Origins

[14:30:10] [4] [Tex]: The remaining 15 Artisans agree never to teach humanity how to use magic again and go into hiding [14:29:47] [4] [Tex]: One Artisan sacrifices himself to close the portal. The rest of humanity is left wondering what the hell happened. They don't understand it so they write it as some mythos. [14:27:08] [4] [Tex]: Anyway, Year 33,300: The Artisans finish teaching the humans and hide themselves, letting humanity do its own thing [14:26:13] [4] [Chadd]: Hmm. We'll come back to it. Maybe there was another purpose in the mean tme. Anyway [14:26:13] [4] [Chadd]: Hmm. We'll come back to it. Maybe there was another purpose in the mean tme. Anyway [14:26:16] [4] [Chadd]: As you were saying [14:26:27] [4] [Tex]: they lived on Durem but also cultivated it [14:27:08] [4] [Tex]: Anyway, Year 33,300: The Artisans finish teaching the humans and hide themselves, letting humanity do its own thing [14:27:19] [4] [Tex]: Same year, Arteaus is built [14:27:36] [4] [Tex]: Arteaus is built over the course of 30 years, making it the biggest and most advanced civilization on the planet [14:27:45] [4] [Tex]: There's other civilizations out there too, but none are as advanced [14:28:42] [4] [Tex]: Year 33,330 Arteaus at the height of its power, humans get reckless and open a portal [14:29:18] [4] [Tex]: Portal spills out these evil beings that vaporize humanity. In the span of one night, most of Arteaus population is dead. [14:29:47] [4] [Tex]: One Artisan sacrifices himself to close the portal. The rest of humanity is left wondering what the hell happened. They don't understand it so they write it as some mythos. [14:30:10] [4] [Tex]: The remaining 15 Artisans agree never to teach humanity how to use magic again and go into hiding [14:30:16] [4] [Chadd]: :O Like the evil things from mass effect? [14:30:19] [4] [Tex]: Some humans survived [14:30:24] [4] [Tex]: Idk what Mass Effect is [14:30:29] [4] [Chadd]: The game [14:30:30] [4] [Chadd]: omg [14:30:33] [4] [Chadd]: So sheltered [14:33:43] [4] [Chadd]: Okay anyway. That sounds good to me [14:33:56] [4] [Tex]: Year 0 starts at the day of this catastrophe [14:35:11] [4] [Chadd]: So what do these evil things look like? [14:35:11] [4] [Tex]: A raider king named Gaurad claims Arteaus in the absence of leadership, establishes a new calendar, but the city quickly declines due to its heavy reliance on magic being cut off [14:35:26] [4] [Tex]: So more and more people just split off and join the remaining 7 nations [14:35:38] [4] [Tex]: Soon Arteaus is just a ghost city [14:36:03] [4] [Chadd]: 7 near by nations or global? [14:36:06] [4] [Tex]: I don't want them to be stereotypical monsters

[14:36:26] [4] [Tex]: Most of them move to Boldaire or Halovath, a few migrate south to Navura and Tourbiny

[14:36:29] [4] [Chadd]: What if the monsters were radiation anomalies ?

[14:36:51] [4] [Tex]: Well they are extradimensional beings

[14:37:02] [4] [Tex]: So our idea of what a creature is doesn't apply to them

[14:37:07] [4] [Tex]: They don't need heads, organs, etc

[14:37:25] [4] [Tex]: Even their existence in Durem's universe is flaky

[14:37:41] [4] [Chadd]: So it's radiating mass that's just generally attracted to heavy magnetism? So the magic-powered humans would of been like.. Well

[14:37:46] [4] [Chadd]: A magnet to them!

[14:38:12] [4] [Tex]: Yeah but it's important to remember they all disappear when the 16th Artisan sacrifices himself

[14:38:23] [4] [Tex]: But they could appear later in the universe's history

[14:38:43] [4] [Tex]: He closes the portal and expends himself to remove all traces of these creatures from reality