Veyd Order
The Veyd Order was a group of scholars and warriors skilled in the use of the Veil’s unpredictable energies. Extinct under the Acaronian Empire’s purge, their name survives only in hushed tales and scattered records, a reminder of a faction that sought to protect the galaxy but fell to its own weaknesses and the Empire’s might. The few who survived the destruction of their Order abandoned their ways, reinterpreted them, or turned to lives as criminals and refugees—some even striving in secret to preserve their creed, relentlessly pursued by the Draethar. Nowadays, their faction is virtually extinct, with no sighting of sympathizers across the sectors.
Burdens
The Veyd faced significant challenges during their existence, tied to their mission of guarding civilizations against the Veil’s disruptive forces. Their efforts were hampered by widespread corruption, opposing factions, and internal flaws.
- Moral Ambiguity: Their actions, intended to aid, frequently caused harm—damaging worlds or costing lives—raising doubts about their principles.
- The Isolation of Power: Mastery of the Veil distanced them from others, fostering suspicion among those they aimed to protect.
- The Threat Within: Some Veyd succumbed to the Veil’s temptations, abandoning their vows for personal gain—a vulnerability the Empire exploited to justify their eradication.
Role in the Galaxy
The Veyd operated as healers, educators, and defenders, using the Veil to stabilize its effects and promote peace across the galaxy. Their work yielded mixed results: praised by some as wise guides, condemned by others as interfering outsiders. Their attempts to improve often led to unintended conflicts, drawing them into wars or seeing their skills misused. Their path was a difficult one, marked by solitude and a legacy tainted by mistrust.
Perception
The galaxy viewed the Veyd in conflicting ways—some saw them as outcasts or dangers, others as valued allies or mentors. Their command of the Veil inspired both admiration and fear, making them targets for exploitation or elimination. The Empire’s official stance casts them as a failed experiment, their ideals dismissed as impractical against the reality of Acaronian rule. Of the survivors, few remain true: some renounced the Order entirely, others forged their own paths—criminals, refugees, or hidden keepers of a hunted creed, stalked by Draethar enforcers across the stars.
Structure
The Veyd Order was governed by a hierarchy now lost to time, its roles pieced together from scattered relics:
- Elder Council: Wise and weathered, they steered the Order’s course, interpreting the Veil’s cryptic will and safeguarding its tenets.
- Masters: Adepts of Veil-craft, they trained novices, expanded arcane lore, and advised the Council, often leading perilous quests.
- Veyd Paladins: Warriors clad in resolve and shadow, they wielded the Noctran Blade to enforce peace—guardians turned harbingers in the galaxy’s eyes.
- Seekers: Scouts attuned to the Veil, they sought new acolytes, their searches a lifeline snuffed out by the purge.
- Guardians: Defenders of temples and archives, their magic and steel shielded sacred ground until the end.
- Keepers: Scholars of artifacts and texts, they preserved the Veyd’s legacy—much of it now dust or hoarded by imperial vaults.
- Apprentices: Novices bound to Masters, their training a blend of Veil mastery and moral rigor, cut short by extinction.
Culture
The culture of the Veyd Order, rooted in their origins on Vorithra and their self-appointed roles as guardians and scholars, was defined by principles and rituals that guided their actions and shaped their place in the galaxy before their extinction. These tenets, preserved in fragmented texts and imperial archives, reveal a faction driven by lofty ideals yet undone by the very forces they sought to master.
Core Beliefs
- Guardianship: The Veyd held protection as their highest duty, committed to shielding the galaxy from threats both mundane and born of the Veil. This extended beyond combat to safeguarding knowledge, cultures, and the fragile balance of existence—a mission that faltered under the Empire’s rise.
- Knowledge as a Beacon: They viewed understanding as a light against chaos, dedicating themselves to preserving and sharing wisdom. Ignorance, in their eyes, bred conflict—a belief the Empire later scorned as futile amidst galactic strife.
- The Veil’s Balance: Central to their creed was a respect for the Veil’s equilibrium, its powers wielded as tools with caution. They saw a fine line between use and corruption—a boundary too often crossed, hastening their doom.
- Unity: The Veyd embraced the galaxy’s myriad peoples, seeing strength in their differences. They mediated disputes and sought harmony—a noble aim that clashed with their isolation and eventual erasure.
- The Sanctity of Life: They deemed each life precious, shunning violence where possible, yet their pragmatism allowed sacrifice for the greater good—a tension that stained their hands and their legacy.
The Veyd perceived the universe as a realm of potential veiled by peril, casting themselves as shepherds and guides against its darkness. They valued wisdom, compassion, and the strength to shield the vulnerable, forging the Noctran Blade as a symbol of restraint after the Liberation Crusades. Yet their secretive ways and meddling bred ambiguity—admired by some, feared by others—until the Empire branded them heretics. Their culture, once a beacon of hope, now lies scattered, a faint echo in the hands of their descendants and the few survivors left.
Public Agenda
The Veyd sought a grand balance, aiming to soothe the Veil’s waves and usher enlightenment across the stars. As diplomats, healers, and scholars, they intervened where chaos reigned, their Noctran Blades a symbol of fragile hope—until the Empire branded them heretics and swept them away.
Assets
Their strength lay in Veil mastery and a gift for tongues, bridging cultures with ease. Ancient texts and artifacts, born of a lost Celestial vision, filled their sanctuaries—most now plundered or buried. Vorithra’s hidden grounds, once havens of learning, stand silent, claimed by the void or imperial fists.
History
The Veyd Order’s existence spanned centuries of struggle and fleeting triumph, their tale preserved in fragmented records and imperial disdain—a chronicle of a faction that sought to harness the Veil for the galaxy’s good, only to be consumed by its shadows and the Acaronian Empire’s wrath.
Founding
The Veyd emerged from the vision of the Last Celestial, a cryptic figure whose call drew the first adherents to Vorithra—a remote world alive with the Veil’s energies. Named for a lost term from an ancient tongue, they formed around teachings promising the Veil’s power as a tool for betterment. Led by Kessle, a human of legend, these early Veyd established their sanctuaries, their mission rooted in guardianship and enlightenment—a goal that shaped their rise and sowed their ruin.
Cultivation of Powers and Principles
On Vorithra, the Veyd honed their skills, blending Veil mastery with physical prowess under Kessle’s guidance. Their first gift—fluency in all tongues—cast them as mediators across species, a role that thrust them into conflicts despite their intent. Their second—enhanced strength, reflexes, and intellect—solidified their guardian stance, yet each use revealed the Veil’s cost: lives taken darkened their spirits, a burden of self-control woven into their training. The galaxy’s cruelty tested them ceaselessly, from cosmic threats to civilizations that spurned their aid.
The Liberation Crusades
Pledging themselves under Kessle’s command, the Veyd reached their peak during the Liberation Crusades, wielding plasma sabers against a tide of darkness of the combined forces of the Graxxid and Acaronian Empire. Victory cemented their legend, but fear of their might spurred a shift. From this triumph, Eldris Vey’aan forged the Noctran Blade, a restrained weapon meant to redefine them as protectors, not warriors—a choice that marked their ascent and foreshadowed their fall.
Period of Peace
Post-Crusades, the Veyd entered a brief era of peace, their councils restored and influence spread. They mediated disputes, shared knowledge, and guarded against the Veil’s unrest, earning allies and suspicion alike. This respite, lauded in scant records, proved fragile—their growing power and the Blade’s potency drew the galaxy’s wary eyes.
War Against the Jarnskr and Tyran Cassel
The Jarnskr’s insurgence shattered the peace and calm, igniting a war led by Tyran Cassel, a Veyd Paladin turned exile. His defiance against the Order’s restraint saw victories against the foe, yet his rift with the Veyd deepened—a prelude to greater strife. Cassel’s later clash with the Acaronian Vaer’Kalth, banishing the Wraith Sovereign, cast him as both hero and heretic, fracturing the Veyd’s unity further.
Galactic Cold War
A tense stalemate followed, dubbed the galactic cold war, as the Veyd navigated rival powers—the burgeoning Acaronian Empire chief among them. Their interventions grew strained, their ideals clashing with a galaxy indifferent to harmony. Internal debates festered—some questioned their purpose, others fell to the Veil’s lure—weakening them as the Empire’s shadow loomed.
Purge and Extinction
The Acaronian Empire, rising under Vaer’Kalth’s heirs, deemed the Veyd a liability—their Noctran Blades and Veil mastery too potent, their fractures too exploitable. A relentless purge ensued: Vorithra razed, temples toppled, and members hunted to near-oblivion. The Order’s final leader, Daeman Vyntris, a Master of unwavering resolve, rallied a handful of loyal Paladins and Guardians for a last stand at Vorithra’s heart. Wielding his Noctran Blade against overwhelming Draethar forces, he and his few defied the Empire’s tide—their Veil-wrought strikes felling scores before the end. Captured in the sanctuary’s dying embers, Daeman was dragged to a public execution—his final defiance a refusal to kneel before the blade that took his head, a shattered Noctran at his feet. Although the Empire tried to strike this stand from official records, it endures in outlaw tales and banished recordings.
The survivors scattered—some as refugees, others as criminals wielding pilfered Blades, a few clinging to the creed in secret, relentlessly tracked by Draethar enforcers. The Veyd’s vision of enlightenment perished, their legacy reduced to faint echoes in the hands of rare figures often unsung throughout the galaxy
Disbandment
The Veyd Order met its end under the Acaronian Empire’s relentless campaign, a purge sparked after the Liberation Crusades elevated their power—and their peril. Their creation of the Noctran Blade, born from a vision of restraint, instead marked them as a threat, its Veil-wrought might too great for the emerging Empire to tolerate. Records suggest internal rot hastened their fall—some Masters and Paladins, seduced by the Veil’s whispers, turned to tyranny, fracturing the Order’s unity. The Empire seized this weakness, launching a systematic eradication: temples razed, archives burned, and Veyd hunted to near-oblivion. Vorithra, their sanctuary, was left a silent ruin, its fate obscured by imperial decree.
The few who escaped faced divergent paths. Many abandoned their oaths, fleeing as refugees or vanishing into the galaxy’s underbelly—some wielding Noctran Blades as criminals, their skills bartered to syndicates. Others reinterpreted the creed, forming solitary enclaves or twisted cults, their ideals warped by survival. A scant handful persisted in secret, preserving fragments of the Order’s ways, though Draethar enforcers track them relentlessly, ensuring the Veyd remain a relic—their legacy a shadow wielded by the few outlaws that stand against the Empire.
Unknown - after the Celestials went extinct - Between 02 B.C. and 01 B.C.
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