Novine History > The Old World
Most scholars agree that the Novines did come from a place called Eoruvea – home to the five tribes called Angilea, Galia, Umbrea, Vascuva and Vigota. The ages before the great pilgrimage were troubled times. The former glory of antique civilizations had faded, ancient myths claim that a great empire lead by the Umbrea had fallen and that the remains of the old world was being torn apart by feuding kings, a dreadful plague and ravaging barbarian hordes. It was also a period however where some scholars turned from their traditions and sought wisdom in pagan texts, some of which dated as far back as the oldest civilizations.
According to Novine myths scholars of the old world had found some ancient knowledge tracing them far back into the prehistoric depths of civilization – to a time where gods roamed the earth. It is said that the ancient people knew of a way to travel across great distances without moving – a power known as the Pilgrimage and that it was taught to them by the Twin Gods and their kin. In the Book of Ancestors (part of the Novine bible) it is written that Ieo and Aia gave the power to travel to the first people allowing them free passage to three worlds of which the third is mentioned as Paraideso, a place of eternal salvation. The same scriptures claim that this rite of passage was bound to certain places known as Gates and that seven such gates were opened to the first people.
Unfortunately none of the ancient texts reveal the whereabouts of the gates although most of them suggest they were to be found in the first kingdom consumed by the great Deluge. Punished for a great prehistoric sin the true pilgrims eventually disappeared from the old world as the Twin Gods washed away their civilization with the Flood. For centuries they were forgotten and with them the enigma of the Pilgrimage. Time passed and the sons of Ieo continued their life unknowing of what had once been their divine gift. The church grew strong yet in its pursue of virtue it turned from the ways of the ancients and forgot what had once been said.
Novine History...
The Old World...
Into The Unknown...
The Pilgrimage...
First Settlements...
People of the Forest...
A Lost Brother...
The Nennings...
The Fall of Man...
Reign of the Gleyks...
Dusk of the Scarab...
Newfound Allies...
The Concordia...
Return of the Meia...
Blood of A Martyr...
Ason, The Prophet...
Siege of Ar-Gilema...
A New Era Begins...
Forming The Regno...
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