Avares , the golden empire

## Avares Lore

In the continent of Zerkos , the kingdom of Alvares has had technology has been around since the start of the 5th century in its very rudimental forms but, with over 600 years of development and knowledge, the technological advancements are at their peak where lay lines granted to them by the founders are now used to power the cities teleportation door and cabins along with there being entire buildings which run from the gift of the arcana among many other wonderous things. Healthcare has advanced greatly along with infrastructure and communication thanks to technology as well.

However there is also magic, arcane pulses such as lay lines and mana flow through everything and while it was common knowledge in the days of the founder for everyone to use magic and harness it, now in the golden age there are universities and schools dedicated to teaching the ways of the arcana and its many paths, user and professions

There are mages or wizards, who gain the ability to practice magic through study and focus on the arcane and all its aspects.

Sourcers are born innately with magic and while they still need guidance they need much less of it to learn and master arcane arts

Others get their powers from servitude to the powers of above, not the founders but the gods and goddesses that govern the world and its forces, they may be knights or healers of the realm, scholars even. Finally, there are warlocks. Those who strike deals with other planar beings, not all are bad like the ones which corrupted the fallen founder of the course, but it is something all practitioners of that type are very wary of. However, one thing all have in common is that all are welcome to study in the halls of the arcana schools.

However it has not been like this, it all began with lazarus one of the founders who granted kingdoms its structure, both magical and hierarchical. he outlived the others and chose to rule over one kingdom of his choice, the golden empire ( avares )  as he was the first king of avares. And from him, most other royal bloodlines of the kingdom descend.

However, he did not heed the warnings of his brothers who said that it is far much power and that his curiosity is one that must not be quenched by the way of the crown. As such he succumbed to madness. To something FAR greater than their own power. It whispered in the darkness and moved in the hollowness of the night, it promised power and knowledge to those foolish enough to agree without thinking of its price.

His fall was great but slow. So slow that it took over 200 years for it to take notice but once it did the realm took action. Knights and mages gathered to fight against him and the being that took control of his soul in the hopes of reviving their precious founder and king but they soon discovered that it was hopeless. The souls of the other founders chose their champions as they sealed and shattered him to pieces and thus he became the fallen founder.

After the rise and fall of Lazarus, the kingdom stabilised and with the help of other planes, races and magic it began to evolve both socially, medically, arcane wise and technologically so much so that by the 12th century it is a kingdom of high technology and arcane uses.

This brings us to now. In the mid-13th century, where the kingdom flourishes with every aspect of its being  much like the rest of the world the founders are remembered and learned about in arcane universities, but in a place of high technology, knowledge and incredible sources of power also comes the dangers of what it temps people to do.