RoughCoronet0
Dragon Lover
1. The Devils of my world of Salvera aren't evil soul corrupters or scheming backstabbers. Instead they are forces of law and order that act as the dark protectors against the truly evil and corrupt forces of chaos and destruction such as demons and the denizens of the Far Realm. Each of the 7 Arch-devils act as paragons of different concepts that have both good and evil aspects. Many civilizations revere and follow the teaching of these Arch-devils, and at least two of them are viewed as actual hero's to the mortals. The first being Hekzia, the Serpent of Secrets, who taught mortals how to use arcane magic during the climax of the Creator Wars in order to protect themselves from the destructive forces of both the gods and primordials. The second is Zarkator, the Chromatic Treasurer, who came to the defense of the main dwarven kingdom when a mass flight of metallic dragons began razing their lands in an effort to exterminate all beings with chromatic dragon blood in their veins on the order of their celestial leader. Many a Paladin, Cleric, and Warlock align themselves with these beings and are treated as respected members within the devil's hierarchy.
2. Normally, when a soul dies, it goes to an appropriate Outer Plane that matches strongest with their moral views or to a plane connected to a creator god or some deity they worshipped in life. For Salvera however, the soul's connection to the Outer Plane was severed when the gods abandoned their creations and the Colossi (the immortal beings that act in their stead) banded together to stabilize the plane. Though the Colossi were powerful, they did not contain the level of divinity necessary to pull any normal follower to them in order to be reborn on the Colossi’s demiplane like the Gods could. Only the truly devout could achieve the ability to anchor themselves to their Colossi in life, so they could be properly drawn to their afterlife in death. This meant that most souls would have simply wandered the Material and Ethereal Planes to be tormented and preyed upon by all manner of horrid creatures until they faded alone into oblivion. Likewise, new souls would have ceased to be created as they stemmed from the Outer Plane as well. However, one Colossi would not allow the mortals who had fought and died so valiantly for their traitorous creators to suffer such a fate. So, in an act many claim to be the breaking point between the gods and their creations, a powerful being known as Letheus attacked the very foundation of a floating structure in the Astral Sea that contained the most powerful artifact the gods have ever created, the Wellspring of Souls, causing it to fall onto the Material Plane.
The Wellspring of Souls is an Artifact larger than the largest lake on the plane, said to have been made by the gods to infuse all their creations on the plane with a spark of their divine essence, a soul. Soon after the Colossi stabilized the plane, Letheus created a huge demiplane to house the Wellspring, which now both the artifact and the great serpent reside. There, Letheus acts as the being in charge of death and rebirth, taking the souls of the boundless (those not bound to a Colossi's afterlife) into its huge undead snake body through it's front head and purifying them for rebirth, releasing them though it's back head. It is also in charge of releasing brand new souls from the well into the cycle of life and death. Letheus maintains this cycles, and ensures that mortals are given every opportunity to achieve their desired afterlife. Only willing souls are allowed to be claimed by the other Colossi and no one would dare challenge it's authority as they are stated to be the most powerful of these ancient beings.
3. Though the Colossi have managed to stabilize the plane after the Creator Wars and work to maintain the balance of the different forces, much of the world is still scarred even after several eons. Several places of the plane were forever changed due to these forces that spilled out during the war, and the remaining planar tears and scars have slowly leaked their energies from various places that have change the surrounding ecosystems overtime. The continent of Multa is a rich source of minerals and elemental energies that spills from tears from the Elemental Chaos. Izeron is a land of darkness, corruption, and necrotic energies that shrouds the whole continent is gloom and grays, though at it's center stands a massive volcano that slowly spews bright positive energy that stands in defiance against the various energies leaks from the lower planes. The Twilight Forest of the continent of Avarune has been infused with both the vibrant energies of the Feywild and the draining shadows of the Shadowfell to create a place always bathed in under a starry sky.
2. Normally, when a soul dies, it goes to an appropriate Outer Plane that matches strongest with their moral views or to a plane connected to a creator god or some deity they worshipped in life. For Salvera however, the soul's connection to the Outer Plane was severed when the gods abandoned their creations and the Colossi (the immortal beings that act in their stead) banded together to stabilize the plane. Though the Colossi were powerful, they did not contain the level of divinity necessary to pull any normal follower to them in order to be reborn on the Colossi’s demiplane like the Gods could. Only the truly devout could achieve the ability to anchor themselves to their Colossi in life, so they could be properly drawn to their afterlife in death. This meant that most souls would have simply wandered the Material and Ethereal Planes to be tormented and preyed upon by all manner of horrid creatures until they faded alone into oblivion. Likewise, new souls would have ceased to be created as they stemmed from the Outer Plane as well. However, one Colossi would not allow the mortals who had fought and died so valiantly for their traitorous creators to suffer such a fate. So, in an act many claim to be the breaking point between the gods and their creations, a powerful being known as Letheus attacked the very foundation of a floating structure in the Astral Sea that contained the most powerful artifact the gods have ever created, the Wellspring of Souls, causing it to fall onto the Material Plane.
The Wellspring of Souls is an Artifact larger than the largest lake on the plane, said to have been made by the gods to infuse all their creations on the plane with a spark of their divine essence, a soul. Soon after the Colossi stabilized the plane, Letheus created a huge demiplane to house the Wellspring, which now both the artifact and the great serpent reside. There, Letheus acts as the being in charge of death and rebirth, taking the souls of the boundless (those not bound to a Colossi's afterlife) into its huge undead snake body through it's front head and purifying them for rebirth, releasing them though it's back head. It is also in charge of releasing brand new souls from the well into the cycle of life and death. Letheus maintains this cycles, and ensures that mortals are given every opportunity to achieve their desired afterlife. Only willing souls are allowed to be claimed by the other Colossi and no one would dare challenge it's authority as they are stated to be the most powerful of these ancient beings.
3. Though the Colossi have managed to stabilize the plane after the Creator Wars and work to maintain the balance of the different forces, much of the world is still scarred even after several eons. Several places of the plane were forever changed due to these forces that spilled out during the war, and the remaining planar tears and scars have slowly leaked their energies from various places that have change the surrounding ecosystems overtime. The continent of Multa is a rich source of minerals and elemental energies that spills from tears from the Elemental Chaos. Izeron is a land of darkness, corruption, and necrotic energies that shrouds the whole continent is gloom and grays, though at it's center stands a massive volcano that slowly spews bright positive energy that stands in defiance against the various energies leaks from the lower planes. The Twilight Forest of the continent of Avarune has been infused with both the vibrant energies of the Feywild and the draining shadows of the Shadowfell to create a place always bathed in under a starry sky.
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