[b]Welcome to Dymentia[/b] [img]https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/t1/1609853_266026150220093_23282452_n.jpg[/img] --- ''A long time ago, in an era we call 'The Time Of Twilight', the land of Dymentia was a barren wasteland. The People who lived there, had no means of survival. The goddess Aura and the god Macus felt sorry for the weak ones. So they shared the power of Irn with the People of Dymentia. The power of Irn allowed the People to transform the lands to their will and grow beyond their normal capabilities. It allowed them to change nature and climate and travel the lands in other ways. Thus Dymentia became a fertile and beautiful land. But it was short lived... The People began to settle their conflicts with the power of Irn, using the nature against their foes. Icy mountains, huge deserts, overgrowing swamps and charred lands covered the first so lush and green plains of Dymentia. Aura and Macus looked down upon their People, and saw what they did with the powers they were given. They felt no anger, only shame. The full power of Irn was too much to handle for one race. So they split the power of Irn into many. The People were confused and scared for their now diminished power. They retreated to lands that suited them best and stayed there to grow and live on. Many years passed, giving the weakened People the time to master their separated Irn. And with their self-confidence coming back, so too came back the fire in the heart of the People. The fires of war. This time, the wars were mainly focused on a tribe with an opposite power of Irn, because when the Goddess and God split the Irn into many, they, unintentionally, attached the Irn to the personalities. Fire would be fierce, water would be calm... But would also hate each other. Again the Goddess Aura and God Macus looked down to their land of Dymentia and found the People waging war once more. They still did not blame the People, for their reasons of anger was their fault. So they build magical walls and temples across the lands that separated the tribes of each other. Thus creating the borders of the present provinces. The God and Goddess were pleased with their work and turned back to sleep once more. Decades passed without People ever passing one of the walls. They gave up after so many attempts. Instead they focused on research and science. But not just normal science. No... The People began to uncover the secrets of the Irn. They tried for many years, and some of the People succeeded into creating their own strings of Irn. But these People were quickly cast out of their tribes or cities, for it were abominations to the Pure Irn. Yet, these new powers of Irn managed to bring down the magical barriers of the walls and temples, making them nothing but a bunch of stones. People quickly began to notice and started tearing down the walls. But the Desert People didn't want to anymore. They were done with the fighting and so they kept their wall up with their power of Irn. Even after thousands of years, the wall still stands to this day. But other tribes didn't share their ideas and continued to fight one another. The wars started small, so the God and Goddess didn't notice at first, but as the years passed, the wars started growing, and eventually caught the attention of the Holy Twins. They sighed and a hurricane swept across the land. They cried and a flood washed away the armies of the People. They pondered and thought of a final solution for days and days, while the remaining armies waited, for they knew something was about to happen. Aura and Macus finally understood that the People were unguided projectiles who, without guidance would always fall towards war. So they came up with an idea to guide these projectiles instead. They created two new strings of Irn, directly tapped out of their own hearts. Macus created the Darkness, while Aura created the Light. They granted these strings to two newborn childeren. These two would balance the powers of Dymentia for once and for all. It had to, because the Holy Twins did not have the powers to help the People anymore. When they tapped into their own hearts, they gave away a part of their life force. The Twins were dying. The years passed and the two babies grew up into fine young man without knowledge of their powers. But on their 20th birthday, the God and Goddess appeared before them, and explained who they were and what their purpose was. Aura, who appeared before Eliah, the boy with the powers of Light, explained that the boy had to make peace between all the different cites and tribes. But Macus... When he tapped into his heart and wove the string of Darkness, he corrupted himself and so the baby Yigris too. When Macus finally appeared before him, he explained that there was an evil in this world. And that this evil was being spread by his sister Aura, through the boy known as Eliah. The Holy Twins gave the two boys a holy sign that all the People would recognize. With their last breaths, they trained the boys in their new power and signed a contract with Time, also known as Aetas. Once one of the boys would die, another would be born with the special String of the Holy Twins. And then they passed away... The Holy Twins gave their lives for the land of Dymentia. But their deaths were in vain, for the corruption had already spread. While Eliah travelled the lands, from capital to capital, explaining the kings of all the Strings that the fighting had to be stopped, Yigris travelled from capital to capital to amass an army against Eliah. Though his actions did not go unnoticed by the young Eliah, and he started raising an army of his own, to stop the plans of Yigris. Eventually the two armies met on The Empty Plains. This was a war as never seen before, for the stakes were higher then just land or riches. This time, it was not just the Peoples instincts that led them. It was an idea, a leader. But in the end... a war stays a war, no matter the idea behind it. For weeks they battled, with no end in sight. And after two months of continuous battle, only two people remained on the battlefield. Yigris and Eliah. The two boys continued to battle, for even without their armies, they still had their ideas of a perfect world. A world without the other. Days became weeks, weeks became months and months became years. The two continued to battle fiercely, while the world around them watched. 70 years they battled and then... they finally rested their blades and powers. For they were tired and wanted to rest. They agreed to both retreat to a place to their liking and await their deaths, for they had failed the plan of the Holy Twins. And thus retreated Eliah back to the Eastern Province which he named Aurelia after the Goddess Aura who granted him his power. With the help of other Powers, he created a white city. A safe haven for all, which he named Utopis. This would be the Seat of Light and his gift to the world. Here, he also managed to create a jewel which would contain a sample of the very first string of Aura. Yigris, on the other hand, retreated to the Western borders and entered the Charred Lands. Corruption had spread in the years, and this was the place he felt comfortable with. With the help of his remaining allies, he surrounded himself with mountains and an enchanted wall. He created his own cities and citadels in these lands. His capital would bear the name 'Yigran' the Seat of Darkness, named after his father. Here, he created a glove with a sample of the very first string of Macus. And thus this cycle came to an end and the two died without knowing that the cycle would restart. Although they thought they had failed in bringing peace to the lands, the other kings had been struck by the devotion of the two. So much even, that they refused to wage war again. Of course, this was a promise their descendants could not keep. Luckily, they had a Light and Darkness to watch over them.'' [b]-'The Time Before Cycles' as written by Pyiantis Dartus (written in the 52th Cycle)[/b] [hider=Extra Lore] ''Many of the People have asked themselves: ‘’Who or what is Time?’’. Light and Darkness answered the question in their 24th cycle, for they struck a deal with him. Together, they went on a journey throughout Dymentia to reactivate the temples that were placed in ‘The Time of Twilight’ and thus establishing contact between the People and the Aspects. The reason for this deal was the following. For 23th constructive cycles Light and Darkness died and were reborn without any knowledge of their powers. They had to learn their powers from scratch, and the only information they had was found in books and scrolls left by their previous forms. Highly inconvenient and time consuming one would imagine. So Prebus the Light and Amalia the Darkness made a truce and tried to eliminate this problem. Coming in contact with Aetas was harder than expected. Getting the temples up was one thing, but they also needed to create a bridge between two, far apart, worlds which hadn’t touched for hundreds of years. Combining the powers of Light and Darkness managed to create a portal. It allowed the two to get to the plane of Aspects. Once Prebus and Amalia arrived, they were confronted by several different Aspects for they were accused of murder of Aura and Macus, but were quickly saved by Time itself. According to my ‘source’, Aetas did indeed look like one of the People, and so did many of the other Aspects. But I did get the explanation that they just looked like that for convenience sake. Prebus, Amalia stated their wishes to Aetas: To let the newborns be born 25 years earlier then they would die, so they had time to train the new Light and Dark themselves. Aetas accepted... for a price. The price is unknown to this day, for both Light and Dark had to promise not to speak of it. Time can wait. Who knows how many more years it would take before we pay the price. Or maybe the price was in the past. But that is none of our concern. So Prebus and Amalia managed to get the deal done with Aetas, and they were send back to the realm of the People. So because of a deal with Time, is it now so that 25 years before either Light and Darkness die, the new ones will be born. This caused some major problems the first time, because the strings of Irn had to be shared between two separate people, which caused weakness and nausea to all four wearers... But they adapted to it, and we live by these rules up to the present days.'' [b]- ‘Stories of Deities and their encounters with the People’ as written by Maquaja Yipish (written in the 29th Cycle)[/b] ‘’A new Cycle began as the Light and Dark faded away. Riha, Bearer of Light and Tirius, Bearer of Darkness passed away to make place for their predecessors Iquela and Glamia. It has been 28 Cycles since both Bearers were both female. Last time it ended in a truce where nothing happened an entire cycle. Unfortunately, this wasn’t what happened this time. Defilers of the Speed string managed to create a new string of Irn, which gave themselves the power over Time. They started misusing this power, and although they were with only five, they still managed to defeat the greatest armies. Light and Darkness first tried contacting Aetas to see if he could help, but the new strings had weakened him and he could be no help to our heroes. So instead having a Cycle of fighting or truces, the two teamed up against this threat to creation itself. While Iquela didn’t want to hurt her subjects, Glamia raised massive armies to defeat the five Defilers. This led to fiery arguments which even led to the attack on Utopis, the Seat of Light and it’s capture by the armies of Glamia. This was the first time in 99 Cycles that both Seats fell under one of the Strings. In the meantime, the Defilers continued to rampage the lands around them, disrupting time and life in their quake. Iquela, Bearer of Light now had no Seat, and was kicked from the city. Instead of trying to take back her Seat, she went after the Defilers, for they were the bigger threat to Dymentia for now. Without her Seat, Iquela’s powers were weakened, and when she finally found the five, she was beaten in a blink of the eye. Literally! Since her opponents could simply stop time at their will. Meanwhile in Utopis, the Seat of Light, Glamia ruled with an iron fist. She even tried to corrupt the Seat itself! Fortunately, the String of Aura was strong enough to repel the corruption. But not only that... An image of the died Goddess Aura appeared before Glamia and teleported her to the defeated Iquela. Glamia could not help to feel sorry for the Bearer of Light, and she helped her counterpart recover. The two were now out in the wild without really knowing where they were, so all they could do was continue with their very first plan: Destroy the Defilers and make Dymentia safe once more. A hunt of many weeks... or months... or years... followed. Nobody really knows, since during the encounters, there was a lot of messing with time. But with the combined forces of Light and Darkness, the two slowly managed to defeat the Defilers one by one. It hadn’t been an easy task, and it had drained much of the Irn inside of them. And by the time they finished their job, they were already gray and old. Their Cycle was coming to an end. Glamia returned the Seat of Light to Iquela and she returned to Yigrim, the Seat of Darkness. Just two weeks ago, the Bearers of Light and Darkness felt their Strings split. This meant their predecessors were born and that a new Cycle would soon begin.’’ [b] - ‘A report on the 99th Cycle’ written by Fillium Strinkel, in order of King Iknar, King of the String of Ice.[/b] [/hider] --- The 100th Cycle is approaching, and many people are scared. Will it mean the end of Time? Or... do the Aspects have something else in store for them? The fate of Dymentia will be in the hands of Light and Darkness, and their allies and companions. [hider=OOC talk] Now that the IC stuff is out of the way, let me (re-)introduce you to Dymentia. I did this Roleplay on the old Guild too, though unfortunately it died. But, a new Guild, a new chance, am I right? Anyway, the players (you guys) will have the power of a String, and be... 'free' to do what you want in Dymentia. Though on a unannounced moment, I can reveal to one of you guys that you might be the new Light or Dark. (or he/she must really not want it) And then the real fun starts, cause Light and Dark have responsibilities, and have the power to shape the fate of Dymentia! Sounds fun, doesn't it? PS: I had this idea even before Avatar existed! [/hider] [hider=List of Strings] - Water - Fire - Earth - Air - Electricity - Light (only one) - Darkness (only one) - Stone - Strength - Speed - Psychic - Ice - Arcane - Weapon Master - Metal - Life [/hider] PPS: Center doesn't seem to work. :hmm