Chronicle 1: Averion

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## **Chronicle 1**

### **Averion**

Over four thousand years ago, two great celestial gods known as Ascarus and Renturi brought our land into being. Building from the smallest rock, to the greatest oceans!

This marks the 413th year in the 4th millennia on the continent.

Our land was struck by war, pain, death and tragedy. A plague upon all of the races. However, more than one thousand peaceful years have passed since the creatures that once hunted us, known as ‘The Blight,’ were contained. It is said that they were spawned from the evil of the gods. But who is to know? The land in which such hatred malfeasance resides, darkened by chaos and violence, is now known as ‘The Midnight Forest’.  But fear not, for a ready organization of hunters are often on the prowl for any that slip through the cracks of its borders.

### **Creation**

!t is said, in the many different pages lost to time, that four divine stars shot through the dark expanse of the sky and began to create our world. It is also said that from the remnants of this creation that two celestial deities were born. Ascarus and Renturi.

These two celestials soon became bored with the vast and endless black that they existed within. They were surrounded by nothing but the remaining divine energy, pieces of the creation of the world that had remained like an echo of the stars that had come before. To end this mind-numbing agony, they began to compete and play games with each other. They would create things of rock and dust, particles and air. One by one each creation would grow and develop from those that came before, becoming more and more complicated as time passed. They even used some of the divine energy to manifest clusters of organic life and soon the world we know now had been born.

Amongst the smallest blades of grass to the vastest and most violent oceans, the two seemed content for a while to let this primitive world thrive and develop with very little intervention. However, it would not take long for Ascarus to grow tired of such dull things. The deity would often voice their theories about how the primitive creatures roaming their world could better serve them if they were sentient, and how they could push their creations to the peak of their potential. They believed that this could even transcend the power and significance of the twin Deities themselves.

Renturi was apprehensive, believing that such a change might harm their beautiful creation rather than help it. If such beings could impact the world in ways similar to the deities, carnage could they create? Eventually Renturi conceded and the two set to work.

### Hypocrisy

First came the Elves, a long lived race that were intelligent, swift and replete with magical energy. Then the Dwarven folk, a hard and sturdy race, and the Fae, who were spawned in small pockets of intense magical clusters. They were shortly followed by the other races we know now as time went by; the Orcs, Lacaris, Malvas, Goblins, Gneissa, Draconia, Humans, Druga, Kora, Meridae, and Atlura.

Their great creation was finally at hand, but as each of the great races began to flourish and grow they began to fight over control of the lands, slowly degrading the world over time. This made Renturi furious. The celestial became determined to intervene and create peace and tranquillity across their world once more. Renturi refused to let the world they had built together be brought to ruin by the inferior creations they had made. Ascarus, on the other hand, refused to interact or back down from their stance, believing that the mortals should simply be let to continue down their own paths with no interference.

To battle against such hypocrisy, Renturi secretly chose four people they deemed worthy, great enough to receive their gift and imbued them with their will and their celestial power. These four chosen were tasked with ridding the world of the inferior beings, like the pests that Renturi saw them as. And so began the scouring of the lands. The four struck the world like a plague, wiping entire civilizations from the lands and turning them to dust, as if they had never existed.

Ascarus did not take long to see this, feeling the suffering of their creation deep within their soul. Deeming all this destruction too much to bear, and aspiring to save those who had been lost during the catastrophes that Renturi’s chosen had caused, Ascarus decided to create a separate realm, an afterlife of sorts.

Upon witnessing some of the races coming together to fight back, Ascarus chose eight individuals and imbued them with celestial energy. To temper the death and destruction wrought by Rentari's disciples, these new Guardians of the mortals would wage war against the Plagues.

### **The Primordials**

All total, twelve people were chosen and imbued with celestial energy. They became known as the lesser deities and are often referred to as ‘The Primordials’.

Eventually, the scourge of four were defeated after the Guardians gained an upper hand thanks to the combined civilizations across the world. However, in order to stop their rampage, four guardians sacrificed themselves to be sealed away in totems with their counterparts forever.

Over time, those who worshiped the Primordial Guardians grew in number. They formed various groups of protectors and vowed to watch over all eight until the end of time. The sects varied in ideology, but the core principal remained the same across kingdoms around the world: prevent the escape of the Plagues.

Distorted, maleficent creatures that spilled from the scourge were still roaming the lands, and everywhere they went they brought chaos, destruction and decay. Eventually, they too were pushed back into one place which is now known as ‘The Midnight Forest’. This was a place where the most nefarious creatures roamed, vile diseases and wicked curses mutating into nightmares and abominations. At times, creatures would slip out from the forest, creating a need for valiant warriors capable of hunting them down.

It is unknown what happened to the other four surviving Guardians. Some say they still travel the lands in disguise assisting people. Others say they settled on the tallest peaks of the Ice Fang Mountains. They might even be in the after-realm, assisting people with their life after death.

The Primordials are regarded as 'Gods' to many peoples, often appearing in various different forms throughout different cultures.