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Title: Book of ze history
Post by: K2 on June 22, 2012, 05:07:26 PM: Shattered Planes, Plot Index

1. The Perfect (http://shatteredplanes.com/forum/index.php?topic=6063.msg53618#msg53618)
2. Harbinger (http://shatteredplanes.com/forum/index.php?topic=6063.msg53619#msg53619)
3. Keepers of Erebus (http://shatteredplanes.com/forum/index.php?topic=6063.msg53620#msg53620)
Title: Re: Book of ze history
Post by: K2 on June 22, 2012, 05:59:41 PM: The Perfect

Life. Some say life is nothing more than a recycled energy, doomed to continuously roam existence. Some say that our life, our energy, has existed before, and will exist again in some way or another. They call this recycling of life... Reincarnation.

It's unknown how long this reincarnation has occurred, but what IS known is that once, long ago, there did exist a race that, in many ways, were just like humans. They looked human, acted like humans, and lived like humans. However; they were certainly NOT human. They were, as they called themselves... "Perfect".

Our story begins with one such Perfect named Dakome, and at the start of our story, he is but a teenager, a boy for all intensive purposes, who, like most boys, has a dream. You see, the Perfect, Dakome had long ago realized, were a bit over-confident. You'd be too if you had the abilities a Perfect had. The Perfect could, after all, control existence -- manipulate forces like time, space, creation, destruction, fate, anarchy. However; the Perfect had a fatal flaw...

They thought they were gods.

The Perfect, at the start of our story, lived in a place they called North. The North was one of four realms (perhaps you can guess the names of the other three realms). These four realms were vast and unbelievable. They were separated only by the whiteness of empty space, the void where nothing had been created.

Most of the Perfect seemed to prefer North, and travel to the other three realms had long ago ceased. North was a nice place, of white skies, sunshine, and tall cities made of elaborate minerals and metals. It was... Roomy. A sort of home.

However; lately, many of the younger Perfect, such as Dakome, had started to dream of a new place. They longed to see the East or the West. They longed to travel and experience what their fathers and grandfathers had experienced. This had, of course, created some bit of an upset among the way of the Perfect.

But young Perfect like Dakome stood their ground. And, in time, the older Perfect too grew tired of the North, and once more longed for the green hills of the East, and the rivers and mountains of the West. They longed to once more to see the lands they had abandoned... But not the South.

No, for the South, you see, was a dark place, one which the Perfect chose not to visit. Though none of the currently alive Perfect remembered it, legend had it that it was an infinite beach of black sand and plasma waves. Rumor had it that the very stench of death itself existed in this place, the South. It was said that long ago, the Perfect had found a set of scrolls there, older than the Perfect themselves, left behind from some fragment of another reality.

It was said that they took these scrolls, and created a creature -- a phoenix -- to guard them. The Perfect knew that these scrolls were powerful -- too powerful for them. And so, the Phoenix was created to guard these scrolls, which were dubbed the "Arami Scrolls". And so, South was given the name Erebus, and forevermore abandoned by the Perfect.

And so, the Perfect settled on the East as their new home... And all was well... But in time, the Perfect grew bored with their lives once more. It was then that they decided to try to play the part of gods. They tried to create life. They tried to create other living beings, in their own image...

But they failed.

The beings they created were not Perfect. Sure, they looked like the Perfect, but they were not Perfect at all. They could not manipulate existence like their "fathers". They were harsh reminders to the Perfect that they were, in fact, not gods... Though, through the gift of the Perfect, they did receive one power...

Destruction.

But... It cost the Perfect their own ability to destroy.

For the most part, the Imperfect were left alone, and they migrated to the West. The Perfect continued to enjoy life in the East. Dakome and the youth who had once been the new generation grew older day by day. Years went by, and it was thought that life had once more returned to it's old, boring self...

Until the Imperfect launched a war against the Perfect.

There was a great deal of deliberation after the first Imperfect attack. Should the Perfect retaliate? Most of the Perfect thought they'd easily be able to destroy the Imperfect, but it had been long since the Perfect had been at war -- if they had ever. While most of the Perfect agreed with war, some did not.

Some such as, for example, Neirron and Leira, two Perfect who had long been opposed to the Imperfect. They hadn't joined in giving up their ability to destroy, and were for all intensive purposes, rebels. Now, faced with the Perfect's decision to go to war against the Imperfect, they would have no part in it... And so, they destroyed their former bodies, and made new ones for themselves, escaping the war.

Dakome was not so lucky. He was soon off to war, sent to fight in the harsh mountain regions of the West. There, he engaged in warfare against the Imperfect... For days, he fought, watching his brothers die... And then, one day, as he was on his way back to camp from a nearby river where he'd been gathering water, he fell to the ground... And blacked out, suffering of hypothermia.

When he awoke, he was in a wooden cabin, warm thanks to a fire. He awoke in a nice, warm bed, and much to his surprise, soon saw a beautiful girl standing near him, offering him a glass of water. He found himself stunned.. Then, he remembered where he was.

But he accepted the help of the Imperfect family. He learned from them that most of the Imperfect were opposed to the war. The Imperfect's government was a harsh, ruling dictator state, and it's military were the slaves of the government. He also learned that his entire platoon had been wiped out, and that the Imperfect were searching for him.

Eventually, they almost found him. A week had passed, and he'd grown to know the family he was staying with more -- especially the teenage daughter of the family, Elena, the beautiful girl he'd met hovering over his bed with the glass of water. He found himself slowly falling for her... That's when the Imperfect soldiers came harshly knocking at the door of the Imperfect family.
As Elena's father answered the door to the soldiers, Elena silently led Dakome through a tunnel hidden in a closet in the house, which led them safely outside, away from the soldiers. Together, they made it to a safe distance away... Where they proceeded to watch as Elena's house got burned down. If there were any survivors, they had been taken by the Imperfect as prisoners.

Devastated, and with her family gone, Elena went with Dakome, and together, they escaped the West, and left, back to the East, to report the state of things there. Dakome was honorably discharged, and as the war went on, he and Elena were able to live (not without the judgement of many of Dakome's former friends and family) together happily in a house in the East, eventually getting married...

A few years passed, and it was clear that the war would quickly lead to both sides being wiped out. It was then decided by the Perfect that, if they were going to be destroyed, they'd leave behind them a legacy. In the last days of the war, they decided to give up their powers... All of their powers but one -- Creation -- so that their mistakes might never again be repeated.

Out of their abilities, they shaped new forms to embody those very abilities. To the very force of time, they gave their lives. To the force of anarchy, they gave their lives. They created embodiments, living beings who WERE the forces of existence. The force of time was now alive. The force of fate was now alive. This was the legacy of the Perfect.

These many embodiments, after their creation, left to travel to the North, where they would watch the end of the war play out. Among these embodiments were Neirron and Lierra -- the two rebel Perfect, preferring to disguise themselves as embodiments rather than live out the rest of their days alone. They were not created in the same way as the Imperfect, in the idea that the Perfect were "gods". They were created with love, and the sacrifice of life from the Perfect.

In the hours before the final battle between the Perfect and Imperfect, Dakome and Elena gave birth to a son, perhaps the only born son that was from a Perfect and Imperfect parent. This son was neither Perfect, nor Imperfect... He was... Complete. He had with him the ability both to create... And to destroy.

Fearing that their newborn would be wiped out in the war, Dakome decided that he would place his son in the one place nobody would touch him...

South.

Leaving his baby on the black sands, and truly hoping for his life that the embodiments would rescue him, Dakome returned to East moments before the Imperfect arrived. He spent his last few moments with her. In the last battle, the Imperfect and Perfect destroyed themselves, as well as both East and South.

The only one that was left... Was the son of Dakome and Elena, who was rescued by the embodiments, and in time, as the controller of both Creation and Destruction, who became the leader of the embodiments. Their son... The Complete. Chief of the embodiments.
Title: Re: Book of ze history
Post by: K2 on June 22, 2012, 07:56:12 PM: Harbinger

Life as an embodiment was not especially exciting. Like the Perfect, the embodiments grew to be quite prideful of themselves. It wasn't long before they started to try and play the part of gods. They started simply enough, by creating a race without free will... A race of servants. However; that soon proved to be not enough.

They set out to create an elaborate structure between the realms of North and South. This structure, they called the Dimensional Plane. It was meant to be a sort of holding pin, a container, for a number of worlds they intended to create and fill with life. They would call these worlds dimensions. This was their grand project.

The dimensional plane itself was divided in two. The dimensions on one side would be dimensions in which the force of creation was supreme. In this way, the dimensions on this side, the "positive" side, would embody the Perfect in many ways. On the other hand, the "negitive" dimensions, where destruction was supreme, would be more like the Imperfect. Worlds of harshness and darkness.

At the center of these two sides, they created a sort of sun for the dimensions to rotate. On the positive side, they created a structure which would, in time, be named Outerverse. On the negative side, they created a structure they called Plex. These two structures, or "Cores" as they called them, were designed to sustain the dimensions, to keep them alive... And in that way, they were the true weaknesses of the dimensions, as if they were destroyed, so too would the dimensions.

They began to fill these dimensions with a great number of living beings, but Complete, unable to handle his job as both creator and destroyer, was deeply saddened. He could not bear to destroy what he created. It was with this in mind that he ripped his very spirit in two, separating himself into two beings -- Creation and Destruction. Creation took the name Eli, in likeness of his mother, and Destruction took the name Koty, in likeness of his father.

And from that day on the two ruled over the embodiments as brothers, side-by-side.

But all was not well. The embodiments soon realized that the living beings they created did not have free will -- were not truly alive. Eli and Koty were convinced that to give them this free will, there had to be a darkness and a light. There had to be a choice to be made. There had to be good -- the embodiments... And evil.

And so, the first war of the embodiments began, a war planned out by Eli and Koty. A war that Koty was destined to loose from the start. Many embodiments chose to follow him, and attack Eli and his followers. The North was plagued by war -- one of such bloodshed that it rocked the entire realm.

And in the end, Koty and his followers lost, being stripped of their nobility and exiled from the North. They would proceed to inhabit the South... The new home of Koty and those who chose to follow him. And from that day on, the plan was simple. Eli would pose as a god to the living beings of the dimensions, and Koty was to play the part of the devil.

...But things did not go as they had planned.
Title: Re: Book of ze history
Post by: K2 on June 22, 2012, 08:21:26 PM: The Keepers of Erebus

Koty and Eli had been planning their ploy as "divine beings" since before the Harbinger, but they'd planned for Koty to play the part of a devil. They'd created an afterlife -- for the ones who deserved it, life in Eli's realm of the North. For the ones who did not, damnation in the pits of "hell". This hell was actually a dimension on the negative side, which, at the center, the embodiments had built a sort of city for their own kind to reside in -- with the exceptions of Eli in the North and Koty in the South. The wicked would forever live just outside the embodiment city, forced to watch the embodiments enjoy themselves, but never able to join.

Koty would be charged with the duty of maintaining this hell, leaving his place in South every once and awhile to keep things in line. The main presider over hell would be Koty's trusted follower, Radical, who would report directly to Koty. To keep Radical in line, Eli and Koty had taken Radical's body and mutated it, making him grow many tails and making his skin die. In this way, he was bound to Koty as general of Destruction.

After the Harbinger, Koty was weak, and could not leave South for some time while he regained strength. As such, he would send Radical out to do his bidding. He once sent Radical to one of the dimensions where war had broken out. Radical was meant to go there and end the war on behalf of Koty -- and should the war not end peacefully, he was to destroy the armies.

This dimension that Radical was sent to was a vast one belonging to a race known as "Sages". The Sages appeared to be much like the Perfect and Imperfect had been. However; while the Sages chose to adapt the appearance of the Perfect, they were truly various "mythological" beasts -- dragons, phoenixes, unicorns... The sages fought proudly, using magic to do their bidding.

The war that had broken out was between a race of Dragon Sages and Phoenix Sages (the Phoenix Sages being descendants of the Phoenix created by the Perfect to guard the Arami Scrolls). The dragons had at their disposal a powerful kind of magic named Genesis, and the Phoenix, enemies of the dragons, were bent on destroying it and the dragons. Radical met one of these dragons, a general of an army, at was instantly captivated by the war, amazed at how far the sages had advanced in the years since their creation.

Unable to fulfill his original mission of destroying the two armies, he stayed among the sages for years, watching them fight. Enraged by his betrayal, Koty finally came to retrieve Radical. It is said that the ground trembled as Koty appeared on the battlefield of the dragons and the phoenix, anger in his every footstep as plasma rained from the skies.

Radical stood up to Koty, ready to fight him, even if it meant death. Alongside him stood three other warriors, each powerful and respected. Together, the four used an ancient magic to bind Koty to chains. Together, the four sealed him in Erebus, deep in a slumber. The magic they used? It was known as Revelation.

Following the sealing of Koty, Radical led those who had followed Koty, and left Erebus, moving permanently to Hell. And from that day on, Koty was no longer revered as the devil in the game that he and Eli were playing... Radical became known as this devil.
Title: Re: Book of ze history
Post by: K2 on June 22, 2012, 09:26:56 PM: The Guardians
Among the sages, there were many who chose to combine their studies in magic with studies in a field of deeper understanding. Science. Theories that suggested that there were other worlds out there began to evolve, and slowly, some sages began to understand more about "dimensions". The most successful group of scientists would eventually call themselves "Guardians", holding a belief that it was their duty to reach a deeper understanding regarding dimensions, and to use their knowledge to protect others.

In time, the Guardians truly began to understand dimensions, and worked towards the goal of discovering if they were the only dimension. It would take them years, but eventually, they would succeed... One of the guardians successfully teleported himself out of the dimension... And where did he land?

Earth.

The dimension which Earth was in was quite vast, composing of "planets" and "stars" and space. It contained many races, none of which were capable of using magic. Humans were vast in the dimension, though they were not the only races there. The races there, while lacking in magic, were scientifically advanced -- though Earth was still primitive at the time. Some races were well into space, having developed large spaceships to travel the stars.

Upon reporting back to the Guardians, it was decided that the Guardians existed not only to protect Sages... But to protect all life. A new branch of the Guardians would be created in the dimension of "mortal" beings as the sages called them. The "Mortal Dimension" would be home of the newest branch of the Guardians, a branch called "Aralangs".

To preside over the two branches, a new headquarters would need to be built... And the guardians had grand ambitions. It took them several decades, but in time... They learned how to create a new dimension. A headquarters dimension. A dimension to archive their scientific advancements and studies, and to protect the dimensional plane.

The Guardians witnessed the raw power of Koty, the embodiment of Destruction, when he interrupted the battle between the Dragons and the Phoenix. Terrified of his raw power, the Guardians now set out to find a way to harness his power... And, if necessary, destroy him. They would begin building a super weapon. Their idea? Change history.

How to do that, though, was questionable. They needed a power source. They knew that dimensions themselves had some sort of power source, though they did not know what that power source was. If they could tap into that power, perhaps they could truly create a super weapon capable of killing Koty. They now set out to uncover the mystery that was the Dimensional Cores.

Access to this project, of course, was strict. Only the top of the top were involved. They would not share their findings with their fellow Guardians. Eventually, though, they did uncover the truth about the Dimensional Cores. They discovered that the cores, which sustained life in the dimensions, were created from a mix of both Creation and Destruction, and they continuously created energy and pumped it into the dimensions, while filtering old, used energy, taking it FROM the dimensions. The cores were, for all intensive purposes, infinite power sources.

Harnessing their power, though, proved impossible. If they could pump energy from the cores into the dimension, and into this weapon, the cores would simply take energy back out to create a balance. Basically, tampering with dimensions wasn't smart. They failed their attempts time and time again.

In the end, they got their super weapon. How? They...