Game Lore
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In the Beginning...
http://video.mmosite.com/display.php?vid=2997&gid=258
A Shaiya synopsis completely in Korean.
Translation:
In the beginning, the Goddess breathed life into the world of Shaiya; creating the realm of Teos from her own flesh and blood. She then created three races to rule over the realm: The Dragons, the Orcs, and the Dumainas. The three wise races lived in harmony, until…
The Dumainas rebelled against the Goddess, believing she only loved the Orcs and Dragons. They left their homeland and set out to find the fabled “Hiding Goddess”. The Dumainas found the Hiding Goddess, but were crushed with grief when she rejected them.
They killed the Hiding Goddess, but in doing so left Teos unprotected, unleashing monsters and a war spread across the lands. After seven years of bloodshed, only two, Proton and Eustatin, survived. Desiring to keep their line alive, Eustatin approached Proton as he slept. When he found out what she’d done, Proton banished Eustatin. In the solitude of exile, Eustatin bore a baby. She raised the child in darkness, filling it with the fury and anguish she held against Proton.
Meanwhile, Proton’s loneliness drove him to sculpt a tree into the shape of a woman. The sculpture was given life, creating the woman he would then marry. Proton instilled the awe of nature into his new family. From these two factions, the lines of the Vail and the Elves were born. Instilled with the hatred their Gods had against each other, the moment the Vail and the Elves first encountered each other, a war began to brew. The line of Humans sided with the Elves against the Vail and the ancient Deatheaters.
Here our story begins; these two sides do battle in the second War of the Gods: Light versus Darkness.
Shaiya = SHY-a
Teos = TEA-aws
Dumainas = Doomin-ESS
Eustatin = You-STAT-in
NOTE: This originally came from the script for the voice-over contest Aeriagames had in December 2007, but as far as I know, no one won. To see some of the contestants' submissions, go to Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Shaiya%2C+voice+over&search_type=&aq=f.
PERSONAL SIDENOTE: I think Aeriagames would have been better off just reusing the original Korean video and adding subtitles; I think the Korean voice was a lot sexier. ^_^
Further Information
http://shaiya.aeriagames.com/info/story
Alliance of Light
The Elves, descendants of the ancients, began losing their foothold in the wars with the Vail. The energies that fueled their magics were being stripped from nature as the never-ending wars raged on. In desperation, the Elves cried out to the goddess for help. As if in response to their pleas, a great dimensional rift was torn in the fabric of the universe and a bridge was made to the realm. Here is where the Elves met the Humans, and the cunning Terrans took up arms with the magical Elves. They formed the Alliance of Light and their purpose was one: to reincarnate the Goddess filled with Good, Etain. Now they fight their only opposition, and the wars still rage on.
Union of Fury
As powerful as Evil is, combined hatred is even more powerful. Isquiron, hero of the Vails, and Tyrannus, leader of the Deatheaters, knew this well and called upon each other in an effort to destroy the Alliance of Light. With the strategies of the Vail and the raw destructive power of the Deatheaters, the Elves and Humans seem to stand little chance against this offensive force. If the Union of Fury could only get past their petty differences and focus all of their rage on their natural enemies, they might truly be unbeatable.
