Post by Mister Karma on Apr 3, 2017 18:13:39 GMT -5
For millennia, there have been strange locations where large quantities of energy gather. No one really knew why energy gathered here, or what the cause of the gathering pools of energy were. All they knew, all they could gather, was energy collecting en mass in certain spots across the world. For this reason, a group of researchers came together and set out on a journey to investigate these curious spots, recruiting like-minded folks who were interested in obscure and scary topics. Across several sites, researchers found that these gathering spots of energy, these...aether wells, as they came known to be, emitted certain colors and affected their environment in odd ways. Some wells would turn the colors of plantlife around them to exotic shades not indigenous to the area. Some quickened wildlife evolution beyond the thresholds of survivable means. Some provided unexplained energy to otherwise primitive villages. Needless to say, most of the researchers developed aether sickness and fell ill or died while collecting their data. It was in this trying time that the researchers, who came known to be the Staff of Revelation, began a taboo. They recruited supernatural beings for their dangerous work, beings who could withstand the severe weight of the aether wells' power. Results were recorded more quickly and efficiently with the help of demons, angels, vampires and other recruits, and the guild grew tremendously, though at the cost of being obscured by the general paranoid populace.
They soon branched throughout the known world, establishing research facilities all over the super-continent of Eurasia and crossed over the land bridge to a new land, a massive land where aether wells were abundant and the native folk were peaceful and in tune with the energy. The beings here were abundant and various, from humans to animal demons to elves and fae. The humans in this land were born with innate aether-centric powers. By then, the guild's Eurasian human members had evolved to be able to withstand the massive amounts of aether pouring from these wells, and some even developed innate abilities that most normal humans could only call "witchcraft." These humans, as well as the native humans, became known as the "Ancients," and each being was in tune with one particular element. They could still live the normal human lifespan, but with great powers came greater risks. Given Ancients could not use their abilities without giving a bit of their life force in return, they needed to use their powers sparingly. Most Ancients who constantly expended their powers could only live to their mid-fifties if they were lucky, although there were the rarer ones who gave up an important sense such as sight or hearing to continue living into old age.
The Staff of Revelation published their results continuously as they worked, whether they were accepted by society or not. So long as the knowledge of aether wells was in the access of the curious public, the researchers could be ostracized into oblivion for all they cared. However, one crucial turning point soon drove the Staff of Revelation apart and set disaster to the knowledge the guild provided the people with. A war broke out, a war fought between the large guild and several empires looking to eradicate what they feared the most--the Ancients. Blood was spilled first on the Eurasian super-continent, and quickly crossed over into the new lands. Brutal militaries killed innocent Ancients, took several thousand more hostage, and lay waste to the libraries that housed the Staff of Revelation's hard work. Dictators, emperors and monarchs seized any remaining aether well research and kept the information for themselves, out of blind fear that such knowledge in the hands and minds of the public would turn their people against them. Though, as we know from history, uprisings against dictators would happen no matter what. Power was, after all, in the hands of the population--it didn't have to be something as powerful as aether. One particular dictator ordered for his nation's library to preserve the research and bring every bit of it to him. The dictator was only known as J, and he would soon go on to found his own research guild, called Atlantis.
The Staff of Revelation, a guild dedicated to researching the aether wells, was no more. The knowledge revolving around aether and its affects on living beings and plantlife faded into obscurity, the Nikola Tesla of supernatural research as it came to be. However, surviving Ancients who hid from the assaulting Eurasian empires held these facts close, and passed the information on to future generations by word of mouth. Ancients who were still alive were able to pass their genes on to the next generation. Captured Ancients who were forced to interbreed with humans were still able to carry over their traits. The plan to breed out these people fell moot. Research on aether wells became controlled and limited to almost nonexistent for millennia afterward, and the bloody battles which came to be called the War of Fates drew to a swift and painful close.
To this day, there are still scientists in the world dedicated to recovering and renewing the research in the field of aether wells, using the more modern term "aura points" for strictly innovative purposes. There are no known major guilds who research aether wells in depth, although HUDSON has included this research in their own multiverse endeavors. The public has become more open to the concept of aether wells, with most colleges even covering the subject in many physics courses, and engineering firms adopting methods to harness the power as a means of "new energy" while abandoning the old ways of coal and oil. That is not to say that aether has completely dominated the energy market, but it is slowly making a rise back into the general public eye. Perhaps history will not repeat itself as it did thousands of years prior, although there will always be those leaders who wish to take power all for themselves.
They soon branched throughout the known world, establishing research facilities all over the super-continent of Eurasia and crossed over the land bridge to a new land, a massive land where aether wells were abundant and the native folk were peaceful and in tune with the energy. The beings here were abundant and various, from humans to animal demons to elves and fae. The humans in this land were born with innate aether-centric powers. By then, the guild's Eurasian human members had evolved to be able to withstand the massive amounts of aether pouring from these wells, and some even developed innate abilities that most normal humans could only call "witchcraft." These humans, as well as the native humans, became known as the "Ancients," and each being was in tune with one particular element. They could still live the normal human lifespan, but with great powers came greater risks. Given Ancients could not use their abilities without giving a bit of their life force in return, they needed to use their powers sparingly. Most Ancients who constantly expended their powers could only live to their mid-fifties if they were lucky, although there were the rarer ones who gave up an important sense such as sight or hearing to continue living into old age.
The Staff of Revelation published their results continuously as they worked, whether they were accepted by society or not. So long as the knowledge of aether wells was in the access of the curious public, the researchers could be ostracized into oblivion for all they cared. However, one crucial turning point soon drove the Staff of Revelation apart and set disaster to the knowledge the guild provided the people with. A war broke out, a war fought between the large guild and several empires looking to eradicate what they feared the most--the Ancients. Blood was spilled first on the Eurasian super-continent, and quickly crossed over into the new lands. Brutal militaries killed innocent Ancients, took several thousand more hostage, and lay waste to the libraries that housed the Staff of Revelation's hard work. Dictators, emperors and monarchs seized any remaining aether well research and kept the information for themselves, out of blind fear that such knowledge in the hands and minds of the public would turn their people against them. Though, as we know from history, uprisings against dictators would happen no matter what. Power was, after all, in the hands of the population--it didn't have to be something as powerful as aether. One particular dictator ordered for his nation's library to preserve the research and bring every bit of it to him. The dictator was only known as J, and he would soon go on to found his own research guild, called Atlantis.
The Staff of Revelation, a guild dedicated to researching the aether wells, was no more. The knowledge revolving around aether and its affects on living beings and plantlife faded into obscurity, the Nikola Tesla of supernatural research as it came to be. However, surviving Ancients who hid from the assaulting Eurasian empires held these facts close, and passed the information on to future generations by word of mouth. Ancients who were still alive were able to pass their genes on to the next generation. Captured Ancients who were forced to interbreed with humans were still able to carry over their traits. The plan to breed out these people fell moot. Research on aether wells became controlled and limited to almost nonexistent for millennia afterward, and the bloody battles which came to be called the War of Fates drew to a swift and painful close.
To this day, there are still scientists in the world dedicated to recovering and renewing the research in the field of aether wells, using the more modern term "aura points" for strictly innovative purposes. There are no known major guilds who research aether wells in depth, although HUDSON has included this research in their own multiverse endeavors. The public has become more open to the concept of aether wells, with most colleges even covering the subject in many physics courses, and engineering firms adopting methods to harness the power as a means of "new energy" while abandoning the old ways of coal and oil. That is not to say that aether has completely dominated the energy market, but it is slowly making a rise back into the general public eye. Perhaps history will not repeat itself as it did thousands of years prior, although there will always be those leaders who wish to take power all for themselves.