Subject: The truth behind the Cataclysm, pt. I
From: Sinister Serpent (sinister.serpent@sci.fi)
Date: Mon Nov 29 1999 - 15:51:36 EET
Before you got too worried of the subject, let me explain that this is MY IDEA about how it all got started and how it all ended. A kind of sequel to my earlier post about the cataclysm. I will also comment and reply to your ideas presented here to make you (and me) see if they fit this "sequel" at all. You shall then decide if my ideas (or some of them) will be used or not. Anyway, here we go... Intro: As all of you (should) know from my earlier postings, certain wizards (or to be precise, certain arch-wizards and liches (namely The Covenant of the Wizards of Arammon (5 arch-wizards) and The Bane Circle (3 liches))), started the Cataclysm when doing magical experiments and when these two groups finally clashed. These experiments prepared the magical powers to cause the havoc and strenghtened the effects of the spells and invocations which were used in the battle between these two groups. First contact: At first, there was no "real battle", instead it was measuring one's strength with others. In other words, arch-wizards were trying to find out how powerful The Bane Circle was, and pretty much the same was done by the liches. Some spells, even rather powerful, were cast but none got killed in this first contact. Second contact - the first invocation: Since both of these groups seemed to be very powerful, yet limited in number, they both tried to invoke servants and soldiers from other planes and places to do the actual physical combat to save the magic of the wizards. At first the Covenant (lead by Arammon) summoned all kinds of lesser elementals to fight the undead armies and lesser demons which were summoned by the three liches. The war had begun, yet not very many civilians got killed at first because the actual battles were fought in unhabited areas, until the third phase. Third phase - the assault of the undead legion The third phase started when it seemed that The Bane Circle was losing the war. No lesser undead could harm any of these elementals and there simply was not enough these greater undeads (such as vampires, spectres and other non-corporal beings) to win all the elementals so the liches hit their smart skulls together and decided to use some dirty tactics and moved huge amounts of their legions to populated areas, such as cities and towns of all the major human and demi-human races. No matter were they elves or orcs, the undead armies moved forth toward these cities and started a real carnage. Wizards got really worried, even though their elementals and elemental spirits were victorious with the undead armies. It seemed that the evil was doing well. Phase four - the angelic intervention Wizards decided to dig up all the magical artifacts the had stored in their towers while they were thinking their next strategic move. Iriendor, the second powerful wizard of Arammon's covenant, found an ancient tome that was written a few thousand years ago. The tome was about ancient summoning rituals and opening a "gate" or portal to another plane of existence. Not just any plane, but a realm where angels and other elder creatures not from this world existed and lived. Iriendor, who was specialized in summoning and invocation rituals, studied the book with Arammon while other wizards controlled the elementals in the battlefield. At the same time, liches were planning to invoke some greater demons and beings but they did not have the power nor knowledge to do so. Finally Iriendor and Arammon made a breakthrough and found a way how to summon angels and other similar entities to the world to fight the undeads and to defeat them. A ritual began to create a portal to this realm of angels and other such creatures. It took a few long days and a lot of mana was used in this opening ceremony. Finally, the portal was created and opened and wizards connected some angelic entities. They explained the situation to them and a legion of angels decided to help them and entered the mortals' realm. Angels attacked the undead army and in a couple of days most of the undead were "slain". Now all looked like that the wizards were victorious, but meanwhile the liches had done their "homework" and studied the situation... Fifth stage - the apocalypse Not knowing or thinking enough, the wizards left the portal open. This was just what liches needed in order to summon the greater demons from another planes - a portal to the "higher planes". Liches somehow managed to take partially the control of the portal and successfully managed to invoke some greater demons as well. Fortunately, the wizards managed to close the portal before too many demons entered the world to spread chaos and destruction. Unfortunately, these greater demons brought a very powerful demon with them as they came through the portal. This demon was actually a demon prince called Decay (in common language, of course, which is used instead, since the real name is way too difficult for mortals to say*), who is one of the Nine Horsemen of Sinister and Yorkaturr and also a arch-demon in the realm of demons. The war got very furious indeed as the demons attacked their arch-enemies - the angels. The battle was apocalyptic sight: elementals, elemental spirits (djinns, efreeti, etc.) and angels and other angelic entities fighting with all kinds of undeads, lesser and major demons. Mortals where left alone by these creatures, except by a major individual - Decay. Decay is not "warrior-sort" of demon, thus his goals and tactics differ a lot from a "basic" demon. Instead of physical or magical combat, Decay spreads diseases and plagues among mortals (and some times diseases of magical origin as well, which may affect immortals, too), which then kill mortals slowly. The plague which Decay this time "planted" resembles a bit dementia. First it makes one to forget less important things, and as it gets worse, it makes people to forget more and more. Eventually, one forgets his name and other such information and as it still gets worse, one will finally forget how to eat, to drink and to breathe, and thus this disease leads to death. Some of the people survived the disease partially, only losing their memories of their past life, remembering only their name and such things while most people died. Some of the people got magically cured, but some of them, ironically, died in the battle between the liches' and wizards' armies. The final phase - the aftermath After the assault of Decay something strange happened. Sky turned black and total silence filled the world - Namhas had entered the world. Not in his avatar form, but in his true "form". First, some kind of fissure or crevasse appeared in the sky and a huge hand stretched from it. It grabbed Decay while it was still inoculating and spreading the disease and took it in the crevasse. Then a gigantic and furious storm began creating a huge vortex in the sky. The vortex sucked all the spirits, elementals, angels and demons in it and closed. The undead legions fall apart and the bones were scattered. Non-corporal undeads (such as vampires, spectres, wights etc.) simply vanished in the air. Magical bursts appeared amidst the Covenant of Arammon and The Bane Circle and engulfed them leaving not but magical ash there. After all the elementals, spirits, angels, undeads, demons gone and The Bane Circle and Covenant turned to ashes the silence disappeared and the world returned to it's "normal" state, except that a huge disaster just had happened. Most of the humans and demi-humans (or at least their centers, towns and cities) were destroyed. A lot of people were still alive, but not knowing what had happened, because of the Plague Decay had implanted earlier. World had faced a huge cataclysm (which is here named as "the Cataclysm") and it was time of rebuilding... Now I need some feedback. Comments about this idea. Do you like it or is it too full of cliches and "used ideas"? Is there reasons to use it or not use it? Does it fit the world of Majik at all or is there something which should be changed in order to use the idea? Just give me some feedback so I do not feel like I just wasted my time on creating and writing this. Kaoru Shalamberidze wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Sinister Serpent wrote: > > This is the thing why iv been arguing with you, it seems that you totally > dont understand how magic works and what it is. So i try to give an > example so you would get it. It seems that my "vision" about magic differs a lot from yours and in my explanation for cataclysm and its happenings are that the "rules" of magic were changed by gods after this disaster. I do not know if this fits the current history and/or magic of Majik but I will give my shot anyway. > The gods in the void, then they create the universe. They do the creation > and design everything in it. They design how reality works and they > enstablish the fundamentals of magick -that is the act of changing > reality. After that comes new gods, species of man, cataclysm etc..etc.. > and so on and so on and so forth. > > Now an example from real life : > > A group of people stands in an empty room. They decide to enstablish an > ant farm. They buy the glass aquarium to store ants inside. They design > the whole ant nest, how it works and where the ants are alloved to run. > Then they fill it with ants and they live there. And life if beautiful. <cut> <the crap> You know why your example about ants does not work (even though it is rather good example otherwise)? Ants have no magic which could affect the normal "laws of nature", so your example is unusuable. > And besides everything that makes up the universe, everything in the > creation is a design by the gods. They con exactly how things work, and > they can remove or add things from existence with ease. Yes, this all is true, gods can do this and that BUT they DO NOT intefere with mortals and all kinds of happenings and events all the time. They are there to supervise the balance etc. and not to use the world as their own playground. I am sorry for you if you think that world of Majik is just a playground for gods. It is NOT that and never will be. That is the main reason why do not gods intervene with the world all the time they can. > Humans around the aquiarium can flush it with gasoline and burn it if they > like, or they can throw objects inside.. pour more ants into it, squeeze > some old ones to death.. etc.. etc.. > Was this clear enough example for you? Sure, but as explained earlier, this is not how the gods do their business. -- | ~ Sinister / Serpent of Nightside ~ | | <sinister.serpent@sci.fi> http://i.am/sinister.serpent/ | --o-- Nightside homepage: http://www.netti.fi/~halsa/ --o-- | Nightside e-mail: <nightside@hotmail.com> |
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