History of Xylna

The mythos of the universe around the world as Xylnans know it was once well known. That was, until The Worldwake. At this point, a new lore of the universe was discovered, much of which is still unknown. Detailed below is that which is known.

## The Progeny

Detailed within a tome given to the churches of Xylna, the following information on an unknown age before the Era of Devisal was told. At the universe’s origin, there were five. These five came into being to create that which was around them. Luminus, the Starmaven’s purpose was to make the space around them. Penumbra, the Shadowtide’s was to make their reality the correct one in the sea of what was. Helios, the Solstice King would bring life’s hope and light to the world away from darkness. Brivol, Gravity’s Master believed in control, setting the limits of life at the beginning. Erivax, the Pulsar crafted the reality around them to contain the power that could be.

In their first founding, they worked together to create what they wanted to see out of their reality and life within it. They made a mass of potential, a canvas, and the gods to paint their beauty. This world would eventually be known as Xylna.

They had achieved perfection with this world in their eyes, so they decided to attempt to make more. Each of the five known as the Axiom would split off and work on their own worlds. However, without the unity of their ideals, each world was built and fell without success.

In the wake of such failure, they decided that they would keep their perfect world safe from the rest of the universe they sought to build. In their search to make their Ionos Ambit after their previous failures, they decided to make a universe free of their influence, of the hands of gods toying with their creations. To prevent their pinnacle from being ruined, they locked Xylna in a barrier, allowing the world to exist behind a creation known as the Void Wall.

## Era of Devisal

Xylna was nothing more than a roiling mass of overlapping elements and chaos. The primordials used it as a sort of sandbox of powers and it would be nothing more than that for an unknowable amount of time. It was then that the first gods had appeared from far beyond, seeing the potential in the world.

It was at this moment that the first creations by their hands had touched down and brought new life to the planet. Some gods had decided to bring upon new life, while others decided to create new monstrous power to entertain themselves with battle that they could not find anywhere else. New races were made, and magic was blessed upon these by the divine. The primordials that once ruled were shunned away by the gods as they could not be trusted in their eyes.

The world was also visited by the creation of scaled forms. Dragons had grown and thrived in this early state of the world, having been brought to fruition in differing existences. Some sought power, others learned of currency and craved that, and some simply looked to protect the life that already existed in the world.

There were, however, deities that were not happy with the status quo of peace. Some powers of the Abyss, some of hells, and others born of the pure energy of chaos that the universe had nothing to do with at that time.

These gods had an understanding with the ones that watched over Xylna. Or, at least it seemed so. The powers beyond had been complacent with the chaos of elements that the world had once been. So, some of these powers gathered and agreed together that it may not have been fair for it to have ever been altered. Thus, they decided that change had needed to happen.

At this same time, The Watchers, as the gods of the mortal plane had become known, had seen that the mortals would require more magic than the gods themselves could simply give. Thus, magic known as the Arcane Seams had been laid invisibly throughout Xylna that connected to a source beyond to allow these mortals to gain unfettered arcane power.

### The First Creations

The first humanoid creatures that were sent throughout Xylna were the humans, elves, halflings, and dwarves. These creatures would begin the first civilizations, and would learn the first magics of the world, that of the divine. These people felt as though they owed their creators, and with that, the gods believed they didn’t want to lose their creations to the ways of the land so quickly. This allowed those that were chosen by the gods to ascend to power creating kingdoms and empires based off of a divine hierarchy such as that.

### The Elementalists

Though the primordials were not ready to give fight to the gods, they still wanted to show their capability and presence in the lands. This is what birthed the first elementalists. These were creatures created as pseudo-champions of the Primordials. Heralds and fighters impued with their power that controlled many of the bounds of realms throughout the lands.

### The Circumic

The Era of Devisal was, at its most fundamental form, a time for trial and error. The gods still had no clue what they were wanting out of their creations. So, in a bid to create more powerful creatures, the Circumic were birthed from shattered souls of their first works. The Circumic would eventually fall into obscurity towards the end of the Era of Devisal, but it is rumored that some bloodlines still run to this very day.

## Era of Amity

Generations went on, new species of races and monsters continued, and the people of Xylna created floating cities to gather arcane energy from the Seams. Technology beyond imagination had been made. And most of all, people had found a peace and prosperity driven by the unfettered sources of magic they could so easily tap into.

This was a time known as the Era of Amity. People were free to pursue any cause they sought out. Some wished to access alternate planes, create beautiful new magics, and some searched for new lands to bring life to.

A small, select few had wanted to gain the power the Gods had. Even more surprisingly, there were a handful that succeeded. Only a few are known to the modern day as having ascended. That being The Woken Watcher, the Matron of Ravens, and The Grasp of Oblivion. This ability to ascend, however, would be the thing that would mark the downfall of the so virtuous world that The Watchers made.

### The Paragons

Though most primordials had fallen away from the lands, either perishing, retiring, or being chained away by the gods, there was a new generation of lesser titans that began to roam the lands. Born from the esence of primordials and [[Arcane Nodes]], these beings would be known as Paragons. Arcane elementals. Their reigns over the lands were typically strong, and were stalwart defenders of the realm.

### Taken to the Skies

Many cities were created on floating islands in the skies that were able to travel along tethers to Arcane Nodes. These cities were often the most arcanely and technologically advanced, with mages and people of power living both figuratively and literally above those on the land.

### Divine Aspirations

Though there were a few documented success stories when it came to ascention to godhood, there were dozens of failures for each being that prevailed. These led to some of the most monstrous beings of the lands at that time that often ended up taking a stand against the gods beyond.

## Collapse of the Idols

The powers that lay beyond whom disagreed The Watchers reached out to the primordials for help in returning Xylna back to that which it had been before. Some agreed, while four had decided to sit out of the coming conflict all together. They then reached out to many of the nastiest dragons in the land, who also agreed. All while sitting right under the noses of The Watchers.

Any recorded history from an amount of time before The Collapse has been lost to the elements. What is known, though, is that about a quarter of all known life on Xylna had died in the first week of battle. The Watchers, the other gods, the primordials, and the dragons had all touched down onto land. With each clash of weapons, mountains fell, rivers dried, and chaos burst throughout the world. The first things to go were the ancient floating cities throughout the skies. The next was the capital of the ancient world, Quole. Sinking deep beneath the seas never to be found again. The primordials were the first line of offense. This also meant that they were the first wiped out, causing the ruin gods to move in along with their draconic allies.

In the end, The Watchers were aided by their creations and their holy draconic allies. The final battle was the only to be truly recorded. A battle in the Sarimm Commons of Vri’il that would bring some races together for the first time. This is where all nature throughout the continent would be vaporized in an instant, not to be brought back for many years.

Once the battle was done, The Watchers dawned a new name returning to their home plane. Now known as the “Prime Enclave”, with the secondary gods bring known as the “Icons of the Eternal Domain”. Those who defied the Prime Enclave were deemed the “Ruinmakers” or Gods of Ruin to most mortals. The only four neutral primordials to stand afterwards had made good with the Prime Enclave, taking domain over the elements for themselves.

### Guards Against Reprise

In order to prevent the destruction of Xylna in the future from any kind of war of the gods like the Collapse, the Prime Enclave came together to form the Sacred Veil. This veil would limit the amount of influence a god could have on Xylna.

### Supernal Echoes

In order for mortals to stand a chance in battle with gods and their creations, champions were awarded Supernal Echoes, weapons, armor, and many other items that gave large power imbued by high beings. After the Collapse, most of these items were lost to time, leading to their magic being locked away to be unlocked after their refounding.

## The Mortal Rebuilding

The world reeled from the damage caused by the gods. Thankfully, through the leadership of groups such as the Loran Order and other hopeful individuals, life began to regain its luster. Lands begun to get rebuilt, and a series of 200 years of attempted rebuilding of society and civilization. After the chaos of the Collapse, the Prime Enclave created the Sacred Veil in order to never allow themselves or any god to create a conflict such as that again.

## Epoch of Innovation

Over close to 800 years, the rest of the world has gone on and attempted to grow itself back into what it once was, if that is even possible. Technology, magic, and knowledge unfettered has been discovered. Some posit that a lot of this information was once known or even commonplace before the collapse.

The gods have found themselves at baselines of more conflicts again as time has gone on. Both lawful and chaotic gods have put their power into the people in their name to fight for their beliefs, some of which have caused destruction once more, and life that was once unknown. Everything changed in the year 1031 P.C.

## The Age Infinitus

A new gods voice rang throughout Xylna after the world began to change. The sky cracked and tore, and in a moment of light, the cosmos beyond were revealed to the world. The new god, introducing himself as Vitalax, the Lucid Verity, told the truth that was hidden from the people of Xylna for it’s entirety. The tale of the Progeny, the Axiom, and the fact that they are the pinnacle world of the universe, finally given access to that which is beyond. The Ionos Ambit. A universe with smaller societies and people beyond separated from the knowledge of Xylna, under the banner of its same gods.