History of Ilysador
Ilysador was once a thriving and political world. Its
populace grew powerful with magic both arcane and divine and thru military
might. Vast cities covered its
lands and seas. The residents of this world
gave their allegiance to mighty deific powers that claimed large portions of
the world for themselves in carved it up into vast empires of strength. These
deific powers made Ilysador their residents and ruled these empires from their
capitals. Soon conflicts begin to rise and wars eventually broke out. These skirmishes though brutal were
still contained and often deconstructed quickly by the other powers. This
mighty world was at a pinnacle and all eyes eagerly watched for its next step. The powers that be, the deities were
kept in check by a greater power known simply as the balance. The balance would
call attendance and representatives of all the powers to meet on Cotho Deran,
the plane of council. This plane was an established meeting place for all the
deities. The mighty halls of the garden citadel were constructed from shining
mitral and adamentium, Jewels gold bronze and silver. Great huge domes stained glass ceiling where beams of light
would splinter into a thousand rainbows.
Even the dark quarters, whose walls were constructed from jet-black
obsidian, white marble and rubies.
This was the last meeting place of the deities that called Ilysador
their home. They are now mere
echoes from a past age. The walls
of the citadel now lay shattered, the buildings in ruin. The gardens destroyed.
The Great War
When Sertanos unleashed his devastating trap and killed of
the balance in one fell swoop, then the deities became vulnerable. The balance maintained ancient high
arcane and divine complex magic that kept all deities in their rightful niche.
None would ever be to powerful and usurp the others. It also kept them in power, granting them their immortal
strength to rule. Sertanos was a wild
card, a powerful warrior mind mage (Psion) from Ilysador who swore allegiance
to no deity. This intrigued
everyone for in a world, as this one individual did not get very far without
some deific intervention. Yet
Sertanos claimed that his power came from within. That he was his own master. His power of the mind magic had never been seen before on
Ilysador and with it he crafted a great kingdom for himself waging war with his
armies conquering smaller fringe kingdoms. But he did not destroy. Instead he boldly
grafted them together to form one empire.
He declared himself ruler and deity. Well this was unheard of. Curious deities came to test his claim
themselves. His power was great and the deities attempted to forge their own allegiances
with him. But no matter what
treasure or torment was put before him he did not yield. Finally in a rash move
a minor deity went against him and challenged his reign. The wager was his entire kingdom and
all his people. This calculated move would have definitely benefited the minor deity
and would have pushed him into the ranks of those above him. So they battled and Sertanos
unbelievably won. This made him a
minor deity in turn. Brought to
the citadel for a meet and greet he was educated on the structure of things and
told about the balance. At this
point Sertanos chose allies of both light and dark deities trying to chip away
any information he could get on the balance. Finally discovering their weakness, he had them all
slain. This unleashed the floodgates
of a millennium of force that was kept in check. It did not take much prompting for the deities to begin
waging their wars. Sertanos played both sides, and eventually became known as
the great betrayer. No one trusted
him. But with a massive army at
his call he watched as the other deities decimated themselves to only a few
remained.
The Devastation
With the deity’s armies and powers battle-torn and weakened,
Sertanos went for the cue de gra, but he miscalculated. The remaining powers laid a trap for
him. And he being caught, used his power to destroy them as well as
himself. In that moment, all the divine
and arcane powers came flooding back into the world. All the deities had perished; all their followers had
perished. They had all been
destroyed in the Great War and at its end the land itself heaved and
sundered. The races that were left
struggled to survive and hid away.
Eventually things settled and they rediscovered a reborn world. The places the deities once in habited
now lay empty except for a few remnants of their once great cities and
palaces. Wild and dangerous
creatures now wonder their corridors. Great weapons and treasures still lay in
the cities buried under rubble.
Current Era: Era of First Light
Now with the world infused with power a new era presents
itself . City-states have formed; new kingdoms and new races have emerged from
the devastation that was wrought before.
A world unlike any other, one that seems at times alive.
As these races try to expand their new homes and come into
contact with the surviving races of the world much is learned. The lands themselves have changed,
magical forests that seem almost sentient, great stretches of land where magic
becomes unpredictable, and of course all the new strange creatures that keep
appearing in the world. These outsiders
or off worlder’s as they are called have brought much to this world including
problems. The worst is it seems
they can’t go back. Now they
to make their way in this world uncovering its rich and powerful past.
Still more changes challenge Ilysador massive amounts of undead
were born out of the devastation and appear through the southern portion. The
land itself is cursed and anything killed there does not stay dead for
long. Demons rampage through the
southern desert and spread north from there. And a new dark enemy has made its
home in the north and slowly its tendrils reach south corrupting all in its
path.
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