Lore

This is an early and relatively high concept of the universe's lore. More will be written when the state of the world during the game will have been decided.

Creation
Nobody knows how the universe came to be, but some people like to speculate things about huge explosions others prefer the idea that it was created by gods. Some say it was built by one almighty god, but most people reject that idea. After all, how could one little god create a whole universe when it took 4 to breathe life into Amodos?

The Beginning
Amodos is a planet within the universe. It has 4 gods, no one knows how these gods came to be, some speculate they're powerful creatures from outer space, others that they were created by more powerful gods, and even others that they were the first lifeforms to exist. The gods have their own side of the story too and it is simply that they don't know for sure either.

The 4 gods that now exist are In their childhood, Xandis, Maton and Zinth all appeared on Cestaria. Zinth and Maton were always playing with each other, but when Xandis tried to join in Maton always forced her to leave, so she spent her childhood alone watching Maton and Zinth play. Quiline which had appeared alone on Necembel but eventually she found her way to Cestaria. When Xandis met Quiline they were both thrilled to finally escape their solitude, and after that they could never be seperated from one another.
 * Maton the god of "Light" he resembles human males in appearance.
 * Xandis the goddess of "Darkness", she is an undead female not dissimilar from humans in appearance.
 * Quiline the goddess of "Chaos", she is a hermaphrodite that looks like a succubus.
 * Zinth the god/ess of "Balance" it is a genderless being with no specific shape, but it likes to appear as a human sized faerie with no genitals.

( Note : Quiline and Xandis are sisters, but Maton and Zinth are not brothers, this requires explanation)

These 4 gods existed on the surface of amodos, they were mostly split into two groups, Quiline and Xandis were always together, talking, exploring, playing games and enjoying each others company. In the meantime Maton and Zinth discussed philosophy and played games (mostly chess).

After many years passed, Quiline and Xandis had explored the entire surface of the planet, and Maton and Zinth got a bit tired of never doing anything else than playing chess. So the gods all met up on the highest peak in Jokland, and they decided that they should do something to make the world more interesting.

Maton started by saying that the world would be a lot more interesting if there were more than 4 lifeforms in it, and suggested they all create more life on this planet.

Xandis suggested that all lifeforms should be able to die, how they can die is a detail, but nothing they create can be permanent, everything except for the 4 of them must end at some point. She suggested methods like aging, decapitation and limiting the life-force other beings will have access to.

Quiline said she wanted all lifeforms to have access to their magic. "It'd make things a lot more interesting to see what these creations will do with our magic"

Zinth said that flooding the world with intelligent life only would be risky, and suggested each god would be limited to creating only 2 intelligent lifeforms, and everything else they create must have it's intelligence limited. He also said that if all the creations would have access to their powerful magic, the world would be destroyed in a matter of days so he also asked them to limit the amount of magical power that their creations will have.

All of the gods agreed to these ideas. Zinth said that he wanted to start by re-shaping the world to prepare the world for their creations. By pooling the magical power of all 4 gods together, Zinth created nature, starting with trees, critters, fish and birds.

Next Zinth said that all the gods should go seperate ways and find their own homes, but Xandis absolutely refused to be seperated from her beloved sister. She said she feared nothing more than solitude, and Quiline agreed. Zinth then said that the purpose of seperating the gods was to divide their power evenly and avoid any two gods pooling their powers together and creating something another god couldn't match. He said that Quiline and Xandis could live together if they promised not to break the world's balance by doing anything of that sort. Both of them were fine with these rules and finally Zinth made the other gods promise never to use their powers again outside of their chosen home without agreement between all 4, this way the gods would never be able to struggle for power amongst each other directly (Speaking specifically of Maton and Xandis) which could destroy this world they just worked so hard to create. This way the gods could also never directly interfere with the racial disputes between their creations.

The sisters of Darkness and Chaos, Xandis and Quiline made their home beneath the surface of Necembel.

The god of Light, Maton makes his home above the land of Cestaria.

Finally, the god of Balance, Zinth makes it's home in another dimension which can only be accessed from the bottom of the sea off shore from the forests of Alfinil or Magdolon.

First, Maton created the Fel'du and the now extinct Shif, (The Shif later became Sikruf after breeding with humans.) he also created the Life and Mental magic schools, and spread some books over the world to teach them. He also created some monsters and his own personal army of angels.

Meanwhile, Quiline created the Demons on the tainted lands of Necembel, and the Garax on Magdolon. She also created Illusion and Conjuration magic and like Maton spread spellbooks over the world. She also created a variety of monsters.

Next, Xandis created the Undead, on the dead parts of Necembeel and she also created "Special" monsters. She made the Summoning and Destruction spell schools as-well and like the other gods, spread spellbooks over the world. She also created a variety of undead monsters.

Finally, Zinth made his move and created Humans to make up for the fact that Maton was the only god that had not created any race in his own image, and Fae which were as close to his image as it gets. He then created Animals and the Shapeshifting and Alteration magic schools and like the others spread spellbooks over the world.

From an unknown source, as everything had been created Dragons invaded the world of Amodos and nested in mountains and caves. There was speculation that Quiline and Xandis did it but they claim that they had no part in it.

Religion Status and the fate of the Shif
After the gods had created life on Amodos, the dominant races were the ancient Shif, Humans, Garax, Demons, Fae, Fel'du and Undead, However the Shif had a design flaw and they could very rarely successfully give birth to children, a newborn Shif was an extreme rarity and in order for their race to survive, the Shif seeked out the easiest target, Humans and bred with them rather than each other. The result of that is what is known today as Sikruf, and fortunately the Sikruf can breed with each other so they don't have to assault other races.

The Sikruf and Humans share a very close relationship seeing as the ancestors of the Sikruf were the children of humans in the past. But there are some Sikruf tribes that live outside their capital city that were raised by the primitive Shif and are more dangerous than the other Sikruf. Humans and Sikruf generally worship Maton, the god of life. However, magicians of all races tend to worship whichever deity that created their preferred school of magic.

Humans worshipping Maton is a bit strange as they were actually created by Zanth, the god of Balance. There's a story behind this.

Ever since Xandis's creation of the Undead, Maton was completely enraged at her and has been trying to get rid of her and her "abominations" ever since. Maton has always hated Xandis, and it was always a matter of time when he'd find an excuse to try to kill her.

The Fel'du disagreed with their god Maton, as peaceful in nature as they are, they didn't approve of Maton's ideals, they did not want to destroy the undead, nor the demons, they didn't want to go fight any wars. This lead them to start worshipping Zanth instead of their creator Maton.

As a result of that, Maton was enraged, and started plotting to exterminate the Fel'du in his anger, but his childhood friend, Zanth stepped in and convinced him to calm down. Zanth said that he had predicted this would happen which was why he created the humans. "The humans i created were created in your image, and they are much more likely to want to worship you than the Fel'du. Instead of turning to violence, why don't we just team up and convince the Humans to worship you instead of the Fel'du?"

Maton reluctantly agreed with Zanth, genocide was indeed overreacting. And so Zanth and Maton both appeared in the human capital on Cestaria, in there Zanth, the god that the humans worshipped at the time, told the humans that they should start worshipping Maton instead of himself. He said that he asked them to do this to maintain the balance of power between the gods, and told them he was asking them for help. The human government instantly agreed to turn to worshipping Maton since they were personally asked to do so by their own god, and within a couple of years only a few humans on Cestaria would still be worshipping Zanth.

The Fel'du now worship Zanth, along with the Faeries. Demons and Garax worship their creator Quiline if they worship anyone at all, and the Undead worship Xandis. While Humans and Sikruf worship Maton.

Quiline was not going to sit idly by while Maton was encouraging his humans and sikruf to attack her sister and the undead. So she told her demons to infest the caves beneath Cestaria and actively attack humans.

Alliances and Relations
Humans absolutely hate the undead and fear demons, they are actively fighting the undead for territory on Jokland, and on Cestaria they commonly conflict with the demons that reside in the tainted areas beneath the surface. They will allow any race except for undead into their cities and villages.

Demons are fiercely territorial creatures, and are always fighting the undead for territory on Necembel. Apart from this they have no real natural enemies and some demons might be hostile to everyone, but other demons might be friendly to everyone, demons are unpredictable creatures and the presence of certain types that tend to be more civilized like the Succubi and Incubi are usually tolerated by all races. Even the humans that sometimes get attacked by other demons. Demons will allow anyone into their cities and villages at their own risk.

The Undead are generally friendly creatures, but commonly misunderstood. They actively defend themselves from the attacks of demons in their homeland, and because Jokland is frozen which decreases the rate at which their bodies will decay, they often try to move to there in hope for peace, but they didn't find peace there either because the humans chased them there and actively hunt undead in Jokland. The undead will allow anyone into their cities and villages, but are fairly cautious towards Humans and Demons.

The Garax are aggressive creatures, although they generally don't attack intelligent beings on sight, they seem to have a particular hate for Sikruf. Otherwise they are going to ignore you unless you get too close to them, of course there are friendly Garax out there, but the ones in Magdolon are usually going to be unfriendly towards anyone that isn't also a Garax. The garax that move into Kalhiri also sometimes have conflicts with the Fel'du, but thanks to Fel'du's peaceful nature they often manage to avoid it.

The Sikruf, Fae and Fel'du are friendly towards all the other races, but the Sikruf will be cautious of any Garax they encounter.

Monsters
Monsters distribution between the continents at a later development stage. There will be dragons on all the continents and also underwater, they're the most dangerous creatures in the game. There will also be eleves in Alfinil. apart from that not much is going to be decided until it has to be.