Gree Grega: The First Divine Avatar

The sealing of Althmeg happened about 1500 years ago. The people were gathered outside the city, confused and unsure where to go next.

One by one, people in the crowd met loved ones who had passed years before—parents, grandparents, friends. These were not the shambling zombies of the necromancers. They were whole and smiling, and reached out their hands to lead those they left behind. The crowd was led to a hill on which a woman stood.

The woman spoke, and even people across the lake could hear her voice:

“My name is Gree Grega. I am from the One God and I say: we need no magical servants when we serve one another. I say: we need no prophesies when we remember the past. I say: we need no walls when we protect the weak.

“I have been to the gray plain of the dead and brought from there your guides. There will be no armies to loot and pillage, because you will care for the future under the guidance of the past.”

The Returned, as those were called who were resurrected, gathered those close to them and led them away from that place. The Halflings scattered across Myrnia, so they had no grand city but from that day forward their villages were found across the continent. They honored the Returned who founded their clan.

Gree Grega moved across Myrnia, visiting each clan and blessing them, offering special instructions to each. After six years and six months, the Returned came back to the lake by Dome of Althmeg and met Gree Grega there. They tearfully said goodbye to their clans, but Gree told them that though they would be gone, they would keep watching over them and give advice, though more subtly than before. Then they all marched into Lake Walbern. From that day forward there were glowing patterns visible in the water at night. Halflings believe the lake to be sacred and the spirits of Gree Grega and the Returned to still move within the waters.