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Baptism By Fire

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Baptism By Fire

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All of the gods humanity have ever worshipped can be traced back to the original 7: the Old Gods. The Eldest, the Soldier, the Healer, the Enchanter, the Conjurer, the Alchemist, and the Child form the archetypes for nearly every religion ever devised by humanity, and have manipulated the course of human history since before the dawn of the earliest civilizations. But fifteen thousand years, give or take a few centuries, is a long time, and even petty grudges and grievances can blossom into wars.

Fortunately for life on Earth, the Old Gods quickly realized that their powers were too great to wage open war, not if they wanted to have a planet to call home. And so, they made a pact. Rather than fighting openly, they would nurture human tribes, give them a spark of their powers, and manipulate them into doing the fighting for them. For millennia, the Old Gods and their human tools, the mages, built and destroyed and built again, creating cities, kingdoms, countries, empires until, at last, humanity grew wary of magic.

The Age of Reason brought with it Inquisitions, witch hunters, and worse. Across the globe, mages found themselves on the brink of extinction. And so, the Old Gods had a choice: declare war on all of humanity and conquer the world for their children, or create a new world, where they could live in peace. They chose the latter and built this new world, called the Vale, and founded its first city, Haven.

For 400 years, peace reigned, protected by the laws of the Eldest and his fierce Hunters. But now, the sins of the Old Gods have come back to haunt them, and once more, the hounds of war sniff the air. Can the Hunters protect the peace, or will the world once more plunge into madness?