THE ABSENCE

After the Rebellion, creation did not return to stillness. Disorder continued across the realms, and what had already been fractured by the Curse and the Fall was shaken again.

In the Hellrealms, the Seven Kings, anointed Elders whose power sustained their realms through Vitalis, remained essential to the balance of their domains. Through them, the realms endured.

But mankind reached where it was never meant to reach.

Through means now lost to time, the Seven Kings were called from their realms to Earth. They were taken from the lands they sustained and could not return.

Their absence was not a passing loss, but a wound. Realms that had depended upon their presence and power were left without what had anchored them, and instability spread in the silence they left behind. Yet the realms did not fall. Though diminished and destabilized, they endured—enough to preserve hope. Many believed the Kings would one day return, and in the centuries that followed, prophecy, faith, and desperation drove countless searches across realms and Earth alike.

Thus began what many records now call the Absence: not merely the removal of rulers, but the severing of realms from the very beings who had once kept them alive.