Nathea

Nathea is the home planet of the Ondru, it is a post-apocalyptic high fantasy world visited by Fahrenheit and Kid Spectacular during the Destroyers of Nathea mini-campaign. The Southern Hemisphere is scarred and cratered from the Shattering- an event that changed the course of Ondru history forever.

## History

### The Shattering

The world was devastated in the Shattering, the name given to the ley lines disruption and destruction by the planet-cracking laser of pirate miners. They cracked open the planets crust on the southern hemisphere to get to minerals within the mantle with little regard for the uncontacted sapients down below. The whole planet was wracked by earthquakes, tidal waves, dust clouds and volcanic storms that filled the atmosphere with ash. All this in addition to magical disasters such as floating islands crashing into the ground below and wards that were binding elemental spirits failing; releasing powerful elementals across cities.

The Ondru were now unable to perform the magical feats they had relied on for generations and that much of their society and technology depended on. While their magical items retain varying levels of their original power and most are still usable- very few Ondru can still tap in to the magical reserves of the planet and their spellcasting is much less powerful.

### Spectacular Squad

This disruption in the ley lines had deep consequences on more than just a planetary scale- the release of energy lead to Mr Spectacular's portal test spitting the Spectacular Squad out on Nathea, rather than their destination of Mars.

The Spectacular Squad arrived on the devastated world a shadow of the magical utopia it had been. They helped the Ondru repel the pirates and built a planetary force-field to protect from future incursions, additionally Mr Spectacular oversaw several engineering projects before leaving- unwilling to travel home knowing these people would be forced into additional hardship. He had intended to stay longer but Mirage broke the news that she was pregnant and he relented, finally accepting the Ondru gift that would transport them home.

### Rise of the Destroyers

The planet underwent massive upheaval, many had perished in the magical and natural disasters before the Spectacular Squad had arrived and several of the outer kingdoms collapsed until only one polity remained- a United Ondru Kingdom for all people of Nathea. Working together the Ondru were able to recover normalcy in the heart of the capital city, Yula. Until reports came streaming in from the refugees of the outer kingdoms- of creatures that crawled from the planets core to bring terror to the surface. The Destroyers of ancient Ondru myth, supposedly sealed away thousands of years ago within the planet by the ancient Archmages. Functionally immortal crustaceans with rocky outer carapaces and fiery hearts within.

Struggling with more mouths to feed, low resources and the threat of the Destroyers the King turned to his advisor Vizier Tabras- a grim man who had taken to strange behaviour since the death of his son in the Shattering. With Tabras' help the United Ondru Kingdom was able to survive and thrive for the first time since the Shattering- though things would likely not return to pre-Shattering levels for generations to come there was prosperity. Vizier Tabras discovered the first way to remove Destroyers- an acidic pool in a cave beneath the King's summer castle. For years Destroyer attacks continued to ramp up and the military was able to contain them until an overwhelming tide of Destroyers emerged after an earthquake.

In truth "Tabras" was a shapeshifting alien infiltrator with a vested interest in acquiring as much genetic information on the Destroyers as possible and getting off-world to return this information to his people. The pool was accumulated biomass from every Destroyer ever defeated by the Ondru military that Tabras planned to use to create a new form of Destroyer capable of spaceflight. Though this would not be discovered until new heroes from Earth arrived.

### Destroyers of Nathea

Princess Myreen summoned Kid Spectacular and Fahrenheit to Nathea- she was trying to summon the Spectacular Squad of her people's new mythos. Although not impressed at first, she gave them a chance as she understood being overlooked. They quickly proved themselves as they repelled the castle's attackers. One thing became apparent to Myreen- the Destroyers were seemingly aware of the danger posed by the pool beneath.

Fahrenheit and Kid Spectacular discovered that Tabras was exacerbating the Destroyer attacks deliberately in order to acquire more biomass, they confronted him only for him to step into his biomass pool and shapeshift into the Transcendent Destroyer- a colossal alien that dwarfed the castle. Realising they couldn't stop him in a direct fight KS decided to trick him by making him think the forcefield had failed- only to reactivate it overcharged at the last second. While Fahrenheit held onto the beast with one hand and tried his best to break through it's rocky hide with the other.

After defeating the Transcendent Destroyer, KS fell into the same pattern as his father- thinking he would need to remain here to help these people rebuild. The forcefield had been badly damaged, perhaps irreparably so by his gambit against "Tabras" and would need to be replaced and as he mulled it over Scientist Spectacular Grear told him and Ethan that he had taken the elective decision to recharge the Ondru Gift with all the energy they had left in the forcefield- to send them both home. KS tried to protest but knew that Grear and Myreen were right- the Ondru were a resilient people and he needed to go home.