Key Individuals Of Nyboria’s Modern History

Endymion, the Great

Upon Mount Latus, Endymion ruled the kingdoms of Clis and Earia, as well as the surrounding heavens. From birth he had been chosen by Apollinaire, the Prophet, to take his position as Mount Latus’ guardian, earning the title of Grand Inquisitor. Endymion ruled for over two centuries until a fatal sickness cast him down from grace and retired him to the withered state that would soon guide him unto death’s door. In his final moments of desperation he summoned forth, Rothus, the Deceiver. This dark warlock ensured Endymion eternal life in exchange for his kingdom and everything in it. Fearing death and the inevitable Gates of Hades, Endymion, desperate and senile, took the offer in an instant. Before his eyes his kingdom had crumbled, his subjects were turned to ash and his treasures evaporated into sulfur. For this, Endymion was granted immortality as well as vampirism in it’s most arcane form. Only a single twisted fortress, located upon the peak of the mountain, could serve as Endymion’s home now. He could never again look upon the sun, and it was within the dark walls of this demonic sanctuary where he was to remain, until that day would come when the heavens would fall from the skies. Due to his actions Apollinaire damned the mountain and all who would set foot upon it, cursing Endymion to wallow in unbearable isolation. This isolation would drive him mad, pushing Endymion to learn and execute the full extent of his demonic abilities, for use upon the unsuspecting world which he had grown to loath and look at in malevolent jealousy. He remained in exile atop the damned peak, looking down on the world from the ruins of Clis and Earia, telepathically influencing the world through black magic, vampiric hypnotism and the dark arts. In time Endymion would grow weary of his home plane of Oreium.

Augustine, the Architect

From high within the towers of the age old city of Ptula, there dwelled a man with the powers of sorcery and the makings of a fierce warrior. Within this city lived Augustine, the Architect. Born the student of Apollinaire, the Prophet, Augustine took his master’s teachings and combined them with self-taught fighting styles. When Apollinaire had retired from Mount Latus he had come to live in the ruins of Ptula. Apollinaire's first student, Endymion, had failed in his duties to the great sorcerer. And so, Apollinaire chose Augustine, the son of a poor farmer to serve as his successor; seeing that the boy had potential and believing that not all great men strictly come from nobility. What drew Augustine apart from the other warriors, and mages of the land, was that he alone held the ability to take part in combat while, at the same time, using magic alongside his physical prowess. When Apollinaire, the Prophet, became bedridden, Augustine was determined to help extend his teacher’s lifespan, as there had been so much more Augustine hadn’t learned from him. Apollinaire pointed Augustine the title of Architect as his abilities had already surpassed even those of any basic warrior or magic user. Augustine knew his craft and was well aware of the existence of a jewel which held the healing properties needed to restore Apollinaire’s youth. This jewel resided within the deepest depths of a place called the Emerald Dorm. It was a legendary treasury which held stones of absolute fortune and property. So, Augustine set off to find this dorm and, along the way, collect a band of the land’s strongest warriors to aid in his quest. Along this journey Augustine would come to realize the true limitless potential of his powers and begin his rise to a divine rite. Living for over two-hundred years past his prime, Augustine would fail in his searches for the dorm and give up his lifelong journey. After being one of a select few to hear of Endymion's departure to another plane Augustine began to believe that the Emerald Dorm could possible exist on another world. He thought something so great could be legendary across cosmos; and so the warrior-mage pulled his resources and the studies of Endymion to learn how to cross between worlds. So, it was on an unarmed date that Augustine completed his mission and followed Endymion from Oreium, over to Niboriah, where his search for the Emerald Dorm continues.

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Bjorn, the Darkblood

Bjorn was spawned upon a battlefield, found after the conclusion of a great war, shielded by the bodies of fallen soldiers. King Lygod ordered his men to take the infant they had found and bring it before him. The queen took to the baby boy instantly and from that day forward Bjorn was raised alongside their son, Prince Albion. Both entered knighthood and grew to be the closest of comrades. Bjorn and Albion eventually went their separate ways when it was time for Albion to take up his training to become the ruler of the Kingdom of Lygod. Bjorn stayed on as one of the kingdom’s most resilient generals. As Albion stayed behind, Bjorn was sent out across the land to conquer and decimate all traces of evil that his majesty’s empire could detect. Even at a young age he showed extreme talent in all aspects of war. One day, within the seclusion of his chambers, a spirit appeared before Bjorn and offered him answers as to the circumstances of his birth and parents. Intrigued, Bjorn left Lygod the next day in pursuit of answers to his past. Despite Albion’s pleads, Bjorn was determined to find his parents and follow the instruction of the strange spirit. In Bjorn’s absence the Kingdom of Lygod fell with no capable leader to command their army. Albion was forced by his father to flee his home, being the last survivor of the Kingdom of Lygod. From that day forth Albion searched for Bjorn, whom he had grown to resent. Bjorn traveled East, meeting forces he had never seen before. After many encounters with demons and unearthly beasts of unbelievable power, Bjorn was finally brought to the resting place of his father. Bjorn was not born of mortal parents, as he discovered he was the spawn of the demon, Balberith, the Blackheart Seer. The demon had turned on the Order of the Unholy Trinity and was banished to the bloody fields of battle, across the globe. Here Balberith would birth a son with the ability to defeat the Unholy Trinity, which the demon himself had grown to hate. Bjorn learned that his father had wanted to overthrow Astaroth, Beelzebub and Lucifer, but was thwarted by the demon, Azazael, Bearer of Sin. Looking upon his father’s shrine, where the soldiers of the old world had casted Balberith out of existence, Djorn took his father’s armor and weaponry to use in a war he would now rage against the Unholy Trinity. Taking to, what he believed to be, his purpose, Bjorn wore the Bloodlust Amor. It was a knight’s suit who’s black magical powers grew evermore unstoppable in the dead of night or in the presence of demonic forces. From this moment Bjorn swore to travel down the nine circles of hell to reach the trinity and bathe in their blood. Along with this armor he carried the Bloodlust Sword which was a blade that could grow, bend and slay in accordance with the power of the armor itself. Through his travels Bjorn searched for the entrance to Hell and, along the way, became the most feared warrior to have ever walked the earth. Over the years Bjorn built up an army which he would soon lead down to the depths of the inferno, setting off on his venture to take hell for himself and rule over all damnation. Bjorn would come to take the land of Dormgard and move his aspirations toward world domination.

Albion, the Vigilant

Two years had past after Albion’s kingdom had fallen. Over time he had lost everything and eventually found himself at the mercy of goblins, imps and devils within a dark forest. For days he was tortured by the woodland beasts who planned to eat him. Through all of this, Albion maintained his faith in the heavens and all the wonders of light and goodness in this world. Finally, on the day the goblins, imps and devils casted Albion into a large oven, beneath an old willow tree in the Bedlam Swamps, the heavens intervened. From the furnaced stepped Albion, immortal and angelic, having been reborn by the will of the angel, Chaelos. Albion soon escaped the swamp, laid waste to the evils within it and built his new kingdom upon it’s foundation. From there he readied an army to defend his new home, building a kingdom larger and more magnificent than the one he had lost. In time he gave up his pursuit for Bjorn, eventually taking back his home and appointing his first son the ruler of the Lygod Kingdom. Albion’s new kingdom was named Aleros and both lands, though miles away, served as two halves of a singularly unified power. Albion eventually left his kingdom to his grandchildren and served as a watcher over his lands after his subjects believed him to have passed on. He walked the planet, serving as an agent of the heavens and maintaining peace between the lands and keeping his forces far from the growing kingdom of Dormgard. In time and long after Albion's passing, the immortal Bjorn would rise from the depths of Hell as it's ruler. Bjorn would reclaim the land of Dormgard from his underlings, the demons Malacoda and Adramelech. Albion's son, Albius, would fall by Bjorn's sword and his kingdom would be taken. From afar the angel, Chaelos, watched as the planet descended into darkness. With patience the angel waited until the time when he could get close to Bjorn and teleport him away to a safe plane for them to do battle. The angel wished to trap himself and Bjorn on a world lost in time so that, even if Bjorn emerged victorious, the newly corrupted demon king would be lost to Thorazeth.

Azazael, Bearer of Sin

Azazael is one of the demon lords who serves as an advisor to the demon god, Astaroth. He sometimes roams the streets of human cities and takes the form of a female, luring men into secluded places just to tear their hearts from their chests and be off. He is always seen wearing flowing black rags that cover his boney white flesh. From under his rags reach scythe-like blades that pet rude from his body when he moves. He is one of the generals of the demon’s army and seems to have some admiration for angels, admiring their perfection which he secretly longs for. After Bjorn's siege across Hell, Azazel was able to escape and walk among the surface world in hopes of one day reclaiming the power he once held. For a long while ruling beneath Thorazeth lied out of his reach.

Dromalius, General of Dismay

This demon lord wears a suit of bones and fire. He almost always stands before the demon lord, Legion. Dromalius commands Legion in his assaults. Legion, who holds a million familiars within himself, can unleash an army of demonic spirits who are then granted more power by the sorcery of Dromalius. This demon lord is an accomplished general, magic user and has been titled the Angel Slayer of Blasphemus. He is one of the most feared demon lords to have ever existed; and it was at the feet of his thrown he bowed to Bjorn, giving up his power in exchange for servitude under the mad warrior. Dromalius, being the only known being to be able and slay angels, was made a hunter by Bjorn and employed eternally. However, the demon lord kept his ear to the floor and eventually discovered his old boss, Azazel, had fled to earth. Dromalius soon followed, joining Azazel, living out lives as immortal peasants and scheming to overthrow Bjorn, with the possible aid of the angels, and take back Thorazeth's Hell for themselves. It was a day they'd hoped would come quickly, but wouldn't see for over a quarter of a millennia.

Apollinaire, the Prophet

Being one of the first humans to drink the elixir of immortality, eternal life had granted Apollinaire unlimited time to master all forms of magic. This had led to him even surpassing the title of a wizard, becoming just as powerful as the lesser angels. Apollinaire lived his life in protection over many cities to which he was tasked to guard. He served the angels well into the following centuries, but soon his constant enchanted endeavors began to weaken the effects of the elixir in his body. By the time the newer ages had come, Apollinaire faded in and out of death's grasp as his students and disciples would try for many years to prolong the magician’s life. The angels could not help him, as they had been instructed by the dragons that they had created laws that forbid humans from ever becoming eternal, as they are an easily corruptible race. Apollinaire understood this and eventually died peacefully in his sleep, in the ruins of the City of Ptula. When he died the dragons allowed Apollinaire’s soul passage into their realm of Zantar, reincarnating him as a dragon. The dragons told Apollinaire that he was spared for his services in his past life and would never be subject to any afterlife. The dragons allowed Apollinaire to exist as a guardian of Zantar. But, he was forbidden from ever returning to Oreium, for fear that he might wish to stay and pass his knowledge unto more unsuitable mortals, unfit to know such miraculous things. However, the construction of the Realmgate would soon move to dismiss these laws.

Lastly, there lived Alekhyne, the Creator.

Within the moons above Nyboria floated the Cathedral of Alekhyne, the Creator. Once mortal man, Alekhyne called upon the aid of demons to put him in contact with the legendary Astaroth. Alekhyne claimed he had a marvelous deal for the demon and eventually he was granted an audience. Alekhyne convinced Astaroth to grant him the full scale of the demon lord’s knowledge, believing he could accomplish world changing feats which he would then use to aid the Unholy Trinity. Astaroth refused until a fate by the name of Morak predicted that Alekhyne was destined to live above the angels and bring a world old fire crashing down upon Nyboria.

The deal between the man and the demon was made and before long Alekhyne had reverted his age and discovered an art, the likes of which no one had ever seen. Alekhyne had discovered science. He built machines and bizarre labs until finding his way into space, creating a home between the three eastern moons. Within this lab the demons of the planet could not pursue him. He not only intended to destroy the angels, but the demons and inhabitants of earth as well. From his youth Alekhyne had lost all love for life and, instead, dedicated his existence to destroying everything and everyone.

Within his lab he engineered giant monsters of unfathomable sizes. He would release these beats he called “Kaiju” upon Nyboria and watch the globe’s inhabitants scatter like ants. Nor the angels or demons could reach him to stop his rein. No one had ever flown past the skies above, leaving the inhabitants of the world uncertain of where the kaiju had come from. Alekhyne created Eraclopse first. It was a one-eyed titan made of stone and muscle. The monster had first fallen into the ocean, eventually moving unto the Shores of Korador and laying waste to the merfolk populations. The mages of the world were called together to halt the kaiju, but only two survived the encounter.

The twelve wizards from the Scattered Lands all met within the angel city of Heron, and from there they carried out a second assault on Eraclopse, finally killing the beast. Mere months later Alekhyne unleashed his second creation, Ultrok, a bird-like beast with the ability to fire beams of fire from orbs that covered it’s feathery plated skin. Once again the wizards rose to meet the threat, but after the death of Brittlebane and Hempstrung, the rest of the wizards fled to the east. All seemed lost as the Eraclopse moved in to take the angel city. Apollinaire had come from the floating city of Ptula and had brought along his apprentice, Djorn.

Djorn took his mighty sword and, in one stroke, split the mighty Eraclopse straight down the middle, slaying the beast none magnificent slash. Djorn became the the soul slayer of all kaiju as Alekhyne was found out by Apollinaire, who helped lead an attack on his cathedral between the eastern moons. Alekhyne had escaped before Apollinaire could capture him, but within his lab grew the spawn of an unbeatable kaiju. One that could not be defeated by any means. This kaiju was, Zillion, the Egg. Apollinaire tried his best to destroy it, but the unformed spawn was unaffected by magic, unable to be pulled from the cathedral which weakened magic users. Apollinaire knew that one day Zillion would finish growing and descend upon the planet. The only thing the legendary prophet feared was, that when the beast would finally wake, would he or Djorn still be alive to combat it? Apollinaire referred to this in his journals as the predicted ‘End of Days’.