The Story of the Warrior's Test

After the Great Father's annihilation of the greatest warriors, the Great Mother and the Dark Lord decided that the Earth could not survive without the nature of the hunter, warrior and athlete. They decided to make the greatest test for those that wish to claim the spirit of the warrior for themselves and picked the location of this test in a dry, harsh, yet fragile environment. The Great Mother found a great lake and set the mighty Winds upon it so that it would dry. The Dark Lord created creatures of endurance and stealth to set loose on the land. This place was a land of wicked sands, constant winds, burning sun, and frigid nights. The land could keep a track fresh for hundreds of years and the paths lent themselves to very few options due to the steep and loose terrain. Warriors came from far and wide to test themselves and gathered at one of the many temples that the Great Mother and the Dark Lord had created at the entrance of the Warrior's Challenge. The Challenge's duration was ten years and it included three stages. The first stage (and the shortest) was meant to weed out the weak, faint of heart, and the less inclined to adaptation so it is solely based on survival. Once a Warrior has proven that they are capable of surviving in the Warrior's Test then they could move on to the next stage which meant the Warrior must successfully hunt specific animals with stone and spear. The Warrior could only kill an animal if they had a 'kill shot'. If the Warrior failed to kill directly then they suffered pain of death, immediately. The final stage of the Warrior's Test was by far the most challenging and long lasting due to the delicate nature of its object: A Warrior must hunt and kill one of the remaining Warriors in the Warrior's Test. The Warrior had a choice to leave at this stage of the Warrior's Test but few ever did and this was due to the belief by many that this would be the easiest part of the Warrior's Test but in this they were mistaken. Many Warriors had suffered a long and painful end because they had been tracking tracks that had been laid hundreds of years ago. Also, many of the final Warriors did not contemplate that they would have pure blood on their souls for the rest of their spiritual lifetimes thus binding themselves to the Earth forever. Few Warriors stood in the mighty temple at the end of the Warrior's Test but those few still walk this very Earth. Although, the great temples are mostly hidden by sand, the Warrior's test still exists as it did and it can be found today in a place that is called Joe's Valley.