The High Priest

High Priest of the Elder Overseers
Aliases	High Priest of the Elder Overeers
Relatives	Various Elder Gods The High Priest's Clone (Son/Clone)
Affiliation	The Celestial Army Elder Overseers (Pretending)
Occupation	Conqueror
Biographical information
Homeworld	Xoth
Date of death	464 CE
Place of death	Taros Prime
Physical Description
Species	Elder God
Gender	Genderless
Pronouns	He/Him
Other
Created by	Hakced

The High Priest was a Elder God originating from Xoth. Most of his early life was him being mistreated due to his humanoid characteristics being unusual among his species, fitting more with the common body plans of most other species. He served as the High Priest of the Elder Overseers, being some form of religious leader.

Rise of the High Priest

Born Blind, only sensing the power of his bretheren, the High Priest was born a deformity that gave him physical characteristics similar to that of the lower lifeforms of the cosmos, bipedal and weak. He was forced into servitude by his fellow Elder Overseers, filled with rage from this injustice he began to formulate a plan. He learned the ways of the gods he was born to, manipulating his form to fit their kin until it gained him the respect he thought he deserved, bestowing upon him the right of conquest, the power to conquer any world in the cosmos as it was simply what his kind did. But he was not like others, he didn't choose specific planets, he chose all of existence, and began seeking the species needed for such a plan. He found four acceptable for his plan, while wiping out all other life during this journey, these species were the Solaryans, Vorxans, Wei'virs and Nebularians. As ruthless as this army would be, it would simply not be enough. He hatched a greater plan, which will be the true way to reign over the stars.

Sorroda Contract

In the far reaches of existence, he had managed to form a clone of himself, one which could carry out his dark plans without him being placed under scrutiny, but this would also not be enough. He needed an army of his own blood. He contacted the lesser gods of the universe, ones whom he was strong enough to manipulate to his own whims. He played them like puppets, and manipulated them to create a series of systems which would soon be the throne of his conquest. This area of space would become known as the Taros Cluster. He would wait as life sprouted across the worlds, and then begin his great plan.

Formation of the Celestial Army.

The first step of his great plan was to form a celestial army, of the most powerful races he could get his hands on. After careful selection he decided on 4 species from 4 different worlds, these being the worlds of Solarya, Vortakhx, Wei'vir and Nebiula.

Conquest of Solarya

The age of warring states on Solarya progressed, the clans kept trying to outmatch each other. This all changed when the High Priest arrived, he was impressed by their battle capabilities, and decided they were a perfect fit for his celestial army. He decided to approach them diplomatically, offering them wealth and resources so they may feed for millennia with no more need for strife. The Solaryans did not trust him though, as he was something none of them could even fathom. The High Priest decided to prove why he is to be obeyed, annihilating half of them in an instant, and granting the other half immeasurable riches. The Solaryans instantly united, no longer needing to compete, they declared their eternal loyalty to this gracious and wrathful Elder God. The High Priest was granted permission to experiment on them in order to further improve upon them, granting them the position as the most elite infantry soldiers of the Celestial Army.

Conquest of Vortakhx

The High Priest, after consolidating his rule over Solarya, moved onto Vortakhx as the next world he desired for his Celestial Army. He offered the Vorxans the possibility to expand and infest other worlds as he descended upon their world. To his surprise, the Vorxans did not accept his offer, instead attempting to infest and consume him to further reproduce, forcing him to exterminate billions of them to rid himself of them. He pondered, realising that it was impossible that all of the tens of thousands of queens on the planet could cohesively coordinate to the degree they were, leading to him uncovering the existence of the Vorxan Matriarch as the 'true' ruler of the hives. He briefly returned to Vortakhx and abducted the Matriarch, leaving the planet in chaos until he returned.

He was unable to find a reason of how the Matriarch controlled the Vorxans, leading to him to choose a risky option of consuming her in order to absorb her conscience so he could become the new Matriarch despite the possibility of the Matriarch gaining control of him as well or remaining within his mind. Once this process was completed, he descended back down onto Vortakhx, manipulating his new subjects to his own whims to grant them heightened intelligence that made them capable of much greater feats than before, replacing their mindless swarming with a coordinated yet autonomous wave.

Conquest of Wei'vir

As the High Priest reached Wei'vir after securing Solarya and Vortakhx, he was completely unaware of the Wei'virs capabilities, rumoured history, or cosmic powers, only seeing them as a useful asset due to rumours of them being proficient 'crafters'. Little did he know, they were in fact much older and wiser than even him, leading to him swiftly being surrounded and captured by them. He raged, trying to break free from his imprisonment. Surprisingly enough, once he calmed and took a closer look, the Wei'virs were not so much different from himself, featuring very similar characteristics to him and his fellow Elder Gods. Upon this discovery, he decided that perhaps it would be wise to converse with these beings rather than subdue them.

He decided to explain his reasonings of conquest to these clearly intelligent beings, telling them about the corrupt Elder Gods and how he had been mistreated by them, explaining how he was gathering powerful races amongst the cosmos to engage in battle against them, and that the ones he had visited before were indeed worthy to join his army much like they were. The Wei'virs did not care though, seeing through his half truths. They were an moment away from erasing his existence, yet they hesitated. Even if the High Priest was devious and treacherous, his proposal still offered them something they had always craved, a purpose. They agreed that the Elder Gods had not treated the universe they thought they had forged with the respect they asserted they deserved, and even if the High Priest's goals were corrupt, they were still a goal, one they could work towards. Even if the High Priest was worse, they knew now that they could overpower him if necessary. They could re-forge the universe in a new image, a better image, one without the corrupting brought from the Elder Gods' machinations. None of these plans were shared with the High Priest though, since the Wei'virs were even more conniving and intelligent than even him. In the end, the Wei'virs decided to willingly join the Celestial Army, and let the High Priest believe he had subjugated them.

Much like his other conquests, the High Priest decided to modify some of the Wei'virs to become 'better' warriors able fit his image, as he had already done to the Solaryans and Vorxans. However, unbeknownst to the High Priest, the Wei'virs were not the only ones who were modified as the High Priest himself was modified by the Wei'virs', whom 'injected' a part of their collective consciousness into his mind, spreading throughout his mind as he directed them to create weapons of war. It even reached the essence of the Vorxan Matriarch, and promised her that once their new reality had come she and her people would have a place in it, securing themselves even more power. Now that all had been settled, once the High Priest's time had come to an end, a far greater threat may be unleashed on the universe, but for now the Wei'virs plans and influence lays dormant, allowing the High Priest to continue with his plans as they schemed in the shadows.

Invasion of the Nebularian Hegemony

As the High Priest arrived on the edges of the Nebularian Hegemony, he knew this time he could not act alone in his invasion due to the Nebularians' abilities. The High Priest opened protected portals onto the surface of Nebiula Itself, allowing the armies of Solaryans, Vorxans and Wei'virs pour out and decimate the impure Nebularians. The highly evolved beings of the Council of Genetic Purity were forced to intervene, utilising their great power to halt the advance and collect genetic samples, using their vast telepathic powers to seize control of the Celestial Armies in order to capture the High Priest himself. They could not control him like they had for his armies, but they did manage to subdue him and bring him to Nebiula.

The Council decided to dissect the High Priest, seeing his genome as the answer for evolution beyond what even they could imagine. The High priest tried to resist this by offering his Celestial Army's aid against the surrounding nations and to willingly grant them his genome so they may evolve as long as they joined his army. Despite his expectations, the Nebularians rejected, as they already controlled his army, and they could just take his genome themselves. The High Priest was fully subdued.

The Wei'virs, part of the Celestial Army had not been brainwashed though, and were merely playing along to see what would happen. But now was the time to act, as the end of the High Priest would also inevitably lead to the end of their plans. The Wei'virs activated their reality-warping capabilities to break the army free from control and direct the Celestial Army to free the High Priest. Their combined forces managed to destroy the Nebularians, wiping them out until the High Priest managed to break free himself. Under his reinstated command he seized all of the Nebularians' prototype evolved forms using his genome, deciding that they would be perfect for his army. His first instinct was to eradicate the Nebularians due to him being captured by them, but suddenly the puppet in his brain placed by the Wei'virs spoke to him, convincing him that the Nebularians could still be useful. He agreed, and held another speech offering the same chance to the Nebularians he had offered them before. But this time they fully listened, as unbeknownst to the High Priest, the Wei'virs had seized full control of the Nebularians as well.

And thus, he had done it. As the Nebularians joined the celestial army, the High Priest had completed his first goal towards universal domination. Now it was time to work towards the next step, one which he had already planned all the way back in the Sorroda Contract. At this point however, his great celestial army was barely his own anymore, he had become a mere puppet of the Wei'virs.

The Waiting Game

The Pylons

The High Priest's spies in the Taros Cluster noticed a peculiar phenomenon, the lifeforce of the planet was powering crystals capable of creating wormholes if powered to sufficient degrees.

The High Priest needed a way to swiftly transport the Celestial Army, as they were not capable of matching the vast travel speeds he had managed to obtain. He dispatched his clone to retrieve the crystals forming the Tarosian Pylons, even if they became inert outside of the cluster. Initially they did not work, until he began experimenting by having the crystals be located in distinctly Tarosian terrain. This did surprisingly work.

Five Pylons made out of each species of the

Celestial Army's homeworlds were constructed, each allowing the armies to warp into battlefields. These pylons are protected with shielding, making it very difficult to breach through.

The final crackdowns

Using this new technology, all remaining worlds within the High Priest's territory were fully subjugated.

The First Incursion

Arrival

An Elder God had come and died in the Taros Cluster, leading to the High Priest coming to the conclusion that now was his chance to make his move without suspicion. The peoples of the Taros Cluster merely saw a vast comet blaze down into the seas of Taros-Prime, unaware of what it truly was.

Fall of Subaquia

Subaquia had gone through countless years of peace and stability, all until Something arrived in the seas of their homeworld of Aqorra from the direction of Taros-Prime. While they had not yet actually seen what this was, all Merfolk inhabiting Subaquia felt it anyway in their minds rather than the physical. They did not know it for certain yet, but the High Priest's Clone had arrived on their homeworld. There he entered a brief period of hibernation, slowly spreading his influence into the minds of every Subaquian. Many began seeing visions of the horrifying future the High Priest had in store for them, tainting the minds of the weak in order to sow chaos.

Meanwhile others decided the only way to survive this was to serve the High Priest. This group formed an entire cult dedicated to the high priest known as the Cult of the Elder One. This Cult started to cause havoc across their entire civilization, sacrificing unbelievers and slowly running their civilization into ruin. This cult was tasked with creating a city, one which the High Priest could use as his base of operations in any upcoming incursions into the Taros Cluster. The unbelieving survivors managed to escape to the surface of Taros-Prime with a device they had created, which they could use to grant the surface peoples the ability to breathe underwater so they could aid them in battle against the cult. They however found a damaged world, one still reeling from the invasion of another extraterrestrial force. In the time it took for them to find volunteers for such an army, the Cult of the Elder One had nearly completed their grand city. The survivors rushed into the city alongside their converted terrestrial armies, engaging in fierce battle with the Cult of the Elder One, even nearly winning. All of their effort was for nothing, as the High Priest had awoken, instantly annihilating the free Subaquian armies. Any remaining soldiers escaped into the deepest parts of the Aqorran ocean, where they would eventually go mad, clutching the amulets the survivors had given to them. Any remaining true Subaquians have retreated to the icy mountains of Taros-Prime, where they fiercely guard whats left of their ruined civilization.

Subjugating the Seafarers

As civilisation was rapidly rebuilding itself in the Taros Cluster following the end of Nthanithor’s reign, piracy began to grow as a fairly profitable profession for the first time since the conquest. This was immensely profitable, as the pirate fleets grew to the point of easily being able to overpower the navies of the various local nations in the Taros Cluster, thus being able to plunder ever-more loot. Their greed however would eventually become their downfall, as the tentative peace between the pirate fleets eventually came to end as countless conflicts between different factions erupted and ended rather frequently, keeping the fleets away from growing to unsustainable sizes. This is how it had always been, and how it always would have been, if unforeseen things had not decided to take place…

Once the High Priest’s Clone descended upon the Taros Cluster, his arrival was not in the land, but instead in the seas, where he aimed to construct a stronghold to act as a staging point for his conquest. For this task, the clone needed a workforce, people who would be willing to betray their world for greed, which he would luckily get in an unexpected form.

Following the most recent of civil wars, the pirate fleets had scattered across the seas in order to rebuild, until one ship however did not come across land, but instead The Clone. The Clone offered the pirates a deal, he would give them all of the world’s finest treasures as long as they did as he asked, requesting that they bring him artefacts from across the world, bring him resources to construct his fortress, and quell the restless creatures left over from the age of the rot. In order to achieve such an arduous task, the clone granted them the power necessary to accomplish this.

The news of this event spread quickly among the pirates, as more and more fleets signed up for the Clone’s offering, bringing him the resources he desired at an acceptably fast pace, while also forming the first contingents of his army on Taros Prime.

Guardian of the Fortress

Not all life in the Taros Cluster fit into the grand plan of its existence, many lifeforms simply existed for their own benefit, such as the Borgons, a strange species of non-sapient cave-dwelling mammaloids which had adapted to feed off of the Cluster’s abundant elemental energy reserves. During the age of The Rot these beings had thrived, while now their population had begun greatly shrinking. Because of this, several Borgons had spread across the world in order to seek more power to continue to feed. One had even scoured the entire world, only coming across the remaining seas, but this had not stopped its determination for more, thus it entered the seas, eventually coming across The High Priest’s Clone.

Instead of merely killing the creature, the Clone demanded an explanation of why a creature of this world actively sought out power from beings like him. The creature explained how it wished to serve and bask in the power serving granted. The Clone was amused by this, and decided to humour the creature’s wishes by transforming it into a more aquatic lifeform which could serve as a protector of his fortress. Being reinvigorated with power, this Borgon set out on the task it was granted, and began to defend the great fortress.

The Purity (Part 2)

The spread of The Purity angered The High Priest’s Clone, whom became concerned that its spread would impede his objectives in the Taros Cluster, and thus he intervened. In the ensuing battle, the High Priest eventually gained the upper hand, destroying the being of purity in the process. This being however still held potential though, reconstituting itself immediately in order to continue the fight. The High Priest saw this nuisance as one which could easily impede their plans, thus he decided to seal it away so that it may no longer rise.

While she may have been defeated, her plans in some way did succeed, as the surviving Rot had been greatly weakened, slowly beginning to shrink and retreat.

The Bound Flesh (Part 1)

Deep in the darkest regions of The Core of the Taros Cluster the Builders of Hellae continued to toil, keeping the entire cluster alive. Upon the arrival of the High Priest’s Clone, even they felt his presence, as this place did greatly interest him as well. The Clone arrived in The Core and promised eventual freedom for the Builders, as long as they continued to work and guarded what he was here to imprison. He tore off a chunk of his own body, binding the essence of The Purity into it, tasking them with protecting it so it may no longer impede his plans. The Builders waited with glee, hoping that one day soon, he would return.

Death of The Clone

Following the end of The Rot, all seemed well for the Tarosians as their homes were now free, yet it was not long until the High Priest’s Clone made his presence known. Following the Clone’s subjugation of Subaquia, The Oceans, and even The Purity, he made himself known, emerging from the seas, wiping out countless coastal settlements.

A certain individual however had prepared for his coming, a seemingly unassuming Tarosian who grew up on the stories of the blazing star coming down from the sky several years prior, fearing that it may once again be a threat to the cluster’s way of life. Upon the arrival of stories of survivors from The Clone’s attacks, the man studied what was already found out. According to the tales the occasional attempts to fight back had in fact harmed Elder God, sometimes even severely, although it always had managed to regenerate. While the beast being nigh-unkillable worried the man, he decided to set forth regardless, with a plan that just might succeed.

The man arrived to where the god was, taunting it, slicing at it with every opening. While many others had simply marched forward and perished, this man put considerable effort into avoiding every blow. He did not focus for perceived “weak points”, instead focusing on tearing it apart, eventually managing to find an opening to deal the final blow, dissecting and tearing apart the elder god so that it may no longer reconstitute.

While the beast had been defeated, it lived still within the torn apart limbs and organs. Therefore each of the beast’s body parts were taken far apart from each other and buried, so that they may no longer rise.

The Hive

Following the supposed death of The Clone, the man who slayed it returned to his perceived normal life, seeking to spend the most of his time alive peacefully, though this would not happen. A mere year after the death of the Clone, rumours that an eerie creep which had devoured the land spread across the populace. The fear of such a force was so great that a majority of the man’s village had abandoned their homes and fled to safety, though he still lingered, seeking to purge this threat as well. He once more left his home, heading towards the supposed “hive”.

This land was something that could not be conjured by even the most terrible of nightmares, as living tissue and fluids coated every surface, only interrupted by vast maws descending deep into the ground. He descended into the vast blood-vessel-like tunnels, eventually coming across a piece of the High Priest’s Clone’s remains, which seemingly been orchestrating the spread of this cursed terrain, pumping it throughout the world. The man did not know if he could beat this creature, but before he had time to think yet more of The Clones disembodied parts emerged, launching an attack upon him. While he managed to scare off the newly alive ‘things’, he was unable to slay the main piece commanding this rot.

Seeing as this new land clearly posed a threat to the Taros Cluster once more, the man sought out the only place in the Taros Cluster which would hold such esoteric knowledge, Nthanithor’s Beacon. While all others that came before its structure had been slain by its lone occupant’s partially dead master, the man was granted one time access to its deepest secrets, as Nthanithor seemingly had some grievances of his own with The High Priest. In these studies, the man eventually discovered some kind of truth, finding out that the beast he had killed was a mere clone of a much more powerful deity, whom had been using it as a puppet, and that it had managed to bind the power of light in the deepest lands of the Taros Cluster’s core world, tasking the creatures of the fiery depths with protecting the bound essence.

Much like The Clone had done, the man would also need to make a sacrifice to bind the essence of darkness to stop the spread of The Hive. In this case, he learned from the ancient tomes of the beacon how to sacrifice his soul as an offering via an effigy of his own essence.

Second Incursion & Death

The Herald

Once the High Priest’s mission had been clear, now it remains clouded as he commands the strongest army the cosmos had ever seen… He struggled to see the way forwards, feeling compelled to abandon his plans in order to serve the interests of a force much more ancient than him. Feeling that the High Priest was nearing the end of his usefulness, the puppet of the Wei'virs in the High Priest’s mind spoke to him, urging him to only follow their desires. Unlike the many times before this had occurred, this time the High Priest sensed the malevolent intentions of this presence within his mind, sensing that he was being controlled. He did not know by what, but what he did know is it had been leading him astray. This puppet had grown complacent, and had begun underestimating him, giving him the opportunity to break free from the Wei’virs control.

Using all their might to blind the High Priest of their actions, the Wei’virs descended upon Taros Prime to seek out the man who slayed The Clone. They came across a broken person, one whom had been weakened, and continuously haunted by the writhing beast his soul now inhabited. For ages now this man had been searching for a successor, one which could free the Taros Cluster. Even when the Wei’virs presented themselves, he disregarded their offer, as an offer such as theirs could only be a trick of The Hive, yet it was not, as they showed him everything. This vision lasted for mere moments, yet it was all he needed to be convinced, despite knowing of the Wei’virs intentions if the High Priest were to have been destroyed. Given the man’s failure at finding a successor, the Wei’virs instead proposed to instead create one, one which they could supply with weapons and armour capable of resisting even the might of the gods themselves. All they needed from the man was a genetic template, one which they could use to create such a hero. While they could provide it form, they could not provide knowledge or direction, thus the man was tasked with teaching this hero what needed to be done. Before any of this could be done however, the man would need to go on one last quest, one to retrieve an elixir of life, one which could reconstitute the hero lest they fall to the myriad of threats they would be tasked with destroying. While the darkness the use of such an artifact may release could be dire, a curse is nothing compared to eternal salvation.

Thus, the man set forth for one final time. Initially he began his quest by seeking out knowledge, inquiring from the peoples of the Taros Cluster of where such an elixir could be found, hearing tales of its origins as the final sample of primordial ooze all life in the Taros cluster had emerged from. Once he came across the peoples of the frozen north of Taros Prime, an oddity was discovered. The peoples of these lands had a truly impressive lifespan, living countless years while still appearing youthful. He was close, so he sought out to look around here. He inquired of the people’s old tales, learning of pilgrimages to a supposed shrine of youth, which he followed in order to discover a strange opening deep underground which contained the elixir of life he had been seeking. He filled a bottle with the liquid pooling at the bottom of the opening, though at this point something changed as the liquid rapidly heated up and began steaming, seeping through the passage he had opened. Not waiting to find out the repercussions of what he had done, he sealed the jar and quickly left. In his haste to acquire the elixir, the legends had not been entirely read, hiding the fact that any mortals that took directly from the pools, instead of the crystals and rising ooze it provided would unleash a terrible curse upon the world which granted life to all that had lived, raising the dead with a feeling of only bloodlust. Not knowing of this, he returned to the Wei’virs, who forged The Herald, a man who they claimed would would one day purge the Taros Cluster of darkness.

The Great Machine

After years of torment, the reanimated pieces of the now long-dead Clone of the High Priest were finally slain, though beings like the Elder Gods never truly died, resisting their fates with all their might. This time would be no different, as The High Priest seethed with rage after the defeat of various of his assets in the Taros Cluster putting the birth of his perfect army in jeopardy. He knew sending more forces directly into the Taros Cluster could easily be met with failure, so he conceived of a new plan unlike any other. This plan would be such that even the Elder Gods themselves were angered by his machinations, stating their uninvolvement and often even turning against him. One would even launch an attack on him, which would only serve to improve his plot.

Having seen all and knowing all that was to come, The Beyond One, an elder god, worked to prevent the inevitable destruction that would be brought about by the High Priest by acting now. Despite his omniscience, even this being could not stand up to the combined forces of the High Priest and his forces. While The Beyond One managed to retreat his consciousness out to the Noosphere, the body he inhabited was captured and killed by the High Priest and his forces.

The High Priest dissected this corpse, studying its nature, hoping to consume the knowledge it held. After enough knowledge had been salvaged, he uncovered a method that could bring immortality back to the fallen, and likely even himself. He commanded his forces to extract resources, forging an unfathomable cosmic machine out of The Beyond One’s corpse.

Though thoughts pulsed through this new being’s brain, it was completely unaware of its own existence and purpose, something more had to be done. The High Priest decided that this creation was of too high importance to allow it to be given commands that could be misunderstood, thus he ripped himself apart, sacrificing a part of his body to the great machine so he may directly control it. This gave him direct control of the machine, feeling its tendrils and mechanical limbs pulse to life.

The Machine was tasked with the production of assets for the High Priest’s reign, and so it began to work. Countless weapons of war were promptly built and deployed to reinforce his will on the Taros Cluster. While these too would eventually be defeated after considerable effort, the great machine continued its work.

Battle of Taros

Deep in the jungles of Taros-6 lays a vast construct housing the last of the Serellians, a reptilian species who had nearly gone extinct due to infighting over a century ago. This construct was sealed shut, for these were the final remains of the Lunar Nation, religious fanatics who were twisted by their race’s final war. During their imprisonment they produced various devices of incredible power capable of influencing the wills of the greatest of beings, turning the defence mechanisms of the construct from protecting them, to protecting others from them. They sat idly, waiting for an opportunity to break free of their tomb…

Having destroyed the various monstrosities assembled in The Great Machine that had plaguing the Taros Cluster, the Herald journeyed to Taros-6 to investigate rumours of threats existing in its jungles. After slaying its guardians, the Herald opened the vast construct, revealing its occupants. Believing they had quelled all threats within the jungles, the Herald returned back to civilization to protect it from future threats. But what they did not know is they had unwittingly released a much greater threat than they set out to destroy, for the zealots inside were now released.

The followers of the Lunar Nation left their tomb and travelled to the now long-abandoned Beacon constructed by Nthanithor, praying and speaking to their ‘great lunar god’ of their devotion. After weeks of prayer, their god spoke back. While they had received incoherent screams and brief visions in the past, this time their god, the High Priest, spoke directly to them. He revealed that he did indeed know of the Taros Cluster, and was pleased that he had such loyal subjects, but now was not the time for his coming. First the Taros Cluster must be prepared for his arrival, its population must be purged. To achieve this the High Priest taught the Lunarists a ritual which would summon four pylons that each acted as a portal for The Celestial Army to spill out onto the Taros Cluster. Soon the activities of the Lunar Nation caught the attention of the Herald, who engaged in battle with them. It was too late however, as the last cultist was struck down the ritual was completed, summoning The Celestial Army to the Taros Cluster.

The High Priest’s armies were faltering against the Tarosians… This was all or nothing, he could no longer hide in the background and was forced to finally intervene, personally arriving in the Taros Cluster to beat it into submission. His great plan was no longer a secret. His plans against the Elder Overseers were beginning to unravel, and they were coming for him. The Battle of Taros must succeed, or it would all be for nothing…

Already somewhat injured by the carnage of the battle as Tarosian after Tarosian under the leadership of The Herald attacked him, the High Priest saw them arriving in the skies, the Elder Overseers of Xoth had arrived… He was too slow. The Elder Overseers looked upon the supposed ‘runt of the litter’ with anger, having quickly gathered that what was going on here was a scheme against them and their supremacy. They together launched a focused attack onto The High Priest, depriving him of his power just long enough that The Herald and his armies managed to strike a killing blow, killing the High Priest once and for all. Left without leadership, The Celestial Army’s forces in the Taros Cluster dispersed and fled back to their now leaderless ‘fiefdom’, where chaos was sure to soon erupt. Having successfully fought for their continued existence, all Tarosian states finally unified under the Confederation of Taros, with the region finally managing to shake off the threat of the Elder Gods and internal struggles as they now could achieve peace and go beyond their previous confines.