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THE UNIVERSE AND THE WORLD
Flames, streams of water, the celestial vault, and the solid earth – all here consists of Aether. Everything is born from it and, upon dying, returns to it. Aether knows no obstacles in its path. Aether is omnipresent. And its flow is life – the life of the Aether Universe.
Its main stream originates from the center of the Universe. It is as dazzling as freshly fallen snow, and therefore it is called White Aether. Whoever manages to harness it is granted great power.
But only a few succeed. The existence of White Aether is but a brief, fleeting moment. Its full-flowing river constantly breaks down into four streams. They are not as mighty, but they last much longer.
These are the Aethers of Chaos, Motion, Life Force, and Synthesis.
The Aether of Chaos is as red as blood. The Aether of Motion is blue, like the sky. The Aether of Life Force is green, like a newly unfurled leaf. The Aether of Synthesis is black, like scorched stones.
They are the foundation of everything that exists in this Universe. When the flow of the Aethers is smooth and measured, they generate pure energy, but if their flow accelerates, matter is born in the ethereal vortices.
With relentless constancy, the four multicolored streams of energy strive to merge into one and become White Aether again. And where they mix their currents in a swift whirlpool, the world of Lords begins.
THE WORLD OF LORDS
This is just one of the worlds of the Aether Universe. The sentient inhabitants of the World of Lords know that the ground beneath their feet is actually just an ethereal whirlpool, a cluster of energy. Four celestial bodies wander above this world – the Red Sun, the Blue Star, the Green Planet, and the Black Moon – named so since time immemorial, after the type of Aether whose energy they radiate. They do not cause tides, and the change of night and day is beyond their control. For eternity, they float in space.
But their wanderings are not aimless. The time comes when an unknown force aligns the stars in a line directed towards the center of the world, to the point where White Aether is born. In the World of Lords, a time of change comes...
As soon as the luminaries combine their energy flows into a single dazzling beam, it rushes towards the center of the whirlpool, which, unfolding, begins to move in reverse. The World of Lords changes before your eyes: mountains become plains, seas become land, previously inaccessible lands open to view, and impregnable fortresses turn into mirages.
The inhabitants of the World of Lords have to rewrite their history and redraw their maps. But most importantly, at this time, the magical essence of this world is completely renewed.
Aether is the source of power, pure energy, which is sometimes called magic. For the inhabitants of the World of Lords, this is the ability to change the direction and speed of the flow of ethereal currents. This ability is given to them at birth: using the invisible currents of energy flows, they create armor, weapons, and servants... Aether is like a thread from which they weave their world.
But new races appear in the new lands, old spells cease to work, and new ones are born. To survive, they have to relearn the magical science. In the brief period of Great Changes, they are not always sure that they will create exactly the creature they intended, and get exactly what they imagined. Often, something alien and unknown appears, and with it, a new world is born...
As any creation is destined to go through dawn, zenith, and sunset in its life path, and then reappear in another incarnation, so the World of Lords is born, reaches its peak, and dies, only to be resurrected anew.
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Demigods II © 2002-2004 Nival Interactive.
