THE BEGINING
OF WITCHBREED

As the ages passed, mortals learned to open their Gates, channeling the power of the Energy Planes. These individuals, known as Mythics, were revered as living gods, wielders of cosmic forces that could shape nations. They became rulers, heroes, and legends. Titan-Kin, Astralborn, Aeonlords. Names whispered across the ages. But as their power grew, so too did fear. Fewer and fewer mortals were access their Gates, and those who could were seen as threats rather than saviors.

Amid this growing tension, a new force emerged: the Church of the Father. From distant lands, missionaries crossed deserts and oceans, preaching of a forgotten god, a being known only as the Father, a god of dominion and order. His symbol was a mouth, ever speaking and ever consuming, and his teachings declared the Mythics heretics. The Church proclaimed that the Gates did not open to divine realms but to demonic planes, corridors of corruption that led only to madness and ruin.

In the name of the Father, they hunted the Mythics, now branded as Witchbreed, and sought to cleanse the world of their kind. The continent of Hesperia, now ruled by the mighty nation of Linguardia, became a bastion of this faith. The Church and the Holy Army marched across the lands, eradicating the Witchbreed wherever they were found, claiming a divine right to cleanse the world of their "corruption."  

Revolts broke out across the lands, led by Witchbreed fighting for recognition and survival. Yet time and again, these rebellions were crushed beneath the iron heel of the forces of the Churches infantry. It was not until the rise of Zeus, a former soldier of Linguardia’s Holy Army who discovered his own latent Witchbreed powers.

Betraying his comrades, his home and his status, Zeus escaped and formed the Olympic Rebellion, gathering both Mythic and non-Mythics to his cause. He was guided by the Olympians, a group of legendary warriors and leaders. For over a decade, the Olympic Rebellion waged war against the Holy Army. The conflict became known as the Mythic Wars. It was a war of titans and men, a clash between divine power and religious zealotry. But in the end, it was not an enemy blade that ended the rebellion. It was Zeus’s own madness.

Little is known the logic behind his final actions (most considered it a desperate bid to assassinate the High Commander of Linguardia), Zeus was captured, and his rebellion was crushed. He was hanged. With Zeus’s death, the war came to a bitter end. The remaining Olympians disbanded. Some fled to the corners of the earth, while others continued to fight in the shadows. Hades and Persephone, two of the last remaining Olympians, created a refuge for the Witchbreed at the entrance to the Underworld.