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==History== | ==History== | ||
The story of New Celest's people and culture begins in the aftermath of the [[Elder Wars]] with the founding of a city on Celest Isle in the [[Crystal Sea]] by a mostly [[merian]] population. The very first mortal mages of the [[Basin]] arose from efforts to cleanse the waters of residual pollution from the [[Soulless God]]s. New contact with the [[Elemental Plane of Water]] and [[Cosmic Plane]] of [[Celestia]] permitted the building of the Pool of Stars, the fourth [[Nexus of Power]] known to [[Lusternia]]n history, but the first created through artifice. | The story of New Celest's people and culture begins in the aftermath of the [[Elder Wars]] with the founding of a city on [[Spectre Isle|Celest Isle]] in the [[Crystal Sea]] by a mostly [[merian]] population. The very first mortal mages of the [[Basin]] arose from efforts to cleanse the waters of residual pollution from the [[Soulless God]]s. New contact with the [[Elemental Plane of Water]] and [[Cosmic Plane]] of [[Celestia]] permitted the building of the [[Pool of Stars]], the fourth [[Nexus of Power]] known to [[Lusternia]]n history, but the first created through artifice. | ||
Events during the [[Taint Wars]] culminated with the destruction of the original Pool of Stars, ruining Celest and marking the fall of the Holy Celestine Empire. The shades of those who perished that day still haunt [[Spectre Isle]] in the [[Sea of Despair]]. | Events during the [[Taint Wars]] culminated with the destruction of the original Pool of Stars, ruining Celest and marking the fall of the Holy Celestine Empire. The shades of those who perished that day still haunt [[Spectre Isle]] in the [[Sea of Despair]]. | ||
New Celest was settled to the west along the Inner Sea. Since the Coming of Estarra, New Celest has continued to change. Landmark events of the current era include the following: | New Celest was settled to the west along the Inner Sea. Since the Coming of Estarra, New Celest has continued to change. Landmark events of the current era include the following: | ||
*freeing of Rhapsody's Voice and the development of [[Starhymn]] among the [[Cantors]]. | *freeing of [[Rhapsody|Rhapsody's Voice]] and the development of [[Starhymn]] among the [[Cantors]]. | ||
*diplomatic relations with the [[kephera]] led to establishing the Tahtetso Priory. | *diplomatic relations with the [[kephera]] led to establishing the [[Tahtetso (class)|Tahtetso Priory]]. | ||
*During the [[War of the Wheel]], New Celest was the first city or commune to turn the lessons of a ruined future into an entirely new approach to elemental magic, this practice became [[Aquachemantics]]. | *During the [[War of the Wheel]], New Celest was the first city or commune to turn the lessons of a ruined future into an entirely new approach to elemental magic, this practice became [[Aquachemantics]]. | ||
*472 CE - Centuries-old guilds had to dissolve to form the Archons of Justice, | *472 CE - Centuries-old guilds had to dissolve to form the [[Archons of Justice]], [[Ecclesiarchy of the Light]], and [[Sanctifiers of Loathys]]. | ||
*561 CE - Reforms and revelations leading to the 3 recent guilds reorganizing in their current form. | *561 CE - Reforms and revelations leading to the 3 recent guilds reorganizing in their current form. | ||