The Core

The Core with its outer layer. The crack on its surface reveals the inner part which is white and blue colored due of extremely high temperature.

## Description

The Core is the innermost place of the Realm , a Natural Soul Bank and Soul Distributor for all living and non-living things. Also, the place seems be an entity too with thoughts, will and motivation to test the citizens of the Realm.

Not to be confused with „The Eternal Pyre” since both of them share the same „fire” theme but manage the souls differently!

While the Eternal Pyre and its followers  judge, purify and claim that they cleanse/reborn the souls, the Core doesn’t  do the same things. Instead, it takes the good and bad souls equally because they complete eachother and it believes distributing both sides to the Realm makes the true balance. Also, The Core lets the souls to be themselves or even challenge them by starting random events in the Realm and watches how they deal with them.

At the end, the Realm and The Core always learn something from them.

As a place, it appears as a humongous ball with extremly hot temperature with two parts: inner core part and outer layer. On its surface of the outer layer, flames  and various ancient cities or towns  cover it. Some white roots also appear sometimes which come from the trees of the Black Forests. A white/blue crack seems to appear on the surface too.

The architecture of the cities is kinda similar to real life ancient greek/roman ones and Core Creatures like to deploy this architecture style/type on their conquered lands.

The Core as an entity, has an incredibly strong magnetic power. It’s able to grab any magnetic metals towards itself/himself while magnetic creatures are „repelled” from it/him. It’s so strong, the same creatures can’t touch or land on the surface of the Realm.

Referred as he/him, especially by the Goblins who heard " The Whispers of the Canyon" which sounds as a man according to them. "Heart of the Realm" is often used by people when they talk about it.

It’s one of those entities who is able to carry a whole world around itself/himself and makes sure the Realm will always have livable environments and lands for any lives too, even if it means to destroy other previous  places or even lives with them.

On rare occasions, the Core releases  „Mini Cores” which are not bigger than a tennis ball. According to various people, these Mini Cores have so many souls/pneuma in them, they can start new worlds.

## History

### Prehistorical Period

No one clearly knows where The Core origins. The Iron Dragons theorize that it's the one of the last survivors of the previous state of the Universe, The Divine Fire.

After the Core created the surface of the young Realm, his counterpart „The Sky” appeared. For millions of Eons, they formed the Realm together and living beings started to appear on it, meaning their work was succesfull and The Core got the task to store and deliver the souls or as others refer: „pneuma”.

However, a war was slowly set its feet between them. The Sky complained about the massive pollutions which were made by the volcanoes and  The Core couldn’t stand the rain falling over his beloved Black Forests anymore.  In addition, oceans slowly consumed the islands, rivers flooded the lands and at the end, polluted the water itself. All of these meant one thing: their harmony started to crumble and their work became war against each other.

The War between them was so powerful, the Realm became weak and The Chaos was able to rise. She took advantage of the situation and rescruited almost all of the dragons to her side in order to keep her influence over the Realm.

### "Chaos" [Dragon Age]

The Dragons ruled all over the Realm and it seemed that
noone could stop them.

The two side realized their act, it’s consequences and made their answer:  Aiding the Warders, the Mages and other warriors to fight against the Chaos and defeated her. The Core  also sent a new kind of Tectonic creature to help them.

### 1st Golden Age

After the Chaos, the Core decided to not interrupt the Realm and didn’t pay much attention, instead ,he marked the Great Aico Phoenix to watch over the surface .

While the Phoenix did the task, it didn’t notice an Ouroboros who cut a canyon in the Badlands.

### 1st Scourge

The Goblins were amazed by the whispers while discovering the previously mentioned canyon and it quickly became a religious place for them. They wanted to know that what does it say…

Unfortunately, it turned into bad for the Realm: The goblins started to raid and destroy everything what they could touch.