Mederea

Thousands of years ago Mederea was a veritable paradise. Helios, the Sun God, provided for all, and allowed the peoples of Mederea to live a life of ease and pleasure. Sustained by the divine will of Helios, they lived lives five times as long as that of the elves of today. Mages, blessed with an unlimited lifespan, mastered arcane spells far beyond what the greatest of today's mages could even dream of. But we became too powerful. We pushed too far. We tampered with the underpinnings of the universe. And we opened the rift.

Who created the rift is lost knowledge to us. Even the greatest diviners of today see only shadows when they cast their gaze back to that fateful event. The rift was a gateway to the world beyond, a place outside of existance. It was supposed to be a source of nearly limitless power, so that even those not blessed with arcane skill could manipulate the fabric of creation. But instead we let the outsiders in. Beings of pure chaos, the outsiders sought to undo all of creation. They corrupted the mortal races, and sought to bring down Helios from his throne. Helios summoned all those who remained loyal to him and brought them to fight with the outsiders and their fell army. The two armies met on an unending plain that reached from the heart of creation to the very void that was the home of the outsiders, and the clash lasted seven days. No side could sustain an advantage against the other for very long, and victory seemed nigh impossible until at last Helios tore himself asunder and used his very essence to imprison the outsiders. What remained of Helios was less than what he was, and his psyche was fragmented. From those pieces of himself new gods emerged, the children of Helios. But the children of Helios were tainted by the corruption of the outsiders, and were not as pure as Helios. They began to compete with one another, and remade creation according to their ideals. Society crumbled as the gods revoked the gifts of Helios. No longer were we gifted with unending life or unending resources. War, unheard of during the reign of Helios, became commonplace.

Welcome to the world of Mederea, a world slowly arising from the ashes of its glorious past.

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