War of Magic

## **War of the Skies**

About 900 B.E, Roh led an army of underdark titans and waged war against he astral titans, This was called the War of the Skies. They fought for about 5 years and used stars and comets as missiles. When these collided they broke into smaller meteorites and fell towards the earth. The stars of the Astral plane are elemental, and the stars of the Underdark possess dark elements. All of them contain raw magic, thus when the meteorites fell on earth, all kinds of magic was found scattered throughout the world.

#### **Resolve of the War**

After 5 years of constant chaos, the Azarian Giants inside the Garden of Earth got too curious and climbed the trees to get hold of some magic that fell down, when they climbed the trees they saw the world outside the Garden and saw how it was filled with many more magic, so all the Azarian Giants left the garden in pursue of this magic. When Avzaya noticed this he got enraged that the war had escalated this way and he himself descended from Anum and grabbed the great moon, he split it into two and threw each half to one of Roh's flanks. The army of Roh scattered and the war was won by the Astral titans.

#### **Command to bury Dark Magic**

After the war, the Astral titans commanded the Giants to bury the dark magic wherever they found them. All the Giants obeyed and they did not find Dark magic except that they buried it on the spot. The astral titans made sure that all the magic was buried before returning to their homes in the sky.

The Giants lived without Dark magic for 500 years.

## **Rebellion of Zarnabal**

About 400 B.E, King Zarnabal of the Azarian Giants openly dug up Dark magic. Many Giant kings followed him and Dark magic was being extracted throughout the entire world. The Astral titans forbade them from doing this but they saw how widespread the evilness was, so they decided to send an Astral titan to remind the Giants of the evilness of this magic and to stay with Anum. The titan that they sent was Amurada, he managed to convince some giant kings to bury back the dark magic, but the bulk of the giants denied his request and took up arms against him. Although the Astral titans never directly ruled the earth, they were seen as supreme by its inhabitants, and no one dared to go against any law that they made. The first known inhabitant to rebel against Astral law was Zarnabal, king of the Azarian giants. When the majority of the Kings of the earth rejected Amurada, he and the Astral titans were seen as powerless. Thus Zarnabal, the one who started this chaos, invited Amurada to his capital to talk about peace and how he and Amurada would supposedly work together to halt the use of dark magic. This was a trap, and upon entering the capital Amurada was attacked by Zarnabal who had a lethal weapon which was a remnant of the War of the Skies. The giants upon seeing this were in awe of the might of Zarnabal, as no Giant had ever killed an Astral titan before.

#### **Death of Amurada**

The secret to the death of Amurada was the fact that Amurada was of the element of Death, Everything he touched with his elemental magic would die. In turn the weapon of Zarnabal was the jaw of the Underdark titan of Life, which possessed the element of Dark Life (Life in the Underdark world). Everything that titan would've touched had an extremely high chance of becoming a spirit and having emotions and a mind, although not necessarily being able to move. The Jaw still had teeth on it, which were sharp and pointy. The Jaw and the entire lower half of the face of the Underdark titan of Life was broken off his face when Avzaya lunged the moons towards the armies of Roh. In the chaos that ensued, a weapon from a fleeing underdark titan hit his face and tore its lower half. It fell on Earth and just like the other dark magic, it was buried. Zarnabal however, dug it up and he grabbed its tongue and proceeded to penetrate it with the sharp teeth. The dark blood that came out enveloped the teeth and Zarnabal guessed that this would be poisonous to Amurada. Thus he hit Amurada with the jaw and it penetrated his body, in turn the soul of Amurada was put into a mode of hibernation, and his blood mixed with the blood of the Underdark titan of life, Zarnabal collected this mixed blood, and he took the heart of the dead body of Shahum who was a titan from the realm of Roh and from the element of Darkness, and inserted this blood in it.

Titans of the Element of Darkness are the greatest of the Underdark and the closest to Roh, the last known appearance of them was during the War of the Skies, in which the forces of Roh were divided under 6 of them. During the war, Shahum was directly hit by a piece of the moon killing him instantly whilst his body fell on the Earth which caused catastrophies. It is said that he fell on a mountain range South of Daera which was a natural border between Daera and Afraja. A part of the mountain was destroyed and the impact itself caused an earthquake in the region. Many creatures in the area died, including humans. After the war, no one dared to touch his body and the Astral titans were disgusted to lay their hands on it. There were also rumors of it being guarded by fiends, making it untouchable.

However, Zarnabal overcame the obstacles and harvested the heart of the titan. After which he supposedly buried it to cover his tracks. This combination of mixed blood and a Dark heart created the magic of Necromancy. The heart now contained the element of Astral Death which can kill anything in the overworld, and it contained the element of Life for the underworld, which can give life to anything in the underworld. Thus it would kill a creature of the overworld, but its soul would immediately be granted life from the underworld, which would make him an Underdark creature living in the overworld. The heart itself, however, was of Darkness. It acted as a seal, sealing the fate of those affected by it with the elements that it possessed. If Zarnabal thought of this by himself, then he was an astonishingly intelligent king. However, the possibility exists, and is quite plausible, that he had help from evil sources. Although, there are no reports of activity or interaction with any Underdark creatures.

#### **Amurada's rebirth**

After Amurada's supposed death, his body was thrown into the Avestan river. He floated towards the ocean and stranded at modern day Dhul Nujum. Some ancient Suderian humans found his body and they woke him up from his deep sleep. Amurada still posessed the element of Death, but he had the blood of the Dark element of Life inside him. The jaw of the Underdark titan of Life hit part of the neck of Amurada and his chest, some teeth penetrated his heart, and so half of his heart was Dark and the other half was Light. He was the first titan to be made half Astral and half Dark. After he woke up he realized the evil that was done to him, he left Earth and went up towards the Astral titans. When they saw him they became afraid by his appearance and also enraged by what was done to him.

#### **Oath of Dhul Nujum**

In the night of that same day, some of the astral titans nearest to Earth (i.e visible in the night sky around the world) descended towards Dhul Nujum with Amurada and discussed how they would seek revenge for his "Killing". As the talks became more intense, war was continuously being brought up. Not so long after, the titans made a call upon all other titans near the Earth, all of whom descended in groups one after the other. This created a beautiful and spectacular view in the sky as the stars faded from the other parts of the world and gathered above Dhul Nujum. The Titans made an oath to annihilate the giants and declared war on all of them, except those that heeded the warnings of Amurada and abandoned the usage of Magic. Unbeknownst to them, Zarnabal had killed all the giants who had agreed to follow Amurada. After a long meeting, the titans returned to their positions in the sky. In an instant all the constellations appeared back and shined bright in the sky. Amurada went and wandered the skies, contemplating on his nature.

The Suderians that saw this spectacular occurrence later named this place Dhul Nujum, meaning "That of the Stars". They frequently visited it and eventually a hamlet was built and some families settled there. As is known, this hamlet has now become a great city which was once the capital of Afraja.