Chapter One : Sarnaut: A Peaceful and Thriving Planet
Before the time there was a quiet and peaceful planet named Sarnaut, where humans and other races lived in beautiful life. Races were fighting for larger territories, establishing new countries and living off an economy based on agriculture, crafting and commerce.
Chapter Two : The Great Cataclysm and The Birth of Allods
In the year 4015, life on Sarnaut radically changed due to the Great Cataclysm. It led to the destruction of the planet and the emergence of the Allods. Allods are the name given to islands which were left over after the planet shattered. The islands float in the Astral, the natural magical space surrounding the former planet. A lot of people died in Cataclysm until the Great Mages discovered a way to support life on these new worlds, allowing some civilizations to continue to survive with their populations.
Chapter Three : The Schism
The Conclave of the Great Mages was established ages ago after the fall ol Junes kingdom.In the third millennium of the Old Era, the head of the Council was Great Archmage Skrakan. He educated two mages who became his best pupils: Tensess and Nezeb.
Five hundread years after the first confrontation between the Kanians(people of Tensess), and the Xadaganians(people of Nezeb), Skrakan managed to re-establish units in the Conclave of the Great Mages. Tensess and Nezeb were brought to heel under the control of Skrakan.
Chapter Four : The Invasion of the Astral Demons
New means of travelling, discovered by the Gibberling fisherman Swen, set the scene for the first Astral War. The League had a score to settle with the Empire over several contested allods. It was soon discovered that the secret of Astral protection lay in an iron meteor that came from the depths of the Astral. Unfortunately for the Imperial Allod of Kirah, it was completely filled with this particular type of metal and became a target.
The first victim in the Battle of Kirah was the Xadaganian Great Mage Vlad, who did not even participate in the battle. Half way through the fighting, and with the League breaking through his lines, it was obvious to him that something was amiss. The sky above lit up with Astral flames and a massive earthquake rocked the land. Yasker and Eniel de Ardeur, leaders of the Empire and the
League both realized that the cause of destruction was the death of Vlad.
Chapter Five : A New War Begins
In the year 957, after decades of peace, a new war erupted between the Empire and the League. A fleet of powerful Imperial Astral ships packed with new technology attacked the League's territory. The League's fleet, led by their Mages, fought back valiantly but ultimately were doomed in the face of such firepower. They had no choice but to flee and leave their allods undefended.
Chapter Six : The Great Astral Journey
In the year 965, a book called ''The Revelation of Tka-rik'' came in the hands of Skrakan.
It said that the demons were creatures from another world, that they were evil spirits and that their fundamental purpose was destruction. Tka-rik had unleashed the demons during experiments by the Junes when he was researching new sources of magic. He discovered that the only way to stop the invasion was to shut the gates to this other world which had been opened by Junes.
The following year in 966, Skrakan and Nezeb signed a peace treaty and sent scouts on combined mission to discover the location of the Junes gates. Several gates to the Astral Demon's world were discovered shortly after the expedition began, and two Great Mages(Tensess and Nezeb) were dispatched to seal them forever. After a pitched battle with the demons, their army captured the allods where the gates located.
The Great Mages attempted to seal the gates, failing to do so, on their first three attempts. They persisted and on their fourth attempt, the two Great Mages successfully sealed the gates. It was bittersweet victory though, as a massive Astral storm appeared over the gates and destroyed their great army.Only the ships on the periphery of the storm escaped, returning to their allods with the news of their victory and unfortunate tragedy.
Both factions lost their leaders.
The League was ruled by The Conclave of the Great Mages, and comprised the Five Great Mages. It was led by Aidenus, the Great Mage of Kvatoh.
The transition of power in Empire was less fluid, as the power vacuum in the Empire's leadership erupted into bloody confrontation. Two Great Mages went head-to-head to become the new leader of Empire: Gurluxor, an old and experienced mage, and Yasker, a young hero of the war of Kvatoh.
Yasker parlayed with both the Orcs and the Arisen, promising them full equal rights in return for supporting the new Empire he would create. Overwhelmed, Gurluxor was defeated and fled to his allod.Victorious over his rival, Yasker proclaimed himself a Great Mage and Leader of Empire and ruled alone. He kept his promise to the Orcs and the Arisen and granted them equal status as citizens of the Empire.
In the year 1008, after many skirmishes, war was officially declared between the two great powers. The cause was a new allod discovered which lay between Kvatoh, the capital of the League, and Igsh, capital of the Empire. Its name was Holy Land and it keeps the secrets of Battle of Kvatoh in Pyramid of Tensess.
