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Re: Religion Stories
I have all four of them on my home computer. I'll post them here once I get home - if I remember.
- Darian Darkmind
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Re: Religion Stories
Found them. As promised, following is the four histories. There might be few grammar mistakes. Also few things are missing from the stories that I had planned to add, but never finished due to losing interest. Anyway, to those who can be arsed to read... have fun.
Also the Tekstone version is different than the one on the webpages. This is the original Tekstone version without Repsak's editions.
-History of the Lord British, Britannia and Sir Winchester-
In the early days the world was a cruel place. The woods were cut down, the towns raging of blazing flames covering the sky into a thick black smoke. The food was running short, people were sick, starving and dying… There was no town walls, no guards, there was no order at all for that matter. Everyone was for themselves. The world was ruled by anarchy where the strongest ruled with force, feeling nor giving no mercy to anyone. Simply put, the world was losing a war and the mankind, or more like humanity, was at the edge of extinction.
The war, The Great War as they later on called it, could be described as a massacre for there was no real resistance. It was one great force, Dennac, against thousands and thousands of peasants with no chance of surviving. No one had ever witnessed anything like that before; it was the battle of two gods, siblings with each others the rumours said. It was between Gaea, the mother of nature, and Dennac, the lord of destruction. The world was too small for these two forces so the conflict was inevitable and the results were terrifying for Dennac cared for nothing else but to see his sister fall, again and again. He took the war beyond limits and used the men, those who fell for his empty promises of immortality, as a mere tool of war only to spread chaos and terror, plague and death. Thousands of innocents had to die for Dennac to satisfy his hunger...
Like any war even the war of gods had to end someday, but unlike the other wars the men had witnessed this struggle of gods had no winner. Dennac was close to defeat his sister, Gaea, with the help of his champion, the Dark Apostle, one of the greatest generals of Dennac, when the people, the men of Sosaria, those who had paid the price of the war with their own lives, stood up and gathered the final army, the final resistance, to fight against the Dark Apostle, their enslaver. With a lead of a normal man, a man later on known as the Lord British the first, the army marched to the final battle and fought for not only themselves or for their families but for the future of whole mankind and humanity. Here they would either win or lose it all. Unlike anyone could have anticipated the men appeared to be much stronger than they knew themselves. The Dark Apostle’s army was shattered and the general himself was banished for eternity… with a terrible price of a ruined world.
After this Dennac was without an army, without followers and he had to admit his loss, but not defeat. He disappeared. Years passed and the leader of the men’s army was chosen to lead the people. So the Lord British the first had arisen. The towns, starting from the old capital of Britain were to be rebuilt, one after another. Helping Gaea to regain her strength the once destroyed forests grew tall and were filled with animals. The fields were blooming of food once again and people saw no hunger. The world was coming back to alive and where once chaos terrorized, now order prevailed. The anarchy was no more..
Tens of years passed and the king grew old and his son took over the throne. Lord British the second was a great man who continued from where his father’s legacy left him. He rebuilt the few towns his father didn’t have time for and he created the royal army, army of hundreds of men trained to the tops. These men were to guard the people of Britannia and to prepare for the return of Dennac. Lord British the second was sure he’d try to attack during his time but it never happened. Lord British the second’s work ended and his son was to become the next ruler.
Lord British the third didn’t have much to build anymore. Towns were ready, guards were protecting their citizens well and people had already given up the thought of Dennac’s returning, one could call them naive but the war was far in the past and they wanted to aim for the future. Lord British the third, however, rebuilt the eight virtues the people once followed. That was to ensure what ever happens the people of Sosaria would stay united for as long as they had these virtues to follow. They would stay in the light and no corruption and no lies of Dennac could reach them.
Lord British the fourth continued from where his ancestors left the kingdom. He ruled it the best of his abilities and kept the people of Sosaria happy. It was also his hand work to change the name of what once was known as Sosaria to be known as Britannia. Britannia was a symbol of new hope and process. It united the people to follow one cause and showed that they were over the war that almost destroyed their ancestors close to two hundred years ago. People had forgotten Dennac, the sleeping beast.
Lord British the fifth, sixth and the seventh continued the legacy and gave the people of Britannia what they demanded: food, protection and entertainment. The guards were no longer prepared for war but to simply protect the people from the wild beasts, the robbers and other people driven into insanity swarming behind the dark curtains of the wilderness.
It wasn’t before the Lord British the Eighth that the worst nightmares, the forgotten tales, came true again and the lord of destruction, Dennac himself, returned to this realm. Furiously he didn’t hesitate and revealed his strongest weapon of all, the one he had prepared for hundreds of years, the Tek-stone. It was a stone that corrupted the mind of men, anyone who dared to look at it, and he used it against the people of Britannia. United by the virtues the task seemed to be harder than he had first anticipated but the weakest amongst men fell under the influence of the Tek-stone one after another. Lord British noticed this and even when he didn’t see Dennac’s presence as a big threat, as he had no followers and the virtues held the people together, he knew the history very well and appointed his first paladin to take lead and end this before it even began. Sir Winchester was named to lead the army of Britannia into the battle against Dennac, to destroy the vicious Tek-stone.
Sir Winchester lead his men very well, hundreds of well trained knights encaged to a furious battle. Dennac’s followers tried to protect the Tek-stone by all means necessary, to the bitter end – which in their case meant to death. Dennac, however, had rushed into the fight and his army wasn’t even close enough to match the power Lord British upheld and his stone was smashed to millions of pieces and never to be used again. However, this battle wasn’t without casualties. No matter how well the knights were trained Dennac’s followers fought blindly to the death and took as many of Sir Winchester’s troops with them as possible. And as it happened, Sir Winchester himself sadly sacrificed his life for the good of mankind. It was because of him that the possible reincarnation of The Great War was prevented..
Mourned by Lord British and hundreds of knights Sir Winchester was lowered to his grave. By the hundreds of the sincere tears of Sit Winchester’s knights his spirit was released. It arose high above the men lightening and warming them with his presence. Sir Winchester wasn’t dead for as long as one of his knights lived and, to ensure him to live forever, Lord British established a new order, The Order of Law, to follow the biddings of righteousness and virtues, to forever uphold the law and defend the innocent. And mostly, to ensure Dennac shall never have a stand on this world again.
And so it happened. The Order of Law was established and with the spirit of Sir Winchester in them all they were stronger than Dennac could ever be. Their pure will of sacrificing themselves in the name of the virtues if needed made them the strongest force Britannia had ever beheld.
The rumours of a secret cult of Tekstone spread amongst the people of Britannia quickly as a plague. This however strengthened the will of the people to stand united and to fight together and this has been witnessed numerous times. For ever since Dennac has tried to spread his vicious plagues, lies and corruption above the men of Britannia with the dread cult of Tekstone, but rest assure for as long as even one knight of the Order of Law has a sword within his reach and Winchester’s spirit as his guide Dennac will never gain control over Britannia!
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-History of Gaea and Nature-
The Ten Circles of Creation
In the beginning, long before the time count had begun, back when there were no men or Sosaria. It was far back when there were only two spirits, two gods, He and She, the Mother and the Father. These gods had no names for they had no need for them. These gods lived in the eternal void where these gods created two descendants. These two were called Gaea and Dennac, the Daughter and the Son. As a tool of learning He created Sosaria, this world, for Gaea and Dennac to explore, to learn. He took Dennac under his embrace and taught him all the necessary things for young Dennac to know, the wick arts of war which according to Him was the best of amusement.
She on the other hand took Gaea under her warmth and helped help to explore the powers given to her. Gaea soon grew up to be very good creator of life. She filled the world with all kind of animals, trees, rivers, oceans, but her biggest creation ever was the human. The world became alive. The humans quickly learnt to know Gaea as their mother, their goddess, and they worshipped her and in turn Gaea granted them food and shelter of the great woods. Dennac, however, grew envious to his sister’s abilities of creating life. All he knew was how to destroy it. Thriven by the lust of power Dennac wanted it all, he wanted to be the strongest of all the gods and without hesitation he launched an attack against Gaea. The Father tried to stop this madness from taking place and He stepped in the middle of it. Unfortunately it was too late and furiously Dennac used all his powers to strike Sosaria down, to tear it apart, and in the process the Father was lost. Dennac had slain his own father. Unknowing of what Dennac did he blamed Gaea for all this and swore to avenge the Father’s death. Time count, as we know it, begun.
She, the Mother, was filled with grief and was no longer able to bare and watch her children transforming into wild beasts tearing each other apart. This was not what she wanted. She soon later left Sosaria and returned to the eternal void. She did, however, still miss her children so from there she watched them. She watched and shared a tear for each time they fought against each other.
The time was divined into circles. Each circle started from Gaea’s creating the world and ended to Dennac destroying it. As it started from Gaea the circles were named as the Circles of Creation – even though the followers of the false prophets call it circle of destruction, which was the fate of Sosaria for eight times and there was no escape from Dennac’s greed.
In the first Circle of Creation Dennac’s envy for Gaea had grown so huge that the war was inevitable. The way how Dennac envied Gaea’s arts of creations, the way how she brought the life to Sosaria and how she created the human race to follow her biddings made Dennac spoil of hatred and anger. Not to mention the death of his Father, which Dennac blamed Gaea. The attack was inevitable but yet Gaea had her hopes up for Dennac to forgive and to live together in this world, but soon he cowardly backstabbed Gaea and destroyed her world.
A pitch black shadow, a plague arrived to the lands with only one purpose in mind, to destroy everything. The men who had lived in peace soon realised that nothing was going to be the same again. No one knew why or where this shadow, this curse came from but soon it didn’t matter anymore. The great cities were burnt, the trees were cut, and people were dying and all of this happened only in a few years. The king was unable to do anything to prevent this and soon he was betrayed and forced aside by his rivals. A new king was crowned, a king who knew what to do, a king who lead his people to victory, but the victory was something no one had prepared for. Instead of worshipping Gaea, their creator and mother, the king had sold his soul to the black shadow, the one responsible for all the destruction caused on the lands, to Dennac.
Once the world was destroyed, the curse was lifted and Dennac disappeared, Gaea began to rebuild. The second Circle of Creation arrived. Years passed and the memories decayed. Gaea returned to her forgotten world to start over. Slowly the world recovered and new towns were created, new kings were elected, new temples were built and new lands were explored. The black shadow, Dennac, was only an ancient memory, a myth, a story told to the children to scare them.
However, that was only calm before storm. Soon the stories came true. It was no longer a myth, Dennac was indeed very real and he had returned from the nightmares to destroy the world again. And like the last time, destroying the world was a lot easier than building it. Plague spread over the lands killing everything coming to its way and soon every living creature of Gaea's world were killed. Dennac had destroyed the world again, for the second time.
In the third Circle of Creation, once the world was rebuilt again Dennac sent his strongest minion, Diriath, against Gaea. Gaea tried to convince Dennac to give up the hostilities but Dennac’s blinded mind did not listen. Dennac ordered Diriath and all his minions to strike against Gaea’s temple. Gaea felt pity for him and as he was the creator of all life she couldn’t take a life of a corrupted soul and thus she let Diriath to accomplish his task of destroying Gaea’s world. Gaea knew that deep inside there was still good inside him and that maybe some day she would be able to open his mind for the truth.
However, soon after this Gaea realized that he had lost her brother for good. Dennac was lost to the hate and anger that filled his veins. It was too late to change that so Gaea decided to fight back. In the fourth Circle of Creation she had a real army with a real leader, Mearthen, whose strength came directly from the nature around her. Mearthen was so strong that Dennac couldn’t just march over the land anymore. Dennac tried that but was easily defeated. Gaea thought that was enough for him but Dennac didn’t give up that easily. He returned with an own army and a great battle was fought in the woods of Yew. Gaea concentrated all her powers to the ancient Yew trees – which roots carried the spirit of Gaea all over Sosaria – and forced them to stand up to fight. The roots swallowed Dennac’s army deep into the depths where they were decayed back to the mould. Dennac’s army was beaten for now but unfortunately the battle consumed almost all of Gaea’s strength and once Dennac attacked again she was too weak to defend. Dennac may have won the fourth circle but now Gaea had shown that she, too, is be able to fight fire with fire.
And so the circles passed by, one after another. Each time Dennac stroke first but in every circle of Creation Gaea managed to protect her world longer than before. Each time Dennac’s hate grew stronger and blinded by the wrath he failed more often. It was only a matter of time before the wheel of faith turned its course and Dennac would need to admit his defeat for good.
It wasn’t until the ninth circle of Creation that Gaea finally stroke first with all her might. And she stroke hard shattering all of Dennac’s forces before he had managed to assemble a new attack, leaving him unguarded. Cornered and unable to flee, Dennac kneeled before his sister, Gaea and begged for forgiveness. As much as there was hate between the siblings, Gaea forgave her brother and wanted to help him to find the right path. The time of “Great Peace” had arrived. Together they forged a new world and people worshipped them both as equal, both as saviours, both good and righteous. Thousands of years passed before Dennac’s long burn anger, before the hate in his veins took over and he launched a quick, but efficient strike against Sosaria. Unprepared Gaea was beaten, but now she knew she was able to fight her brother, to win if necessary. The followers of Dennac, of course, claim the ninth circle of Creation never occurred and Dennac has never kneeled down to Gaea. In fact, according to them we’re living in the ninth circle now, but their blind eyes and minds cannot see the truth from the lies.
Nine circles of Creations had passed eventually for Dennac’s victory but in the tenth circle all this was to change. Before the tenth circle Gaea had fought back alone but in the tenth circle something no one had ever seen before happened. There was a mortal man who had gathered a great army to fight with Gaea. With this army Gaea wasn’t alone, but she had the whole mankind with her side. Dennac’s general, the Dark Apostle was preparing for his final battle when the army of men attacked against him. Even when his army contained more heads it wasn’t enough to push back the men who were fighting not only for their own lives but for the future of the mankind. With their help the Dark Apostle was slain and Dennac was forced to fall back. The leader of the men was chosen to lead and prepare them for the returning of Dennac, Lord British the first was chosen to be the king.
Many generations passed and the long waited attack, Dennac’s returning, seemed to never come true. It wasn’t before the Lord British the eighth that Dennac was ready to try again. Fortunately Gaea knew that this time the men of her world were ready to fight back. Lord British ordered his first paladin, Sir Winchester to battle against Dennac. Sir Winchester was the head of Lord British’ army and he lead his knights to the battle against Dennac who had revealed his greatest weapon, the Tek-stone, a stone that was supposed to corrupt every man and woman to do his biddings. Tek-stone needed to be destroyed or the world as we know it would have come to its end. Blessed by Gaea the knights of Lord British rushed to battle. As easy as the battle was supposed to be - for Dennac didn’t have time to gather a big army - there were casualties on both sides. One of the fallen ones was Sir Winchester himself.
But unlike anyone had ever seen before, something not even Gaea herself understood, happened. As sir Winchester died his spirit arose high above the men and swore to defend and protect this world from what ever possible threats it would ever face. To ensure this to happen, Lord British called together the strongest knights of all and they were to form the Order of Law, a group of well trained people dedicated to follow the orders of Winchester, to protect this world at any cost.
This was the crisis Gaea had been waiting for. This was the Circle of Creation that would never come to its end. This was the day when Dennac would be defeated for good and where life would win death. This was what Gaea relied on, but unlike she had known, the wheel of faith turned once again and her mother, the mother of all, who had been watching for her children’s war for all the passing circles, had grown tired of it and she sent her strongest emissary, Esuna, to force Gaea and Dennac to form peace, to unite. Gaea who was sure he could have finally beaten Dennac was now forced to make peace with her insane brother. Gaea was as furious but yet delighted; one way or another war would be over and she was happy to know that. But, unlike Gaea, her brother or the mother herself could have anticipated, Esuna didn’t want to bring peace like the mother had told her to do. Esuna corrupted the rival lord, Lord Blackthorne, and with his help she built her own kingdom to the lost lands of Papua. After failing of her task, the mother left Sosaria again. Once the mother was gone Esuna stole her name and claimed to be the creator of all, the mother of Gaea and Dennac. This made Gaea furious and she no longer had only her brother to fight against but whole new order as well, the Order of Imperial.
Now the war that seemed to be over in a matter of years got a whole new twist. But knowing that, even when this was a huge set back, it is only a matter of time when Gaea shall win, when the life beats the death…
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-History of Imperial-
There is only one true god and that is she whose name we shall not speak out loud. She is the creator of all and She is the one to bring this world back together. She is the one who created the world. She is the one who gave life to all. She is the one god above others. She is The Mother.
The two other gods known by the men of Sosaria, Gaea and Dennac, are only experiments of Her’s, which both failed miserably. In the beginning the spirits of Dennac and Gaea were created to help building the world, to bring it alive, to create the men and then to preach in the name of Her for the people of Sosaria. Gaea and Dennac were supposed to be only prophets and tools of creation. First everything went the way She had seen it, Gaea built the world and created the men, but as time passed, both Gaea and Dennac’s greed grew too great and they started to fight against each other. They wanted the world, they wanted it all and they soon forgot their creator, their mother. They stole Sosaria to be their playground, a playground where only death was certain. Dennac and Gaea fought against each other for thousands of years and there seemed to be no end for it.
She, the mother of all, decided to leave these two failures behind, to settle their own mess. She left this realm and returned to her palace.
War, suffering and death were what Sosaria witnessed for thousands of years. To be exact it was for eight circles – as the men of Sosaria called time. Eight times Dennac fought against Gaea, his sister. Each time these circles ended to the total annihilation of Sosaria, to Dennac’s – who only cared for destruction – victory.
However, in the ninth circle all this was to change, in many ways. Unlike in the previous circles, in the ninth circle the people of Sosaria stood up and formed a resistance against Dennac. They, being created by Gaea, believed that Dennac is the great evil which needs to be destroyed at any cost. How foolish of them all, for they do not know that both of them, both Gaea and Dennac are spawns of death itself, only seeking for power and destruction of the other. They men of Sosaria stood up to defend Gaea and with their help Dennac was driven back and so he lost The Great War – which was the name of the so-called final war, the war of all wars.
All these days She, The Mother, watched. She watched how the people of Sosaria gathered their last forces and with the lead of a mortal man rode to The Great War. She watched as one of the men of the army claimed the leadership both in battle and after it. She watched as this man pronounced himself to be king, Lord British the first, amongst people. She watched and She was furious of how many people fell under his commandment, how many people set themselves to be slaves under one king, one tyrant. She watched as the king took more and more wealth for himself while the people of Sosaria, or Britannia like Lord British later on decided to disgrace the great name of this world – the world that She, the very creator of it, gave to it -, were starving to death.
She watched as Lord British died to old an age and his son step on the throne. She watched and hoped him to be different, but like She had already foreseen the greed of men was too great for them to be good - which didn’t surprise her at any way. After all, the people were a creation of Gaea and nothing that comes out from a corrupted “god” can be good. One king after another the tyranny continued to spread and people were forced to live under the king’s iron hand.
When this had continued for too long She decided to interfere, to put an end to this and to free the people of Sosaria from the evilness that is her failed experiments, Dennac and Gaea, and their own experiments, the men of Sosaria and Lord British. She had grown sick of her two earlier creations, Gaea and Dennac, the false prophets, fighting against each other and destroying her world. She took her rightful place in Sosaria and arrived to bring peace upon the world, to undo her earlier mistakes. It was time to destroy those that brought only war upon them. It was time to destroy both Gaea and Dennac and to remake all the men of Sosaria, to be good and righteous.
She who didn’t have name was soon named Esuna by the people of Sosaria. Even when she was given a name, saying it out loud was the biggest of all sins, punishable by death. She demanded to be called as Her, as the mother and creator of all. Her greatest task was to free the people of Sosaria from Lord British, Dennac and Gaea. She wanted to bring true peace upon the people and that peace could only be achieved if the people left the old ways of living, if a new way was shown.
Fighting against the tyranny of Lord British She established the Order of Imperial to follow and support the laws set by the rival king, Lord Blackthorne. Sincerely in their hearts they knew that only way for the people of Sosaria to reach the true peace wasn’t by Lord British but by uniting them to one people under the laws of Lord Blackthorne and under the warmth of Her. She knew that Lord Blackthorne’s heart and thoughts were pure and sincere and unlike Lord British he only wanted the good of the people and to bring the power back to the men of Sosaria, like it had been before the Lord British the first.
And so the kingdom of Imperial was established deep into the lost lands, in the town of Papua. From there they shall spread the will of Her, to free the people from tyranny and to liberate the fallen souls from the evil forces of Dennac and Gaea… For She is the only true god, for Her light burns the brightest and for She is the only one able unite the men and to bring the salvation.
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-History of the Cult of Tekstone and Dennac, The God of Chaos-
The Nine circles of destruction by Nefer Daedeloth and Darian Darkmind
Before the first circle, long before the dawn of mankind, there were two Gods. Their names weren't known as they had no need for names. They were known as She and He, the Mother and the Father. Together these two gods were blessed with two children, first Gaea, their beautiful brown-eyed daughter, and later Dennac, their strong son whose eyes were black as the death itself.
As the Father had always wanted a son to take over his powers, to continue the legacy, once He was gone, Dennac was His blessing. The Father taught Dennac to become a powerful god by teaching him about the most precious thing, the glorious art of warfare, which was the most important thing for young Dennac to know. But the Mother, She who would have wanted to keep the family united, believed that peace is the source of all good so She didn't agree with this and they were separated in two different roads, living in two completely different worlds. The Mother looked after Gaea and taught her, just as well as the Father looked after Dennac.
Dennac believed that everything grows and learns from war and suffering, just like his father had taught him. Gaea, instead of believing in war and suffering believed that peace is the key, just like her mother taught her. Dennac and Gaea became the opposites of each other and thus the hatred between these two gods started slowly growing, stronger and stronger all the time.
Long period of time passed and Dennac, who hadn't spoke with his mother or sister in a long time, decided to take Gaea down for good without his father knowing about it. Dennac, whose strength was the growing hunger of power, wanted to get all the power for himself. The Father found out of the attack and tried to stop it, but it was already too late. While attempting to rescue His beloved son, Dennac, he was stuck in the battle and was slain by Gaea. Their mother, who believed in peace and uniting, was shocked of all this and left Gaea and Dennac into their own worlds, into their own luck, soon after He had died. She returned to her own world where she mourned of the Father’s death and where She secretly watched over Gaea without her knowing it.
After the Mother had left Gaea, Gaea started to study her own powers more closely. In the progress Gaea created all kind of creatures, from rats to dragons, but her greatest accomplishment was the human. Dennac had watched his sister’s work and he wanted to have his own creations too. And so he started his experiments as well. Dennac’s creatures were something totally different compared Gaea’s. Dennac, who believed in war, wanted his creatures to be strong, to be able to fight and destroy, to eat whoever comes on their way when they are hungry. He created the creatures that the human later on named daemonic; the daemons, the hell hounds, the imps, the fiends, all kind of black hearted creatures were created by Dennac’s hand.
Dennac's hatred towards Gaea grew even stronger after the Father's death. And as Gaea didn't have her mother to take care of her anymore, Dennac decided to avenge his father's death and attacked Gaea again and again, each time more furiously than before. The time count had begun.
In the first circle of destruction Gaea and her peaceful world didn't even realize what had happened before it was too late, Dennac had corrupted the king of the lands and with his loyal army they brought destruction upon Gaea's sacred creatures. Her pitiful world was destroyed for the first time.
It took many years of hard work for Gaea to rebuild her precious little world again. But destroying it once wasn't enough for Dennac whose thirst for blood had only grown stronger. Dennac launched another attack upon her sister again. This time the attack came straight from his black heart and he annihilated his sister’s world completely. The second circle of destruction had ended.
In the third circle of destruction Dennac had his perhaps the most powerful follower ever, his right hand in Gaea's world, Diriath. Diriath became stronger than anyone mortal had ever been, he was almost comparable to a lesser god and rumours said that his shadow alone was already enough to kill men. He alone fought against Gaea and wounded her badly making her to flee and to regenerate herself. After some years had passed, she returned just to witness that her world was destroyed, once again. Dennac was very pleased to his loyal follower, Diriath, and rewarded him with immortality in Dennac's world where Diriath is still ruling the lands as one of the immortal kings.
After the third circle of destruction had passed, Gaea wanted peace with Dennac and tried to convince his brother to forget about the past. But, it was already too late – or too soon - to beg for Dennac’s forgiveness or mercy. Dennac couldn’t forget his father's death that easily and he completely ignored Gaea and prepared to destroy Gaea’s world for the fourth time. This time Dennac corrupted the virtues of Sosaria and with their immortality the world was destroyed. Ever since that day the virtue shrines had stayed ruined and forgotten, the evil power they beheld was greatly feared. Thousands of years passed and it wasn’t but a few hundred years ago that they were rebuilt.
The war continued, Dennac attacked again and again and nothing was enough for him. Many circles passed like days after days and war continued raging between Dennac and Gaea. All this time the Mother watched. Every time Dennac destroyed Gaea's world, she shared a tear because of the old memories, memories of a united family, memories of the peace and love.
But, everything changed in the ninth circle of Destruction. Nothing would be the same again. A mortal man was born and he was known as Winchester. The prophets said that he was the one who was to end this endless war. He gathered a group of brave men and attacked against Dennac who had just revealed his greatest weapon of all, the Tek-stone which powers were to corrupt the whole Sosaria under his biddings. With sir Winchester’s lead the men rushed to battle but like one can guess, he failed. He was slaughtered by an orc. Their only hope of surviving was gone. He did, however, manage to destroy the Tek-stone but it had already corrupted enough of the men of Sosaria for Dennac to launch an attack against Gaea. This was supposed to lead to Dennac’s victory, Gaea's world's annihilation - yet again - and to the beginning of the tenth circle.
But something that no-one had witnessed before happened: As Winchester fell lifelessly on the ground, he became a powerful spirit. Someone might even call him a god. The Order of Law that was dedicated in serving Winchester was formed to fight against Dennac's followers in the name of Winchester with the king, Lord British, supporting them. These men were to fight in the name of justice and to defend those who needed protection.
With Winchester's help the Order of Law almost succeeded. Followers of Dennac were almost slain to extinction. And many thought that Dennac was beaten for good and peace could finally be reached. But that’s only what happens in the fairy tales. For many years Dennac gathered more loyal followers and the Cult of Tekstone was rising again. A great priest, Borex, known as the right hand of Dennac, had arisen among the cultists to lead the cult against Gaea's world. The people of Britannia felt the sorrow caused by the holy war yet again. The sorrow they thought had ended. But, like the man before Borex, he failed as well. He had underestimated the strength Winchester held. The cult was beaten again by the Order of Law.
For years this continued. The war that was supposed to end didn't end. The Mother had watched over this and had seen everything that had happened. Instead of just continuing watching She decided to take action and to return to her daughter’s world. She thought that it would be time to bring the peace, to stop the madness, and to unite the people, to unite the old family, the family that had been shattered for too long, once again. She was ready to unite and to stop the madness at any way necessary, even by the blood of her own children. She created Esuna and the Order of Imperial was created to help her. Esuna, however, had a different concept of unity and peace. Instead of trying to unite the three old gods, she started to play them against each other, hoping it would weaken them enough for her to take over the empire. The mother realized she had made a mistake and by trying to help Sosaria she made things only worse. She left Sosaria once again and swore to one day bring revenge upon the failure of Esuna. But Esuna didn’t care for such a threat, instead, she forbid people of Sosaria of using her name. She stole the name of her creator and claimed to be Her, the mother of all. With this name she won the hearts of many men to follow her cause, to fight for her. The blinded men of Sosaria were fooled to follow a fraught.
Dennac noticed all this happening around him, he took this as a sign, Imperial fighting against the Order of Law, against Winchester, against the only thing that had prevented Dennac's victory. As Law was weakened more and more it was time to rebuild the scattered guild again, and finally give Gaea what she deserved for the ninth time…
Also the Tekstone version is different than the one on the webpages. This is the original Tekstone version without Repsak's editions.
-History of the Lord British, Britannia and Sir Winchester-
In the early days the world was a cruel place. The woods were cut down, the towns raging of blazing flames covering the sky into a thick black smoke. The food was running short, people were sick, starving and dying… There was no town walls, no guards, there was no order at all for that matter. Everyone was for themselves. The world was ruled by anarchy where the strongest ruled with force, feeling nor giving no mercy to anyone. Simply put, the world was losing a war and the mankind, or more like humanity, was at the edge of extinction.
The war, The Great War as they later on called it, could be described as a massacre for there was no real resistance. It was one great force, Dennac, against thousands and thousands of peasants with no chance of surviving. No one had ever witnessed anything like that before; it was the battle of two gods, siblings with each others the rumours said. It was between Gaea, the mother of nature, and Dennac, the lord of destruction. The world was too small for these two forces so the conflict was inevitable and the results were terrifying for Dennac cared for nothing else but to see his sister fall, again and again. He took the war beyond limits and used the men, those who fell for his empty promises of immortality, as a mere tool of war only to spread chaos and terror, plague and death. Thousands of innocents had to die for Dennac to satisfy his hunger...
Like any war even the war of gods had to end someday, but unlike the other wars the men had witnessed this struggle of gods had no winner. Dennac was close to defeat his sister, Gaea, with the help of his champion, the Dark Apostle, one of the greatest generals of Dennac, when the people, the men of Sosaria, those who had paid the price of the war with their own lives, stood up and gathered the final army, the final resistance, to fight against the Dark Apostle, their enslaver. With a lead of a normal man, a man later on known as the Lord British the first, the army marched to the final battle and fought for not only themselves or for their families but for the future of whole mankind and humanity. Here they would either win or lose it all. Unlike anyone could have anticipated the men appeared to be much stronger than they knew themselves. The Dark Apostle’s army was shattered and the general himself was banished for eternity… with a terrible price of a ruined world.
After this Dennac was without an army, without followers and he had to admit his loss, but not defeat. He disappeared. Years passed and the leader of the men’s army was chosen to lead the people. So the Lord British the first had arisen. The towns, starting from the old capital of Britain were to be rebuilt, one after another. Helping Gaea to regain her strength the once destroyed forests grew tall and were filled with animals. The fields were blooming of food once again and people saw no hunger. The world was coming back to alive and where once chaos terrorized, now order prevailed. The anarchy was no more..
Tens of years passed and the king grew old and his son took over the throne. Lord British the second was a great man who continued from where his father’s legacy left him. He rebuilt the few towns his father didn’t have time for and he created the royal army, army of hundreds of men trained to the tops. These men were to guard the people of Britannia and to prepare for the return of Dennac. Lord British the second was sure he’d try to attack during his time but it never happened. Lord British the second’s work ended and his son was to become the next ruler.
Lord British the third didn’t have much to build anymore. Towns were ready, guards were protecting their citizens well and people had already given up the thought of Dennac’s returning, one could call them naive but the war was far in the past and they wanted to aim for the future. Lord British the third, however, rebuilt the eight virtues the people once followed. That was to ensure what ever happens the people of Sosaria would stay united for as long as they had these virtues to follow. They would stay in the light and no corruption and no lies of Dennac could reach them.
Lord British the fourth continued from where his ancestors left the kingdom. He ruled it the best of his abilities and kept the people of Sosaria happy. It was also his hand work to change the name of what once was known as Sosaria to be known as Britannia. Britannia was a symbol of new hope and process. It united the people to follow one cause and showed that they were over the war that almost destroyed their ancestors close to two hundred years ago. People had forgotten Dennac, the sleeping beast.
Lord British the fifth, sixth and the seventh continued the legacy and gave the people of Britannia what they demanded: food, protection and entertainment. The guards were no longer prepared for war but to simply protect the people from the wild beasts, the robbers and other people driven into insanity swarming behind the dark curtains of the wilderness.
It wasn’t before the Lord British the Eighth that the worst nightmares, the forgotten tales, came true again and the lord of destruction, Dennac himself, returned to this realm. Furiously he didn’t hesitate and revealed his strongest weapon of all, the one he had prepared for hundreds of years, the Tek-stone. It was a stone that corrupted the mind of men, anyone who dared to look at it, and he used it against the people of Britannia. United by the virtues the task seemed to be harder than he had first anticipated but the weakest amongst men fell under the influence of the Tek-stone one after another. Lord British noticed this and even when he didn’t see Dennac’s presence as a big threat, as he had no followers and the virtues held the people together, he knew the history very well and appointed his first paladin to take lead and end this before it even began. Sir Winchester was named to lead the army of Britannia into the battle against Dennac, to destroy the vicious Tek-stone.
Sir Winchester lead his men very well, hundreds of well trained knights encaged to a furious battle. Dennac’s followers tried to protect the Tek-stone by all means necessary, to the bitter end – which in their case meant to death. Dennac, however, had rushed into the fight and his army wasn’t even close enough to match the power Lord British upheld and his stone was smashed to millions of pieces and never to be used again. However, this battle wasn’t without casualties. No matter how well the knights were trained Dennac’s followers fought blindly to the death and took as many of Sir Winchester’s troops with them as possible. And as it happened, Sir Winchester himself sadly sacrificed his life for the good of mankind. It was because of him that the possible reincarnation of The Great War was prevented..
Mourned by Lord British and hundreds of knights Sir Winchester was lowered to his grave. By the hundreds of the sincere tears of Sit Winchester’s knights his spirit was released. It arose high above the men lightening and warming them with his presence. Sir Winchester wasn’t dead for as long as one of his knights lived and, to ensure him to live forever, Lord British established a new order, The Order of Law, to follow the biddings of righteousness and virtues, to forever uphold the law and defend the innocent. And mostly, to ensure Dennac shall never have a stand on this world again.
And so it happened. The Order of Law was established and with the spirit of Sir Winchester in them all they were stronger than Dennac could ever be. Their pure will of sacrificing themselves in the name of the virtues if needed made them the strongest force Britannia had ever beheld.
The rumours of a secret cult of Tekstone spread amongst the people of Britannia quickly as a plague. This however strengthened the will of the people to stand united and to fight together and this has been witnessed numerous times. For ever since Dennac has tried to spread his vicious plagues, lies and corruption above the men of Britannia with the dread cult of Tekstone, but rest assure for as long as even one knight of the Order of Law has a sword within his reach and Winchester’s spirit as his guide Dennac will never gain control over Britannia!
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-History of Gaea and Nature-
The Ten Circles of Creation
In the beginning, long before the time count had begun, back when there were no men or Sosaria. It was far back when there were only two spirits, two gods, He and She, the Mother and the Father. These gods had no names for they had no need for them. These gods lived in the eternal void where these gods created two descendants. These two were called Gaea and Dennac, the Daughter and the Son. As a tool of learning He created Sosaria, this world, for Gaea and Dennac to explore, to learn. He took Dennac under his embrace and taught him all the necessary things for young Dennac to know, the wick arts of war which according to Him was the best of amusement.
She on the other hand took Gaea under her warmth and helped help to explore the powers given to her. Gaea soon grew up to be very good creator of life. She filled the world with all kind of animals, trees, rivers, oceans, but her biggest creation ever was the human. The world became alive. The humans quickly learnt to know Gaea as their mother, their goddess, and they worshipped her and in turn Gaea granted them food and shelter of the great woods. Dennac, however, grew envious to his sister’s abilities of creating life. All he knew was how to destroy it. Thriven by the lust of power Dennac wanted it all, he wanted to be the strongest of all the gods and without hesitation he launched an attack against Gaea. The Father tried to stop this madness from taking place and He stepped in the middle of it. Unfortunately it was too late and furiously Dennac used all his powers to strike Sosaria down, to tear it apart, and in the process the Father was lost. Dennac had slain his own father. Unknowing of what Dennac did he blamed Gaea for all this and swore to avenge the Father’s death. Time count, as we know it, begun.
She, the Mother, was filled with grief and was no longer able to bare and watch her children transforming into wild beasts tearing each other apart. This was not what she wanted. She soon later left Sosaria and returned to the eternal void. She did, however, still miss her children so from there she watched them. She watched and shared a tear for each time they fought against each other.
The time was divined into circles. Each circle started from Gaea’s creating the world and ended to Dennac destroying it. As it started from Gaea the circles were named as the Circles of Creation – even though the followers of the false prophets call it circle of destruction, which was the fate of Sosaria for eight times and there was no escape from Dennac’s greed.
In the first Circle of Creation Dennac’s envy for Gaea had grown so huge that the war was inevitable. The way how Dennac envied Gaea’s arts of creations, the way how she brought the life to Sosaria and how she created the human race to follow her biddings made Dennac spoil of hatred and anger. Not to mention the death of his Father, which Dennac blamed Gaea. The attack was inevitable but yet Gaea had her hopes up for Dennac to forgive and to live together in this world, but soon he cowardly backstabbed Gaea and destroyed her world.
A pitch black shadow, a plague arrived to the lands with only one purpose in mind, to destroy everything. The men who had lived in peace soon realised that nothing was going to be the same again. No one knew why or where this shadow, this curse came from but soon it didn’t matter anymore. The great cities were burnt, the trees were cut, and people were dying and all of this happened only in a few years. The king was unable to do anything to prevent this and soon he was betrayed and forced aside by his rivals. A new king was crowned, a king who knew what to do, a king who lead his people to victory, but the victory was something no one had prepared for. Instead of worshipping Gaea, their creator and mother, the king had sold his soul to the black shadow, the one responsible for all the destruction caused on the lands, to Dennac.
Once the world was destroyed, the curse was lifted and Dennac disappeared, Gaea began to rebuild. The second Circle of Creation arrived. Years passed and the memories decayed. Gaea returned to her forgotten world to start over. Slowly the world recovered and new towns were created, new kings were elected, new temples were built and new lands were explored. The black shadow, Dennac, was only an ancient memory, a myth, a story told to the children to scare them.
However, that was only calm before storm. Soon the stories came true. It was no longer a myth, Dennac was indeed very real and he had returned from the nightmares to destroy the world again. And like the last time, destroying the world was a lot easier than building it. Plague spread over the lands killing everything coming to its way and soon every living creature of Gaea's world were killed. Dennac had destroyed the world again, for the second time.
In the third Circle of Creation, once the world was rebuilt again Dennac sent his strongest minion, Diriath, against Gaea. Gaea tried to convince Dennac to give up the hostilities but Dennac’s blinded mind did not listen. Dennac ordered Diriath and all his minions to strike against Gaea’s temple. Gaea felt pity for him and as he was the creator of all life she couldn’t take a life of a corrupted soul and thus she let Diriath to accomplish his task of destroying Gaea’s world. Gaea knew that deep inside there was still good inside him and that maybe some day she would be able to open his mind for the truth.
However, soon after this Gaea realized that he had lost her brother for good. Dennac was lost to the hate and anger that filled his veins. It was too late to change that so Gaea decided to fight back. In the fourth Circle of Creation she had a real army with a real leader, Mearthen, whose strength came directly from the nature around her. Mearthen was so strong that Dennac couldn’t just march over the land anymore. Dennac tried that but was easily defeated. Gaea thought that was enough for him but Dennac didn’t give up that easily. He returned with an own army and a great battle was fought in the woods of Yew. Gaea concentrated all her powers to the ancient Yew trees – which roots carried the spirit of Gaea all over Sosaria – and forced them to stand up to fight. The roots swallowed Dennac’s army deep into the depths where they were decayed back to the mould. Dennac’s army was beaten for now but unfortunately the battle consumed almost all of Gaea’s strength and once Dennac attacked again she was too weak to defend. Dennac may have won the fourth circle but now Gaea had shown that she, too, is be able to fight fire with fire.
And so the circles passed by, one after another. Each time Dennac stroke first but in every circle of Creation Gaea managed to protect her world longer than before. Each time Dennac’s hate grew stronger and blinded by the wrath he failed more often. It was only a matter of time before the wheel of faith turned its course and Dennac would need to admit his defeat for good.
It wasn’t until the ninth circle of Creation that Gaea finally stroke first with all her might. And she stroke hard shattering all of Dennac’s forces before he had managed to assemble a new attack, leaving him unguarded. Cornered and unable to flee, Dennac kneeled before his sister, Gaea and begged for forgiveness. As much as there was hate between the siblings, Gaea forgave her brother and wanted to help him to find the right path. The time of “Great Peace” had arrived. Together they forged a new world and people worshipped them both as equal, both as saviours, both good and righteous. Thousands of years passed before Dennac’s long burn anger, before the hate in his veins took over and he launched a quick, but efficient strike against Sosaria. Unprepared Gaea was beaten, but now she knew she was able to fight her brother, to win if necessary. The followers of Dennac, of course, claim the ninth circle of Creation never occurred and Dennac has never kneeled down to Gaea. In fact, according to them we’re living in the ninth circle now, but their blind eyes and minds cannot see the truth from the lies.
Nine circles of Creations had passed eventually for Dennac’s victory but in the tenth circle all this was to change. Before the tenth circle Gaea had fought back alone but in the tenth circle something no one had ever seen before happened. There was a mortal man who had gathered a great army to fight with Gaea. With this army Gaea wasn’t alone, but she had the whole mankind with her side. Dennac’s general, the Dark Apostle was preparing for his final battle when the army of men attacked against him. Even when his army contained more heads it wasn’t enough to push back the men who were fighting not only for their own lives but for the future of the mankind. With their help the Dark Apostle was slain and Dennac was forced to fall back. The leader of the men was chosen to lead and prepare them for the returning of Dennac, Lord British the first was chosen to be the king.
Many generations passed and the long waited attack, Dennac’s returning, seemed to never come true. It wasn’t before the Lord British the eighth that Dennac was ready to try again. Fortunately Gaea knew that this time the men of her world were ready to fight back. Lord British ordered his first paladin, Sir Winchester to battle against Dennac. Sir Winchester was the head of Lord British’ army and he lead his knights to the battle against Dennac who had revealed his greatest weapon, the Tek-stone, a stone that was supposed to corrupt every man and woman to do his biddings. Tek-stone needed to be destroyed or the world as we know it would have come to its end. Blessed by Gaea the knights of Lord British rushed to battle. As easy as the battle was supposed to be - for Dennac didn’t have time to gather a big army - there were casualties on both sides. One of the fallen ones was Sir Winchester himself.
But unlike anyone had ever seen before, something not even Gaea herself understood, happened. As sir Winchester died his spirit arose high above the men and swore to defend and protect this world from what ever possible threats it would ever face. To ensure this to happen, Lord British called together the strongest knights of all and they were to form the Order of Law, a group of well trained people dedicated to follow the orders of Winchester, to protect this world at any cost.
This was the crisis Gaea had been waiting for. This was the Circle of Creation that would never come to its end. This was the day when Dennac would be defeated for good and where life would win death. This was what Gaea relied on, but unlike she had known, the wheel of faith turned once again and her mother, the mother of all, who had been watching for her children’s war for all the passing circles, had grown tired of it and she sent her strongest emissary, Esuna, to force Gaea and Dennac to form peace, to unite. Gaea who was sure he could have finally beaten Dennac was now forced to make peace with her insane brother. Gaea was as furious but yet delighted; one way or another war would be over and she was happy to know that. But, unlike Gaea, her brother or the mother herself could have anticipated, Esuna didn’t want to bring peace like the mother had told her to do. Esuna corrupted the rival lord, Lord Blackthorne, and with his help she built her own kingdom to the lost lands of Papua. After failing of her task, the mother left Sosaria again. Once the mother was gone Esuna stole her name and claimed to be the creator of all, the mother of Gaea and Dennac. This made Gaea furious and she no longer had only her brother to fight against but whole new order as well, the Order of Imperial.
Now the war that seemed to be over in a matter of years got a whole new twist. But knowing that, even when this was a huge set back, it is only a matter of time when Gaea shall win, when the life beats the death…
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-History of Imperial-
There is only one true god and that is she whose name we shall not speak out loud. She is the creator of all and She is the one to bring this world back together. She is the one who created the world. She is the one who gave life to all. She is the one god above others. She is The Mother.
The two other gods known by the men of Sosaria, Gaea and Dennac, are only experiments of Her’s, which both failed miserably. In the beginning the spirits of Dennac and Gaea were created to help building the world, to bring it alive, to create the men and then to preach in the name of Her for the people of Sosaria. Gaea and Dennac were supposed to be only prophets and tools of creation. First everything went the way She had seen it, Gaea built the world and created the men, but as time passed, both Gaea and Dennac’s greed grew too great and they started to fight against each other. They wanted the world, they wanted it all and they soon forgot their creator, their mother. They stole Sosaria to be their playground, a playground where only death was certain. Dennac and Gaea fought against each other for thousands of years and there seemed to be no end for it.
She, the mother of all, decided to leave these two failures behind, to settle their own mess. She left this realm and returned to her palace.
War, suffering and death were what Sosaria witnessed for thousands of years. To be exact it was for eight circles – as the men of Sosaria called time. Eight times Dennac fought against Gaea, his sister. Each time these circles ended to the total annihilation of Sosaria, to Dennac’s – who only cared for destruction – victory.
However, in the ninth circle all this was to change, in many ways. Unlike in the previous circles, in the ninth circle the people of Sosaria stood up and formed a resistance against Dennac. They, being created by Gaea, believed that Dennac is the great evil which needs to be destroyed at any cost. How foolish of them all, for they do not know that both of them, both Gaea and Dennac are spawns of death itself, only seeking for power and destruction of the other. They men of Sosaria stood up to defend Gaea and with their help Dennac was driven back and so he lost The Great War – which was the name of the so-called final war, the war of all wars.
All these days She, The Mother, watched. She watched how the people of Sosaria gathered their last forces and with the lead of a mortal man rode to The Great War. She watched as one of the men of the army claimed the leadership both in battle and after it. She watched as this man pronounced himself to be king, Lord British the first, amongst people. She watched and She was furious of how many people fell under his commandment, how many people set themselves to be slaves under one king, one tyrant. She watched as the king took more and more wealth for himself while the people of Sosaria, or Britannia like Lord British later on decided to disgrace the great name of this world – the world that She, the very creator of it, gave to it -, were starving to death.
She watched as Lord British died to old an age and his son step on the throne. She watched and hoped him to be different, but like She had already foreseen the greed of men was too great for them to be good - which didn’t surprise her at any way. After all, the people were a creation of Gaea and nothing that comes out from a corrupted “god” can be good. One king after another the tyranny continued to spread and people were forced to live under the king’s iron hand.
When this had continued for too long She decided to interfere, to put an end to this and to free the people of Sosaria from the evilness that is her failed experiments, Dennac and Gaea, and their own experiments, the men of Sosaria and Lord British. She had grown sick of her two earlier creations, Gaea and Dennac, the false prophets, fighting against each other and destroying her world. She took her rightful place in Sosaria and arrived to bring peace upon the world, to undo her earlier mistakes. It was time to destroy those that brought only war upon them. It was time to destroy both Gaea and Dennac and to remake all the men of Sosaria, to be good and righteous.
She who didn’t have name was soon named Esuna by the people of Sosaria. Even when she was given a name, saying it out loud was the biggest of all sins, punishable by death. She demanded to be called as Her, as the mother and creator of all. Her greatest task was to free the people of Sosaria from Lord British, Dennac and Gaea. She wanted to bring true peace upon the people and that peace could only be achieved if the people left the old ways of living, if a new way was shown.
Fighting against the tyranny of Lord British She established the Order of Imperial to follow and support the laws set by the rival king, Lord Blackthorne. Sincerely in their hearts they knew that only way for the people of Sosaria to reach the true peace wasn’t by Lord British but by uniting them to one people under the laws of Lord Blackthorne and under the warmth of Her. She knew that Lord Blackthorne’s heart and thoughts were pure and sincere and unlike Lord British he only wanted the good of the people and to bring the power back to the men of Sosaria, like it had been before the Lord British the first.
And so the kingdom of Imperial was established deep into the lost lands, in the town of Papua. From there they shall spread the will of Her, to free the people from tyranny and to liberate the fallen souls from the evil forces of Dennac and Gaea… For She is the only true god, for Her light burns the brightest and for She is the only one able unite the men and to bring the salvation.
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-History of the Cult of Tekstone and Dennac, The God of Chaos-
The Nine circles of destruction by Nefer Daedeloth and Darian Darkmind
Before the first circle, long before the dawn of mankind, there were two Gods. Their names weren't known as they had no need for names. They were known as She and He, the Mother and the Father. Together these two gods were blessed with two children, first Gaea, their beautiful brown-eyed daughter, and later Dennac, their strong son whose eyes were black as the death itself.
As the Father had always wanted a son to take over his powers, to continue the legacy, once He was gone, Dennac was His blessing. The Father taught Dennac to become a powerful god by teaching him about the most precious thing, the glorious art of warfare, which was the most important thing for young Dennac to know. But the Mother, She who would have wanted to keep the family united, believed that peace is the source of all good so She didn't agree with this and they were separated in two different roads, living in two completely different worlds. The Mother looked after Gaea and taught her, just as well as the Father looked after Dennac.
Dennac believed that everything grows and learns from war and suffering, just like his father had taught him. Gaea, instead of believing in war and suffering believed that peace is the key, just like her mother taught her. Dennac and Gaea became the opposites of each other and thus the hatred between these two gods started slowly growing, stronger and stronger all the time.
Long period of time passed and Dennac, who hadn't spoke with his mother or sister in a long time, decided to take Gaea down for good without his father knowing about it. Dennac, whose strength was the growing hunger of power, wanted to get all the power for himself. The Father found out of the attack and tried to stop it, but it was already too late. While attempting to rescue His beloved son, Dennac, he was stuck in the battle and was slain by Gaea. Their mother, who believed in peace and uniting, was shocked of all this and left Gaea and Dennac into their own worlds, into their own luck, soon after He had died. She returned to her own world where she mourned of the Father’s death and where She secretly watched over Gaea without her knowing it.
After the Mother had left Gaea, Gaea started to study her own powers more closely. In the progress Gaea created all kind of creatures, from rats to dragons, but her greatest accomplishment was the human. Dennac had watched his sister’s work and he wanted to have his own creations too. And so he started his experiments as well. Dennac’s creatures were something totally different compared Gaea’s. Dennac, who believed in war, wanted his creatures to be strong, to be able to fight and destroy, to eat whoever comes on their way when they are hungry. He created the creatures that the human later on named daemonic; the daemons, the hell hounds, the imps, the fiends, all kind of black hearted creatures were created by Dennac’s hand.
Dennac's hatred towards Gaea grew even stronger after the Father's death. And as Gaea didn't have her mother to take care of her anymore, Dennac decided to avenge his father's death and attacked Gaea again and again, each time more furiously than before. The time count had begun.
In the first circle of destruction Gaea and her peaceful world didn't even realize what had happened before it was too late, Dennac had corrupted the king of the lands and with his loyal army they brought destruction upon Gaea's sacred creatures. Her pitiful world was destroyed for the first time.
It took many years of hard work for Gaea to rebuild her precious little world again. But destroying it once wasn't enough for Dennac whose thirst for blood had only grown stronger. Dennac launched another attack upon her sister again. This time the attack came straight from his black heart and he annihilated his sister’s world completely. The second circle of destruction had ended.
In the third circle of destruction Dennac had his perhaps the most powerful follower ever, his right hand in Gaea's world, Diriath. Diriath became stronger than anyone mortal had ever been, he was almost comparable to a lesser god and rumours said that his shadow alone was already enough to kill men. He alone fought against Gaea and wounded her badly making her to flee and to regenerate herself. After some years had passed, she returned just to witness that her world was destroyed, once again. Dennac was very pleased to his loyal follower, Diriath, and rewarded him with immortality in Dennac's world where Diriath is still ruling the lands as one of the immortal kings.
After the third circle of destruction had passed, Gaea wanted peace with Dennac and tried to convince his brother to forget about the past. But, it was already too late – or too soon - to beg for Dennac’s forgiveness or mercy. Dennac couldn’t forget his father's death that easily and he completely ignored Gaea and prepared to destroy Gaea’s world for the fourth time. This time Dennac corrupted the virtues of Sosaria and with their immortality the world was destroyed. Ever since that day the virtue shrines had stayed ruined and forgotten, the evil power they beheld was greatly feared. Thousands of years passed and it wasn’t but a few hundred years ago that they were rebuilt.
The war continued, Dennac attacked again and again and nothing was enough for him. Many circles passed like days after days and war continued raging between Dennac and Gaea. All this time the Mother watched. Every time Dennac destroyed Gaea's world, she shared a tear because of the old memories, memories of a united family, memories of the peace and love.
But, everything changed in the ninth circle of Destruction. Nothing would be the same again. A mortal man was born and he was known as Winchester. The prophets said that he was the one who was to end this endless war. He gathered a group of brave men and attacked against Dennac who had just revealed his greatest weapon of all, the Tek-stone which powers were to corrupt the whole Sosaria under his biddings. With sir Winchester’s lead the men rushed to battle but like one can guess, he failed. He was slaughtered by an orc. Their only hope of surviving was gone. He did, however, manage to destroy the Tek-stone but it had already corrupted enough of the men of Sosaria for Dennac to launch an attack against Gaea. This was supposed to lead to Dennac’s victory, Gaea's world's annihilation - yet again - and to the beginning of the tenth circle.
But something that no-one had witnessed before happened: As Winchester fell lifelessly on the ground, he became a powerful spirit. Someone might even call him a god. The Order of Law that was dedicated in serving Winchester was formed to fight against Dennac's followers in the name of Winchester with the king, Lord British, supporting them. These men were to fight in the name of justice and to defend those who needed protection.
With Winchester's help the Order of Law almost succeeded. Followers of Dennac were almost slain to extinction. And many thought that Dennac was beaten for good and peace could finally be reached. But that’s only what happens in the fairy tales. For many years Dennac gathered more loyal followers and the Cult of Tekstone was rising again. A great priest, Borex, known as the right hand of Dennac, had arisen among the cultists to lead the cult against Gaea's world. The people of Britannia felt the sorrow caused by the holy war yet again. The sorrow they thought had ended. But, like the man before Borex, he failed as well. He had underestimated the strength Winchester held. The cult was beaten again by the Order of Law.
For years this continued. The war that was supposed to end didn't end. The Mother had watched over this and had seen everything that had happened. Instead of just continuing watching She decided to take action and to return to her daughter’s world. She thought that it would be time to bring the peace, to stop the madness, and to unite the people, to unite the old family, the family that had been shattered for too long, once again. She was ready to unite and to stop the madness at any way necessary, even by the blood of her own children. She created Esuna and the Order of Imperial was created to help her. Esuna, however, had a different concept of unity and peace. Instead of trying to unite the three old gods, she started to play them against each other, hoping it would weaken them enough for her to take over the empire. The mother realized she had made a mistake and by trying to help Sosaria she made things only worse. She left Sosaria once again and swore to one day bring revenge upon the failure of Esuna. But Esuna didn’t care for such a threat, instead, she forbid people of Sosaria of using her name. She stole the name of her creator and claimed to be Her, the mother of all. With this name she won the hearts of many men to follow her cause, to fight for her. The blinded men of Sosaria were fooled to follow a fraught.
Dennac noticed all this happening around him, he took this as a sign, Imperial fighting against the Order of Law, against Winchester, against the only thing that had prevented Dennac's victory. As Law was weakened more and more it was time to rebuild the scattered guild again, and finally give Gaea what she deserved for the ninth time…
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Re: Religion Stories
Exactly what i was looking for.
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