Solitude - The Reborn World

"The Old Gods are long gone, and in their place stand shadow and Darkness.

Tempestuous, towering, unforgiving, self-serving. Only Dark Gods rule here, in a Reborn World where nothing is eternal; where Radiance is unliving.

When the Light lost the Divines War, the Omens tore apart Solitude's Soul, and ripped Her Vessel into nothingness. As She died, all that was left behind was a decaying, dying world, and the Dark Gods who now ruled over it. Ruination had come.

However, the Dark Gods would eventually realize their folly. What purpose was there in reigning over a dead world? And once this world had completely dissipated, would the Dark Gods, too, disappear with it? The Omens had abandoned them, there was no escape from Solitude; the Dark Gods were on their own. Some would revel in this chaos, some didn't care, and some despaired.

It was from alliance of Three, known as the Triumvirate, that a plan to save the world was devised. Using the last Vestiges of Light that remained in this world, the Triumvirate took the body of slain Maraiah, Goddess of Light, and infused in her their own Wills, Souls, and Power, and brought new life into her at the cost of their own fading energies.

From this was created a new Soul Vessel, which the born-again Goddess carried, until it hatched into Nerasûn, the Dark Sun, and Vessel of the new Worldsoul; pieced together from fractured memories to create a new world from its own.

As it sprang to life, Nerasûn siphoned the energies and power of all the Dark Gods, and has continued to slowly do so to maintain itself indefinitely, and to keep the Ruination at bay. Some of the Dark Gods would consider this a betrayal, and held onto this grudge forever after.

The Reborn World entered the Abyssal Age, and Solitude's Ruination was halted ...for now.

For 500 years, the enduring and returned mortal denizens of these darkened realms would face many tribulations, as they struggle even to this day to survive in a world unfit for life. The Dark Gods themselves, weaker from the existence of Nerasûn, bicker endlessly over how to maintain the fragile balance of this world, or wish to defy the siphoning of their precious energies.

From Dark Kingdoms and Fading Lands, in the secret, whispering voice of Omens, the Dark Gods plot and plan against each other, to ensure that if it came down to it, they would remain as last to survive in whatever new Great Conflict or Tribulation to come."

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Much needed remake of the old Solitude map.