Astrespi

Early history
"Long ago, the North-Eastern lands of Kylorne were once United, as one large continent. The continent was later shattered by the Asteroid."

In the earliest days known to the Astrespí & Therian people, the mainly dominant race that roamed the early lands was the humans. Stardust was a main aspect of the early days as the people used it to learn early forms of magic, and consumed it for different purposes. The first great nation arose when the early Astrespí people began to unify in the form of a faith, were over time the general population of the United Eastern continent and began calling themselves the people of Astrespí. (translating to star faith) The people watched the stars using tubes with small sheets of thin glass to amplify their sight, their technology soon advanced into fuller telescopes. These stars they watched throughout the night each represented one of the many gods within the Astrespí. Most people throughout the lands mainly devoted their time to one of these gods, while neglecting the others… This eventually led to conflict. Many more minor gods were known to the Astrespí people, but they were not mainly worshiped.

Early land of Therós
Over time as people began living together, a group of early nobles known as the Pimu Egenís (translating to Old Nobles) assembled in a lost building known to us today as, “Té Thílemós” (translating to The Chamber). Many of these titles are still used today in modern culture to represent the government positions of the second Enõrí óu Therós. The Pimu Egenís agreed that their people and faith needed more coordination and needed order, thus they created a government. The government of the “Pimu Ofríós” (translating to the Old Empire). The Old Empire was the home of the Astrespí, and is believed to be territorially larger than current day Therós, encompassing the majority of the United Eastern Continent.

The Old Empire lived centuries and the people of it came and went. Some beings from the Starborne race are believed to have lived throughout the entire Pimu Oftríós, as Starborne live varied lengths of time. This is mostly how the stories of the oldest known times have come to our knowledge.

The great war was what caused the fall of the Pimu Oftríós. The war started when the people following certain gods began to view their gods as more important or with better intentions for their people and the Pimu Oftríó as a whole. Violence began to break out between the different god’s followers, leading to the failure of the empire’s unity… Causing divide amongst the people and eventually leading to the fall of the Pimu Oftríós. After the Pimu Oftríós fell, the now separated city-states across the United Eastern Continent fell into turmoil and over time, civilized practices began to decay.

Asteroid impact
The gods seeing the collapse of the Astrespí people caused them to agree as one to send a great asteroid to the continent. The last civilized survivors of the Pimu Oftríós’ civil war and collapse saw through their telescopes an asteroid in the night’s sky. As it grew bigger and bigger in their view, remaining nobles throughout the lands warned the people to run, and never return as the Asteroid was coming for them. Some holy prophets stayed, believing that it was sent by the gods to destroy them, which they accepted as their final fate.

Upon impact, the Asteroid completely shattered the Eastern continent into many smaller islands, a fraction of the size in land mass from the original continent. Almost everyone who stayed died in the impact, but few sailed across the seas to other lands in hope of survival, of which they found. They joined the population and found shelter in other foreign nations, unknown to them before their departure.

The remaining people now found themselves in other nations and cultures, and as centuries passed by the tales of the Pimu Oftríós began to fade, along with the common Astrespí beliefs.

The Asteroid though, containing large amounts of stardust with so-called, “magical properties” had not only shattered the continent, but had left a thin blanket of stardust across the island of which the impact had occurred. This island is now known as the “Island of Therós”. The gods of the old Astrespí over time decided that it was time to bring back their presence to the people, and so casted winds that blew the stardust west.

The blights sprouted originally in the impact zones of the smaller meteorite fragments that smashed into the land along with the main meteorite. The stardust contained in the fragments draws the underground stardust to the surface, which makes the Stardust Blights.

Stardust plague
The plague, often referred to as the “stardust plague” was a disease that sprouted from the first Stardust Blight on the island of Therós, in the city of Tochiohana. The blight began to grow continuously when the people of Xelionople first settled there, as the influx of battle and death increased during those times. Currently the plague affects only humans to our knowledge, but more creatures could be affected that we do not yet know. Races primarily based around stardust, like the Starborne, are immune to the disease. The plague seems to be mostly respiratory, infecting and causing blight to begin growing in the lungs if the recipient stays within the infected area for too long.

New Era of Therós
When some of the people of the Western lands inhaled the stardust blown towards them, it gave them a holy vision from the gods of the island themselves. They saw a beautiful landscape, and most importantly they envisioned a new nation. A nation binded by the people and lands it made up. The very last thing they saw in their visions were bright shining stars in the night sky above the island.

Few people that were touched by the visions heavily, set out to find this land, and to fulfill what they believed were the “orders of the gods”. They sailed East, to find an island almost exactly as they had seen in their visions, but even more importantly, saw the same shining stars above. These few people of different original cultures settled across this island, founding many cities such as Thessalonia, Fosfourá, Ignis, and Astrelor, where they built civilizations of united people. Eventually these settlements came in contact with each other, and agreed to hold a meeting to discuss their situations in the early settlement of Astrelor.

The leaders discussed, they spoke, and they all shared the same common vision from the gods, the same common dream. But for all of them in similarity, they all had a religious connection with the stars of the night sky. Touched by what each other had shared, what each other had found, they agreed to start something new. The vision of the nation they all had seen, the Union of Therós.

Gods of Therós
The primary gods of Therós are the four gods of the island, Ashov, Medite, Alírós, and Vysíós. These are the patron gods of each of the new union’s original cities, and were responsible for bringing the four founders together. Each founder received a vision from one of the four. Trevor Nõvynél from Vysios, Noah Marius Agrippa from Medite, (Noodles name) from Ashov, and Luciean from Alírós. Although the four island gods are not the only Therian gods, in fact there’s a multitude of different Therian gods. All of which can be found within the Astrespí Glossary of Gods, where all the gods of Therós and lands beyond are documented.

Stars
The Astrespí people believe in all gods from all over the lands, though, while some may not be followers of certain gods, this does not prohibit them from praying or worshiping them. Some Astrespí people even pray to gods of other cultures from time to time. In the eyes of the Astrespí, each god represents a certain star in Kylorne’s night sky. Not only gods, but all godly deities are given a star. One to symbolize them, no single star being the same, all different and unique in their own ways. The people throughout Therós watch the stars through telescopes, large and small.