Post by HearMeRoar on Aug 29, 2008 6:06:57 GMT
My Lord and to those it may concern,
As per your instructions I have compiled this brief history of subjects 89 to 114. Whilst certain minor details have been left incomplete, I trust it is sufficient to properly explain the disturbances in our visions.
A number of decades ago, in the realm we've come to identify as Kieron-Thelios, there was a great war between the Deities and the High-mages. In a sudden uprising, masterminded by their deity of time, many of their gods were destroyed or imprisoned.
One such deity was their God of Dimension, a being by the name of Azymuth. His most fervent followers however, managed to obtain his prison and hide it, casting it in to another plane so as to avoid it being destroyed.
This prison was not without it's flaws and the trapped deity's anger and power drew in those susceptible to it's influence, summoning such persons instinctively.
The prison, known as the Arcanum eventually found itself in the hands of a man named Mikhail Romanov. He was the strongest willed user to date and used the Arcanum's power to draw in beings and things from other dimensions, forging his own mini empire in a microplane of his own.
He eventually died, leaving the Arcanum in the trust of the people he had summoned and made is followers, the fire elves, or the Agawn in their native tongue. They lived in subterranean caverns, surrounded by molten rock and heat, living a hedonistic warrior lifestyle.
It was at this time that the Arcanum was stolen by one of the Agawn and taken to the surface world, where the unknown thief attempted to use the device. We are unsure what happened to him but we do know that he did not return.
A decade later the influence of the Arcanum was felt again, this time by subject 98, the man that would later be known as "William."
Driven mad by the power offered he filled the surface of this mini-plane with items from the reaches of the Infinitum, including three (at the time) unknown adventurers and a being from his own home plane.
In due course, the Arcanum bearer was slain, though not without a great deal of mishap. Several fiendish beings had already been conjured, setting in motion what would become their undoing.
This chapter ended with the death of many people, including subjects 98 and 97, but also the release of Azymuth from his imprisonment.
The being that had accompanied subject 98 from his home world bargained with Azymuth for forgiveness of his friend's actions, citing the maddening affect of Azymuth's prison.
The deity relented and allowed him and several others to live again.
This aggravated the balance of power amongst the deities of the world around which this mini-plane (which was named Evosa) orbited.
This sparked a two decade-long power struggle which culminated in over 4 million deaths, including the deaths of three deities.
In an effort to undo the damage the unknown wizard and friend of subject 98 activated a device named the "Continuity Inversion," an adaptation of an earlier device named a "Continuity Incursion Bomb."
The affect of this device was, in essence, to drag the past through time to the present and merge the two together. This was, by any measure, an unthinkable act. It was brutally unstable in it's effect and left a permanent rift in the time-line of that world.
The deities acted swiftly, pronouncing judgement on the individual and sentencing him not only to death, but erasure from all existence.
We now know, however, that the deity which was to carry out the sentence was Azymuth himself, both as punishment for being involved with the guilty parties and as his entry initiation in to the pantheon of the deities.
His guilt overwhelmed him, however and he allowed a portion of the wizard's mind to survive. As the god of dimension, he guided it to another incomplete being, one who was his opposite in nature.
Our details on what exactly occurred are at this stage incomplete, but I refer you to illustrations 4e and 7t. We now know for certain that the being known as "Xupal" is the remnant of the unknown wizard and his anthropomorphic companion would appear to be his adoptive son and the other half of this bizarre dichotomy.
At first the pair seemed to operate alone, seemingly without purpose. It was not long before they encountered the Karma Organisation. From what we can tell, the leader sought them out and invited them to join, something we haven't seen since three hundred years ago.
Since then "Xupal" has been carrying on the work of his former comrades and is currently gathering recruits from all over the Infinitum. While his motivations could be as simple as overcoming guilt through altruism, we can not dismiss the notion that there is a greater plan in mind.
We do know that he can not return home, for fear of being destroyed. His former homeland may prove to be a safe-haven from him.
My recommendation at this time is cautious observation. We can probably use him to get to the individuals responsible for his being drafted.
I thoroughly recommend engaging his home, the former "Evosa." Now a haunted wasteland, we would do well to gain support from one of the inhabitants, the demi-god named "Alessa." We suspect this is an pseudonym.
We also know that Xupal, in his former life, had designed a potent weapon which remains in Evosa. All we can say for certain is that he called it The Nullity Core and he planned on using it against Evosa's enemies in the Shadow Wars (please see appendix l).
I recommend that we capture it at all costs.
Your obd' servant,
Brother J`Vaire Kadan
As per your instructions I have compiled this brief history of subjects 89 to 114. Whilst certain minor details have been left incomplete, I trust it is sufficient to properly explain the disturbances in our visions.
A number of decades ago, in the realm we've come to identify as Kieron-Thelios, there was a great war between the Deities and the High-mages. In a sudden uprising, masterminded by their deity of time, many of their gods were destroyed or imprisoned.
One such deity was their God of Dimension, a being by the name of Azymuth. His most fervent followers however, managed to obtain his prison and hide it, casting it in to another plane so as to avoid it being destroyed.
This prison was not without it's flaws and the trapped deity's anger and power drew in those susceptible to it's influence, summoning such persons instinctively.
The prison, known as the Arcanum eventually found itself in the hands of a man named Mikhail Romanov. He was the strongest willed user to date and used the Arcanum's power to draw in beings and things from other dimensions, forging his own mini empire in a microplane of his own.
He eventually died, leaving the Arcanum in the trust of the people he had summoned and made is followers, the fire elves, or the Agawn in their native tongue. They lived in subterranean caverns, surrounded by molten rock and heat, living a hedonistic warrior lifestyle.
It was at this time that the Arcanum was stolen by one of the Agawn and taken to the surface world, where the unknown thief attempted to use the device. We are unsure what happened to him but we do know that he did not return.
A decade later the influence of the Arcanum was felt again, this time by subject 98, the man that would later be known as "William."
Driven mad by the power offered he filled the surface of this mini-plane with items from the reaches of the Infinitum, including three (at the time) unknown adventurers and a being from his own home plane.
In due course, the Arcanum bearer was slain, though not without a great deal of mishap. Several fiendish beings had already been conjured, setting in motion what would become their undoing.
This chapter ended with the death of many people, including subjects 98 and 97, but also the release of Azymuth from his imprisonment.
The being that had accompanied subject 98 from his home world bargained with Azymuth for forgiveness of his friend's actions, citing the maddening affect of Azymuth's prison.
The deity relented and allowed him and several others to live again.
This aggravated the balance of power amongst the deities of the world around which this mini-plane (which was named Evosa) orbited.
This sparked a two decade-long power struggle which culminated in over 4 million deaths, including the deaths of three deities.
In an effort to undo the damage the unknown wizard and friend of subject 98 activated a device named the "Continuity Inversion," an adaptation of an earlier device named a "Continuity Incursion Bomb."
The affect of this device was, in essence, to drag the past through time to the present and merge the two together. This was, by any measure, an unthinkable act. It was brutally unstable in it's effect and left a permanent rift in the time-line of that world.
The deities acted swiftly, pronouncing judgement on the individual and sentencing him not only to death, but erasure from all existence.
We now know, however, that the deity which was to carry out the sentence was Azymuth himself, both as punishment for being involved with the guilty parties and as his entry initiation in to the pantheon of the deities.
His guilt overwhelmed him, however and he allowed a portion of the wizard's mind to survive. As the god of dimension, he guided it to another incomplete being, one who was his opposite in nature.
Our details on what exactly occurred are at this stage incomplete, but I refer you to illustrations 4e and 7t. We now know for certain that the being known as "Xupal" is the remnant of the unknown wizard and his anthropomorphic companion would appear to be his adoptive son and the other half of this bizarre dichotomy.
At first the pair seemed to operate alone, seemingly without purpose. It was not long before they encountered the Karma Organisation. From what we can tell, the leader sought them out and invited them to join, something we haven't seen since three hundred years ago.
Since then "Xupal" has been carrying on the work of his former comrades and is currently gathering recruits from all over the Infinitum. While his motivations could be as simple as overcoming guilt through altruism, we can not dismiss the notion that there is a greater plan in mind.
We do know that he can not return home, for fear of being destroyed. His former homeland may prove to be a safe-haven from him.
My recommendation at this time is cautious observation. We can probably use him to get to the individuals responsible for his being drafted.
I thoroughly recommend engaging his home, the former "Evosa." Now a haunted wasteland, we would do well to gain support from one of the inhabitants, the demi-god named "Alessa." We suspect this is an pseudonym.
We also know that Xupal, in his former life, had designed a potent weapon which remains in Evosa. All we can say for certain is that he called it The Nullity Core and he planned on using it against Evosa's enemies in the Shadow Wars (please see appendix l).
I recommend that we capture it at all costs.
Your obd' servant,
Brother J`Vaire Kadan