herssian:haha noo dont anger your gods ahai was asked about the Maiden and the lore behind this!the
herssian:haha noo dont anger your gods ahai was asked about the Maiden and the lore behind this!the Maiden is a lesser deity from the ancient times and foremother/ancestor of the ancientborn race (the tiefling/qunari/draenei-ish equivalent of my original world). she was the last to stick around when all the gods disappeared from every continent because war and bloodshed had started erupting between the ancientborn who are believed to be the race to first walk the earth before the rest came to prominencethe stories talk about how the gods felt so betrayed and heartbroken over their “beloved children” tearing each other down despite their warnings that they sent the Maiden as their speaker to tell all the clans that they were to be abandoned for their sins. instead of heeding her words or atoning, she was captured as leverage against the gods to return and save her. she was then revealed to be the gods’ queen/most powerful goddess of the pantheon in disguise that simply had only wanted to help her children and bring them back to the light. her grief was so big, it’s said her black tears stained her scleras black as she killed a big number of the AB race as punishment for their hubris before disappearing with a heartbreaking lamentit’s one of the excuses the biggest elfblood kingdom attempted to enslave most ancientborn centuries ago due to the belief they would bring the end of the world as merely their existence and past sins would anger the gods again. the legends of the ancientborn’s fighting and greed was taught to most elves as propaganda against the near extinct races for decades before the dwarves had to intervene and tell them to stop being assholes and the ancientborn became free againin recent times, ancientborn are integrated in society but their numbers are nowhere near that of the other races and most of their history has been erased so the truth of what happened is unknown. some continue to believe the legends and blame them for the gods being silent instead of actively helping the people like they were believed to do once upon a time, and others view them as a blessing. most agree legends are bullshit and just leave them be :) -- source link
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