Story:The Realms of Cellion are in a constant battle for survival, the Ancient Kings of the shining Acrelite throne have built hundreds of kingdoms to the race of man, elf kind and dwarf only to have the Dark scourge of their world, Memphasis to destroy or ruin them all, in madness and war or Disease and constant famine. Cellion was once peaceful at the beginning of creation, the four ancient kings created the lands and territories, every year it is the duty of a chosen indivdual to take up a space on the throne and replace an ancient king, these chosen become great heroes and in the year that they are chosen, they lead armies, defeat powerful foes and eventually ascend to the throne, tought by the all knowing Telnidious ancients. Although the ancient Kings that replace the old and the kings generations before them are far from as powerful as the original kings who created the World, they are given the knowledge to rule the world as one governing mind and so to defend it from the only true Ancient king left, the Memphasis, who the Dark essence has tainted and swallowed completly, turning him to terror and evil.
When the Ancients finished creating the world, one of them told the others of his dark vision, where this sudden notion came over him it is unknown but his vision was of pain, suffering and torment, none would be safe and so the others tried to calm him and bring sense to their poor brother, however he was enraged that they did not help him fulfull his vision and sent dark powers from his body, mishaping the lands around him, destroying their world and transforming it into darkness. The brothers worked together, they channeled their energies and sent their power into their maddened brother, disabling him, they chained him and tore from him his eyes, they shuddered to do it, but they knew it was the only thing they could do to stop his evil visions from shaping the world through thought alone and they buried him in a great sarcofegous beneath miles of earth, around it an enormous pyramid was built.
Elves, Dwarves, Humans and many other races such as dryads, tiger men, wolves and minatours, the drenis, celous, trenadil were born as well as others, but before they were born there was the Telnidious, enormous giants, at least a mile tall, great builders that shook the earth with every step, they helped construct the Dark pyramid but also built statues and temples to the Ancient kings, the creatures forged many artifacts of power, such as the Hammer of Genome, after the one who built it, or the star of kings, the scepter of vision, the saber twins of sceleran. eventually the Elves, Dwarves and men joined forces, as well as dryads and tiger men, even the drenis joined the alliance who were usually hateful towards other races, together they traded and grew, hundreds of kingdoms rose across Cellion, elven cities in the forests, alongside dryad tree houses, the Humans settled in the green lands of Fendos while the dwarves up in the icy mountains built citidels into the stone and rock. The Dwarves made an alliance with the Telnidious, they both learnt from eachother, crafting, artifacts and ancient earth lore but a foolish dwarf by the name of groff stole the twin sabres sceleran and so a great war between Dwarves and Telnidious broke out. after hundreds of years of battle the Telinidious were defeated, dwarves were aided by the rest of their alliance and so the giants were toppled and their cities were taken by the alliance as strongholds. Many giants did not fight in the war and so were spared, these are now known as the Ancient Telnidious and are said to be gifted of the power of ultimate knowledge over all things, but their age has made them senile and so they often forget but a rare Jeadous crystal can bring back their memories.
thousands of years passed, all races have been prosperous, small wars with the wolf men and the minatours broke out, the jackal men, also known as Anubites after the minatour who had discouvered them joined forces with the minatour and the wise jackal headed creatures allowed them all to live in peace, the tiger men left the alliance and joined with the wolves, anubites and minatours to form the beast horde who started a war with elf and man, for years this war went on, the beasts were jelous of the artifacts and inteligence of the higher races, the tiger men who were once friends are now shunned but their beast nature made it necessary to join their beast brothers and so after hundreds of years, the war was over and once again peace ensued forth as the beasts and alliance joined under the banner of peace.
However miles beneath the Earth Memphasis had been gaining power, his dark essence could feel and see all on Cellion, their wars and emotions such as fear and terror gave him strength, he felt their pain and anger and it channeled into him. Eventually with all his will his chains smashed, as his arms swung through the stone and metal sarcophagos like it was merely air he flew upwards through the stone and out of the top of the temple, his eyeless face, half covered in a dark mask and hanging in his chains, memphis laughed, the laugh echoed across the land, his evil voice speaking into the hearts of all those who heard it, the voice was monstrous beyond reckoning and it drove the beasts mad once again, killing their allies. Man, dwarf and elf went to war against them but had to fall back, their armies had not seen such madness and blood thirst in the beasts. The three ancient kings who were still on the side of good left their enromous palace and joined the armies of the alliance and with their powers cleared the beasts mind, once again the old alliance was re made, the Telnidious came from beneath the ground in their giant forms, the army thundered towards the pyramid.
Around it the battle was terrible indeed, swarms of ancient long dead were reanimated back to life, their flesh and bones attacked without mercy, thought or emotion, at the will of Memphasis. with a simple wave of his dark hands, clouds of black smokey energies swept through hundreds of alliance forces, turning their skin to ash and bones, Memphasis laughed once again as he sent his magics into the army, taking thousands of lives as if they were his play things. The Three ancient kings were the only hope against him, they once again channeled their power, in a demonic lust of revenge Memphasis opened his mouth as swarms of black beetles flew from it, all of the beetles imbeded themselves into the kings, screaming in torture at the small insects spraying acidic poison inside their bodies and dissolving them from within, after they had finished the flying creatures attacked the army, as the bones and clothes of what was left of the ancient kings fell to the floor. It seemd hopeless, Memphasis was strong enough to punch through whole armies, sending them into pieces. His ancient Staff of the Essence appeared in his hand, across the World the earth shook, as the alliance fled the ground ripped open, volcanic eruptions poured from the ground and swallowed entire cities but Memphasis was unaware, through his dark laughter and madness and his lust for power he did not see the enormous Telnidious, they made a ring around him, each a mile apart and a mile away from him, they chanted, the last eight of this ancient race cast a spell so powerful that it sent Memphasis and his armies screaming back to whence they came, the undead evapourated into smoke and the Dark king himself was thrown back into his sarcophagos which reformed. The devastations in lives and homes that Memphasis caused was great, it took thousands of years to rebuilt it all. The Telinidous were heralded, they built a secret temple containing the bodies of the 3 kings and Memphasis was bound once again only in the precious indestructible metal of Acrelite.
however evil never sleep and many hundreds of thousands of years later Memphasis, after the years of consuming the emotions of the outside world had somehow broken the Acrelite prison and is free once again and only heroes of this world now can stop him.
You are the chosen within the realms of Cellion, you take on the role of this hero as almost any race you can think of, your city is founded and you become a lord of a land, a wandering traveler, a merchant who will soon prove his worth or a great sage or perhaps even the most unlikely a pirate, cutpurse, thief or assasin and may become good and show the skills to become a ruler of this world, or perhaps rulership is not for you.
Some may walk the dark path, and help memphasis to his dark ends of scourging the planet and making it a plane or torment
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