Come closer, children, come closer, to know the stories of the past, about ancient kings and invoked heroes. Come and discover the origins of our kingdoms, stories, legends and values.
Thousands of years ago, a king, known as “dark lord” and “shadow king”, ruled over everything we knew. He was the king as far as the eye can see, and beyond that too, children. He ruled to the edge of the world, and he even ruled the immortal realms of the lesser titans and the new gods, as well as the realms of the underworld and darkness, from which he brought monsters, which devoured little children, and frightened even kings, You know?
The kings were very afraid, very afraid indeed. Some began to obey the king of darkness, giving him a lot of money, and letting him use the lands, others built huge walls and tried to defend themselves against the king, summoning dragons, monsters, lights and heroes of the past. They were all wiped out, and that was frightening.
But then one of the realms summoned a group of heroes from another realm. A different realm, one that hasn't been mapped by sages, or saints, or wizards, or wizards. A kingdom where men make iron swim like a fish, fly like a bird, run like a horse and think like a person. From there came many heroes, who fought the shadow monsters of the shadow king. They drove him to hide in the nether realms, and leave our world, and the heroes sealed the way, leading to a peace that lasted a thousand years. And it was this peace that doomed us…
The kings of our world began to become as greedy as the shadow king, selling their own daughters for power, and summoning creatures from the underworld and using them as weapons of war. Heroes' corpses were desecrated to steal their powers, and holy wars were formed in their names. All this contributed to the coming of the lairs.
Thousands of lairs began to be built by beings from the lower realms. Caves that spanned worlds, and allowing all sorts of monsters to come. As the kings had weakened this world's magical defenses, the shadow king's servants came, and began to pave the way for their leader's arrival.
In an act of desperation, the last servants loyal to the ancient religion of heroes performed the ritual. But this time, instead of seven, thirty came…
And that's how the shadow war has begun...