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The Proposed Past.. [huge spoiler warning]

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The Proposed Past.. [huge spoiler warning]

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Hi everybody, since long time I wanted to write this post and today I had that chance. So here is a story about what might had happened in the past. the story starts from beginning, um I mean really beginning. this story tries to explain all the things possible in AT. but if you find any loop hole kindly suggest it or comment about it. and accept my apologies for any grammatical mistake. Read with positive attitude and enjoy :).



PS: if you find fun in discovering the game stories through only game then don't read further its surely goona ruin your fun if by any chance this story is included in game.
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The Beginning

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In the very beginning there existed a large "pseudo living" mass of energy spread throughout the spacetime of unmeasurable quantities for an unknown amount of time. We know him by the name "geryen". about hundred thousand years ago, geryen gained a relatively faster speed than time which caused a glitch in time and a part of this energy was lost in past.But that part somehow managed to come to present but with its own thoughts independent of its former main part geryen. But geryen not knowing this fact, attached that part back in itself asumming that all will be back to normal soon. But asumption need not be correct everytime even if it is your first time. So waht happened next was the cause of everything. that part tried to control geryen but geryen resisted the change and didn't let the other part control himself and this caused rebelious thoughts in that other part and that part adopted a way around to be incharge of everything. It started to absorb small amounts of energy from geryen so as to grow larger and stronger without even letting geryen know what was going on, but since that part has the similar energy as that of geryen, this had an opposite effect on that part and in place of becoming powerful it started to have pardoxes of thoughts and these paradoxes of thoughts drived him crazy, destroyed his sanity and he developed a goal to be the controller of everything. while most of thoughts were "eat and kill" but his moves were smart all thanks to those paradoxes of thoughts . This corrupted part was also called "ucoriptorn". And when geryen realised, it was already very late and situation got complicated. Even geryen's existance was in danger.so as to protect its existance geryen tried to repel out the corrupted parts but it didn't worked because the geryen had now two different thoughts one which was geryen's own and the other which was of ucoriptorn. and ucoriptorn believed it essentialy was there because it born due to geryen and geryen should be responsible for it and fulfill his needs which basicly was to eat geryen and grow larger. But to remain alive and sustain itself, geryen decided to split itself in smaller parts so as to detach off ucoriptorn but this didn't worked, the ucoriptorn was still on the splited parts of geryen. But this time geryen noticed that ucoriptorn preferred bigger parts in comparison of smaller parts. So geryen splited itself in much smaller parts but he let a bigger part which was 10% of geryen be there. And ucoriptorn did fell in the trap as he grasped on to that larger parts, geryen quickly collected its remaning parts and took its former shape successfully excluding the ucoriptorn. But the story did not ended here, ucoriptorn started to emit radiations from itself and these radistions contained energy signatures of ucoriptorn and these radiation were capable of implanting ucoriptorn's energy cells on whatever alive things these radiations touch. And this move of ucoriptorn again posed a danger to geryen, So geryen took a step further and isolated ucoriptorn by covering it with atoms and molecules that roaming around freely and created a very thick spherical layer of mass around ucoriptorn similar to a planet. Geryen thought that this will end ucoriptorn by not letting the radiations out but ucoriptorn found a way to intensify and increase the amount of radition so as to pass that thick layer of the planet. Ucoriptorn started to heat vigorously and the radiations was stronger now than before and able to cross the layers of planet though very few. So geryen tried several ways to cool the planet and its core where ucoriptorn was. The best method geryen found was creating and collecting molecules of water and then throwing on the planet, this process carried out by geryen is also known as raining. Geryen successfully cooled ucoriptorn to some extent but ucoriptorn was still radiating itself. But in the odds there happened something in favour of geryen, Geryen first time saw something moving other than himself. Actully in the proccess of isolating ucoriptorn, the environment around the planet gained static electricity which, during raining, encouraged molecules and atoms to fuse together and be smart hence creating a phenomena we also know as life. But the most interesting thing was that these small life forms were able to counter some radiations coming from the ucoriptorn but these life forms were'nt much stable and were dying almost instantly after absorbing and killing a single wave of radiation. So Geryen decided to support these life forms so that they can help to stop ucoriptorn. For this Geryen spreaded its 50% energy into the environment around the planet. With the support of Geryen's energy these life forms stayed longer and countered more radiations but this was not all, these life forms started to develop into more complex life forms. Different molecules took different basic shapes like a small round sphere or a distorted spheres. ...And there was something else going on inside the core of the planet, ucoriptorn sensed everything that was going on the surface to stop him. This time ucoriptorn not only wanted to spread himself but he also wanted to come on the surface so that he can absorb geryen's energy from the environment of the planet. For this ucoriptorn started to heat the surface of the planet from inside on a single point but Geryen as his energy was all over the planet sensed this and directed some of the life forms to stop this. Well this was another big mistake of Geryen, when life forms were cooling down the surface, ucoriptorn pulled some of them inside the core. But Geryen was afraid that if he goes inside the core ucoriptorn can cling to him again so he didn't tried anything to retrieve those life forms. ....While inside the core, ucoriptorn carried out some experiments with its corrupted energy on these life forms, and out of all that were pulled inside only 26 life forms were remained in ucoriptorn's experiment. And ucoriptorn successfully converted them into corrupted life forms, these corrupted life forms were also known as the 26 marrows of ucoriptorn. These marrows were nothing but differently colored big round moving spheres with special powers that they gained from ucoriptorn. The marrows have the same thoughts as the ucoriptorn himself. These marrows had special powers and abilities. But The red, black and orange marrows were able to produce powerful corrupted life forms similar to those who were on the suface of the planet while white marrow was able to teleport small things to some distances and it do started to teleporte the monsters on surface. So what happened next was never seen before, the corrupted life forms were coming from nowhere and killing the other life forms. These corrupted life forms are also known as "Monsters" since these originated from "Marrows". To counter this and survive there started an evolution in other life forms and they started to develop into more complex beings. While it took almost a decade for Geryen what was happening, he thought that this can be dangerous to let his energy freely in the environment. So Geryen distributed his energy b/w the life forms that were not corrupted. This step of geryen brought a big change in the life forms as they become powerful they can also fight the corrupted life forms. And these life forms took this chance as golden opporunity and developed at a fast pace, and this development was the source of the most surviving species of life forms also known as humanoids. These humanoids had intel and they proved to be much efficient against the radiations and monsters. But if in a fight, corrupted life form wins it eats the other life forms also eating the energy of geryen that life forms were carrying hence indirectly affecting geryen. So to stop this Geryen took all of its energy back from the life forms but he was not able to absorb all the energy so he puts this unstable energy onto a nearby naturally occuring planet (yes, ours was artificially craeted). Although that planet wasn't able handle that stable energy so it started to heat up and a chain reaction started in it and it started to emit the light and other raditions such as heat radiations. This planet later came to known as sun.
But the birth of sun brought a whole new change in the life forms and our planet, due to Sun's gravitational force our planet started move towards it, but Ucoriptorn gave it a perpendicular velocity to go away from the sun because too much heat might be end of him and us too, but geryen didn't let our planet escape the gravitational field of sun so ultimately our planet started to rotate around the sun. This was not all, when sun's light, heat and other radiations striked the earth, another change took place on our planet, all the non-corupted life forms felt stronger in the light as their body becomes more active in the presance of sun and even some under-developed non-corrupted life were able to absorb the energy/radiation coming from the sun and transform it into usable forms so these life forms growed too many parts on their body to maximize their body's surface area But this also made them less able to move and prone to monster attacks so they stayed at a place and whenever any monster came nearby they acted like they are rocks or stones or cliff as a protection against monsters and ultimately these life forms turned into trees and provides help to mobile life forms in various ways. while the non-corrupted life forms had negative effect on them as they were not able to withstood the intense raduation coming from sun so most of the monsters hid themself inside caves and holes in grounds in daytime While the stronger monsters continued to attack even in day time but they were weak than before.

But now without directly having geryen's energy the non-corrupted life forms were falling against monsters, So after a lot of brain storming geryen thought a new way to help the lifes against monsters. he created a whole new dimension, a very secure and directily accessible by only geryen and he kept about 70% of his energy in this secure new dimension. But to make this energy available to all lifes, he linked this dimension partially with the shadow. Yes the Shadow, the property of every object in presence of any amount of light, even in the darkest corners shadow will be there always faster than light. But since shadow was partially linked to the dimension, life forms still didn't know how to use the shadow.
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Kazaul and Elythra

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Geryens and Ucoriptorn's plans were going very well against each other however Gereyen decided to let non-corrupted life forms know about the shadow so that he can pace up the termination of Ucoriptorn. For this purpose, Geryen shapeshifted into a human and started to wander among as they were the life forms with stronger willpower than others. He tried to tell peoples about the shadow and its power but nobody believed and he realized that these life forms tend to follow the powerful and what they see but not the talks, but he thought that on the whole planet their ought to be someone who can believe him and indeed there was someone. A little girl, wandering alone in wilderness with a edged rock, fearless, searching for monsters to kill them and when Geryen saw her he asked her "hey little, why are you on your own? There might be monsters around" upon which she answered "I haven't found any and if you saw any just call me".
Amazed by the answer of girl Geryen again asked "where are your parents?" and she replied "they were killed by monsters but don't worry I will not spare any of them". So Geryen became impressed by the girl and offered her to make her more powerful so that she can kill all the monsters and can also end the power behind these filthy creatures.
That girl accepted the offer instantly and through a small time geryen teched her the way of shadow and after little time she turned into a ferocious warrior, a monster slayer, the saviour of peoples yet most beutiful lady around. She was popularly given name Elythra by the peoples who loved her for some or many reasons. At that elythra means 'shadow maker' or 'bringer of light'. She became the uncrowned queen of the land, a large mob of people believed in her and followed her. For Geryen she was the perfect medium to spread the knowledge of shadow to most of the life forms. But time never been constant for anyone, there were also some who didn't believe in following anyone but tends to be followed by people. One such person was Kazaun, a marvellous fighter with a good personality. Kazaun was affected by beuty of elythra and fell in love with her and proposed elythra for marrige. In response to proposal elythra kept the condition of a fight and told kazaun that if he can defeat her she will marry him. Although elythra had full support, strength and power of shadow But kazaun only excelled in melle combat. So a fight never seen before started b/w kazaun and elythra, because kazaun loved elythra too much he didn't even scratched or attacked elythra but waited for elythra to become tired and accept the defeat while elythra didn't cared the feelings of kazuan and gone mercyless on him. The fight continued for about a month without stopping and in the end kazaun was very badly wounded with wounds almost on every part of his body but even he didn't accepted the defeat nor attacked elythra but elythra declared him defeated for he was near about to die. It was the evening and there was nobody around but there lied kazaun in the battle field, woundedo with blood flowing out from his body continously, severel time he tried to stand up but couldn't for he had become very weak and decided to stop the efforts to stand up and he lied there in that place silently. In about midnight he heard some whispering sounds from behind and he understood that it was some kind of monster but surprisingly it was some red sphere type thing floating in air and trying to say something to him in human language but normally he never heard any monster talking in any language But then he focused on the words It was saying which were " we observed your fight with the lady, you very strong but she was drawing her power from an unknown source thats why you lie down there. We can help you marry the lady, give you power if you promise to help" and in response kazaun asked that thing what ut exactly wants. And he again heard some words that were " just find and tell us about that source of energy". Kazaun accepted the offer and that sphere merged with the body of kazaun. His wounds healed instantly, he was feeling the great power roaring through his veins. He, though without knowing, had become a corrupted one. While unawre of all this, elyyhra was feeling bad for attacking kazaun. She felt the strong love of kazuan for her and she was regretting it. But as a luck (decide yourself wheathre it was good or bad) kazaun rechallanged her into a fight but elythra accepted defeat without fight and become agree to marry kazaul. Although there was no sign of change in kazaul but Geryen did warned elythra that there may be something wrong with kazaun and she should stay alert but she didn't payed much attention to Geryen's words. And that day came when they married but Geryen also left elythra and vanished. For few days elythra tried to find Geryen but as he was nowhere to find elythra thought that he has gone. As days passed by, Elythra teached Kazaun how to use Shadow's power. They had a son together, however when kazuan learnt everything about shadow his mind was overtaken by the corrupted energy and he attacked Elythra but still he didn't kill her for the reason unknown. Elythra sensed the corruption in Kazaun and escaped with her son from Kazaun however kazaun didn't chased her as his work was complete, he was taken in the underworld of the monsters and presented in front of Ucoriptorn. While on the other hand wounded Elythra has become very weak and she called some peoples she trusted most and she entrusted her son to one of them and sent them away and then she instructed the rest of them that the wounds on her body can be healed only by who caused them and she also said that she believes that Kazaun didn't did that purposedly and one day he will return and for now with the help of shadow she is going to split hersrelf in four parts and they have to keep secure and secret these parts and when kazaun returns they have to put toghether all the parts. And after that Elythra and Kazaun both were gone, This caused confusion in peoples and many rumors were spreaded. And in the core of planet Ucoriptorn tried to absorb energy from shadow but he couldn't do it neither any other monster except kazaun as he was not totally a monster. Ucoriptorn made Kazaun even more powerful and entrusted him the job to find a way so that every monster can use the power of shadow. From that day onward he was known as Kazaul. And he was sent to the surface as the leader of monsters, he experimented on peoples and monsters with the power of shadow. In some years there was terror of Kazaul on the whole planet and also Kazaul was successful in his some experiments. Kazaul successfully learned to link shadow with objects like swords and armors but for this he snatched the souls of peoples from their bodies and caged them inside the objects. Kazaul was popularly known as the worshipper of the shadow. Some peoples thought that shadow was with kazaul and to protect themselves some of them started to worship Elythra and were against shadow and some of them started to worship Kazaul himself and were against Elythra. However most of the peoples still believed in the shadow and its powers. And because Kazaul only needed souls of those who used and believed shadow for his experiments, so neither he attacked those who worsipped Elythra nor who worshipped himself. This led peoples in believing that Elythra is protecting them against Shadow and Kazaul and also Kazaul spares his followers and makes them powerful. However when monsters started to have some power of shadow, it made Geryen angry and he sealed Kazaul in the core and never let him out. He didn't killed him because he wasn't fully become a corrupted one.
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