The Sundering

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The Myth

There was a time when Moramath and Terra were linked. They were not the same world, but there were many doors from one to the other - wide and tall and open for any to pass through. The Ryn and the Terrans governed themselves (more or less), and the Morani, chosen people of the Old Ones, ruled over all.

Then one day, the Old Ones left, perhaps destroyed, perhaps returned to their realm, perhaps testing their creations. And, slowly at first, the world of the Terrans began to decline. Corruption grew and spread and bled into Moramath. And the High Priestess of the Morani despaired for the Ryn, that their world would be corrupted just as Terra had. So she took her power, harnessed it, and closed all doors between Terra and Moramath forever, sundering the two worlds. The secret of her spell was lost to time with her, when she named the new High Priestess and passed from this realm.

The worlds will remain sundered for eternity, unless the Priestess can reverse what her predecessor once did, but none will. The doorways are closed, and will never be re-opened.

The Reality

Moramath and Terra are two planes of the same world. It is still unknown why the Old Ones created it so, or why they left, but those are questions only the Old Ones could answer, and they're not here to do so. Some time after they had left the world to its own devices, corruption indeed began to seep into Terra's half - not to say that there had been no evil, greed, lust before in both Terra and Moramath, but it began to eat away at the world, urging the Terrans to chop down trees, learning to build great machines of war, and destruction. And it had started to leak into Moramath.

The High Priestess did not want that to happen, so she tore Moramath away from Terra, ripping the two halves of the world apart and sending both worlds into chaos that they would never entirely recover from. It was done with good intentions, out of love for her home, but the truth was that she had sundered the world in two, and it could not last forever.

The two halves never completely split apart, however, and from time to time a small door would flicker into existence for a short period of time. Usually it was unnoticed, only for a split second, with naught but air and dust to pass between, but sometimes more would. The problem, though, was that Moramath and Terra were never supposed to be separate, and Moramath depended on Terra much more than Terra depended on Moramath - Moramath was unstable, open to magic but like to fall apart sooner or later without Terra's firm and (relatively) unchanging nature. And that's what started to happen. Slowly, in small ways, and then things started getting... unstable. Weak. Odd.

But the High Priestess, who had never died, who had held the power for over two thousand years, would not see her work undone, not for any reason. And what no one but her knows is that the magic did not only rip the halves apart, it is keeping them apart, and the moment she passes from this realm, the doors will open again.