Navaria's Origin Story

## Origin

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Once there was Light.

The Light created the world we all live in today and it was a beautiful creation.

No flaws, no taints, just perfection in its purest form.

But it was void of life, so the Light decided to create the gods.

It gave them plenty of power and creativity to go with, so they would fill the world with a plethora of their own creations.

The Light shifted and reformed the world, so that all the different forms of life could live together in harmony and peace. It was very pleased with the gods’ work, as their creations soon spread all over the vast oceans and fertile lands.

But the world still had no name, so the Light decided to call it Navaria.

It was very satisfied with how its creation had turned out and decided to let Navaria evolve on its own. It disappeared into a passive state and relished observing its growth.

Many centuries passed and the world continued flourishing. The gods were not as perfect as the Light in their creational prowess, but they honored its original design and kept the balance as it was.

It was supposed to continue like this for all eternity.

But then the Darkness found out about Navaria and intervened. It was utterly disgusted by the Light’s creation and took action right away.

First it shattered the gods into a thousand pieces, so that their stabilizing powers would vanish and chaos would arise in their stead. Some of their shards managed to barely survive and are called ‘gods’ nowadays, but just as their material form their power was only a fragment of their former glory.

After that the Darkness cast three terrible curses and bestowed them upon the now unprotected creatures of Navaria, so they would feast on one another and destroy the harmony that has been blessing the world since its initial creation.

Vampirism – Lycanthropy – Undeath

Three curses. Three words. Three different ways to turn the creations of Light into the servants of Darkness, to twist their very nature and to corrupt them to their very core.

It was then the Light reevaluated its passive state and confronted the Darkness actively. It tried to negotiate and to plea, but the Darkness did not listen to any of it and continued its destructive path.

A war began that shook the world in its very foundations. Light and Darkness kept each other in check, as they were two sides of the same coin and thus equal in strength, while in Navaria their creations slaughtered each other and soiled the once perfect and pure soil of the world with blood and tears.

In the end five heroes, chosen by the Light itself, managed to gain a crucial advantage during the war. Their devotion and ferocity let them win battle after battle. This gave them the opportunity to support the Light in its struggle against the Darkness.

The Light instructed them to perform a holy ritual to banish the Darkness from Navaria while it was distracted by its nemesis. Little did they know of the consequences of this ritual and they had no reason to question it, since it was a direct order from the Light itself.

During the climax of the ritual the single continent of Navaria broke and its pieces drifted apart from each other. Those pieces turned into the continents we know of today.

Where there is no darkness, there can not be light. There is a simple, yet beautiful truth to these words and as the Darkness got banished from this world so was the Light.

All of a sudden Navaria was on its own. No Light to guide all of its creatures. No gods to keep a proper balance. During the next centuries it was forced to find its own identity.

Creatures of Light and Darkness learned to live together over time and even though there was no guarantee for peace and harmony anymore, they worked hard to achieve a status as close as possible to the Light’s ideas of a perfect world.