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Quoted By: >>5290398
Five millennia have passed since the fall of the Machine Builders, or so the textbooks say.
You live in the World Reborn, beneath the light of the second sun whose name is Wisdom. A million miles beneath your feet - perhaps even further than that - the corpse of the first sun spins upon its midnight axis as a horrific reminder of mankind's hubris. Smothered in a dense and loathsome smog of corruption, it drinks in all light an births foul demons into the world. Yet without that hateful undead star holding everything together by its gravity, the flying islands of the World Reborn would scatter beyond the astral strata and into the cold void of space. All life would be choked out, the winds of life would disperse into the void...
...or so the textbooks say. Little enough is known about the Black Star Below, and few who enter into the lowest strata where the mists of corruption grow dense and one can behold its horrific emptiness return to tell the tale. Either they are consumed by the star or the creatures that it births, or its darkness taints their minds and drives them beyond the precipice of madness. All that is known for sure is that those mists birth the greatest threat to humanity.
(Aside from other humans, of course)
Demons. The Star-Spawned. Wretched abominations spat out by the corpse of the first sun, rapacious beasts that know only of madness, chaos, and destruction. Those unlucky enough to survive one of their attacks will eventually succumb to their madness, their humanity eroding away from exposure to the Black Star's taint. When they broke the first sun in their quest for infinite energy, the Machine Builders unleashed these threats upon the Old World, and beneath the weight of these threats their once glorious civilization fell.
But before they fell, they left behind one last gift for their descendants - the second sun named Wisdom, and the stars that gathered around Him. His light cleansed the taint from the highest strata of the World Reborn, and His greatest warriors - the Magical Girls - drove the demons back into the Mists from whence they came.
Those times are long past. Outside of the lowest strata, attacks by the Star-Spawned are incredibly rare. But the Magical Girls who protect humanity retain their prestige, serving as Wisdom's hands upon the earth to keep the peace among humanity... and answer Demonic activity with overwhelming firepower. Every child wants to be one when they grow up, and many have the spark to join the Magical Girl Reserve.
You live in the World Reborn, beneath the light of the second sun whose name is Wisdom. A million miles beneath your feet - perhaps even further than that - the corpse of the first sun spins upon its midnight axis as a horrific reminder of mankind's hubris. Smothered in a dense and loathsome smog of corruption, it drinks in all light an births foul demons into the world. Yet without that hateful undead star holding everything together by its gravity, the flying islands of the World Reborn would scatter beyond the astral strata and into the cold void of space. All life would be choked out, the winds of life would disperse into the void...
...or so the textbooks say. Little enough is known about the Black Star Below, and few who enter into the lowest strata where the mists of corruption grow dense and one can behold its horrific emptiness return to tell the tale. Either they are consumed by the star or the creatures that it births, or its darkness taints their minds and drives them beyond the precipice of madness. All that is known for sure is that those mists birth the greatest threat to humanity.
(Aside from other humans, of course)
Demons. The Star-Spawned. Wretched abominations spat out by the corpse of the first sun, rapacious beasts that know only of madness, chaos, and destruction. Those unlucky enough to survive one of their attacks will eventually succumb to their madness, their humanity eroding away from exposure to the Black Star's taint. When they broke the first sun in their quest for infinite energy, the Machine Builders unleashed these threats upon the Old World, and beneath the weight of these threats their once glorious civilization fell.
But before they fell, they left behind one last gift for their descendants - the second sun named Wisdom, and the stars that gathered around Him. His light cleansed the taint from the highest strata of the World Reborn, and His greatest warriors - the Magical Girls - drove the demons back into the Mists from whence they came.
Those times are long past. Outside of the lowest strata, attacks by the Star-Spawned are incredibly rare. But the Magical Girls who protect humanity retain their prestige, serving as Wisdom's hands upon the earth to keep the peace among humanity... and answer Demonic activity with overwhelming firepower. Every child wants to be one when they grow up, and many have the spark to join the Magical Girl Reserve.
