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Lore of the Baelish, part 2 - the Eternal Kingdom of Vecna

Part one is here (and there will be art to accompany it soon)

The Last Arcanist of Vor Rukoth Returns from the Grave

Vecna's personal story is long enough (and spoilery) enough for a future post, but I'll summarize the relevant parts here.

Vecna was an arcanist in early Bael Turath and like most first mortals, he stood shoulder to shoulder among the gods and other beings of the Dawn War.

During the Dawn War, Vecna theorized that the Primordials had some unspoken need to create Creation itself, in particular the complexity with which they set up the Astral and the Elemental Chaos in order to craft the First Work (the material plane and the world) and mortal life.

This understanding was later proven when the Work was refracted in the war, revealing the Shadowfel and the transition of mortal souls through that place was discovered - which led Nerull, God of Last Secret (as he was known before this revelation) to become God of the Dying and the Dead.

After the Dawn War, Vecna remained one of the most powerful arcanists in Bael Turath, and had somehow learned to prolong his mortal life, many believed he had been rewarded with such by the gods.

Vecna was killed during the Arkhosian War, and his city had fallen quickly thereafter (Vor Rukoth), it seems his death was deliberate and played some role in the deicide conspiracy of Asmodeus and the rulers of Bael Turath.

Now, how Vecna had survived apparently dying is unknown to all but him. All that was known was at some point after the Scouring, he had returned to the world, restored and eternal, and travelled it initially in secret, learning of what had passed since his death. In the annals of the First Dynasty (of Khonsuria) it is known that an anonymous Baelish wanderer had come to the court of the first Pharaoh and had acted as an advisor for a time in the age of peace between the sphinx and the serpent people, in exchange for access to the archives of Ioun before vanishing from Sarkhaen Tair, heading East.

History records that it was not Vecna's intent to rule the city-states of Aschfel, that he had simply sought out the rumours of other survivors. However, when circumstances conspired that he needed to reveal his arcane magics, the king of Samara immediately offered his own wife's hand in marriage and surrendered her and the the city to this magician. When word of his existence and of what had happened in Samara made it to the other cities, the other kings abdicated as well, begging the arcanist to protect them.

[Source: sketch of Puabi, Artstation competition submitted by Yigit Koroglu]

The Vecnan Renaissance

Vecna immediately instituted a number of reforms, chiefly aimed to restore a level of scholarship and knowledge to the Baelish city-states. He quickly outlawed the sacrifice of sorcerers and instead asked for a mass census of the Plains, having those with any wit or gift brought to his new capital in Raqqa. These he would teach the fundamentals of arcane magic, creating the academies of wizardry. He also shared his knowledge of how to craft mournsteel and the false-crystal known as obsidian as well, supplementing them with copper and bronze from mining the eastern Kitezhan mountains.

Vecna also made extensive use of conjured and bound entities - a common practice after the Dawn War. Genies worked forges, twisted demons and elementals served as warders for his new kingdom, he even showed how the spirits of the dead, and their physical remains, could be used to augment the labour force. When titankin and dragons came to challenge Vecna, they found themselves caught in his sorceries and their wills stolen from them. He gathered the bravest and strongest and built an army to protect his authority and the people of his kingdom, and armed them in the weapons and armour of Bael Turath. Finally, he encircled the kingdom in powerful wards to seal the kingdom away from any and all beings of the Astral, the Elemental, or the reflections of the First Work.

And starting with his mortal queen and his most promising students, and later with the most elite of his soldiers he named the Immortals, he shared with them secrets of preserving their own lives and overcoming mortality - such secrets which have survived to this day as the rituals of mummification and lichdom.

[Source - a 11th Century BCE Babylonian sculpture, photo taken by Paul Williams]

Vecna's Second Death and the Second Destruction of Baelish Civilization

Vecna was not satisfied with ruling his second Bael Turath, it is written that he shaped the kingdom to function without his presence, so he could return to the study of magic and the hidden truths of the Primordials they took into oblivion. With an immortal army, bound beings unable to leave the borders and bound against harming the citizens, with his queen's own firm and undying hand on the affairs of stat, Vecna felt confident that he had brought back the best of Bael Turath, without the messy mortal flaws and reliance on dieties that led to its doom. But Asmodeus did not like how this returned hero of the Dawn War had stolen away 'his' mortals.

The Great Deceiver, the Unclean, the Despoiler, could not strike at Vecna or the Baelish directly - imprisoned in Baator by the other gods and with the mortals protected by the archmage's spells. But not all Baelish were within the warded borders, and not all were bound to Vecna's will. So it was that Asmodeus whispered and plotted, and one Baelish soldier was swayed while on campaign against the Far Realm nightmares unleashed by the corruption of the First Dynasty in their struggle against the Serpent People. And this soldier, his name be struck from history and replaced with the Bloody Betrayer, with a god-slaying weapon of Primordial creation shrouded in illusion, struck as he was being awarded his deeds by none other than Vecna himself. With the baneful weapon the betrayer thought he slew the eternal archmage, taking from him his hand and his eye. The Immortals struck him down quickly, but he had already been rewarded for his service, for he was not alone, and had sown rebellion against the undying nobility. So it was the Bloodsands fed once more with Baelish blood as civil war gripped the empire.

True to the archmage's design, despite the revolution's disruptions, the kingdom was resilient and crushed the Asmodeus' masterstroke. Vecna's absence, however, weakened the kingdom's protections from outsiders, and weakened the magical bonds on several powerful beings who took the opportunity to escape. The kingdom's archmages struggled to keep the great barriers in place while attempting to help Vecna rebuild his physical body and reunite it with his soul.

[Source - Earth Colossus by Chasestone on Deviantart | A mountain walking at the urging of its shepherd]

Had the titans been part of Asmodeus' plot? Or, were they simply opportunists? Such will never be known. But coincidence or conspiracy, the loyal followers of the Primordials launched their attack against the defenseless mortals of the First Work, exploiting the withdrawal of the gods from the plane to divide and conquer. The great Titan of Storms ordered the stone shepherds to drive their flock in the Kitezhan to march westward. No barrier of magic, even one as meticulous and powerful as Vecna's, could stop uncountable weight of whole mountains. Under unbending stone and merciless magma of the world itself, did the giants strike the deathblow to the Aschfel Kingdom of the Baelish humans. Ending the last time the Baelish would ever again be united and free as one people in Selduria.