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An Ancient Black Book was recovered in the year 1393 on the southern coast of Asulon. This is the recovered knowledge of the Ancient Hansetian Kings, fragments of the Omnichronicle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHJJDwlWcTI Preface Important concept: Hansetian is a word for two different people in the historical record: 1. There were the Ancient Hansetians of Asulon that existed as one of the first civilizations in Prehistory and lasted for centuries until the Great Wipe that occurred at the start of the 11th Century. 2. Then there are the Hansetians of Aegis that existed from the 14th century onwards to the modern day. Both are referred to as Hansetians after The Teutonic Order who followed Ancient Hansetian ways levied the Kingdom of Hanseti. Naming it in honour of the Ancient Hansetian people Hochmeister Marius was connected to. Important translations: Sariant = Knight Hochmeister = Grand Master Ordenmarchall = Commander Landmeister = Lord TL;DR Recovered scripture of 10th Century Ancient Hansetians is translated into common. It discusses viewpoints on the nature of our Origin It outlines ideas about the Aemon, the immortal beings Aengul and Daemon It hints at how to use the Blessing of Humanity We're left with questions and require additional pages to be translated. The Ancient Hansetians appear to have some very out-there ideas about the nature of the Universe. Whether it's the accurate story of Life is up to the reader, but it does stay within creation Lore such as Availers. This lore makes possible: Further expansion into the lore of Ancient Hanseti. Their beliefs are highlighted. Their culture is briefly mentioned An In-character perspective of the current Lore that binds LotC. Something Users can only use if I permit the knowledge to be published IC. The setup for additional lore-pieces. This lore however relies on Humanity's Blessing to be possible and aligns to the same aims and purposes outlined in that thread. If both are implemented, this lore-piece doesn't make what's written in it the actual Creation Lore. It merely canonizes that the Omnichronicle exists in the LotC Universe for IC use. 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We found an Ancient Hansetian ruin. Dated to have last been in use about around the 10th Century just before The Great Collapse. An event that stripped mortals of advanced knowledge and understanding of the universe. Apocalyptic outcomes a result of the events loosely described by Availer’s interpretation of the negative externalities that he called ‘curses’ put upon the Four Brothers. Afflictions against the mortal population that we only started recovering from at the start of the 14th Century. As such there’s no real record of the days before the 14th Century when the lever was flicked on once more and Users regained control of the universe. World-wide, most of the writings on advanced topics of science, organisation, philosophy and knowledge withered away by time or locked away waiting to be discovered by would-be delvers. Due to architectural practices and the materials Ancient Hansetians used in constructing their surroundings; many sites were discovered relatively intact and contained many artifacts that looked as if everyone left everything behind and vanished one day. A large wealth of knowledge was collected from the salvaged artifacts left behind and taken to Hochmeister DeNurem’s Mountain Keep during the late-14th century in 1396. In the aftermath of the King of Hanseti’s disappearance at the hands of Users and the defeat of Teutonic forces at the battle of Dreadfort, the First Teutonic Order collapsed in the early 15th century. In the aftermath and long before Jonathan Black burned down the halls of Hanseti thereafter. Significant relics were removed and taken to a private DeNurem collection in the undercity of Abresi where they remained until the Holy Oren Exodus. At the collapse of the Empire, they were moved onto a boat owned by the Prince of Hanseti. It didn’t dock back to mainland Anthos until the later half of the 15th century when Hanseti masterminded the end of the Princedom of Malinor giving rise to the Teutonic puppet, Malin’s Conclave. Finally being returned from Conclavian vaults to Teutonic vaults at the founding of the Second Order by Hochmeister DeNurem in the Fringe. Here they remained until Hochmeister DeNurem retired his throne, gave the artifacts to Sariant D. DeNurem and scattered the rest of the treasures of Hanseti among its people in the late 15th century. Because the pieces have been continually moved, they no-doubt ended up lost or stolen over the years. Yet, a careful eye over the books and significant tools has always remained. DeNurem spent hours translating blueprints, records, invoices, scientific journals, stories and religious texts over the decades. In these texts were advanced ideas that DeNurem kept hidden from the public to avoid any folly. Of the original items recovered in Asulon, a large majority of it still remains in the protective hands of DeNurem. It could be summarized that because of the lacking presence of the Teutonic Giants, the people of Hanseti turned to the familiarity of the hansetian-like Aesterwald. Altering the trajectory of the Hanseti forever which resulted in losing ties to the ways of the wise and advanced Ancient Hansetians until now. This Recovered Text Our only copy of this document is understood to be only a fraction of the total information that the Omnichronicle has to offer. What we have thus far is made up by different sections of a black spellbook that we recovered three copies of during excavations in the Asulon, y. 1396. Obviously a highly regarded text to be printed in this amount. We have the introduction to the book, but time has weathered off the rest of the scripture. “When you dig, you learn the nature of our universe. Such is the Hansetian way.” I proudly present, Fragments of the Omnichronicle. This is what's been translated so far: Views on Creation “Everything gets voided eventually.” 32nd Hochmeister T. Rex The Wandering Wizard wrote the most accepted account on Origin in his Chronicle of Creation in the world of Aegis. Having written it 84 years after The Great Collapse, he accounts for key ancient historical points of reference, but in his mortal manifestation left out wide details about Creation in his simplified version of events to save paper which was hard to come by when he wrote down the account. His story left a lot of questions. Questions which the Ancient Hansetians have had answered. In these recovered texts it appears as if scribes were writing down the words that the 32nd Hochmeister, Tulius Rex was saying as his soul explored the Seven Skies. As such, they tell a slightly different story that decades to translate from the ancient Marian dialect. Re-telling Availer's Account with more details. Presenting now is a small chapter of the Omnichronicle. + Origin Point - Sky Realm Sky Realm Sky Realm Sky Realm Sky Realm Sky Realms Sky Realms Mortal Realm Nether Realm The Veil Void The Ancient Hansetian conceptualization of the Seven Skies. The most powerful place is the Origin point, this is where the Merciful Creator was sparked life into a muted place known as the Void. On one side of Origin is + Force. At the other is - Force. These two forces are in a constant struggle for dominance. The Origin tells the Universe what is and isn’t. Sky Realm The first Sky Realm is home to the most powerful Aemon, an the first Aengul named Celestia. They know what Is and Isn’t and enforce those Laws. Sky Realm The Second Sky Realm is home to mostly Aenguls. Sky Realm The Third Sky Realm is home to mostly Aenguls. Sky Realm The Fourth Sky Realm holds a 50/50 mix of Aemon Sky Realm The Firth Sky Realm is home to mostly Daemons. Sky Realms The Sixth Sky Realm is made up of multiple Daemon Realms Notabaly Apohet’s Spiritual Realm Sky Realms The Seventh Sky Realm is made up of even more lesser Daemon Realms. Mortal Realm The Mortal Realm was the last intended creation. Home of the physically Bound Souls. Notable Mortals include Malin, Krug, Horen and Urguan. Multiple worlds exist within the Mortal Realm such as Aegis and Asulon. Nether Realm Created most recently, this is the manifested Realm of Iblees which attaches itself to the Mortal Realm. It is home of Evil and Ruin. The Veil The third creation of the Merciful Creator. Made to protect the Creation from the Void. It is home to the second most powerful Aemon, a nameless Daemon that acts as gatekeeper to the Void. The Void A shapeless expanse that seeks to return creation to the nothingness it once was. The Users The Ancient Hanseti of the 10th Century followed a religious understanding of the world that had been developed and traditionally told of very early in their history since their days as a tribal society as early as the 2nd Century. A small excerpt from The Famous 32nd ruling Hochmeister of the 8th Century had this to say about their views on the Universe: To each life is a director of that life. An omnipotent being that brings structure to our Universe. These are the Users, the community of beings we refer to exist in a dimension unfathomable to our Universe. Beings that explain the chaos and order of the creation around us as they have complete control over our lives and anything creatively possible that can and will happen in our world. With each and every person having their own User, their own director of their life. They were the ones who decided the landscapes, intelligence, progression and eventual end to all things of this world. We therefore view the world as a work of their fate, our destinies decided by The Users. An all-powerful User created the Universe and everything we see in it, such a User is known as The Merciful Creator, the one who flicked the lever. Users have most likely organised themselves into social hierarchies that adhere to their own leadership and laws, thus creating the structure of our universe. This has been ascertained because if the Users control us, anything we do, they must also do in some manner. The Users enter into our universe unseen and can change and control anything about it within the bounds of their own government. Yet, they too are not too powerful to stave away the influence of Desire. A User is just as susceptible to desire as we are, as we are them and they are us. They can become corrupted and corrupt those around them into doing some very heinous things like the eradication of Hanseti that drove us to discover the Motherland. When someone among us dies, it’s believed the Users give their life essence a proper mourning and in some cases re-manifest that life essence into a new mortal vessel. We take comfort in the fact that everything around us is decided on a scale of unimaginable size with its own set of governing to regulate it. We do not directly worship Users, instead choosing to praise the values of the characters they controlled by immortalizing their virtues in our Hall of Glory. Such an example being Celestia, the bringer of Light and vanquisher of Evil, the great radiant sun in our heavens. The Universe's Struggle What once was dark took to enlightenment. None know the true name of the User that caused the spark, but we refer to it as the Merciful Creator. I stand here and from where I stand, I can see the it all before me. I’ll try and interpret what I see for the scribe to write down: We come now to a shapeless and muted negative expanse that stretches without end. Every so often a positive spark begins to form in this purgatory, but each one is snuffed out by the overwhelming power of the negative expanse. These sparks are the Weaker Users attempting to jumpstart life, but look over there! In an instant a positive force explodes; It’s the Creator! The deafening roar of a thunderbolt erupts into the expanse. The Universe is created. The only positive among a negative background. Needing to make a distinction between the two Forces, I call the Negative Force the Void. Users in a dimension still incomprehensible makes is so that I cannot actually see the Merciful Creator whom is visible only through actions. Bringing the Universe to life with the creation of the Sky to solidify its deviance from the shapelessness that once was. The Void wishing nothing more than to turn our Creator into fizzled nothingness like it had done to so many others before it. It is in this exact instance of enlightenment that the Creator is birthed the first truth is made: For every action, is an equal reaction. The Universe burns hot with creativity and expands. As the Creator makes these acts of expansion, it causes the Void to react by imposing Time upon the Creator. This does not deter the Creator as our Time doesn’t affect the Users. Yet, Time does affect the Universe and everything in it. Demanding that everything thereafter has a start and an eventual end. The Creator scatters its structure further throughout the reaches of the negative expanse. Testing the limits of the Void. In-order to continue to grow, the Creator needs to continue to create. The second creations, Aemon are a twin set of creations put in motion by time. One twin, called the Aengul is created by the Light casted by The Creator which conversely makes the other twin called the Daemon be created by the Shadow cast by the Light of The Creator. To save time referring to both of them, I call them Aemon like someone should’ve done a long time ago, Aenguldaemon. As the Creator continues to expand its influence further, the two Aemon live in harmony and live out their time. The Creator gives the first Aemon, the Aengul, a Realm to watch over all things. This makes the Aengul the most powerful Aemon in the Sky. This Aengul makes itself known as Celestia. Thought to possess half the power the Merciful Creator has. We see a physical manifestation of Celestia’s realm called the Sun. So powerful, she attracts the souls of more Aengul to manifest and spread the light. Their radiant gaze provides light and vanquishes shadow. Yet, I see in the creation of the first Aemon’s Realm there came a twin Realm birthed from the shadow casted by the light of Celestia’s creation. The Moon comes into existence along with the Sun, but unbound from any Master, it drifts to the edge of creation and is forgotten in this time. The harmony among Aemon then dies when the Void reacts to the creation of Celestia by infecting the Universe with desire. Deterred by the Void’s reactions beginning to tamper with the Universe, the Creator then gives the second Aemon, the Daemon, a Realm to protect the Universe from the Void’s reactions so that it can further expand. This makes the Daemon the second most powerful Aemon in the Sky. The Daemon makes no reference to its name at the time. Nevertheless, The Veil is created at the edge of the Universe near where the Moon haunts dormant and the Daemon attracts souls to manifest as other Daemon to act as his guardians against the Void’s impending reaction to the creation of The Second Realm, the Veil; a buffer between the Universe and Void. Daemon become Gatekeepers to the Void. Whilst awaiting the reaction, time passed and stirs desire in these new souls. That’s when curious Aemon find streams of power linked to the centre of Universe that the Merciful Creator originated from. A place simply called Origin. Throughout the Immortal Plane created for them, I see these streams flow. At their strongest nearest to Origin, but they get weaker as they drain into the Veil. Other Aenguls desire power of their own after witnessing Celestia. Causing the Aengul to quickly discover they could connect to Origin and access the Merciful Creator’s power for their own gain. The Aenguls being the first to connect to Origin and thus discover they could also create Realms of their own. The desire to do so overwhelmed them and because of this, they didn’t share with the Daemons. Greedily creating very powerful Realms, more powerful than any Daemon could initially muster. The Aengul’s desire was greed and this breeds anger among Daemon whom also desire to create powerful Realms. With the Daemon being far out at the Veil and the furthest away from Origin at the time of discovery, their realms are additionally made weaker. However, out of all this, the intended Seven Skies are created by the creation of these new Realms with many of the Aenguls so powerful now their Realms display physical manifest as illuminating objects in the Mortal Sky such as stars much like the Sun. Our Mortal Realms The Merciful Creator continues to pierce through the expanse and shine deeper into the Void. During this expansion, the Mortal Realm is created as a place to draw the rest of the formless souls wandering the Universe, by and large the final major creation. Among the Mortal Sky in this Realm, bodies are made of earth that the souls are drawn to inhabit. Two such bodies are made to compliment each other. Availer called them Man and Woman. Yet, these were not Mortal beings as previously thought. For they are the names of two Worlds. These bodies are tethered together by the nearby Moon and made to be cared for by the preserving hand of Celestia. Man and Woman long to be together, but their coming together will be apocalyptic. In our Mortal Realm we come to perceive them as two different faces to the same coin. On one side is the Realm of Aegis (Man) where the Fatherland rests. On the other side the Realm of Asulon (Woman) where our beloved Motherland rests. These separate entities begin to bind lost souls to the Mortal Realm, thus creating Mortal Man and Woman. Immortal Souls cannot simply travel between these worlds in the same way as Bound Souls and thus the actions of Aemon in one Realm rarely change the Laws of the other land. This perplexes many Aemon as their abilities work differently in the Mortal Realm than they do in the Seven Skies. It is for this built-in mechanism we owe our thanks. For this is why Iblees wasn’t able to follow us to Asulon when we flee centuries later. Now the Merciful Creator appoints a third Aemon to manage this newly created Mortal Realm. Limited to mere observation as it could not expand creation any further. The new game Creation played against the Void was to simply maintain its lawful shape and work with what had already been created. The Prehistoric Age The Moon becomes apparent when Man and Woman are created. It begins to dance around their bodies, creating a different dimension of Time in the Mortal Realm. A rapidly and chaotic version compared to the dimension of time observed by the Seven Skies. It is from this more accurate picture of The Mortal Realm that changes our understanding of how Man and Woman birthed their children; Malin, Krug, Horen and Urguan. It explains how these Four Souls had offspring without begging-the-question of how exactly four brothers could mate and populate the world with their respective children. Everything occurs faster in the Mortal Realm. A blur from the perspective of these Seven Skies. Mortal Souls are drawn to mortal vessels that compliment them. Binding them to Man and Woman’s Mortal Realm. Time causes life to spring up all at once across both Worlds as the Merciful Creator allowed Users to create souls for the Mortal Realm. They create and control a few different interpretations of mortal vessels and evolved them to reach certain desires. Eventually the Four Races (with the influence of several Aemon) were actually born by this process. It is in this moment that I see Krug and Urguan are actually born sisters. Malin and Horen brothers. A family of Four is made to share the World of Man. The flagship souls of Malin, Horen, Krug and Urguan become the versions synonymous with each race and most Users evoke souls in one of the four vessels. It is forest dwelling Elves that first discover language and set about naming the World of Aegis. Desert stalking Orcs are influenced by Daemon to develop warfare. Abundantly powerful Humans discover a knack for organisation. The earth dwelling Dwarves are captivated by the riches found in the earth and develop trading. Initially Mortals complemented and teach each other the skills they had personally developed, but over time, the influence of Iblees from all the way across the Universe in the Veil begins to corrupt Mortal minds into having different views. Krug is the first to fight her way to the top of the Orcish food-chain through sheer conquest over adversity. Becoming the Rex of the Orc War Nation. Civil wars like Krugs erupt across the world of Man as Iblees grows in power. Some species of mortal are completely wiped out by these wars for consolidating power under one roof. One such example is Malin’s eradication of an Ape-like species of mortal deriving from similar Daemonic origins to the Kha based on what can be seen. These civil wars displace millions, destroy hundreds of years of tradition and knowledge and finally leads to short-lasting peace in a flash of time. The Flagship Four reveal themselves as perfect examples of each adaptation of Life with right to rule over their respective people. Malin, Krug, Horen and Urguan live in peace as four superpowers. Yet again, utter chaos began to form as desire took hold of Mortals once more. The Daemon Iblees uses its new power to become the Chief of the Veil by now. Secretly plotting against the Merciful Creator. Captured by desire for power as great as Celestia and the nameless Daemon, Iblees betrays the Merciful Creator and seeks his own answers to gain more power from the Void instead of Origin. I could look into the defection of Iblees in more detail, but what’s important to this story now is that Iblees succeeded in finding immense power from the Void. Rivalling that of Celestia and The Veil’s Daemon. Immediately seeing his betrayal, Celestia informed the Veil’s Daemon and legions of Aemon came to stop Iblees from using the Void. They attempted to destroy Iblees by sending him into the Void, but he had other plans and decided to manifest with his Nether Realm in the Mortal Realm to escape the Aemon assault. Forever weakening the Veil in the process. Fighting for its own survival, Iblees bound himself and his Realm to the world of Aegis in-order to stabilize. Thought to be initially thwarted, Iblees was now rife with anger and desire bred by time. He eluded the other Aemon for now. Finally the Creator witnessed the reaction of the Void that the Veil had been waiting for. Evil was bred into the heart of Iblees and the Void began to vigorously assault the Veil. Now part of the Mortal Realm, Iblees caused evil to engulf the World of Man. The Four tainted by his evil go to war with each other. Iblees manipulates the Mortals directly by turning Malin, Horen and Urguan against Krug. It isn’t until Krug’s retort to Iblees that the other three are enlightened to what was occurring on a spiritual level; realizing the error of their ways. Iblees was outraged by the sudden shift in power and arrogantly started its campaign against the world earlier than scheduled, thus sparking The Great War. Evil reigned throughout the world of Man as Iblees conjured demons from the Void to fight his battles. The Aemon too distracted by the Void’s invasion to actually be able to turn their attention to the World. For now, the World is left to fend for itself. Despite hordes of demonic-evil creatures murdering mortals, mortals driven mad by evil also murdered other mortals. We Hanseti come into existence during this period. Witnessing that Iblees had already won the war by capturing the hearts of Man regardless if they defeated him in combat or not. It was because of a threatening genocide among Horen’s realm that we turned to the Aengul named Availer who informs us of the tethered connection between the worlds of Man (Aegis) and Woman (Asulon). Bearing witness to this information is the elf Larihei. Availer tells of how he manifested himself into the Mortal Realm on the orders of Celestia to keep an eye on Iblees. The only other Aemon manifested in the Mortal Realm at the time. He was tasked to search for clues of Iblees’ whereabouts and aid in his destruction when the Void was pushed back. Before we left through the rift to Asulon that Availer created for us, he stopped us suddenly. Standing in horror as Iblees takes its final stand and lays inflictions upon Mortal Souls. Corrupting the races to be slaves to their own desires. Yet, the rest of the Aemon register the power used by Iblees as it ripples throughout the Universe and begin to mobilize the legion towards the Mortal Realm as the Void relents. Celestia turns her gaze upon Man and Woman in an instant and vanquishes the army of Voidal Horrors. The nameless Daemon of the Veil sends in his legions of Aemon to wipe out the rest of Iblees’ horror. Celestia attempts to undo the curse of Iblees by instilling in the tainted souls of Mortals blessings to help them live with their afflictions. It was in these very moments that Availer felt hopeful by the blessing and let us pass through the rift from Man to Woman. We’ve left to the Motherland to avoid the evil Iblees created on the Fatherland. We adapt to our surroundings to survive and discover Asulon. Although Iblees is banished to the Nether Realm shortly thereafter by the legions of Celestia and the nameless Daemon of the Veil. We foresee one day Iblees will figure out a way escape his prison and infect the Motherland as well. Making Hanseti constantly vigilant of the nature of the threat. The First Age Recording Time at this point became a Worldwide trend when the Users implemented the calendar and the first year began starting at 0 just as Hanseti goes to the Motherland. Thus the First Age begins. All Time prior to this day becomes the Prehistoric Age. Malin of course didn’t seize at the opportunity name the components relating to the new Time Record and coined the terms we still use today evident by our continued use of Malin’s Year and being on Elven Time. I see during the start of the First Age in Asulon, the Hanseti splits into three tribal-dynasties; The Dervas, Subudai and we, the Hansetians. To avoid further persecution from the Dervas and Subudai who since betray us with war. We isolate ourselves behind the mountainous wall of the eternally wintered south of Asulon and by the end of the 2nd century become the first to abandon our nomadic-tribal society in favour of settled civilization. This comes as a result of discovering our Blessing; allowing us to begin exploring the Seven Skies, Realms outside of the Mortal. Developing our understanding of science and knowledge to advanced levels over the next seven centuries in almost total isolation from the rest of the Mortal Realm. I see the end of the First Age will come in the 11th Century when Time reverts from 1 back to 0 and starts the Second Age. In preparation to protect what we’ve worked endlessly to create. We are ready to survive potentially destructive events that may occur at the end of the First Age. Souls Users give us a soul when they manifest us into the World. We mortals are mere physical manifestations that act as vessels to hold our mortally bound soul. With a soul we are given the opportunity to experience free will and live with our choices. The soul is perhaps the most powerful force known to the World and of great scholarly interest to Hanseti. Souls are manipulated in many ways. The most common example of soul manipulation is evident by the Law of the Soulstone. Souls give us the ability to transcend the physical realm. However, there exists more forms of soul than the mortally bound soul we are most familiar with. Most likely also defined by a hierarchy according to their function. In essence, all souls have been found to be the same. Whether it’s an Immortal Soul belonging to an Aemon in the Seven Skies or a Mortal Soul belonging to a being, they are fundamentally the same. The only difference between the Immortal and Mortal is that Immortal Souls are unbound to a physical vessel. Perceiving soul is spiritual process that takes years to understand. Interacting with a Soul thereafter is a skill that takes at least a decade to learn. Soulstones The soulstone can be as small as a pebble. The soulbound token comes in a variety of shapes and colours, but at its core every stone has the same function: It brings the user back home. Soulstones are not naturally occurring, nor even truly physical objects. They are basically figments of our imagination that represent memories of places we’re deeply connected to. The connection process to make points A and B usually done through the erecting of a pillar or similarly imbued object that is memorable enough to recall, but is not necessarily a requirement for the soul to jump to. We can the power of soulstones for the same reasons we see a magician’s abilities; the essence of creativity. This how they’re able to be evoked by merely thinking it there. Although immensely powerful, they require little ability to actually use. Using only the innate power of life essence within all of us referred to by magicians as mana. As with most things related to souls, we lose memories when using the power. Just as we don’t remember how our souls end up back in anchor points like the Cloud Temple, we do not remember the trip from A to B that our soulstones provide. This is simply due to the fact that most Mortal Souls cannot comprehend the non-physical process occurring. When watching someone use a soulstone they seem to take on a pink-ish haze and vanish into thin air. However, one cannot always seem to be able to teleport using their stone when their mind believes them to be trapped or in danger as is the case in such instances as being confined in prison or a place without an exit. Only when peace is in the heart do they seem to work for a majority of people. The tool therefore is quite psychologically linked and may not even need to be manifested into physicality to be used as it inherently exists within our vessel. It wasn’t until scientists started experimenting with soulstones that it was realized the way the soul travels from A to B. The travelling of a soul is by a dream-like process. We call it Astral Projection, a concept Shamans are well aware of: The ability to transfer the location of your soul to anywhere you’ve established a connection to. When the soul settles in the desired location, the vessel that usually contains the soul will find its way to hold it once more. Thus demonstrating the reason that most have no memory of how they got there and why some people do not return to the physical realm after being defeated by man or nature. The experience is completely metaphysical, a concept that the ignorant cannot understand and thus repress the memory of much like a dream. It does mean that in theory you can link your soul to find virtually any location desired. The process of utilizing the power of the soul begins with recalling dreams reports most Practitioners. The more interesting topic is how souls work and the feats one can do by controlling them with devices which we will discuss in the next chapter. [The next several pages were sadly lost when being transported to the Prince of Hanseti’s private collection.] Notes On Aemon However organised they may be, Aemon are not like exactly us Mortals. As we carry out our daily lives, they exist as underlying energies and psychological processes that influence us at varying degrees. They often fight each other for dominion over Origin to gain more powerful Realms for themselves. [Pages missing] Only on special occasions does an Aemon truly manifest as Mortal and directly manipulate our World. One such example is the Force of Ruin itself; Iblees, a Daemon. (In the mid-14th Century, the Soulkeeper itself; Aeriel, the 7th Sky Aengul did manifest as a mortal woman in the city of Alras.) [Pages missing] A powerful manifestation that has been warred over for centuries by opposing Aemon. Once in the possession of the Daemon Metztli. Now the Aengul Aeriel has come to claim it as a power source for her Soul Stream. After Note Fragments of the Omnichronicle, an Ancient Hansetian book of secrets were recovered by the Teutonic Order in the year 1393. Pages have been translated and state the following simplified versions: The Ancient Hansetian Creation Story Users are beings that ultimately control everything. God is a User. Chaos creates God, God creates Order. Chaos wants chaos. God wants Order. A bitter struggle ensues. God creates Universe. Chaos creates Time. Universe creates souls. Souls inhabit three different planes of existence; The Sky Realm, Mortal Realm, and Veil. In the Sky Realm which existed first: God creates the servant race Aemon, A created by the duality of light. God appoints two guardians of the Universe; First soul is an Aengul named Celestia, her realm manifests as the Sun. Celestia illuminates the Universe and vanquishes shadow. Chaos creates Desire. Second soul is a Daemon without name, his realm manifests as the Veil. Celestia replicates more Aengul to use as servants, who are in-turn God's servants. The Veil replicates more Daemon to use as soldiers, who are in-turn God's legion. Lesser Aengul fall victim to desire after envying Celestia's mighty grasp of God's power. They discover they can steal the Merciful Creator's power and use it to make powerful Realms. Anger is bred in the souls of Daemon for having lesser Realms than the Aenguls who had stolen most of God's power by the time they got to it. Daemon stay bitter and scrabble over power throughout their dominant Skies. One Daemon is very butthurt, Iblees. A Military Chief in God's legion. Chaos creates Hate. Iblees blames God for being a lesser Aemon and enters the Veil looking to the Void for power. Iblees causes a panic among the Aemon and is sealed into the Void by the Nameless Daemon. In Fear Iblees manifests his newly founded Nether Realm using the Void's power. He manifests this Realm and himself into the newly created Mortal Realm. He remains hidden form Aemon by the cloak of Time for mortal-aeons. Mortals grow to populate at least two Words in the Mortal Realm, Aegis and Asulon. Malin, Horen, Krug and Urguan come to be the 4 Monarchs of the Elves, Humans, Orcs and Dwarves respectively. Iblees attacks the Mortals with a great and terrible power. Much is lost in the ensuing 30 year Great War. The attack is felt in all Seven Skies, turning the Aemon's attention from the Veil to the Mortal Realm above it. Celestia's gaze on the Mortal Realm vanquished all Voidal Horrors that Iblees had spawned. God's Legion uncovers Iblees and destroys the rest of his followers. Iblees' manifested form is cast from the Mortal Realm by Celestia, Iblees' soul bound to the boundless Nether Realm. Celestia looks upon the crippled Mortal Race and blesses them with enlightenment. The Aemon turn their attention back to the Veil War against Forces of Chaos. Users invent The Calendar to remember how long Iblees has been gone, starting the First Age. Ancient Hanseti leaves to the World of Asulon. Life in Aegis goes on. Hanseti splits into 3: Hanseti, Dervas and Subudai. Hanseti isolates itself in the Motherland and discovers cool things about souls. Hanseti write their dogma down in the Omnichronicle, the collective history of Ancient Hanseti. THIS LORE MAKES POSSIBLE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS BOOK. I promised to deliver 434 words on the Users for Korus on my last post. This all made me just as nervous to post as the last, but I decided I'd just post all the other words I had written around the User topic as well. I've been writing parts of the Omnichronicle for weeks and this is definitely not the end of my lore posts about Ancient Hanseti. I understand many questions will be raised to which I will try my best to answer.