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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8312321" data-attributes="member: 6788736">Hermes continues:At the Dawn of time, the Abyss came to be, a manifestation of the primordial chaos itself. As is the nature of chaos, other realms soon sprang into existence; some of which you might now call ‘the outer planes’.One of the earliest formed planes was Olympia, and in the same manner as the Abyss was spawned already inhabited by the Obilriths as manifestations of the nature of that accursed realm, the plane of Olympia also came to be already inhabited by fickle creatures of immense majesty and great power, who called themselves the Empyreans.In your common tongue, they are known colloquially as ‘Titans’.The Titans lived in peace in their new paradise, and some say even assisted a higher power in the creation of the material plane from the primordial Chaos. They in turn spawned offspring who called themselves the Olympians, who watched on as the place you call home was formed.It is said that when the creation was finished, the Titans angered this higher power in some manner. They were denied a chance to influence this new realm with divine authority, and the mantle was instead passed to their children, my masters.Many of the Titans took this as a grave insult, and a great civil war erupted in heaven largely unknown to most mortals, waged between the so called 'Thanatotic' Titan rebels, led by Chronos the greatest of their number, and the new Gods of Olympus.This great battle was called the Titanomachy, and it shook up and reshaped the heavens for better or for worse. The Olympians and their loyal Empyrean Titans on one side; the rebellious Thanatotic Titans on the other, aided and abetted by armies of fiends drawn from the deepest layers of the Abyss and other planes of evil.Towards the end of the Battle, Chronos. Leader of the rebels, assaulted Mount Olympus directly, leading a nightmarish army to directly assail the Gods themselves. The armies of Titans, fiends and Gods met with a mighty clash on the slopes of the sacred mountain, and the magical energy created was unlike anything seen before, or since.Whether this energy, the intervention of some higher power, or a simple act of fate or destiny, the conflict served to sunder the very plane of Olympia and the holy Mount Olympus itself into two distinct planar realms, each realm holding the remnants of that cosmic battle. These realms we know as Olympia, containing the Gods of Olympus, and its darker mirror, the prison plane of Carceri - a foul domain of evil, that houses the rebellious Thanatonic Titans, and their hideous daemonic servants.Notwithstanding the defeat of the rebels, the end result was a pyric victory for the Gods, with Mount Olympus itself being sundered and its ties to Aber Toril being weakened. My masters were left to look to other Prime material planes for worshippers, while the rebels railed against their entrapment in the sundered realm of Carceri, forever seeking some means to end their imprisonment.Few ways exist to leave the prison of Carceri outside of Divine intervention, mighty mortal magic or the services of the Ferryman Charon himself. The Thanatotic Titans were thus forever doomed to be confined to the Plane for all of eternity. Their presence, and the presence of other foul inhabitants have rendered the plane corrupting in its influence on mortals who foolishly visit, and become themselves trapped.Thus peace has been maintained for millennia. Until recently.It has come to my masters attention that the Mad Titan Krios, a fallen Empyreal imprisoned on Othrys in the Tartauran depths of Carceri, has discovered a method to break the imprisonment of the plane, and escape. Years ago a powerful adventurer was banished to Carceri, in possession of an artifact known as The Well of Many Worlds. Attempting to use the device to escape the plane, he drew the attention of the Mad Titan, who slew him and took the device for himself.It seems as if Krios, whose portfolio once included the stars and the heavens, unlocked some way to use the artifact to weaken and destabilize the boundaries of the prison plane. He constructed an arcane engine, seeking to use the power of the device to break the powerful magic.The God indicates towards the orrery, in particular the oscillating orb.The orrery you look at is a representation off the Great Wheel of the Planes, and that Orb represents the plane of Carceri. It seems as if the ritual threatens to destabilase the planar boundaries leading to the collapse of the wheel itself!</blockquote>

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