END TIMES (DRAFT)

BACKGROUND
The land is parched, the seas drying. The Languishing is felt throughout the entire world. Many races have suffered, even more have perished. The styrlisks have awoken from their eternal slumber and begin to prowl the lands, heralding the onset of discordia. There is intense competition for the last few oases and the cthonians have began to encroach tethian waters. after decades of strive, many have finally begun to realise that this process has precipitated the beginnings of the end times, as the gannalach prophesises:
"The lands dry, the seas parch, and there will come the time when all will be set in stone. The world is moving on, and events are set into motion that which cannot be reversed; discordia will consume."
Yet another part of the gannalach states:
"Tennhauser gate offers the final haven from discordia; to elysium it leads, the undying paradise"
Conflict between tethys and cthon has ceased temporarily in an armistice, and a council will be held to discuss the possibility of salvation offered by Elysium. Htargn, of the loliganth empire of tethys, is sent forth as an emissary to represent in the council. Along the way he is to recover the secret of the tennhauser gate, as to seek out the oracle hidden deep in styr.

What is moving on? What are the end times?

TIMELINE
The FirstTimes -
The Great Change/The Cataclysm -
Second Dawn -
The Languish/Decline -
NOW
The EndTimes -




GLOSSARY:TERMS/NAMES
First Times -
End Times - But things have now accelerated and there is a wind of change in the air; a drastic change that will change the world forever, a change that no thing might ever survive past to experience.
Discordia - The processes of change brought about that is the EndTimes.
Gannalach - The prophecy describing the EndTimes, Tennhauser's Gate and Elysium. and something more?
Ghennalach - Ghen = gape/chasm
Tennhauser Gate - A 'gateway' from this reality to Elysium. It is unclear at this point whether Tennhauser Gate is a physical place or merely a concept.
Elysium - The stagnant paradise. A place/reality of stasis, stagnance and non-change. IT is unclear at this point whether Elysium is a physical place or concept, or both.
The Oracle/ The Corante - The progenitor artefact that will lead one to Tennhauser Gate. The goal of conquest for all factions - The oracle is rumored to lie in the depths of Styr, guarded by the styrlisks.
Gaia/midgard/ - The planet itself, now undergoing an abrupt change and discordia.
Styr - the vast underground waterbody which is the boundary between the Known and the Unkown. Guarded by the styrlisks and rumored to hold the oracle. A progenitor artefact as well?
Progenitors - The First Ones. These were the first people of Gaia, who dwelt in the FirstTimes. They were the ones to predict the coming of the End Times, and had in a distant past managed to avert it. They were the ones who created/found/realised Tennhauser Gate. Their disappearance is initmately linked to Elysium. Progenitor relics are spread throughout the world.
Styrlisks - Heralds of the EndTimes, harbingers of the Change(discordia?). Have a connection with the Progenitors. Some reckon that these entities were created by the Progenitors themselves.
Cthonians - A loose term/ federation for land-based races
Far spread across the parched lands of Gaia. Suffered the most from the effects of DISCODRIA/CHANGE, and have developed a very nihilistic view(?) Divided into two camps - the seekers(who believe in tennhauser effect???), the wretched(nihilists).
Tethians - A loose term/conglomeration for water-based(oceanic) races
Isolationistic and xenophobic/distrustful of other race/conglomerates, due to their exclusive nature in water. Conservatives. Few seldom venture from their watery abodes, hence their knowledge is based mostly on myths and assumptions. (think amish). The Tethian, Htargn, is sent as an emissary to the Council to discuss the grave situation. Tetheians are pro-elysian.
Chimerans -
Olympians - majestic 12 kind of association. Not much is known of them.

The Wretched - Term for all who oppose the lure of elysium, and believe that discordia must occur. Some will stop at nothing to stop it. Currently Htargn's main worry and cause of danger.
The Overwatch - The council
The Bound - All races which reside on Gaia. All those who are experiencing the End Times, and are bound to physical form.
The Unbound - Very possibly the progenitors. A term of exclusion as non bound. Possibly no longer attached to any physical aspect. A condition which might be attained by/due to effects of the EndTimes.
The Seekers(?) - Those who zealously seek the secret of Tennhauser gate.


"to what end does finding elysium serve? it is but another languish, one which we expereince now. Discordia rapes the land of life and the End Times come. Elysium is no better. A paradise, but a dead paradise. We would rather face the oncoming storm. Go, go back to the tethys! you have failed."
"Any being may earn,
through skill and courage
A single favor..."
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Bound/unbound - Gaia/Elysium - an event horizon thing - no retraction. Recursive cycle.

bilfrost bridge - midgard to asgard
vlahalva - fight
ragnarok - end of days
note: slow decline not

frenir the wolf.