A Lesson Of History
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Title: A Lesson of History.
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.
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 there was no way out. The Gargoyles even conjured the spirits of Minax, Mondain and Exodus to ambody their 3 shrines of principle. The Stranger hurled Mondains Skull into the mouth of the big black cave. And the opened, and the Stygian Abyss was discovered. Then he went in to find the Codex of Wisdom, discovered in the bottom chamber, The Chamber of Virtue. They even formed a colony in the abyss, Human and Gargoyles living together peacefully.
In 60 BC, The Great Council decided to remove the codex, enshrining it on the Isle of the Avatar. A drought tore through the northeast, drying up the Lake of Generosity, into the desert known as The Drylands. Beasts came from all over, and the virtue dungeons were sealed off, even Vesper was abandoned. At this point, 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 Colony was mostly unharmed during the time Lord British was kidnapped by The Shadowlords, but tensions started flaring up. The Gargoyles even divined that the False Prophet (who they claimed the avatar) was the cause of their collapse, by removing the Codex (which he didn't do). In order to restore peace between man and gargoyle, he would return the Codex to the abyss.
270 BC - The wizard Tyball allows the demon known as the Slasher of to kill Garamon, trapping the beast within the Great Stygian Abyss's Chamber of Virtue. Also, The Avatar witnessed the kidnapping of Arial, thedaughter of Baron Almric III. Accused of the deed himself, The Avatar is sent in to the abyss to rescue her or die trying. As it turns out, Tyball was the kidnapper. The Avatar has succeeded in freeing her of his grasps. With help from The Avatar openes a dimensional gate at the base of the abyss to banish the Slasher of Veils from Britania. In so doing, a volcano erupted destroying the remains of the once thriving human-gargoyle colony.
Baron Almric III decided to abandon his settlements on the Isle of the Avatar. Before his death, he managed to train Batlin, who along with Abraham, and Elizabeth would make their own attempts to lay siege to the land. Meanwhile, The Stygian Abyss would fade into history. What became of this place, and what still lives in it? Is there anything of the old settlement in tact? Does the Codex still remain safe? Is the ghost of Garamon 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. The Gargoyles stopped using the abyss when Stonegate was destroyed when Lord Vemalon decided to claim it as his private estate, driving out a clan who, oddly was wingless. Due to the underworlds collapse, and the abyss eruption, the gargoyles seeking peace mostly became myth, and fled to old cities they once thrived in. Using their best to recreate their past society, they are often labled as traitors by the ones still savage.Observing the gargoyles code of virtue it is debatable who the false prophet really was.
Nothing else is recorded happening in the abyss from the time of the eruption to this moderen day. The next book will look at virtue... in a different perspective.