History

The Age before Ages
"The world of Amarax once was not. In the beginning, there was no was, no is, no to be. There was simply the void, and Great Nara, and ever on it went."
 * -The Song of Stones, 2nd printing, common translation by Rag Ka'Na

Before all things, there was a great crystal in a void. The crystal we have come to know as Nara. Nara's other names include The Great Crystal, the Light-stone, or the "Everstone". Nara floated in a void of nothing. Its facets were infinite, as was its consciousness. Upon each facet lived an entire world, and on the edges of these facets wars were waged. These battles were fought by armies larger than any that Amarax has ever, and will ever see. Demons and Angels they were known as. They were observed by Nara, and it viewed their conflicts without emotions. The Angels fought the demons, and over time they gained and lost facets to one another, fighting, killing, dying, and being reborn once more. The worlds that existed on these crystal facets also were destroyed, the inhabitants of which could be tortured, or blinked out of existence completely painlessly. After a time, Nara would birth another world, another attempt at pure beauty. Nara challenged itself to create a world of such balance and perfection that the Angels and the Demons would lay down arms and settle on this world and live in a more harmonious relationship with one another. This never came to be, however, due to the Dark-stone, Klaxx.

The Great Breaking
"In the Age of Crystals, before the Breaking, there was no concept as good orevil. These are constructs formed by later ages, as an attempt to create a more coherent picture of the world and explain its nuances. So know that when i say Klaxx is the embodiment of evil, what I mean to say is that Klaxx was evil before the concept existed. Evil exists in our world, in all of its varying degrees, because The blackstone of Klaxx no longer does.  He was fragmented from evil into hate and malice."


 * -The book of Crystals, Vol 3, author unknown

The Great Breaking is an age that has an ambiguous beginning, but rather is understood to be a series of events that lasted countless millennia.

As Nara floated in the void, contemplating its own existence, observing the battles and wars waged upon its facets, it slowly became aware of another entity. This entity has come to be identified as Klaxx (the entity has come to have many names, including The Black One, The Dust Stone, The Heart of Dust, and DaemonStone are common, though there are others). As the ages past by, the enormous celestial stones became ever closer and closer until Nara became aware of the inevitability of contact.

After ages beyond countable measure, the two stones finally touched one another, and since neither would yield to the other, being equal in both size and power, both stones shattered into many shards of various size and shape in an event known as The Great Breaking. The pieces of each became intertwined to varying degrees, and when the shards settled one next to another, a third great stone of the combined mass stood alone, and became known as Amarax.

The First Age
"Far and wide life did spring into form, twisting and congregating in the nooks and cracks of the world, growing of good and evil and all forces between, settling into the regions known as Amarax and Kenardt, though the original names of these lands have been lost to time"


 * -A History of the Ages: The lands of the Stones, by Crei Den-Tuath, scribe of the Emperor Feranda Lianda, 249AC

After the event known as the Great Breaking, came a time which would be known later as the First Age. The energies of Nara and Klaxx became intertwined and life was created all over the world of Amarax, with varying degrees of each of the two great stones. Some creatures were beings of nearly pure evil, similar in scope to the Demons found on Klaxx. There were also Beings created from the released energy of Nara, which came to be known as the Tiyana, or "beings of the crystal" in Elven.

The Calamity
The Calamity is an event about which little is known, and much is rumored.

A compilation of Rumors and Truths can be found here