Cometarum

Cometarum was assigned to be an average soldier from birth due to his family being made of granite. That was always how it had been, the Granite men being nothing but common soldiers to fight wars for the nobles. However from a young age everyone around Cometarum, from the other students in the military academy, to the teachers there, knew that he was different. He was much more intelligent than other soldiers, having spent most of his free time teaching himself other things about the world that the academy didn’t, such as science, and math. He was surprisingly good at it, and even taught himself small electronic capabilities that are often reserved for the nobles. He was never able to actually use any of this knowledge as after he graduated the academy he was immediately sent off to fight. Even the other soldiers knew of his above average intelligence, many of the people surrounding him, trying everything they could to get him promoted to being a higher ranking general. It was a difficult task to try and be promoted to a position of power that no granite man had gone before. It would cause a major upset to get even the smallest of promotions, that even the highest ranking of the nobles would likely take an interest if it had succeeded. And it probably would have caused a real change in the class system too. But one night no one could find Cometarum, he had simply disappeared. Not a single guard on duty had seen him leave, and all his stuff was still in his bunks. Rumors began to spread that one of the Diorite generals had become worried of the problems this could cause and killed Cometarum in his sleep, then told the guards not to tell anyone that he was there, but there is no proof to prove this.

What had really happened was, that night Cometarum had just gone to bed, after working his lookout shift late, due to his replacement not showing up on time. Everyone else in the barracks was already asleep when he entered. He fell asleep quickly and when he woke up he was in a completely different place. He jumped up startled at this sudden change, at first wondering if he was dead, getting killed in the night, by a surprise attack. But this was much different than the afterlife described to him from birth, so he quickly brushed it off. He could see a house nearby, a small farm, and a book on a stand, reading out the names of other people who lived there. He had never heard of such strange names before, but he decided to carry on. Cometarum harvested some food and found some tools in a chest in the house, set out as if specifically for him, with a note saying that the stuff was free to take to help out newcomers. Clearly he was not the first one to appear here. Cometarum began to wander into the distance seeing what he could find, when he came across a village of strange people. In the distance was a mountain. He decided to make it his new home not knowing what other stargaze things could come of all this. Soon Cometarum began to dig through a cave nearby to his house, until he found a substance he had been waiting for all his life, redstone. Since his discovery, he has had many ideas of things he could make with this wonderful redstone. He has also traveled around more, not finding anyone else like him, with the ability to build and change the world around them. Only traces of these other people, traces like the starting farm, the residents of small villages being permanently locked inside their home, and even complex buildings with signs of living clearly surrounding them. One day Cometarum hopes to meet these strange people and maybe even find out why he has been brought here in the first place.