From Another World

 

You have been chosen.

This is a portal to another world. Normally, an Earther wouldn’t feel anything, and you shouldn’t be able to hear my voice—but I sense you’re exceptional.

Me? My name isn’t important right now. You can call me “Arbiter,” if you like.

Why am I taking you? Well, to be honest, I was sent to retrieve someone else. But I don’t get to choose—I’m bound by the chains of fate. The Fate, seems, chooses you. And now, you’re coming with me. You shall serve in the struggle.

What struggle, you ask? What? the only one that matters! The Cosmic Struggle.

Don’t worry, things on the other side aren’t much worse than here, and I assure you, they’re far less dull.

Welcome to your new home, my friend. Welcome to AGAND!

Agand is only one of countless worlds that occupy the space of creation, but it is a world as special as the world it is close to, a blue world that its inhabitants call Earth.

What makes these two worlds special, compared to the countless others?

They lie at the opposite end of a mana path, a rare occurrence in creation, which sometimes allows inhabitants of one world to travel to the other.

But while Agand is a world that has thrived on magic and mana, Earth has decided to follow the path of science and technology.

This has meant that, as Earthlings have become less and less familiar with mana, fewer and fewer people from Agand have been able to come to Earth by chance, but this is not true on Agand, where magic continues to allow transfers from planet Earth.

However, about 100 years ago, a conflict erupted between the ancient and decadent empire of Fell Allanard (the most powerful non-human state on the planet, an elven empire) and the human empire of Hayon, which had begun to conquer the allied nations of the elves on the coast of the continent of Gilesia.

At first, the elves defended themselves well, also thanks to magic, of which they were the most powerful masters. But at some point Fell Allanard's mages summoned dragons, and the battle table seemed to turn in favour of the ancient elven empire.

It was then that the priest-magicians of Hayon realised that one could cross the channel of mana and that one could call people from planet Earth to Agand. There were, however, two conditions:

1) That the person in question was dead

2) That the person in question was known enough to generate enough mana to allow the summoning.

There was, however, a drawback to this powerful summoning magic, sometimes there was a risk of summoning not only other bodiless souls, perhaps of people close to the person you wanted to summon, but also living people from planet Earth who were drawn to Agand by the powerful summoning magic.

Finally, crossing the mana channel in this way also means forcing it and risking calling non-human creatures on the Agand. Often simple monsters, but sometimes malevolent entities whose purposes are downright evil.

Notes: The map of the planet, generated with the generator on Seventh Sanctum, could be transformed or altered when i'll draw it.

More pieces of information shall be given with new pics and images.