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Sucros
2006-05-31, 08:22 PM
When the forces of creation were still settling on the new world, the heavens raged in a war over it. The forces of good descended from their various planes to combat the forces of evil on the material plane.
Through trickery and appeals to greed, evil gained the upper hand, with devils enslaving small nations, and demons wracking death upon stretches of the world. When good retreated, so did hope. Without hope, new celestials could never be birthed. And so it became that the world was to be lost to evil.
One group, the Coatl, refused to give up hope. They ate up the shattered remains of their home plane, and with the energy, crafted a field of energy, one that the mortals could tap. The Coatls trusted that, having seen the fruits of evil; mortals would fight for good if given the power. Unable to fight for the mortals, they entrusted their strength to the mortals themselves.
Thus, psionics were born. Using the energy entrusted to them, the mortals freed themselves from the depravations of the devils, and defended themselves from the ravages of the demons.
Over countless generations, psionics has become something of a lost art. The rare wilderness savage will be born with the talent of the wilder or the psychic warrior. A few small and secluded monasteries taught the ways of the Coatl to select groups of psions.
But then a talented psion by the name of Yuan learned ways to steal power from the weave to greater empower himself. By taking from the field, not merely employing it, he twisted his form, becoming a hideous mockery of the Coatls that maintained it. He passed on his taint to his progeny, the Yuan-ti. The very existence of Yuan-ti, and the existence of those psions who would follow the path of Yuan is a strain to the psionic field. Many coatls, the guardians of the field, have wasted away, their powers sapped. In many places, the field has ripped; creating adverse and dangerous effects on the terrain, including impenetrable darkness, dead magic, or altered gravity.
Now a secret war rages, where followers of the path of the Coatl clash with those of the path of Yuan to stop the fabric of reality from being destroyed.

Sucros
2006-05-31, 08:22 PM
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Sucros
2006-05-31, 08:23 PM
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Sucros
2006-05-31, 08:23 PM
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Sucros
2006-05-31, 08:24 PM
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Sucros
2006-05-31, 08:24 PM
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