The Orb

The Orb is a large sunlike sphere, source of all life, death, order and chaos. Its sudden appearance during the Age of Old gave birth to life within its flames and 3 souls; The souls of the Sun, Death, and Life.

The races of Men, Elves, Dwarves and Gnomes emerged from the flames as well, and The Gods took them as their own, as their legion in a war against the Old, with the Gods as commanders and Lord Dilywn, King of The Gods and bearer of the Soul of Fire at their head.

The Gods where victorious in their war and Dilywn gifted his closest lieutenant's, Mors, bearer of the Soul of Death, and Gwaed, bearer of The Soul of Life. This victory initiated an Age of The Gods, propelling Dilwyns kingdom into everlasting domination of all of Landriac.

With the Orb high in the sky, and the Tower of the Orb constructed below it, great cults where formed in worship of the Orb, and the Way of the Reformation became the dominant way of thinking across the world.

Dilwyn, however, soon saw that the Orb was fading, and on the fading of the Orb there would come an Age of Men, fearing the lesser races and their perceived darkness, and the Gods hoarded Men into the distant Asylum of Men, with an order of Pursuer Knights formed to destroy any who escape. Other measures where taken for the other races.

Despite all these measures, the Orb still darkened, and as the sky's grew grim and black, in a final desperate measure, Dilwyn sacrificed his power to the Orb, thus lifting it with the weight of a hundred million slaughtered souls.

Since then, the Orb has been reset over and over, forever defying the natural order of the world.