Category:History

History of Atrox
Atrox is an ancient world but it did not always have shape, or form. It is a unique plane in the universe, unlike any other seen, and though many Realmwars have scarred its surface, it remains a beautiful, diverse land with a rich history. Not all is known of Atrox by its people, but some of the greatest minds in the civilised world, scholars of the Order of Knowledge, have pieced together what they can.

Discovery
Little to nothing is known of the creation of Atrox, but it is believed it was spawned at the birth of the multiverse. A rift-world lying outside of any known Realm, Atrox was discovered by the Realmskippers at the advent of the first Realmwar. A chaotic space between the Realms of existence, Atrox was barren and featureless originally, like an island in an expansive, endless void. Atrox is still, to this day, a flat and limited plane.

The Realmwars
It was on Atrox that the main battles of the Realmwars were fought, and it was on Atrox that many lost their lives. Though the Realmwars gradually resulted in catastrophic death tolls, the true damage was to the boundaries of reality- the walls between the Realms. As the walls of reality weakened with constant use of Realm Shifting, Atrox began to assimilate details of the Realms that had opened to it. Though these details and locations were ghostly and non-corporeal at first, it all changed when a Knight planted a tree in the soil. As life began for the first time in the blood-soaked earth of the rift-world, it blossomed quickly and spread into a large forest. Reality leaked through onto the plane of chaos, and slowly Atrox began to take form as a twisted landscape, its characteristics a strange amalgam of details and landmarks from the multiverse. An expanse of ocean developed around the forest-island, and the rift-world began to take shape.

Atrox Develops
The Realmskippers saw Atrox as both a curse and a blessing. Thanks to Atrox, the ever-expanding realm of chaos, the Realms were prevented from collapsing onto one another, as Atrox served as the 'dumping ground' for the flaws in reality. Atrox served as a good middle-ground for their base from which to govern the many realms, making their home in the large forested island that had been the source of life in the world. This forest contained enough rifts to make travel to almost any realm possible, and simple. It became quickly known as the Realmwood. However, on the downside, Atrox became evidence of the growing weakening of the borders, and it was obvious that soon the Realms would fall apart and converge into chaos. Over time, various species began to develop in Atrox, and many Realmskippers started families and even civilizations in the rift-world. Following suit, many ex-soldiers from the RealmWars came to find it their home. Over time, scholars were baffled as they saw lights appearing in the previously void-like sky. Atrox had birthed itself a constellation, a native sun, and four moons. Interestingly, the constellation is constantly shifting, and will represent the sky of a different realm almost every night.

Thanatos' Realmwar
During Thanatos' RealmWar, Atrox and its budding continents and landmasses were almost completely conquered by the rogue Realmlord Thanatos, who used it as a platform for his unholy crusade. He built for himself an enormous weapon of great power, known as the Fortress, and used it to travel from Realm to Realm, turning them to his cause- or turning them to ash. The damage catastrophic, the free Realms united under one banner and, under the leadership of the Realmskippers, lead a final charge to free themselves from Thanatos. In the climax of the battle, held on Atrox, Thanatos was felled, the battle causing fissures and tidal waves across the world. Thanatos' Fortress was left to drift in the voids of space. The plane of Atrox was almost torn asunder.

The Sealing of the Realms
The Realmwar had left the realms battered, the Realmskippers all but extinct. To save the catastrophe from ever occuring again, they destroyed the Realm Gates in each and every Realm and prevented Realm Shifting from ever occuring again. Atrox, which had developed into a Realm in its own right, was all but sealed from the rest of the multiverse, and the RealmWars finally reached an end. But life on Atrox persisted, and the RealmSkippers could not cut off all the rifts...

Many years passed. Civilisation developed, expanded, changed. Atrox's story has barely just begun.