Skaerra || Religion & Lore

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The religious and mythical aspects of the world of Skaerra will be written in here.

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The Beginning

In the beginning, there was one entity, the Creator. He created the Night and the Chaos. The Night and the Chaos were bound by a union that birthed the existence of Time. The Creator shaped the Chaos into a form known as Order. He set about designing the realm of Skaerra. His immense power brought forth those who would become his agents. These agents would be tasked to build forth his design from the Night.

These beings, shaped from his thoughts, would be known as the Aea (Eye-ah). The Aea became the stewards of Skaerra (Sky-ra). They formed a pantheon in the Upper Plane to cement their rule. And from there they began to shape the world of Skaerra as the Creator had instructed unto them. Their music reached forth across the world in a never ending ebb and flow that created Life on Skaerra through the Essence.

The Aea assigned a number of its lower brothers and sisters to the role of the Watchers. The Watchers were tasked with observing the young races that began to flourish on the world. The leader of the Watchers was Molos.

But some of the Watchers grew restless of years of safeguarding the creatures. Some felt their duty of protecting and nurturing these imperfect creations a waste of the purpose of such perfect beings as themselves. And their disdain for the creatures came forth in their light and sound. Their discord melded with the music woven by their brothers and sisters on high. The dissonance shook the world of Skaerra. And from thence, the creatures of Skaerra and those to come were forever marred by their pain and disdain.

There was a greater consequence through the disharmony, for from those tremors came forth an entity of great darkness and shadow. It would contain great power and wield great malice. Its reach would extend across all of Skaerra and even into the Upper Plane, where the corruption spread to the noblest of souls from within. This incarnation of disharmony was shapeless and formless, a black mass that wandered the stars observing creation and bearing inside its core the cries of sin. It was a child of chaos that disobeyed the all-father.

The War in Heaven

Molos was an angel, the chief of the Watchers. He and the Watchers had spent time among the mortal races of the realm. They had time to contemplate their existence. They could sense that something had gone wrong in the high heavens with their eldest brother, Oelne, who sat on high along with their other brethren.

The Dark One had come very closely to Oelne, the servant of the Creator, aware of his pride. He preyed on the Aea's darkest desires, ones that overwhelmed his loyalty to the all-father. The Darkness tempted him.

Molos led a band of his brothers and sisters to the Fields of Imir before the Heavenly Citadel and asked to speak with Oelne, only to be rebuffed and returned to their posts. Molos sensed an essence-foreign, latent within Oelne, and sought to return him to his senses. Oelne branded Molos and his followers as traitors to the will of the Creator.

Molos was known as the Fallen Star and he led his followers against Oelne and their other brothers and sisters. Their mighty hosts clashed on the Fields of Imir before the Heavenly Palaces. The heavens were shattered, and a great deluge rose up and claimed the world, scouring it of whatever life existed.

Many Stars fell until Oelne triumphed over Molos, he proclaimed himself and his brothers and sisters as the gods of Skaerra. Those that were captured were bound by the shackles and cast upon the world, their light chained within great stones. The wounded Molos and a few of those who survived un-captured fled from Skaerra. He bade Ircys to watch over them as he departed into the expanse of Night seeking the Creator for his aid against the Darkness. He was not seen for a millennia, during that time Oelne and the others ruled over the mortal races of Skaerra as false gods, seeking to impose their will on creation. It was merely the will of the shapeless Darkness that was corrupting the young races, seeking to unify itself with the Essence.

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Figures and Entities

The One Creator - Designer of the universe, perhaps the universe itself, an entity unknown, believed to be the source from which all came.

Death - One of the most powerful beings in the universe, he is indifferent to the affairs of the worldly races.

Night

Chaos

The Formless Darkness

Aea/Angels
Oelne - Lord of the Heavens
Molos - Leader of the Watchers (former), The Fallen Star
Ircys - Second in Command of the Watchers, follower of Molos

Elemental Wardens
Vul- Lord of Earth, Warden of the Forge
Aergoth- Lord of Fire, Bane of the Fallen
Okenthes - Lady of Water, She Who Nourishes
Faeroch- Lady of Wind, The Breath of Life, She Who Hears All

The Three Tellers of Fate - They weave the strands of fate.
Denma - The youngest of the Three Fates
Aunma - The middle of the Three Fates
Kun - The oldest of the Three Fates

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The Dwarven Schism

Long ago, before the Dwarves were known as the Dwarves and the Duergar were known as the Duergar, they were all known as the Kazullda. The Kazullda were a hardy folk interested in the gems buried in the mountains, and they were a very industrious and expansionist folk. Their fledgling realms under the mountains sent out envoys to meet with the other peoples of Dessor for years.

The Kazullda had long been ruled by the House Gorogast. The line's founder, Themel Gorogast, had been chosen by Oelne to lead over the Kazullda like a fist around a hammer. Legends say that Themel earned this for having saved Oelne from the blows of a fallen Aea named Ircys.

In the year 1720, a dwarf by the name of Agaddan Dueradul began to openly challenge the rule King Huerek Gorogast of the ancient line. Dueradul was a non-traditionalist dwarf who bore eccentric upbringings. His parents abandoned him at a young age and wolves raised the dwarfling until he grew into a charismatic and bold adolescent dwarf.

The young Dueradul rejoined his people and quickly made a name for himself as a warrior, a leader, a thinker, and an artifice. He was a famed goblinslayer. When Lord Nain Buradar fell in battle, he took over as Lord of the Highland Dwarves and instituted administrative reforms to ensure that enough mithril could go around. He was open-minded and fearless. When the prosperity of the dwarven realms began to decline with inept Gorogast kings soiling the line of Themel, he began to challenge their age old inheritance.

Dueradul attracted many followers, who were drawn to his different perspective and open to the possibility of a non-Gorogast King. Others eventually labeled them Duergar, meaning "the party of Dueradul," although it would eventually mean "sons of Dueradul." At first their attempts at change were peaceful. However, Dueradul, frustrated at the pace of things and the Gorogasts' resistance, decided on the warpath to necessitate the change.

During the Battle of Joronea, Dueradul was slain by Huerek Gorogast's son, Orazar. Orazar fell quickly afterward, slain with his own axe. The Duergar, rather than surrender and end the feud after their leader fell, chose to exile themselves to the black peaked Tylandar mountains where they have remained since.