Iltox

## Iltox, Fallen from Grace

### The Convergence and Iltox

During the first creation, when Astoria was a vast utopia of peace and luxury Adramelch watched over his creation with his brother Iltox. Iltox, was of the Praetorian Sect of Celestials, before the Convergence these Celestials were regarded with the highest of esteem and respect amongst the Pantheon.

They were skilled war leaders and tacticians. They wielded the power to conquer and destroy but never to create. The Convergence was a treaty signed and agreed upon by all Celestials of the Council. An end to the old way, the ways where power was gained by conquering another realm, where souls were harvested to spend time eternal in battle with beings from the many other realms. Tired of seeing their creations constantly at war the Progenitor, Aoilum the being to which all Celestials were born threatened oblivion to their creation should the fighting not cease and peace to exist amongst the realms.

With ultimatum in place the Celestial Court stripped the Praetorian's of their rank and station demoting their class to the lowest of all Celestial. Where the once were paramount of honor and praise they had become nothing more than servants to those Celestials that held the power to create. And so Iltox the eldest of the brother now sat at his younger's side to watch as he created, to be still and idle while the fire of war and conflict burn inside him.

### The End of the First Creation and the Fall of Iltox

As idle hands filled Iltox with restlessness he found that while his brother did his best to give the newly acquired Astari souls everything they wished or could dream of, there still lurked the pitch of conquest, greed, and power in some of their hearts. Quietly Iltox visited these Astari in their dreams, filling their minds with images of what could and would be. Driving their ambitions to feud, steal, war, and kill.

It was two Astari to which these darkened words clung deepest to, the first a King, one of the first Astari to arrive during the First Creation. This man had built a place for all newly arriving beings to find familiarity and pleasure behind high marble walls. This man, King Gahldahan listened to Iltox's honeyed words, he sought the passion that had been gone from his bones for too long. He struck a deal with the Celestial Iltox, the power to conquer Astorai and become it's God King.

Now at this same time another Astari was making their own plans fueled by the machinations of Iltox. Faust a minstrel of fame and renown across the land grew bored with the realm, there were no songs to sing, no heroes to tell tales of, the world had become a dull and gilded place in his eyes and Iltox latched onto that notion. To Faust he gave the secrets of how to undo the Well, to sever the line that powered the utopian prison the minstrel was bound to. So in a two pronged attack Iltox sent his unknowing agents to sunder Astoria. Gahldahan waged war on Astoria drawing the attention of Adramelch away from Faust as he and his allies assaulted the Soul Well.

Adramelch the ever kind and trusting thought that his brother was at nothing more than a game, a simple distraction to sate the dwindling fire that once burned so bright inside him. So, he let his brother have his fun, for he reassured Adramelch that is was just to relive the old days for just a short time. Trusting of his eldest brother who he so admired, countless parades and celebrations he had earned, so many ceremonies of honor had Adramelch seen his brother center stage for. There was no doubt that any word his brother spoke to him was anything but the truth.

Then, the betrayal, the undoing, the Keeper slain shook Astoria to it's core. The Well cut off from the Forge as thousands upons thousands of souls from Gahldahan's war found no return. Their anger and rage race across Astoria, mountains toppled, seas turn to ice and Iltox stood, quietly at his brothers side a sickly, crooked grin twisting up on his face.

It was the one and only time that Adramelch's face had shown anything but temperance and understanding. Hatred filled his form and in one terrifying motion he leveled the Gahldahan's kingdom, the entirety of it, marble walls, gilded towers, swallowed into the earth. Those that survived spent their last moments fearing for their lives as demons and beasts filled their kingdom with the sole purpose of eradicating all that still remained.

He struck down Faust and all of his allies twisting them into warped abominations tasking them to forever and always guard the newly forged Well. With rage in his eyes and his vengeance wrought on his creation he turned to Iltox and asked why. The red skinned warrior tilted  his head back looking down at his younger brother and in three quiet words, "Because I could." Sent over the edge by the betrayal Adramelch cast Iltox from the Celestial Court of Astoria stripping him of nearly all of his power.

### Iltox for Season Three

More information and lore surrounding this being and his betrayal and plans will be revealed during season three and will be added here once they become common knowledge.