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For thousands of years, since
before recorded history, there has been art.
Men and women drawing on caves recording hunts and travels. Then came the art of storytelling and history
slowly started to be born. With the
creation of scripture mankind was able to record their stories and history for
generations to learn from and grow.
As the centuries passed a certain
group started to develop special abilities.
Abilities relating to the various arts that developed. They used their rare gifts to inspire mankind
to continue despite the darkness that surrounded them at all times. They sang songs of great heroes accomplishing
great deeds, painted great pictures of wondrous lands and places that existed
just beyond the sun rise, and told stories of the grand things that had been
seen by them.
These people became the inspiration
for humanity to explore, challenge, and grow as a species. Through the ages they used a special magic that
only they could use to subtly manipulate the hearts and spirits of others to
give them bravery, determination, and above all else: hope.
For thousands of years this small
group of people used their abilities while sticking mainly to the
background. They learned from long ago
that their purpose was to help humanity and grow along side of it but not to
lead it. Standing behind figures while
rarely venturing into the limelight themselves was fine with them as they never
needed to do much more than that.
Then a dark faction of humanity arose
who wanted to rule it all with an iron fist.
They saw that as humanity continued to grow it would become more
difficult for them to rule over them. This
started a new faction of people who wanted to stop the progress of mankind by eliminating
the art that inspired them to do great things like standing up to an oppressive
authority or to expand to their own lands to rule themselves.
From that point on the artists had
to develop skills to protect themselves, creating martial arts and weapon
making while the other side used poisons and assassinations to get into seats
of power in order to drive out the artists.
As the ages passed both sides grew in power and legends of their battles
became the stuff of legends until a great battle caused the artists to fall.
This period started the height of
power for the dark faction who used the lack of hope and inspiration to create
a dark age for them to rule humanity.
Without their power mankind lacked the will and ambition to raise up and
change things which allowed the group to gain more and more power as the years
passed. For hundreds of years their
power grew and humanity suffered in the darkness seemingly unable to rise up
into the light again until a new golden age arose.
As the dark faction had been
spreading its influence it had also grown stagnant and lazy with their own
abilities. This lead the artists to
biding their time, strengthening their abilities and developing new ones in
order to fight. When the time was right
they fought off their defilers with their new abilities forcing them back to
the shadows to wait for another time to strike while the artists brought about
a new golden age of man.
A renaissance was born and
continued for hundreds of years among the world. As the artists created more and inspired the
rest of humanity to explore and grow their rivals did their best to stop them
and drag humanity back to the dark age.
As the years passed both sides grew, the artists dubbed themselves the Order
of the Muse declaring amongst themselves that their duty was to protect
humanity against the dark order they dubbed The Silent and to help push
humanity forward however they could.
By inspiring hope humanity sought
to do great things. Exploring the
oceans, developing an understanding of human biology, and even creating their
own great works of art were but a few of the things the Muses brought about. While the works of the muses came and faded
with the days, the great works they inspired lasted through the ages, inspiring
others and making a mark in the lives of millions.
Tyranny and democracy, slavery and
freedom, war and peace, this was the cycle the two factions went through. While one side sought destruction and power
the other brought creation and peace to pursue their own art and agendas. As humanity advanced so did their art and as
their art changed they grew more powerful to better their cause. As their art evolved the darkness grew along
side them; each one hoping to one day finally crush the other but while one side
would have just as gladly stayed out of sight the other desired
to drag them out into the open to stop them once and for all.
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