THE LORE

I. The Genesis

II. Defect of the Gods

III. Galatia and the Abyssal Twelve

IIII. March of the Elves

IIIII. Exile of the Dwarves

IIIIII. The Alexandrian Era

1. The Children of Alexandra von Generisa

IIIIIII. The Barbarian Era

IIIIIIII. Cera’s time

The Children of Alexandra von Generisa

Ages ago, was a time when all kingdoms in Galatia were controlled by one Empire. Under the rule of the Emperor Aegeus – whose kingship claimed direct lineage to the Abyssal Twelve - the people of Galatia were feared and renowned for their highly advanced civilization; laws, architecture and writings, as well as their skilled usage over the Krad Crystals weaponry. Their influence eventually stretched across the continent to the North - where the strong dwarves ruled - and unto the South, which harbored the wise elves. The old treaties between the factions were respected since the time of the Abyssal twelve, and gradually renewed with the new trades established within the Empire.

Even though, their knowledge of the runic arts and their trade of the Krad Crystals were far from being the only arsenal which strengthened Aegeus Empire’s military might and wealth, as well as their diplomacy of the land. Many believe that what truthfully held the Empire against the barbarian attacks in the East in the late Era was due to the daughter of Aegeus.

The daughter of Aegeus, Princess Alexandra von Generisa, was believed to many of being a god-witch; those were the ones who communized a soul pact with the dark goddess, Shaiya - to the redemptive mean of earthly desires or higher unsought desires – and that they purposely offered themselves for either the burning stake, or the heart of many men, for one.

Ancient lore suggested that the disciples were selected by Shaiya herself even before their own birth into the physical world. All disciples were females, but rumors have spread that some males were selected after the Alexandrian Era. As for the order’s origins itself, it is still a complete mystery to most of Galatia’s lore scholars, and despite their elusion on the god-witches many secrets, their numbers were roughly estimated of some thirty thousand across all Galatia at the time of Emperor Ardane.

The legend also says that those who bore a red cross symbol on their body after birth were already marked by the goddess, and that they would later be joining the god-witches, thus embracing an inevitable dark future.

Granted power over the heart of men, extraordinary combat and mental abilities, as well as knowledge of the events to come for the most gifted, the god-witches were quickly banned from the council of mages – who feared a coalition against the god-witches that would strip-off their siege within the Empire – and dismayed from the council of nobles who feared they would hold greater influence on the crown than themselves. Not long after both parties had stripped them from any rights within, the order suffered an intern conflict that cost their leader’s life.

Later, the Empire ordered the total extermination of the god-witches. The operation was called “Valkyrja Orden”.

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After the extermination, that took place in the fourteenth year of rule of Emperor Ardane, the people of the Empire still believed there would be more, scattered throughout all of Galatia, hiding from the armies and scouts, in the forests or other deep dwellings.

Following Aegeus’s grandfather death, Emperor Ardane the First, hunts were organized throughout Galatia by the arls and lords of the realm, who immediately took the loss of their emperor as nothing else but the doing of the god-witches.

The head of the god-witches order at that time was named Auguste von Cecillia. Soon after the Valkyrja Orden act had been pronounced, she renamed the order of the god-witches after their goddess: The Daughters of Sheiya.

Local militia from numerous villages of the Empire, as well as peasants, participated along in the extermination of the Daughters of Sheiya, which they considered having long lost their humanity, and hated them for cursing their lands.

The threatening activities of the humans of Galatia soon brought the order of the god-witches close to total extinction, and little were those who did not agreed to the deed done on them. The Empire’s entire army was mobilized to ensure the Valkyrja Orden.

Persecuted to the ends of the world, through the dwarven lands and through the elven forests, the few remaining god-witches reunited to make a last stand against the Empire. The last battle was fought in the territory of Waissendorf, which would later become the Prophet Seth’s burial grounds, and according to the legend, the place of his ascension to the Outer Lands.

The god-witches were not made for stalling as the main body of an army - no decent general would put defenseless robe wearing mages in the front lines. Despite all the arcane offensives and the Unsoughts summoned by the god-witches during the battle, the swords of the Empire managed in less than an hour to flank the rear of the god-witches ranks.

Waissendorf was a territory of many hills and low scraped grounds. The flat terrain provided no tactical defense for a range attack, and there was nothing to cover infantry - and even less mages - from mounted knights riding at wind's speed aiming for a direct collision. After multiples skirmishes and battles, the mighty armies of the Empire managed to push the god-witches to their last stronghold, mount Firiad.

At the peek of the mount Firiad located at the southern border of Waissendorf, the leader of the order of god-witches, Auguste von Cecillia, gathered her remaining loyal maidens for a final stand against the unbrooding slayers empiremen. Raging thunderbolts lashed and hurling hurricanes of disembowement scourged the climbing soldiermen.