The Externals
The Externals are a powerful group of Numen that began travelling the world after The First Revolution.
Also known as the thirteen, The Externals are all that remains of the army of Vasana, The Dark Matron when she was a General in the war against the Primordials. Vasana fought bravely in the war and her soldiers were fiercely loyal to her, however this would not matter, as during the final days of the war, she led her army of near 50,000 against the combined might of the Primordials, drawing them into one place to ensure that Exelia, Girus, and Arcanis' machine would work in banishing the tyrants.
Only fourteen of the fifty thousand survived, Vasana and those who would become the thirteen Externals. The Primordials had been banished forming the Elemental Planes and Viskara has descended, gifting the twenty Divine Sparks to the chosen Numen.
Vasana, given the domain of death and stewardship of the Boneyard, did not fully trust her new fellow gods, and so split her Divine Spark, forming tiny slivers of divinity, far below what would be enough to make a lesser deity, but more than enough to make them more powerful than any mortal. Vasana gifted these slivers to her thirteen survivors, tasking them to take their own domains and watch over the mortal world as active participants.
These small slivers of divinity meant that the other Prime Deities didn't realise the Externals existence for many years, only after rumours began to spread did Vasana admit her deeds. The other gods considered smiting down the Externals, but chose to allow them to remain, seeing the good they could do.
Ever since that day the Externals have been watching over The Material Plane and the denizens therein, living in the shadows and passing as regular people, always watching and enacting the Gods will on the world.
Also known as the thirteen, The Externals are all that remains of the army of Vasana, The Dark Matron when she was a General in the war against the Primordials. Vasana fought bravely in the war and her soldiers were fiercely loyal to her, however this would not matter, as during the final days of the war, she led her army of near 50,000 against the combined might of the Primordials, drawing them into one place to ensure that Exelia, Girus, and Arcanis' machine would work in banishing the tyrants.
Only fourteen of the fifty thousand survived, Vasana and those who would become the thirteen Externals. The Primordials had been banished forming the Elemental Planes and Viskara has descended, gifting the twenty Divine Sparks to the chosen Numen.
Vasana, given the domain of death and stewardship of the Boneyard, did not fully trust her new fellow gods, and so split her Divine Spark, forming tiny slivers of divinity, far below what would be enough to make a lesser deity, but more than enough to make them more powerful than any mortal. Vasana gifted these slivers to her thirteen survivors, tasking them to take their own domains and watch over the mortal world as active participants.
These small slivers of divinity meant that the other Prime Deities didn't realise the Externals existence for many years, only after rumours began to spread did Vasana admit her deeds. The other gods considered smiting down the Externals, but chose to allow them to remain, seeing the good they could do.
Ever since that day the Externals have been watching over The Material Plane and the denizens therein, living in the shadows and passing as regular people, always watching and enacting the Gods will on the world.
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