The Immortals

The Immortals were the first race of mortals ever created to inhabit the material plane, though they were only “mortal” in the loosest definition of the term. They were made with the strength and power to crush mountains underfoot as within each of them laid a tiny piece of Amaranthinos’ own divine spark.

 

Their immense physical and magical might was not the only thing that made them different from modern mortals, they were “more” in the emotional sense as well. They laughed louder, felt sorrow deeper and raged harder. They waged spectacle but brief wars against each other using weapons made from their own souls, some of which have survived through the ages such as the Spear of Mortal Pain- Gáe Bulg and the Sword Of Air- Fragarach, resting in unknown places.

 

Eventually, however, the positive emotions of the Immortals were dulled and their already legendary rage, hate, and cruelty enhanced as they fought war after war against not only each other but the dragons and giants that came into being not long after them. They took to war more and more eventually culminating in what came to be known as ‘The Last War’ in the records the Immortals kept. Scholars debate what the cause of the War may have been and what caused their corruption but everyone agrees something warped them as in the records that have been translated the Immortals speak of knowing something was changing them but being powerless to stop it.

The reason they were called the Immortals is that they were well, immortal. Even after death, they would come back in time, losing a chunk of their power. So, after hundreds of years, they’ve started to stir and awake to a new world with new creatures and new gods.