I didn't read yours until I saw your comment and went back to see what you could have meant! I guess it's about 30 mins apart which is not so close, but I was eating dinner and came back to it to so we would have been writing almost the same story, with almost the same name, at pretty much the same time. Yours is a fair bit better written though. Good job son!!
"So there I was, eyeballing intently the ashen cover of my newly aquired tome, perched atop a small palm tree overlooking the Dahlgur Oasis. Who could have imagined that such a tranquil afternoon could be so ravaged by such a small, seemingly innocuous amphibian?"
Abd al-Hazir
Binkles the Frog is the colloquial term for the immortal mythical spirit of mishap. This embodiement of all things unstructured and unexpected appears fleetingly and rarely, usually to those of great importance at times of great importance. His goal is unknown to most, but it is said that he is a test to those whom he disturbs. A test of resolve and focus, a force to judge those with the potential to be the future heroes and leaders of Sanctuary, a force to change the course of all things away from a powerful secret.
"I peered above the pages into his unblinking eyes, as he peered back into mine. I could feel a firming breeze behind my back that pierced through my linen, and in that moment I understood what was in store for me."
Abd al-Hazir
Binkles is an important creature with a long history of important actions. He was originally a demonic hellspawn, who assisted Inarius and Lilith greatly in the theft and hiding of the Worldstone through creating diversions that shifted the focus off that impossible heist. Binkles was thus given reign over all of nature at the origin of Sanctuary, with the mission to use his mischievous ways to eternally protect said Worldstone from the universe's misbalance. Only those acting for the interest of the entirety of the Nephalem would be allowed to pass his test; purely those who are selfless, unbiased and strong enough of character would be unaffected by this entity. Binkles the Frog: Godly Guardian of the Worldstone.
"Waking at night is never a good thing. Waking at night cold and afraid, amnetic of the preceeding half-day, is much worse. My last recollection is of opening the cover of that dark, cobwebbed book, found deep in an equally dark, cobwebbed cave. I wish I could see in my mind's eye what that book held, because my hands still glow from its arcane dust. That darn frog."
Abd al-Hazir
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Abd al-Hazir
Binkles the Frog is the colloquial term for the immortal mythical spirit of mishap. This embodiement of all things unstructured and unexpected appears fleetingly and rarely, usually to those of great importance at times of great importance. His goal is unknown to most, but it is said that he is a test to those whom he disturbs. A test of resolve and focus, a force to judge those with the potential to be the future heroes and leaders of Sanctuary, a force to change the course of all things away from a powerful secret.
"I peered above the pages into his unblinking eyes, as he peered back into mine. I could feel a firming breeze behind my back that pierced through my linen, and in that moment I understood what was in store for me."
Abd al-Hazir
Binkles is an important creature with a long history of important actions. He was originally a demonic hellspawn, who assisted Inarius and Lilith greatly in the theft and hiding of the Worldstone through creating diversions that shifted the focus off that impossible heist. Binkles was thus given reign over all of nature at the origin of Sanctuary, with the mission to use his mischievous ways to eternally protect said Worldstone from the universe's misbalance. Only those acting for the interest of the entirety of the Nephalem would be allowed to pass his test; purely those who are selfless, unbiased and strong enough of character would be unaffected by this entity. Binkles the Frog: Godly Guardian of the Worldstone.
"Waking at night is never a good thing. Waking at night cold and afraid, amnetic of the preceeding half-day, is much worse. My last recollection is of opening the cover of that dark, cobwebbed book, found deep in an equally dark, cobwebbed cave. I wish I could see in my mind's eye what that book held, because my hands still glow from its arcane dust. That darn frog."
Abd al-Hazir