Athyria went through a rapid evolution, driven by its inhabitants’ everlasting quest for meaning. In their perpetual desire of aligning themselves with the Intano Rhiannon whilst searching for the meaning of their own lives, there were short, even abbreviated ages in which whole cultures developed, came into conflict with each other, forged alliances and discarded them. Tribes reached a state of interconnectedness or perished in short and sometimes naive conflicts. During all this, the Eternals looked upon their creation in bewilderment and could not offer any guidance, as they themselves were merely a mirror of the young creatures inhabiting Athyria.
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The world that has been shaped by the young Eternals is full of potential. Since time immemorial the tribes of Athyria have been using these powers and searched and found deeper understanding in manifold ways: Some looked up to the stars and tried to understand their meaning. Others trust solely in the First-Created and her Children, and the next turn to their own reason and irrepressible curiosity. The most brilliant minds of their time gathered in a citadel of magic and spurred themselves to the most audacious theories and accomplishments. But is the reign of the Mageocracy of the Consummate Proportions a curse or a blessing for Athyria? Might there be a thought that should not be thought? Are there pathways you should not choose although they seem so obvious? What will you do once Athyria reveals its opportunities to you?
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The Intaro is a figure of myths, sagas and legends. Some scholars say that she has always been a part of Athyria, a gift from its creators to the children of the Eternals.
Others say that the First-created is an echo of the melancholy that was felt when the creators of Athyria surrendered the world to their children and turned away to face their inevitable death.
Then as now, Rhiannon embodies the noblest virtues that mortals might attain: heroes laid their swords at her feet and poets created works in her name. She was the pinnacle of numerous quests and the source of all honor and wisdom and remains as such in the minds of the tribes of Athyria even after her death.
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With the death of the Intaro Rhiannon and the growing conflicts about justice and injustice, the limits of existence and their violation, the unthinkable happened: Whole regions of Athyria were depopulated by mysterious catastrophes of unknown origins. While houses and palaces, fields and libraries remained untouched, the population died a cruel and silent death without any premonition.
And so today whole realms are vacant where one can find ghost towns and castles.
They stand as an eternal memorial and are a constant reminder that the worst of all fates will follow where the fight around the meaning of existence can not be resolved.
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But there is a glimmer of hope within all the escalating conflicts in this world. For with her last breath the Intaro Rhiannon intoned a song that ever since resonates within the soul of every mortal being of Athyria. Responding to the call of the song a congregation of believers founded itself, penning down the verses of the elusive prophecy of the First-Created and following the lost pieces throughout Athyria to piece together what the continent’s future might hold.
A song that reverberates within the rocks of the earth and the heavens filled with stars. A song singing of the salvation from the eternal quarrel, for…
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…the Song of Songs speaks of wayfarers and travellers, of mortals who will journey far over the sea and bring knowledge and experiences into the young world. Those it sings about are supposed to carry change to Athyria and transform the land and its inhabitants, maybe even the Eternals themselves, forever. It proclaims that those sung about as the heroes of remote shores might bring salvation from the everlasting cycle of doubt and faith, which on its climax always brought the worst of all nightmares to life. Or has the cycle already begun?
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And so it was that those stars, which had grown old in years and spirit, body and soul, perishing in the struggle against the infinity of an all-dissolving power, came together for the last time, when all their works had faded and asked for offsprings from the realm of legends and thoughts, who should succeed them one day. But those should prosper without knowing the toil of war and growth, …
And the children entered in awe into a world as young and innocent as themselves. They walked upon the miracle that their parents had handed to them as a gift in a final act of love and the will to create, and filled with this beauty, they laughed and cried at the same time. And from this bell-bright sound and the tears that wetted the earth, SHE was born. When …
When Intaro Rhiannon slowly succumbed to her wounds in the arms of her youngest son, she raised her voice for the last time and there was weeping and gnashing of teeth in the withered souls of all those who did not follow the First-Created of Athyria with an upright heart and mind. Powerful and full of hope she sang of a new time that was to come, and the peoples …
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