Precursor Turmoil

The Valkyr

Imprisonment of Aldruidt

The Precursor Turmoil was an ancient conflict waged between the ancient Vdesh and Aldruidt and his rogue faction of Valkyr. This battle marked the second Valkyr wave with the creation of the God-Killer Valkyr.

## Background

Aldruidt was born alongside the very first wave of Valkyr when the Vdesh decided to create universe-centric guardians after mysterious tremors had created Aaru off-shoots. He originally harbored a great love and admiration for all manner of life that existed in his verse until he discovered that the intelligent life-forms that inhabited them would eventually engage in endless war with one another, where death and suffering would be constant: something that went against his protocol. He believed that to save the Aaru he had to destroy the universes and recreate life to be completely devoid of thought, and so rallied the first Valkyr wave towards his cause, creating his army and forming horrific world-destroying hordes from the Aaru to aid him.

## Progress of the war

### Destruction of the Prime Universes

The war began when the horde of Aldruidt mercilessly moved into the Prime Universes, the very first universes created by the Aaru, and destroyed them in mere hours with the help of his horde of monstrous creatures and Sparda, one of his many Valkyr war generals. This callous act against the Aaru streams stirred the other Vdesh into action against him.

### Skirmishes of the Stream

All throughout the Aaru great battles were fought over the remaining universes between Aldruidt and the Vdesh, however with Aldruidt at a very distinct advantage and with the Vdesh slowly losing soldiers.

### Creation of the Black Vortex

Aldruidt creates the fortress dimension known as the Black Vortex, a dimension dotted with light-sucking black holes.

### Betrayal of Sparda

Sparda, general of Aldruidt's armies and his closest war companion, wakes up to justice and abandons Aldruidt's cause

### Creation of the God-Killer

After several skirmishes the Vdesh realized they were outclassed by Aldruidt in both pure power and cunning, as the constant bloodshed he had given way to in the war had risen him to a level of pure berserker power to the point where even the gods could not touch him. The Vdesh had but one choice: they pooled their powers together to create a Valkyr with the force to strike the gods from the skies, her birth marked by more tremors similar to the ones that created the Aaru off-shoots.

### Battle of the Bend

An important battle for the Vdesh as it marked the beginning of the end for the Dark Valkyr and a demonstration of the God-Killer Valkyr's power. Taking place at one of the bends of the Aaru, the Dark Valkyr launched an offensive to try to occupy the Source, with the Vdesh on the offensive. The Dark Valkyr were however outmatched when it came to the combined powers of the God-Killer Valkyr and the Legendary Dark Knight Sparda, with many casualities involved as they were rendered into dust and returned to the Aaru.

### Imprisonment of Aldruidt

After several successful skirmishes and fullscale events against Aldruidt's horde, the God-Killer Valkyr faces the mad god only to find herself unable to defeat him. With the help of the Vdesh, she managed to imprison Aldruidt and his horde into a giant rock, sending it into another dimension, but not before Aldruidt makes a declaration promising his return to destroy the multiverse, sending out portions of his being - his children - to act as harbingers of chaos.

## Aftermath

### Birth of the Second Wave

In order to hide the horrible discovery that Aldruidt had made and in an attempt to refine the Valkyr, with the introduction of the second wave they attempted to nullify the purpensity for the Valkyr to question the nature of life and dampened their free will, making them unfeeling sentinels.

### Discovery of the Black Materia

Shortly after the end of the Precursor Turmoil, the God-Killer Valkyr discovered a piece of Aldruidt's pure essence, which she dubbed the Black Materia. She realized that this piece was not only corrupting the space around it, but would be feasibly powerful enough to release Aldruidt from his prison, and so split it into several pieces to diminish its power, and worked to contain it.

### Creation of the Holy Golems

To ensure that not only would the Black Materia pieces be kept from the universe, but that a future Valkyr would be powerful enough to face off against Aldruidt in the future, the God-Killer Valkyr would create Holy Golems to safekeep both a piece of the fractured Black Materia, and a piece of White Materia, a fraction of her god-like power, to go along with it and counterbalance it. Through this, she would begin the line-long tradition of the Valkyr seeking out a Holy Golem and giving it a fraction of their power to keep.