The Great War of the Undying

The Great War of the Undying was fought against El rey Atrax, leading to the downfall of the El imperio Toren, the first great civilization of Verra.

• Following the great war, the five main city states of the Aelan people joined to form the Aelan Empire.
  • The Pyrian Elves established a university complex in the city state of Carphin, known as The Tower of Carphin. There they taught the humans how to master La Esencia and learn advanced magic.

Aelan Empire

Aela, the capital city of the Aelan Empire prior to the Exodus.

This concept art shows the capital city of the Aelan empire before the fall which left it in ruins.

Prior to The Fall, the Aelan Empire was Verra's largest nation. The Empire used its armies to bully many city states, bending them to its will.

The Aelan empire is the most recent successor of the once great house of Lyneth. For over one thousand years the house of Lyneth ruled over the Aela. A golden age endured for most of their reign. It was only during the dawn of [the last century before the fall], during the Great War of the Undying that the house fell. With no suitable heir to the Lyneth throne the country fell into chaos. What arose is the fragile republic we see today. Overseen by the Emperor elected through the Council of Five: The five who govern the greatest cities on the Empire. The Aelan empire is by far the largest nation in all of Verra, with over eight million souls among its inhabitants. Aelans also represent the single largest population on Verra. Their borders touch upon every other nation; and with their interests of expansion on the seas of Verra, they are able to deploy their widely feared armies to any shore. The Empire uses this fear to bully many city states, bending them to their will. Those who deny the will of the Empire often find themselves at the end of a sword. – Steven Sharif

• Carphin was one of the five main city states of the Aelan people that formed the Aelan Empire following The Great War of the Undying with El rey Atrax.

• Aela was the capital city of the Aelan Empire prior to the Exodus from Verra.

El rey Atrax

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A staff of the Ancients 3D render.

A glorious staff of the Ancients that we revealed during November's development update!

The last ruling house of the Toren empire, which oversaw its downfall was the house of Atrax. King Atrax was actually its longest ruler, also its last ruler, and he was a very powerful and advanced wizard for his time. He dedicated the vast majority of his early rule to seeking out artifacts, knowledge, the focal points of essence; and he discovered its purpose as it becomes the manipulating matter behind exploiting magic for any means. He became obsessed with the pursuit of that knowledge as a very accomplished wizard and one of the ways he pursued that ever-longing learning was to try and achieve immortality; and in his pursuit of immortality he discovered that manipulating the life-force of a soul essentially is to greater increase your ability to focus the essence, because each person's soul acts as, in some way shape or form, a conduit of the essence across the plains. So that's essentially how the gods are capable of reaching into the material plane- one of the ways- is through the souls of their divine beings, which are the four great races and their descendants. In his pursuit of immortality he came across some more dark applications of the essence and in doing so- discovering these artifacts along the ley lines that are in Verra- he came into contact with forces that existed outside of the material plane in the void itself. Now these were unbeknownst to him The Ancients as well The Others and manipulating that contact. – Steven Sharif

King Atrax began to manipulate the essence in a way that was trying to capitalize on everlasting life, on immortality. So in doing so he came into contact with the ancients; and the Ancients took advantage of this- was their first contact with any of the divine races actually- and this is what led the Ancients to begin their pursuit of Verra: to start that process of the Harbingers eventually finding Verra and coming to the planet to pervert what the gods- the seven gods- had created through their second creation. Now the Ancients created this contact with Atrax through summoning rituals that Atrax had learned through manipulating the essence; and it was through these contact rituals that Atrax learned how to achieve immortality. But the Ancients were deceptive in actually not informing Atrax how this would deform his conduit, his soul essentially that exists with the Essence. So he underwent a process of essentially lichdom where he was the first lich and the first undead on Verra; and it was from him and his pursuit of immortality that undeath became a reality on Verra; and it was his subjects that suffered as a result of his desire to become immortal. So he began different rituals on his subjects, which allowed the undeath to propagate across the world in his population over time. So he would- before he became a lich he experimented on his citizens; and that's what really was the origin of the undead and this undead the Ancients- one of the unique things about the Ancients was in their first discovery of how they could use the Essence and what the Others taught them was they became immortal themselves. But they became immortal in a more pure form, essentially akin to the godhood that exists among the Pantheon; and that prohibited them from encompassing this undeath component. But they did not teach that to King Atrax. So that talks a little bit about the origins of the undeath on Verra and undeath in general. – Steven Sharif

El rey Atrax fue el último y más longevo regente del antiguo imperio Toren, que fue de una de las primeras y más grandes civilizaciones de Verra

• El rey Atrax fue un poderoso mago, adelantado a su época, que dedicó la mayor parte de su gobierno en buscar artefactos, conocimiento y las bases de La Esencia. Descubrió su propósito, manipular la materia y explotar la magia por cualquier medio.
• Su objetivo era alcanzar la inmortalidad; y en esta búsqueda descubrió que manipular la fuerza vital de un alma, aumenta la capacidad de concentrar La Esencia, ya que el alma de cada persona actúa como una ruta de la misma a través de los planos de existencia.
• En su búsqueda de la inmortalidad se encontró con otras aplicaciones oscuras para La Esencia, y al hacerlo, entró en contacto con fuerzas que existían fuera del plano material: en El Vacío. Estos eran Los Antiguos y Los otros, y sin que él lo supiera comenzaron a manipular ese contacto a través de rituales de invocación que el propio Atrax había aprendido en sus estudios de La Esencia.
  • Esta conexión llevó a Los Antiguos a comenzar su búsqueda de Verra, lo que propició que Los Heraldos encontraran Verra y llegar al planeta, pervirtiendo lo que Los Siete dioses habían creado(en su segunda creación).
• A través de sus rituales de invocación, Atrax finalmente aprendió como conseguir la inmortalidad. Pero fue un engaño de los Antiguos, al no informarle sobre como esto deformaría su alma en la propia Esencia. Atrax, eventualmente, se sometió a un proceso para convertirse en el primer Lich y por lo tanto el primer no-muerto de Verra.
  • Fue a partir de esta búsqueda de la inmortalidad que los no-muertos se convirtieron en una realidad en Verra: Atrax había iniciado diferentes rituales en sus súbditos, lo que permitió que los no-muertos es propagaran por todo el mundo, causando sufrimiento entre todos sus súbditos.
  • Los Antiguos habían aprendido de Los otros como usar La Esencia para lograr la inmortalidad para ellos mismos. A diferencia de Atrax, se volvieron inmortales de una forma más pura, más parecida a la divinidad existente en el Panteón, los cuales tenían prohibido jugar con la "no-muerte". Esta forma pura de inmortalidad no se le enseñó a Atrax.
• Después de que Atrax dominara su forma de Lich, continuó esclavizando a sus súbditos no-muertos, obligándolos a adquirir artefactos antiguos por todo el mundo para poder continuar con su manipulación de La esencia y de la magia.
  • Estos artefactos fueron alojados en la cámara de Fallow's Hold, que es una de las grandes mazmorras de Ashes of Creation, ubicada cerca de la capital del antiguo imperio Toren, Torall.

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