In the distant past, a great calamity threatened all life. It began without warning. The very laws of the star were warped and broken, and chaos swiftly spread throughout the land. Faced with annihilation, we sought to imbue the star with its own will. Through prayer and sacrifice, the will of the star was made manifest. Zodiark was His name, and by His grace was the calamity averted. A savior mighty and magnificent, deserving of reverence and gratitude ... one would have thought.
Yet some thought otherwise. From the fears of these naysayers would rise Hydaelyn. As a counterbalance to Zodiark, Hydaelyn was created with the power to enervate Her foe. The singular ability strikes not as such banal things as flesh, but everything that defies the target, diluting its existence. For example, were She to strike you, two individuals she would make identical in appearance, yet reduced in all respects. Strength, intelligence, the soul itself --- all is halved.
And so they fought, and they fought, and they fought. And in the end Hydaelyn was victorious. With all Her strength She smote Him and His being was divided into fourteen. The selfsame fate befell not only Zodiark, but the very star. Into fourteen fragments was the star and all that dwell upon it shattered --- a source and thirteen reflections.
Those of us that survived the Sundering, few that we were, took it upon ourselves to rejoin the worlds. We discovered a connection ‘twixt Source and shard --- a flow of energy that maintains elemental balance. Disrupt the balance of aether on a shard, and it can be rejoined with the source. And thus do we toil to make the world whole again.
Your Starscourge is dark aspected. Creating such a disruption in balance is a delicate, tedious process. Yet have we to succeed in this aspect of aether though we have tried and failed.
Re: Day 188 - Early morning
Yet some thought otherwise. From the fears of these naysayers would rise Hydaelyn. As a counterbalance to Zodiark, Hydaelyn was created with the power to enervate Her foe. The singular ability strikes not as such banal things as flesh, but everything that defies the target, diluting its existence. For example, were She to strike you, two individuals she would make identical in appearance, yet reduced in all respects. Strength, intelligence, the soul itself --- all is halved.
And so they fought, and they fought, and they fought. And in the end Hydaelyn was victorious. With all Her strength She smote Him and His being was divided into fourteen. The selfsame fate befell not only Zodiark, but the very star. Into fourteen fragments was the star and all that dwell upon it shattered --- a source and thirteen reflections.
Those of us that survived the Sundering, few that we were, took it upon ourselves to rejoin the worlds. We discovered a connection ‘twixt Source and shard --- a flow of energy that maintains elemental balance. Disrupt the balance of aether on a shard, and it can be rejoined with the source. And thus do we toil to make the world whole again.
Your Starscourge is dark aspected. Creating such a disruption in balance is a delicate, tedious process. Yet have we to succeed in this aspect of aether though we have tried and failed.