Strife Of The Eclipse

Lost History continues pt.1

The bard some times later, came and woke Aiden up when he saw him under the tree after the sun set high up.

“Young one, you were something else indeed last night, do you want me to continue last night's story? I am about to depart the village tomorrow, I will tell you the last part of the forbidden story of gods before I go…”

Awakened from his sleep, Aiden looked back at the bard and nodded, please.. continue your story…

The bard then sat under the tree and started to retold the story…

Eztess was a god of destruction. When he saw the work of Ivhir, he became curious and jealous. He imitated Ivhir and created a form in his own image. 

Then he went to see Vexira, their oldest daughter and asked her to instill spirit into the form. 

Vexira was very surprised and told him, "Father, why do you want to do such a thing? Ivhir, my mother, is responsible for the creation, how can someone who represents the opposite do such things?

Please do not covet the type of work that is not yours. A creature who receives life from a god of destruction will only bring about disaster, and it will destroy the world of sylgarth in the future...

But Eztess would not give up. After much cajoling and persuading, finally, he was able to obtain Vexira's consent and that is the beginning of Vexira’s downfall.

"I will do it then. But I have already given the spirit of water to Mother. So the only thing I can give you is the leftovers." Vexira gave the spirit of stagnant and rotten water to Eztess. 

Eztess gladly accepted it and merged it into his creation.

However, Eztess felt that it was not enough to give only one spirit to his creature. So he went to see Brosk, his oldest son. 

Like Vexira, Brosk also warned his father. However, he could not refuse Eztess. So he gave the spirit of dying embers to Eztess. Eztess gladly accepted it and forcefully merged it into his creation.

Dearus the next victim also pleaded with her father with tears in her eyes but ended up giving the spirit of barren and contaminated earth to her father, this later becomes the downfall of each mecharies as they turned into scavengers due to the rarity of rare grade minerals because unlike the other element, earth element needs to be whole to produce minerals, and barren and contaminated earth is the spirit that filtered the rare minerals in the surface level, but that is another story for later days. The bard reminded… 

Eurus, in his pleas, gave his father the spirit of a wild and violent wind. This stripes the Terris greatly from their power… The wind element is unique because when you combine each spirit of the element, something greater is produced, and the greatest one is the wild and violent wind. Eurus just made his biggest mistakes that stripped the power of Terris so much, which makes them almost extinct with several ways to protect themselves.

Greedily, Eztess took everything that was given to him and boasted, "Look at the living creatures that I created! Feast your eyes on those who are born with the spirit of water, the spirit of fire, the spirit of the earth, and the spirit of the wind. They shall be stronger and wiser than giants! They will rule over the world! Eztess then gives a small portion of his intelligence to his creations

Eztess shouted with great pride to all the world as every creature trembled in fear and instilled spirit into the creatures of his own image.

However, the result was disastrous. His creatures, many were born with weak bodies, and slow learning capabilities, they tend to deceive each other, and love to destroy anything that others have. All the other gods despised Eztess's creatures greatly.

Overcome by the shame of his failure, Eztess abandoned his creatures and went into hiding for a time. These creatures later are called humans, the first creation that was abandoned by the gods.

And because of Eztess's abandonment, the first enslavement era was born…

The Giants, as the Aspect Soul, sees other creatures as the lesser one since they didn’t live as long as them and didn’t have intelligence as high as them, thus enslaving each creature in their way…

The race of sylvari was wise and knew how to perform magic. But they were less wise than giants. Therefore, giants let the sylvaries serve them in politics and magic-related activities.

The race of Draugr was strong. They possessed inexhaustible strength and great willpower. However, they were not as strong as giants. Therefore, giants let Draugr serve them in warfare, another factor because Draugr can easily be multiplied through sex so the best way to cut their numbers is to send them into warfare.

The Mechari race was skilled. They were good engineers and skilled mathematicians who excelled in fine craftsmanship. The giants allowed them to serve in banking and manufacturing work. If a Mechari is your banker, no need to worry because they know the easiest way to multiply your coins through the market. But it is hard to earn one since the Giants kept them with higher intelligence closer to them.

The winged race of Terris was freedom-loving and possessed undying curiosity. Giants wanted to capture and subjugate the free-flying creatures, but as soon as a terris was locked up in a cage, it quickly lost its strength and died. Giants were left with no choice but to allow the terris to fly free.  The children of Sylvaries and Terris are called Psion, another race born from the first successful sexual attempt by the races, they are just like a sylvari but with half wings on their back, the male has the right side wing and the female has the left side wing. The other mixed-race is called halflings since they only get half of their parent's traits, like a human with mecharies, became very short, mechari with Draugr becomes short and bulky, and human with Draugr became big but dumb. Later only a few halflings are counted as successful breeds which are then taken by the giants as another experimental being.

The Terris used to visit the city of giants to give them news from other parts of the world before the giants invented more conventional ways to communicate. 

Hundreds of years later, the Terris is slowly gone from the continent… The reason is unknown.

Humans could not do any one thing well and thus become slaves to the giants, doing all sorts of menial labor. The life of humans was not any better than that of animals.

After Vexira was banished, Allyse inherited the authority to rule over water. But Allyse had a timid nature and after witnessing her elder sister's terrible demise and the war among gods, she became even more fearful. To avoid the weighty responsibility that fell to her, she dug a tunnel at the bottom of a lake and hid.

With no goddess to rule over them, the spirits of water were without purpose and began to wander aimlessly. Too much water flowed to one place and formed a great marsh. Water did not flow at all in another place and a desert formed. Thus, the first destruction came, Leviathan, The Diminisher emerged and took control of most of the water sprites secretly, he turned them into nagas, sirens, and many demonic creatures of water secretly.

Oftentimes, part of the continent suddenly sank into the ocean or a new island suddenly sprang out of nowhere. In some places, it rained day and night until everything except the tips of the highest mountains was submerged. Added with Leviathan schemes, attacking ports and docks, turning many lives into demonic creatures and taking them to join the underworld ranks…

Continuous events happen everywhere near the sea and rivers, many people turned demonic through oaths, rituals and sacrifices, besides that, rains kept pouring here and there, and where any piece of land remained above water, all the living creatures flocked to preserve their life and the piece of land fell to pandemonium. 

Both on the continent and in the ocean, all the living creatures were suffering. On behalf of all the living creatures, giants petition the gods for help when they know there is a creature born with the power to demolish every creature that gods have created before, but they hide the existence of Leviathan in their plot and plight.