The Dark Days

Siege of Asagoth

**The Dark Days** was a conquest led by second king of Fallmont, King Castor Beaumont against the Fae led by the Great War Titan Adramor from the year 4 B.X.E to 1 A.X.E. The five year war led to the sealing of Asagoth, the destruction and rebirth of the Mortalis, the death of the Divine Iris, and the death of thousands on both sides. It was ended by the Divine Xeloria who slew Castor in a great battle only weeks after the sealing of Asagoth and his supposed victory.

## History

Castor Incendus Beaumont, The Son Born of Flame, was the second King of Fallmont. When he was a young warrior prince, he had to rule the throne when his father, King Kalen fell very ill with disease. During this time, all of the humans lived in Fallmont which is the present day city of Elio, a small island while all of the Fae inhabited the surrounding islands, their main castle being on present day Asagoth. The humans and the Fae had this unspoken rule where they don’t interact and they leave each other alone. However, Castor, wanting to try his power as King set to quell the tensions—but with a sinister plan in mind. He invited the Fae royals to Elio for a month of parties, festivals, and banquets in hopes of forming a peaceful unity between the Fae and Humans. The Fae King, also known as the Titan Lord, Adramor, had two daughters and a son. The beautiful Iris, who he had with the Goddess of the stars, Miphione and his younger daughter Xeloria who he had with Brie, the Goddess of the moon. His youngest child was a son, Jyn. He had him with the Goddess of the Sun, Prudynce.  These children were known as the Divines. They and other Fae of both the Xuvian and Allurian races attended the parties.

During this time Iris and Castor became incredibly friendly which eventually led to a passionate romance. With the titan king’s permission, the two became married and were sanctified by Adramor and Mipione becoming ***Aeternum,*** or Eternal Partners, a special bond that can only be granted by the Titan of Love herself, Winyra. After this, peace and unity was born. While Castor ruled in Elio, Adramor ruled in Asagoth but Fae and Humans now lived together on all islands. A year after their love had been sanctified, Castor and Iris were very in love. However, Castor’s ambition....his greed was changing him, corrupting him. He did not like how the Fae ruled all the surrounding islands while the humans were stuck to just the city of Elio. He wanted to rule all the lands, but he could never wage war on a race with such deadly magic. Castor longed to know the source of that raw power they held. What if he could get hold of it? Castor began to barrage Iris with questions, begging her to tell him about where they get their power, how to seek out the goddesses, how to destroy the Fae.

However Iris would not betray her own people. She never said a word. Greed and anger overcame Castor and he began to be hostile towards his wife. He emotionally and even physically abused her yet she did not fight back because her mother was not a fan of violence. He would yell and hurt her in a rage, wanting to destroy the fae because of his search for more and more power and ultimate rule. Castor still mated with her however, and they had a daughter, Elianna. She was just a baby when when Iris caved in and revealed that she was the only fae power source called the Mortalis as her siblings were still too young to be given their source. Overridden with powerlust, Castor murdered his wife, who did not retaliate since she followed her mother’s principles of peace and love. But she pleaded with him, begged him to rethink his actions, and to once again seek peace. But he was too far gone and there was no coming back. Now that Castor had killed the Fae’s power source, they were magicless. And even that wasn’t enough. He needed power of his own. He needed magic. Castor carved out the heart of his dead wife and Aeternum  and poured the blood over an obsidian sword he crafted himself. He called the sword Daemonium and called upon the Titan Dunna to bless his sword with the raw magic of the Mortalis. She gave him his blessing in exchange for her body which he threw in the sea in offering to Dunna. Now with the power of the gods, Castor sent out his human armies ambushing island by island, leaving thousands of dead fae in their wake.

One of his major conquests was the Siege of Asagoth. Castor led his army on ships overnight to the rocky shores. Fae General Ji’hanyi Evercaster was tasked with fleeing the island in hiding with the two remaining Divines, Jyn and Xeloria in tow. Castor then feared that the Mortalis Bond would be passed from Iris to their daughter Elianna and a new power source would be born so he used Iris’ dying power to put her in an eternal sleep and lock her away in an obsidian coffin and stored her below the Sky Keep in a cave he called Castor’s Crypts. Him and his armies made their way, island after island, to Asagoth: The Fae Stronghold. Thousands of Fae attacked Castors army at the borders. The Fae army there still had their magic seeing that Asagoth was magic’s birthplace. Castor had no choice but to finally use all of Iris remaining power to seal the entire island off. Castor’s army quickly retreated as the Fae were locked from within so no one could exit. One could go in...and never come back.

Castor ventured into the sealed off island himself, Daemonium strapped at his back. Sneaking into the palace alone, he confronted the Great Titan of Chaos Adramor and they battled. They battled for hours until eventually Castor used his Mortalis-powered blade to banish Adramor to the pits of the underworld where he would rest forever.

This left all the remaining Fae in Asagoth with no escape. King Castor was welcomed back to Elio and the remaining islands with praise and honor. The Titanslayer. He reigned as King for years until....the Fae came back.

Only a year later, well into the new reign of Castor and the humans all over Fallmont, a Divine reappeared. 19-year-old Xeloria, daughter of the slain Titan Adramor and the Moon Goddess Brie, returned from hiding. And with her power source fully manifested into a Primal Shard she created the Klatoris: the Dark Grimorie filled with spells. She lured him away from Fallmont and into the nearby Expanse. They fought in a battle that wouldn’t be rivaled by anything for centuries. Eventually she used a spell that would freeze him in place and kill him, just out of reach of his blade, Daemonium. Xeloria used her magic to shapeshift into Castor taking on his looks and ruling for generations to come. And even though Xeloria didn’t have the power to unseal Asagoth, which needed all the power sources with their primal shards, the Dark Days were over. Xeloria vowed to one day collect all the primal shards and unseal Asagoth, awaken her Titan Father, and exact revenge on the humans that did her and her people so wrong.