artifact 2 back up

    Upon a wall in a lavish blue yet sterile and cold in apperance building a large screen shows a picture of a black mass of rocks floating in space; a woman's voice speaks over the image, "This was our world before the coming of the queen, as you can..."

   the image changes to the black stones coming together and a massive mechanical golden band forming around the quater and massive golden walls spreading out seperating the world into seven sectors, three in the northern hemisphere, four in the southern, with countless smaller blue walls seperating the internal spaces even further. All manner of mix-matched environments pop up on the screen in the sectors, deserts, forests, jungles, bodies of water with odd floating islands, frozen wastelands, frozen forests, and so many inbetween.

   "After the queen saved the remnants of our ancestral world she used the goddess tech to bind the stones together and revive the spirits of the stones which had to be seperated by the great walls in which our people live or else chaos would have insued for the stones were taken from many different lands scavenged from the Eternal World and put together in random order to make a whole planet for the inhabitants of this world to live on. Inside these lands we find all manner of reknewing resources, power sources, and strange ethereal creatures; hence the need for the champions who venture forth from the great walls to protect the walls and protect those who gather the resources."

   The screen turns off and the lights come up, a woman is standing there in a long green and golden dress, long wavy green hair, her top barely holding in her massive breasts, she smiles throught green lips and looks about the room with her emerald eyes, "Of course children and assorted others this all raises many questions doesn't it? Well let me take you back to the beginning. For once there was a magical disc shaped world known as the Eternal World, this world was seperated by chasms and mystical barriers into 9 realms, ruled by 10 princesses. This was not a living world but a world of eternal beautiy, immitations of life and immitations of death abounded. This world was inhabited by the Eternals, beings like you in shape and continence; but powerful, and either healed so quickly or were indestructable that nothing was ever a threat to them, and eating and drinking were mere luxuries. These people lived by a heirarchy founded on power; individual power. For there were three types of Eternal beings, the Celestial, The Demonic, and the Earthly Eternals. The Earthly Eternals made up the bulk of the inhabitants of the 9 realms, ruled by 10 celestial princesses. Their world likewise was surrounded on all sides, rotating around their disc shaped world were four distorted demonic realms, below them was the underworld ruled by a powerful sorceress, and above them was the celestial realm ruled by a divine queen. Although they had been warned this world was not meant for living things the Earthly Eternals who were the most like humans would venture out to other worlds and bring back children; for they could have children with any manner of mortal beings. These children however were not Eternal, powerful yes, but only by mortal standards.

   The Earthly Eternals sought to make the 9 realms inhabitable for their children, but the princesses forbid it, the mortal worlds were the mortal worlds and the Eternal World was the Eternal World; where the only changes permitted were those caused by a cycle of cataclysmic games played between the celestial and demonic Eternals that threatened the lives of anything not an Eternal that tried to live there. The Earthly Eternals who were so like mortals had left the Eternal World and made themselves the gods of many a mortal world; but they could not let go of the Eternal World, wanting a paradise for their ever weakning in every new generation descendents. For this was their curse, the Earthly Eternals could easily have children, but their power as Eternals was not passed on, each generation becoming more and more mortal. Meanwhile the Celestial and Demonic Eternals would have children blessed with true eternal existence; with the trade off being how infrequent they could have children; many never having any as a result. The Earthly Eternals grew jelous, and their egos grew, those that would be the kings of divine pantheons of the mortal worlds created a council of kings, and venturing into other divine worlds brought together a magic spell to expell the princesses, the queen, and the sorceress from what they viewed as their world. The spell stripped the princesses of their power and forms and flung their eternal souls into the vast void of the multiverse; where they would have to slowly regain their power and memory living as mortals; no doubt the intention of the council of kings to teach them the plights of their own children. "

  The green haired woman grows silent for but a moment, "But, and there is always a but, the Council of Kings failed to expell the sorceress, the spell forcing the princesses from her; for she was not the enemy of the royals as the kings had imagined, but their mutual lover, the games were but games being played by bored celestial beings after all. This affront to their power, injury to those who should never know injury so enraged the sorceress that she rose the underworld up and tore the entire Eternal World apart, flinging stone and buildings into the void, Earthly Eternals were also throwin into the infinite void, the float never dying in the darkness of space or the spaces between spaces, going mad and with madness changing form into hideous abominations. The Eternal World however is still there, just not as it was, an eternal tempest rages across what was the 9 realms as a massive castle with barren open spaces inhabited by twisted storm dwelling demons. The realms beyond have become flooded hells with sparse calm zones filled with dark seas and ruins; many a hell knows this place as the dark waters beyond the depths of hell. What had been the celestial realm became a dark nebula of twisted reality; but above that a world of light was created, the stones of the Eternal World that reached here took flight and life grew on them, mortal and immortal life alike."

   She pauses, "The queen that founded this world went there, into the dark nebula and found the errant rocks, binding them and bringing them here to create this planet. Yes, so huge in truth was the Eternal World and so in defiance of natural laws was it that the disc laid flat was larger than most gas giants. However holding this world together is not easy, and that is why the seven temples were created by the queen to balance the stones, that is the seven lands marked on your maps by the golden walls. We are here in the blue walls that criss cross and go under the golden walls. Of course the temples are off limits and the goddess tech guardians are not something anyone would want to trifle with; but of course who would want to? Destabalize the world? What is there to gain?"

   A woman with short red hair leaves the room, "Heh, Misaline trying to scare her competition with weird legends, so like her. Take more than some native mythology to keep Ruby from her prize."

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