"The Corruption On Ulgor" (Synopsis)
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dochermesThe Corruption On Ulgor
[This is one of the most crucial events in my little invented mythology, referred to in dozens of stories; but I will never get around to actually depicting it on stage, so to speak. So, time for a Summary.]
For an indeterminate period, the Eldanarin were the dominant Race. This era was later remembered by most as an idyllic Golden Age, but of course there had been crime and disease and minor wars like always. It was just that the Eldanarin had such a benevolent and calming influence by their presence that people tended to be on their best behavior. Early cities were being built in Chujir and Signarm and elsewhere; it was during that the Melgarin first appeared.
All over the world, mystics and warriors began to experience compelling dreams which drew them to Ulgor. Only a small percentage responded and actually travelled to the island but these individuals would become more powerful and more influential than they could have predicted. The island of Ulgor in the Cold Sea was within easy sailing distance from the mainland. Rugged and unpromising for agriculture, Ulgor was sparsely inhabited by recent settlers who were beginning to clear the land.
It was revealed that Thirteen of the Sulla Chun had assembled 'near' the island for their own reasons, but they did not manifest directly on Ulgor. Their presence at close range would have promptly destroyed the strongest Human brains. Instead, the Sulla Chun took control of settlers and spoke through them as mouthpieces to deliver their knowledge. This experience of channeling such intense force withered and aged the spokesmen, burning them out so that they had to be replaced within a few days.
In defiance of the Higher Ones, the Halarin, the Sulla Chun revealed secrets of gralic use to those who had answered their summons. The forbidden Arts of Alchemy, necromancy and spirit-casting were imparted, as well as those Arts which would be later taught at Tel Shai, such as Kumundu fighting art and Kerwandu healing. The origins of vampirism, lycanthropy and Voodoo began here. These secrets were revealed at random and those who had come to learn had to digest the stunning information as best they could. Many of the seekers suffered psychotic breakdowns or heart attacks, only the most mentally resilient and determined could cope with the process.
There has never been a definitive list of those who attended the Corruption. But we know some who attended and who survived the destruction which followed:
-Tollinor Kje, Firstmade of the Darthim, soon to initiate the misery and horror of the Darthan Age.
-Wakimbe of Danarak. He learned shape-shifting and how to draw immense gralic force into the construct of a giant Black Lion which he assumed at will. Even ages after his death, the surviving claw of the Black Lion was handed down and enabled a Danarakan warrior to assume that form.
-Sinjir, later called Wu Lung, the Dragon of War. Among other Arts, he learned how to cast his spirit forward to possess by force an unwilling host even centuries later.
-Karina of Myrrwha. She learned how to reinforce the surface of her body by conscious effort so that her skin could not be pierced or her bones broken by mortal weapons. Karina also was able to survive physical death. Her spirit could only incarnate into a host that willingly accepted it. She was killed and reborn many times in the millennia which followed.
-Malberon of Androval. Legend has it that he departed the island after a single day. Appalled by the dire threats he knew were about to be unleashed, Malberon spent his remaining years crafting a series of ensorcelled weapons to help defend his people. He infused Melgarin with the Legacy, which would give superhuman strength to one male and one female in each generation. He created the spear Shai Tazam or Brightbolt; the Seven Swords; the Four Element talismans and many lesser items. Most of the sigils created by Malberon are still potent and in use today.
Alarmed and offended by what they saw, the three Halarin took up the regency of this world which they had been given. Usually prevented from acting by their rivalries, the trinity of Jordyn, Cirkoth and Eryasha warned everyone to flee by sending a barrage of lightning bolts from a clear sky, then rumbling earthquakes underfoot and finally boiling waves crashing high up onto the island. At the following dawn, after the more prudent of the wisdom seekers had left, the Halarin seized the Sulla Chun and imprisoned them deep beneath the earth, in Arctic wastes or in the Spaces Between Spaces, with the intention that these monsters never return. In modern times, the cult Those Who Remember was established to locate and try to free the Sulla Chun.
Then the Higher Ones broke Ulgor of its foundation and cast it down to settle at the bottom of the Cold Sea. The majority of those who attended the Corruption drowned. The Halarin considered their work done in one of their rare interventions and again withdrew into more rarified planes of existence but the damage was done. Twenty mystics had escaped and scattered across the world to start applying the dread knowledge they had been given. Tollinor Kje somehow brought to Maroch one of the lesser Sulla Chun who had been mortally wounded in the cataclysm. He imprisoned this Captive beneath the Burning Pyramid, so named because the prisoner within heated its stones to where it was painful to walk upon them.
Siphoning off gralic force from the Captive, the Darthim used it to give unprecedented potency to their spells. Warlocks and sorcerers of other Races could no longer stand up to them. Even the immortal Eldanarin were forced to retreat to Elvedal and seldom ventured forth again. The Darthan Age had begun. For more than a thousand years, all the peoples of this world were tormented and oppressed by the sadistic whims of the Darthim.
Then, after twelve hundred years had passed, Tollinor began a project to create a bodyguard and assassin to serve him. He cut from a Human woman the nearly ready embryo and infused it with traits of the other Races. The strength of a Troll, the quickness of a Snake man, gills like a Gelydra, resistance of gralic spells of an Eldanar.. and as a final touch, Tollinor gave the infant the pointed ears which marked all the Darthim. He could not know it, but he had created the one warrior who would doom him. Given unnatural birth, the child escaped Maroch and eventually led the uprising which overthrew the Darthan Rule. He himself slew Tollinor as Maroch burned around him. This was Romal the Mongrel.
8/20/2019
[This is one of the most crucial events in my little invented mythology, referred to in dozens of stories; but I will never get around to actually depicting it on stage, so to speak. So, time for a Summary.]
For an indeterminate period, the Eldanarin were the dominant Race. This era was later remembered by most as an idyllic Golden Age, but of course there had been crime and disease and minor wars like always. It was just that the Eldanarin had such a benevolent and calming influence by their presence that people tended to be on their best behavior. Early cities were being built in Chujir and Signarm and elsewhere; it was during that the Melgarin first appeared.
All over the world, mystics and warriors began to experience compelling dreams which drew them to Ulgor. Only a small percentage responded and actually travelled to the island but these individuals would become more powerful and more influential than they could have predicted. The island of Ulgor in the Cold Sea was within easy sailing distance from the mainland. Rugged and unpromising for agriculture, Ulgor was sparsely inhabited by recent settlers who were beginning to clear the land.
It was revealed that Thirteen of the Sulla Chun had assembled 'near' the island for their own reasons, but they did not manifest directly on Ulgor. Their presence at close range would have promptly destroyed the strongest Human brains. Instead, the Sulla Chun took control of settlers and spoke through them as mouthpieces to deliver their knowledge. This experience of channeling such intense force withered and aged the spokesmen, burning them out so that they had to be replaced within a few days.
In defiance of the Higher Ones, the Halarin, the Sulla Chun revealed secrets of gralic use to those who had answered their summons. The forbidden Arts of Alchemy, necromancy and spirit-casting were imparted, as well as those Arts which would be later taught at Tel Shai, such as Kumundu fighting art and Kerwandu healing. The origins of vampirism, lycanthropy and Voodoo began here. These secrets were revealed at random and those who had come to learn had to digest the stunning information as best they could. Many of the seekers suffered psychotic breakdowns or heart attacks, only the most mentally resilient and determined could cope with the process.
There has never been a definitive list of those who attended the Corruption. But we know some who attended and who survived the destruction which followed:
-Tollinor Kje, Firstmade of the Darthim, soon to initiate the misery and horror of the Darthan Age.
-Wakimbe of Danarak. He learned shape-shifting and how to draw immense gralic force into the construct of a giant Black Lion which he assumed at will. Even ages after his death, the surviving claw of the Black Lion was handed down and enabled a Danarakan warrior to assume that form.
-Sinjir, later called Wu Lung, the Dragon of War. Among other Arts, he learned how to cast his spirit forward to possess by force an unwilling host even centuries later.
-Karina of Myrrwha. She learned how to reinforce the surface of her body by conscious effort so that her skin could not be pierced or her bones broken by mortal weapons. Karina also was able to survive physical death. Her spirit could only incarnate into a host that willingly accepted it. She was killed and reborn many times in the millennia which followed.
-Malberon of Androval. Legend has it that he departed the island after a single day. Appalled by the dire threats he knew were about to be unleashed, Malberon spent his remaining years crafting a series of ensorcelled weapons to help defend his people. He infused Melgarin with the Legacy, which would give superhuman strength to one male and one female in each generation. He created the spear Shai Tazam or Brightbolt; the Seven Swords; the Four Element talismans and many lesser items. Most of the sigils created by Malberon are still potent and in use today.
Alarmed and offended by what they saw, the three Halarin took up the regency of this world which they had been given. Usually prevented from acting by their rivalries, the trinity of Jordyn, Cirkoth and Eryasha warned everyone to flee by sending a barrage of lightning bolts from a clear sky, then rumbling earthquakes underfoot and finally boiling waves crashing high up onto the island. At the following dawn, after the more prudent of the wisdom seekers had left, the Halarin seized the Sulla Chun and imprisoned them deep beneath the earth, in Arctic wastes or in the Spaces Between Spaces, with the intention that these monsters never return. In modern times, the cult Those Who Remember was established to locate and try to free the Sulla Chun.
Then the Higher Ones broke Ulgor of its foundation and cast it down to settle at the bottom of the Cold Sea. The majority of those who attended the Corruption drowned. The Halarin considered their work done in one of their rare interventions and again withdrew into more rarified planes of existence but the damage was done. Twenty mystics had escaped and scattered across the world to start applying the dread knowledge they had been given. Tollinor Kje somehow brought to Maroch one of the lesser Sulla Chun who had been mortally wounded in the cataclysm. He imprisoned this Captive beneath the Burning Pyramid, so named because the prisoner within heated its stones to where it was painful to walk upon them.
Siphoning off gralic force from the Captive, the Darthim used it to give unprecedented potency to their spells. Warlocks and sorcerers of other Races could no longer stand up to them. Even the immortal Eldanarin were forced to retreat to Elvedal and seldom ventured forth again. The Darthan Age had begun. For more than a thousand years, all the peoples of this world were tormented and oppressed by the sadistic whims of the Darthim.
Then, after twelve hundred years had passed, Tollinor began a project to create a bodyguard and assassin to serve him. He cut from a Human woman the nearly ready embryo and infused it with traits of the other Races. The strength of a Troll, the quickness of a Snake man, gills like a Gelydra, resistance of gralic spells of an Eldanar.. and as a final touch, Tollinor gave the infant the pointed ears which marked all the Darthim. He could not know it, but he had created the one warrior who would doom him. Given unnatural birth, the child escaped Maroch and eventually led the uprising which overthrew the Darthan Rule. He himself slew Tollinor as Maroch burned around him. This was Romal the Mongrel.
8/20/2019
