The Rule of Orcus

Era beginning/end

Things were going well in Tarroc. New technologies were being created day after day, new areas being settled. For once it finally seemed as though the world might have found peace. But peace is an illusion, for there must always be someone in control. The earth was ripped in twain, and out of the fissure rose a new king - the demon lord, Orcus. As the skies turned black and the waters rose out of the seas and flooded the lands with despair, he declared that the new era had begun.

As Orcus rose from the fissure, they knew it was the end. The daytime sky grew dark, and the nighttime sky even darker. The sun seemed to vanish, as though life itself had been raped from Tarroc. Crops withered in the darkness, and the seas froze solid in the cold. It was as though time had stopped, and the world's end was the very moment it stopped on. Bands of demons, intent on destruction and subjugation, spread across the earth, stealing everything of value and setting fire to everything else. Children were ripped from their mother's arms and sacrificed to him. Entire forests were set ablaze at his will. Fire and ice raged across the lands, slaughtering anyone who attempted to resist.   For eight years, this was life for nearly all of Tarroc. The only places spared were small cities in the western hemisphere who had not yet been exposed to the terror. But out of the ashes, on the 3rd day of Mirtul, in the eighth year of the Second Era, rose an order of paladins known as the Silver Tail, guided by the light of Bahamut and their fearless leader Qorin Felfire. They slew the demons, imbued with holy magic the likes of which had never been seen on Tarroc. They reclaimed the land, and felled the corruption which had beset the world.   For two years they fought, taking few losses, until at last, Orcus was forced into the swamps of Phossophus. And on the ninth day of Eleasias, in the tenth year of the Second Era, at the Battle of Black Sun, accompanied by a legendary group of heroes from Crevalia, the fire was extinguished. Orcus's forces were vanquished, and he was banished to the Abyss whence he came. The ninth of Eleasias is now known globally as the Day of Black Sun. A solemn day where Tarrocians remember the lives of those who were lost, and celebrate their freedom from the demon lord.