Masakali

Great convergence
None suffered a fate grimmer or more often tainted by catastrophe than that of this lineages ancestors. The Century of Demise brought forth a cataclysm to their lands, sweeping away their coasts and drowning their lands, crushing mountains and salting the earth until their cultures stood on the brink of extinction.

Amid the chaos, when their leaders had fled the fallen land or died in their attempts, the wisest among their women and men arose from within the masses. From all casts and religions, regions and wealth, the voices of the few found each other in the most desperate of times.

The downfall that all others had fled or averted was by them endured and believes abandoned by many were uphold by the few as shining lights above all when the Earth had turned against them. These voices of the few, who had vowed to conceal their names, coined a single term to unite all in the great convergence of peoples and culture: Masakali. To aspire through liberation from the hardships of old and seek ascension through peace in a world built anew formed the foundation of a lineage unyielding against all odds.

Patrons of Aspiration
From the convergence arose Masakali, the lineage of hopeful children, of those who endured the long dark of night and lived to see the dawn of a new world when they ascended into the skies.

When the Centuries passed and the cradle Earth regained its balance, the peoples of Masakali rebuilt more than just the mundane. Uncounted traditions and beliefs, gods and deities had been sacrificed during the time of dark and much was forgotten never to be relearned. But from the fractured memories of an enduring people, a new pantheon was born, one rooted in a new genesis the humankind.

Each Patron of Aspiration was to be the embodiment of their aspect of the world, representing the entirety of its accomplishments, ambitions, progress, and history. They are the catalysts of fortune for their aspect, as well as bearers of obligation. For no singular soul, so the voices of the few had decided, should bear the weight neither praise nor guilt alone.

Masakali Ascendency
United by hardship and life, the Masakali grew into peoples thousandfold, praising and worshipping their Patrons of Aspiration.

Their inhabited isles are temples of sorts. Living, thriving megalopolises, dedicated to the cause of their aspect developed new cultures and spheres, nations and beliefs to break away from the Masakali lineage. But never were the voices of the few forgotten by those who they had led through the darkness and into the stars.