History and Lore / Moon and her Mirror

Long ago, when the planet was still new and full of fire, the realms of the material and the spiritual were one and the same. Gods and demons walked the earth and fought for control of the new world, and their magic ran rampant across the land...

During this time, when gods and demons fought, mortals cowered in fear of their terrible powers - whether the magic was used to create or destroy, all of it was incredibly powerful, and the mortal creatures dared not stand in the way.

The mortals lived in fear for so long, until one brave soul said "Enough."

Her name was Moon.

Moon first went and asked the gods if they would cease their fighting with the demons - but the gods would not lay down their weapons. Instead, they asked Moon to join them, and granted her celestial magics to use against the demons.

Moon then went and asked the demons if they would cease their fighting with the gods - but the demons would not lay down their weapons. Instead, they asked Moon to join them, and granted her chaotic magics to use against the gods.

Not wanting to choose a side, Moon travelled back and forth, asking and pleading both the Gods and the Demons to stop their fighting, for the sake of the mortal lives caught up in the constant and unending war.

Both the Gods and Demons turned her down, again and again, until Moon had had enough. She realised that neither side would relent, and so both gods and demons would have to be stopped.

Moon took a mirror, and began to cast a powerful spell.

She drew upon the celestial magics with one hand, and the chaotic magics with the other. Moon cast rays of light and rays of darkness into the mirror, creating a web of magic through which no god or demon could pass. More and more magic Moon passed to the mirror, light and dark in equal balance... until she herself became one with the mirror, holding the spell tightly, for all of time.

On that day, the mortal and spirit worlds were separated by Moon. The Gods and Demons still fight on, in the spirit world, but from that day mortal kind were safe from their wrath.

But what happened to Moon and her mirror? Well, dear listener, Moon and her mirror are part of that web of magic - and as such, are a part of both worlds. And because Moon exists in both the mortal and spirit worlds, it means that there is but a small opening in the veil of magic - a place where, if the moon were to be lost, the gods and demons would spill back into our world.

And that must never happen.