Yrodar

*"The new world began with the destruction of the old. All that ever was, all who dreamed and all who thought, everything, beautiful and terrible, obliterated in a terrible catastrophe so avoidable god himself felt a little embarrassed for a while. The Saviors brought who they could to the new Earth, but we were never meant to leave our home. Humanity was forced to rebuild for a hundred years in a fragile, rotten world, only dreaming of exploring the stars and returning to their ancient home, unaware of the horror that had taken it from them." - Martin Barnard, Servant of God, 81st year.*

## Overview

Yrodar is the holy new world of Man. Following the purging of earth in 2156, the Nabuhak moved mankind to the New Earth to let humans rebuild their strength under the careful watch of the Thalassi, where mankind slowly regrew their numbers in a rotten world. After 81 years of mankind's existence on Yrodar, Archa-Te built the Ark of Pentecost, and god was born on Yrodar. The Nabuhak recognized the importance of the Ark and thus began the restructuring of Yrodar into the mind of god that it is today.

## Regions

The Greater Union

Dussland

Overwall

Drear Colonies

## History

### Ancient Yrodar

Before the arrival of the Nabuhak, Yrodar was a lifeless planet, though it showed promising signs of supporting organic life, and it is speculated that had the Nabuhak not intervened, an entire separate alien race likely would have developed on the planet within several million years. It is unclear how the Nabuhak knew that humanity would soon come to need a new home, but studies suggest that Yrodar was in the process of terraforming for over two thousand years before the destruction of earth.

### The Great Incarceration

Once the first humans arrived on Yrodar in 2156 the Great Incarceration began, an era that got its name from the humans who felt it unjust of the Nabuhak to deny them access to the rest of space. The Great Incarceration ended in the year 2256, exactly one hundred years after humanity arrived, as was promised by the Nabuhak. Once humanity had the ability to survive in space, the Eternal Crusade began, and Yrodar was largely forgotten by spacefaring humans.

### The Union of Hell

When most of the humans left Yrodar, those few who remained lived in a lawless, collapsing society with no real government to keep them in check. The Thalassi that had been living in the bottom of the sea took advantage of this, and for several years until the brain of god was complete, they carefully pruned humanity into what became the Sins of the Bryne. During this period, Yrodar was in complete disarray, and worship of Thalassi and Nabuhak as gods became commonplace, although the Nabuhak rejected any worship directed at them, insisting that a greater god was yet to come.

### The Brain of God

Once the Ark of Pentecost was brought to the Nabuhak at the end of the Great Incarceration, they began constructing an enormous mechanical brain for Archa-Te situated in Overwall, the region north of the Greater Union. During its construction, the Sins of the Bryne and the Thalassi crawled into the deep circuitry of the mind, and they hid in wait, watching their entire planet slowly become sentient. While the brain took several hundred years to complete, it is the most intelligent being to ever exist, and is believed to be the sole reason for the universe's existence at all.

### The Manifestation of the Bryne

When the Shadowhand invaded Yrodar after thousands of years of universal conflict, they coated Archa-Te's brain with his own human blood, flooding the entire planet and finally relinking his mind and flesh. In this moment, all of the Thalassi left on Yrodar were killed, but The Sins of the Bryne crawled forth and fused with Archa-Te, becoming the ultimate final manifestation of god. A horrific cybernetic being the size of a planet was created, and in its mind was the entire universe. No one knows what happened after this, but it is speculated to be the only surviving organic being left in the universe during the Shadowhand rule.