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Andros: Reclamation
Race and World Lore
History of Andros, Astrians, and the known mortal races.
Until not too long ago, the world had forgotten the Astrians. They were a group of ancient races blessed with godlike powers. They were the high-born races, weavers of magic, and rulers over the low-born races. Beings created without the hands to reach up to the stars and shape them as they pleased. Their fates were to toil in the dirt at the command of their masters and lords. But no one knew that. To the low-borns, magic was nothing but a fairy tale to entertain children before bed, but not anymore. After discovering evidence of them when out exploring, it now seems that everyone knows more that then wished they did about the ancient overlords.
Initial research suggested that Astrian lives were similar, but still foreign in culture, to the modern day people of Andros. What their research found most disturbing was the evidence of just how common war was to the Astrians races. Ruins revealed how they had fought each other so many times, for so long, and with such brutality that they drove themselves to extinction. It found that before the last Astrian war ended, many of the lower races fled to more peaceful land to begin life anew. There was no doubt that now that they were no longer tangled in the constant wars of the Astrians, the lower races were able to thrive and build empires of their own in the new lands they called home. Since the low-born races never saw sight of the Astrians after that their existence faded first to legends, then myths, then into obscurity. After centuries of rebuilding civilization, the lands they had settled were beginning to seem small. The low-born races began to expand outward back across the mountains, valleys, and seas they had crossed so long ago.
There they found the remains of the once great and powerful Astrians. For the most part they found nothing but skeletons and buildings half buried under dirt and rock, but some began to stumble on relics from the past. Items still teaming with the mystical energies the Astrians had used to destroy themselves. Expeditions to the Astrian ruins in search of these invaluable items grew popular. Diggers recovered everything from silver that never tarnished, candles that never burnt down, blades that could cut stone, and armors that had barely even a scratch from the weight of piles of boulders on top of them. Some even more rare ones had spells locked within, but nothing compared to a discovery made after thousands of these artifacts had been recovered. The Astrians weren't dead. By what could only be pure chance, a young digger pulled out a precious jeweled locket, whispered how beautiful he thought it was to it, and then kissed it. Those actions awakened an Astrian, laying dormant inside the item, and bounded them together. Not all the Astrians had been killed off.
As it is known now, some of them hid themselves at their end and sealed their essences in artifacts. Only by unique cryptic actions could the seal be broken to reveal the Astrian inside. But not all artifacts have Astrians inside them, and not all Astrians are ones anyone would want released from their slumbers. Regardless, everyone now dreamed of acquiring and bonding to one of these rare Astrians. For some they were a means to wealth, some a symbol of status, and for some a weapon to direct at their enemies. Magic had returned to the world once again.
And with its return, so too did the consequences. A bonded Astrian, cunning and vengeful, and her summoner made an expedition of their own. With her firsthand memory of a city now sunken beneath sand dunes, the two dove deeper down than anyone before. There, they found a vault filled with items storing the souls of thousands of Astrians. The bonded Astrian broke all their seals and cursed them, creating for herself an army of the worlds most powerful Astrians, and then attacked Andros seeking to restore the Astrians back to their rightful place.
Race and World Lore
History of Andros, Astrians, and the known mortal races.
Until not too long ago, the world had forgotten the Astrians. They were a group of ancient races blessed with godlike powers. They were the high-born races, weavers of magic, and rulers over the low-born races. Beings created without the hands to reach up to the stars and shape them as they pleased. Their fates were to toil in the dirt at the command of their masters and lords. But no one knew that. To the low-borns, magic was nothing but a fairy tale to entertain children before bed, but not anymore. After discovering evidence of them when out exploring, it now seems that everyone knows more that then wished they did about the ancient overlords.
Initial research suggested that Astrian lives were similar, but still foreign in culture, to the modern day people of Andros. What their research found most disturbing was the evidence of just how common war was to the Astrians races. Ruins revealed how they had fought each other so many times, for so long, and with such brutality that they drove themselves to extinction. It found that before the last Astrian war ended, many of the lower races fled to more peaceful land to begin life anew. There was no doubt that now that they were no longer tangled in the constant wars of the Astrians, the lower races were able to thrive and build empires of their own in the new lands they called home. Since the low-born races never saw sight of the Astrians after that their existence faded first to legends, then myths, then into obscurity. After centuries of rebuilding civilization, the lands they had settled were beginning to seem small. The low-born races began to expand outward back across the mountains, valleys, and seas they had crossed so long ago.
There they found the remains of the once great and powerful Astrians. For the most part they found nothing but skeletons and buildings half buried under dirt and rock, but some began to stumble on relics from the past. Items still teaming with the mystical energies the Astrians had used to destroy themselves. Expeditions to the Astrian ruins in search of these invaluable items grew popular. Diggers recovered everything from silver that never tarnished, candles that never burnt down, blades that could cut stone, and armors that had barely even a scratch from the weight of piles of boulders on top of them. Some even more rare ones had spells locked within, but nothing compared to a discovery made after thousands of these artifacts had been recovered. The Astrians weren't dead. By what could only be pure chance, a young digger pulled out a precious jeweled locket, whispered how beautiful he thought it was to it, and then kissed it. Those actions awakened an Astrian, laying dormant inside the item, and bounded them together. Not all the Astrians had been killed off.
As it is known now, some of them hid themselves at their end and sealed their essences in artifacts. Only by unique cryptic actions could the seal be broken to reveal the Astrian inside. But not all artifacts have Astrians inside them, and not all Astrians are ones anyone would want released from their slumbers. Regardless, everyone now dreamed of acquiring and bonding to one of these rare Astrians. For some they were a means to wealth, some a symbol of status, and for some a weapon to direct at their enemies. Magic had returned to the world once again.
And with its return, so too did the consequences. A bonded Astrian, cunning and vengeful, and her summoner made an expedition of their own. With her firsthand memory of a city now sunken beneath sand dunes, the two dove deeper down than anyone before. There, they found a vault filled with items storing the souls of thousands of Astrians. The bonded Astrian broke all their seals and cursed them, creating for herself an army of the worlds most powerful Astrians, and then attacked Andros seeking to restore the Astrians back to their rightful place.
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