The Age of The Twilight:
In this time, on account of the lack of learning once recorded in books, lands about the Intermundian Seas were gradually plunged back into the difficult conditions of a dark era. Sorcerers, geniuses of forbidden magic, were greatly feared and reverenced by everyone.
It was difficult for men using their own natural reasoning to discern the realities of things, especially without the wisdom traditions which had been recorded by the Ammouric priests and sagasayers, and the philosophers and mages of Nystol.
Certain ambitious and lying men, heresiarchs, took control of what once had been glorious Ammouric temples and churches. They destroyed the Ammouric art and introduced novel explanations of history. They taught false doctrines about the nature and purpose of man, authority, and what is good. These kinds of men were expert at making good seem evil and evil seem as good.
The greatest heresiarch, the Red Ascetic, contrived doctrines which took hold of the people of the Regulian Empire. He himself was venerated as a god. He persecuted "the old ammouric superstitions" and promoted a humanistic spiritualist philosophy instead, claiming that the Allfather was a lie meant to keep folk in place, and that all men could be as gods.
Now the Ammouri must go about secretly and quest for the lost tablets of the Law, which they believe will restore the truth to mankind. The imperial reward for the head of an Ammouric Knight is conferral of aristocratic title and 10,000 gold pieces.
Word has also come that a scroll exists which had come from across the Vastess Sea and which contains the words and promises of the Allfather himself. This "Scroll of Illumination" had been captured by a petty thief and sold in the underworld to the highest bidders. They have employed the greatest gladitorial champion of the underdyrth, the minotuar Minogog, to guard the scroll in the remote underground labyrinth beneath the ruins of Nystol.
As the old Regulian empire became corrupt and horded wealth, men began seeking new sources of wealth. When a mountain dwarf was captured by cattle men upon the plains of Kithom, he was forced to reveal that he had found a vast vein of gold in the northern Antelynk mountains, a secret he had kept to himself for centuries.
The rumour circulated around all the middle and western lands. Men began to search through the mountains of Kithom and even settled in hastily built frontier towns, and the old Regulian and Ammouric laws which had forged the civil lands was habitually ignored.
The Edolunt Riders were harassed in every town, to such an extent that they ceased to patrol those drylands: Kithom, the Antelynk Range, the Canyon, and the Deadly Hills .
Then it was heard that gold had been found in the south as well, in the river that snakes through Hermius' Canyon and in the Deadly Hills. The whole region became a place for drifters, outlaws, drunkards, prospectors, or anyone tough and reckless. The holy city of Vesulum closed itself to the outer world save for clerics or paladins.
The prophesies: The prophesies of the Black Book of Melancholia, known as the metaprophesies, speak of an age called the Time of the Harvester. It is said that in this time most men will become doers of evil, mockers, worshippers of themselves. They will drink of the Dark Chalice, the cup of Abomination, and create a huge evil army to conquer and enslave all people under one ruler.
The Nol Ghost will somehow be released from his bonds and his spirit will enter into and possess a certain man who will be proclaimed lord of all the earth. He will make war against divine truth, riding upon the released dragon Vorthragna, he will even assail the holy men and Vorthragna will strike at them down with her tail.
The other noble races will not be able to raise up a warrior to compare in might to this horrid pair. He shall even be so bold as to sit upon Mt. Arguzinial and pronounce infernal decress.
So great will wax the power of evil and sin that God will plunge the earth into three days of purifying darkness. The great elves will return to the Illystrian Continent to make war upon the plain of Gedeharm alongside men and dwarves against the Hell army.
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