Promethean gift

The promethean gift Era refers to the public exposition given to Hermes and Magic, Drawing parallels with the myth of Prometheus. During this event, Magic revolutionised the world, catapulting mankind into technological advancements straight out of Sci-fi. Humanity could now start exploring outer space and deep oceans in ways only dreamed of before. Energy crises where resolved in matter of months, as were hunger and poverty. Some of this advances would leave a lasting impact in the world, even in "Main story" although the prosperity would be short lived as the war of miracles came shortly after.

## Notable projects during this Era

* Mass production of Proto-Grimoires
* The Suyan project
* The first spacecrafts
* The space exploration project and the Arks
* Orbital space stations
* Helios Energy system
* The Floating cities
* The automatons that became the workforce during this Era and the foot soldiers during the war of miracles

## Events

When Hermes was acquired by the UN and the world knew about it, the members of cradle parted ways, Parsifal disappeared with key research material from the lab, Ezquieval was given house arrest because he was just a security officer with no relation to the research itself and managed to smuggle the 10th instance with him. Kalto was hired by a private contractor in charge of studying a fragment of Hermes with the threat of being arrested if he declined, he tried to remake the project based on the projects results but they were missing Parsifal’s personal notes. Most other members of the team where hired in similar manners or arrested.

Dorsetyer in particular, worked in another private contractor, trying to mass produce grims. His daughter, Adriana, a teenager who paired with Hermes with remarkable prowess, was being used as a test subject and model for the mass produced grims.

During this time, Parsifal began to track down Hermes fragments and would later recruit Ezquieval as his muscle, with 10th instance, now called Nivikus as his grim. Kalto Became invested in how his research came to be, eventually finding what would later lead to the gate to the abyss.Dorsetyer’s mass produced grims where already a popular product by this point and most people had one. He contacted Parsifal and offered top of the line crowns and grims in exchange for them saving his daughter. Adriana was still used as test subject and developed an aggressive attitude resulting from the violent treatment.

Parsifal’s team, including Ezquieval, Nivikus, and others who joined them such as Adelram of the blackheart,  would call themselves The Round Table, dedicated to recovering Hermes, now codenamed Grail by them. Kalto on his part, had his first actual encounter with the Abyss after ignoring the fragment’s warning of “Umbra incognita, HIC SVNT DRACONES”. During this encounter, Kalto extracted a sample from the abyss that would study personally, being slowly corrupted in the process, but acquiring new powers.

The round table went to rescue Adi infiltrating the lab where she was captive and acquiring Dorsetyer’s models successfully, but when escaping, the doctor was lethally wounded and died in his daughter's arms. Ezquieval bowed to keep Adi safe, but Dorsetyer, in his last breath and knowing Adi, told Marcel to train her, as that was what she really wanted and he knew he couldn’t keep her daughter out of conflict any longer.

At the same time, Kalto was able to reach the abyss with more ease each time. The sample he had, irradiated power he was able to use to alter the fragment of hermes, but soon they lost interest in that and decided to focus on the abyss itself.

As more people had grims of their own, the easier it was to open the gate, and Kalto began to feel the pull from the abyss, until one day the portal opened itself when he entered the room with the Hermes fragment. Realizing this, kalto made the effort to contact Parsifal, and explained the situation.

Being the last part of Hermes left to reclaim, as the others were replaced with copies or proxies, Parsifal took the gambit and decided to help, exchanging exposing himself to get closer to the last fragment and witnessing this abyss that kalto was talking about.

When Parsifal looked into the abyss, different to Kalto, knew the abyss stared back and tried to shut down the portal, but it was too late, the portal would open on it’s own now. Seeing this could be dangerous, Parsifal made a run for it and arrived to the last fragment, the other members of the table made it to the facility and together with kalto fought against the creature that came from the abyss. They barely managed to keep it at bay while Parsifal made the fragments meet. When they resonated, they combined all the different experiences each learned from while separated, including coming into contact with the abyss itself and being restructured with magic. This crowned Hermes as his 3rd rebirth and 3rd initiation, Transcending his binary state and become a metaphysical being. With the help of Hermes now fully fledged, they made the abyssion retreat, but the facility was destroyed and Parsifal received lethal wounds from the beast that Hermes could not heal. Parsifal died witnessing the beauty of the grail.

The table went into hiding, now with Kalto in their ranks. They knew it was only time for the gate to open one more time and they had to be ready. Hermes powered them all and remade their crowns, they had a couple of months to prepare until the gate finally opened again. Hermes repeated the phrase. Hic Svnt Dracones.

When the gate opened again, it was bigger than ever before, the myths say that from it, wings emerged and they covered the sky from horizon to horizon. Hermes took control of everything and fought the dragon from the gate, now withe the table with him.

Ezquieval became the bannerman, the symbol of hope, and Adi the strongest warrior against the abyss.

Later Unity was put in place and humanity fought as one against the beast from the darkness while Hermes face the dragon, but ultimately Hermes failed and the dragon took it to the abyss.

Humanity, broken and godless, began the crusades to bring Hermes back and recover the lost land from the abyssions. The Vanguard was formed to coordinate this effort, leading to the rise and fall of many heroes until the original group was able to reach the last gate and entered the abyss to rescue Hermes. Everything went wrong, Hermes was already dead and dismembered by the Dragon, they were attacked by the creatures of the abyss, stronger than the ones they faced so far, only Kalto, Adelram and Abioye, Ezquieval’s pupil made it back. Ezquieval was devoured by the abyss and thought dead, although he would use the power to become an abyssion and the warden of the last gate, keeping other abyssions at bay. Adi floated aimlessly and fought as she could, but she was outnumbered, luckily, A small fragment of Hermes that survived connected with her and put her on stasis until someone could rescue her.

On the other side of the gate, Kalto closed it in fear, and locked them there. He told everyone that the others were already dead.

the new world began, slowly repairing what they’ve lost, but the aftermath of the crusades would leave a lasting effect on the world and it would take a long time.

Abioye, now the user of nivikus, would pass her down to his pupil in the future as the beacon, a grim capable of standing against the abyss. Her connection as Hermes older sister of sorts would allow her to one day open the gate again when Hermes was ready.

Through thousands of years, Hermes, inside the abyss, formulated a way to reach Nivikus, When finally able, her current user, Sirilante, would venture into the abyss to meet them, yet, wouldn't be able to save them yet and had to return to our world, promising a now awoken Adi that he would come back.

Labeled a heretic upon return, Sirilante escaped the vanguard and became a fugitive, being chased by inspector Miurln and finally meeting a young suyanafet man who would help him recover from his wounds and hide him.

Sirilante, tainted by the abyss, knew he didn't have much time left and left everything in the suyanafet, Faradurn, as well as Miurln, who defeated him in combat and dealt a fatal blow. Upon explaining everything to Miurln before dying and leaving him no choice, Miurln joined the Suyanafet and together formed a new round table to bring Adi and Hermes back to face the possible return of the dragon once again.