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The World of Agnar
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Intro
Introduction of Episode and Hosts
00:00:08
Garrett
Hey everybody, it's Garrett here, also known as Admiral Tater. We are back for our second episode and I'm joined by my wonderful co-host.
00:00:18
Nick
Hey everybody, this is Nick.
00:00:21
m3rcier
and but This is Alan or Mercer.
00:00:24
Garrett
And today's episode, we are going to cover the history of our planet Agnar.
00:00:35
Garrett
up to like to where the game starts basically and like why we're here and then we're going to some basic gameplay on how the game actually works uh so here we go now we've tried to condense basically uh the lore primer into the greatest
Creation Myth of Agnar: Ymiris and Her Children
00:00:54
Garrett
hits and but also like keeping a lot of the interesting information so ah we've been jotting away deciding how we wanted to do this now
00:00:54
m3rcier
Thank you. you
00:01:06
Garrett
I'm going to say Nick and Alan know more than me. I've only read it like one or two times now trying to get ready. So what do you guys think of the beginning of this?
00:01:17
Garrett
it's It's kind of a classic ah mythology beginning where there's like a god or goddess and uses their body to create new gods and then, you know, grows from there.
00:01:34
Garrett
So Let's start at the beginning. Alan.
00:01:42
m3rcier
Yeah, so like you said, it is a little bit of a classic ah creation tale. My take on it is... with It's a hard one for me.
00:01:57
m3rcier
mean I like to...
00:01:57
Garrett
Well,
00:01:58
m3rcier
the The timeline of the map is what ah the two parts of it I like the most.
00:02:01
Garrett
it is It is helpful to look at. so but i mean But basically, the goddess in in this mythology is Ymiris.
00:02:04
m3rcier
Yeah.
00:02:09
m3rcier
Yeah.
00:02:09
Garrett
I think I'm saying that right. How do you guys say I say Ymiris.
00:02:13
Nick
i so I say emiris.
00:02:13
m3rcier
uh yeah yeah mary and berries
00:02:15
Garrett
You say Ymiris? Okay, i'll I'll go with that.
00:02:16
Nick
Yeah. All
00:02:18
Garrett
I'll stick with that. Ymiris. ah So she creates the first children and like the world. And...
00:02:26
Nick
right.
00:02:27
Garrett
The Seligia. How do you guys promote this continent? Seligia? Seligia?
00:02:35
m3rcier
let's just call it so celigeia there you go celigeia
00:02:38
Garrett
i Yeah, that's what i that's why i say my head.
00:02:38
Nick
kind of yeah I kind of roll it i rolled it a little bit so like the Silesia rather than really emphasize the J.
00:02:39
m3rcier
value isn
00:02:42
Garrett
oh that sounds way better. Yeah, it sounds way better. Yeah.
00:02:46
Nick
yeah
00:02:47
Garrett
I love it. Um, okay.
00:02:48
m3rcier
good
00:02:49
Garrett
So essentially the world's created, right? And she creates a odd number of children, 13, right? Yes. right
00:02:59
Nick
Well, technically she created like all the first children. There's like an an innumerable amount of the first children.
00:03:04
Garrett
yes
00:03:04
Nick
um the 13 that we are focused on will come in, will come into play a little bit later.
00:03:06
m3rcier
or two
00:03:10
m3rcier
She created them all. So there was the the first children were just, you know, a plethora of them. It wasn't just the 13.
00:03:18
m3rcier
What was the first creatures on the planet?
00:03:20
Nick
Yeah.
00:03:21
Garrett
Yes, that is correct.
00:03:24
Nick
Yeah, and they were all, that everybody was in tune with the goddess and and kind of, you know, her, what we call echo, was kind of permeating the world at that time.
00:03:34
Nick
And so the first children didn't know like death or, i mean, we don't really know to extent, but like, I can't imagine they would, ah it's very much like you're ah kind of like an Eden like situation where there's no, yeah, no, so like there's no pain, there's no death.
00:03:44
Garrett
Yes. It's a very Garden of Eden. No sin yet.
00:03:50
Nick
It's like a perfect world kind of situation.
00:03:53
Nick
That's what that's how I take it.
00:03:54
m3rcier
And that was in the Amerian age, which is immemorial now.
00:03:56
Garrett
And then...
00:04:02
Garrett
Right.
Mirakos's Discovery and the Plan to Imprison Ymiris
00:04:02
Garrett
And then we get to the, I guess, Eve of the Apple kind of situation here. One of these first children, Mirakos, it says that he delves deep and discovers that i Amiri is judging and watching them.
00:04:23
Garrett
so that if they mess up, ah he's gonna she's going to do a, you know, kind of like the flood, a purge of the world, right? And so they have a lot of power and they take steps to make a plan to prevent this from happening.
00:04:41
Garrett
Nick, what is that plan?
00:04:43
Nick
yeah so uh this is where we get the 13 right so it's the 13 wisest of the first children uh they come together and like you said mirko's kind of like you know what does that mean to delve too deep how did he how exactly did he get this information Um, and so, but yeah, they basically know that Emerius is waiting for the the time when the first children have basically lost their path or strayed too far. And then she's just gonna, from what we are told, cleanse the world, purge the world and start over from scratch.
00:05:15
Nick
Um, you know, we we don't really know what that would look like. We're just kind of given the lore again. It's it's one thing that keeps us very engaging is the way all the Lord primers written is very vague in detail.
00:05:30
Nick
And so like, it's almost like you have an unreliable narrator of like, yeah.
00:05:30
Garrett
Yeah, it's like he. Exactly.
00:05:36
Nick
So, um,
00:05:36
m3rcier
Well, you also have this the same event or the same concept. it's It's touched on multiple times from different perspectives. So we don't know if Amiri was you know an evil god or an actual good god because depends on who you're talking to.
00:05:54
Nick
Yeah. Yeah. So the 13, they come up with the plan um to basically imprison their goddess and and prevent her, put her into a state where she's unable to purge the world should it come to that.
00:06:07
Nick
And so ah we get some name drops. I mean, it's until we get more details, the the name drops are are kind of just hard. They're just here that one time. But like Molech is the architect of secrets.
00:06:19
Nick
And so he designs like the Thorn of Olin, which is just this huge, massive weapon that are going to drive into the ground. um Gul'dron is the Shaper of Mountains.
00:06:30
Nick
And so he comes up later when we talk about the wall, but he's one who like builds the thorn, this giant weapon. But the most important part, I think, was Avakra. And she like wove the illusions.
00:06:43
Nick
in their dreams because from what we understand and mirrors would judge the characters of her children while they were dreaming and so that would be like you know we can maybe ah take there's some kind of reflection in the dream world or dream stance that the goddess is kind of pulling information from so avaka creates this illusion so the 13 can dream ah without leading the mirrors to like what they are planning or plotting
00:07:14
Garrett
Right, which also means Ymiris is not an omnipotent, right?
00:07:19
Nick
Right.
00:07:19
Garrett
So, that and then that makes me think like, you know, where does she come from?
00:07:19
Nick
Right.
00:07:23
Garrett
Is this some sort of cycle of gods creating gods kind of situation? ah But so Olam, so they call the Thorn of Olam and it's it's called that because Olam is a city, right?
00:07:38
Garrett
A huge city, kind of in the middle of the continent.
00:07:38
Nick
Mm-hmm.
00:07:41
Garrett
and there are at this point millions of people who live on you know that the planet itself and on this continent and then and this this is pretty metal so like their plan is to straight up stab the planet because the planet is amiri right uh but i that could be like a physical uh plan but also maybe some sort of like dimensional thing right uh where they're using magic to stab somebody in another dimension
00:08:01
Nick
Yeah.
00:08:11
Garrett
however you want to think about it.
Creation of the Thorn of Olin and Giants
00:08:13
Garrett
It's a pretty cool plan. So Alan, Alan, how does this plan go down?
00:08:24
m3rcier
So like Nick said, Avacra was basically blinding Amiris to what was going on. Galdrin built the thorn, but he couldn't do it alone. So the everlasting, and this is the only time all of the everlasting ever did, created another creature as a group.
00:08:45
m3rcier
All the other creatures on the planet were created by either individual or smaller groups of the 13.
00:08:51
m3rcier
But the 13 created the giants. So, you know, in the terrain pieces, the giant it's in the not just flesh gardens, more in the lore, but they created the giants to help Galdron build the thorn, which pretty sure can see a picture of the thorn on page with the 10 and 11, yeah, 10 and 11 on in the lore primer. And then again, and it's destroyed state later, but, uh,
00:09:20
m3rcier
Once they had it built, they had it drive straight down into the ground, which all the way down to the core of the planet, the core of the goddess to wound her.
Ymiris's Wounding and the Shift to Mortality
00:09:30
m3rcier
And when they did so, she reacted in pain and sorrow because now she finally realized what they were doing, ah which released her lifeblood ah straight up, you know, falling where the thorn came from.
00:09:46
m3rcier
And everyone in the city of Olam perished except for the 13, because as that magic as a pure echo, you know, rose, they all began spell weaving to protect themselves and essentially absorb as much of the echo as they could, which made them continue to allow them to be immortal.
00:10:07
m3rcier
But all the other first children lost their immortality. They all became mortal. So,
00:10:14
m3rcier
After that, there was some ah disagreement amongst the the first children and now what we call the Everlastings.
00:10:22
Garrett
Yeah, well, let's roll back real fast. Let's roll back. So now what's important here is this thing, this thorn is like a physical object, like a real item.
00:10:31
m3rcier
Yes.
00:10:32
Garrett
Um, and it's huge, uh, supposedly because they required a ton of giants to build this thing.
00:10:37
m3rcier
Yeah.
00:10:40
Garrett
Um,
00:10:41
m3rcier
It's on page 10 and 11. And then again on 16 17 in the Lord.
00:10:46
Garrett
Yeah. And so this thing, it it does its thing. And not only does it kill a million people instantly, but it also turns a bunch of those people into other entities.
00:11:00
Garrett
Some of the weirder things we see in game cards, right? ah So this is a big event. ah the These Everlasting now, they're are So they're immortal, but they're not impervious to, i like, they can't, they're not, like, unkillable, right?
00:11:12
m3rcier
it is
00:11:22
Nick
Right.
00:11:23
m3rcier
and it's It's called the great wounding when they do this.
00:11:23
Garrett
So.
00:11:26
Garrett
Yes. And this is the beginning of a new age. Age of strife, right? think that's i think that's correct.
00:11:33
m3rcier
Age of the Everlasting.
00:11:35
Nick
We get the Age of Everlasting first.
00:11:37
Garrett
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:11:37
Nick
Yeah. Yeah.
00:11:38
Garrett
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so now it's like, you know, their God is gone, kind of, right? And so now they're they're left to their own devices. They're the gods now.
00:11:52
Nick
right exactly and so that's why like you know we look at the timeline like year one is like the year the great wounding because that's that's when we transition into like kind of like what we would consider but not modern times but like history right everything before this point was like prehistory
00:11:55
m3rcier
so
00:12:12
Garrett
And completely like reliant on the everlasting writing or telling somebody about that information.
00:12:18
Nick
yeah
00:12:19
Garrett
Right. Cause they're only ones alive from it.
00:12:21
Nick
Well, and there's a whole ton of like, you can even think about it this way, like the first children were like immortal. So like, why would they even feel the need to write things down? You know, like you can get, you can get into so many like ideas of like technology.
00:12:29
Garrett
Yeah.
00:12:32
Nick
Like when you live in a perfect world, you don't have the same kind of culture and like the needs for things, right? There's no need to innovate technology because everything is just perfect as it is.
00:12:44
Nick
And so nothing ever changes.
00:12:46
Garrett
Right. And even if they did write it down, it could have been destroyed later. So, uh, age of the everlasting.
00:12:52
Nick
Yeah.
00:12:56
Garrett
Now at this point, we've got these 13 everlasting members, uh, and they go on to create a new world with new factions, cities.
00:13:03
m3rcier
Thank you.
00:13:08
Garrett
i I think some of them even create, uh, new beings, perhaps new, uh, races.
00:13:14
Nick
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:13:18
Nick
Yeah, so ah we're definitely going to see, like, this is where we see, like, the creation of the Erosier, which are, like, our elf types.
00:13:26
Garrett
huh
00:13:26
Nick
I believe they're the first of the races that are created. um But, you know, we'll go on to see, like, the Vol'Kir, the humans, the Orokin, I think.
00:13:36
m3rcier
Thank you.
00:13:39
Garrett
Yep, that's how I said it. Yeah.
00:13:40
Nick
yeah uh so and then of course the fallen that's a whole other thing we ah need to cover too uh so you know you have all of these different civilizations are springing up because the age everlasting is the first age of like great changes and so we have a lot of like fracturing where it's the 13 don't necessarily hate each other but they don't trust each other anymore and so they start kind of yeah
00:14:05
Garrett
Yeah, we got sibling drama now.
00:14:10
m3rcier
and instead's Instead of one creator that shaped everything, you now have 13 that are reshaping.
00:14:16
Nick
okay
00:14:17
m3rcier
So there's there's plenty of differences, plenty of variation in what they do.
00:14:23
Nick
Yeah, I definitely feel like there's also that, you have that element where like, and you know, we don't know what Emiri's was like as a goddess, if she was like, you know, very hands-off or whatever, but you know,
00:14:35
Nick
you have this legendary, like perfect creator that was maintained in the entire world. And now you have the first creations, like the first step away from that perfection.
00:14:45
Nick
And now they're creating the world. And so it's like, now you get to live in a world that's created by imperfect beings. And so it it adds a lot of very interesting, like, um you know, again, like we talked about the idea of like, this is kind of like a pre, like a garden of Eden type situation where now we're living with,
00:14:52
Garrett
Right.
00:15:02
Nick
a fallen world where there is pain, there is going to be suffering and the everlasting have to manage that.
00:15:10
Garrett
And for.
00:15:11
m3rcier
a The first children now die, so they have to come to grips with their mortality.
00:15:17
Garrett
Well, they only die if they're being killed. Right. They can maintain themselves.
00:15:23
m3rcier
No, that's just the 13th, everlasting.
00:15:24
Nick
That's just the everlasting.
00:15:27
Garrett
Right.
00:15:28
m3rcier
The first children grow old and perish.
00:15:28
Garrett
That's what i'm saying. Oh, you're talking about the actual people. Yeah. yeah
00:15:31
Nick
Yeah.
00:15:32
m3rcier
Yeah. So the the big event for the age of of everlasting is, of course, the everlasting war.
00:15:33
Garrett
The people who live on the continent.
00:15:40
m3rcier
But what was the, and Nick, you you brought this up earlier, what was the the match the match that lit the keg that started the everlasting war?
00:15:53
Nick
Well, I believe that was Avakra coming down. um She was like the first. So because Avakra's role in the the wounding was to deceive their goddess, she was the one who took it the hardest, I think, the but they the guilt of the betrayal.
00:16:11
Nick
And so she actually left like Selegia for a while up to like the far north. I think don't have the map right in front me, but the far north thing is the Pale Expanse. and like she went for like hundreds of years just out there and then came back and like just raised uh basically raised banners and said you know what we're going to go to olum and we're going to tear down the thorn and free our goddess because we ruined what was a great thing uh and so yeah
00:16:41
Garrett
Yeah. so So she stood what she did for like 600 years, right? And comes in swinging. And the triumvirates strike her down.
00:16:53
Garrett
And they don't even just strike her down, they imprison her soul. And what do they do with her soul?
00:16:59
m3rcier
place it into a vestige, the first vestige. Basically, they soul bind her into her own heart, which is what the primal blood worship.
00:17:12
m3rcier
But in doing so, you know they they killed one of their own. So the first of the the gods to perish, which are made the other what? Because the triumphant was three.
00:17:24
m3rcier
So it made the other nine of the everlasting paws. they, you know, the line has been crossed, so to say.
00:17:34
m3rcier
So they're all now extremely more wary of each other. And in doing so, the triumphant, they have Galdron build, start, begin building the wall around, what is the name of that, the city, Auster?
00:17:50
Nick
It's Olim still.
00:17:51
Garrett
Yeah.
00:17:52
Nick
Yeah.
00:17:52
m3rcier
all So in in doing so, Again, he couldn't build it all himself. So that is when the Volkir people were created. I believe they were the first that were created from the first children.
00:18:06
m3rcier
And we don't know if they created them from the ground up or if they just took a group of the first children and modified them.
00:18:06
Nick
Yeah,
00:18:12
m3rcier
It's not really clear with any of that.
00:18:14
Nick
yeah and the Vulkir are like our dwarves. type They seem to be like very stocky, beardy, and and a crafty.
00:18:22
m3rcier
if They're not short. They are huge so that the dwarves but larger than humans.
00:18:25
Nick
Mm-hmm.
00:18:30
Garrett
And so at this point, a everyone's all about war. Uh, all efforts are turned into, how can we do war better? and this is where they start creating these legacies and artifacts and they're taking the souls of their most loyal subjects in whatever realm they're ruling and turning them into these powerful artifacts.
00:18:56
Garrett
And so this is, and this ability is path down all the way. ah It always seems to be in this world that, you know, the world of the planet of Agnar or whatever it is, for some reason, the best path to make anything is to take the souls from people and fold them into whatever you're making.
00:19:20
Garrett
So, and then the Uh, the next thing, uh, that's created are the humans, uh, whose sole purpose was combat.
00:19:30
Garrett
I don't know if that was the best move as it seems like humans are pretty, uh, pretty fragile compared to some of these other things, but that's okay. Uh, and then the everlasting war goes on and this thing lasts a thousand years, basically.
00:19:49
Nick
Yeah, it's a
00:19:49
m3rcier
Looks like about 1,200, 1,200 years, roughly. twelve hundred years
00:19:52
Garrett
Yeah.
00:19:53
m3rcier
roughly
00:19:55
Nick
it gets pretty crazy. and They the everlasting really just ah I don't know. We don't know how personally involved they they are. It to me, this reads very much like they everlasting were so paranoid they sat back in their fortresses and and just sent out like armies and so the wars take forever because the everlasting have no like time limit right like they're immortal so they raise an army you send it out it gets demolished you spend 50 years rebuilding your army and reriing rebuilding your strength like it doesn't you know there's no time limit for you
00:20:11
Garrett
Yes, cautious.
Everlasting War and Formation of Factions
00:20:33
Nick
um And so i can kind of see how this would last like hundreds and hundreds of years across entire generations of people fighting the same war because it's you're being led by these like almost like petty individuals that have nothing but time.
00:20:51
Garrett
Right. And then at this point, right, and this goes back, because the Everlasting are not on the front lines. You know, standard mortal beings are in charge of these attacks.
00:21:02
Garrett
And, you know, 1,200 years into this ordeal, you know, the the troops on the front line, all they know is the objective is to break this wall, get inside, siege Ostarath, and take control of the city, right?
00:21:19
Garrett
So... Uh, eventually through trial and error of 1200 years of of, let's say technological advancement, right? Cause we don't know what they started with as far as siege weapons.
00:21:30
Garrett
Uh, they eventually break this wall and this is where things start to really spiral. Right? So the army's breakthrough. And i when I was reading this, I imagined it was like a successful attack on Minas Tarith. Right.
00:21:47
Garrett
And the everlasting, our, our Mordor. uh instead but so they like they break through and um at this point whatever siege weapons are using are very powerful and they might be magic right magic siege weapons at this point um and if we remember the the thorn of olum the weapon inside is a gigantic physical item uh during the siege something happens we're not sure right but it gets damaged and when this thing gets damaged uh what happens next
00:22:28
Nick
Well, I want to have say one real quick before we get into the the fall. ah We do have a couple more deaths of the Everlasting.
00:22:36
Garrett
oh yeah that's right i completely forgot about osir dying right
00:22:37
Nick
Yeah.
00:22:39
Nick
Yeah, yeah. um we and We have Moloch and Oster get killed before the siege. Yeah. and mollux is uh is really crazy because again we talk about like the ah everlasting being immortal we don't really know exactly the limits of their physical bodies but uh so he's out in quin quinvala which is one of the islands where the conclave of the spheres is is located and uh he's like cast into the seas alongside like the giants that like besieged him and all we know is he was just drugged down to the churning depths
00:23:16
Nick
And we don't really know, like, can Everlasting drown? You know, like, is he trapped down at the bottom of the ocean, like, unable to die, but, like, unable to escape?
00:23:28
Nick
And so I know we we have, like, the entry, it's like the death of Moloch, but, like, the way it's kind of described, it makes me kind of wonder, like, is he dead down there?
00:23:37
m3rcier
We actually did.
00:23:38
Nick
Yep.
00:23:40
Garrett
Well, the other cool part is those giants are the same giants that were used to build the weapon, right?
00:23:41
m3rcier
Yeah. Cool.
00:23:46
Nick
Yeah, yeah.
00:23:48
Garrett
which is also So, like, you know, are those giants still available for combat later on? i don't know.
00:23:59
Nick
So, Alan, what happens to Oster, Alan?
00:23:59
Garrett
So, anyways.
00:24:01
Nick
Do you want to hit that for us?
00:24:04
m3rcier
Yeah. So Oster was actually killed by a legacy bearer. So a mortal, which, you know, no, no mortal had killed an everlasting to date. It was always the everlasting so killing each other directly. This is the first time a mortal bearing a legacy was able to, to kill an everlasting, which is how you kill them. You use the the thing that they, they bind their followers into an artifact, which is what a legacy is. Uh,
00:24:33
m3rcier
So the very thing they use to defend themselves can also be used to kill them. So legacies aren't as widespread for that reason. That's why there's more relics because the relics don't necessarily allow you to kill and everlasting, but wanted to touch on the the legions, Patan, Ravallum, I
00:25:00
m3rcier
She is also dead. I think she died before Moloch did, or at least she relinquished her everlasting power and became mortal. She's the one that found the magic to, you know, fight mortality.
00:25:15
m3rcier
And then Moloch and then Oster. And Oster's death kind of created the siege of Osirath, because that is when all of the other still living everlasting banded together to fight what was left of the triumphant, the other two.
00:25:33
Garrett
Yeah, and his death also leads to, right, because his soul is put into the, ah basically, like, ah in the throne room of Ostrath.
00:25:39
m3rcier
three in
00:25:41
Garrett
and It's put into all sorts of things, like doors, statues, just things ah in in the throne room.
00:25:42
m3rcier
His throne.
00:25:48
Garrett
Yeah.
00:25:49
m3rcier
he He even soulbinds the triumphant have a personal guard. He soulbinds that entire personal guard into stuff within the throne room with his you know dying breath.
00:26:04
m3rcier
So he doesn't just soul bound himself. he His entire personal guard, and it wasn't punishment because they were asking to be punished for felling to save him.
00:26:15
m3rcier
He did it as an act of mercy because now they're allowed to continue their mission of protecting the triumphant through all ages because now they're a weapon, an artifact, a legacy to to defend with.
00:26:30
Garrett
It's too bad we don't to don't don't get a name for the assassin who took out Oster, because that's it's pretty ah it's pretty metal for just some guy with a legacy to take him down.
00:26:39
m3rcier
Maybe one day.
00:26:41
Garrett
um Okay, so I jumped ahead. That all happens before the thing I said, where the city gets breached and the and the weapon is damaged.
Catastrophe of the Thorn of Olin: The Malediction
00:26:53
Garrett
And once this weapon is damaged, oh my gosh. does things fall apart quick. the So it's it's basically keeping her, well, the weapon's not keeping her asleep, but whatever.
00:27:06
Nick
it's the spell that's bound to the weapon yeah
00:27:08
Garrett
Yes, yes, the spell itself is interrupted-ish, and Amiri wakes up, kind of, a little bit, and oh man, it's so basically ah big magical explosion, and
00:27:08
m3rcier
Thank you.
00:27:24
Garrett
Just the city is absolutely torched. um Just tons and tons of people dead, transformed into weird creatures. But these walls, tell you what, they knew how to build some walls, ah work great. And while it's all happening, Galdron, the guy who built the walls, performs a spell and binds his essence to the walls themselves and making them even stronger ah to withstand the cataclysm, ah basically forming a boundary that that as far as the malediction can be spread and that's where we get the name malediction is after this event so now the area the walls of Gul'drun had the old kingdom ah the Asterian Pardux or Pardu or whatever is now turned into malediction and it is
00:28:20
Garrett
Total hell in there, right? Because it's just, it's full of weird monsters, magic, just crazy stuff going on. Yes.
00:28:31
m3rcier
And all of the, so the millions of people that died, remember that, that includes the leaders from what at the time, any of the great nations, all of the armies, like all of the leaders.
00:28:40
Garrett
Yes.
00:28:43
m3rcier
And we don't know if the remaining ever everlasting were there or not, but all of the mortal leaders are taking part in this war. So they're all within walls when the malediction happens.
00:28:56
m3rcier
So when it does happen, takes out the leadership for the known world. and that's where we you know essentially start the the age of strife uh and it's 500 years that are just lost no one knows what happened what goes on any of that basically civilization takes 500 years to rebuild itself
00:29:20
Nick
Yeah, and in the in the fall that happens, I mean, it's such an impact on the whole world. and you know we have of course like everything within the wall of guldron basically got churned up in this like absolute calamity ah but it also kind of breaks the world in ah in a different way it changes the like way magic works because it's talked about how even after this happens it took hundreds of years for people to even like relearn magic uh and which is why the conclave of spheres sees so much power with the lay astrum because it's it's an alternative to using the goddess's magic and using echo um but like we i think you know it's kind of hinted at that you know emir is stirs and all of that chaos and all that energy that comes out was like her attempt to like cleanse and purge the world and so you know you can only imagine what
00:30:19
Nick
you know what kind of hellscape ah all of agnar would see if the walls were not there to like contain it or if you know mirrors was fully awoke awoken and at strong um hurtful potential uh you know so we got a little taste of of what purging would look like
00:30:39
Garrett
Yes, but also, like, if that, like, I guess the purge, ah if that would have been the purge, it would have created a bunch of monsters, too. So, I mean, maybe that would have been part of it, like monsters to go out and destroy and kill people, but...
00:30:52
m3rcier
mean it It may have because we have Thunder Steps.
00:30:54
Garrett
Right.
00:30:56
m3rcier
He's a Tyran. He came out of the Malediction.
00:30:57
Garrett
Whoa, whoa, spoilers, spoilers, whoa. Whoa.
00:31:00
m3rcier
ah so wasnson It's not spoilers. people People know who he is now. we just he he he He came out of the Malediction and he's the only one we know of.
00:31:10
m3rcier
like No one's ever seen that race before.
00:31:11
Garrett
Or, or, or he's one of the other people who got transformed into Thunder Steps.
00:31:12
m3rcier
so Was he created in there or what?
00:31:20
Garrett
Uh, right.
00:31:22
Nick
Yeah, we don't know.
00:31:23
Garrett
We don't know because he is, cause ah so like in this world, so now we, end after this age of stripe, we get into the creation of our modern malediction world with our four factions, but on paper,
00:31:24
m3rcier
Yeah.
00:31:36
Nick
Mm-hmm.
00:31:40
Garrett
On paper, Avakra, right, is the one who felt the most bad about what she did. And her ah people are the primal blood people.
00:31:52
Garrett
So kind of, they're kind of the good guys, right? So I don't know, maybe Thunder Steps is Emory's revenge, right?
00:32:02
Garrett
Because he's the leader of the people who tried to right the wrong that they did. You know what i mean?
00:32:09
Nick
yeah Yeah, I agree. um it's It's definitely possible. um you know If we read like everything about Thunder Steps, it's less clear what his motives are.
00:32:22
Nick
um you know That's basically his whole thing, is he's just kind of being guided unknowingly to the path he's taking. And so it very well could be the Prometblood do take a pollen like that they take upon themselves like this mantle of like re- ah or freeing the goddess and kind of reclaiming the world to what it used to be.
00:32:43
Garrett
Yeah, like their goal is to go into the malediction and get tools to be able to free Ymiris, I think. i I don't think that's 100% confirmed, but like all the other factions, right, are in it for themselves in their existence at the moment.
00:33:01
Nick
yeah but you could also argue at this point in time freeing you mirrors would only just like bring about the apocalypse right like right
00:33:10
Garrett
which is Which is what they want, because it's just...
00:33:13
Nick
so you know you could say is it are they the good guys or are they like doomsday like uh you know
00:33:21
Garrett
Right, right, right.
Emergence of New Factions and Seekers
00:33:22
Garrett
but but But maybe on the ah but on the on the in this world, right, they want to ah clean slate it.
00:33:22
m3rcier
and cultists.
00:33:23
Nick
yeah
00:33:31
Garrett
And so they're like her tool for that.
00:33:33
Nick
Yeah.
00:33:33
Garrett
um But anyways, ah three other factions are formed. Uh, the, the, the, so Osterith, the city, right. Was the main empire, right?
00:33:47
Nick
And we should clarify, Olym was the grand city. After Oster was assassinated, they did rename the city Osterath in his honor.
00:33:55
Garrett
Yes.
00:33:56
Nick
um So those are interchangeable. Olym and Osterath are both the great the grand city at the center of the malediction.
00:34:02
Garrett
Same place. Yes. Same place. And so on the way out, uh, Remember that throne room we sealed all them souls in from Oster? A bunch of those pieces get moved out of the city before the siege destroys it.
00:34:20
Garrett
so And they get moved up to, if you're looking at the map, they get moved up to that area that the Order of the Shattered Throne exists in.
00:34:26
m3rcier
Minus.
00:34:29
Garrett
Asteris, the Dynas, that's what it's called. The Dynas. So um they go up there, and so the Order of the Shattered Throne, now we know why it's called the Shattered Throne, is the successor kingdom to the Triumvirate.
00:34:45
Garrett
And so they it's a direct line from Ostereth to Asteris. It's the same same faction, essentially. And their you know their whole goal is still loyalty to the Triumvirate.
00:35:00
Garrett
And that's them. Which one of you guys want to take the... Well, we already kind of did Primal Blood. so They're just out there in the wilderness causing chaos, right? You
00:35:14
m3rcier
um grab the The Legion.
00:35:15
Garrett
got it.
00:35:16
m3rcier
So the Legion is, well, we actually skipped over part of it. the One of the other things that kicked off kicked off the Everlasting War in the previous age was the fall of Absolia, which was a floating city.
00:35:33
m3rcier
It was the capital of what will become the Legion. And the triumphant, uh, they're the ones that destroyed that city. So, you know, two kind of main points, both of which the triumphant did, they killed Avakra and then they took down the flying city.
00:35:44
Nick
Yeah.
00:35:50
m3rcier
Uh, where it land.
00:35:51
Garrett
Like literally floating. It's in the air.
00:35:53
m3rcier
Yeah. You using magic. Uh, but the people that all died were raised by another everlasting called, well, you touched on earlier, Patan.
00:36:05
m3rcier
which I think i'm butchering that, she raised them with a new magic that she had found, uh, called the breath. So the, the legion occupies that area where the city fell, they use the undead as a labor force as long as well as part the military, but they're still living there. They are just mostly nobles. Uh, I'm trying what would be a good analogy in the, uh,
00:36:34
m3rcier
in our world for what what the living would be there.
00:36:37
Nick
they have like they have like a type of like feudal society but your like serfs are just undead basically hmm
00:36:46
Garrett
It's very, I hate to say it's very Warhammer the Old World with the vampire counts in the Empire, where people do live there, but you're like ruled by vampires.
00:36:53
m3rcier
Yeah.
00:37:00
Garrett
And then like a lot of the people are undead skeletons and such.
00:37:06
Nick
Yeah, but in in the Legion, though, we see like a lot of necromancers are more of like your noble houses.
00:37:13
Garrett
Yes.
00:37:15
m3rcier
Yeah, and they, you know, they're as much as from from skin deep, you would think the Legion of the bad guys and the Order of the good guys. But if you dig down into it a little bit deeper, it kind of looks the other way because there are some free cities that exist during the Age of Legacy and the Order tries to bring them into their fold via force.
00:37:40
m3rcier
Well, the Legion sends out an army. and I think it's a luminous crusade, and they actually defeat the Order's army and leave the city be. So they don't absorb them themselves.
00:37:52
m3rcier
They just let them remain as free folk, whereas the Order does not allow that. They will try and consume any of the other cities they can be a force.
00:38:03
Nick
Mm-hmm.
00:38:03
Garrett
Yeah, it's very strategic on the Legion's part, right? Because they're denying ah the Free City to the Order. The Legion doesn't need it for what they're doing. The Order does need it, which we'll talk about next episode.
00:38:15
Garrett
They need it real bad. ah So that now the Legion doesn't have to administrate or keep active defense over Free Cities, right? All they have to do is ally with them when somebody invades, defeat them, and then they withdraw.
00:38:30
Garrett
It's a really good system to keep the balance of power intact.
00:38:36
m3rcier
And then we got a fourth faction, Nick. You want to take them?
00:38:42
Nick
Yeah, so the the Conclave of the Spheres. And so ah you this is where we saw oh like uh moloch would like retreat to on these islands off the coast so the conclave are our very like astute scholars uh everybody here really focuses on discovering kind the secrets of the past as well as um kind of innovating the future right because when we lose like the connection to ymiris and like the magic changes they discover liastrum which is this new magical like power or um resource it's hard to really you know we don't really know what it is tangibly um it's just kind of described as like a power
00:39:37
Nick
And so like they studied Liastrum, they work with all this, they do all these things. They have like the teleportation gates where they are able to get from their islands to like the mainland, you know, more easily.
00:39:49
Garrett
Yeah, that's a big one. Because in this world, is I guess our ships, is this sea too dangerous to effectively use, maybe? I know teleportation way faster, right? So like obviously you'd use that.
00:40:02
Garrett
but you know ah Because I would imagine the order would very much like to bring those islands back into their fold because it's a very small amount of territory in comparison to the Legion and the order. Right.
00:40:18
Garrett
So I don't know.
00:40:18
Nick
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:40:19
m3rcier
Well, it's just, they control wealth. So the Lysstrom is a resource and it's finite.
00:40:21
Garrett
Yeah.
00:40:25
Garrett
Yes. Oh, it is.
00:40:25
m3rcier
You can only get it from the Conclave. So if if you want your teleporters to continue to work, you you have to play ball with the Conclave. They are, they're definitely the merchants, the capitalists of this setting.
00:40:38
m3rcier
hu They don't do anything for free. They don't do anything out of the goodwill of their heart. You're paying them. You're giving them some type of power for whatever transaction they're doing with you.
00:40:50
Nick
yeah yeah yeah um they have like different spheres um that kind of they that's their like so social structure or like different spheres and so different mages from different uh like techniques and master uh masteries will work together so like that's where we get things like um the uh
00:41:05
m3rcier
Thank you.
00:41:13
Nick
akinson shield mage the unit are like specialists in dealing with defensive warding and that type of magic and so that sphere the akinson sphere are where those mages master defensive spells so you have a very like they don't describe it as like a caste system it doesn't seem like it's ah very much like a hierarchy as much as it's just simply a separate masteries right
00:41:42
m3rcier
It's like kind of like in some other settings, like the Circle of Magi and stuff like that.
00:41:42
Garrett
Right.
00:41:46
m3rcier
it's Each sphere has its own domain power. Not really a cast, but if you read some other spots in the lore primer talking about, think Landriel goes into it.
00:42:00
m3rcier
Their cast system is essentially you know the masters and then the apprentices. If you're an apprentice, you are essentially a red shirt from Star Trek. You are expendable. Your master may or may not kill you. They may turn you into something.
00:42:15
m3rcier
So your master's not always this good-hearted person. You're trying to learn from them, but you're also trying to survive them.
00:42:25
Nick
yeah yeah and we're were we're gonna uh touch on all the factions uh in future episodes do more of a deep dive specifically but that's just kind of what you uh what you can expect from the conclave of the spheres so
00:42:37
Garrett
yes uh and with that i'd like to live in the free cities so um now okay so so these these factions form right and the next thing that happens is so the big power is still order of the shattered throne and immediately afterwards because they're the most put together at first right they um are like okay the the city of osworth inside the malediction is theirs
00:42:42
m3rcier
Thank you.
00:43:06
Garrett
ah technically. And so they at first are sending you know legions of troops into the malediction to try and secure, well i I think their idea was like they could secure the city itself in and its existence, but the and then like recover artifacts and things, but everything that goes into this thing immediately dies. Nothing comes back out, so it's not working.
00:43:32
Garrett
And so it's at some point in, I guess their legal system, perhaps multiple places, they decide like, hey, if you're criminally convicted, ah we're going to send you into the malediction.
00:43:44
Garrett
If you come back, you're essentially not guilty, I guess. Maybe kind of a, kind of a' see if this witch can float or not, or sit or drown or not situation, right?
00:43:57
Garrett
So, hum so finally, Veloma, Veloma, as how I'm saying it, is a criminal. And she's sentenced to go into the malediction, blah, blah, blah.
00:44:11
Garrett
But she goes in and not only lives, ah but she comes out with the power of a legacy. ah And so this is a big deal. And so she becomes the first of what they're going call seekers.
00:44:25
Garrett
And the fact that she's able to come out, all of a sudden, everybody in Silesia is like, hold up. Okay.
00:44:37
Garrett
Now we got to go inside there and recover things. So i after you know centuries of unsuccessful attempts, for some reason, you're able to get into the malediction now. And so new ways are found in, new gates.
00:44:50
Garrett
And then after a while, ah the way to describe it in the lore is it's like you know something changes and the heartbeat of Amiri's i as it As her heart beats in this area, the world inside the malediction, inside the walls changes and new artifacts and new ah relics appear.
00:45:15
Garrett
And so everyone's in a mad dash to recover these things. And so that's what brings us to right now into the point that when you're as a player and you set up your board and you go in, you're part of these expeditions to recover these things.
00:45:30
Garrett
And that is as far as the lore has gone at that moment. individual For like the world itself.
00:45:36
Nick
Mm-hmm.
00:45:38
Garrett
We'll deep dive each faction here as we go over.
00:45:41
m3rcier
Yeah.
00:45:41
Garrett
ah But the next thing, is there anything else you guys want to talk about for that before we move on?
00:45:42
m3rcier
And then I'm...
00:45:47
m3rcier
No, not on the lore, other than just, like like you said, the heartbeat. So there are seasons that they've been able to document within the malediction. know Basically, when Amir's heart beats, it changes the entire malediction, or portions of it will change from what they were to something else.
00:46:07
m3rcier
So... even seekers that have been in there for a decade or two that go in and come out and all that, it's never the same trip twice.
00:46:18
Nick
yeah it's constantly changing which is why um each faction controls their own gate in the wall and they've basically done like a great it's described as like they've taken great efforts like make small like little bases like you get in your gate you go into the malediction and like you have like just an outpost and that's like the only thing they've been able to like secure it's just like a small little like staging area where you can then venture into the rest of the territory But yeah, to what we understand, nobody's like made it to like the heart of Osterath or anything. like you know Nothing legendary yet.
00:46:54
Garrett
No, like to the actual weapon. It's because the weapons, uh, there, right.
00:47:00
Nick
Right.
00:47:01
Garrett
It's still there.
00:47:01
m3rcier
The thorn is still there.
00:47:01
Garrett
So yeah. Um, okay. So that's that.
00:47:06
Nick
Yeah.
00:47:06
Garrett
And now we're going to move into some, wait,
00:47:08
Nick
I think we're...
00:47:10
m3rcier
Hold on.
00:47:12
Garrett
okay. So we are going to wrap up episode two. Uh, after that, we had some thoughts of going into another topic, but we're going we're going save that for episode three. Uh,
00:47:23
Garrett
So the next thing that's going to happen is Alan is going to list off some upcoming events for Malediction.
00:47:30
m3rcier
Yeah, and I'm going to try and go through this quickly. but So for tournaments, we have the Trials of the Everlasting, which is the online tournament that I run monthly. It'll go from March 10th to March 31st.
00:47:44
m3rcier
So the Waypoint Grand Melee, which was this past month, April's tournament. Pat won that with Auric. So Auric didn't show up to Adepticon, but he he showed up in April.
00:47:58
m3rcier
We have the Loans are open in Dallas on August 1st. Gen Con on August, I'm sorry, July 31st and August 1st. You will have a 2v2 on July 31st, and then you have 1v1 on August 1st.
00:48:13
m3rcier
Registration for Gen Con opens on May 17th. There'll be a ton of learn to plays there also. In Denver, Colorado at Tacticon, there will be a 1v1 tournament on August 29th and 30th.
00:48:27
m3rcier
And then demos for the next week or all of May that I can see. I'll be at Pelican in Houston on May 16th. I'll be at Copperhead Brewery in Houston on June 13th.
00:48:40
m3rcier
And then there will be a, Bruno will be running a demo Caragem Nerd in Belo Horizonte in Brazil on May fourteenth Another Herald will have a demo at Game Grid in Lehigh, Utah on May 23rd.
00:48:58
m3rcier
And then on Mondays, if you are nearby any of these stores, go in and get some games. On Mondays, you have Paper or Plastic Sports in Shorewood, Illinois. Man of Vault in Pleasant Grove, Utah.
00:49:11
m3rcier
On Tuesdays, Odin's Place in Houston, Texas. Upkeep Games in Howell, Michigan. On Wednesdays, Brickhouse Games in Dallas, Texas. Orger City Games in West Bank, British Columbia, or Black Knight in East Hamilton, on Ontario.
00:49:27
m3rcier
Thursdays, KSV Handgrund in Lutzelback, Germany. Games of Fremont in Fremont, California. And bi-weekly at XOR Games in Truro, Nova Scotia.
00:49:42
m3rcier
I hope I said that right. On Fridays, Demolition Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. Saturdays, and this is where a lot of people are playing on Saturdays, Alien City Tabletop in Roswell, Savannah Lion Games in Pooler, Georgia, Play Forward in Gaudingen, Germany, Chaotic Good in Lexington, Kentucky with Garrett and Nick, Top Deck Games at Cherry Hill Township in New Jersey, Dice Grounds in Kilmerock, Scotland, and Minis and Deco 3D Prints in Mercia, Spain.
00:50:17
m3rcier
And on Sundays, you have Mayhem Collectibles in Clive, Iowa, Just for Fun in Peoria, Illinois, and Etting Games in Houston.
00:50:27
Garrett
It's a lot of activity.
00:50:27
Nick
That's a lot.
00:50:28
m3rcier
Lots of...
00:50:28
Garrett
We're going to fight we're gonna have to find a better way to and do these as we go forward.
00:50:32
m3rcier
Well, I don't think we'll...
00:50:32
Nick
There's a lot.
00:50:32
Garrett
We're going to get more.
00:50:33
Nick
of There's a lot of events.
00:50:34
Garrett
Yeah.
00:50:35
m3rcier
I don't think we go over... All of them all the time. I think just the tournaments and the demos. And if I see some like newer stores pop up, I'll hit those.
00:50:39
Garrett
Yes, for sure.
00:50:42
m3rcier
But we won't do all of them. I just wanted to give a shout out to a lot of those stores because most of those are Herald's running that.
00:50:48
Garrett
Yeah, that's crazy how much ah activity is happening. um I'm very excited for the rest of the summer. ah Okay, guys. Well, thanks again Alan. Thanks to Nick. And thanks to to you all for listening to us again.
00:51:01
Garrett
And we'll see you back in episode three.
00:51:04
m3rcier
Yeah, thank you all.
00:51:04
Nick
Take care, everyone.