Many millennia before the creation of modern Erelith existed the Arezian nation. A utopian world that surpassed all of Erelith, Arezia worked with technology in one hand, and magic in the other. A great inventor, Kal, strove to place the Sentient Races on the level of gods. In his relentless efforts, he pioneered the way through the most profane magics in the world; soulburning.

 

In normal practices of the arcane, a mage physically and mentally exerts himself to channel the auras through his frame, which manifests to his will. The more powerful the spell, the harder it is to channel, and the greater of a physical toll the aura takes. In the case that a mage attempts and fails a spell, the mages suffers a hemorrhage, and likely dies. Soulburning magic bypasses this by using the soul itself - unhindered by the mortal coil - to channel and fuel the magic. Instead of the soul going through the Cycle, it is destroyed. In order to obtain the soul, its mortal vessel is destroyed, and it is captured by other magics.

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Soulburning allowed Kal to create tools that pushed the realm of possibilities. Cities were raised in moments. Farms yielded endless crops. Diseases and death were all but absent. For many of Arezia, this was the perfect world. For Kal and his subordinates, however, this was not the end. They would not stop until they were gods. Thus, Kal sacrificed countless lives to bestow upon Arezia three treasures of unlimited strength; the Northern Edge, a blade which allowed its wielder to control the tides of battle, and kill the gods themselves; the Harmony, a pendant which protected its user from any magic; and, the most powerful of all, the Wishgranter, a ring that gave the user the ability to rewrite the realm itself.



In Kal's hubris, he wore the Wishgranter, and wished to become a god. The power needed by the Wishgranter to grant his wish was so tremendous that it triggered a cataclysm. Every single Arezian soul, gone in an instant. Kal became the god he sought to become, but of an empty world. In his shame, he used his limitless control of the auras to grant three more wishes: to bury away all remnants of Arezia under a new world, to bury his great and powerful tools, and to restore life to the new world. Erelith was born, and Kal became a god in recluse; driven by his shame to keep his secrets away from mortals.

 

Yet, secrets are only so to be uncovered. With the Northern Edge's appearance during the Umbral Reign to slay the Queen, treasure hunters began scouring the world, only to find passages to the ruins of Arezia ...