Overture: The War, The Pact and The Guardianus Mundi

Once upon a time, a war broke out between the Gods and the Titans. How the war started and when it would ever end, no mortal knew. Battles were fought all over the world in epic proportions. Lands were ravaged, leaving behind nothing more than scorched earth in their wake.

In the middle of this war stood mankind, who favored no side and cared for only their own lots. They suffered the most but in complacency.

At some point during the war, the scales tipped badly in favor of the Titans. The Gods, desperate and vastly outnumbered, struck a pact with the humans, granting them powers beyond their original inert abilities in exchange for aiding the losing side. The humans, being tired of the seemingly endless war, finally decided that they avail of the pact.

The Gods, now aided by their new allies, quickly turned the table and completely crushed the titan armies. The war was won in no time.

The great struggle was now over. With the titans gone and nobody to use their newfound powers against, man started brooding over their long-kept envy of the Gods.

This envy was no greater than in the largest kingdoms of Rune Midgard, Glast Heim and Gato Byalan. The chance they had been waiting for to fight the Gods on an even ground had come.

Or so it seemed.

Suffice to say, the inevitable new war broke out. Men sympathetic to the cause rallied to the call of the two kingdoms. The war went on for two months, with man seemingly gaining the upper hand on their foes.

But man, even with his God-given strength, was no match for the fury of the war-weary Gods. At a high cost for the Gods, Byalan was sunk at the bottom of the sea along with all of its inhabitants. Glast Heim, on the other hand, was cursed, it's inhabitants denied by both life and the Valkiries's power of death.

The Gods, fearing that the rest of mankind follow suit, broke the pact they had stricken during the war and secretly spread put limiting spells on all human beings. With the limiters in place, the gottermacht (God's strength) could no longer be used.

This, however, was not the case for all men. One clan, who had aided the Gods even before the pact, retained their powers. The Gods, tired of meddling with men, resigned themselves to the far planes of Asgard and instructed the most loyal clan to steward over men.

The family lived on, passing their role and abilities from one generation to another.

The name of their clan, Guardanus Mundi - Guardians of the World.