Back then in a long lost and forgotten age…

Well, where should I star my tale? Oh! I know!

More than 1500 years ago, during the beginning of the Illuminated imperium, there were the sorcerers, spell casters, witches, wizards, beings who had the ability to turn their wishes and thoughts reality through the use of the Willpower. You know what the Willpower is, don´t you? The Willpower is the inner strength, spiritual strength that any living being possesses. The thing is that sorcerers and the magical wielders domain it.

As I was saying, the sorcerers were respected, not like nowadays, but even more. They were so powerful and respected that they were often invited to be part of the royal courts…in fact; they got to be so powerful in the society that the strongest one of them got the title of "Master archon". The Master archon had its small court of archons; every archon had its palace back in their region. And when the Master archon deemed it necessary it would call them to its palace to make a decision.

But one day the fear embraced the great empire. A close empire was just about to declare the war. Because of that, the Master archon was called by the emperor Tulio Saraki. The emperor was ready to fight, but he wanted to hear if the archon´s order would follow him to fight. The Master archon said that he alone couldn´t say. For that he called the court to make a decision…and they agreed. The archons had almost full authority over every magical being…but that empire wasn´t the only one which had magical beings of such magnitude. The attacking empire had a stronger and bigger army and beings the same or even more powerful.

The Master archon had a dream…they will lose the war. The Master archon communicated that to the emperor. Desperate for his wishes to save his empire, Tulio Saraki signed a truce, for 26 years the war will be delayed. During that time, the Master archon would search for way to save the empire.

The Master archon was a very spiritual being, in constant contact to the "Original plane", home realm of Karo, god of this world and of this realm.

One night, the Master archon had a dream, a vision, which he secured, was a sign of help from god. In that dream he saw a way to save the empire…but in order to do that a taboo had to be performed.

The mating between sorcerers and demons was something forbidden. The fruits of such mating were…are known as "Melez". Beings with human body, but way too linked to the "Original plane" and of outmatched Willpower, they are powerful beings, yes, but way too easy to lose control.

The sorcerers were the result of the union between humans and the Original plane. Demons, on the other hand, were spirits corrupted by sins, there are, of course, positive spirits who watched over god´s creation.

The sorcerers were and are often stalked by demons and spirits. While the mating between humans and demons is strictly forbidden, the relationship between humans and spirits is a whole honor. Demons often looked for sorcerers to increase their powers or to engender Melez. Because the Melez were too linked to the Original plane, demons could corrupt and manipulate them way easier than sorcerers.

Years passed and the emperor couldn´t see the fruits of the Master Archon´s decision. The truce´s time expired. The day arrived and the enemy´s men landed on Tulio´s territory, they infiltrated among the men and took control of small villages and cities. Tulio´s soldiers had to fall back to the main city. The enemy broke the city doors, ready to take the city and claim the victory… but what would be their surprise when they saw those crimson eyed beings filled with hate and rage. The Melez forced the enemy to fall back using their Willpower to manipulate the elements, pushing them to the cliffs by using invisible force, reducing them to ashes by throwing fireballs to them, making their hearts stop with lightings, overwhelm them by stopping time and surrounding them, making them stab each other by bending their minds, rising undead armies and causing storms of fire and ice. The enemy had to go back to their land, but the archons casted firestorms over the enemy´s camps and ships.

Tulio´s victory was secured; the enemy gave up after all that power. Tulio enjoyed the victory for years…but respect doesn't last forever…does it?

Sorcerers were persecuted and casted out because of their power, I guess that´s something comprehensible, if someone would scorch everything surrounding me down to ashes I would be scared as well.

Mages, sorcerers, Melez, archons…all of them were persecuted. Even with all their power, the Melez fall first. You see, the Melez present features from their aspect to their behavior:

-their normal eyes are gray or yellow, but when their fighting spirit turns on their eyes turn crimson.

- Their skills and reflects only improve, they don´t go down.

-they have a special attraction to magic.

-when they turn 10, the Melez akin, bound to a star.

-they don´t attack any human or being at least that the Melez feels threaten by them.

But these Melez were trained to protect their empire, not to attack it…that´s why most of them were exterminated.

Mages and sorcerers were murdered or exiled to their caves and towers. The witches were persecuted back to the swamps. Only a few were saved.

The emperor didn´t support such radical act against the magic. But snakes always find a way to slip away into burrows. A being of golden hair and pale skin with eyes of snake got close to the emperor.

-¡ You must attack!- he whispered to Tulios´s ear- ¡it won´t take long for him to take over!

The emperor, moved by fear and despair, attacked the Master Archon´s tower. Troops and battalions marched to the tower; a small army surrounded every possible exit. The emperor and the snake lead the march; they entered into the tower and made their way to the main chamber.

But, why didn´t they stopped them? You must be asking, the archons, monarchs of the arcane arts, with the ability to turn the air into flames, letting their enemy take the tower with no fight.

The soldiers got into the last chamber where the 9 archons plus the Master archon were waiting.

-¡Tulio! - yelled the Master archon with its hood.

The chamber was big and beautiful, full of books and alchemy components. The 10 sorcerers wielded their staffs in their left hand and swords of black silver in the right one.

-¡There´s no need for blood to be spilled! ¡Surrender, Lucian!- ordered Tulio backed up by a battalion.

-¡Archons! ¿¡what is your decision!?- asked Lucian with strong voice.

The archons smashed the floor with their staffs.

-¡the court has spoken, Tulio! - said Lucian out loud.

-¡I´m warning you, Lucian, we´ll…! – said Tulio, but before he could finish the sentence he was interrupted.

-¿¡ you warn us!?¿¡to us!?¿¡ The followers of the arts of god!?- exclaimed Lucian in rage.

The soldiers charged against the archons with their swords. But with a movement of one of the archon´s staff their swords melted down. With another movement a vortex appeared and threw away most of the soldiers.

The archons could have destroyed the life of the soldiers. But they wouldn´t they had to protect the empire.

-¡go back to your palace, Tulio! – said Lucian to Tulio in smooth voice.

A light flooded the chamber. It was completely white and so shiny that Tulio y his men had to cover their eyes. But one the light faded the archons were gone with no trails.

The invaders felt fear and left the tower…that was the end of the "March against the arcane blood"