LORE/BACKSTORY

📜 The Divine Trials: A Forbidden History

Excerpt from "Eidolon (pronounced "Eye-duh-luhn") Academy Orientation Manuscript, Year 1205 of the Godless Age"

Archived in the Living Library, Floor 3

💀 The Shattering of the Pantheon

1,000 years ago, the world was ruled not by kings, but by gods.

Thirteen of them reigned, each governing one of the primal forces of creation: flame, time, mind, death, shadow, storm, and more. They were not merciful. They were not kind. They demanded worship, sacrifice, and obedience. Empires rose and fell by divine whim. Mortals lived in fear of the gods' cruelty disguised as justice.

Until one of their own turned against them.

Known only as the Godkiller, they were not born divine, but rose from mortal blood, wielding an unnatural power capable of severing divine essence from existence itself. It's said their blade was forged in betrayal, dipped in godfire, and bound to the screams of a dying star.

In a single, bloody decade, the Pantheon fell, slain, scattered, or sealed.

But gods do not truly die. Their power fractured, splintering across the world like cracks in a mirror. It seeped into the blood of mortals: into warriors, oracles, healers, and kings. Their descendants were born with fragments of divine essence, what we now call the godbloods.

🩸 The Bloodlines Formed

From the death of the gods came thirteen bloodlines, each carrying a shard of divine power:

🌑 The Thirteen Fallen Gods & Their Bloodlines

"From their ash, we rose. From their blood, we were born."

Each god ruled a fundamental force. Their essence shattered into bloodlines that carry echoes of their magic. Every godblood born today descends from one of these divine sources.

1. Ignisar - God of Fire 🔥

Bloodline Name: Ignisborn

Traits: volatile tempers, enhanced strength, fire conjuration, immunity to flame

Signature Magic: combustion spells, wildfire manipulation, soul-heat channeling

Trial Weakness: cannot survive underwater realms without aid

2. Aurella - Goddess of Light ✨

Bloodline Name: Aurafell

Traits: glowing marks under skin, heightened charisma, truthsense

Signature Magic: light manipulation, radiant healing, divine sigils

Trial Weakness: shadowbound illusions, corrupted relics

3. Nyxarion - God of Shadow 🌑

Bloodline Name: Nyxveil

Traits: silken voices, emotion dampening, night vision

Signature Magic: shadowstep, darkness weaving, dreamwalking

Trial Weakness: pure radiant artifacts, truthbinding magic

4. Caelthas - God of Storms ⚡

Bloodline Name: Caeltherion

Traits: unpredictable moods, electric auras, rapid reflexes

Signature Magic: lightning summoning, thunderwave propulsion, storm speaking

Trial Weakness: silence chambers, grounding rituals

5. Velmyra - Goddess of Ice 🧊

Bloodline Name: Velmyrian

Traits: pale hair or silver veins, emotionally detached, resistance to cold

Signature Magic: frost casting, memory freezing, mirror illusions

Trial Weakness: heat-based attacks, emotional magic

6. Thalor - God of Water 🌊

Bloodline Name: Thalosin

Traits: calm demeanor, fluid motion, hydrokinesis

Signature Magic: water bending, healing pools, breathcraft (underwater control)

Trial Weakness: fire traps, confined dry spaces

7. Terranox - God of Earth 🌍

Bloodline Name: Terranoxis

Traits: grounded presence, enhanced durability, rock communication

Signature Magic: stone shaping, seismic stomps, armor crafting from terrain

Trial Weakness: air-based or illusion spells

8. Sylithia - Goddess of Air 🌬️

Bloodline Name: Sylvaran

Traits: light-boned, flight-oriented, wind-sensitive hearing

Signature Magic: levitation, gale-force attacks, voice projection

Trial Weakness: underground arenas, heavy silence wards

9. Erisyne - Goddess of Chaos 🌀

Bloodline Name: Erisynean

Traits: manic energy, disruptive aura, charm magic

Signature Magic: illusion warping, curse binding, entropy storms

Trial Weakness: structure-based logic puzzles, divine order spells

10. Virellan - God of Mind 🧠

Bloodline Name: Virellan

Traits: emotion-readers, telepathic communication, memory alteration

Signature Magic: psychic assault, mental shields, dream projection

Trial Weakness: shadow magic and bloodborn influence

11. Khorvall - God of Time ⏳

Bloodline Name: Khorvalen

Traits: déjà vu sensations, aged eyes, glitchy auras

Signature Magic: time loops, slow fields, future flashes

Trial Weakness: chaos or blood magic that interrupts temporal flow

12. Ossira - Goddess of Death ☠️

Bloodline Name: Ossirae

Traits: darkened sclera, necrotic affinity, commune with spirits

Signature Magic: soul tethering, spirit summoning, deathmancy

Trial Weakness: divine light, purified relics

13. Sanguira - Goddess of Blood 🩸

Bloodline Name: Sanguelith

Traits: heightened senses, hemomancy, regeneration

Signature Magic: blood puppetry, life siphoning, pain transmutation

Trial Weakness: iron-forged seals, light sigils, nullifying auras

🌑 The Lost Fourteenth?

Some scholars whisper of a fourteenth bloodline, born of the Godkiller, whose power was neither divine nor mortal, but capable of erasing divinity itself.

No bloodline name.

No sigils.

No records.

Just a prophecy:

"When the stars scream red, and the Trials bleed black, the last heir of the void born blade shall awaken... and gods shall rise again."

🏰 The Creation of Eidolon Academy

After the slaughter, one god remained.

Vaerion, the God of Memory and Echoes, the Keeper of All That Was, refused to die. He saw the broken world and the scattered children of divinity. So he built a fortress between realms, Eidolon Academy, fashioned from memory, magic, and mourning.

But Vaerion did not stay. With the last of his strength, he bound his soul into the very walls, creating a sentient, ever-shifting castle designed to:

Summon godbloods once per century

Protect and train them

And one day... prepare them to reclaim what was lost

🕯️ The Calling

Once every 100 years, a subtle magic ripples across the realms, known as The Calling. Those with slumbering godblood feel the shift:

Dreams of fire or drowning in stars

A mark that appears on their skin

Hearing voices in their heads

Strange talents awakening overnight

Then, the invitation arrives. Always personal. Always undeniable.

No one escapes The Calling. Refusal is not an option. You either arrive at Eidolon Academy... or the power inside you consumes you.

🧠 Life at Eidolon Academy

The academy stands on a fold between worlds, nowhere and everywhere at once. Only the Called can see its towers through the mist.

Inside, students attend four years of preparation:

📚 Magical Theory

🩸 Godblood Lineage Studies

⚔️ Trial Combat & Survival Training

🧭 Relic Navigation & Realmcraft

😈 Moral Temptations and Consequence Alchemy

The castle is sentient. It shifts, whispers, and sometimes moves entire rooms just to fuck with professors. It likes the students. It loves rebellion. If you speak to the walls, they may answer. If you bleed on the stone, it remembers you.

There are entire wings no one's mapped.

Staircases that only appear at midnight.

And a library that watches you back.

🔥 The Divine Trials

Each school year ends with a Trial, a pocket realm conjured from god magic, built to test your essence, your strength, and your soul.

The Trials are sacred. Ancient. Deadly.

You do not "pass" the Trials.

You survive them.

Or you don't.

There are four:

1. Trial of Flame - Pain. Sacrifice. Power.

2. Trial of Bone - Face your ancestors. Or fall like them.

3. Trial of Echoes - Relive your worst truth until it breaks you or frees you.

4. Trial of Ascension - The gods return. You must choose: join them, kill them, or become one.

☠️ THE PROPHECY

Whispers say the Divine Trials are not just to test godbloods, but to awaken the true heir of the Godkiller.

And they have returned.

This time?

The Trials won't end with ascension.

They'll end with a reckoning.

👑 NAME OF THE FAE COUNCIL:

The Obsidian Accord

They say:

"All magic must be governed, or it will destroy us."

But what they really mean is:

"All power not ours must be buried."

👑 THE FAE KING & QUEEN (rulers of the Obsidian Accord):

These two look beautiful on the outside but are vicious, politically cutthroat, and hiding a bloody history with the gods. They once made a pact to help kill the gods, and now they fear the godbloods more than anything.

King Vaelor Thorneheart - regal, cruel, calculating, impossibly beautiful. Wields golden glamour and backroom threats like a sword.

Queen Serelai Thorneheart - cold, immortal, ancient beauty. Master of manipulation, shadow-dancer, rumored to have once loved a god. Possibly still does.

🌿 FAE COURT NOBILITY

These nobles rule their territories with absolute control and serve the Accord But not all of them are loyal. 👀

🔥 Court of Fire - Passion, rage, destruction, rebirth

Lady Maelira Volarix - wild red hair, temper hotter than dragon breath, rumored pyromancer

Lord Cassian Volarix - sharp jaw, sharper wit, plays politics like chess, fire dances in his palms

🌊 Court of Water - Emotion, healing, secrets, drowning beauty

Lady Nymira Crestvale - stunning and silent, her tears are said to hold memories

Lord Sylien Crestvale - high-born snob with ocean eyes, calm exterior, hides many betrayals

🌍 Court of Earth - Stability, legacy, decay, unyielding will

Lady Teryn Mossvale - a noblewoman with roots deeper than trees, known for speaking with stone

Lord Garrik Mossvale - stubborn, brutal, carved from granite, his loyalty is only to the realm

🌬️ Court of Air - Freedom, thought, illusion, whispers

Lady Elira Windthorn - laughs like a bell, cuts like a blade, master of illusioncraft

Lord Thayen Windthorn - golden boy of the skies, but has secrets buried in clouded pasts

🌑 Court of Shadow - Secrets, pain, seduction, silence

Lady Vireya Noxmere - rumored assassin, voice like silk over a blade

Lord Zevric Noxmere - speaks in riddles, known for knowing everything, his loyalty is a myth

🌕 VIBE:

The Obsidian Accord isn't just a council. It's a regime.

They've outlawed old gods' worship.

They hunt rogue godbloods.

And they've corrupted history itself to hide the truth, that they helped end the gods... and are terrified they might come back.

But Eidolon Academy?

The castle remembers.

And so do the bloodlines.