So... this is just a giant database for my fantasy worldbuilding project that includes Crimson Assassin, Dead Sanctum, Gateway of Golden Sands, and more stories to be told in the future if I ever get around to it. Until then...
And if anyone cares...
"Through the looking glass I saw not only myself but something more. Unlike me, they had form, had color, had a beautiful unknowing of the abyss that sought to swallow them whole. Their land was bright and green and we thought that our light would never fade."
- Eristar
Vitanien was the first realm in Sanctum's history. Founded by the gods of Aerinor in F.A. 1, it was located at the equator of Sanctum's eastern coastline and covered a great distance in all cardinal directions, but never breached from the tropics. It later fell to the Abyss and was its stronghold until the end of the First Age, where light returned once more, slowly, as it was the most tainted land in Sanctum's history.
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The jungles of Mian Keyvori
History
First Age
When the gods of Aerinor first created Sanctum, they sculpted humanity as figures overlooking the equatorial cliffs as the first sun rose over the Golden Sea. This was a sacred location known as Narenhil. The inhabitants of this land were known to themselves as Keyvori, and they were gifted with wisdom and power, and above all, the will to do no evil with these gifts. A massive jeweled stone, the Great Stone of Vitanien, towered over the center of their lands and shone as bright as the sun, and ever there was no night. The Stone was worshipped for it was the linking between their world and the gods, and tributes would be given every day at the foot of the Stone in the city of Keyvoria. The Keyvori were peaceful, they governed themselves and there was no war or conflict between anyone in the land of Vitanien. It was a utopia that lasted for around 10,000 years.
In this reign of utmost peace, humanity spread westward from Vitanien and forgot about the Stone, birthing the realms of Parnos, Trinime, and Nimeda in the uttermost west. There were also rumors of civilizations existing south past the eyes of Vitanien, but no one had ever seen them. Vitanien's splinter realms remain largely forgotten from the trials of Sanctum and were called the "Unbroken Lands."
In the centuries leading up to F.A. 10,000, many Keyvori begun to worship the hidden stars they saw past the light of the Stone and sun, and the cult of of the Zodiac was created in secret. Their hideout was underneath the Vitanien Stone itself, winding around the roots of the Stone far into the depths of the world. There were twelve leaders among them, and in F.A. 10,000, their belief in the Abyss unwillingly destroyed the Vitanien Stone and summoned a great dragon of shadow erupting from its remnants. The light faded from the sky and as the sun sunk below the horizon, the very first night of Sanctum had begun. With no light left, the stars of the abyss filled the entire sky, peering down as the souls of the Keyvori were drowned in darkness. Humanity would become feral hosts of shadow, yet only the strongest were left alive and suddenly gained consciousness, free will, and the ability to do both good and evil. In the atmosphere now lay scattered the dust of the Stone, becoming the only source of magic for humankind, to fight back. But the physical shards of their great Stone were scattered all over Sanctum, and they yearned for them.
