![]() Trill and lucidian are the native races of this city. Aiming to bring their brand of harmony to the world, it is a flying city of crystal spires, connected to both the Elemental Plane of Air and the Cosmic Plane of the Continuum. It is a city of art and science and while much more muted now, followed a caste system with socialist leanings. Hallifax, along with Gaudiguch, was locked in time for over five hundred years, only coming back in the last couple of centuries. They are crusaders of the Light and the city also possesses a nautical theme due to its ties to the Elemental Plane of Water and proximity to the Inner Sea. The Supernals of the Cosmic Plane of Celestia, form the backbone of the city's ideals and much of its culture is a continuation of the old empire. New Celest is a city built from the refugees of "Old Celest" that was destroyed at the end of the Taint Wars. Viscanti is the "native" race of this city. Tied to the Elemental Plane of Earth and Cosmic Plane of Nil, both of which have also become twisted by the Taint, there are nods to steampunk as well as a dark priesthood. It is a no-nonsense, aristocratic society and embraces the corruption of the Taint to further its objectives. Magnagora is the heart of the Taint, as it was through the Stone of Truth, now Megalith of Doom, that the empire tried to channel the energy of the Astral Plane through. This Taint corrupted Magnagora and many of the nearby surroundings, sparking a war that led to Hallifax and Gaudiguch being locked in time for hundreds of years, the Ackleberry forest performing a ritual that has caused the entire forest to be lost to us to this day, the Gloriana forest, as it was known, becoming tainted and transforming into the Glomdoring and the capital city of the empire, Celest itself, being completely destroyed. Unknowingly, Ladantine released a part of Kethuru's essence, now known as the Taint, into the Basin of Life through the Stone of Truth in Magnagora. Now known as the Astral Plane now, Project Cosmic Hope as it was known, was a complete disaster, because that is where Kethuru had been sealed away. This Holy Celestine Empire was prosperous for many years, until Emperor Ladantine VII approved of a project to tap into the power of a newly-discovered plane beyond the known cosmic planes. The first city, Celest, formed a powerful empire that all of the other organisations were more or less part of. At the heart of each was a Nexus of Power, similar to the Edifices of Power that were used to raise the Vernal Gods. In the aftermath of the Vernal Wars, three forest communes and four cities rose. They sacrificed themselves in a ritual to become Avechna the Avenger, who was then able to defeat Kethuru and seal him away too. The last one, known as Kethuru, had become too powerful and only nine Vernal Gods remained, with no more resources to create more. Eventually, all but one of the Soulless Gods had been trapped. ![]() He then spread this knowledge with other mortal civilisations and more and more Vernal Gods were raised to fight back. A mortal named Gorob was able to make an Edifice of Power in his home city, which he used raise himself to divinity, becoming the first Vernal God, naming himself D'varsha. ![]() The mortal races would then go on to congregate into civilisations with many being hunted down and consumed by the remaining Soulless Gods. Soulless Gods have an uncontrollable hunger to destroy things and the two groups of Gods got into a messy war that ended up with most of the Elder Gods being consumed, fleeing into the Void or "splintering" (basically turning into many, mortal miniature versions of themselves who each had part of the divine spark of the Elder God) while a few very powerful Soulless Gods still remained. To keep it relatively short, there are Elder Gods and Soulless Gods. At the very least, I would suggest reading the Cosmogenesis, Elder Wars books 1 and 2 (Dracnoris and Trilliallial), Vernal Wars, Aftermath, Chronicles of the Holy Celestine Empire and the Coming of Estarra. They were very well written and is what drew myself and many others to Lusternia in the first place. I would highly recommend that you read all of the histories available on here.
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