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| - It was 272 years after Hy-Brasyl's inevitable drowning, in the year of Danaan 1703, that the fifth element of darkness was discovered. A mere two years afterwards, the exact cause of which left under speculation to this day, the vile and evil beings known as the Dubhaimid appeared. All of which would mark the beginning of a long age of suffering for Temuair. Though history, with many of its details lost in passage of time, has succeeded only in telling the basis of its records. However, throughout the generations, stories, myths, even personal recollections were passed down. And, though like history these stories too lost their edge of accuracy, one can only take it hold at least a spark of truth...
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| - It was 272 years after Hy-Brasyl's inevitable drowning, in the year of Danaan 1703, that the fifth element of darkness was discovered. A mere two years afterwards, the exact cause of which left under speculation to this day, the vile and evil beings known as the Dubhaimid appeared. All of which would mark the beginning of a long age of suffering for Temuair. Though history, with many of its details lost in passage of time, has succeeded only in telling the basis of its records. However, throughout the generations, stories, myths, even personal recollections were passed down. And, though like history these stories too lost their edge of accuracy, one can only take it hold at least a spark of truth... Out of an obscene understanding of the elements was wrought a fifth element: darkness. From it, atrocious creatures were born. Some which died or vanished with only a lingering sense remaining, and others that the foolish summoned would wish that they had vanished. Their towns, too, would be eaten by the monstrosities. As it happened, with the discovery of darkness, hideous and grotesque creatures were born. With the bondage of the elements, darkness had been added to the servitude as the other four elements before it. However, its effects proved to be far more sinister in use as compared to what could be wrought with earth or fire. Foolish Wizards saw darkness as a means of crushing others involved in the fierce elemental wars. Those who tried succeeded only in conjuring bizarre creatures, hideous and grotesque in form, but not even strong enough to remain in existence for more than a breath's time. Wizards more skilled in their craft, grown tired of the havoc they could manifest with the four most basic of elements, turned to trytheir hands at the manipulation of darkness. The creature's they produced through their magicks, as it happened, were far more powerful than those the lower of the magicians could bring about. These advanced demons did not disappear upon their creation, rather they grew strong. No amount of magickal skill could control these such monsters, and they quickly turned upon their creators who foolishly wished to be their masters. And, feeding off the fear and terror they evoked in those who called them, the makers of these obscene creatures soon met untimely ends by their own powers. These experiments with such an unknown and mysterious element, would ultimately drug many an innocent mundane, even a slight more deserving war-goer, to meet similar and ever more unspeakable deaths... Eventually, as the strife and malice increased amongst participants of the mindless struggles for power, the creatures born of darkness too seemed to gain strength. The demons that had been summoned by so many in a effort to turn the tables of the insane battles thrived in both spreading and feeding upon the chaos that reigned. Towns were ravaged as the intellects of the dark beings evolved, leading them to gather in large groups and crush those who sought to right the wrongs of their existence in destroying them. Still the blind mortal struggles for power continued on. It was said, amongst many a oracle, scholar, and philosopher that dare research such dark subjects, that as the angst hatred of those who fought reached it peak, so did the society and logic of the fearsome demons, all of which fed upon the chaos that was raged amongst the power mad inhabitants of Temuair. The creatures of darkness, by the unfortunates they tormented from beginning their creation, had fearfully come to be called the Dubhaimid. It was during this climax of vile progression, when those involved in the war lusted more than ever for a hold over the land, and when the innocents wrought between the maddening struggled feared more than ever for their lives, that the Dubhaimid assumed a level which could nearly be a twisted parallel to mortals. From the meager, pathetic ooze they had first been conjured as, the Dubhaim had risen to assume far more terrifying forms, human in guise but horribly distorted by the hate and loathing the demon race so thrived and flourished upon. It became so that mortals were gripped by the Dubhaimid's greedy manipulation of their darker emotions, feasting upon the fear the produced from inhabitants of the cities they ravished, and thriving further upon the even more fervent hatred amongst the tyrants and warlords or the lands. Thus, their reign of terror grew...
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