Whatever your told in the dark,
Speak in the light of the forge
Or darkness shall consume you.
But never forget,
Anything forged in the light
Must cast a shadow.
The immortal Aghori Dwarves speak old tales of how Fear Goerta, the First Forge had been present throughout the rise and fall of many systems and cycles. Each time incarnating itself in new worlds to forge new cycles.
Our game takes place during the 7th and final Cycle in The Swords Of Aegis Cycles. The Excalibur Cycle.
~In the beginning~
Progeny of the first flame, birthed of the first light. When the First Race was birthed into existence, the First Forge was already ancient in cycles. The First Forge existed long before the first cycle when the Tír na nÓg (elves) granted time and age their names, and the First Forge bore silent witness during the second cycle, when Klume- The floating city and last terrestrial land before the outer dark summoned the Black Gate, into which it became lost.
From the First Forge the Aghori forged sapient blades of such immense and haunting power that the very swords themselves gave birth to the Demons. The Red Giants- Demons, were so powerful they could not be destroyed nor controlled, and so they were imprisoned within the very blades that had sired them.
Thus the Forging of the First Sword gave rise to a new cycle, and every sword thereafter would give rise to successive cycles in a series known as The Swords Of Aegis cycles.
The Aghori Dwarves still exist, locked in immortality they live in isolation in the farthest reaches of the mountain range known as The Fangs where they have burrowed so far into the earth they border other planes. There they tend to Fear Goerta, the first forge and ensure that no blades may ever be permitted birth again. For they can never be destroyed.