Archives

= Archives = "'A call to the void, or l'appel du vide is simply an affirmation of your will to live, the desire to preserve the insatiable appetite for life.'" The history of the bytx is broken up into multiple unique eras that slowly collect together to the modern age that the current story takes place. Each era has its own struggles that the bytx have overcome, giving them important lesson that eventually come to a head in the modern events. All the Era are broken up into specific milestones where a major change of the people or the world took place.

Concept of Time
Before one can fully understand the bytx's history, one must understand how they measure time.

Bytx concept of time spans much longer than what other beings may process. Normal years to mortals being may be akin to seconds in the eyes of the bytx. There's no exact translation between bytx years and mortal years, thought its considerable longer, being almost cosmic scale in nature. When "years" are referenced from this point on, it will be under the idea of what bytx consider years, not mortals.

Cardinal Era
The Cardinal Era was a long lost period of time where, due to the mental restraint all the bytx were under, was never fully retained. They were akin to machines or animals and bore no reason to really retain any information such as previous events, not even individuals held memories for they had no need for it. Even being aware of danger around them wasn’t kept, which led into a lot of problems in their later history. Anything not connected to their purpose was simply discarded, making what happened during that time very difficult to fully determine. Even people who lived during that era only remember it vaguely, feeling no true emotional attachment to it, like having a dream or reading a book. There’s many degrees of separation between what the bytx were then and what they are now.

However after the awakening of Theshiel and his advocacy for the freedom of the people, does history finally find itself in at least the minds of the individuals who were there during that time. Most events are simply word of mouth experiences from those individuals and are only now kept in historical records, though that is obviously loosely referenced since the experience can’t exactly be considered “certain.”
 * Cardinal Era in Full ( Year 0 - 1121 )
 * Cardinal’s Awakening ( Year 0 - 655 )
 * Hunter’s Feast ( Year 422 )
 * Theshiel’s Awakening ( Year 655 - 801 )
 * Freedom of the Will ( Year 801 - 1121 )

Forgotten Era
The Forgotten Era, as the name suggests, is a very cloudy time for all the bytx, though they had the minds now to retain the history, the disasters to come took much from them. Some memories truly lost due to death or injury, but many also lost to war and pain. As if they are memories no one longer wished to ponder. Forgotten simply to give themselves peace of mind.

This era, they believe shaped the best but also the worse from the bytx, leaving them broken having learned the harshest lesson of what their newfound freewill had to offer them.
 * Forgotten Era in Full ( Year 1121 - 1589 )
 * Birth of the Sacred Fire ( Year 1121 - 1341 )
 * Death of Theshiel ( Year 1341 )
 * Of Sword and Shield ( Year 1342 - 1690 )
 * Theshiel’s Twin’s Rise ( Year 1577 )

Fall from Grace Era
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 * Fall from Grace Era in Full ( Year 1690 - ??? )
 * Death of the Grace ( Year 1690 )
 * The Long Sleep ( Years Unknown )

Sworeven’s Era
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 * Sworeven's Era in Full
 * Home Reawakening
 * Empire of the Hallow
 * Return of Tokshiel

Tokshiel’s Era
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 * Tokshiel's Era in Full
 * Hell Awakening
 * Visions of Yiel
 * Trek through Hell
 * Discovery of the Ruins

Lost Era
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 * Lost Era in Full
 * Rise of the Rebellion
 * Fall of the Tyrant
 * United Peace
 * Plague of Curses

Tyrant Era
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 * Tyrant Era in Full
 * The White Ice
 * War on the Beasts
 * The Tyrants Tamed

Holy Era
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 * Holy Era in Full
 * Holy Rise of Yiel
 * Unholy Civil War
 * Return of the King
 * Return of Peace

Modern Era
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 * Modern Era in Full
 * Warrior Reestablished
 * Guardian’s Resurgence
 * Devil’s Return