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What is Aghora? [The story of OaD's universe]

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Aghora, the first fantasy world which ever appeared across time and space. This world was created by Spirits of Aghora or Gods of Aghora. The world was peaceful and blooming, but soon all the Spirits of Aghora divided by two agressive groups: ones wanted to transform the whole world to the Great Desert with sand and gusts everywhere, anothers wished to make Aghora the heaven filled with palms and water, called the Great Oasis. This provoked a brutal and violent war between them which is knows as the First War. The First War managed to make the whole continent very unstable. As Aghora is translated from Latin, it became fragile. The inhabitants of Aghora prayed to the higher forces to return peace to these beautiful lands once again...

And the prayers were finally heard. Someday a giant and very powerful creature came to them. This creature introduced himself as Balance Dominator, the ruler of fantasy. He came to the Spirits of Aghora and tried to stop the useless confrontation which destroys the continent from the inside over time. But all the attempts to restore the unity of the Spirits in a peaceful way which Balance Dominator tried were futile. So the frowned god of fantasy decided to make a risky move.

He sealed both sides of Spirits in the special orbs. One of the orbs became red, another became blue. So, one contained Gods of Desert and another contained Gods of Oasis. Then Dominator left both orbs in Aghora, passing them to the inhabitants of this continent so they will keep them as a long gone story of this mysterious continent. Soon, no one knew where Balance Dominator ever is now. Aghorians decided to place a great and sacred temple in the center of Aghora, where the Road of Spirits is along with a concrete edge of the Oasis and Desert. Both orbs were strictly guarded and peace was slowly returning to the shattered lands. The sacred temple got called as the Temple of Balance, in honor of the Balance Dominator. This sacred building was handling Aghora from the earthquakes that happened before, stabilizing the fragile land.

Someday, a man called Dargorak came to visit this temple. When he saw two bright orbs that were glowing and temptation to break them and release the gods was too hard for him, so he haven't resisted it. The chants coming from the both orbs promised him to make him a powerful god of Aghora if he will find a way to free them from the spherical cells. And one day, Dargorak managed to become a guardian of the Temple of Balance. In the middle of the night, he did a ritual, breaking the orbs and releasing the ancient Spirits once again... Dargorak became their king and passed away as a great Primal Spirit of Aghora. The Second War began... To prevent the anger of Balance Dominator, Dargorak suggested to summon the greatest heroes of Aghora near the Temple of Balance to fight instead of the Spirits by themselves. Dargorak made it look like a innocent chess game for a Spirits of Aghora where the chess pieces were represented as a heroes, coming to the war for the concrete sides. The Spirits of Aghora settled out their differences and were overjoyed to solve their argument by using the 'foolish mortals'.

That's how this strange battle begun...
 
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