Tuesday, December 25, 2007

The Setting

The following is an in-universe description of the setting that my stories take place in.

The universe was created eons ago by a massive fluxuation of space and time. Where there was once nothing there was now space and matter. From an unknown source and through unknown means a typhoon of energy the size of billions of suns tore across the void of immaterium. This energy, which had the capacity to create material out of nothing and the capacity to change the very nature of space and time would one day be known as mageforce. It forged the stars, the comets, the sky and time itself. At the beginning of time there was nothing but a storm of mageforce which gave birth to everything. With the universe now in existance, mageforce began to vanish from the universe though much would never disappear and float around the void for eons.
Around one star there were two worlds. From their seas and oceans crawled life which began to evolve into complex animals. The worlds they lived on were close enough to be seen by the inhabitants of the other but not so close that they could easily be accessed by the other. They were twins, but one of them had an advantage over the other. Jindaria, as the planet would be called, was flooded with mageforce that didn't disipate. The mageforce reacted with the world and the creatures on it, creating strange and unnatural properties within the creature living there and within the world itself. One species, for instance, gained the ability to live unnaturally long while another lost the ability to feel pain. One even acquired the talent to set all it beheld spontaniously aflame.
Eray on the other hand gave birth to a variety of mundane and unsophisticated people. They were mostly unintelligent and primitive. The exception were the dragons, who cononized Eray and kept all its simple peoples under a constant rule of peace and harmony. The most numerous of these peoples? Humans. For thousands of years peace ruled Eray, but on Jindaria things were different.
The ambitious Jindarians were busy forging empires and battling one another in their quest for supremacy. A vast coalition of Jindarian peoples known as the demons, whose very nature made them fierce and sinister, were crushed by the other Jindarians and banished to a lifeless continent in the middle of the largest Jindarian ocean. The demons had been driven from their homes and hate burned in their hearts. As the other Jindarian races battled, the demons prepared...

1986 years later...

Eray had changed. It is now in the beginning of the Renaissance era though Jindaria is still in the middle ages. The Eray peoples were now very prosperous and clever though were ignorant of their violent neighbours, the Jindarians. The humans had built cities and castles all over the land alongside other Erayic races. They could forge swords and shields. The peaceful reign of the dragons had ended and was replaced by a peaceful but restricting reign of a race called the drem who consider themselves the "superiors" to all other peoples. The Higharc, the drem government, had some control over all governments on Eray. All respected the drem but resented them for their dominance. Now someone is rebelling against the Higharc. Anarasorian Viex is joining the army to battle the rebels....

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