The Fissure of Woe

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In the beginning, it was fear that drove the Kingdoms of the Immortal World apart. When the Dark Kingdom was able to unite the lands of Ice and Fire, a thought impossible alignment, the lands of Light grew afraid that the Dark was planning war. This was how the Light Council was created.

It was during this time that a kind of Cold War formed in the Immortal World. In the beginning, it was simply the Light Council gaining powers, though by many it was thought their paranoia that spurred the reaction, their fear was not without base. Spies from the Dark Council were infiltrating the Light Kingdom and their lands, learning secrets, gaining weaving knowledge and over all taking everything they could. It was not unknown that the Dark Council hated the Light, knowing that while promoting peace, the Light Council also was promoting their own power, their own pride, and hypocrisy. An unspoken hatred, it was the Light Council that sought other help - help in the human realm.

The Human fear of the Water Fey was legendary, and in the beginning, made the Humans close any negotiation with the Light Council. The idea of aligning themselves with creatures that drowned their sailors, and destroyed their ships was an improbable idea. For years, there was no contact between humans and fey. The human city was impenetrable for many years.

It was when the humans were running out of resources and tried to spread into the west did the fey become active again, the fey of the dark to be exact. Humans that strayed from the central city were known to be well sought prey for the Ice and Dark fey and any ship that traveled into the Succenuer waters were, too, horrifically set aflame. The humans were then losing populace with the famine that was spreading in their lands, and the Dark Council reveled in it. After the first attempt for humans to leave their city began, the Dark Council wanted nothing more than to destroy the humans - the symbol of all that resisted the fey.

Humans, while in large numbers, are unaffected by the powers of the fey. It is said the purity of the humans, and their inability to learn the weaving arts somehow made them immune to it. This, however, was failing as the humans were diminishing with more deaths every year from plague, starvation and murders by the fey of the Dark. In desperation, they answered the call of the Light Council. The Light Fey supplied the humans with a newly discovered weapon, one they knew could be harnessed and used to divide the lands. Humans were led to the discovery of iron, a metal that is lethal to any fey. The wall was built from grains of iron.

What exactly happened is unknown, but what is fact is that it was a human that brought down the wall, the human King to be exact. Rumors circulate as to how this was done, whether a fey talked him into it, or perhaps the King became a fey himself, it is still unsure. It did not take but a single hour for the hungry Dark Council to take advantage of the falling of the wall, and decimation of the human race. The Light Council retaliated with much violence. The day that the wall fell was a marking in history (Year 1 FOW).

A thousand stories could be told about the lives that were torn apart in the FoW. A great many families were completely wiped off the face of the Immortal World, cities churned into the crust of the earth, of almost the entirety of the Kingdom of Light falling victim to massive earthquakes and fiery schisms. The continent of the Immortal World was splitting, literally torn in two, and it was in the end that the Death Fey finally finished the break.

All Fey that were near the center of the Fissure were instantly killed when Abaddon's Mouth opened to swallow them whole. Death Fey from all over the continent came together in one great reaping that forced all sides to retreat, and the Fissure of Woe to become the most dangerous place in the Immortal World.

It has been many years since that day, and the lands of the FoW grow quieter with each passing decade. With no more humans, it is thought that there will be no second war, but if anything - wars reveal weaknesses never before seen, and hatreds never known are boiling to the surface. The Fissure of Woe itself seems to thirst for the blood of another million fey, it only being a matter of time...


The first year the wall fell was the beginning of the tear of the continent, known to all as the Fissure of Woe. It is currently year 113 FOW, all years before are known as Pre Decimation or PD.