Chapter 436: Holy Grail of Amaunata
The Spellweavers, a mysterious race with powerful spellcasting abilities, established an empire that once spanned the entire multiverse.
Called the 'Nexus Age' because the Spellweaver's colony was called: The Nexus. They forged huge five-sided spiers out of rock and steel, and these spiers passed through a complex portal system. Connected to each other.
Normally, there is only one hub in each world. Spellweavers help the development of countless civilizations in these worlds, and sometimes choose to conquer some too primitive races to serve as slaves and hard labor.
For those very few racial civilizations that may pose a threat to their own empire, the Spellweaver's strategy is to give the opponent powerful magic items and artifacts, so that the opponent will self-destruct due to internal fighting.
In the world of Toril, thousands of years before the kingdom of elves and dwarves began to flourish, Faerûn was at the peak of its rule by the Saruk Empire.
The Spellweaver established a colony called Ariel under a cliff in the northwest of the former Narrow Sea, which is now the city of Escaut.
As the territory of Saluk Wu Hao's Istor Sefi Empire continued to expand, and finally came into contact with Ariel, the two powerful races immediately clashed.
Since the number of 'lower' creatures under the rule of Saluk Wuhao far exceeds that of the Spellweavers, the latter are forced to receive attacks like waves, and Ariel's Spellweavers They used the portal system to bring the Phaylings from other worlds to the Toril universe, and then manipulated the Phaylings to fight against the Istosefif Empire.
At the same time, the Spellweaver also began a more secretive and long-term operation.
Some Spellweavers used transformation magic to infiltrate the Betis, a mysterious magical organization in the Istosefifer Empire.
Betis's most famous achievement is compiling the golden skin of the Serpent of the World, which later became the Scroll of Nese.
The Spellweaver plans to use this action to cause the Saluk and the Phaerim to destroy each other.
The reason for this is that the spellweavers of Ariel not only regard the Saluk witch as a threat, but also fear the phaerinn goons they summoned who have powerful magical abilities.
The war between the Saluk witch and the Phaerin continues to escalate. Without the knowledge of Ariel's spellweavers and the spellweaver spies who infiltrated Betis, Istor The senior officials of the Sephifer Empire decided to use powerful magic to redirect the Narrow Sea in order to destroy the Felin Demon Sunflower.
This action of the Saluk witch successfully eliminated most of the phaerim and drove the remaining few into the depths of the Underdark. However, it also caused a large-scale ecological disaster to his country, which ultimately led to the death of Iraq. The Stosefifer empire fell.
In addition, the magic of Saruk witch and dragon also brought disaster to their unknown real enemy Ariel.
The surging flood caught Ariel's spellweavers by surprise. When the flood receded, the only thing left in Ariel was the remains of the pentagonal spire.
This also directly caused the Spellweavers stationed in the world of Toril to never recover. Most of the few Spellweavers who survived the flood chose to leave Toril and go to colonies in other worlds.
One of the Spellweavers named Jaeger stayed. Jaeger was the leader of the Spellweaver spies who infiltrated Betis. His alias in Betis was Snakto. .
Yeager swore to destroy the Istosefifer Empire to avenge Ariel, and he was determined to kill every remaining Saruk witch in the empire.
However, to his dismay, the surviving Saluk witches chose to retreat and hide behind the magic defenses they deployed to recuperate.
The defensive magic of the Saluk Witch is so powerful that even the Spellweaver cannot penetrate it.
Yager's failed attempt instead exposed him to the Saluk witches and Lich Kings of Omi and the Phaylings of the Underdark. After learning the truth, the Saluk witches and Phaylings From then on, Mo Kui regarded Jaeger and Spellweaver as their sworn enemies.
His revenge against the Istosefifer Empire came to an abrupt end due to the assassination of Felin Demon Kui, and Yeager had to flee the Istosefif Empire and choose other Saruk witch territories. as a target of revenge.
When he escaped, he took away a large amount of magical treasures and knowledge, which laid the foundation for the Nese Scrolls.
Yeager realized that the magical knowledge that brought disaster to Ariel would be the key to the re-rise of the Spellweaver Empire thousands of years later.
In the time since then, Yeager has continued to secretly manipulate various powerful races in the world of Toril.
Yager has mastered the method of obtaining immortality by staying in magical stasis for a long time. This method is also the secret of the Saluk shaman of the Mershok Empire to maintain immortality.
Through this method, Jaeger continued to hide in Betis secretly.
As time went by, the leader of Betis changed from the Saluk witch to the Bachez demon fish, and then to the Ayili bird tribe, and Yeager has been hiding among them.
Until around -3000 DR, when the golden skin of the World Serpent was compiled, Betis was no longer of use value.
Taking advantage of the first Ascension of the Dragon, under the control of Yeager, the Dragon King Nagamat and his dragon allies attacked Viaku, the capital of the Ayili Bird Clan, and killed Betis leadership.
Among the three volumes of the Golden Skin of the World Serpent, two were hidden in the Shaluk Fortress of Betis and remained untouched. Yeager only brought the other volume to the Hestra Fortress, and then Head south to the former location of Okos, the Saruk witch and dragon empire.
There, Jaeger put himself into a lengthy magical stasis.
Yeager believes that due to his secret manipulation of the dragon, Faerun will usher in a tremendous change in the coming years.
When Jaeger woke up from his tens of thousands of years of slumber, he faced a completely unfamiliar world of Toril.
Yager had only a superficial impression of the races that dominated this continent, and he was surprised by the magical skills displayed by these "primitive" races.
Yager went east along the shore of the giant salt lake that was once the border of the ancient Okos Empire, and came to the Imasca Empire.
There he continued his old tricks of pulling strings.
He caused a devastating plague in the Imaskar Empire, beginning the Age of Shatra - meaning "darkness" in the Imaskar language - and his existence was discovered by Yeager's ancient enemies.
What Jaeger doesn’t know is that the Imasca Empire has been capturing and cultivating phaerinn as slaves for centuries, using this terrifying monster to advance its own magical development.
Although enslaved by magic, the hatred rooted in the memory of the race has not been erased. The Felin Demon Kui revealed the existence of Yeager to his master.
What exposed Yeager was the feat he was most proud of - the golden skin of the Great Serpent of the World. The magical resonance it produced allowed the Phayling to discover him - Phayling had long ago They had felt the resonance of this unwritten artifact thousands of years ago, and they would never forget this resonance.
The Imaskar Artificer and the Phaelin Demon Kwai immediately began to pursue them. Jaeger fled westward to Char in a hurry. He had to abandon the golden skin of the World Serpent and tried to pass through a door. The portal located in the former Orkos Empire's Saluk witch escaped.
Jaeger was finally overtaken by his pursuers south of what is now the Forum.
When he pretended to be trying to pass through a certain portal, but actually planned to use the stasis magic to escape from his shell, he was killed by his enemies.
However, the stasis magic, the plane characteristics of the portal, and the destructive spell of the pursuer to tear apart the magic network produced a strange reaction. The rising sandstorm buried Yeager deeply in East Xia. of underground.
The pursuers of the mechanical empire Imasca took away the golden skin of the giant snake of the world abandoned by Yeager. After many experiments and failures, the Imasca weapon masters will It was forged into the famous Seven Secret Weapons of Imaskar.
A century later, Jaeger awakens from his twisted stasis and immediately realizes,
While he was trapped, the Spellweaver Empire spread across the multiverse in an instant and was completely destroyed. He just slept, and not only was his family gone, but his race was also destroyed.
This is even more unbelievable than in the real world when an astronaut has just returned to Blue Star and his country is no longer there.
The event that led to it is known as the Great Collapse. According to unreliable sources, spellweavers from other worlds and planes tried to use a magic to turn the entire race into true gods, but failed miserably, triggering a magical backlash that swept across the entire multiverse. In an instant, , all of the Spellweaver's hubs and pentagonal spiers exploded violently, killing all inhabitants of the colony.
Only a handful of Spellweavers far away from the hub survived, and these survivors became the ancestors of modern Spellweavers, and after this event began what the Spellweavers called "the confusion" era.
However, Yeager found a trace of divine fire in his body. Perhaps to some extent, the magic of divine ascension did not completely fail this time.
Due to the special state he was in at the time, Jaeger received a trace of divine fire, and the influence of the environment and the negative energy plane mummified his body, so Jaeger was transformed into a demigod mummy.
The newly acquired divinity and undead status made Yeager unable to adapt for a while. He set off a massacre in East Xia, killing all the creatures he encountered.
Thousands of years later, the mantis people who suffered deeply from this still called that period the "Disaster of the Four Claws."
Finally, Jaeger regained his consciousness and decided to return to his ancient hometown of Ariel to restore the glory of the Spellweaver Empire.
In order to achieve this goal, Yeager must perform a magical ritual called the "Reversal Code". This ritual allows a single spellweaver to cast a time-reversing spell that originally required multiple spellcasters to cast, and the time of the entire multiverse can be reversed. Reversal to before the "Great Disintegration", then improve the magic of ascension and cast it again to achieve the goal of turning the entire race into gods.
When he returned to the vicinity of Ariel, Yeager discovered that some "lower" races had established civilizations on the coast of the Narrow Sea and in the nearby mountains and forests.
Yeager realized that in order to achieve the feat of turning back time to the Hub Era, he must increase his divinity.
The civilizations and beliefs of the elves and dwarves have already formed their own systems, so he targeted the primitive human civilization around the Narrow Sea. He first had to make them fear, and then convert this fear into belief. and strength.
These humans who lived along the coast of the Narrow Sea were the ancestors of the great arcanists of Netheril in the future.
At this moment, they are still in primitive totem worship, using various beasts of the sea and land as totem beasts.
Yager appears as a silent, mysterious killer, bringing strife and carnage.
After a generation, human shamans began to provide him with sacrifices and prayers to appease his anger, increase his divine power, and lay the foundation for him to later become a member of the Nese pantheon. Base.
In addition, the mantis people in distant Eastern Xia also formed a sect that believed in him. The mantis people there called him Chikarata, which means desert killer, further strengthening his divinity.
Just as his plan was progressing smoothly, Jaeger's lair beneath the ruins of Ariel was invaded by dwarves from the nearby mountains, who descended down the ruins hoping to find treasure.
After the conflict, Yeager killed most of the dwarves, but before that, a gem warehouse had been ransacked by the dwarves, and the star gems necessary for the "Reversal Code" magic ritual were also stolen.
The furious Jaeger chased the dwarves and killed them one by one.
The dwarves first fled eastward along the mountains, and then fled into the Underdark in an attempt to escape pursuit.
Near a volcanic crater deep underground, Jaeger cornered the few remaining dwarves.
When Jaeger was about to kill him, the dwarf king Danzo came to the rescue.
The two had an earth-shattering battle, and finally both fell into the crater and were swallowed by lava.
The destruction of Yeager's demigod mummy body allowed him to break away from the shackles of the body and become a complete god.
The divine ascension stripped him of his spellweaver nature and transformed him into the true god of death, tyranny, and necromancy.
No longer limited by his body, Yeager began to communicate directly with his most powerful and influential mortal followers using the language of the soul, continuing to enhance his divine power.
Seven small fishing villages in the Narrow Sea were united under the leadership of Elder Nese and named Severton. The shamans of Yeager relied on the power to control life and death and the control of death. Mastery of spiritual arts is at the top of the hierarchy of power in every fishing village.
As his power grew, Nether renamed Sevington Netheril, meaning "the territory of Nether", and his shamans began to teach the talented Netherese people necromancy.
Nese began to study magic and focused on necromancy, which caused concern among the senior officials of their neighbor, the Elf Kingdom
Eerlan. -3854 DR, Erlan sent men to start paying attention to Netheril. -3830DR, after extensive deliberations, the top leaders of Erlan believed that the best way to curb the development momentum of the Yeager Church was to provide Netheril with another path to learn magic. Wizards teach magic to the gifted humans of Netherese.
Yerlan's strategy was very effective. The influence of the Yeager Church began to decrease, and the Necromancy Department was reduced to just one school among the nine sects.
Undaunted by this setback, Jaeger began to increase his divine power by spreading strife, tyranny, death, and destruction among the weaker races in the surrounding area.
Yeager resorted to old tricks from his days as a Spellweaver, trying to use powerful new magic to lure the elves of Erlan into self-destruction.
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In 3654DR, Yeager broke through the layers of protection and the guards of the tree elders, sneaked into the fog-shrouded Hall of Betis, and retrieved the two volumes of the world he had placed there. The golden skin of the giant snake, and hid them in the fourth arsenal of the Drazogis family in the ruins of the ancient elf empire Erevandar, and also weakened the protective magic of the arsenal through the etheric plane.
Yager plans to sow the seeds of destruction for the elves of Erlan: to lure those elves of Erlan who hope to search for the ancient magic of the ancient Vasanta Empire, to "discover" the golden skin of the Serpents of the World and study their secrets, so that The wizards of Erlan have no time to think about anything else.
And Jaeger can take the opportunity to develop his influence in Netheril.
His plan later bore fatal fruit: in -2770 DR, the elf country Salvin fell, known in history as the Salvin Massacre.
Denzo's dwarves are also targeted by Jaeger. With his support, the Lich King Sana and the Runeaxe clan rose rapidly and established the Realm of Frozen Death in the core of the northern forest of the Kingdom of Denzo.
The war between Thanardun and Denzo continued from generation to generation, involving countless dwarves in the dispute and winning valuable development for the fledgling Netheril without external influence. Time also gained advantages for the development of necromancy magic.
Under the control of Yeager, in -2018 DR, the last descendant of the dwarf king Danzo who once killed him died at the hands of the lich in the Realm of Frozen Death, and Danzo fell into chaos.
In addition, Yeager is still secretly controlling the Saluk witch. He believes that the Saluk witch is the most powerful weapon against the Faelin Demon Kuai and can also protect his Netheril followers.
Therefore, he allowed Ishanathas, the most active and cunning of the sixty-six Lich Kings in Orem City, to give guidance in the process of learning magic in Netheril.
The arcane mages of Netheril call Ishanathas Arthindor, the "Earthseer."
With the help of the Earthseer, Netheril achieved its greatest magical achievement: the Mythor Core.
The principle of the Mithron Core is similar to the magic items used by Spellweavers in ancient times to increase the magic power of the hub.
Ironically, while Althindor helped Netheril reach astonishing heights in magic, it also made Netheril's attitude toward the gods indifferent, shaking the foundation of Yeager's faith.
Over time, the necromancer followers of Jaeger in Netheril were slowly and irreversibly lost, forcing Jaeger to take measures to preserve his divinity.
It’s too late today, I’ll make it up tomorrow, sorry.
(End of this chapter)