also participant):''' Not big on sports but she likes racing.

'''Way of speaking (proper/accent/slang/pet words or phrases?):''' Extremely proper when she needs to be but rather grandmotherly the rest of the time. She can be mean and harsh if she wants, and can talk down to anyone because she’s pretty much older then everybody.

'''Personality/temperament:''' This changes a lot; you really can’t pin down the personality of a bujillion year old ancient lady.

'''Reputation (earned or otherwise):''' She’s the one and only queen of the Loup Garoux and loved by all of her subjects. Moon Garm has never had political problems so nobody ever had any problem with her.

'''Reaction to crisis/insults/threats/good or bad news:''' A deep sigh and a shake of the head, then an answer nobody would have thought.

'''Skeletons in closet:''' Way too many to count. She may have a few literal ones, but you never know with her.

'''Dreams/aspirations/goals:''' She just wants to be the best she can be; she’s achieved everything else she wanted to do in life, except finish a Rubik's Cube; she just can’t figure those things out.

'''Fears/phobias/obsessions:''' losing her people. With the loss of so many family members her people are all she has left in the world.

'''Pets:''' She has a large Clydesdale horse named Atticus and many other pets that she will just name on the spot.

'''Spiritual life/faith/political leanings/worldview:''' Cilean believes in a higher power; she even helped invent a religion for the Loup Garoux when they were having difficulty finding their place in the world.

Ret Con

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Ret Con is a mysterious figure who appears at various points throughout the timeline. Her exact motivations unclear, she seems to work as a free-lance mercenary and unlicensed assassin, with occasional side-jobs in industrial espionage and high-level theft. She has attempted to destroy the [[G.S.S. Saratoga]] on numerous occasions.

Quotes

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Each short story begins with a quote. This is that.

This is by far the most definitive list of finished work, but exists primarily as a quote-repository so that I know where ones I've used and which ones I haven't.

==The Course Books:==
These are the short stories from the established story-lists for the [[Course Books]].

===The Path to Ascension===
#[[The Wings of a Dragon]]: “It is said that the best and fastest way to deal with someone who is suicidal is to start actively trying to kill them. Self-preservation is a tough habit to kick, and like any addiction the withdrawal symptoms can be deadly if not treated properly. It is one thing to take a cowardly jump off a cliff and end it all. In that situation you have total control of where and, more or less, when you are going to die. But in a situation where you are being attacked or chased, that basic fight-or-flight survival instinct kicks in, and forces the would-be statistic to re-think their decision and, more often than not, realize they really do want to live.”
#[[Through the Night]]: “We live, we die, we fight. Life is a journey, the destination is what you make of yours.”
#[[Disarming]]: “No, cut the red wire!”
#[[Wildfire Emerges]]: “Like a storm of swords, fire shall rain down upon my enemies.”
#[[Ulysses Last Stand]]: “Stand like a stone wall; never give up, never surrender. Show your enemies what it means to be Gung Ho.”
#[[The Sun Also Rises]]: “As the sun sets, it also rises.”
#[[Virus]]: “There’s lots of time like the present.”
#[[The Truth Finally Revealed]]: “Truth is the most powerful weapon known to man. It’s so powerful that it has been outlawed, kept out of the public’s hands. It’s time to take it back.”
#[[Clouds Last Run]]: “De opresso Letum, to free from death.”
#[[Last Stand, Tora, Tora, Tora]]: “With good aim and careful re-loading, one man with a shotgun can do the work of many.” - Mathew Seaman
#[[The Slayer Dragons]]: “Speed and fire are always a deadly combination.”
#[[Return of the Dragon]]: “Looking back, I’d have to say my only regret was not running faster.”
#[[The Dark Lord Nimi]]: “Destiny, fate, chance, they’re all just excuses people use for taking credit for their victories, and not their failures. It’s the things we do that make us who we are.”
#[[The Reunion of the Eighth Power]]: “One soldier isn’t good enough, eight soldiers aren’t good enough. An army of one dies alone. To deserve victory, we must combine so that each soldier has the power of eight. We will be eight together, to the Eighth Power.”
#[[Revival]]: “As a phoenix rises from the ashes of defeat, so too shall you rise to victory.”
#[[The Red Tiger]]: “The strength of a tiger is like a locomotive. Its flesh is as armor plates, its sinews are steel springs. Truly, this is power to be respected.”
#[[The New Recruit]]: “I have a theory about why you lost the fight…”
#[[The Path to Ascension(Story)]]: “Heaven to Ocean, Ocean to Earth, Earth back to Heaven.”

===The Road to War===
#[[The Eye of a Dragon]]: “Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle
#[[Tale of a Gun]]: “Know, think, choose, do.” - Orson Scott Card
#[[First Stand]]: “It is difficult to fight against anger, for a man will buy vengeance with his soul.” – Heraclitus, 500 B.C.
#[[Counter Strike]]: “Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked up by jet engines.” – John Benfield
#[[Flight of the Takahe]]: “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” - Lord Kelvin, 1892
#[[Against the Wind]]: “If at first you don’t succeed, you obviously haven’t used enough ducttape.”
#[[Dragoon Lancers: Wrath of the Lancer's Light]]: “If we should not live to see another sunrise, let them say this over the pyre: they died as Dragoon Lancers, their faces to the fire.” – Dragoon [[Gudersnipe Soldier#Lancer's Creed|Lancer’s Creed]]
#[[CTRL+Z]]: “Never put off until tomorrow what you can do yesterday.” – Anonymous
#[[Flash Point]]: “Fire in the hole.” – Anonymous EOD officer
#[[Retrospectus]]: “Hindsight is 20/20, but foresight is full of clichés.”
#[[Line in the Sand]]: “Sometimes it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
#[[Point of the Spear]]: “I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
#[[Marigold]]: “So when your back’s up against the wall and theirs no tomorrow, just take one day at a time and remember: the bigger they are, etc.” – Jack O’Neil
#[[Falling Dragon]]: “Raid ye not the dragon’s lair, for ye are juicy, and taste good with ketchup.”
#[[The Road to War(Story)]]: “Do not go quietly into the night. Do not disappear without a fight. Rage, rage against the dying of the Light.” - Dylan Thomas

===The Concourse to Victory===
#[[The Breath of a Dragon]]: “A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.” – Karl Kraus
#[[First Impressions]]: “The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.” – Randy K. Milholland
#[[Beachhead]]: “All right, let’s go get ‘em.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
#[[Flying Lessons]]: “The best cure for frustration is silence.” – Emily Pode
#[[The Liger, the Sorceress, and… the Refrigerator?]]: “There are some problems violence can’t solve. For everything else, there’s Gudersnipe.” – Gudersnipe Foundation Slogan.
#[[Falling Sky]]: “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” – Chicken Little.
#[[Sunset]]: “It’s always darkest just before it goes pitch-black.” – Despair, Inc.
#[[Clause]]: “If you strap enough thrust onto a brick, it will soar like an eagle. If you strap enough thrust onto an eagle, it will soar like Daemon Wing.” – Hunter Jusenkyou
#[[Catastrophe]]: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
#[[Fan Fiction]]: “He was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.” – Ted Morgan
#[[Daylight]]: “The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with courage.” – Thucydides
#[[Forbidden]]: “It’s basic logic, it wouldn’t be ‘forbidden’ unless there was something totally awesome inside!” – Hunter Jusenkyou
#[[Dusk]]: “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” – Andre Gide
#[[Forgotten]]: “If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.” – Bill Lyon
#[[The Tiger's Eye]]: “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#[[Cavalry]]: “People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.” – Anne Tyler.
#[[Absolution]]: “War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.” - Georges Clemenceau
#[[The Concourse to Victory(Story)]]: “Defeated warriors go to war and try to win; victorious warriors win first and then go to war; personally, I just blow things up.” – Hunter Jusenkyou, The Science of War.

===The Inclination to Destiny===
*[[The Claw of a Dragon]]: “Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.” – Heraclitus
*[[The Inclination to Destiny(Story)]]: “Call on God, but row away from the rocks.” – Hunter S. Thompson

===The Byway to Freedom===
*[[The Voice of a Dragon]]: “An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.” – Russell Baker
*[[The Byway to Freedom(Story)]]: “Here is the price of freedom: Your every drop of courage, ounce of pain, pint of blood. Paid in advance.” – Andromeda

===Other Course Books stories and quotes===
The story-lists for the final two books of the series have not yet been finalized, do not assume anything based on this list or the order.

*[[Tsubasa Kyoku]]: “This is just a test right? You’re checking to make sure I read the safety manual. All right, I admit it, I didn’t read it, thought it was stupid.” – Andromeda
*[[The Box]]: “Don’t use drugs, drugs are bad. Unless they are performance-enhancing drugs; then, they’re super-win.” – Douglas Roffel
*[[Avenger]]: “The sin of Los Alamos wasn’t that they created the atomic bomb, but that they enjoyed it.” – George Dryson.
*[[Masks]]: “Peace, through superior firepower.” – Gudersnipe Foundation Advertising Dept.
*[[Storm]]: “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” – George Carlin
*[[The Hunted]]: “The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.” – Ayn Rand
*[[Half the Fun]]: “No one traveling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.” - Thorstein Veblen
*[[True Self]]: “In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.” – Farrah Gray
*[[Princess Megami]]: “With good aim and careful reloading, one brave man with a shotgun can do the work of many.” – Mathew Seamen
*[[Responsibility]]: “There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.” – Josh Billings
*[[Not Hunting]]: “Hunting implies the possibility of failure. We go killing.” – Jason Bur’I
*[[Infinity]]: “Courage is a seed, planted within every heart, only when nurtured can it flower and shelter us from our fears. Will is a strength of the heart, the power that feeds all others. But fate is illusive, fate is a hunter.” – Cindy Kyte.
*[[Obsession]]:
*[[Full Circle]]: “It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.” – Arthur C. Clarke
*[[Heart of the Journey]]: “Fairy tales don't tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.” – G. K. Chesterton
*[[Joshua]]: “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
*[[Aspect of Death]]: “Hundreds of years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that my ruins become a tourist attraction.” – Despair, Inc.
*[[Ability]]: “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” – Samuel Clemmons
*[[Backfire]]: “I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.” – Edith Sitwell
*[[Priorities]]: “Because it is there.” – George Mallory
*[[Presence]]: “In 1952, at the Nevada Test Site, Ted Taylor added to his already considerable reputation by holding up a small parabolic mirror and lighting a cigarette with an atomic bomb.” – George Dyson, ''Project Orion''
*[[Still Life]]: “There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty. Miss that, though, and you're pretty much doomed.” – Despair, Inc.
*[[Chain Reaction]]: “It is impossible to not believe in God, and hate him at the same time.” – Anonymous
*[[Heritage]]: “The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.” — Douglas Adams.
*[[Debt]]: “If you think the problems we create are bad, just wait until you see our solutions.” – Despair, Inc.
*[[The Strange Matter Sword]]: “We are men of action, lies do not become us.” – Count Tyrone Rugen
*[[Never]]: “We are all failures at least, all the best of us are.” – J. M. Barrie
*[[The Other Half]]: “Peristeronic – of or pertaining to pigeons.” – American Heritage Dictionary
*[[Make Truth]]: “They say that in a mirror, hides the true world. A world with no secrets, no lies, and hardly any emotion, it’s a world we all secretly fear.” - Anonymous
*[[False Gods]]: “And they begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.”” – Mark 5:12
*[[Decisive Action]]: “When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles” – Despair, Inc.
*[[Fall of the Pheonix]]: “Fire at will! …Which ones Will?” – Anonymous
*[[Dragon's Teeth]]: “Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.” – Benjamin Franklin
*[[Fade Out]]: “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” – George Edward Woodberry
*[[Fade In]]: “The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.” – Robert Heinlein
*[[Jason]]: “Let him who desires peace prepare for war.” – Flavius Vegetius Renatus
*[[Quorum]]: No quote yet.
*[[Lily]]: “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – Carl Jung
*[[First Sight]]: “He that plants trees loves others beside himself.” – Dr. Thomas Fuller
*[[The Trinity Alternative]]: No quote yet.
*[[Turn]]: No quote yet.

==Other Short Stories==
These are other completed short stories and their quotes.

===The Furthest Star===
[[The Furthest Star]] is a collection of short stories specifically focusing on the [[Saratoga]]'s first mission.

*[[The Furthest Star(Story)]]: “Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is there." Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked. Thank you.” – John F Kennedy.
*[[New Ground]]: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
*[[Velocity]]: “Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.” – Sir Isaac Newton
*[[Mistakes]]: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill
*[[Singularity]]: "Failure is not an option; it comes bundled in the software." – Anonymous
*[[Friends]]: “There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” – Douglas Adams

==The Fossa Cycle==
The [[Fossa Books]] is a series of three books that come before the [[Course Books]].

*[[The Birth of Hope]]: No quote yet.
*[[The Third Ones]]: “Every great journey and adventure that has ever been undertaken throughout all the histories has always shared one key thing in common: each began with a single step.” – Author of the Gust.
*[[Kime the Great]]: “Plan like you’re going to live forever, live like today is your last.” – James Dean
*[[Carry on, Carry Forward]]: “I realized that if I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.” – Charles Lindbergh
*[[Katherine the Average]]: “The tallest blade of grass is the first cut down by the lawnmower.” – Despair, Inc.
*[[Dragon]]: No quote yet.
*[[The Hidden History of the Gudersnipe Foundation]]: “What is the difference between Laytami Gudersnipe and God? God doesn’t think he’s Laytami Gudersnipe.”
*[[Naming Conventions]]: “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”- Sir Winston Churchill

==Antelope Books==
In the [[Antelope Books|Antelope Cycle]], each chapter has a quote.

===Author of the Gust===
#“You miss a hundred percent of the shots you don’t take.” - "Wayne Gretzky"
#“Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, but only by a little.”
#“A goal without a plan is a wish.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
#“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” - Dorothy Bernard
#“Life is a long lesson in humility.” - James M. Barrie
#“The truest measure of a society is how it treats its elderly, its pets, and its prisoners.” - Andromeda
#“Let us fly, let us soar, let us climb to the heavens that the God himself might envy us!”
#“The thing that is difficult is giving up on being perfect, and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” - Anna Quindlen
#“When the chips are down and all the cards are on the table, what is it that makes us who we are?”

===Scion of the Storm===
#“The winds of life are fickle; you’ll be flying high one minute, then dashed upon the rocks the next. All that maters is what you do in the time between.” – Anonymous.
#“Doubt whom you will, but never yourself." - Christine Bovee
#“Truth: the most powerful weapon known to life-kind. Able to destroy entire countries, realities, and preconceptions. Outlawed by all governments everywhere, possession is usually punishable by death.”
#“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.” – Louis Pasteur
#“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.” – Carl Sandburg
#“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” - Sun-tzu The Art of War
#"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." - Alan Dean Foster
#“You can’t outrun Death forever, but you can make him work for it.” – Andromeda
#"Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it." - Lois McMaster Bujold

===Herald of the Calm===
#“A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.” – Euripides
#“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.” – Publilius Syrus
#“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”- Cicero
#“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
#"A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory." - Arthur Golden
#“When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles.” – Despair, Inc.
#“I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.” – Diane Frolov
#“The cake is a lie.” – Portal

Rebecca Jusenkyou

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Rebecca, or Becca for short (never 'Becky'), is the daughter of [[Joshua Jusenkyou]] and [[Lily McConery]], and a main character of the [[Consecution Books]]. She is [[Conri Jason Jusenkyou|Conri's]] older sister.

Joshua Jusenkyou

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Joshua Jusenkyou is the son of [[Emily Jusenkyou]] and [[Ryoga]]. He is born in Year 20 of the [[Age of the Dragon]].

==Physical Description==
Joshua is short, his build changed from small and twig-like to lean and muscular after a time. He had scruffy brown hair which he cuts himself. He has thick horn-rimmed glasses and the Jusenkyou-green eyes behind them. Like every Jusenkyou male he has a straight pointed nose and a chiseled-looking jawline.

==Early Life==
Joshua was born in year 20 of the [[Age of the Dragon]]. At the age of 3, he was kidnapped by his father and taken to live in the [[Underworld]], where he remained until age 10, when he and his father led an attack on the [[Slayer Dragons]]. The attack was unsuccessful.

==Later Life==
Joshua worked for many years at the [[Victory Research Facility]] where he headed major projects including the [[Rion Project]], and added many new things to [[Mech]] and starship design.

==Service in the [[Foundation]]==
During the [[Long Night]], Joshua lived at [[Gudersnipe School]] where he held the status of [[Instructor]] but did not teach, and spent the time building weapons for the [[Gudersnipe Foundation]]. His greatest achievment was the [[G.S.S. Lina Rowen]], widely regarded as the most powerful starship ever constructed.

He was also instrumental in the development of the [[Nuclear Ordnance#Nuclear Four|N4]] ordnance, as well as improvements to the [[Fireball]] torpedo.

==Retirement==
Upon retiring from the Foundation at the conclusion of the [[Long Night]] and beginning of the [[New Day]], Joshua married [[Lily McConery]] and settled on [[Moon Garm]], where he had two children: [[Conri Jason Jusenkyou]] and [[Rebecca Jusenkyou]].

==Mental Acuity==
Due to an unexplained cause, Joshua has a perfect eidetic memory, but only for things in book-form. [[Jason Bur'I|Jason]] theorized at one point that it was some combination of a brain-injury resulting from oxygen deprivation and the [[Genetic Memory#Dragon Genetic Memory|genetic memory]] he gained as 1/8th dragon.

==See Also:==
*[[Characters]]

G.E.

Library of Arindell

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The Library of Arindell is the largest and oldest public library in the [[Alliance]], second only to the collection at [[Gudersnipe School Proper]] as the largest library in the verse. It is located in the city of [[Arindell]], and there is some question whether the city is named for the library or vice-versa.

==History==
The Library of Arindell predates recorded history, but just what was written down is pretty impressive:

===Early Accounts===
Exactly when the Library was first built is unknown, but it dates into [[Antiquity]]. The presence of writing in the Ancient language throughout the structure proves that it was built and used by them, but whether or not it was then a library remains unclear.

In the [[Age of Darkness]] its existence was known, and that it was full of "many aged and rare texts of great antiquity". So by at least the late period of the Age of Darkness, someone somewhere had figured out that there was a building full of books up there.

[[Stormreaver Valley]] where the library is located, belonged to the nation of [[Ataya]], who had a long-standing pact with the [[High Mountain Flight]] to whom the land belonged. There were a few settlements in the valley at the time, although the removal made population growth difficult.

===Mage Wars Era===
The area around the Library was inhabited by Atayans during the entire [[Mage Wars]], but their written records were lost during the Second Chaotic Period. Nothing survives of their exploration of the valley, but it is believed that they never entered the library itself.

From the [[Mage Wars]], many accounts survive of expeditions dispatched to reach the library, with very few reports of success. By then it was believed that many magical tomes must be there, so any mage who could control the library could control the world.

However, being in the territory of a dragon flight is a good way for any building to remain safe. The [[High Mountain Flight]] was territorial, refused all alliances, and defended its sovereignty to the death. Only the local Atayans were allowed into the valley, though mostly for farming, and sparse population. Some accounts persist that the valley was once littered with ancient ruins, and that these were used to build Atayan homes.

In the late [[Mage Wars#The Dynastic Period|Dynastic Period]], the [[Marcon Alliance]] combined with [[Ozork Flight]] and launched a campaign to conquer [[Stormreaver Valley]], convinced the library contained magical artifacts of great power. The attack devastated Ataya, as they had to go right through the country to reach the mountain pass. The invasion was repelled, but provided cover for a few very small raiding parties from other nations to reach the library and unlock its secrets.

What they found was not tomes of magic, but a vast storehouse of books on every subject. These early expeditions could accomplish little, with the constant threat of dragon attack at their backs, and none brought back more than a few volumes.

Before the Marcons could organize another attack, they were defeated by [[Laytami]] and the [[Gudersnipe Army]], thus ending the Dynastic Period and begining the [[Mage Wars#The Second Chaotic Period|Second Chaotic Period]].

The library was largely ignored during this time, as literally everything else was on fire. it wasn't until [[Uther]] began to end the Mage Wars that another expedition was made. Uther had grown up in Stormreaver Valley, his family farm quite literally in the shadow of the building itself. His diaries reveal that his lineage had worked that plot of land for generations, possibly even as far back as the Age of Darkness, though this supposition is regarded as anecdotal because Atayan history does not extend as far. According to the diaries, Uther's father believed his family were, in some form, stewards of the Library. Again this is considered highly anecdotal as only a few lines from Uther's journal make mention of it.

Uther led an expedition into the mountains to the [[Dragons|Eerie]] of the High Mountain Flight, some members of which he had known all his life. He asked them, rather humbly, to join his alliance, and the Flight agreed.

Uther would eventually found a city in Stormreaver Valley, called [[Arindell]]. No verified accounts exist that confirm if this was the ancient name for the library or a name given it by Uther.

===The [[Ages]] of the [[Alliance]]===
In [[A.Y.]] 134, Uther officially established the Library of Arindell. Few records were kept about its contents upon opening, but very quickly books were brought in from all the [[known worlds]]. Many of the volumes in place before the library's grand opening were moved into various store-rooms and stacks all over a surprisingly massive complex. Only the main floor, itself one of the largest chambers ever constructed, would remain in use and open to the public.

The Library stayed in continuous use for the next six thousand years, operating as the main public library and national archives of the Alliance. Supposedly, one copy of every book published anywhere in the Alliance could be found at the library, though this was technically and logistically impossible. For all its size, even one copy of every non-fiction book could never fit in the massive structure.

The Library did house an extremely large collection of historical and geographical books from all over the Alliance, with attempts to preserve factual information foremost among the librarian's duties. Rare manuscripts and ancient documents were often brought to the Library to be stored, to take advantage of permanent enchantments that protected them from fire and decay.

Numerous artifacts also found their way into the library, including numerous [[Slayer Dragon]] reliquaries, and objects of great power from the [[Mage Wars]]. Books of magic, as well, including actual [[spellbook]]s as well as [[tome]]s, were secreted into the library and hidden away in dark, sealed passages. The practice of hiding things in plain sight, as it were, was common throughout the [[Ages#The First Age|First]] and [[Ages#The Second Age|Second]] Ages.

During the [[Ages#The Third Age|Third Age]] a large portion of the main floor was put off-limits. The only "seal" was of velvet ropes and signs, but electric lighting was not installed in those sections and the public was sternly told to stay out of them (and really, who isn't afraid of librarians?).

Only about a quarter of the first two stories of the main floor would be part of the public library portion from then on. This area included a resturant, gift shop, and, of course, a bookstore. Guided tours of "the stacks" (as the bookshelves were called) took people into other parts of the main floor, and researchers were often granted access.

By the Fourth Age, however, the true dangers of the library became clear. In addition to the large 'main floor' were a series of wings, as well as possibly hundreds of miles of tunnels. They had once been mapped, but the maps were not maintained and had never been accurate. People were lost in the labyrinth; a few did die, and the librarians chose to seal off everything but the main floor.

The process actually took most of the age, as a system to seal and unseal the various areas had to be perfected. It was also desirable to use the sealed sections for storage: the library was constantly expanding its collection, and a long-standing rule (in place since Uther's time) forbade ever getting rid of a book.

Older books were still moved into the stacks, and the practicality of sealing off was finally realized. The solution, instead, was to further restrict access, and add guards and electronic surveilence to keep people in the public sections.

===After the Age of the Dragon===
The Library would endure all through the six ages of the Alliance and past the [[Age of the Dragon]], until the city was finally abandoned on the eve of the [[Long Night]]. The Librarians didn't have the resources to seal the whole library, as they had when Uther was a child, but fortunately the dragons were willing to step in.

Over the course of several centuries, they built a second roof over the first, of massive stone arches fused with dragon fire. The spaces between these were then filled, and eventually an entire artificial mountain constructed over the Library, forever obscuring it from outside view.

For over three thousand years, not a solitary soul would set foot in the great Library of Arindell. It was sent away, forgotten. Rumors of its destruction widely circulated throughout the Long Night; anyone interesting in plundering its secrets would hear that it was burned by the [[Alliance]] as they retreated from [[Arindell]]. Those foolhardy enough to go looking for it anyway would find no trace of it, and probably end up in dragons' stomachs for their troubles.

During the [[Age of the New Day]], [[Conri Jason Jusenkyou|Conri Jusenkyou]] becomes the first person to visit it, during [[The Next Progression]].

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New Day

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The Age of the New Day is preceeded by the [[Long Night]].

The exact date of the begining of the New Day is disputed by historians. Some claim it should begin with [[Hunter Jusenkyou]]'s rebirth; others put the [[Battle of the New Day]] as its actual beginning.

There is a roughly 10-to-20 year gap between the two dates, and there is much debate as to how that time should be classified. Some argue that it should count as a part of the [[Long Night]] as there was no real change until the second date. Another group argues for an era called "The Dawn of the Dragon" between those dates.

In this timeline, the earlier date will be used. Dates in the Age of the New Day use the [[N.D. System]].

==Chronology of Events==
Year 0 of the New Day: [[Hunter Jusenkyou]] is reborn, hope is resurrected, and the task of preparing for the final battle begins.

Year 0 of the New Day:

Year 7 of the New Day: [[Joshua Jusenkyou]] and [[Lily McConery]] are married.

Year 7 of the New Day: The [[Battle of the New Day]] destroys [[Samuel Fate]] and frees the [[Multi-Verse]].

Year 11 of the New Day: [[Half Full]] takes place, first Joshua/Lily story.

Year 13 of the New Day: Joshua and Lily's daughter [[Rebecca Jusenkyou]] is born.

Year 15 of the New Day: Joshua and Lily's son [[Conri Jason Jusenkyou]] is born.

Year 16 of the New Day: [[Aden Jusenkyou]] is born.

Year 25 of the New Day: In the story [[Overhead]], Aden comes to live with Joshua and Lily.

Year 35 of the New Day: [[The Next Progression]], book one of the [[Consecution Books]]
(In case you can't tell, this timeline is heavily a work in progress).

==Other Information==
The [[Consecution Books]] take place during the Age of the New Day, after which nothing is yet written.

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Slayer Dragon Count

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The Slayer Dragon Count (formally abreviated as the 'S.D.C. System') is a calendar system established by [[Pendragon]] [[Jayce Spearlock]] early in the [[Ages#The Golden Age|Golden Age]]. At that time, the [[A.Y. System]] had not yet been established, and the [[Alliance]] had no unified calendar. There was no consensus of when exactly the [[Mage Wars]] had ended, and the Golden Age begun.

Having ushered in the [[Golden Age of the Slayer Dragons]], Spearlock proposed a system that used the day [[Uther]] took up the [[Sword Excalibur|sword]] as a starting date, and counted forwards, thus allowing for a unified chronology of the [[Slayer Dragons]].

Thus, the S.D.C. system begins with [[B.G.A.]] 6 as the year 0, with the Golden Age begining in S.D.C. 5. Further, the count is not split into [[Ages]], like the Alliance calendar, but merely counts forward from the anointing of the first [[Pendragon]]. Thus, Uther, first Pendragon of Slayer Dragons, was anointed in S.D.C. 0, and [[Hunter Jusenkyou]], last Pendragon of Slayer Dragons, in S.D.C. 5914. This date is often confused with the 914th year of the Fifth Age, as the A.Y. System would put it, which is nearly 1000 years off.

==Notation==
In S.D.C. notations, the year always comes after the mark. The acronym is abbreviation for Slayer Dragon Count, and is properly "Slayer Dragon Count: ''Year''". Thus, properly abreviated to "S.D.C. ''Year''".

And why did I use "thus" so many freaking times on this page?

==Correlation to A.Y.==
Because of the difference in systems, correlating S.D.C. dates to [[A.Y.]] dates can be difficult. The fact that S.D.C. begins in the [[Mage Wars]] only further complicates matters. This chart gives the coresponding S.D.C. dates to the beginings of the [[Ages]] of the [[Alliance]].

<table border="1">
<tr><td>'''Age:'''</td><td>'''S.D.C.'''</td><td>'''A.Y.'''</td></tr>
<tr><td>1</td><td>5</td><td>10</td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td>1003</td><td>20</td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td>2003</td><td>30</td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td><td>3003</td><td>40</td></tr>
<tr><td>5</td><td>4003</td><td>50</td></tr>
<tr><td>6</td><td>5003</td><td>60</td></tr>

</table>

==Second Slayer Dragon Count==
In the [[New Day]], [[Conri Jason Jusenkyou]] began the tradition of the S.D.C. again, calling it the Second Slayer Dragon Count. S.S.S.C. began in [[N.D.]] 35.

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Rebecca Jusenkyou

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Conri Jason Jusenkyou

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Conri Jason Jusenkyou is the primary protagonist of the [[Consecution Books]] and the first [[Pendragon]] of the [[Pendragon#Second Iteration of Pendragons|S.S.D.C.]].

==Physical Description==
(From [[The Next Progression]])
'He was a tall boy, not quite a bean pole, but not built like the warriors of legend by any means. His shoulders were narrow, and his arms and legs were long. His face seemed strangely elongated, though not overly so, and his ears had just the slightest point. His face was thin, but his jaw line strong, high cheek bones framed a narrow, pointed nose that turned up a bit at the end, and supported two piercing green eyes'.

==Early Life==
Conri was born in [[N.D.]] 15 to [[Joshua Jusenkyou|Joshua]] and [[Lily McConery|Lily Jusenkyou]]. He has a Certificate of Live Birth for [[Moon Garm]]; but his mother was delivered aboard the [[Saratoga]], where [[Jason Bur'I]] (from whom Conri's middle name is derived) was responsible for the delivery.

Conri was described as a quiet child, who spent much of his time in wolf-form. He performed poorly in school and openly did not much care for education.

===Training===
His training began very early, with wooden practice swords and basic instruction by his [[Hunter Jusenkyou|great grandfather]]. He was later joined by [[Aden Jusenkyou]], with whom he frequently practiced.

At the age of 16, in N.D. 31, Conri traveled to [[Naomi's Citadel]] in [[Arindell#The Dimension|Arindell]] to learn magic, supposedly in preparation for his task.

While he did become an accomplished swordsman, he learned very little magic at the Citadel, and was eventually expelled for accidentally allowing the [[Society of Assassins]] to gain dark magics of unspeakable power.

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Loup Garoux

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The loup Garoux are a species of [[werewolf]] although not classified as a magical creature. They are able to assume wolf form at any given time, unlike the [[Lycanthrope]]. The main difference between [[Lycanthrope]] and Loup Garoux is the appearance: Loup Garoux look like the average wolf but slightly taller. The wolf form come in many colors such as black, brown, white, gray, and peach. The Loup Garoux look no different then the average human when in human form; they have no specific nationality, hair color, eye color, or skin color.