Herek: A History

Herek: A History

Herek was the first city to ever grace the flat face of Columni. It was founded by the first humans in the year 16 in the great desert of the Elder States. It surrounded the sacred Tablet of Count, which was used to count each year. Whomever had the privilege to hold the position of tallying the years was revered, for they had proven that they were important to the whole community. The first person to ever hold such a position was also their king, known as Maoki.

Maoki was a strong huntsman whom had brought the destruction of the Sand Divers. They were reptilian salamanders whom were sneaking into the tents and eventually adobe homes of the then primitive humans. Maoki had the idea of simply sealing them into the ground by mixing the desert sand in water turning it into a thick mud that solidified. Because of his curing of this problem, Hestia appeared before him and proclaimed him as King of Herek and told him of a golden crown that laid with a great reward deep in the dunes to the south. 

He formed a small group to help with the dangers ahead and left his father and mother as his regents.

They traveled through the dunes for four days until they came across an odd cave that seemed out of place within the dunes. upon further inspection, they found that it had an enormous cavern and in the very center on a stone plinth sat a beautiful woman as pale as marble and on her lap sat a golden crown with a scroll rolled neatly within. As his men approached, she gripped onto the crown tightly. 

It was only when Maoki approached that she softened. 

"In order to claim my crown, you must do me a great service." said the woman,

but before she could continue, Maoki rushed her and lifted her over his shoulders and said,

"None of that, I shall claim you my wife!"

Thus the girl, with surprise in her heart, accepted to his swift proposal. She asked that she be carried under a blanket as to avoid sunlight, and they went off back to Herek. 

When they arrived home, the pale woman, whom had been named Kina, told all that in order for Maoki to truly be named the first king of Herek, a great structure must be built in order to house all ceremony. Hundreds of miles away, she said, was a great island that was said to be the first place the Creator had sculpted. It is there, she told them, that a temple in honor of the Creator that the Scroll of Creation should be placed, and when the temple is built, they shall have their king and she their queen.

It was in 183 when the temple was finally finished. The extremely old Maoki and Kina were then carried the hundreds of miles to the island in ordered to be crowned. As they were carried up the steps, Kina had accidentally been dropped, throwing her from her covered carrier into the sunlight, killing her fragile body by burning her instantly. Maoki, in his extremely elderly state, had barely noticed. Hestia appeared before the old creature, and under the weight of the golden crown, he had been crushed. Thus his great grandson and his wife took up the mantle of being the next rulers of Herek.

It is worth noting that some Herekians thought the temple was all nonsense and went east from Herek to form Egypt.