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"when i can savagely beat sheep while issuing ultimatums and torturing people, then i may go back into it" -vara nocturne
Not enough Evil...
I take it back NC SOFT is enough evil for anyone...
Long ago was an age of great power in the world. Gods walked amongst man, and in the last Age of Power were worshiped for they're strength and power. Risen by this worship from the forms they were born into, often enough mortal men we would today call Super Heroes, to immortality they ruled for centuries at a time in they're regions, leaving legends we see even today.
Such was they're power becoming however that the potential for any single God to unbalance the world becoming a major reality. The All Father Odin, Zeus, Quetzalcoatl, and many other leaders of they're Pantheons meet for the first time in Centuries in a holy place called Avalon. Great changes had come to the world, and greater ones would need to be made if Humanity would survive.
On the Isle of Avalon the decision was made, Mankind was too violent to be given the gifts of magic and the powers they had so often abused in the past. The loses to this new religion were massive, and followers were being destroyed merely for they're beliefs, not for belittling those of another. It was Odin who helped the Priestesses of Avalon craft the Great Spell to remove the Isle through the mists, and with it all vestiges of magic in the world. The Gods went with them, the creatures of the ancients went with them, and Avalon thrived just on the other side of the veil.
This came with a price, the balance was tenuous, and the power of the Gods would upset the spell and bring Avalon, and all of it's mirror reality crashing back to Earth. Thus they made a Compact, no God, nor creature in they're employ would step foot on the mortal world again, least they shatter into Shards of themselves. The exception being mortals, empowered by they're essence, called Incarnates. These Incarnates were unpredictable, and while useful, left the world of man in the hands of Man.
Those affected by the Compact are Gods, Angels, and creatures of magical essence, all these creatures whether they realize it or not split when they reach the mortal plane, they're power affecting how many times they split. Hence why you might see fifty people claiming to be Zeus on the mortal plane in this day and age. Each one may be correct in his claim. He might be a shard of Zeus, each with it's on variation on his power, and his own methods, and motivations.
Now we have come to a new Age of Power, and many chaff at the restrictions of the God Compact. Some leave Avalon for the power of worship again, others were summoned, and still others simply break the rules to break them. All shatter when they come here, they're power irrevocably limited. The disturbing thing is that as more and more beings shatter, the veil grows thinner and thinner, leaking more and more magic and power into the world. If it grows to thin it could snap, dropping the powers of the last Age of Power directly into the lap of mankind's current Age of Power.
This is further complicated by the Praetorian Invasion. The Emperor Cole's interaction with his version of the Well of Furies, and it's interactions with the powers of our world have caused imbalances which have lead to major leaks in the Veil int he last few months. Some Incarnates and Shattered entities seek to end the invasions simply to keep more damage from being done tot he Veil of Worlds. The Veil grows thin, time is being manipulated by someone ((the Menders perhaps)), and all those with Foresight have awoken to dreams of a great doom coming to the City. What lies on the horizon in this Age of Heroes?
Known shattered entities are: ((These are all core sources for friends characters))
Judeo/Christian
The Archangel Micheal
The Fallen Angel Lucifer
Lilith
Norse:
Loki
Thor
Fenrir Wolf
Greek:
Hercules
Aries
Hades
Eros
Other:
((This is an in character reason for the VAST number of certain mythological and magical creatures and characters. Each is a "Shard" of the original. Anyone who wants to can come add to the fun by adding the story of they're Shard, list the God/Creature/Id you shattered from and the motivations you might have that differ from the others of your original. We can also list Incarnates (who they're incarnating from if not from the Well, Statesman from Zeus in the old Canon for example), to bring the thing full circle.
I encourage everyone based on mythology, mythic/magical creatures, do they know of the veil's thinning, do they seek to stop it, or speed it's thinning?))
"when i can savagely beat sheep while issuing ultimatums and torturing people, then i may go back into it" -vara nocturne
Not enough Evil...
I take it back NC SOFT is enough evil for anyone...