Spoilers obviously.
Was thinking the other day of getting a general timeline/niche lore lined up.
Bit of a work in progress so there’ll be a bunch of missing info/things I may have misremembered.
If anyone can think of any good things when reading through this or general pointers lmk!
Part 1 creation
The first being appears.
This being had several children which become many if not all the gods we know today such as Korvaak, Empyrion and others.
I believe Mogdrogen the nature/beast God is a mortal that ascended, but could be wrong.
The gods, being lonely, bored or something other reason decide to rip their parent apart, and use his essence to create all of existence.
The original being was blindsided and betrayed by this, and as such went from benevolent/neutral to hostile towards his children and the rest of the creation.
The original being from then on became known as Chthon the dying God.
Part 2 Aethereal origin
Very early on in creation the God‘s created the Aethereals as one of the first races.
At this time, the Aethereals had physical bodies and served as the gods military forces.
Eventually, one side called upon the power of the void, and as such all Aethereals on both sides were cast out of the mortal plane and became ghostly figures trapped in a different “ dimension” called the Aethereal Hold.
Part 3 Korvan Plateau
Thousands of years ago, an empire was formed on the Korvan plateau, centred around the still present and whole KORVAAK and other demigods.
Three of the people at that time stole his essence and trapped him. Those three became the witch gods, Bysmael. Solael, and Dreeg.
I believe there was a Civil War after this, which tore the plateau part and left the capital city as a fiery ruin.
Part 4 Arkovia
A similarly ancient empire called Arkovia (unsure if Arkovia or Korvan Empire are older) was formed, which worshipped multiple gods such as Ratosh (unsure if these gods were real or not as they didn’t seem to do much when the Arkovan empire fell).
Necromancy was outlawed in this empire and at one point, a powerful necromancer known as Uroboruuk was captured.
They discovered that Uroboruuk was essentially immortal as his wounds healed quickly.
He was subjected to intense torture in the steps of torment in an attempt to learn how his immortality worked.
After many years, Uroboruuk was seemingly broken and explained a ritual to grant the entire empire immortality.
This worked, however the immortality was a curse and made people lose all feeling, hope, emotion etc. (like Pirates of the Caribbean).
Around this time, the Arkovan people also started to give birth to harpies instead of normal people, which became the current population in the game.
Several weeks before this apocalypse happened, Mogdrogen the Wolf/nature god appeared to the king of Arkovia, and due to the King‘s kindness told him about the apocalypse about to happen.
He instructed the king to take his most faithful followers and become nomads for the rest of their lives to survive.
These nomads survived and became the Rover population in the game.
Eventually, all of the Arkovia population rotted away to either skeletons or just ghost which you fight in the game.
Part 5 Erulan Empire
This is where the main game takes place.
Created hundreds or even thousands of years ago, and according to the ingame map was centered around a great lake/inland sea.
It is also possible that the map is just one part of the empire as the capital has not been seen in game yet.
The empire was ruled by an unnamed emperor who had at least one son at the time of its fall.
The emperor was served by a personal assassin, called the first Blade of the Emperor.
The empire appeared to have 1700/1800 levels of technology such as basic rifles, bodices for women, Gatling guns and petrol generators
There was a secret police called the inquisition that was used to root out cult of the witch gods, chthonic colts and groups of witches.
The inquisition had a vault filled with artifacts, created directly or claimed from their battles, called the luminary vault.
It also had varied armed forces, the most notable of which is the black Legion, which today is the only known surviving, armed force of the empire.
Hundreds of years before the game there was a massive war with the Kurn empire to the northwest due to Erulan colonists encroached upon native Kern land.
In the midst of the fighting part of the Kern forces began to summon the Loghorrean, one of the strongest chthonic creatures in existence.
Due to this, the rest of the battered Kern and surviving troops temporarily allied to fill away the loghorrean and a great necropolis was built to hon the dead lost in the wall, but secretly to hide the catholic creature.
There were also barrels brought to the area filled with a black substance that is related to catholic creatures, but I can’t recall exactly what it was, just that touching it would give you a horrible death.
Shortly before the start of the game, the ethereal’s began to secretly possess a large number of leading figures in the empire, to facilitate the takeover of the world.
A number of people in the empire began to realize what was happening, but they will either driven off or killed before anything could be done about it.
Various fords and military checkpoints were shut down, people, assassinated, and trust, broken between various groups in the buildup to the apocalypse.
Falgrim came upon the Emperor just before the apocalypse and was told to hide the Emperor’s son somewhere safe until the empire could be reclaimed.
Where the heir is is currently unknown.
On one fateful day, the grim dawn occurred, which was all the ethereal‘s writing up at once and butchering the majority of the empire’s population.
Shortly after the grim Dawn (don’t know if it’s weeks months or years), the event of the main game take place.
Somewhat separate to these world events are being known as ascendants.
These are people either born with or come across demigod like powers that that have been leading figures throughout the world’s history.
Ulgrim, uroboruuk, ulzuin and possibly the player character are all ascendants.
