AoÆ Lore

This lore is canon unless explicitly stated and will be updated periodically.

### The Beginning

In the beginning there was nothing. But then the Progenitor materialized in the nothingness. He created the cosmological forces of Life, Death, Shadow, Light, Iltima (chaos) and Ultima (peace). Then came the planets. They were Orthos, Ilderax, Prime Zikkyeer, Tal'daraan (The Underworld) and Tal'darakk (The Realm of Neyaaz). Korthig was part of Orthos. The Progenitor created the cosmological primals, most notably the Shadowlords and the Great Ones, who bestowed the Aspects with their power. The great Ones also created dragons.

## Rise of Civilization

Various races, like humans and elves, rose across the land. One day, an elf and a more intelligent dragon met and fell in love. They had a child named Vodra, the first Draconian. Vodra populated Draconians through birth and powerful transformation rituals. Dreadstrike Inferniclaw is a descendant of Vodra. Civilization also rose on the Spire of Korthig, Tal'daraan, Tal'darakk and Prime Zikkyeer, which was later destroyed.

## Alternate Zikkyeer

The alternate Droug (not canon) built their empire on Alternate Zikkyeer at the time of its prime counterpart's destruction. They built the great city of Nyphaara, named after their power source, Nyph, on an island in a lake of lava, as.well as their floating fortresses. They soon began the First Aethereyal Conquest, In order to take over Orthos and use the worldsoul to power their machinations. The Aspects, the Draconyx, and the factions of the world pushed back the Droug before they even hit Aethereya, however.

## The Skylands Roleplay (not playable)

The first adventurers were summoned to Beacon City through a powerful ritual at the behest of the original Aspects and the Draconyx. These adventurers journeyed with Dreadstrike (and sometimes with Endar as well) across the vast world of Alredor delving into haunted mansions, defeating the ender dragon, and even traveling into other worlds, such as Old Atum and Old Blue Skies dimensions. The four Aberrant Primals: K'Gaa, Sh'Daa, T'Zaa and x atlas were also defeated.

## The Shadowray

Then came the Shadowray, a force of pure Shadow (and some Iltima) energy. It nearly decimated the entirety of Orthos. It was channeled from Prosva Aberis ("plane of shadows" in Aethereyan) to destroy the planet and kill the world soul. This plan failed, with the intervention of the Aspectral Oblivionator, fired from Prosva Lumis ("plane of light" in Aethereyan). The clash of the two rays, plus all the power the Aspects, Draconyx, mortal races and even other cosmological primals could channel, ultimately created an impossibly rare artifact: a Seed of the Cosmos. This seed was then planted in the Expanse, a vast, empty reflection of the now cataclysmically altered Alredor, now known as Aethereya. Within the expanse it grew into Arboris Harmonium, ("Arbor of Harmony" in Aethereyan) the first world tree. The tree embodies the harmony of all the cosmological forces through new life in both planes. After the dust settled, the other Aspects entrusted their world to Dreadstrike and the Draconyx, saying that they were "moving on" to other worlds and settle them, and the tree would embody their presence as well. Supreme Grand Lord High Emperor Swisseroni XXVII gave Dreadstrike an artifact that could call the Aspects back if the world was in need, before departing to shape a new legend.

## Age of Azyros

After the Shadowray, a villager alchemist named Azyr subsequently created a single continent by combining the others in an attempt to split the peninsula where she lived into an island to be secluded. Unbeknownst to here, she ended up Realitybending the continents and forcing them to combine into one continent. This new continent was called Azyros ("land of Azyr" in Aethereya) in her honor. During this age, new adventurers defeated Tyranna the Ender Dragon, braved the depths of the First Land, and fought back against the Kakata tribe on Eternium. But Azyr soon died, and the power that held the continents together ruptured, splitting continents and oceans into pure noise. Azyros was lost, and the second generation of adventurers were killed.

## Advent of Æthereya

### Sun and Moon

After the third generation of adventurers came to Orthos, they soon discovered the Sheep Nation, Dreadstrike's domain at the heart of Aethereya. After gathering resources, they colonized the abandoned cities of Solaria and Lunaris, elected leaders, wages war with their polar opposites (sun≠moon) and rallied with Dreadstrike to defeat the Ender Dragon.

### The Soulstice

Long ago, when the great system of the cosmos was first created, the force of Death was cruel and unkind to those it claimed. The Death Primals saw the grief of the physical world, and took pity on them. They went to Prosva Lumis, the home of the Great Ones, who managed and administrated the cosmological system. There they proposed a day on which two beacons lined up with each other, a portal between Anthryk and Aethereya would open, and the deceased could visit their families in Aethereya. The Great Ones agreed. This day was called the Day of Two Beacons, but the Aethereyan people called it the Soulstice.

### The Three Realms

In ancient Norse mythology, there are nine worlds all connected by a World Tree. In Orthos, there are three, and a fragment of the worldsoul is present in each. They are Aethereya, the "High Realm", the prime, current version of Orthos, Nikrheim, the "Old Realm", the Viking version of the Sheep Nation on an island surrounded by endless sea, and Gortan, the "Shattered Realm". This realm was once whole, but has now been reduced to a chunk of the planet on which the city of ¥'€ẞpana£¥a (ē-s-puh-NIGH-uh), the Spanish/Mexican version of the Sheep Nation has been built around the worldsoul.