{"id":626,"date":"2012-10-12T10:42:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.wordpress.com\/?p=626"},"modified":"2012-10-12T10:42:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:42:24","slug":"i-am-arimar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"I am Arimar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I stand here overlooking the forces amassed against us, I ask how did it come to this?\u00a0 I have now journeyed for two years and have faced evil at every turn.\u00a0 Somehow I survived my journey north and freed those enslaved by King Yubal and aided in the freeing of his mind.\u00a0 Yet at every step Haggarfuse and his minions watched and waited for me to stumble.\u00a0 So many have looked up to me and so many times I have failed them.\u00a0 Why did you choose me? What do you see that I cannot?<\/p>\n<p>Our journey home through the forbidden lands cost us dearly and in those lands of death I almost lost Elissia, the one I love, yet the very one I cannot reveal my love to. Would their lives have been better had I not been born?\u00a0 To carry the weight of prophecy as the chosen one of Allivar has been a struggle.\u00a0 I am no immortal, even with these gifts I have been given. The immortals, these fallen stewards have risen against us all and their armies now stand before me, trembling the very ground and veiling the light of the heavens.\u00a0 Their beasts and machines of war are about to be unleashed.\u00a0 I fear the moment that this final war shall begin.<\/p>\n<p>I have so many questions unanswered.\u00a0 Who are my parents and are they still alive?\u00a0 Do they suffer not knowing my fate as much as I suffer not knowing theirs?\u00a0 Why was I chosen and why do the captains of the living races follow me?\u00a0 Why should they lay down their lives to follow me?\u00a0 I have sent out the word for aid and yet the message never made it out of the valley.\u00a0 We are alone and outnumbered one hundred and forty thousand to four hundred million.\u00a0 I cannot withstand this onslaught, or provide words of comfort, yet I have been asked to make a stand by the Unseen.\u00a0 I do not see his purpose. Without victory all my efforts seem useless and meaningless.\u00a0 Why am I here, what is to be gained?\u00a0 As I turn to see my company, men and women ready to lay down their lives, I owe them everything that I am.\u00a0 Why do they follow me?\u00a0 Why did you choose me?<\/p>\n<p>For forty days the battle has raged and all around me, all that I have befriended and loved as my own family, lie dead before me. They have fought beyond recall. I have been cursed by the sole survivors and now I stand alone.\u00a0 My body is mortally wounded, yet nothing is as painful as my heart which now bursts. Have we, have I been forsaken by you my creator?\u00a0 I have a choice, be taken by you now or stand for the last of the living.\u00a0 By my death, should the last heavenly world of Allivar remain, then my purpose would have been just.\u00a0 Just remember me, my creator, the one you named the messenger. What message shall I leave when the world succumbs to defeat and darkness, when I could not protect them.\u00a0 I would give my life here and now, for peace and a new day&#8217;s dawn. Why did you choose me?<\/p>\n<p>As the darkness almost takes me there a glorious light. My spirit is renewed and a voice calls out to me.\u00a0 &#8220;I have chosen well.\u00a0 You shall suffer no more doubts and all your questions shall fade.\u00a0 You have stood as I have asked. Now prepare for <em>my<\/em> stand.\u00a0 Now who are you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am Arimar, the Chosen One of Allivar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/allivartext2.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1173\" alt=\"AllivarText\" src=\"http:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/allivartext2.png?w=640&#038;resize=640%2C43\" width=\"640\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I stand here overlooking the forces amassed against us, I ask how did it come to this?\u00a0 I have now journeyed for two years and have faced evil at every turn.\u00a0 Somehow I survived my journey north and freed those enslaved by King Yubal and aided in the freeing of his mind.\u00a0 Yet at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,44],"tags":[152,349,381,417,527,608,1059,1311],"class_list":{"0":"post-626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-all-things-allivar","7":"category-allivar-characters","8":"category-writing","9":"tag-battle","10":"tag-demons","11":"tag-dragons","12":"tag-epic-fantasy","13":"tag-giants","14":"tag-hero","15":"tag-romance","16":"tag-war","17":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}