Lordhelsby
04-30-2006, 03:38 PM
Of Albion and the Maukai
The dawn of creation
At the dawn of time, before the coming of chaos and when the old ones still walked the earth, the land now known as Albion was a great Temple city known as Kuakata. The old ones used this island in their great scheme, nurturing the fledgling race of giants, in addition to a mysterious group of entities referred to by the lizardmen only as Maukai, believed to have been destined to become predators of chaos.
The Fall
When the polar gates collapsed, and the old ones disappeared from the world, Kuakata was overrun by the tide of ravening daemons unleashed upon the world. Isolated from the other Slann, and facing the full force of the chaos onslaught without the hope of aid, Lord Omec-Topec of the first spawning simply could not hold off the enemy.
Instead, the Slann cast a spell of fathomless power, drawing all magic towards him and causing the very stones of the pyramid to draw the winds of magic towards them and burn it up in a massive blast of energy.
Great volcanoes rose by the sheer force of the spell, sheets of lava ploughed into the sea, forming a giants causeway in the ocean.
Lord Omec-Topec and his followers, in addition to every last daemon on the island were destroyed as the temple disintegrated, sending immense stones saturated in power across the land.
It was these massive shard of stone, imbued with the power of the cataclysmic magic, that the giants would later use to construct the great Ogham circles. However, even before their power was concentrated, the stones drew on the winds of magic to saturate the land of Albion.
The influx of magic created a dismal and constant weather system of fog and rain across the land, causing the forests to rot and much of the island turn to quagmire and fens.
The birth of the Truthsayers
Due to the magical saturation of the island, many spirits and souls became trapped in the boggy earth of Albion. This is the accepted explanation why the druids of the isle are able to summon Fenbeasts. However, more ancient powers are locked within the perpetually sodden earth.
Most notably, many of the Maukai spirits are rumoured to still be trapped around the Ogham circles, and around other remnants of their former glory such as the Bastion of the Old Ones.
When men came to Albion, long ago when they first mastered travel by sea, they formed an enclave of druids, learning of their creators from the
Maukai, and mastering a fraction of their potent spells. In time, these humans, under the tutoring of the spirits trapped within the lands, enlisted the giants to gather the great Ogham stones from around Albion, and form the great stone circles, which enhanced the power of the stones. It is also believed that the Truthsayers learned how to conjure the protective mists around Albion which stopped the intrusion of other races until the coming of the Dark Master thousands of years later.
The dawn of creation
At the dawn of time, before the coming of chaos and when the old ones still walked the earth, the land now known as Albion was a great Temple city known as Kuakata. The old ones used this island in their great scheme, nurturing the fledgling race of giants, in addition to a mysterious group of entities referred to by the lizardmen only as Maukai, believed to have been destined to become predators of chaos.
The Fall
When the polar gates collapsed, and the old ones disappeared from the world, Kuakata was overrun by the tide of ravening daemons unleashed upon the world. Isolated from the other Slann, and facing the full force of the chaos onslaught without the hope of aid, Lord Omec-Topec of the first spawning simply could not hold off the enemy.
Instead, the Slann cast a spell of fathomless power, drawing all magic towards him and causing the very stones of the pyramid to draw the winds of magic towards them and burn it up in a massive blast of energy.
Great volcanoes rose by the sheer force of the spell, sheets of lava ploughed into the sea, forming a giants causeway in the ocean.
Lord Omec-Topec and his followers, in addition to every last daemon on the island were destroyed as the temple disintegrated, sending immense stones saturated in power across the land.
It was these massive shard of stone, imbued with the power of the cataclysmic magic, that the giants would later use to construct the great Ogham circles. However, even before their power was concentrated, the stones drew on the winds of magic to saturate the land of Albion.
The influx of magic created a dismal and constant weather system of fog and rain across the land, causing the forests to rot and much of the island turn to quagmire and fens.
The birth of the Truthsayers
Due to the magical saturation of the island, many spirits and souls became trapped in the boggy earth of Albion. This is the accepted explanation why the druids of the isle are able to summon Fenbeasts. However, more ancient powers are locked within the perpetually sodden earth.
Most notably, many of the Maukai spirits are rumoured to still be trapped around the Ogham circles, and around other remnants of their former glory such as the Bastion of the Old Ones.
When men came to Albion, long ago when they first mastered travel by sea, they formed an enclave of druids, learning of their creators from the
Maukai, and mastering a fraction of their potent spells. In time, these humans, under the tutoring of the spirits trapped within the lands, enlisted the giants to gather the great Ogham stones from around Albion, and form the great stone circles, which enhanced the power of the stones. It is also believed that the Truthsayers learned how to conjure the protective mists around Albion which stopped the intrusion of other races until the coming of the Dark Master thousands of years later.