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In a time long since passed the Masters of Magic were betrayed, their tower destroyed, and its practitioners scattered across the lands. Those devoted to the arcane arts did not disappear however. They of kindred spirit found one another to begin their mystical studies anew. The dark wizards took refuge within the shadowy embrace of a chasm in the earth and called themselves the Scions of Eternal Night. It was from among the Masters of the Light that a new order would be formed, to seek to learn from the failures of their predecessors, but perhaps more importantly to prevent such a thing from ever again taking place. Seeking refuge for their studies within the Fortress of the Light, and bestowed with a blessed book of arcane knowledge from which they would take their name, these Warlocks of the Golden Grimoire would not only seek the knowledge of magic as did their predecessors, but would seek to ensure that magic would never again be used for dark and evil purposes. Lastly came those who chose neither light nor dark. They sought to live in equilibrium with the world and were called Nexus, the Seekers of Balance. As the battles of the light and darkness have raged on for centuries and shall continue to do so, the Seekers only step in when one side has held power for prolonged periods of time. It is the greater forces within the realms of which the Seekers were ever-vigilant. For these forces are the cornerstones of Balance, and should one be destroyed it would lead to a greater imbalance of the world than any battle of light and dark, or law and chaos. Of those forces that Nexus sought to protect it was Magic that occupied them most. And this, perhaps, was their undoing. For in their zeal to protect the force of Magic and its disciples they were caught unaware when a powerful mage attempted to use that force to steal Divinity and become a God. There was much to distract the Seekers though. The resurrection of Talia, the curse of the Anti-Life upon the Village of the BattleRagers, and the murder of the Nexus Moderator kept the world's attention away from the true villain. The head of a powerful order of mages that resided in what is now the Ruined City used deceit, trickery, and brute force to steal the magic from both the Nexus and the Warlocks. She succeeded in flying the Warlock's tower into close proximity to the home of the Seekers, the Rift. During this time, she had awoken the Death Knights to serve her, though they did so reluctantly. Those undead terrors gained for her artifacts of ancient and horrendous power. Many heroes united during this time to try and stop the retrieval of the items but even armies of mortals were no match for the power of the eternal undead. As the Tower of the Warlocks neared the Rift, the proximity of the two allowed the Traitor to use the items of power to form a mystical link between them. The Ritual that would allow her to become a God had begun. It was only the intervention of the Goddesses who guided the Warlocks that prevailed. The Amrylin was destroyed by the backlash of power, but unfortunately the Goddesses were destroyed with her. With the death of the Traitor the power that had kept the Tower aloft was gone and it crashed into the Rift, destroying both utterly. The backlash of power also destroyed the Traitor's tower and laid waste to what became the Ruined City. Seekers and Warlocks alike became homeless, and merely trying to survive after the great tragedy nearly ended them all.