History

The history of 'Dark Souls RP: The Hand of Lord Darkring' builds off of the basic lore of the original games, adding numerous things from new deities to events to historical figures. For sake of Clarity, everything before the start of cannon is labeled 'Pre-C,' while everything afterwards will be marked 'CO'

## Pre Cannon

To start, here's a general timeline of pre cannon events:

With that said, onto the more text based approach.

When the first flame came to be, those who would become the core gods of this world were approaching the flame. While Nito, the Witch of Izalith, and the furtive pigmy made their ways to it uneventfully, Gwyn was stopped by his rival: Flann. They fought over it, but eventually Gwyn came out victorious, claiming his lordsoul, and becoming king of the gods; while flan would have to bend the knee, Gwyn and his eventual pantheon being undeniably stronger.

It was after this at which Gwyn declared war on the dragons, attempting to claim the surface for the lords, lordlings and humans. The war was going relatively poorly, until Seeth the scaless sided with Gwyn at least, exposing the lightning vulnerability all dragons held. So with that new information in tow, Gwyn invented lightning miracles, turning the war in his favor.  Gwyn’s son, the firstborn, wanted armies of his own to control, but Gwyn refused to put any of his lordlings under his control. So instead, the firstborn rallied a small army of humans to his cause, naming his followers ‘the warriors of sunlight.’ Meanwhile, Seeth had gotten human followers as well, teaching them how to channel magics in exchange for them acting as his eyes and helping him with his experiments, his will being channeled through them. so he could run his experiments more easily. Among all these humans though, one proved more intelligent and ambitious then the others, which he put in charge of all the other channelers; the grand channeler. With his new minions, Seeth was able to create the first immortality crystal; while touching it didn’t actually make one immortal, it did heal you to the genetic level, so effectively in fact, that it could even stave off the effects of aging.

The war continued at a rather lackluster phase; Gwyn starting to believe he needed a new secret weapon, one with the power of the abyss. So, he send off his youngest daughter Fillianor to Seeth and told him to figure something out. After a great deal of work, he and his minions found a way to separate all that was fire from Fillianor, putting the flame into an egg; what remained would be called Abula. Abula turned out to be a failure in the eyes of Gwyn; she thrived in the abyss, but she didn’t have the control over it he wanted, not enough to be an overwhelming advantage against the dragons at least. The egg on the on the other hand, hatched into a brilliant phoenix, later named Escelara. This phoenix would be brought up in the kingdom of Anor Londo, raised in Gwyn’s very household as an entertainer, seen more as a pet then an actual family member. While having the flame removed from her made Abula distrustful and something of a troublemaker, it made Escelara staunchly loyal to Gwyn and what he stood for, wanting nothing more than to fight along side him and his son against the dragons. Lacking the power to do this, she made a deal with Oxris, taking the profaned flame. This new power would be shown of at a dinner party with Flan, where she would end up suplexing Nar Alma. Seeing her newfound potential, Gwyn would assign her as the adoptive daughter of the firstborn, aiding him in his front in the war against the dragons. after she'd proved herself on the field, the firstborn would give her some of his sunlight warriors, the ones under her command now being known as the phoenix knights.

Some time after this, the Firstborn would betray Gwyn; Escelara counter betrayed the Firstborn, leading to a relatively easy victory against the coup. For this, Gwyn would adopt Escelara as one of his own daughters. Speaking of Daughters, it was later discovered that when Seeth had been removing the flame aspect from Filianor, he and one of his minions, the Grand Channeler, had taken a genetic sample from her, and conbined it with that of Seeth to create the dragon goddess hybrid Precilla. Fearing the ramifications of Seeth making lords, he forayed Seeth and any of his minions from experimenting with god, Lord, or Lordling genes any further, banishing Pricilla and the majority of the Grand Channeler's current research into a painted world Abula had created. Wanting to garantee further that Precilla would never exit, Abula had guards placed all throughout the room the painting was stored in, who would eventually be known as the painting guardians. Around this time, the was against the dragons was finally declared over; most of the dragons had been irradiated, and the few that survived had been driven to far off land, no threat to Lordran anymore. Four days after the official end of said war, the Laws of Gwyn were officially announced to the public, acting as a basic constitution for Lordran.

Hundreds of years of peace followed, yet Gwyn could see the power of the flame was fading with time. It only became clear how fast it was fading however once Oolacile erupted with an Abyssal plague. A crusade was announced, spearheaded by the warriors of sunlight, though many of Gwyn's greatest knights, such as Artorius, Hawkeye Gough, and Ciaran joined in the crusade as well. Even with all of this help, they struggled to gain ground, especially when the Abyssal Dlack Dragon Kalameet joined against them. near when all hope seemed lost, a group of heroes from the future emerged, including but not limited to the Dolc Pasatte, Siegward, and Ben Chron.