The Vault of Eladrius
The Vault is everything I hoped it would be and more! While it has been largely cut off from the world for the last 98 years, (other than a handful of visitors) it is a wealth of knowledge.
Indeed, it would appear that a great suppression of information has occurred in our past.
It would appear that the World of Haven is but one of a series of world that we have fled to in the past. Indeed, the Vault has knowledge of a chain of such worlds.
As the Vault says, "The Worlds are failing and will not hold back the demons" The Demon refered to was Kansul.
It showed us a string of worlds. Each before Haven was either Red (Conquered by Kansul) or Black (consumed). Haven was yellow (at risk). Furlough, beyond, was green but trending to yellow. It inferred worlds beyond, but these were all in grey (unknown)
When we last fled, 12 heroes set out on a quest. Only 5 survived. Of those that did not survive, was a member of an insectoid race I am unfamiliar with. 2 Elves, 1 Human, 1 dwarf, and one Halfling were the survivors. This quest was, apparently, to gather the essences of the gods of that world.
According the Vault, 3 of the 5 survivors were deified (mortal deification is brilliant, I shall expound on this further!). The Halfling was Elosius Mark, the author of the Malefarcium was not one of the surviving 12. However, Roywynn Goodfellow, another halfling, was deified and (I believe) became the daughter.
Peter Kovak was the Human survivor and was not deified. Instead he continued down the chain. However, one may speculate that the Son (Haven's human god) who was brought to Haven From Furlough was, in fact, a deified Peter Kovak. Indeed the Furlough name of the god, Petrovich, would lend some credence to this.
Ancillin Eladrius, builder of the Vault was the other who was not deified.
So why the suppression? In part, it would appear that a decision was made that magical and extra planar research was responsible for the acceleration of the incursions of Kansul in the past. Suppression of this information through groups such as the redactionists was designed to prevent the new acquisition of this knowledge. Since I do not, at the moment, know how long each previous world was settled before incursion, I can not speculate as to whether the effort was successful or not.
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