So I'm tired of talking about skills and numbers and such, so I'm gonna take a day off and do a lore update, because I am a lore nerd. I'll be spoiling all of it for those of you that'd rather see the plot yourself, but there isn't really a whole load of spoilers in this first part, which will primarily be covering the time before the game. Vindictus, I think, is an alternate timeline, so there's not a lot to be said about it in relation to mabinogi's plot.
So, the first thing you need to know about mabinogi lore is that there are three primary goddesses that the plot interacts with. Morrighan, Neamhain, and to a lesser extent Macha. Nao is not one, actually, more on that later. Morrighan is the goddess of Vengeance and the guardian of humans. Neamhain is also known as "the great irinid", and seems to watch over giants and elves, and is the goddess of light. Macha is the goddess of war, and has no particular racial association. These three are minor gods, but gods nontheless. Also of note is the fomorian god, Cichol.
Other gods mentioned a lot, are Lymilark, the goddess of love, that serves directly under Aton Cimeni, the great one, the creator, etcetc. Lymilark also created Erg, which is in essence life force. There's more info about that in vindictus, but I think Lassar mentions erg in passing when going through the magic tutorial.
Before even the RP quests of G1 started, the elves and giants had been created (as well as humans presumably, but), and had advanced to a point where they had found out that the tools Aton Cimeni used to create the world and everything on it were found somewhere on Iria. They attempt to find these, and as a result the big ole giant vs elves war breaks out. This causes Neamhain, the great irinid, to curse both Giants and Elves, the giants mountains froze over, and the elves jungle (Yep, mabinogi elves were at one point generic forest/jungle elves.) became a wasteland. This put off the war for a bit, and more importantly threw them off the trail of the Heart of Courcle, the tools that neamhain used to create the world, at the order of aton cimeni, presumably, as both of them were more concerned with, ya know, learning to stay alive in a radically new enviroment.
Some point after these events occured, the first fomor war occured, on udladh. (I think? It may be an alternate timeline now that I think about it, I feel like I read that somewhere) The first war was against the Partholons , the first humanish inhabitants of udladh (The parthonon race does include the original giants and elves I believe). The war occured due to the humans misuse of the sword of the gods, Caliburn, and ended when Morrighan and Cichol, the fomor god, brought down a plague on the partholons, and destroyed their entire race. However, there were other segments of the human race, such as the Tuatha de Danann, and Tir Bolg. The Tir bolg are barely mentioned, and some Tuatha de Danann still exist, and are at war with the fomorians.
After those events, we just barely get into mabinogi, and into the events of G1, which is the second fomor war. I'll go over that stuff next time, whenever I get tired of more technical updates.
Of note is that while mabinogi's plot is pretty good, it does have a lot of random chunks missing, which may result in some incorrect statements, where things match up wrong. Most of the terms used in it are also used in welsh/irish mythology, also, as a note.
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