The projectiles were launched from tubes in the earth, buildings on the surface and vessels submerged in the water. From across the entire globe, for an entire revolution, the barrage continued. but the sheer volume was beyond what we could have imagined. They launched percussive fission weapons at us in retaliation. We vaporized the largest city we could find, hoping the sheer volume of casualties would cow them, but instead, they grew angry. We didn't even know who to negotiate with. They were so primitive they had not even unified under a single government. We arrived at their homeworld and they had yet to colonize any of the other planets in their system. Once or twice we have had to eradicate a civilization entirely, burning it out of the stars forever.īut this civilization, it is pernicious. Occassionaly we engage a more belligerent civilization, but a quick, sustained offensive has them surrendering within a few days. There is a holiday we still celebrate called the Glorious Twelve, where for twelve straight days, time the sun rose over our capital, a new civilization acquiesced. We show up to a primitive race's system, vaporize a fringe colony or small city and negotiate terms. We had done this a thousand times before. He believes their genocide was unjustified, and that their return is the only way to save the galaxy from its turmoil.We were arrogant. Isyander's plan involves "resetting" all the Primordial Dust in the galaxy using the Lodestones and his Academy to channel it, which will hopefully return to its original Lost selves, as the Lost were beings of pure Dust. He founded the Academy, to atone for his people and the Virtuals' crimes, and gathered heroes from across the galaxy so they help him in his plan. He rebuilt his own Cloth and the armor of his ships in crimson and white, the colors that he believed were initially used on the Endless altars to the Lost. Shaiad decided to throw away his lifetime of beliefs and become Isyander Shumèd, he changed more than just his name. They revealed to him a prophecy, of a great Prophet who would revive the Lost and restore their civilization to greatness. Isyara sentenced her own brother to death, but before she could carry it out, a mysterious entity (in fact, one of the last surviving Lost) freed him and his closest followers: a Lumeris, a Raian, and a Niris from the dungeons they were held in.ĭuring his journeys across the galaxy, alongside the Lumeris Brunem Berto-Lancellum, and the Raian Kinete Muldaum, he traveled to the desert planet of Sobra, the homeworld of the Nakalim, a long-forgotten race that once worshipped a Lost of the same name, and reawakened them from their eons-long slumber, earning a valuable ally in his quest to revive the Old Gods. The war crippled the Vodyani Protectorate for decades after its end. This culminated in a civil war among the Vodyani that led to Isyara's rise to power, and in Isyander's defeat. He gathered followers amongst his people, sharing what the Tabernacle had revealed to him, led a rebellion, freed many slaves, and stole a ship. Both Concretes and Virtuals, desperate to destroy the opposing side harvested the Lost to death, using multiple massive devices known as the Lodestones to lure them from their hiding spots, and trapped them so they could commit the horrid deed.Ī disgusted Isyander's former love for the Endless became a burning hatred against them. During the Dust Wars, both sides of Endless found out where Dust came from, and tried to make their own artificial version of it, but it was but a pale imitation of the real thing, the original Primordial Dust. Dust originally came from an ancient race of immensely powerful beings entirely made of it, who were once worshiped by the Endless as gods. In fact, the Endless did not even yet exist as the original three species that evolved from their homeworld of Tor. The Tabernacle revealed to Isyander the dark and terrible truths of the Endless, the full extent of the crimes and horrors both Concretes and Virtuals committed against each other and the rest of the galaxy, And the darkest truth of all: the true origin of Dust. He's the brother of the Vodyani Hierarch Isyara St Shaiad, and for a long time, her enemy.īack when the Vodyani civilization first abandoned their old and grotesque bodies, Isyander, once one of the most devout followers of the Church of the Virtual Saints discovered an ancient Endless-made structure known as the Tabernacle of Remorse, or the Tabernacle of Lies as it later came to be known by the Church. Isyander Shumèd, also known by his old name, Isyander St.
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