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The village of Malla is besieged with the tension between the 4 creeds. An evil power is manipulating and playing the creeds against each other. The more mistrust he can create the more power he achieves.

Protagonists intro. Mecco with teenage angst is searching for answers to life, the hatred between the creeds and acceptance from his family. This story is based on his diaries.

Mecco with his best friend Peto are teenagers both of the Dation Creed. On their excursion to the beach through the forbidden forest of Gong and the sand dunes of Croll they encounter 4 other teenagers from the other 3 creeds. It is forbidden for any of the Creeds to interact with each other so there is tension and mistrust on the first encounter.

The plot. They make a pact to meet every week at the Dunes of Croll and over the next few months a trust grows between them. Then on a certain day they are exposed to the Lords of Mardascon and the Elves from the forest of Gong who explain to the 6 of Croll that together they have great power and can destroy the Evil.

The Evil Lord with no name is aware of the Elven prophecies and sends the Pernicious, 6 dragons to search and capture the 6 of Croll. The prophecies explain a task they must take to save the world from the Evil. 4 Elves who had been sent to bring the children together leave with the 6 and together they follow the ancient prophesies

The capture of Lord Sebcon, the elf El Mazrew and Mecco by the Evil and imprisoned in the city of Malfarcus creates a power change and drastic measure must be taken.

The escape by Mecco and El Mazrew and the possibly of re-joining of the company and the Lords.

Mecco is caught in the web of a giant mutated spider of Cadaban.

The company of Elves, Dwarfs and Lords meet at the bridge of Malfarcus with the evil opposite with his army and the pernicious Mecco still dizzy from the spider bite standing in the middle of the bridge with the Evil trying to manipulate him to join the dark side. With his friends on the other side projecting positive thoughts to him. Final image. Mecco joins the sex of Croll, the Elves, Dwarfs and the Lords and the company of good stand together facing of the evil on the other side of the Gorge of Malfacus. To be continued.

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Malcolm Poole

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Publié par	Xlibris AU
Date de parution	19 juin 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669887836
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	6 Mo

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THE Six OF Croll

MALCOLM POOLE

Copyright © 2022 by Malcolm Poole. 840138

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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ISBN:
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978-1-6698-8782-9

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978-1-6698-8784-3

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022906302

Rev. date: 05/13/2022
CONTENTS
Preface
Prologue
Chapter 1 The Six of Croll
Chapter 2 Farewell to the Four
Chapter 3 The Tall Cloaked Man
Chapter 4 Midday Tomorrow
Chapter 5 The Last Night in Malla
Chapter 6 The First Day in the Forest
Chapter 7 The Next Four Days in the Forest
Chapter 8 The Parchment Revealed
Chapter 9 The Departure
Chapter 10 The Real Departure
Chapter 11 The Message in the Museum
Chapter 12 The Lords of Mardascon
Chapter 13 Ashes of Wood
Chapter 14 On to Garlarbi
Chapter 15 The City of Kassob
Chapter 16 Three More from the Year of Rew
Chapter 17 Princess Elandra
Chapter 18 What a Secret to Be Told
Chapter 19 The City of Basscala, Mountain of Stars
Chapter 20 The Arrival of Friends
Chapter 21 The Splitting of the Company
Chapter 22 Our First Encounter with the Pernicious
Chapter 23 A Dwarf Goes Missing
Chapter 24 The Town of Bassmont
Chapter 25 Ride Along the River Underhill
Chapter 26 The Falls of Nebbia Circum
Chapter 27 The Five Go On
Chapter 28 The Company Rejoined
Chapter 29 The Task Revealed
Chapter 30 The Departure of the Second Company
Chapter 31 When the Pernicious Hit the Dust
Chapter 32 The Battle of Hawksfort
Chapter 33 The First Company Rejoined
Chapter 34 The Return Trip Down the Condoor
Chapter 35 The Trip to Lake Eople
Chapter 36 The Trip Back to Lake Condoor
Chapter 37 Up the Condoor
Chapter 38 Leaving the Princess Again
Chapter 39 A Most Pleasant Dream
Chapter 40 A Decision Made
Chapter 41 The Prelude to the Battle of Basscala
Chapter 42 The Battle Begins
Chapter 43 Basscala Rejoices
Chapter 44 The Rescue of Draylib
Chapter 45 The Rescue Continues
Chapter 46 The Company Reunited Again
Chapter 47 On the Tracks of the Evil
Chapter 48 A Disaster Befalls the Quest Seekers
Chapter 49 The Valley of the Dead Fig Trees
Chapter 50 A Change in Direction
Chapter 51 Five Frightened Dwarfs
Chapter 52 On to the Fort of Malfarcus
Chapter 53 Another Story Unfolds
Chapter 54 The Taking of the Gorge of Malfarcus
Chapter 55 Three Prisoners Unite
Chapter 56 The Second Gate
Chapter 57 The Escape from Malfarcus
Chapter 58 Kotovin and Silvertail
Chapter 59 A Flying Finish
Chapter 60 The Mutated Spiders of Cadabar
Chapter 61 All But One Together
Chapter 62 A Bridge to Cross
Chapter 63 Epilogue
The Elvan Calendar
The Dwarf Calendar
Places

by Malcolm Poole
If the smell of jasmine in the air has been
Yet not a bud or flower can be seen
Maybe an elf along your path he goes
Though of him you shall see neither nail nor nose
For quick and sleight of hand elves be
And man is too clumsy to ever see
But maybe in a forest if you silently sit
And meditate deeply for a bit
And if the smell of jasmine fills the day
Then sure enough elves have passed this way
Then very still sit you must
And maybe with a breath of dust
And when it settles there may be
An elf or two for you to see.
PREFACE

I t was a time and place absent from the histories of man. If not for the chronicles of the Elves who kept safe the diaries of Mecco, this story would have been lost forever or twisted by man for his own purpose. The greed of man for power distorts and manipulates the truth to suit his own agenda. Our leaders were once children, and their beliefs are only what their teachers and parents taught them to think. From upbringing to education and life experience, we develop into who we are. If children are taught empathy, compassion, and forgiveness, they can break down the barriers of hate. Yet if they are taught distrust and prejudice, if they are not encouraged to search for the truth but follow one dogma, then they will be bound in a dictatorship of their own conditioning.
PROLOGUE

T he history you are about to read is of a time not too long ago and not so far a place from where you are reading this book. The attempt to translate the names and places from ancient Elvan was done with the best of our ability. Therefore, it may not be exact, so your imagination we will need. But before we begin, a little history of the past is necessary.
Many, many years ago in a land far from here was a place called Central Earth. The great wars had just finished, the Evil had been destroyed and his forces banished. The inhabitants of this world consisted of Elves, Dwarfs, Men, Goblins, wizards, and a tiny people whose name has been lost in the past. It was said they were a happy breed but very shy of man. From what the old Elvan parchments say, they played a great part in the defeat of the Evil. It is rumoured they are distantly related to man, but how, no one is sure and what became of them is now a mystery.
In that corner of the world, times were changing way too fast for the Elves. So a decision was made by the elders to depart the Old World and begin again. The Elf explorer Vandayong had been sent to search for a great land foreseen in the old Elvan parchments. For over two years, he searched the southern seas. On his return, he announced to the elders the discovery of a great continent which fitted the predicted description. The history of Vandayong and his discovery is an interesting story, but that is for another time. So the land he discovered was to be their destination. The Elves of the Old World were scattered to its far corners. A meeting was called to take place in their great forest. The elders from each clan were informed and arrived at the appointed time. That night the decision was made of how and when to depart for the New World.
Over the next few months, the Elves packed their valuables and the ancient parchments that told their histories and their predictions of what was to come! They bid farewell to the friends with whom they had helped to defeat the Evil. Then they left Central Earth behind.
The Elves had kept their destination secret. They intended to create a New World without evil. But one lord had loose lips and divulged the whereabouts of the Elves’ destination. When news of this great land across the sea became known, it spread like wildfire throughout the Old World.
The great wars had left devastation through all of Central Earth. When rumours of the new land the Elves had discovered reached the ears of Man, Dwarf, and Goblin, many decided to pack up their belongings and follow. But the small folk who played a prominent role in defeating the Evil had no intentions of leaving their comfortable homes to sail over the sea, to a place they knew nothing of. As far as anyone knows, they are still in their tiny homes cut into the hills in their little part of the Old World.
But against the wishes of the Elves, the Men and Goblins who followed brought to the New World their histories and memories of evil. All that was needed was for those thoughts to be harnessed by an evil power. Then they would grow and grow, getting stronger with each evil deed committed.
There was one such a man. He was an apprentice to a great wizard in the Old World. When he arrived in the New World, for many a year, he hid from sight. He observed the direction of the New World. When the time was right, he began. He set about creating division and hatred among the creeds. He spread rumours that one of the creeds was trying to take control of the New World. No one knew which creed he was referring to, which created suspicion among them all. The greed and weakness of Man became his strongest ally. This was to have a great bearing on his rise to power.
For the first few hundred years of the New World, all inhabitants lived in harmony. Men built great cities. But slowly, Man reverted to his old ways. He became crude. He would joke about the Dwarfs and Elves, calling them derogatory names. He became greedy and tried to make unfair dealings with the Goblins. His memories of evil grew; this the elves sensed.
So it came to pass in the New World that the Elves decided to live far from the troubles of Man and Goblin. They moved deep into the wilderness, where they found a great forest and lake to live by. Their early years of the First Age of the New World were about establishing a home. Later, they branched off in three directions—central, north, and south—though