Hissaurian Republic

## Groups Within The Republic

### The Erinez

The Erinez are a
small group of infernal magic users who believe that infernal magic
should be used and found that they felt a connection with the god Alvoth
 because of his split heritage. They want to find and release him to
bring about an ancient prophecy of a savior who would wield both light
and darkness without being consumed by a lust for power to save them
from the Abyssals and their god who would then bring peace to the world.
 The group has yet to find the god or release him and left the capital
many years ago and lives at the monument to horror which has been
corrupting them over time to convince the savior after he is brought
forth by their god to purge the Abyssals and Daemrians from Erta in an
act of revenge for the treatment of their ancestral mother and as more
time passes they are planning to have the savior do even worse. The
monument is also tempting them to seek great power by any means
necessary even through the dangerous technique of warping their bodies
to become more dangerous at the cost of their sanity and their ability
to use magic, while the others channel the strange energies of the
monument to gain greater infernal powers. The group has not yet been
found and is avoided at all costs by the populace and is being hunted by
 the Hissaurian republic as heretics and have sent the Avacoth to find
and kill them.

### The Avacoth

The Avacoth are a
special group of Hissaurians who are especially gifted with enlightened
magic and are loyal to the republic who hunt down heretics and deal with
 dangers to their homeland. Only the most powerful enlightened users are
 chosen and while all users are trained only the most gifted are chosen
to be given further training and allowed to join the ranks of the
Avacoth. The group was formed shortly before the fall of the Infernal
council to protect the Hissaurians from the dangers of infernal magic
and still exists today serving the same purpose. The group uses magic
and specially crafted weapons which are the only Hissaurian weapons to
be infused with enlightened magic to achieve their goals. The groups
identities are a well kept secret and their influence can be felt across
 Karas. Woe to those that cross the Avacoth; the holy warriors of the
Hissaurian empire.

## History/Legends Within Republic

### The Infernal Council

The Infernal
Council was a large group of powerful infernal magic users who overthrew
 the previous democratic government and set rules in place for having
infernal users to be trained and for the Hissaurians to have a more
warlike attitude towards the other races who they saw as lesser beings
and planned to destroy the daemrians but were stopped by the newly
formed Avacoth who set a democratic government back in place. The
council harbored a grudge for the recent shift towards fear for the
usage of infernal magics and wished to see the Hissaurians become as
powerful as they were in the early days of their existence and forged
mighty infused weapons including Dazuvere and Ylntesh to achieve this
purpose. These weapons of great power were either lost with the fall of
the council or hidden within the capital for the day when the
Hissaurians would fight for their very existence against the Abyssals in
 what they refer to as the Darkness Wars.

### The Darkness Wars

The Darkness Wars
are a belief among the Hissaurians that one day they would fight for
their very existence and for the existence of all races on Erta against
the Abyssals and the god of destruction. The wars are believed to be a
series of extended battles involving the alliance of all races including
 the hated Daemrians to stop the annihilation of all life. The
Hissaurians during those times would resort to their most ancient and
dangerous forms of warfare including using their most powerful weapons
forged during the time of the Infernal Council and that in the most
desperate of times would use their most powerful weapons including the
dangerous alteration technique that would turn Hissaurians into brutal
killing machines with no mercy that lusted for blood and battle. There
is also the belief that the twin blades Dazuvere and Ylntesh known as
the Darkness Immortal would be found at the most dire moment in the wars
 and used to turn the tides against the armies of darkness. There are
two versions of these events the version where the battle is lost and
all life is exterminated from Erta and the version where the prophesied
savior would appear and harness the powers of light and dark to save all
 from extinction.

### The Prophecy

The prophecy is
carved on a tablet made of pure obsidian that serves as a record of what
 is believed to be the last words of the Abyssal that fathered the
Hissaurians. According to legend before he left to face his fate at the
hands of his god he inscribed a tablet with a vision he had seen of a
descendant of his ending the terror that was his people and bringing
peace to Erta. He is said to have given the tablet to his Daemrian lover
 before she fled to the jungle and she kept it until her death by
unknown causes within. The tablet reads in the language of the Abyssals
which has been translated by the Hissaurians many years ago "Heed these
words my children for these shall be my last, there shall be a great war
 that will determine the fate of all life on Erta and you shall fight
bravely, but it will not be enough. One of you shall rise above the rest
 and shall unite the darkness and the light to stop the spread of evil.
This hero shall go on to unite the other races and bring peace to this
world. This hero shall guard the peace for the rest of their life until
another rises above as they did to continue their work of protecting
life on Erta". The tablet has never been seen by any but the
Hissaurians, but the legend has spread in the trading cities through the
 taverns and their drinks. The words of the prophecy are considered
sacred among the Hissaurians and remarkably the text has not been
altered in any way since its creation and is kept safe by the Avacoth
within Zaegon.

### Wars

The Hissaurians
have only fought internal wars with several exceptions including the
darkness wars (see above) and the war for the crossing which has been
fought for many years with both sides losing and gaining the bridge
until the Hissaurians decided that their most powerful tools of war were
 too dangerous (see weaponry) to use and have since been losing the
battle. As of late the attacks which were to be expected have ceased
completely for unknown reasons, the prevailing theory is that they
realized that they were losing too many warriors, but some believe that
isn't the reason.

### The Legend of the Great Mother

The legend of the
great mother refers to the ancestral mother of the Hissaurians and her
journey after being exiled from her people and eventually ending up
within the jungle that would become their home. The legend speaks of her
 journey across Karas and the hardships she endured starting with her
exile from her homeland.