In the distant past…
The race of Lightbearers had long been a beacon steering the other races through the ages. Whenever the darkness swelled, their lighthouse cut a path through it. Of all the wars etched into history, none was more relentless than the eternal clash between Lightbearers and demons—two natures born to oppose one another. For beings such as these, war was inevitable.
The Lightbearers fielded the Vessels as their premier fighting force, while on the demon side the Hell Dukedom stood foremost—names like Gael, the Father of the Abyss, or Manus, the First Demon. The Dukedom's fiends were dreadful, and their atrocities beyond counting.
Even so, the Lightbearers and the allied races had thus far managed to hold them at bay; champions rose on either side, and the scales stayed level—no lasting advantage for either camp.
That balance shattered when the unthinkable happened—when a phenomenon changed everything.
