Ether

Dark Lord

*"It was stated that the first Emperor, our Immortal Emperor destroyed and cast the Lord of Darkness back to Irion, saving Egion."* - Imperial Scholar

Ether, or better known by his worshippers as 'Aether', was an Atia that was known as the Lord of Darkness helping create the concept of time across the realm of Egion with Ether creating the night and darkness that engulfs the realm after the hours of daytime, eventually Ether would break past the barrier between Irion and Egion where he would set foot within the mortal realm corrupting everything around him, he would form his own army branding it the Nightmare Horde and plotted to take over the realm to become more powerful than any of the Atia combined however he would be beaten by Robern who would cast him back to Irion where he would be trapped and prevented like the other Atia from entering Egion in their true form.

## Biography

### Irion

#### Forming of the Atia

Upon the realm of Irion being formed the first ever species to exist was the Atia who became deities to the people of Egion and amongst these Atia was Ether who found himself to thrive within the darker parts of the realm building his power off of the darkness itself, whilst the Atia had not connected with each other yet Ether himself had a vision of the Atia forming together becoming powerful together however this is not what he wanted instead he wanted to be the ruler of the Atia as its sole ruler and so tried to prevent this vision however his vision would come to pass and he had no choice but to join his brothers and sisters in forming the Atia together and then creating Egion.

#### Creating Egion

With the Atia formed they would come together to create the realm of Egion with each of the Atia helping to create the realm and Ether would help to create the concept of time with the forming of darkness and night and he would oversee the realm at night as his role, upon creating the realm Ether would already be planning on conquering the realm and making it solely his domain where he could build his own power to rival that of the entire Atia in which he made the Eternal Isle preparing it for his arrival 100 years before he would actually arrive on the land.

### Egion

#### Manipulation

Upon the realm being created Ether would surround the Eternal Isle with a beautiful landscape practically advertising the land for people to settle and live within, for the first 100 years Ether would create a beautiful landscape that was visited by many travellers and settled by thousands more but this was all a ploy for Ether to eventually corrupt the land and amass himself an army of darkness from the settlers that lived within the Isle.

#### Ether's Rule

After these 100 years had passed the Eternal Isle had amassed quite the population which would allow for Ether to break through the barrier between the two realms which then would allow him to step foot within Egion as his true self in which he would then use his weapon called Orenmir to conjure the souls of those around him with his dark magic, with these souls now inside his mace Ether would have a very powerful weapon to use against his foes. Ether would also truly realise the power that he held upon stepping onto the lands of Egion where everything around him would become mutated and consumed in darkness, from here Ether would claim the Eternal Isle as his domain and from there he would begin to grow his army across more and more territories.

Whilst encountering some form of resistance from small areas none of these groups would be able to repel the armies of the Nightmare Horde and Ether understood this and this is why they fell so easily to him until on his conquest he would encounter a man called Robern who held his own against Ether's army with his own tactics of war. Robern established his own Empire that fought for freedom and peace within Egion, Whilst Ether overlooked this person and simply sent more of his minions to defeat this man little did he know that Robern was being backed by the rest of the Atia, Ether would eventually find this out and be infuriated that a simple man was able to repel his forces. Ether would also not be able to act quick enough as thanks to the Atia Robern would have amassed an army forming a true Empire of Egion to battle against Ether and his horde, the War of Egion would commence with multiple battles happening across the realm with different kingdoms, species and of course the Empire which all would lead up to the final battle on the Eternal Isle where the Empire would sever the darkness of the Isle from the rest of the mainland whilst Robern engaged in combat with Ether eventually beating him and casting him back to Irion where the Atia would imprison and prevented him from ever returning to Egion.

#### Aftermath

Whilst imprisoned Ether would always somehow manage to send small messages to his worshippers across Egion and help his remnant forces on the Eternal Isle to eventually help in rebuilding a way for him to return to the realm and once again conquer the entire world including Irion.