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Stand and Recieve, Scion of Ator!

This wiki is meant to house the mountain of lore of an original universe known as 'Godswar', or 'Godswar, Echoes of History'. This will feature history of several thousand years, from the start of a starless creation to the dimming light of the end of history. The Mother is dying, and Kin prepare for war.
Where do you stand?

**Echoes of History, in a Dying World..**
The **End of Days** is not yet upon the mortal realm, nor is it on the minds of Gods or Men; but, the time of beginning has long since passed, and none but three celestial figures can remember the days of starlight and dust. Only the three can remember when Kin was not supreme, when they were simply a smart beast among other beasts - when they were simple, when they huddled around campfires; **few**, **naked** and **afraid**. They remember a time when the world was new, when the East was a brilliant emerald, the seas reflected the moons in their perfect forms, and when there were few spirits in the heavens, high above the world. When the world was quiet, when it was just being formed by a newly-expanded mind.

When there was nothing but **starlight**.

There have been three celestial figures that have stood behind Humanity, the world, for as long as anything has ever been. The first is the world's beginning, the eternal reminder of life, a symbol of creation, used by Royalty throughout all Paedelos - the Sun. **Ator**; Mother and Father, the twin-deity of creation, the being that spawned the world simply by thinking, who cleft the world into perfect shape, who bore chaos and order in both of it's hands, and melded them together. An icon of synchronicity, a spirit of unending love and adoration for the things it had made by looking out in the inky void. This emptiness made It think, for a first time - *"what if there was?"*

Stood astride the Mother and Father, **Horus** and **Daelvor**. The firstborn celestial spirits, the two advisors to the Monarch, to the Mother - the Father. They are what nothing else could be, they are pale mirrors of two aspects of **Ator** - pure **order**, and pure **chaos**. The former, a being of war, death, and destruction. The latter, a being of peace, life, and creation. The two are two sides of a **same coin**, and have long eternally been alongisde **Ator** - helping in deciding what to do, when to do it, and how far to push things. Or to do things at all.

This was believed to never be able to change, an irrevocable constant in a chaotic reality. But, to the dismay of reality born of Her, the **mortal wounding** of **Ator** was felt with a waking shudder. The **Sorcerer-Kings** brought pain to Her children, they destroyed His creations, and tore down His places of worship. They filled Them with **hatred**, and this hatred only compounded with the death of **Roha**, Their starlight. They had underwent a sacrifice of their own divinity and immortality for Humanity's sake, when they cast down their immortality and struck at the Sorcerers directly - closing the portals, their lifelines to another reality, and dooming them to death at the hands of Her children. With it, the very seams of the world seemed like they bent inward, as the world rumbled with the mortal wounding of **Ator**. Such pain and misery not felt since the **Godswar**, reflected through **nightmares** that run through the heads of all living beings every few years, a resounding echo that leaves many awake at night - a tear in reality, that makes the world bleed in on itself. It makes men of the cloth **scared**, and learned men **mad**.

Following centuries of warfare between the Crownlings of the North spilled blood across what remained of Paedelos, the Kin below undisturbed and generally uncaring, or unknowing, of the celestial occurrences surrounding them. The Esani are drawing further and further North; trying to outrun the Scorch that harries their every step. The Udrani sharpen their steel and sail out on choppy seas, coming Southward to bring the end of all things living, for their own crazed fanatical desire to see the world burn, to see the end of the Dream. And now, the Greentide has come and passed, and the greatest Realm of Kin has fallen - the Black Kingdom, Naros, has **fallen**. The world shudders once more, and the grounds shake in anticipation. The North erupts into violent shrieks of blood-lust, and the boots of armies trod bones into dust across the tired realms. Crowns lay shattered, and ambitious men with old, weary swords mean to reforge them once more in a never-ending cauldron of war. These lesser gods, men of steel and hatred, waging petty wars for strips of mortal soil; ever oblivious to the portents of **doom on the horizon**.

And yet **Kin** continue marching forward, they continue to lock blades and continue to exchange coin. The celestial death of **Ator** has taken centuries, but many theologians believe soon is the **Time of Ending**, when the **Creator** will give out their final breath. And, with that breath, usher in a twilight that shall never end - so it has been said, so it shall be.

Ator, forgive us, for we are of your blood.

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## Whispers of Antiquity

Campaigns of KadorGreat Migration of the CarinnajaThe Godswar, War in the HeavensInvasion of the Sorcerer-KingsThe Sinking of Ordia

## Musings of the Mortal World

Magic Arts of PaedelosTheology of PaedelosAstrology of PaedelosSeasons and the CalendarLanguage, Common Phrases, and SayingsThe Curse of the ScorchNatural and Magical Diseases

## Folk and Beasts of Paedelos

Beasts of the Old WoodUdran, Wasteland of Blizzards and BloodAea, The Final Lands of KinEsan, Land of Desert and the ScorchExtinct Kin of PaedelosUkari, Spawn of KhilosGodserpents, the PurespawnKorukaz, Spawn of Nordak

## Intricacies of the Modern Era

Guilds and OrganizationsTragedy of the Modern Era, the GreentideShattering of the CrownsEsani Great MigrationMarch of the NorthlordsWar of the League of ItragaDeath-throes of the KadorzulWars for MaeghanWar of the Burgundoiz SuccessionThree-Princes WarCollapse of CarinWars for the NorthYoung Magi Revolt

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