Hail readers, my name is Zena Dragonhart, I am the loremistress and official ambassador for the Silver Katana Alliance. I am writing this story to tell people about the events that took place that formed the guild that I am now part of. Many who have read the books from the libaries of Brittania may recognise The Burning Of Trinsic. This event in the history of Brittania played a great part in the formation of the guild.

The story starts back before the land of Sosaria was split by the Gem of Immortality, as many of the aged citiziens of Brittania know, this was a time of peace. The vile monsters that are now a constant thorn in our side were all but non existent. Alas, the Gem of Immortality and its controller Mondain the Wizard destroyed this peace, along with the happyness of many a family. One person greatly hurt by this attrocity was Thor Wolvesbane who resides on the shard of the Gem now known as Europa. He and his family faught for many years against the tide of evil that now constantly attacked the citizens of Brittania, many were slain with the magic silver katana of vanquishing. The katana had been in the family aslong as anyone could remember, the only things that was known about it was that if the katana was lost then a curse would fall upon the family. If the sword was lost, when a member of the family died, they would not be laid to rest, instead they would join the ranks of the undead, and forever wander the cemeterys of Brittania.

One day word came to his ear that the city of Trinsic was falling to an army of Orcs. Armed with this deadly weapon Thor gathered his belongings and made haste to the city of Trinsic. The image that he saw on his arrival is forever burned into his memory, the mighty city of Trinsic was ablaze, men and women lay dead on the street. This awful sight filled Thor with rage, unsheathing his katana he rushed into a tide of Orcs, they were no match for the great skills that this warrier possesed. Soon all that was left of this Orc party was a pile of rotting green corpses. Seeing that they were no match for the many warriers that had assembled to defend Trinsic the Orcs retreated back into the forests. For many days after the Orc attack Trinsic burned, Men and Women worked all day to put out the fires. After several weeks, the fires and been extinguished and Thor started the journey home, however he did not know that following him would be a band of rogues that had make a great deal of money, plundering and looting in these times of great evil.

Thor had not made alot of time when he was suddenly set upon by these rogues, 2 of them were mages, were as the first was a warrier. Although Thor was indeed a great warrier he was almost certain to lose with these odds. He made to run, but the mages quickly paralyzed him, and the warrier moved in, landing blow after blow with a war hammer. Seeing that there would be no escape for him now, Thor unsheathed his katana, and set on one of the mages. The mage was obviously not expecting this as he was quickly slain in only two hits. The second mage backed off, the rage at seeing his companion slain was clearly seen in his eyes. Thor, then went to attack the warrier, but however stubbled to the ground after being hit with a magical attack in the back. Thor looked up in time to see the war hammer come smashing down onto his skull.

At this time, I must have been on my way to Trinsic with my good friend Angelous, we hoped to aid the towns folk in the rebuilding of Trinsic. Our spirits were high as well rode though the forest on our faithfull stallions, we were surprised when we saw the limp body of someone lying in a clearing. We quickly ran to his aid, the blood on his head and body made it clear that he had been in battle. We quickly healed his wounds and wake him up, he was quite obvious that he was greatly distress. We calmed him down, and he explained what had happened and what the katana meant to him. Now understanding the seriousness of the situation we made rode onto Trinsic in order to resupply Thor. We then set out into the forests looking for the rogues that had done this. We had been searching for weeks but we had found no trace of the katana's wareabouts.

During these weeks we became close friends, as we discovered that we had similar goals, we were trying to bring peace and order to these times of woe. We eventually purchased a house near to the location were Thor was attacked, and so began the Silver Katana Alliance. Not only do we search for Thor's long lost weapon, but we are trying to ally guilds in the local area. We want to bring peace to all in this time of war.

Zena Dragonhart