Ashes of Creation: Lore - Season One: Before the Fall

in the world of ashes exists an energy an energy called the essence this is the power which magic and the gods draw upon to exist there are three realms at which the essence is known to exist on the plane of the gods which are all mighty celestial leaders exist in and is connected closely to the essence hence the god's immense power the second is the material plane which vera exists on it isn't quite as connected to the essence as the previous but still has an abundance of it and finally the void this plane has hardly any essence at all being the furthest from the essence that there is however it is still noteworthy that the essence does exist there just a tremendously small amount of it the essence is a bridge of ley lines connecting each and every plane of existence together like a solar system the sun in the middle being the essence and the various planets orbiting around the sun representing the different planes of existence the closer they are to the sun the more essence the plane has [Music] there are ten gods present in the world of vera existing within their godril at the time of uploading we know who five out of the ten are the goddess of creation with the celestial avatar of the phoenix the goddess of love who remains currently unnamed and three of our racist gods the goddess of fate nolan who the orcs worship the goddess of hope rezna who the humans worship and the god of truth shall who the elves worship it's probably safe to say there is another named god for the dwarfs and then four more who we are currently unaware of when our gods first created life on our planet they put all their collective essence into one race a race we know now as the ancients born into the material realm these entities were powerful knowledge-hungry beings who craved more than what the gods had given them three of the gods were happy to share their knowledge of the essence with their creations however the remaining seven were not they feared these ancients would become corrupted by the knowledge of the essence by not only using it for good but using it for evil as well this split between the gods started a war battling across the god plane causing unknown amounts of damage not only to their realm but themselves as trust was broken and bonds severed the three opposing gods knelt in defeat of the seven in their current state they were no match for the goddess of creation and their six other brethren the three were banished into the void and sentenced for the conflict caused with a title that will forever label them as evil the others the seven remaining gods undecided with what to do with their knowledge hungry ancients decided to also cast them into the void the gods were satisfied with their decision to trap the others and the ancients forever in a realm starved of essence unknowing of the terrible entities that exist there which sets the story for our primary antagonists in ashes of creation as they do indeed find a way back into the material plane eventually after the others and their previous creations the ancients were locked away in the void the gods set in motion the creation of a second populace for vera learning from their past mistakes the seven remaining gods decided to instead of pulling all their essence into one superior race who were designed to achieve their god's will with efficiency and purpose they instead chose to create four divine races instead giving them the freedom to choose their own paths and spread their god's influence at their own pace eilar humans who eventually grew into the vast civilization founding the great city of ayla worshiping the god of hope renzo the kaivec orcs who headquartered their capital city of rem worshiping the goddess of fate nolan the pirian elves who based their population in the royal city of amara worshiping the god of truth shall and finally the dunes and kel dwarfs who built their great mountain city of dune as of uploading we currently do not know which god they worship the land was prosperous for thousands of years with empires rising and falling however there was one empire that formed and became very prominent in the late years before the exodus the tauren empire these were a race of half-human half elves led by the great wizard king atrax fortifying their kingdom in one of the greatest capital cities the world of vera has ever known torah king aatrex was the most advanced wizard of his kind and led his tauren army across the land searching for relics to learn more about the essence and its immense potential he was obsessed with the essence and hell bent on using its power to obtain immortality through his proclaiming of the relics his knowledge grew the first of his mighty relics was the sword which he used to manipulate the evil intent of the essence to rip through his foes and dominate his people into obeying him the second was the staff which enabled aatrax to project his magic across the land using manipulative magic to seep into his subject's mind and force them to do his bidding without question third was the golden chalice which was believed to bring everlasting life however only served to corrupt the drinker with the essence which eventually helped the final relic the crown was a direct link to the ancients and allowed them to manipulate aatrax's corrupted soul into bringing calamity into his world through communion with the ancients they convinced him he would be able to obtain true immortality instead of the broken promise the chalice gave the ancients taught king aatrex the summoning rituals needed to bring them into his material plane as he performed the rituals to order more and more of the essence's secrets were given to the king bringing up his subjects for sacrifice and performing unholy rituals of the void the unwitting king had finally done it he'd finally achieved immortality however as he looked down upon his form he saw not an immortal tauren king but instead an almighty lich overflowing with the power of undead becoming the first lich and undead of vera's material plane king aatrex was unsatisfied with his new form as he had become addicted to searching for the power of the essence so he continued to enslave his people and pursue more relics his horde of powerful artifacts were stored in his great vault fallow's hole deep below the capital city as the king sat upon his mighty castle looking over his undead kingdom of elves the damage he had done became evident the ancients had gotten what they wanted from the foolish king it was only a matter of time before the skies opened and the monolithic beings of stone and fire ripped through the walls of reality and into their material plane the downpour of hellish death was of no concern to the undead king he had relics to retrieve and was no enemy to the ancient calamity he wrought onto this world banished for millennia the others and their ancients traversed the void searching for any morsel of essence they could find starved and weakened from their battle against their brethren the others focused their energies on teaching the ancients the secrets of the essence and how to use it to its full potential weaving the essence in a way that manipulates instead of men's controlling the essence to shatter instead of heal bending the essence to command rather than rally this twisted form of the essence was called corruption this blood-red matter manifested itself in two ways the most obvious form was the essence crystallized into deep red crystals of twisted matter forming once the material realm is physically infected by the corruption's influence these crystals shatter easily however regenerate themselves just as fast making a troll infected with corruption physically a truly impossible opponent to defeat wither help the second form is the most insidious form the manifestation that the others can use to win no matter what given enough time a thick red mist which infects the mind of its inhabitants of the material plane seeping whispers of deceit and madness into even the righteous of souls causing them to hear monstrous taunts replacing their friends cry for help or twist their vision into seeing threatening atrocities instead of allies learning to use the essence in such an intense way grants the ancients the added benefit of becoming gods immortal but with the caveat of twisting their near-angelic-like form into something alien superior their forms now contort into something savage imposing and demonic their innards now burning red with a blackened metal-like shell encompassing their empowered hateful souls however one drawback from this form of immortality however small it may be does mean one thing unlike the undead immortality they granted to king aetrex once they're destroyed they can never be brought back through necromantic means the final trait of this godhood allows them to manipulate their own essence to transcend to the god realm however even if they weren't trapped in this essenceless void entering the god realm would reward them with instant annihilation from the seven so how could they use this newfound ability to their advantage the gods each have their own plane which we'll no doubt gain access to during our time in vera so what stops the ancients from attacking a single god directly whilst they're vulnerable in their personal plane this remains to be seen for now with their ascension complete the ancients could feel something within the void they could not before and turned to their masters for answers the others had sensed it the moment they arrived but felt unprepared to face it without their loyal god-like soldiers at their side now with that fixed they turned their attention to the looming darkness an energy unlike anything else existing within this essence-drained void what could be out there what could be calling to them they steered towards the source with purpose determined to seek it out and use it to their advantage any way they can for seven thousand years the others and their ancients searched the void deeper and deeper into the darkness being almost taunted by this unknown presence hidden beneath the burning coals of the void's decrepit wasteland whilst the others continued their search for seemingly near shadows the ancients changed their focus towards seeking a way back to the material plane to seek vengeance on their original creators their hatred for the seven burned their souls brightly seeping corruption out of their unholy forms they must have vengeance understanding their plight the others allowed them to pursue this need for revenge as they too wanted to destroy the seven's precious material plane and twist it to their own vision one filled with seas of red not just corruption but blood divine blood all the seven had created must be perverted by the true form of the essence corruption whilst the others continued their search this is when the ancients made contact with king atrax and began work manipulating him into weakening the bridges between the void and the material plane using their newfound ability to transcend the planes and manipulate the essence they planted artifacts of power into the world strengthening their precious pawn for him to perform the unholy rituals needed to provide the exact location of his pathetic plane of existence their influence seeped into his mind corrupting him into a blasphemous smear on the material plane a small victory for the ancients but a victory nonetheless they were pleased with their power to corrupt and that's when they felt it tendrils of darkness enveloped them seeping into their mind inciting a madness that the corruption could only begin to inflict upon its victims as they turned to face the looming threat they were greeted with three monstrous beings overflowing with alien energy of infinite darkness floating high above them great monolithic spheres of pure unreasonable insanity hover in the back of the now dark and shadowy landscape surrounding them the others had returned i was a child when they first appeared in the night sky at first there were three distinct lights not quite the brightest in the sky but they were bright enough my mother told me that they were a sign from the gods that the world is about to change she had a sense for these types of things a long line of women in my mother's family were oracles written on one of the many tablets in the great halls of king gimle is the story of my great grandmother the royal court's regent oracle and how she foretold the rise of the undying during the great war [Music] as the days grew to months and months into years the lights in the night sky grew in number the priests in the temples began to refer to the lights as harbingers upon my graduation from the master stonecutters university the lights numbered 16 each passing month the lights grew in brightness and size it didn't take long for things to change in doonheim families that i had grown up with began to move away from the city in the heart of the mountain travelers became less common and temple services were filled every day with new converts seeking answers about the harbingers and what they meant my mother wanted to leave the city as well but my father wouldn't hear it his auction house is what kept food on the table and my brothers were both in the council guard there was no way my father was going to be seen leaving the mountain honor and respect meant more than life itself and my father had great pride in my brothers despite my mother's persistence to leave the city we stayed life went on as normal as it could day by day the harbingers loomed overhead eventually visible in the day's sky a constant reminder of the future that would befall vera the greatest scribes of our time could not find any references to this phenomena in our ancient manuscripts the high priests and oracles of all the major temples across dunes and quell kingdom were summoned to the great capital dune thor days before the great council meeting was set to begin king brunei was stricken with a mysterious illness my mother who was a part of the delegation from doonheim wrote to me describing the king's haggard appearance king brunei stood to deliver his address to the delegates and collapsed at the start of the blessing ceremony what was meant to be a meeting of the great council became a coronation ceremony at the pronouncement of his death king brunei's eldest daughter vilga became the queen of dunes and kell kingdom and protector of the dwarven people my mother returned a different woman from doomthor with a sort of terror in her eyes my father and her stayed in their room the entire night the next morning was the first time i saw my father paralyzed with fear as if he'd seen a ghost we began to pack immediately planning to head to my uncle's mine inside the aylan empire my brothers were told that our uncle golden had died from a cave-in and we were to attend his funeral it was the only time my parents had told my brothers and i a lie we spent the next day preparing for the three day journey once packed we began to follow the road out of the mountain the road into dunheim was a long tunnel that begins at the great gates of the mountain several miles in length it was the only entrance in the mountain normally this passage was filled with traders and travelers across vera but in recent years the world had changed and with it so had the lifeline into doonheim we were just an hour or so from the grand gates at the mountain when it happened a loud boom reverberated across the ground it sounded as if the mountain itself had split apart followed several seconds later by a shaking that nearly caused the rams carrying out supplies to fall to the ground i could see my father's mouth moving as he screamed at me but i couldn't hear anything other than the loud ringing that filled my head it was at this moment i felt something wet falling down my neck i lifted my hand to feel what it was i guess the shock from the whole thing prevented me from understanding what had happened my fingers were covered in blood the shaking stopped almost as soon as it began behind the sight of my father calling me i saw my brothers struggling to lift the cart which had collapsed it was then i noticed a hand from beneath the collapsed axle of the wooden cart i immediately ran to the cart and began to push with all my might the frame of the wooden vehicle collapsed into itself revealing my mother's mangled body she laid lifeless amidst the debris as my brothers and i stood in shock our father frantically searched through my mother's bags whilst being watched for the slightest hint of movement where is it my father asked as he tore through the books and clothing in the various bags that were thrown to the road when the cart collapsed where is what i said to him despite his complete attention devoted to his searching my mind began to fill with the memories of my mother i saw both my brothers already overcome with emotion and just as despair began to take its grip i heard my father shout out got it he rushed over to my mother standing over her he recited a phrase that i did not understand a blinding flash of white light erupted from my father's hand a curled and tangled one fell from his hands and i watched as my mother began coughing tightly in my father's arms my brothers and i rushed to help them both we need to get out of the mountains braun she said to my father as he held her helgun far good quickly help me grab the food and supplies he told my brothers looking at me he asked delia watch your mother was i help your brothers as i sat with my mother watching my father and brothers tie what supplies they could recover to the rams saddle she turned to me the darkness has come [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 24min 22sec (1462 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 24 2020