Legend
Within the deepest darkness, many ages past and many distances away, a light emerged. It was colorless, but it was something different from the nothing that existed before it. From this light came color. Each color developed its own power and magic.
This light pushed back the darkness and allowed Sight. Some came forth to take up the mantle of this many colored light and bring it forth to push back the darkness and expand what could be seen and felt and known.
There were others who preferred the darkness, and pushed back against the light, to veil things once more.
Thus were the mythic and mysterious Aether Wars fought in the ages before time, wreaking havoc across the cosmos and tearing jagged edges into the night sky forever. Each time the story is told, details change, and few are certain of what really happened, save that from the settling of the debris of this massive conflict, our world was created, Jorath. And from the dirt of Jorath, the people awoke. And some of these people learned to harness the many colored light of the aether to protect this world from the encroaching darkness.
But those in power fear what they cannot control, and the bearers of the light were forced into hiding, and the world grew dimmer for it...
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Engineer's Empire 2.0
FantasyAn update of the previous manuscript after a year of tweaking. Please let me know what you think.