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 ===Introduction===
-Venadak was once the chief of all Gods, their uniter and King. After the Bleeding and his subsequent self-imprisonment, the Adac King fell from that mantle, unable to contain the havoc coursing through his form. Venadak is often seen as the bringer of the end times -- a force of nature so raw and powerful that it can unmake reality, acting as an arbiter of Atharen's destruction. While he remains quietly imprisoned in Adena, far away from thought or view, millions still fear what might come to pass if he were ever to leave his confinement and seek to become what he once was.
+Venadak was once the chief of all Gods, their uniter and King. After the Bleeding and his subsequent self-imprisonment, the Adac King fell from that mantle, unable to contain the havoc coursing through his form. Venadak is often seen as the bringer of the end times — a force of nature so raw and powerful that it can unmake reality, acting as an arbiter of Atharen's destruction. While he remains quietly imprisoned in Adena, far away from thought or view, millions still fear what might come to pass if he were ever to leave his confinement and seek to become what he once was.
 =History=

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 ===Atharen===
-Venadak suffered, always, struggling with the writhing creature that still echoed within him. He had learned very early on to control it -- to calm its impulses, to erase its identity. The God-King had escaped the moniker of ''vessel'', becoming the face of the dark power bestowed within him. The battle had always been difficult, but it was one he consistently won. The line between vessel and ruler narrowed, and the other Gods stopped fearing him over time. The Creator came to live among his flock, who carried his original likeness, and they celebrated him as a good and merciful Lord. Ages came, so many of beauty, though centuries of pain followed alongside them like familiar passers by. Venadak wanted very much to interfere with the growth of Atharen's life -- to fight to stop their fits of cruelty, but always the other Gods restrained him. He became isolated from them, and eventually took to living on the planet in the guise of a regular man, one who traveled the breadth of his world. He took on countless lovers, built a hundred families, and left a facet of himself in place when he was ready to leave, like a snake shedding its skin.
+Venadak suffered, always, struggling with the writhing creature that still echoed within him. He had learned very early on to control it — to calm its impulses, to erase its identity. The God-King had escaped the moniker of ''vessel'', becoming the face of the dark power bestowed within him. The battle had always been difficult, but it was one he consistently won. The line between vessel and ruler narrowed, and the other Gods stopped fearing him over time. The Creator came to live among his flock, who carried his original likeness, and they celebrated him as a good and merciful Lord. Ages came, so many of beauty, though centuries of pain followed alongside them like familiar passers by. Venadak wanted very much to interfere with the growth of Atharen's life — to fight to stop their fits of cruelty, but always the other Gods restrained him. He became isolated from them, and eventually took to living on the planet in the guise of a regular man, one who traveled the breadth of his world. He took on countless lovers, built a hundred families, and left a facet of himself in place when he was ready to leave, like a snake shedding its skin.
-He whispered wisdom into inventors minds, and saw the creation of marvels once built by his own kind thousands of years in the past. At the culmination of Venadak's many mortal lives, he witnessed the [[Unbroken Empire]] meet its zenith, the greatest nation ever born on Atharen. The Emperor, Valen, was one of his own sons, and in much the same style of his father, he had drawn others of his kind -- [[Draedan]] -- to rule alongside him as his council. Twelve of these Demigods presided over their sprawling nation, eluding the judgment of the Gods as they dreamt of surpassing them, and becoming them.
+He whispered wisdom into inventors minds, and saw the creation of marvels once built by his own kind thousands of years in the past. At the culmination of Venadak's many mortal lives, he witnessed the [[Unbroken Empire]] meet its zenith, the greatest nation ever born on Atharen. The Emperor, Valen, was one of his own sons, and in much the same style of his father, he had drawn others of his kind — [[Draedan]] — to rule alongside him as his council. Twelve of these Demigods presided over their sprawling nation, eluding the judgment of the Gods as they dreamt of surpassing them, and becoming them.
-The Creator urged his son to cease his heresy, but his words only inflamed Valen's actions. He began to persecute and kill mages, who were traditionally the acolytes of the Gods, and ransacked countless monuments to the Adac and chapels of their worship. The God-King grew incensed, and in a fury demanded that the other Gods meet to plan a counter-initiative against the heretical Empire. While all of them understood the threat that encroached towards them, many were content to idle and leave things as they were -- as long as mortals lived and died, they would feed the Well of Souls. Venadak became furious with his subordinates, snarling at them in a rage as they appeared to helplessly allow for the oppression of their own people -- those loyal and faithful to them. Against the will of the other Gods, he went alone, commanding Evitrix to utilize [[Evitrix|Eridan-5]] to raze the Empire's capital province of Mithira, and for Saren to prevent any of the Empire's rulers from leaving.
+The Creator urged his son to cease his heresy, but his words only inflamed Valen's actions. He began to persecute and kill mages, who were traditionally the acolytes of the Gods, and ransacked countless monuments to the Adac and chapels of their worship. The God-King grew incensed, and in a fury demanded that the other Gods meet to plan a counter-initiative against the heretical Empire. While all of them understood the threat that encroached towards them, many were content to idle and leave things as they were — as long as mortals lived and died, they would feed the Well of Souls. Venadak became furious with his subordinates, snarling at them in a rage as they appeared to helplessly allow for the oppression of their own people — those loyal and faithful to them. Against the will of the other Gods, he went alone, commanding Evitrix to utilize [[Evitrix|Eridan-5]] to raze the Empire's capital province of Mithira, and for Saren to prevent any of the Empire's rulers from leaving.
 Venadak plummeted from [[Muid|the heavens]], watching as flexing beams of light descended from the sky, obliterating entire cities as they scorched through the land. There, he met with the twelve ruling Draedan on the field of battle, and utterly crushed them all. He was shot in the head; he slaughtered the first Draedan, ripping out their spine. ''Vessel.'' He was kicked and clawed as he beat another to death. ''Vessel.'' He was spit upon, cursed, as he watched his own daughter weep and mewl while her ribs were broken and her lungs were crushed by her father's bare hands. ''Vessel.'' Venadak remembered his old life, who he was: the dutiful Prince. He had never fully forgotten, but killing his kind always made him remember with clarity.
-His eyes emptied, after a while, and his mind soared to a galaxy dead. The voice thrummed within him again. He could feel it all once more -- his hand moving along the sleek black walls of the Leviathan's corridor, the floor quietly rattling, the word singing to him as his body filled with a burrowing, painful terror. ''Vessel.'' Before he knew it, a knife was plunged through his chest, and the putrid essence of that old, dark God spilled out. He bled. He was bleeding.
+His eyes emptied, after a while, and his mind soared to a galaxy dead. The voice thrummed within him again. He could feel it all once more — his hand moving along the sleek black walls of the Leviathan's corridor, the floor quietly rattling, the word singing to him as his body filled with a burrowing, painful terror. ''Vessel.'' Before he knew it, a knife was plunged through his chest, and the putrid essence of that old, dark God spilled out. He bled. He was bleeding.
 ''Vessel.''
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 Venadak ached as he once did, feeling that voice crawl beneath his skin. It poured out into the world, and suddenly he could no longer control it. Within him, that power had morphed into a hideous, twisted thing, and it threatened to annihilate everything around it, just like it once did: draining the lives of entire worlds, their souls withering into the mouth of the great Leviathan. Venadak sobbed, and mourned, as the sky lit up a familiar, crimson red. The boundaries of the plane became unstable, energy pouring in and erupting with volatility, particles colliding against the shores of Mithira with the force of meteors. As reality became unraveled, six of the Adac that had left Venadak to fight the Emperor alone came to Adena to piece him back together, to close the bleeding vessel, but they could not. Reality continued to tear, and unravel, and Venadak continued to weep. Before any of them knew it, they were all confined to a [[hellscape|Bel]] forged of desperation and fear.
-He imprisoned all of them, as all of them were corrupted by the plague that bled out from his form; the plague of corruption and rot, and the dark will of the entity held within him. Y'shendra, Jaxkael, Saren, Valteran, Brazim and Valice, all were inflicted with the same, aching madness he had survived for millennia, and few could handle its sheer, piercing shape. They fell to the ground, squirming, blood and pus spilling from their eyes and ears to the tainted ground. Venadak left them to die, there, as he gorged on the remnants of the entity still spilt across the floor, and crawled deeper into the pit he had made -- towards the ruined capital he had encompassed within his twisted land -- and isolated himself, alone.
+He imprisoned all of them, as all of them were corrupted by the plague that bled out from his form; the plague of corruption and rot, and the dark will of the entity held within him. Y'shendra, Jaxkael, Saren, Valteran, Brazim and Valice, all were inflicted with the same, aching madness he had survived for millennia, and few could handle its sheer, piercing shape. They fell to the ground, squirming, blood and pus spilling from their eyes and ears to the tainted ground. Venadak left them to die, there, as he gorged on the remnants of the entity still spilt across the floor, and crawled deeper into the pit he had made — towards the ruined capital he had encompassed within his twisted land — and isolated himself, alone.
 And so was the beginning of the end.

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 =History=
-FRAGMENT ONE
+𝙵𝚁𝙰𝙶𝙼𝙴𝙽𝚃 𝙾𝙽𝙴
 ===Foundation===
 "Venadak would form life from formlessness. He would create, without technology, on a palette of empty space. With each creation he made, though, something from him was taken away." ''Evitrix''

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 =History=
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+FRAGMENT ONE
 ===Foundation===
 "Venadak would form life from formlessness. He would create, without technology, on a palette of empty space. With each creation he made, though, something from him was taken away." ''Evitrix''

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 =History=
-FRAGMENT ONE
+FᵣₐGₘₑₙₜ ₒₙₑ
 ===Foundation===
 "Venadak would form life from formlessness. He would create, without technology, on a palette of empty space. With each creation he made, though, something from him was taken away." ''Evitrix''

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 The echo that had tormented him thrummed through the black, sleek halls of the ship instead, the walls singing that single word. ''Vessel.'' Venadr approached its heart, and it lurched forward to swallow him, enmeshing him with warmth. That night, the ship became quiet and quickly fell into disrepair, but from it emerged the savior of the very species he had doomed: Venadak. No longer merely a member of a species of ageless aristocrats, but by his own estimation, a God. Venadak slew his father as dawn broke, and set out to find the remainder of his kind.
-Whatever he was to them before, Venadak was no longer considered an enemy. Alongside [[Tenebrax]] and [[Evitrix]], the God-King shifted the focus of his Empire to the production of a marvel that would break the boundaries of time and space, a vessel that would escort the Adac to their freedom. Venadak began to create the earliest disciplines of magic, imbuing his chosen kin with dominion over broad spectrums of reality. He gifted others with aspects of himself, imbuing [[Malek]] with the power to harvest souls, [[Saryn]] with the ability to interface with probability in order to build a tapestry of time, and so on. Time passed on, and through the creation of Evitrix's vessel, the Adac moved forward to a new home, the God-King's sole intention being to preserve his species above all else.
+Whatever he was to them before, Venadak was no longer considered an enemy. Alongside [[Tenebrax]] and [[Evitrix]], the God-King shifted the focus of his Empire to the production of a marvel that would break the boundaries of time and space, a vessel that would escort the Adac to their freedom. Venadak began to create the earliest disciplines of magic, imbuing his chosen kin with dominion over broad spectrums of reality. He gifted others with aspects of himself, imbuing [[Malek]] with the power to harvest souls, [[Saren]] with the ability to interface with probability in order to build a tapestry of time, and so on. Time passed on, and through the creation of Evitrix's vessel, the Adac moved forward to a new home, the God-King's sole intention being to preserve his species above all else.
 The Outsider, the name they had given to the mantis-shaped beast, followed them even across galaxies, a feat they thought to be impossible. The beast, forged by the Adac themselves to defeat Venadr's brutal, unruly Empire, annihilated their vessel, and crushed their dreams of reforging an enlightened civilization somewhere in the distant confines of space. The Adac scattered like insects and were picked off over time, until eventually Venadak found his closest allies again.
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 He whispered wisdom into inventors minds, and saw the creation of marvels once built by his own kind thousands of years in the past. At the culmination of Venadak's many mortal lives, he witnessed the [[Unbroken Empire]] meet its zenith, the greatest nation ever born on Atharen. The Emperor, Valen, was one of his own sons, and in much the same style of his father, he had drawn others of his kind -- [[Draedan]] -- to rule alongside him as his council. Twelve of these Demigods presided over their sprawling nation, eluding the judgment of the Gods as they dreamt of surpassing them, and becoming them.
-The Creator urged his son to cease his heresy, but his words only inflamed Valen's actions. He began to persecute and kill mages, who were traditionally the acolytes of the Gods, and ransacked countless monuments to the Adac and chapels of their worship. The God-King grew incensed, and in a fury demanded that the other Gods meet to plan a counter-initiative against the heretical Empire. While all of them understood the threat that encroached towards them, many were content to idle and leave things as they were -- as long as mortals lived and died, they would feed the Well of Souls. Venadak became furious with his subordinates, snarling at them in a rage as they appeared to helplessly allow for the oppression of their own people -- those loyal and faithful to them. Against the will of the other Gods, he went alone, commanding Evitrix to utilize [[Evitrix|Eridan-5]] to raze the Empire's capital province of Mithira, and for Saryn to prevent any of the Empire's rulers from leaving.
+The Creator urged his son to cease his heresy, but his words only inflamed Valen's actions. He began to persecute and kill mages, who were traditionally the acolytes of the Gods, and ransacked countless monuments to the Adac and chapels of their worship. The God-King grew incensed, and in a fury demanded that the other Gods meet to plan a counter-initiative against the heretical Empire. While all of them understood the threat that encroached towards them, many were content to idle and leave things as they were -- as long as mortals lived and died, they would feed the Well of Souls. Venadak became furious with his subordinates, snarling at them in a rage as they appeared to helplessly allow for the oppression of their own people -- those loyal and faithful to them. Against the will of the other Gods, he went alone, commanding Evitrix to utilize [[Evitrix|Eridan-5]] to raze the Empire's capital province of Mithira, and for Saren to prevent any of the Empire's rulers from leaving.
 Venadak plummeted from [[Muid|the heavens]], watching as flexing beams of light descended from the sky, obliterating entire cities as they scorched through the land. There, he met with the twelve ruling Draedan on the field of battle, and utterly crushed them all. He was shot in the head; he slaughtered the first Draedan, ripping out their spine. ''Vessel.'' He was kicked and clawed as he beat another to death. ''Vessel.'' He was spit upon, cursed, as he watched his own daughter weep and mewl while her ribs were broken and her lungs were crushed by her father's bare hands. ''Vessel.'' Venadak remembered his old life, who he was: the dutiful Prince. He had never fully forgotten, but killing his kind always made him remember with clarity.
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 Venadak ached as he once did, feeling that voice crawl beneath his skin. It poured out into the world, and suddenly he could no longer control it. Within him, that power had morphed into a hideous, twisted thing, and it threatened to annihilate everything around it, just like it once did: draining the lives of entire worlds, their souls withering into the mouth of the great Leviathan. Venadak sobbed, and mourned, as the sky lit up a familiar, crimson red. The boundaries of the plane became unstable, energy pouring in and erupting with volatility, particles colliding against the shores of Mithira with the force of meteors. As reality became unraveled, six of the Adac that had left Venadak to fight the Emperor alone came to Adena to piece him back together, to close the bleeding vessel, but they could not. Reality continued to tear, and unravel, and Venadak continued to weep. Before any of them knew it, they were all confined to a [[hellscape|Bel]] forged of desperation and fear.
-He imprisoned all of them, as all of them were corrupted by the plague that bled out from his form; the plague of corruption and rot, and the dark will of the entity held within him. Y'shendra, Jaxkael, Saryn, Valteran, Brazim and Valice, all were inflicted with the same, aching madness he had survived for millennia, and few could handle its sheer, piercing shape. They fell to the ground, squirming, blood and pus spilling from their eyes and ears to the tainted ground. Venadak left them to die, there, as he gorged on the remnants of the entity still spilt across the floor, and crawled deeper into the pit he had made -- towards the ruined capital he had encompassed within his twisted land -- and isolated himself, alone.
+He imprisoned all of them, as all of them were corrupted by the plague that bled out from his form; the plague of corruption and rot, and the dark will of the entity held within him. Y'shendra, Jaxkael, Saren, Valteran, Brazim and Valice, all were inflicted with the same, aching madness he had survived for millennia, and few could handle its sheer, piercing shape. They fell to the ground, squirming, blood and pus spilling from their eyes and ears to the tainted ground. Venadak left them to die, there, as he gorged on the remnants of the entity still spilt across the floor, and crawled deeper into the pit he had made -- towards the ruined capital he had encompassed within his twisted land -- and isolated himself, alone.
 And so was the beginning of the end.
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 * [[Bel]]
 * [[Muid]]
-* [[Saryn]]
+* [[Saren]]
 * [[Eminence]]

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		+	===Introduction===
		+	Venadak was once the chief of all Gods, their uniter and King. After the Bleeding and his subsequent self-imprisonment, the Adac King fell from that mantle, though he remains the most powerful and feared of his kind. Venadak is often seen as the bringer of the end times -- a force of nature so raw and powerful that it can unmake reality, acting as an arbiter of Atharen's destruction. While he remains quietly imprisoned in Adena, far away from thought or view, millions still fear what might come to pass if he were ever to leave his confinement and seek to become what he once was.

	=History=		=History=