Chronicles: The History Of The Great Stygian Abyss
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Title: Chronicles: The History of The Great Stygian Abyss.
Author: Ronefaer Velderi
Let us reflect on a place that we will all soon be in, a place of forgotten lore, and secrets.
Let us reflect on the history of...
The Stygian Abyss.
Located on the Isle of the Avatar, the Great Stygian Abyss was somewhat of a branchoff from the underworld. Baron Almric who presided over Avatar Isle found the place in the center of the island. In The Begining of the Age of Enlightenment, Circa 10 B.C., The Stranger knew what he had to do. Humans and Gargoyles were in a bitter war, and The Gargoyles even conjured the spirits of Minax, Mondain and Exodus to embody their 3 shrines of principle. The Stranger hurled Mondains Skull into the mouth of the big black cave. And so the Stygian Abyss opened. Then he went in to find the Codex of Wisdom, in the bottom chamber, The Chamber of Virtue. Sir Cabirus made a colony in the abyss, All races living together in peace. In 60 BC, The Great Council decided to remove the codex, resting it on the Isle of the Avatar. A drought hit the northeast, drying up the Lake of Generosity, into the the desert known as The Drylands. Beasts ravaged all over, and the virtue dungeons were sealed off, even Vesper was abandoned. To top it off, Sir Cabirus died in the depths of the abyss of old age. At this point, the world in chaos, Baron Almric II sealed the entrance to the abyss, as racial tensions tore the colony, and the Isle of the Avatar became a less peaceful place.
The Gargoyles even divined that the False Prophet (who they claimed the avatar) was the cause of their collapse, by removing the Codex. In order to restore peace between man and gargoyle, he would return the Codex to the abyss. By this time the colony had fallen, and the abyss was used primarily as a dungeon imprisoning the worst of all people. 270- The wizard Tyball allows the demon known as the Slasher of Veils to kill Garamon, trapping the beast within the Great Stygian Abyss's Chamber of Virtue. The Avatar witnessed the kidnapping of Arial, daughter of Baron Almric III. Accused of the deed himself, The Avatar is sent in to the Stygian Abyss to rescue her or die trying. As it turns out, Tyball was the kidnapper. The Avatar has succeeds in freeing her of his grasps. Helping The Avatar, Garamon opens a gate at the Stygian Abyss to banish the Slasher of Veils from Britania. In so doing, a volcano erupted destroying the remains of the prison and colony. Baron Almric III's settlements soon abandoned the Isle of the Avatar. In time, this would fade into history.
The Isle of Avatar would soon empty out, and many say it fell beneath the seas. What became of this place, and what still lives in it? Is there anything of the prison or settlement in tact? Is the Codex still safe? Is the volcano still present, or what of the Slasher of Veils? Will he make a return? Anything survive the voclanic eruption in its base? These things i can not answer, as i await them like you. A Winglss Gargoyle clan used the nearby area until Stonegate, their lair, was destroyed when Lord Vemalon decided to claim it as his private estate.
Due to the underworlds collapse, and the abyss eruption, the gargoyles seeking peace mostly became myth, and fled to their old lands. Nothing else is recorded happening in the abyss from the time of the eruption to this day. The next book will look at virtue... in a different perspective.