God of earth and war, a “heart of conflict” that softened at the sight of life, then broke magic to keep war honest.
Agenda: war as steel on steel. He broke the crystals to take magic out of it.
Story
In the First Age Atlas shaped the land’s bones: a hand, a spear, two eyes and a fortress of stone. Watching what the Stone Talus had made and what Astralis had made, he felt his heart of conflict soften, and gave the plains the River of Life. In the Second Age he filled the world with peoples. In the Third the Hollow Knight took Glaive Port. Then he grew disgusted twice. First the occupation rotted into corruption, so he walked away from the Orcs. Then war turned into “druids and misdirection instead of steel on steel”, and he poured all his power into the Shattering. Astralis, angry that he would suppress magic, struck him in the eye (the Collapse of the Left Eye).
Works
Age I: the Shaping
- c. 6,000 years before year zero — Hand of Atlas (“the land of hills”)
- c. 5,000 years before year zero — Sky Spear; opened its far side so a sister river pours into World’s Breach (the Breach Falls)
- c. 4,000 years before year zero — Right Eye of Atlas (the Perpetual Tempest); Eternal Steppe and its hills
- c. 3,000 years before year zero — Stone Talus; struck him with lightning to make the Dwarves and the Stone Defenders
- c. 2,000 years before year zero — Obsidian Desert; Kharag Duun; River of Life
- c. 1,000 years before year zero — Twins; Left Eye of Atlas; First Fortress
Age II: the Coming of the Races
- year zero — Centaurs and the Purebred
- c. year 100 — dwarves meld crystal magic with Star Metal; Lizardmen and Atlas’s First; the Magical Forge (via the Talus)
- c. year 200 — the Doombringer (Hollow Knight); Orcs and the Sandborn
- c. year 300 — orcs become masters of war beasts; an army in the south-eastern desert; Coldspire
- c. year 400 — Harpies and the Sisters of Battle; the Orc War Camps; the Library in Greenhaven
- c. year 500 — Halflings and the Knotted Purse; a second orc army (Doombringer); the Shapeshifting Centaurs and the Order of the Eternal Peace; the Bazaar (via the Talus)
Age III: the Age of War
- c. year 600 — the Order of the Eternal Peace arms Greenhaven; the Fall of Glaive Port and the Great Orkish Empire; the Final End
- c. year 610 — the Hollow Knight leaves the orcs for the Sisters of Battle; the Shepherds; the Great Wall of Kharag Duun; the Bazaar made untouchable
- c. year 620 — Divine Strike; a dwarf army
- c. year 630 — a lizardman army and a second war camp (Hollow Knight); the Shattering; another dwarf army (Talus)
- c. year 640 — the dwarves take Greenhaven; dwarves become master diplomats; the Magisters
Connections
- Svarog: his rivers answer Svarog’s
- Astralis: collapsed the Left Eye in revenge for the Shattering
- Great Crystals: broken by his hand
- Bazaar: his Talus’s city, where the campaign opens
Open: [?] whose people live in Coldspire.