Mythos

## Age of Creation

"In the beginning there was The Light and to The Light all shall return. The Light holds order for nothing escapes the light, even as the night cannot escape the dawn"- Book of Eshemos

The shattered lands were brought into being by Eshemos, lord of light, primordial creator of all things, exemplar of order. Before there was anything there was Eshemos and the light. When the world first was created it was a single land called the Realm of Aleyros, home of Eshemos and his children. Aleyros was created by Eshemos for his companions to live in, after the perfect home was created Eshemos then created his children who would become the gods of the world to come. Chief of the children of Eshemos was Baaos who grew stronger then the rest of his siblings and strove to be as strong as their father. Baaos was the antithesis of his father, where Eshemos desired order above all Baaos sought to turn all to chaos. Soon the lure of chaos would latch on to more of baaos's siblings and the grand celestial war would begin, this war would shatter the very world, turnning the realm of Aleyros into the Shattered Lands.

## The Grand Celestial War

After the fall to chaos Baaos and Eshemos fought a war that would go on for centuries, the war was a bloody and terrible stalemate of brother fighting brother and sister fighting sister as no one had the power to destroy the other, each side never got the upper hand until Death entered the field. One fateful day Eshemos and Baaos clashed and their fury could be seen across the world however, this time it was different. Instead of lasting only a few seconds and then each falling back, Eshemos pushed harder and harder until he drove the point of his blade into the chest of Baaos. The screams of pain and agony shattered mountains and created valleys and still Eshemos pushed the blade deeper until Baaos was still. From the depth of Baaos came his soul a being of pure light tainted by the chaos, it is this vessel of power which signaled the creation of something new, something dark, something terrible, Death had come to The Shattered Lands. Clothed in robes of shadow and ethereal energy the being now known as death greeted Eshemos, created out of the first destruction of life, Rhogzotl the Lord of Death came into being. Rhogzotl took neither side and merely spectated as the gods battled it out, killing brother and sister. The war lasted little longer as the forces of Chaos grew weak without their leader, they hatched a plan, a plan to sacrifice themselves to bring back Baaos, and with the last bit of strength the children of Chaos gave up their souls so that Baaos could be reborn, now Chaos ascended. With his new power Chaos raised the bodies of his siblings into terrible creatures of unimaginable horror and strength. Finally, as the end seemed to be upon them, Eshemos sacrificed a portion of his power to seal away the creatures of night and seal Chaos ascended away into the plane of Limbo where they reside till this day or so the legend says.

## Age of Legend

After The Grand Celestial War the land of Aleyros was broken beyond compare, no more was it the perfect vision of order that Eshemos wished, now the very land they stood on was shattered and if not for the pleading of his children, Tavore and Malos chief among them Eshemos would have destroyed his creation. Instead, tavore and Malos urged Eshemos to populate the world with something new, with life. With their help Eshemos brought life into the new lands, Eshemos created himself the mightiest creature of Life, a platinum dragon, Bahumet, a living embodiment of order, Bahumet was everything Eshemos ever craved to see in Life. Eshemos also created the race of Man in order to populate the far corners of the world. Tavore, quickly taking to the trees of the forest created her race of nimble tree dwellers, said to live an almost timeless life among the trees, Tavore created the Elves. Malos, the toughest of the gods took to the mountains and caves and created his race of mountain dwellers, the Dwarves. This creation of the races caused great joy among the gods but also took a heavy price, as Tavore and Malos and even Eshemos felt the drain on their powers after their creation came to life. As this was going on, Chaos was gathering their strength, growing stronger and stronger, until one day, perhaps centuries after the creation of man, Chaos started to reach out and whisper to man. Slowly but surly the power of Chaos grew as more and more people started to listen to his followers, one crazed follower turned into ten, into one hundred even into one thousand. Finally Chaos was able to unleash their own terrible power upon the world, first unleashing their twisted power of creation, Chaos created beings which only knew death and destruction, which only knew trickery and subterfuge. But the culmination of Chaos's power came in the shape of its champion, the paragon of Chaos, the Chromatic Dragon Tiamat. With the greatest of their creations Chaos was able to send Tiamat to Aleyros but the dragon was stopped by Bahumet the platinum dragon. It is said that their battle lasted for days, even weeks, with both colossal champions giving it their all however, both soon got weaker and weaker and both fell from the sky. The loss of such creatures were so powerful that even Eshemos himself came to witness their end. There among the dead titans, Eshemos pleaded with Death who had come for his due, Death made a deal with Eshemos, that Bahumet and Tiamat's soul would not be collected but instead split into two. One half would go to create a new race, a race of metallic dragons in the case of Bahumet and a race of chromatic dragons in the case of Tiamat, the second half would be hidden deep in the world, where no one say death himself can find it. If a soul can be found and brought to the sight of the sundering, the power imbued in that spot by death would allow the soul to be remade into the aspect or to be destroyed, taking the other dragons with it. Never make a deal with death, as he always gets his due.

## gods of Aleyros

Eshemos- The creator, primordial being of law and order, created the world and the gods

Baaos- First son of Eshemos, turned his fahters order into chaos, sealed away in Limbo

Savia- The goddess of wisdom, patron to the city of Savia, one of the only gods worshipped by the Dwarves

Malos- Creator of the Dwarves and the god of war, patron to the city of Malokos

Ulock-The god of the sea and oceans, patron to the Port of Ulock