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History of this world.
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13,081 years ago- After Untold millennia of their reign and power going unchecked The sky god Is felled by a mortal. After stealing this mortals Wife and killing her after he grew bored a mortal named Kybal Kabanda would slay a basilisk and extract seven powerful poisons from its carcass. He would sneak into the fortress in the clouds and Slip the blade into the gods heart as he dropped his guard to monologue. The Death God refused to grant The Sky gods soul back and thus was chained in The underworld, his realm was turned into Hell, and Kybal became the First man condemned to hell.

13,066 years ago- The gods respond to the death of The Sky god by electing to wipe out mankind, their cruelty towards humanity paired with the information of The God’s death spreading would cause mankind to unite against the gods. The gods would send monsters, demigods and Malevolent Spirits to destroy mankind, but other demigods and Benevolent spirits would side with mankind and teach them to make weapons of the monsters carcasses, as only magic can kill magic. Slowly but surely mankind begins to overwhelm the gods, constantly usurping their expectations and Even taking their Hidden Fortress in the moon for themselves.

12,812 years ago- after nearly 250 years, Mankind succeeds in slaying the last god, who was the god of the sea. The resulting flood when the oceans go wild Destroys what remains. The only survivors were A handful of humans who were occupying the Gods, secret moon base. There they found the gods Failsafe in the form of a soul forge, A powerful artifact that could mold souls and harness the magic within them. After The Sky gods death the gods intended to use this as their backup, each one that died would have their souls collected and reincarnated using the other souls of monsters and men that were being collected by the moon. The flood spreading across the world would gather ALL souls in this world into the moon, with the exception of the Humans occupying it. This gave the Soul forge near limitless power to manipulate the fabric of reality. They would use this Power to Split reality into the Seven Realms, and distribute the souls between them.

11,213 years ago- The survivors from the Moon would return to earth after the flood and spread about the globe. Over the next 1,600 or so years they would rise into Several powerful empires, the mightiest of them being Atlantis, Mu, Lemuria, and Avalon. These four kingdoms would reign on earth for nearly a thousand years before they began to regret their actions against the magical world. Thus they began to seek ways to breech the divide and bring magic back. Within the four nations Many wealthy and powerful people had grown to be at the top of what they called this new realm of light. They knew that magic in the hands of mankind would eventually bring mankind back into subservience to the magical creatures whose power they sought. So this Organization that considered itself the guardians of light would dub itself “The illuminati” and would orchestrate a war between the four super-powered nations that would once again break the world. They would spare themselves the destructive fury of the nations whose weapons and technology were reverse engineered from the gods own technologies, by hiding deep beneath the earth in a massive chamber the size of a small country. They called this home Agartha and would oversee and guide the development of the world from their subterranean nation.

8,017 years ago- after nearly 3,000 years of reigning from the shadows, Other powers from other realms began to notice the Illuminati of Agartha and their works throughout the world. For ages they had been the main opposition to the other realms power, and from the shadows no less. Thus a force of multiple realms, the Heavenly realm, The Feywild, And The Shadow Realm, combined their limited crossrealm resources and launched a massive raid on Agartha. Demolishing the country and slaying nearly all its occupants. While the vast majority fled, taking their great knowledge with them and passing it to the Egyptians, the Mayans, the Olmec, Greece, And other Ancient civilizations across the globe. They would go on to make an even more clandestine version of their organization, no more would it have a set location, no more would the power be concentrated. Instead they would fan out, spread into the means of producing wealth and build their power in secret.

5911 years ago- A conflict between the Olmec and the Mayans begins, orchestrated by the Illuminati who have uncovered the mayans alliance with the Feywilds. Thus the Mayans are slatted for destruction, but as they are surrounded, they finish work on their calendar and before the eyes of the olmec warriors are spirited away by the Fey. The olmec terrified by this begin to build a mythology behind it and are scattered by the Illuminati. This angers the Dynasties of Egypt, who cut all ties with the Illuminati and even go so far as to murder anyone with ties to them.

5011 years ago- the Dynasties of Egypt begin to pray to and worship the spirits of the fallen gods, drawing power from it and bringing magic back into the world. The Illuminati rises against them, Forming “The Spear of Light” army but are able to be pushed back. A tentative peace is made with Egypt and attempts to curtail their influence fail. Soon, many kingdoms and peoples begin worshiping gods again, the power coming from such things allows these empires to cast out the illuminati and the countdown begins.

3000 years ago- A new leader within the illuminati changes tactics, beginning to use magic items collected from the Corpses of the dead magical creatures, and even negotiating with the representatives from the other six realms. This leads to a Schism within the Illuminati where their proxy battlefield would be the Mediterranean Sea. This massive conflict would result in the bronze age collapse. Yet its end would see the new leader take the throne of the illuminati for himself and Begin making deals with the other worlds for power and influence. This figure would manipulate and guide many in seeking to eliminate to Worship of Any gods.

2700 years ago- Several members of the Illuminati would combine their resources and begin the foundations of Rome. This would be the start of their goal of Control over the entire material world. Something they believe would make mankind the greatest in all the realms, as every other realm had divided powers ruling them. Though rome would grow into a powerful nation, its goals of global domination would be unmet. Thus the efforts to unite the world under a single ruler would begin. This time the Illuminati goals would not he resisted by just the supernatural powers, but also the powers of Humanity whose rebellious spirit would not accept such rule easily.

2000 years ago- The veil separating the realms cracks. Rattling the entire cosmos of all seven realms. Immediately chaos and anomalies begin to spread. The illuminati respond with the full might of rome, but even then rome falls, and around the world it is worse in many other locations. Mankind begins to fight back the evils of these other realms With a variety of new creations making their debutes. The chaos of this even results in decades or perhaps even centuries being lost. When mankind was Finally able to get a grip on the situation nearly 71 years after romes fall it became marked as year Zero.

1316 years ago- The leadership of the illuminati begin a new process of reverse engineering the remaining technologies of the gods, and many expeditions begin to be launched seeking the Ruins of Atlantis, Mu, Lemuria, Avalon, Agartha, The Olmec, The Mayans, and the Pre dynastic Egyptians so as to gather supernatural artifacts which they intend to weaponize. This is when “The Spear of light” army becomes an official force, still hidden in the shadows they will no longer be conscripted, but rather trained warriors from birth extracted from all over the world and then molded into an elite force. These elites masquerade as knights and peacekeepers while scouring the globe for artifacts.

817 years ago- Attila the hun’s conquest is backed by the Illuminati. All in an effort to claim Three incredibly potent artifacts from the Ruins of Mu located in asia. After this a falling out between the parties results in the illuminati losing several soldiers and the Sword of Mars to attila. This sword would be recovered after his death with a replica left in its place.

670 years ago- The Cracks in the realms grow larger and another surge of monster attacks and mystic occurrences begins. The Illuminati are beaten in every single engagement across Europe. Forcing desperate measures to be taken. The only realm that does not want the divide to end, The demons of the Abyss, offers their aid…for a price. The black death is that price, a virus that would collect a third of the earths souls, in exchange for “The Tablets of Damnation” powerful tablets carved from the foundations of the nine hells, once a humans name is written on the tablet, any time they die they will be respawned at the tablet a few minutes later. With these immortal soldiers the Illuminati turns the tides and uses the plague to cover up the casualties from the monster attacks. “The Spear of light” is then changed into “The Pale Bident”

416 years ago- The 13 colonies Are set up with the backing of the Illuminati. The raising supernatural powers in the world and the ever widening cracks between realms force their hand. They will become a national power once again. A rapid and merciless expansion of this budding nation occurs, all for the sake of rounding up the last artifacts of the Mayan & Olmec descendants.

113 years ago- The First world war breaks out as Forces from the nine hells who were not in contact with the Illuminati nor aligned with those that were begins an effort to spread into earth, apparently to set up an advanced bulwark against the coming convergence. Reaching back out to their Abysmal allies The Illuminati create the First line of HRP’s. These super soldiers though few in number, are able to hunt down and eliminate all the infernal forces on the opposing faction. The souls of the losing side are offered as tribute to the devils that provided the HRP’s. Newspapers begin covering the strange occurrences and censorship of information begins in ernest, the Pale Bident Switches names to “The Trident.”

11 years ago- After a century of the divides getting worse it finally happens, large scale breaches occur on several continents and the ability to remain hidden while they operate becomes harder and harder. The Mayan calendar finally reaches its end the same moment the Breeches occur. State sized areas around the breeches are sealed off as no go zones with the Illuminati activating all of its assets in governments, militaries and Intelligence agencies.

Present day- Another Realm quake rocks the world causing more rifts to open, one of which pops up in tokyo, and another in New York. It proves impossible to cover these two in particular and the cat has begun to get out of the bag. Nonetheless the threat level persists and the grind must continue even if under constant scrutiny now.​
 
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The Seven Realms

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The Heavenly Realm- Those demigods, priests and benevolent spirits who sided with man and supported the divide would Receive the greatest rewards. Here they sit in a realm made entirely of Light and purity. Over the course of 13000 years the denizens have adapted and become beings of light. The raw magical force radiating off of these angels and Arch angels can be destructive to most souls. Thus the angelic hosts tend to stay in the heavenly realms, only venturing as far as paradise where the denizens souls have changed to bear the light without harm. They are the stewards of paradise and the Feywilds.

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Paradise- Many many mortals died opposing the gods and many afterwards would die without having done more harm than good. Those souls are deposited into paradise where discomfort, pain, negativity, and almost all forms of suffering cease to exist. This realm does have a capital city which is nearly the size of earth. It holds the countless souls who call this realm home. Some of the greatest philosophers and minds of mankind are found here and the libraries and crafts that come from this realm are rivaled only by the Angels who were once children of Forge and Craft gods. Likewise the art found here is among the most beautiful of all existence.

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The Feywilds- The souls of animals are strange things. Even those creatures without the cognition to understand good and evil, have categories. The feywilds is the home of the Docile animals, the Benevolent Spirits of nature, and The Mayan civilization which would become the Elven people after their deal with the Fairies. A long term outpost in Europe set up to oppose the Shadowrealms outpost resulting in much of European mythology revolving around the denizens of this realm. While not always kind and peaceful, these creatures are harmless pranksters on their worst day, and a refuge for the struggling but kind on a good day.

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The material World- The material world, while initially soaked in magic, became 100% magicless after the split…however that lack of magic created a vacuum and all realms seek to fill it as the one that takes the material realm gains an instant advantage over the others. The technological advances of mankind rival The other realms by and afar, however without applying magic to these technologies mankind finds itself hopelessly outgunned. Thus deals with powerful beings in other realms have resulted in the material world beginning to once again be soaked in magics.

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The Shadow Realm- The inversion of the feywilds, the Shadow realm is a dark and dangerous place where predatory beasts and aggressive animals will await reincarnation. Many of the more dangerous monsters who were cast from the world dwell here as well. Dragons, Ogres, Undead. A large chunk of the most powerful beings however are malevolent spirits, and Rumors that The lost colony of Roanoke was taken by the shadow realm seem to he validated by the occasional human remains found ejected from anomalies that connect the material and Shadow realms. Several species have formed kingdoms here, Vampires, Lycans, And Orcs being among the largest and most powerful.

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The Nine Hells- Not all humans sided with mankind, Those souls were dumped into the realm That the Gods turned The underworld into So they could cast Kybal Kabanda into it. As time progressed the undesirable souls from all other realms would begin collecting here until the nine hells swelled into the largest realm. So large in fact that eight more hells were made after the first one and they exist as a form of Matryoshka realm with additional layers going inwards from the realms surface. Each hell is worse than the previous one, and while its not an eternal torment, the realm itself is hostile and uncomfortable, populated by the most violent and deplorable people to have ever lived, and Is the only vacation spot for the Demons of the Abyss

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The Abyss- The Bottomless pit, a realm that is located below the 9th hell. The entrance to it is a jagged maw of some kind of realm sized creature. Within the creature is an infinite black void, absent of all things except those that are cast into it and that which leaks from the nine hells. This black void strips away all that make you you…then replaces it with the psychic refuse of other realms. As a result, those that are cast here will inevitably become creatures of pure malice and darkness with all that opposes that removed. They become Demons, and Devils. While most are wise to be weary of the deceptive creatures, their own self interest makes them able to be bargained with, and if you play your cards correctly, their power can be a boon. They will often journey up to the Nine hells so they can recharge their Negative energy’s which are the source if their power.​
 
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The illuminati- A secret clandestine organization with Over ten thousand years of recorded history, global reach, and enough resources to rival any nation on earth. Over the past 13 millennia they have accumulated a large array of magical items and corpses of mystical creatures that are used to make weapons, armor, and tools for their agents to use. The leadership is always obscure and no one is positive who has they are as they will often hide behind Orchestrated anonymity.

Their proclaimed goal is to maintain the divide between realms and the right of humanity to rule its own realm and destiny. However their actions seem to contradict this, as they have taken deals with other realms, and seem hellbent on taking control of earth for themselves all others be damned. While knowledge of their existence has become more commonplace in the past decade, Mounting any kind of resistance is seemingly impossible, as no one is even sure where to start…well they know they just really don’t want to take that first step. Because the only connection the Illuminati has to the outside world is with that of the Trident.


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The Trident- The military arm of the Illuminati. This is a Militant movement with over 5000 years of combat practices and traditions, Knowledge and Experience in dealing with the supernatural, And a seemingly bottomless budget, this army is said to possess sufficient intelligence, Skill, and resources to Overthrow the entire world’s militaries. Indeed many of the world best military units, are sleeper agents, or infiltrators sent by the Illuminati to begin with. Trident has agents in Law enforcement agencies across the globe, in every advanced military in the world. Some are Shaolin monks, Others Gang leaders, still some are marines, and Others Generals. Worse yet, All that only covers the middle point of the trident The MIlitary Personelle (MP’s) . While they make up the bulk of its force they aren’t all that can be brought to bear.

Starting in 670 years ago When the Tablets of Damnation were brought into existence the Illuminati began producing its first true super soldiers. The Damned Soul Division has grown over the years to hold 636 agents. More often than not they will operate in teams of 2-3 agents but many teams can be sent to deal with sufficient threats. You see these agents are not doctors or generals, they are not policemen or Monks. They are Monster Killers. Elite troops who cannot stay dead, tossed into battle to hone their skills or die again and again. Their previous lives being lost to them all they have ever known is that they are called to kill and die in an endless cycle. While this may have driven a few insane, it has also made them warriors of unparalleled skill, Able to face Dragons and cosmic horrors or even shrug off death. They have in some cases had multiple lifetimes to hone these skills to perfection. The first 60 such agents have been around since the black plague.

Even still there exists another unit that for the past century have been haunting the nightmares of nightmares. The Hell Risen Phantasms, Human souls that were mutated and experimented on by the Devils in hell. They have become twisted Reflections of what they once were. These souls are attached to a Living human soul where they will share a body with said human. Normally said human host will be in control and live normally…however the HRP can take over and upon doing so can twist the hosts body and mind into a new and deadly form. They seem to possess unique abilities akin to a costumed heroes superpower. The Illuminati records have them singlehandedly felling dragons and exterminating vampire covens. To date there are only 23 of them, but there are contracts in the works for more. Sadly the hosts do not have much say in the way their lives go, but when the HRP’s are in control, even the Illuminati contacts speak to them in a different tone.​
 

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