Backstory

### Server Lore

In the world of Conan Exiles, there have been many exiled lands. Each land of exiles has different laws of reality and physics. While there are some Exiled Planes that have developed their own sort of law, most Exiled Planes are lawless places of terror and death.

Transportation via map room involves transporting your body mind and/or soul through the outer dark. The outer dark exists between planes of existence, tying each universe together. This explains why multiple lands exist with the same landscape, but different physics. Each of the Conan Gods are a constant, never changing, though there exists an infinite number of universes lorded over by these gods.

Time is fluid, and events that we perceive in a linear order don’t actually exist in a linear fashion. This is why 8 years can pass for one Person, while only 2 months passed for another when entering a different exile plane.

4 events happened at different points of time in 4 different exiled realms, but the fluidity of time caused these events to happen simultaneously.

In one world, some crazy Nordheimer woman decided to try to blow up a portal to the outer dark, Cracking the Veil between worlds.

In another, Derketo attempted to add to the world, which caused the world to crumble and collapse, pouring life energy out into the outer dark.

The third world, an angry demi-god summoned an unexpected storm, blasting structures into the outer dark.

Finally, in the last world, a group of Demi-Gods betrayed the gods and the people by corrupting the connections between maprooms and Obelisks.

These events collided in the universe, creating a new universe and a new Exiled Plane.

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‘The Lotus’ is a young world, and with the numerous worlds coming into existence, the Conan Gods largely ignored this one as it appeared to begin to crumble. A forgotten child of Dagon and Derketo took notice of the world. Young, and with minimal access to the powers of the gods, This Demi-God took pity on ‘The Lotus’ and tirelessly worked to save it.

This was his first real attempt at saving a world, and as he built it back together, he did it imperfectly. After much time and hard work, He finally stabilized the world, and took a break. The countless years he had spent rebuilding this crumbling world over and over again had led him to question his identity. Realizing finally that his parents had never named him, he chose to identify himself simply as ‘O’.

Time passed, and The outer dark began to spit humans into his world. Intrigued, ‘O’ decided to walk among them for a time, teaching them how to care for the world.

Hundreds of years more passed, and eventually these humans began to develop their own sense of morality in this world, so ‘O’ donned tight shorts and a vest to cover his nudity. He cared not for Right and Wrong, not knowing what that truly meant, but he soon began to realize that he was the god of this world, and while humans could still pray to the gods above him, those gods ignored ‘The Lotus’, leaving ‘O’ Alone to maintain this people.

Catching his reflection in the ocean, he disliked his appearance, and covered his face with his mother’s mask, and decided to try one last time to make a self-sustaining world. He was beginning to understand how difficult godhood was.

‘O’ began to teach the numerous races in the realm of the different lotus plants and their different uses. He taught them how to cultivate and grow the plants, and how to harvest them and use them for various potions and powders. In teaching this, ‘O’ hoped that the humans would cultivate the land, and allow natural growth to keep the universe alive without his direct action.

The people took to his teachings with ferocity, and his people began to preach his words to others, teaching the cultivation and development of the lotuses to their kin. ‘O’ felt like he had finally done enough work and passed enough knowledge that he could finally step away. He chose a high Peak in the exiled lands and crafted a throne dedicated to his father, and planted immortal golden lotus on either side, and he slept.

500 years passed and ‘O’ re-awoke, deciding to check on his people. To his dismay, the people of the lands did not remember him. He walked among them and quickly began to see different sects of people wearing different colored clothing. Each lotus seemed to have its own group of followers, each of them preaching why their lotus was greater than the others.

Dismayed, ‘O’ returned to his throne where he watches his imperfect world. In a final attempt to save his world, he poured energy into the outer dark, allowing exiles to cross over from other planes. Before falling back to sleep, he whispered to himself: “I hope this new generation of people will be better than the last”, and ‘O’ Sleeps.

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Emerging from the shadows was the cultist group of the Lotus Tower, they claimed to be speakers of the god O. They attempted to trick the lands into becoming their sacrifices for the alchemist Ellyria's experiments to create the perfect White Lotus flower. They found one of pure heart finally, one they called their 'princess', and attempted to kidnap and use her for their experiments. While they succeeded in this, the lands rioted against them and slaughtered them within their tower. The princess was saved and the people were safe from becoming sacrifices.

While this was going on, unknowing to the citizens of the the lands, a phenomenon was occurring in Space. O finally appeared to his people, and with the help of some of them, was able to warn the lands of the impended doom of the meteors falling. The people had time to build a bunker to ride out the cataclysm. O, with the help of chosen Demi-Gods from other worlds, escorted the people and protected them from the deadly creatures falling with the meteors. After using his powers to break apart the larger of meteors to save the lands, O went into a deep slumber. He left his group of chosen Demi-Gods in charge of protecting the people in his wake.

The demi gods of O's pantheon were the twins of Balance, Renner and Savvas; Neve, the huntress daughter of Atali; Varien, the compassionate shapeshifter; Vashu, the young god of calamity; Kaldr, a son of Ymir; and Soleil, the fiery daughter of Agni. They were joined by a Herald of Yog, D'Yaya. Together, they built a home upon an island in the lands.

The dread God Ahriman, who rode into the land with the Meteor Shower, appeared to the people. He terrorized them, destroyed their homes, and murdered many people. The Pantheon did the best they could to protect the people in O's place. The Pantheon members each chose one champion to help with protecting the lands, and granted them the use of powerful weapons to fight off the armies of Ahriman with. These champions were Ivory, Xander, Tora, Tila, Leo, Bjorn, Rowena, and Xhel.

After a while, two of the Pantheon began to think differently then the rest on how the people should be protected. Savvas and Neve, along with a swayed Vashu, separated from the Pantheon after Savvas attempted to murder his brother. Renner was later found and saved by a local elven healer and her family. Vashu later returned to the Pantheon. Savvas and Neve were struck down and killed by Kaldr and Soleil after threatening to kill the people they were there to protect.

Attentions were finally turned back to Ahriman. The people and the Pantheon learned of his plans and came up with a plan. At the final stand, they were able to finally defeat the Ahriman's armies, but defeating Ahriman himself seemed impossible. O returned to his people for one final time and used his powers to seal the lands from Ahriman's gaze. Vashu followed along after, looking for redemption, and to attempt to defeat Ahriman on his own in another place. With the threat defeated, those remaining in the Pantheon parted ways to live their own lives.

Now, Ahriman's Scar threatens the people once again. How or why, they are still unsure. For some reason, the creature of the land are being pulled to this spot where they battle each other in a confused rage. Small human-like creatures have been seen observing the Scar and the people of the lands.