Allyhabrad-Khravu
The Allyhabrad, an epic poem from the around about the year 100. It was a written version of a long verbally passed-on story. The main source we have now of this epic is where it was carved in a wall on the central square of Ethyllar, the Ethyllar Plaque. It largely, but not exclusively surrounded the life and trials of Makkhyrad the Sunkeeper. He was a character that supposedly lived in Ethyllar in the very earliest civilisations of humanity.
Prologue:
The prologue of the poem explains how a man named Verhyad the Sunraiser founded Ethyllar (then apparently called Thar). Most of this part of the story was lost, but we can speculate that the story involves the invention of fire. It definitely says that his fire on the mountain drew more people together. Together they built homes in the valley by the lake. Furthermore it continues on to tell of how several creatures were hunted and of how the evil Savrykh-Allakhrimiras (high dwarves) came to intrude their territory.
Notably, it is clear that at this time people already had a certain understanding of farming.
Act 1:
This act is the longest and best preserved part of the story. The Ethyllar Plaque is mostly whole on the upper central part.
The story starts when Makhyrad was born to Zoye and Therredrad, also referred to as the Flame of Gold and the Sweat of Sestriakh (the mountain by Ethyllar). He was the great grandchild of the thirteenth degree of Verhyad on his mother's side and to the seventeenth on his father's. All the direct ancestors were summed up by name. A long section of the story goes on to explain how all types of people such as the King of Thal, Seven lost hunters who saw a the family's house in a radiant, holy flame and even the Goddess Alice and Sarah themselves came to the birth bed with gifts, ending with Thame burning the infant Makhyrad alive in a blue flame. Makhyrad appeared from the flame as a young child. Later, Makhyrad's parents discover a worrying impulsivity in the boy that makes him run into trouble and hurt himself in excess. He picks fights and can't speak. The child and his parents are on a journey up the mountain to ask the help at the Stone of Thame. Along the way they lose Makhyrad. The boy then meets a lion that would have eaten him, if not for Therredrad. The lion's eye then brought forth a figure. The figure was Syler, the god of time. Syler says he came to bring his own two gifts in the form of advice. He explains how Makhyrad's problems spring from Thame's gift of physical age. Makhyrad is older in body, but he has not gained the wisdom that comes with age. Syler will give some of it to the boy, but this will forever make him different from other children. He also brings a prophecy. The prophecy goes on for a long time to explain how Makhyrad will die by the hands of his own mother. Zoye says she would never and gets angry at the god.
Act 2:
This part is known to have been heavily altered throughout the verbal retelling. In an account from a later time in Makhyl, it tells an entirely different tale. The tale shown on those ceramic pots seems to diverge here into a story about fighting Syler, though it's unknown what the specific details were.
The story from Ethyllar tells a whole different tale.
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