Prologue
Mycroft knew this was coming. He told the Keeper’s to find something productive to undertake and sat down. His Keeper’s had been spend the last 600 years looking for this damn book. This was a recording of the entrance of the gods and the great sealing of all the gods and a power. These texts were identified as the Belcoram. Extraordinary counts of the rise and fall of the gods, but it also cautions us of an absolute power that has been hidden behind Senj Crown.
The old man shuffled some papers from his stone desk in the stone room he called his stone cell. To long had he been here waiting for him to return. Mycroft completely cleared his desk off and opened the book up. It had been so long since he had looked at the book. Ancient memories of a time of greatness and gods rolled through his mind as he scanned the books contents, but also of the war for the power.
This great power was identified as The Rule. One of the gods held back hidden desires from his brothers and sisters. His wish was to force all of this new mankind to be his subjects and force the others to wait eons for the next world to grow fertile. The path would only open to a world that required faith to lead them.
Human kind is nothing without a purpose to guide them. Without faith or purpose, humans would never strive for more. The gods provide the means to be better through honor and the need for positive progress with guidance. Without gods, humans cannot dream. One god wished to use The Rule to take their dreams and their free will.
When the gods arrived on Thendarion, humans had already begun to group in small tribes. They spread across the world on all the continents and the gods marveled at the beauty of the land. There was more then enough room for all the gods to chose places to found kingdoms. They entered the unknown worlds in pairs, Each carried special items that linked them and granted them remarkable powers.
The items fed off the gods Radiance, a power itself granted to the gods. Extraordinary power, speed, and reaction, Radiance was a power bestowed by The One to the beings that it chose. These were beings that had died honoured and were ushered into the tranquil realm for a chance to become more then they were in past lives. Not all humans are honored for the same reasons, yet The One did not pick from the sole view of honor. Honor shows itself in all places of humans, the knights and people of the courts see honor in a different light then the honor of thieves, yet The One insists that all honor is necessary.
Once the gods arrived on Thendarion, one of the gods tried to hurl the other gods back into the Tranquil realm, the place they had just traveled from. The gods plan was to force all the gods back into the rift that allowed them transportation, but a few gods were able to resist his force. Regrettably, the gods had lost their pairs, but they had left them the objects with their Radiance infused inside. The gods plan to seize unchallenged dominance over this world had failed.
In the end, All but five other gods remained and they promised their brothers and sisters that they would return them to their new home. They would seek vengeance for this great betrayal, but the god fled and the others could not unearth him at first. The god retreated to a great circle of mountains known as Senj Crown. He privately constructed an immense city proclaimed Maljir and twisted the local tribes into bloodthirsty creatures known as the Selvorians.
This god was Senjoura, tall and mighty. He customarily wore blood-red plate armor with massive pauldrons and a black and gold cape that wavered perpetually no matter if the wind blew. He was the god that wished to have all power for himself and rule with no opposition. To this end, he began to share his divine gift with the mystics of his people and Radiance began bleeding into the world.
After 300 years of cultivating the people of his land in the ways of Radiance and proper fortifications. He began working on a power to bind the will of all with a single rule. During this time, the other gods had set up kingdoms after discovering him settled and protected. With the knowledge of what Senjoura was trying to accomplish, five kingdoms were created to represent five points of containment around Senj Crown.
The first was Mandora, a god of honor and respect. He held vengeance close to his heart for the banishment of his pair Feldara. Even though he held monstrous hate for his enemy, Mandora refused to use underhanded styles to deal with Senjoura. He wished to meet Senjoura in the field of battle and slay him. Only this would open the rift to deliver his soul, back to the tranquil realm and reopen the way. Only then could his love and the others return and lead at his side once more, the way they had planned and talked for millennia of. His kingdom was established from white marble that his people excavated from the ground, which made the city almost glow. Mandora taught his people honor, respect, and their solemn duty to watch Senj Crown for when Senjoura executed his plan. These people followed their god’s example and became the Keepers of the Crowns Gate.
The next was Desmanthia, The most beautiful goddess and the one that prized beauty above all else. She established a kingdom to the west of Senj Crown in a luscious tropical jungle. Her people followed her example and strove to seek perfection among themselves. Beauty is not merely what you may feast your eyes upon, but also in the perfection of one’s skills and arts. Desmanthia constructed schools to help her people and willing others to become masters of their callings. All of this was to prepare for the inedible war that Senjoura would force on them. These people became The Teachers of the World.
Next was Hargorim, Largest of all gods and master of war. He founded his kingdom in the harsh and arctic climate of the north. His people rigorously trained their superior bodies in the frigid cold to progressively develop bodies more capable then the polished steel they wielded. Hargorim created a giant colosseum for his mighty warriors and others from across the land could come voluntarily and pit their superior strength against one another in armed combat. These savage people undoubtedly became The Heralds of Battle.
Samcha was the next to form his glorious kingdom, The most adventurous of all the mighty gods. His eternal love of the open sea naturally made him choose to carefully carve his mighty kingdom into the prominent cliffs of Cordaram to west of Senj Crown. The Hydram Ocean contained massive monsters that prowled and storms that could tear a ship to splinters. None of this would stop Samcha from the open sea. He taught his people to become stronger and smarter than any monsters and properly build suitable vessels to brave the maelstroms of the limitless ocean. These people became The Storm Hunters.
The last god to fond his kingdom was Haldazium. He was, by far, the most curious god of the five. He loved knowing what everyone was doing and why. He made a point to wait to be the last to settle, so he could know what the others had planned before he took action. His people learned from his ways and became a society that dealt with the trading of all information of all kinds. These became The Listeners of No Sound.
These kingdoms widened and flourish, but always keeping an eye to the crown. As time past, Radiance from the gods slowly infused into the peoples and they became able to perform extraordinary feats with these creative powers. Radiance enhanced a way of life for each kingdom, each specializing in certain types of Radiance.
After 400 years had passed, Senjoura was no closer to developing The Rule to be able to place all under his control. He lacked enough Radiance to be able to produce enough power to bind the power into an object. In casting out the other gods, there was only one other way to be able to create “The Rule.” He needed to steal items that contained the Radiance from the other gods.
With this irrational determination to destroy his brothers and sisters to steal their Radiance, he began to waged war upon them all. His people had expanded their numbers by breeding non-stop since they began following Senjoura and the armies poured out of the Senj Crown in uncountable numbers. They used Radiance to Create golems to attack the city walls, and the Selvorians would swarm in to demolish everything in sight to persecute the gods.
The gods did not sit back ideally letting Senjoura murder their people. They embarked on a war that ultimately ended with the five gods and their armies forcing Senjoura and his followers back inside the mountain range of Senj Crown. Once the army had been pushed back inside, the five gods gathered all radiance and use everything they possessed to produce a barrier seal.
They poured everything they possessed to make sure the barrier would maintain, but they knew it wouldn’t last forever. Each god left an Item with his followers infused with the Radiance of that god. A prophecy of a group that would unite the five kingdoms when the barrier ultimately fell.
After the gods sealed the barrier, they had used all their Radiance and that of the peoples. They were forced to retreat to the tranquil realm to join there brothers and sisters. From there the gods could no longer influence the world or its people and all Radiance was stored in the barrier and the five objects of power. Only after the barrier has fallen and the final seal has broken, will the gods be able to direct us once more.
The five kingdoms went on without their gods to assist them and lived in a world without Radiance for over 5,000 years. Presently the barrier is starting to leak radiance back into the world and the seals are weakening. The time of The Chosen has come. They will unite the five kingdoms to seize up the great objects of power. It is up to them to stop Senjoura and his army of Selvovians from gaining enough Radiance to envoke “The Rule.”
