The Curse and Blight Upon the World

The world comprised by the various kingdoms of the world came to be through the creative works of the Cadásur and their omniscient and omnipotent leader, the Kingfather. But before they created the world, they were locked in a battle for control over creation.  The Cadásur existed in two factions, the Kélez'ál and Envérd'ál... essentially the holy and the unholy respectively.  While they balanced the cosmos between order and chaos, the Envérd'ál initiated a war for control to the Rites of Creation.  They lost, their numbers scattered throughout the cosmos and - eventually - creation itself.

            The Kingfather had not known the terrible power of the Seven, demons capable of channeling the worst vices of humanity, and was not aware of how easily corrupted Humans could be because of their maternal progenitor.

            It started with the island... the Womb of Shadows birthed an infection, a sickness with the transformative power to turn Humans into her fallen, demonic children.  The illness spread amongst the first established settlements, an entire generation of the youth becoming corrupted and turned, killing their loved ones and destroying everything they loved.  The first settlement - Bed'deth Village - fell before the island's guardian - an empowered Human - brought an end to the Womb of Shadow's destructive plans.  Eventually the infection spread to Z'Fír in the north and Darna'Amál in the south.

            In the aftermath, it was discovered by Orman that his one-time partner, Sha'Dón, had actually been a halfbreed, betraying her mother's Kélez'ál heritage for her father's Envérd'ál connections.  Raised in the light, she excelled in her duties as the Kingfather's most trusted ally, wounding him figuratively and literally in a bid for power.  It had been her first seven children with Orman who became those most dangerous demons imprisoned on the island.  Orman stripped Sha'Dón of her spiritual powers by separating her physical form from her metaphysical form, imprisoning the demonic half into the pyramid bearing his name.  He erased Sha'Dón's memories.  She would reach the end of a mortal life, only to be reborn from her own ashes a generation later, perpetuating this cycle of imprisonment.

            The island became renamed R'Hókh Parpel, the name drifting into obscurity and eventually evolving into the now-known name of Farfell.  While Sha'Dón could not remember, her seven children could.  Contained in silver medallions, they eventually broke free without the Island's guardian to keep them at bay.  Unlike their mother, their bodies could not continue living without their spiritual essences and thus died, but the demons could inhabit bodies as they needed, riding out these hosts for generations, each one taking a turn as leader until their body gave out and they needed to find a new, much younger host.

            Eventually, the Seven discovered their long lost mother and provided her with memories of who she once was.  They used their abilities to corrupt the local people, eventually creating the Citadel around their entrapment and bringing people in droves to live within its safety, adopting their "religion" and awaiting the time when the Cadásur sent a new armor bearer to come so they could fully resurrect their mother's true power once more.

            In the meantime, however, the disembodied spirit of J'Hadahiri N'eth-Bani, the Womb of Shadows (Sha'Dón's dark presence), corrupted a young half-elf named Ménas íl Sagáth during his time as a trainee at the Mystic Academy.  Her influence aided him in becoming Menonias, thus prompting the Menonian Wars which led to the slaughter of nearly every Dragon in existence.  She further corrupted Alád-Voh when she influenced him into reassuming his Dragon form and attacking the Shadowkin living in the Maígan forests.  He resumed his Human appearance but something in the magic corrupted him, imbuing his feral Dragon nature into this humanoid form, causing his animalistic bite to turn the Shadowkin into the first generation of pureblood Vampires with him as their god and progenitor.

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Spiritual Ancestry

There is a clear line of ancestry from the Kélez'ál and the Envérd'ál to Dragons, Elves, Humans, Vampires, and Demons.  Alád-Vóh created the Dragons.  Orman - with the help of Shanzón - formed the Elves.  Erda-König forged the Svérk (Dwarves).  Orman traveled to what became Ronso and - with the assistance of Sha'Dón - created Humans.  The Celestial connections were more than evident.

            But, Sha'Dón's involvement in creating Humans laced their bloodline with the corruptible potential because of her own father's lineage as Envérd'ál, passing it onto her children; obviously her first brood because the Seven of Farfell.  When she spawned the demonic infection of B'Deth Village, these new fallen could further infect humanity and other beings as well.

            Alád-Vóh's decision to become Human allowed for him to become corruptible and the influence of J'Hadahiri N'eth-Bani infected the magic used to return him to his Dragon form.  His second transubstantiation into a Human guise left him permanently corrupted and so passed his corruption onto the Shadowkin who were the perfect carriers for Vampirism.

            Menonias use of dark magic to force a bond with a Dragon resulted in the creation of the first Viper - who as a mirror to his creator - could bite and infect other Dragons, turning them into mindless, feral Vipers.  It was a mixture of the first Viper's venom, blood from a pureblood Vampire, and black sand taken from the Three-Sands Desert that allowed Menonias to concoct the very serum that turned Zágo - a former Maígan Elf-turned-Vampire - into the first Darkbreed, a further corruption of the vampiric infection.

            While considered an aberration, the Nérg'Nóm branch of Elves were actually a device generated by the Cadásur of attempting to restrain and take back control of these evil mutations; Menonias' own father - Sagáth - was born a Dark Elf and used his abilities honorably.  Menonias - through his son Ceris - sought out such a being, finding one in Hadreldín.  What Ceris believed to be his new host body for faithfully serving his father was actually intended for Ceris - who used it to further his control of the Darkbreed and eradicate his son's soul in order to be reborn, his true goal all along.

            Having been beheaded by the current bearer of the Hadran Corvis and having her remains left to be immolated under the fiery blood of Farfell, Sha'Dón's demonic infection died upon the island.  But it lives on, dormant inside her son Lodín while four of the Seven remain active and in hiding in host bodies with the goal of resurrecting their mother .