History

This page will be an index detailing the setting's history, including information on Terra's history. (Under construction)

= Overview = In the before-times it was said that there was nothing before the birth of the cosmos, the Fragmentation.

It is theorized that all natural existence derived from one great source of aura; and when the cosmos came into being, along with the explosion of aura, the source was fragmented into several different aspects - no two of which are the exact same. When these fragments of primogenital aura came shooting from the source, some clearly took shape in space as what are known as the stars, asteroids, and other celestial bodies, while others were primal beings made of aura that would later come to take shape in the form of eikons. It can be assumed that since the Fragmentation, aura has circulated through all of the universe, though modern knowledge cannot yet confirm this. Many sources debate the exact nature of the great aurasource, with it being a keystone of some religions. However, the true nature remains unknown.

Terra
In the first echelons of time, the overabundance of aura came down raining upon the fragments from on high. One notable fragment of the aurasource, transformed by aura, would take shape in the form of what is known as the planet of Terra, the first being with what we consider today to be true "life".

In the earliest days of Terra, there was a golden age of aura coursing through the singular rock that was its origin. As a result, it attracted other remains of the fragmentation that formed around the core, and as it spun together in the aura-rich realm of the cosmos, it became the round body that we call a planet. The aura in Terra's core would weave currents through its new earths, and flow through all its land and atmosphere. To maintain the planet, this ambient aura began a cycle of reuse, where it would eventually course through the earth's tributaries once more.

However, the lands of the before-times were nothing like the ones we know today - it was not until the eikons came to being that Terra's most familiar landscape was shaped.

When the Fragmentation occurred, so too came wisps of primal being from the source, and while it can be assumed some may have roamed the stars, many descended to Terra and were given greater form. As they lived off aura, innumerable eikons thrived in its golden age upon Terra, where they reached out for and formed the skies; strode the lands and left the continents in their wake, and were free to live as each chose, all individual in will. With their individuality, many powerful eikons breathed aura into beings of their own creation, creating flora, fauna, and even some of the greater races - some using up their very existence to do so. These living beings, dissimilar to eikons in that aura came and left their bodies, became part of the cycle of aura (see aura for more detail) as the second beings with true "life". As they grew in number, these beings became vital to Terra's perpetual flow of aura which sustained all lifeforms, including the planet itself.

The overabundance of ambient aura that had given rise to things we know as impossible, however, slowly lessened under the pull of eikons' constant use, and so ended the golden age of aura. The world began to look different without an overflowing saturation of aura and become shaped by the lifeforms of Terra. As for eikons, they could no longer maintain form without the aura-richness of the before-times, and began to lose presence and form. A minority chose to disperse into the air and cosmos, while others made certain they would not be forgotten by Terra's children in various ways. Regardless, eikons have disappeared from the physical realm of Terra in terms of corporeal presence, and they are now far from being common. Because they are beings which require a tremendous amount of aura to come into form, the manifestation of eikons is rare.