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Ten years ago, she went on a journey that changed the course of history. A decade later, the innocent girl has turnd into a disillusioned woman,traped in a world that was never her home. Zoe Castello has been having visions of a little girl who says that she needs to save April. later on they meet and team together to stop the dreamers from coming out. The dreamers are deadly and put u to sleep forever if you are druged. Zoe does not survive but April and Zoe changed the world.the Mother. The identity of her father is unknown, although it isn't even quite clear whether the White Kin needs a partner to conceive a child. "Human" in this context means that despite her heritage, April is not one of the Kin herself.
Whether April was born in Arcadia or Stark is not known, but shortly after her birth in April 14 of 2191 by Stark reckoning, she was adopted into a normal human family that lived somewhere in the continental USA. However, that wasn't a very happy household since her adoptive father was often drunk and beat her as a child, and when he wasn't beating her he simply neglected her.
The reasons for their mutual dislike have been uncovered in the end of the first game: when April's adoptive father (his name has never been uncovered) had got to hold April in his arms for the first time after adoption, he was so drunk that he stumbled and dropped her on the floor, which severely handicapped her and for some years, it seemed she was never going to walk again. To suppress his guilt, he started ignoring her henceforth, but as she slowly recovered, he felt like she was mocking him and began to blame her for his own misery.
It has been speculated that during her recovery, April's imagination and love for drawing manifested themselves and that is when she decided to pursue the career of a painter
Despite April's bad relationship with her father, she has always been on good terms with her adoptive mother (despite her resentment that her mother never tried to protect her from her father) and rarely had quarrels with her two brothers, Danny and Owen.
Upon reaching 18 years, April left her adoptive family for good, after having one last row with her father (and severely injuring him in process) and without a word of goodbye to her mother, and left for Newport, a big industrial megapolis. That is where the events of The Longest Journey start.
At the beginning of The Longest Journey, April lives in the "Border House", a small boarding house for students (then) located in the New Venice district of Newport, and prepares for the admission tests at VAVA, one of the biggest art academies in the world. She has a stable job as a waiter at the local café and two good friends: Charlie who pursues a dancer's career and Emma who plans to be a sculptor. The only things troubling her are her dreams.
In her dreams, April sees all kinds of crazy and weird things like dragons, magic, mythological monsters. Moreover, a man whom she knows as a local weirdo named Cortez (and who is, in fact, the Red of the Draic Kin and in a way, one of her blood relatives) tells her that her dreams are actually more than simple dreams. Soon, she becomes aware of this, too, when the creatures and worlds from her dreams start "leaking" into the "real world".
The truth behind this is actually the disturbance of the Balance between Stark and Arcadia caused by the current Guardian of the Balance leaving his position without a successor. April is one of the first humans to become aware of it, since, as Cortez informs her, she is a Shifter, a person capable of traveling between the two Twin Worlds. After some contemplation, April travels to Arcadia via a Shift that she opens with Cortez's help and lands in Marcuria, one of its largest cities.
However hard it was for her to accept the presence of an alternate dimension, she quickly manages to convince herself of its reality and even learns the true history of the Balance and the Twin Worlds from the local priests. To return home to Stark, she, being not yet fully in control of her Shifting powers, gets help from another Starkian, Brian Westhouse, who has arrived to Arcadia some years earlier.
Upon her return, Cortez informs her about the disappearance of the Guardian, which compromises the Balance, and their common opponents, the Vanguard, also known as the Church of Voltec in Stark, who seek to reunite the worlds disregarding the risks that go with it. In order to preserve the Balance and, thus, both Twin Worlds from imminent destruction, April must cooperate with Cortez and find both the old and the new Guardian, locate the "backdoor" entrance to their Realm and, basically, save the worlds. Cortez also hints that April is a chosen one whose journey is foretold in countless prophecies.
And so April begins gathering information about the Guardians who have presumably both been captured by the Vanguard and the Vanguard themselves. First of all, she gains access to the central police archives of Newport and with some help of an experienced hacker Burns Flipper, finds out that the Vanguard Headquarters are located in Newport and that their leader is Jacob McAllen (who is later revealed to be the Green Kin). Meanwhile, the Vanguard capture Cortez and April, seeing this in a dream, unconsciously opens a Shift and flees to Arcadia.
While in Arcadia, April decides to search for the parts of the Stone Disc, an artifact vital for unlocking the entrance to the Guardian's Realm that Cortez told her about. As she finds out, the Disc consists of four parts distributed for safekeeping among four magical peoples of Arcadia, who would presumably gain nothing but death should the Balance be compromised, and four sacred jewels called the Dragon's Eyes, each associated with one of the four Draic Kin. Since two of the Kin (Red and Green) permanently reside in Stark, Cortez has agreed to get their Jewels himself, but April is responsible for the rest.
April realizes that she has to travel to the tropical island of Alais where there is a possibility to find one of the Draic Kin and get more information on the Disc and the Guardian's Realm from Alatien, a magical people famous for remembering millennia-old legends. She travels north of Marcuria and defeats Roper Klacks, an alchemist who trapped the wind with his spells and thus, stopped every kind of sea ship traffic in Marcurian region and who is secretly a powerful agent of the Vanguard. On her trip north, she discovers the Banda, one of the magical peoples who have a piece of the Disc, and by gaining their trust, gets it into her possession. During a night in their sacred Spirit Dig, she is forced to confront her underlying doubts in herself as well as realize that she is not alone in completing this monumental task. She also learns that Charlie loves her, although she never finds out if this is true or not, despite things others have said that seem to support this. Upon returning to Marcuria, Vestrum Tobias, the head of the Sentinel Order, informs her that she is, in fact, the next Guardian and presents her with the powerful Talisman of the Balance, which she reluctantly accepts, for she is not ready to suddenly accept such enormous responsibility.
En route to Alais, the ship she has boarded in Marcuria is intercepted by a magical Chaos Storm and in desperate attempt to reach the islands before the Storm catches up, April's actions result in the ship sinking and April being cast out in the middle of the ocean with no land or people in sight. She drifts into the territory of the Maerum, the Merpeople, who save her and even teach her to breathe under water - only to make her work for them as a gatherer of Tan'yen, a magical substance vital for their existence. However, April is able to convince the Maerum that she is the Waterstiller, a messiah from their prophecies who will reconcile them with their bitterest enemies, the winged folk of Alatien, with whom they share common albeit forgotten ancestry.
The Maerum bring April to the island of Alais and after a long exploration of the ancient ruins of a common Alatien-Maerum city, she is able to find her way up into the volcano caldera where the new Alatien settlement is located. Convincing the Alatien that she is their long-awaited messiah, too, and becoming their Windbringer takes less time than persuading the Maerum and soon April finds out that one of the Kin, the Blue one, is indeed residing on the bottom of the sea near Alais and that both Maerum and Alatien are, in fact, his progeny.
Acting as an emissary, April manages to declare peace between two peoples and as a sign of gratitude, they present her with the second part of the Disc and a passage to the Blue Kin. The Kin is extremely reluctant to give any answers, but he willingly parts with his Jewel and even summons a Shadow Ship of the Dark People, who without causing any more trouble for April acknowledge her as the Wave (basically, yet another name for a messiah, see below) and hand over their part of the Disc as well as a star map indicating the location of the secret entrance to the Realm of the Guardians - somewhere outside the Solar system.
With half of her task done, April returns to Marcuria and finds the city deserted because in the meantime, the Vanguard have spurred the lust for conquest in Marcuria's neighbors, the Tyren, an aggressive and barbaric nation, who are now preparing to attack the city. Moreover, immediately upon her arrival, April is attacked by the Tyren's champion, Chaos Vortex, a mysterious terrifying creature somewhat resembling the Langoliers. Luckily, she is able to get away through a Shift (once again, unconscious).
Back in Stark, the Vanguard are already after her, now that they have Cortez. Led by Gordon Halloway, Jacob McAllen's right hand man and the latest prospect Guardian, whom the Vanguard's experiments stripped off his nature, they take all April's friends hostage and threaten to kill them if she doesn't surrender herself. Emma provides April enough time to run but gets shot for it, although April escapes. After a short but intense chase, April escapes Vanguard agents through yet another Shift and ends up in the mysterious House of All Worlds, between Stark and Arcadia, whose owner, Lady Alvane (see below), calms April down by telling her that Emma will be all right.
Shortly thereafter, April leaves the House for Arcadia and quickly locates the last missing piece of the Stone Disc in possession of Abnaxus of the Venar, who hands it over to her proclaiming her the Kan-ang-la (the Venar messiah) and leaves before the Tyren block all ways to the city. April recombines all pieces into a full Disc by using the ancient mechanisms of the Sentinel Enclave, where it was initially kept before being split, and escapes Marcuria through a Shift just in the nick of time before the Tyren attack.
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My previous life as a warrior
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