Esuna
A background exposing the inter-laced history of the Gods including a rare account of Esuna's transformation from casual observer into active interventionist with an agenda. The history of the Gods is told from a narrative perspective and more in-depth details may be inconsistent with currently held opinions, however different those positions may be, details of this history are open to interpretation but as accurate as humanly possible.
History of the Gods
Before the first circle, long before the dawn of mankind, there were two gods. Their names weren’t known, as they had no need for names. They were known as She and He, the mother and the father. Together these two gods were blessed with two children, first Gaea, their beautiful brown-eyed daughter, and later Dennac, their strong son whose eyes were black as the death itself.
The father had always wanted a son to take over his powers and continue his legacy once he was gone. Dennac was his blessing. The father had taught Dennac to become a powerful god, teaching him the glorious art of warfare, for he thought this was the most important thing for young Dennac to know. But the mother was more interested in keeping the family united and believed that peace was the source of all good, so she didn’t agree with the father’s teachings, so she had Dennac and Gaea separated. The mother looked and cared after Gaea, and the father took in Dennac and continued teaching him.
Dennac began to believe in domination, hatred and suffering, as his father had taught him. Gaea instead, believed in peace and harmony, just like she had learned from her mother. Dennac and Gaea became the opposites of each other and thus a hatred began to grow progressively over time between the siblings.
A long period of time had passed before Dennac, who hasn’t spoken with his mother or sister in a long time, decided to strike down on Gaea, without his father knowing about it. Dennac, whose sickness was the growing hunger of power, wanted to be the most powerful and the thought of sharing the world made him sick. The father found out about the attack on Gaea too late, and in a desperate attempt to end the madness he was accidentally killed by Dennac’s hand. The mother, who believed in peace and harmony, was shocked of all this and left Gaea and Dennac, and traveled to another world to mourn for her husband. There she secretly watched over Gaea but never worked up the courage to contact her.
After the mother had left Gaea, Gaea started to explore her own powers and she then began to create mortal creatures. Her biggest achievement was the human who became able to worship and praise her. Dennac watched his sister’s work and soon became jealous, as he wanted his own worshippers. He started to experiment with the power of creation, but his dark mind was limited and only demonic evil creatures was what he could conjure. He soon realized that he would never be able to create any creature worthy of worshipping him, so he began the progress of corrupting Gaea’s humans, which turned out to be a lot easier for him then creating them.
Dennac’s hatred and jealousy towards Gaea grew fast and he blamed her for his father’s death. Dennac decided to avenge his father by attacking Gaea and her worshippers. At this point, time as we know it today began.
In the first circle of destruction Gaea and her peaceful part of the world didn’t even realize what had happened before it was too late, Dennac had corrupted the king of the lands and with his loyal army they brought destruction upon Gaea’s sacred creatures. Her pitiful world was destroyed for the first time.
It took many years of hard work for Gaea to rebuild her precious little world again. But destroying it once wasn’t enough for Dennac whose thirst for blood had only grown stronger. Dennac launched another attack upon his sister. This time the attack came straight from his black heart and he annihilated his sister’s world completely. The second circle of destruction had ended.
In the third circle of destruction Dennac had his perhaps most powerful follower ever; his right hand, Diriath. Diriath became stronger than any mortal before him, he had achieved the status of a lesser god and rumours said that his shadow alone was enough to kill a man. He alone fought against Gaea and wounded her badly leaving her no other choice than to flee to safety. After some years had passed, she returned to see that her world was destroyed once again. Dennac was very pleased with his loyal follower, Diriath, and rewarded him with immortality in Dennac’s world. Diriath is still ruling those forsaken lands as an immortal king till this day.
After the third circle of destruction had passed, Gaea wanted peace with Dennac and tried to convince her brother to forget about the past. It was already too late – or too soon – to beg Dennac for forgiveness and mercy. Dennac could not forgive his father’s death that easily, thus he completely ignored Gaea’s plea and prepared yet another attack on Gaea. For the fourth time Dennac had destroyed the world Gaea had build.
The war continued, and Dennac attacked mercifully over and over for nothing was enough for him. Many circles passed, each time with the same outcome. All this time the mother watched, from her own world, and she shed a tear for each time Gaea’s creation was destroyed.
But everything changed in the ninth circle of Destruction. Nothing would be the same again. A mortal man had been born, his name was Winchester and with his pure heart and mighty sword he had earned himself respect among his fellow man. A prophecy said that a mortal man would be the one to stop the endless war and bring order to the world. This man was Winchester. In his younger years he had become the commander of Lord British’s army and most trusted warrior. Lord British the seventh, the king who had built up the great city of Britain, made it posper by trade and commerce, order and justice. For Lord British’s empire to grow he would have purge Dennac and his followers from the mortal realm. He called upon Sir Winchester who was ordered to start a campaign against the God Dennac. After many epic battles the outcome of the war was still unclear so Sir Winchester and a group of men were sent out to investigate the rumour of cult called Tek-stone, mortal men who had been corrupted by Dennac’s influence. This stone is the one Dennac used to corrupt humans and later used it to feed his army with anger and hatred, granting them supernatural powers. But if this stone could be found and destroyed there might be hope for a quick end to the war. Sir Winchester fought valiantly but failed in his task and was killed. The groups healer had tried to bring his body back to life, but something strange had happened. Instead of bringing him back to life, his body faded and his spirit rose up unto the heavens. A new god had been born. One whose purpose was to bring order and law to the land. The group of men who had followed Sir Winchester formed the Order of Law and dedicated their lives to defend those in need, uphold justice and maintain order over the land.
With Winchester’s help the Order of Law almost succeeded in destroying Dennac and his followers. Many thought that Dennac was beaten for good and that peace would finally be obtained. It took almost a year for Dennac to build up a new cult. War had broken out once again but with less evil influence from Dennac as now he had Winchester to deal with.
For years the war raged on between Law and Tekstone. It seemed there would be no end. The mother had seen everything that had happened and decided to take action. She finally returned to her children’s world. Her only wish was to unite the family and to end the everlasting war. To achieve this she created Esuna, the Imperial god. Her wish was that Esuna would unite humanity and her family. However, Esuna had a different concept of “unity” and “peace”. Instead of trying to unite the three old gods, she started to play them against each other, hoping it would weaken them enough for her to take over the empire. The mother realized she had made a mistake in bringing things to an end. To punish her creation Esuna, she condemned her name, and Esuna would from this day and in all future be know as ‘Her’.
