Inseros Map

A collaborative project designed to share a world we made with others

An excerpt from a speech given by Gef Haueo:

Though it is fair to think, I am hesitant to say that our world has already ended once. We may be well past that now, but it is a truth that borders on axiomatic at this point. 

I'm getting ahead of myself though, let's start with the history of the world, and in that, we can talk about the end and what came after. Our world had three notable periods: The Luminous Era, the Fade, and Daybreak, as we have chosen to call them. 

Records of the Luminous Period are scarce, as the advent of the Fade thoroughly did away with any documents stored on easily vaporized materials, but that is something to discuss only in relation to the Fade. To our best guesses, the Luminous Era is the time of frequent divine intervention and the formation of powerful and advanced civilizations. We have been able to find records of Vastal, a nation that seems to have been destroyed just before the sundering of the rest of the world. What we have pieced together suggests a political stalemate that resulted in a profound betrayal, and ultimately, the collapse of civilization.

In contrast to this Luminous Period, we cannot easily forget about some of the critical events of the Fade. The Fade was indeed when the apocalypse struck our world, records of vast bastions of nature becoming toxic and corrupt, entire portions of the world-shaking at once, the first time the Ashlands erupted in flame, to name a few. We have no natural way of confirming this, but a popular theory is that the fall of Vastal and the beginnings of the Fade were connected, at least in part. We also have reason to believe that the unstable magic found in The Beach, Arcane, and Sea's End originated during this period. The Fade ended in a show of celestial lights that heralded the return of inhabitants we had long forgotten. 

Daybreak marks the end of the Fade, and we have almost too much to cover during this time. Since the civilizations of the past never bothered to leave ample records of information like the kind of body they had, we assume that the many inhabitants we see today either always existed or were formed after the Fade ended; in either case, they started from scratch to recover the knowledge of the past. Some key things we are confident did not exist previously is the burning mess of Nature, Unforgiving, which existed before the Fade, but was, unsurprisingly, previously not on fire. The Tateka began to wield the Bulblades of Acri Lake as swords, the Pungolians learned, or perhaps, relearned water magic, and Prisma was discovered. 

Around this point is when things stopped being bad, bad and were simply less than stellar. With inhabitants working together to construct cities or resettle the ruins of the past, life was better than the times of the Fade. Of course, it was still bad, and conflict broke out. Both the Tateka and Wingless Skyborne demonstrated aggression in their relative regions of the world. In less belligerent communities, trade and arts flourish, such as the Vulpinites or Tesarians, not to mention academic institutions.