Idoaclese

The dreamers of the City of Idoaclese were not the first. Millions came before in the thousands of years of history that precede the records we have today. Yissen Knights, Gods and Goddesses, tyrants and kings reigned long before Idoaclese, the father of our Awakening, trod the halls of Threshold and gave birth to our age. Some of those entities will appear in these histories, though the majority will not, for their influence is lost or inconsequential to the story we ourselves have lived.

For us, it began with Idoaclese, an unremarkable man who did a remarkable thing: found the way back to the City, and opened the door for others to journey alongside him. For years he walked the City alone, learning its mysteries and growing in knowledge and strength. But finally, another came… Zar’tenya, a Dreamseer. For all Idoaclese’s hunger for knowledge, Zar’tenya had equal appetite for power.

Idoaclese took Zar’tenya under his wing. Teaching her things he knew and discovered along the way. But not everything. There were some things he learned that he believed no other dreamer should know. Infuriated by his reticence, Zar’tenya prodded incessantly for the forbidden knowledge, spouted endorsements of her responsibility and character until finally Idoaclese conceded, and offered taught her Dreamstrike, the power to remove a dreamer’s link to the City of Dreams. Convinced there was nothing more to learn from Idoaclese, and paranoid that he may one day use this power against her, Zar’tenya killed her friend and mentor in cold blood.

Now, during this time others had achieved Awakening. Two most notably rose to prominence, Igteus and Gharod, both Gatekeepers, and called dreamers to them through the founding of the first houses: The Sect of the Prudent, and the Emancipators of Men. Their views and values lay in stark contrast, and thus continued the bloody history of Idoaclesia, a City full of constant struggle and conflict.