Sethrian Tales

Tales of Sethris
Throughout the nation of Sethris, many tales are known and spread to the citizens across the nation.

The Tale of the Divine City
Before the separation of Gods and humanity, the two co-existed as one within our world. One of the main contacts between the two groups was on Mt. Avaris, where an ancient shrine was built to let the two groups talk to each other. The Divine, the gods of the world, were ones of infinite kindness and benevolence, and they would commonly grant gifts upon the humans that came to visit them often. The humans would grow greedy from these gifts, though, and would over time ask for more and more from the Divine, which they would foolishly grant upon the humans. Some would become their own demi-gods with powers that no mortal should've had, but the humans would still only ask for more. Once the Divine began to realize their mistake, though, it was too late. Those with enough power joined together and killed one of the Divine, gaining all of its powers and allowing the strongest of them to become False Divine, monstrous beings that would cause chaos across the lands of Sethris.

The Divine and False Divine would war each other for centuries, the Divine only trying to defend themselves from the monsters they had created as the False Divine tried to become the sole rulers of the universe. This turned the remnants of the lands of Sethris into a land of death and destruction as fire and lightning rained upon the holy lands, burning them to ash and leaving them devoid of any life they had once had. The Divine eventually gave up their attempts to survive in the land and escaped to their own realm far from our own, leaving only the False Divine to occupy the dead lands they themselves had once lived in as average people. In the rift the divine used to escape, though, creatures of darkness and malice from their world escaped to ours, which began to roam the empty lands and take what they wanted from it. This rift also caused a disruption in the connect between the worlds and caused many more cracks throughout the land in history, linking both the two worlds and many others as more monsters, treasures, and unimaginable things poured from the rifts. Many more centuries passed as the False Divine began to heal the wounds of the land, though with time the False Divine and their legends faded away as the lands returned to normal and sightings of them became more and more rare.

The world would slowly forget about the legends of the Divine and their impact upon the world, until one day it was considered nothing but myth, only a story of the past. Around this time, a teenager by the name of Volt and his friends stumbled upon the abandoned lands. Not knowing of the terrors that had occurred on the land in the past, they eagerly began to explore the land and began to fall in love with its peacefulness. One night, though, Volt would find himself under attack from one of the creatures of darkness, which were known as Malädo. They fought with all their might, though he one of his greatest friends in the daring battle. He was sent into a crushing depression, losing all love for the world and becoming disconnected from everyone and everything around him.

One day while travelling alone, he came across the shrine of Mt. Avaris, now in ruin from centuries of fighting and decay. He climbed the mountain to see the strange building, and though there was little left, he felt an otherworldly presence watching him as he slowly climbed the steps to the holy site. As he reached the top, a crack in the sky opened up, and an ancient and mighty voice rang out across the land. "Who comes to the site of the forbidden past?" It asked, though Volt had no clue of what this meant. He stayed silent, but his sense of being watched only grew stronger as he stood in fear of what was happening. "Do you fear us?" The voice asked, to which Volt didn't know how to answer. He gathered his strength and shook his head, hoping that his display of courage would keep whatever the creatures were from hurting him. He heard a violent, booming laugh come from the sky, and another question came. "Do you fear the truth of humanity?"

Volt again shook his head, though truthfully this time. He had nothing to fear of humanity, as he knew little of them due to often wandering the wilderness and having little interaction with them. The voice crackled again, lighting striking and thunder booming as the foolish Eon continued his conversation with the creators of the world. "You truly are a blissfully ignorant creature. Perhaps we have forgotten how foolish humanity was. Let me show you what monstrosities this world has created." Volt stood still, though, still unsure of what to do. In this moment he was given the knowledge of centuries of wars, hatred, anger, and the inhumane conflicts people had put each other through. The vision of pain he was given nearly killed him, the shock and fear from the thoughts of the pain almost stopping his heart. The Divine kept him alive, though, because they saw something within him. Though he was cold and ruthless from his losses, he had been a kind and joyful child before the pains that the world had put upon him. He wanted nothing more than a peaceful life, but perhaps he could get so much more.

The gods graced him with their favor, and with another crackle from the sky another crack appeared, though out of this one fell materials. Ones black and white, though not of this world. They glowed with a magical beauty as they crashed into the ground, though not at random. As they in they began to take shape, forming walls of protection against the creatures that roamed the lands. Volt stared in awe as city stood before him; a city of complete protection, though one without any life within. His friends came running to him after hearing the noises from the encounter, though the Divine had long left and that was left was a stunned Volt, a destroyed shrine, and a massive city. The friends slowly stepped through the gates, not knowing what the future would hold for them as the first city of Sethris in thousands of years was created.

The Tale of the Rifts
When the Divine left the mortal realm, the rift they used to escape caused fractures throughout the lands that would echo across all of history. Malädo, beasts lacking mercy and having only the will to kill and ravage the world, began to emerge from these rifts, though they would only be the beginning. These rifts would be known to crack the ground, shattering and splitting it open and leaving massive ravines where they did so, which miners would foolishly flock to before being killed by the Malädo. This would keep the lands of Sethris pure for many years, though eventually they would begin to die off and dwindle in numbers, though many still remain in the lands. Smaller rifts would be known to bring over creatures from many different universes, and though most would die off and never gain a population across the world, some still do survive to this day.

Two major rifts have occurred and been recorded in history, the first cracking the earth and depositing valuable gems and crystals within the crack, which would later become the site of Chrysnix. The second would bring the Eons to the world, who came from a universe far away with no memories of their past lives and no family to help them. The second rift would also bring with it swarms of many other strange monsters that would plague the lands of Sethris, though the crystals within Chrysnix and the magical walls of Avaris would keep the two sites safe from raids by the beasts.

The Tale of the Void
Before the second Sethrian rift occurred, strange events began to take place across Eldham. The earth would crack, and though this was common due to rifts in the lands of Sethris, they would not be the cause this time. The Void would be the cause of these, brought about by the disruption of the universe by the Divine's will and the extreme hatred of the incredibly powerful Malädo. From these cracks, black dragons would emerge and attack the lands while earthquakes buckled the plains and turned them into massive mountains. Daos of Sethris, born of the Thirteenth Warforged Legion to help fight against the chaos, and though they won, they suffered heavy losses and had few survivors. Daos would be one of the lucky survivors, though, but would now be stuck in a chaotic world of little peace. He would begin construction of a fort off the coast of Mt. Avaris which he would call Watcher's Keep. This fort contained one of the last active cracks from the void, kept alive by the extreme disbalance and overlapping of worlds near the holy mountains.

He would go on the create the Silver Knight's Order, a group devoted to containing the horrors of the void and slaying the monsters within Sethris that would try to help the Void escape its containment. Though monsters would sometimes escape from the cracks of the Void, they would be easily cut down by the trained knights who were always prepared to fight the creatures. Some of the only to escape would be the Dräconbrood, humanoid dragon descendants of the Void Dragons who were incredible fighters and were able to fly out of the confines of Watcher's Keep. Though Daos and the dragon descendants would be highly distrustful of each other, they would eventually co-exist together as the Dräconbrood took to killing the monsters that found their way into their mountain village.