As for Caelum Ignis, well, brace yourself, brave traveler, because things are going to become even stranger:
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Caelum Ignis, the ancient hero who stands alongside the spirit of the Ember Hearth, is a hero from the Age of Embers. In this ancient era of Magisteria's history, Caelum Ignis was known as The Ember Warden.
"The Twilight of Ashes" began with the emergence of the Shadow Breach, a rift in spacetime which allowed dark, destructive forces to creep into Magisteria. Caelum Ignis, originally the guardian of a minor flame temple, was the wielder of the Ember Staff, a legendary staff forged from the first of all flames.
Caelum's charisma and wisdom brought together an unlikely coalition, the Ember Alliance, consisting of mages, warriors, mythical creatures, and even entities that had long been indifferent to the world's affairs. Together, they orchestrated a series of strikes against the forces spilling from the Shadow Breach, culminating in a daring assault on the breach itself.
Caelum was the embodiment of a fire mage -- their command over the element absolute. They could master any flame, and could even use flame to create rather than merely destroy. However, to close the Shadow Breach, they sacrificed the core of their own power, permanently weakening them. The hero, Caelum Ignis, then disappeared from the world, lost to myth/history.
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None of this, however, is what makes the legend of Caelum Ignis strange. No, rather, the issue is, much of what has been recorded here may actually be legendary: Magisterian history books do not record an Age of Embers, and it seems incompatible with other eras of the world's history. The Shadow Breach corresponds to something similar described in the First War, yet the events as depicted in the history books... differ. Caelum may well have been a figure crafted by the actual heroes of the wars, rather like Romulus or King Arthur.
To the Ember Hearth, however, it sees them as an embodiment of the heroism of Magisteria:
"The ancient heroes mean everything to the people of this world..." And its voice is very old and deep and there is a mysterious tinge of something like wistfulness. "... to see them ... changed... affects us, deeply... "
But it seems to struggle to speak further on that.
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Caelum Ignis, the ancient hero who stands alongside the spirit of the Ember Hearth, is a hero from the Age of Embers. In this ancient era of Magisteria's history, Caelum Ignis was known as The Ember Warden.
"The Twilight of Ashes" began with the emergence of the Shadow Breach, a rift in spacetime which allowed dark, destructive forces to creep into Magisteria. Caelum Ignis, originally the guardian of a minor flame temple, was the wielder of the Ember Staff, a legendary staff forged from the first of all flames.
Caelum's charisma and wisdom brought together an unlikely coalition, the Ember Alliance, consisting of mages, warriors, mythical creatures, and even entities that had long been indifferent to the world's affairs. Together, they orchestrated a series of strikes against the forces spilling from the Shadow Breach, culminating in a daring assault on the breach itself.
Caelum was the embodiment of a fire mage -- their command over the element absolute. They could master any flame, and could even use flame to create rather than merely destroy. However, to close the Shadow Breach, they sacrificed the core of their own power, permanently weakening them. The hero, Caelum Ignis, then disappeared from the world, lost to myth/history.
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None of this, however, is what makes the legend of Caelum Ignis strange. No, rather, the issue is, much of what has been recorded here may actually be legendary: Magisterian history books do not record an Age of Embers, and it seems incompatible with other eras of the world's history. The Shadow Breach corresponds to something similar described in the First War, yet the events as depicted in the history books... differ. Caelum may well have been a figure crafted by the actual heroes of the wars, rather like Romulus or King Arthur.
To the Ember Hearth, however, it sees them as an embodiment of the heroism of Magisteria:
"The ancient heroes mean everything to the people of this world..." And its voice is very old and deep and there is a mysterious tinge of something like wistfulness. "... to see them ... changed... affects us, deeply... "
But it seems to struggle to speak further on that.