Note that guilded realms uses equipment and characters within spiral knights the entire idea has been changed
You can follow the development of guilded realms at my tumblr http://tovvok.tumblr.com/
It also will soon be premiering my fanfic comic taking it in xtryde
Xtryder a female miner who delves the clockworks evading conflict and hunting for minerals that she can sell discovers a weapon of magnificent power and leaps at the chance for superior technology. She finds herself in the middle of a mercenary and bandit war for the “Gyro-Blade” and seeks to discover its origins for her own.
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The Guilded Realms
The story of the guilded realms is that of a shaken foundation. Soon after existence well, existed two great deities came into being Irraleth the mother of the earth and Valkir the father of men. Valkir was the sun providing life and Irraleth was the shelter offering earth for which men could stand.
But Valkir had quickly forgotten his role as a deity and found himself amongst men. Within the realm of man he rose to power by teaching them that they could draw materials from the earth from tearing into it, soon they had made their own city. The more man praised him the more power he came to know, until a day where he discovered through his power a plain of existence void of earth and man with nothing but sky abound. A place just for Valkir. It wasn’t long before man encountered other beasts, ones born of earth but without the sun could never have awakened.
The stampede was the first, they were taught powers by Irraleth the great sleeper as they were her watch. Man wanted these powers but it was not allowed, enraged by the refusal to share from inferior beasts Valkir banished all the stampede from his court as well as any other race beside man. The only other race ever to cross the gates of fortune, Valkir’s great city, was a pilgrim race known as the faikats in search of a home; as you’d presume they were turned away.
It was not too soon after however that Valkir rose the great spirit of the wind, awakening him with his powers and creating his first disciple Risen “The great wind” he made Risen a war general and ordered him to gather the workers of fortune and teach them the craft and arts of war. Soon after this the generally hard working class of men who had never fathomed tools as a means of violence against other beings became ruthless war hungry men and Risen led them to the grove where Irraleth slept to strike her down, if man could not have the powers of the sleeper than no one should.
A great battle broke out between the watchers and the stampede. One of such great clammer it awoke Irraleth, but upon achieving full consciousness she watched as the last of her watchers was struck down. The scene of horrible madness, violence, and death made Irraleth fill with rage she emitted a shreak which awoke the remaining spirits of the earth. The earthborn stewards of Irraleth were born that day and though few in numbers these spirits were grand in power. They fought back the forces of fortune and sought out a new watch before Irraleth could return to her sleep.
But after this the stampede were not entirely extinct, before the battle a courier had been sent out with a blade sealed with much power. Another boy of the stampede had run away and become lost within the magnet sands, but more on him later. As the courier traveled the blade across his back opened a rift in the dimensional plane and the courier bore first witness to the horrid force of the hellspawn. Known to many as an apocalyptic tireless force bent upon the destruction of the world, but infact being the one true beacon of hope left within their world.
