General

The world was created after an entity known as The One that Was came into existence and immediately perished in a big bang event.

Its remains split and created two different planes, overlaid on top of one another:

• The Material Plane is the regular flesh, blood and dirt world: "regular" magic exists within it independently from the Oniric Plane.
• The Oniric Plane is a conceptual plane overlaid on top of the Material one that is highly receptive to living beings' cognition, being chiefly shaped by it. It more or less follows the Material Plane, and is the source of all Oniric Arts and the birthplace of gods.

Despite the Oniric Plane coming into existence after The One That Was, the concept of his presence lingered for long enough to create within it the seed that would eventually grow into The Maker.

As mentioned in the Oniric Plane section, smaller fragments of The One that Was went on to create the First Gods, chief among them the Fated Twins, entities of pure concept with limitless potential.

For more detailed information on the world's mythology please check the Gods and Suchlike shelf.

As the Twins traveled the newborn world and watched as civilizations emerged and fell from the safety of the Oniric Plane, they eventually stopped and became enamored with a particular people, composed of mostly undesirables and outcasts from other cultures who nonetheless pressed on: the land they eventually settled on would be called Obsydia, at the southernmost tip of the Naluund peninsula.

Endlessly curious about them the Fated Twins were shaped by them in return, coalescing their endless forms into individual gods; because of this the one who called himself Ego managed to bridge the gap between the worlds and be the first trueborn Oniric to stumble into the Material Plane, soon followed by his brothers and sisters.

As the twins grew alongside their people a golden age of prosperity befell Obsidya and the world at large, as the Twins worked tirelessly to explain and expand their newborn world, making leaps and bounds in every field of arts and sciences by exploiting the cognitive nature of the Oniric Plane.

Sadly, good times hardly last.

An entity only remembered as The First Dragonslayer allied themselves with the dragons who had once roamed the land where now Obsidya stood; with their help they tricked and killed Cronodia, the most innocent of the Twins, and used her corpse to sneak into the Oniric Plane along with their followers.

 What followed was the Bloodbath, a murderous and senseless rampage that would leave all of the Twins but Ego and all of their descendants and associates dead.

Among the carnage, however, Ego was saved by a human woman named Alma and then witnessed a miracle: as Alma lay dying in his arms her countenance changed,and someone new, someone more was born. She called herself Ara; Ego felt she was something impossible, not quite human nor quite god, but he had no time to ponder upon the question: despite her nature she succumbed to her injuries and fell down into the Material plane, giving him the opportunity he needed to flee and save himself.

Story sided with the victors, and quickly enough the truth about the Twins was forgotten; their corpses, molded into the sacrilegious Incubus Mundi, now answered their followers' prayers, as the newborn Kingdom of Obsidya rose as one of the primary political forces within Naluund, eventually expanding into an empire under the rule of Koreya I.

Centuries later a nameless emperor of Obsidya rediscovered the Mundi and decided that his reign would be the last tainted with the sins of the Bloodbath: he trained his daughter Niraya from childhood in the almost forgotten Oniric Arts and made sure she would grow up surrounded by valuable allies; and sure enough, when the time was right and Niraya came of age, a group of hand-picked individuals with the potential to change history was called to arms by the princess regent herself.

Calling themelves the Obsidian Strongholds, they set out to answer their old friend's call, ready to fight off men and gods alike.