Heinous History
~Heinous History~
Entho's Onslaught
In
the 2880s, three siblings had decided to continue their career of developing
man-made islands somewhere between New York and Normandy. They had many
projects before then, but this was their largest endeavor. Development of the
island took seven years, and numerous caverns and an underground system were
slowly formed. The island had no name at the time. The island was up for sale
for a few years, until somebody finally purchased it. This person was named
Entho.
Entho
was the name history has given him, and by now his birth name is unknown. Entho
was a warlord who had taken the island so that he could silently use it for
illegal businesses. He named it “Entho’s Island,” likely due to his pride in
himself. According to some studies, Entho may have been the leader of a
religious cult and gang previously, but these studies have not been proven
correct yet. Entho primarily used the island for human trafficking and storing
weaponry, but he slowly gathered followers with promises of wealth and
protection.
While
much is unknown about his religion, Entho had created his own set of beliefs
for his followers and told them that the gods want him to rule. Entho started
to attack and fight countries, and the war was known as “Entho’s Onslaught” due to
him naming most of his property after himself.
Entho’s
followers abducted people in other countries and sent them to his island. He
had a fortress built near a seaside cliff and developed some facilities on the
island for his soldiers. He used the strength of underground tunnels to easily
transport between areas quickly.
The
most dangerous weapon Entho had was a man-made plague that he engineered to use
as a weapon. However, since it was in early stages during the war, the weapon
was not used very often. It was known as “Entho’s Plague,” for obvious reasons.
Clones
and regular soldiers were used in the war. The clones were raised from birth to
fight, and the only clones used were Dolly-type and female. They helped greatly
against Entho’s forces.
A
notable hero was Encre Garen. Encre was the general of one of the armies
fighting against Entho, and most successful attacks were done under his
command. Encre managed to fight and even kill Entho in combat. As a result,
prisoners on the island were freed and the Universal took control of the
island. The Universal named the island “Garen” after the general, and the
island became a small country with the main location being Garenburg.
Entho’s
defeat caused the liberation and peace to be regained on the island, but it
allowed what would happen a few years later to happen: the most destructive war
to occur in history, the Lunacy.
The Lunacy
Now
liberated from Entho’s rule, people imprisoned on the island celebrated and
slowly built the island to become greater. The people on the island decided to
become a singular country rather than a part of one of the neighboring
locations.
Very
shortly after Entho’s death, his remaining followers issued the final
onslaught: a more perfected version of Entho’s Plague. The plague caused
insanity, mania, hallucinations, and of course death. However, the plague
killed their victims slowly and had little to no symptoms until it was too
late.
Encre
Garen had married the clone soldier Violetta Avana, and they had two children.
The children were Marjory, the eldest, and Harold, the younger brother. They
all lived in Garen Manor, which was built into the side of the Encre Mountain
Range. When Harold was only a few years old, he was killed by a few of the
remaining followers of Entho. In his rage, Encre hunted down and killed each
member associated with his son’s death. To make the murderers suffer more, he used
an iron to torture them. Encre was sent to an asylum shortly afterwards, and he
died a few days later of Entho’s Plague.
After
the death of her son and husband, Violetta started to lose her mind and she
grew sick. Marjory was left to be taken care by their maid, Victoria. On
occasion, Marjory’s aunt Lavender would visit the home. Lavender never stayed
for a long time however, and Marjory felt lonely and slowly gained depression.
Around
that time, an orphan boy named Russell would appear around an old carpenter
named Garry Lowod’s shop. Garry treated Russell like a grandchild, and
occasionally his actual grandchildren Daniel and Katherine would appear and
play with Russell. Russell was adopted by a stranger eventually, and in his
free time he visited Garry’s shop.
However,
Garry was killed by bandits who invaded his shop a few months later. Garry had
ordered a knife for carving wooden sculptures with Russell’s name on it, and it
was used by the bandits to murder Garry. Russell found Garry’s body, withdrew
the knife, and murdered his stepfather. On that night, he ran into Garenburg
Woods and found Garen Manor. Victoria decided to let Russell stay for the
night, unknowing about Russell’s crimes.
Russell
and Marjory became close, and Russell was taken into their home. Shortly
afterwards, Violetta died from her illness. Marjory grew more broken and
started to have anger issues. Russell bonded with her due to his similar
feelings. The two started to grow angrier and wanted people to suffer like
them, and they would start a massive war soon afterwards.
Russell
became fascinated with astronomy when he discovered a black book in manor one
night. He loved the stars and space, but he felt that the moon was tainted by
humans due to the construction of cities above the planet.
Marjory
had some military access when she grew older due to links to her father, and
with this she was able to gather access to some weaponry along with having more
information on the military of the island. Russell gained access to confidential
information about Entho’s Onslaught this way.
Russell
first gathered followers across Garenburg through similar ways to Entho, but he
also kidnapped children and raised them into believing a belief system he
formed known as Sartolg. Sartolg states that Russell is the one who must free
the Celestial King, a deity, from the moon. The only way to do this is by
destroying the sun. There was also statements about how Russell is to fail,
someday he will return in a new form and continue his onslaught.
After
collecting followers, he had the devout go to different countries and try to
assassinate figures while under pledge to a different country. There were
numerous riots and political arguments between countries from this, but
eventually after a member made a mistake and didn’t successfully escape the
blame was placed on Russell.
Once
Russell was revealed to be responsible for the assassinations, Marjory
unleashed Nitrogen Nukes on various sectors of the world. Millions died from
the attacks. To prevent an all-out nuclear war, countries were prohibited from
attacking Garen via nuclear weapons. Garen also had important technology
developments that were critical to most countries’ economies, so destruction by
nuke would cause a loss of income and advances.
Nitrogen
Nukes were banned from usage and creation prior to Entho’s War, but there was a
recorded message found between likely Russell’s forces and a supplier for the
nuclear weaponry. The supplier remained anonymous and was never found. It is
unknown how he or she gained access to the weaponry.
Russell
reused many tactics that Entho did, but where Entho failed, Russell succeeded.
He modified Entho’s Plague to be more contagious and even have a vaccine that
protects his soldiers from contracting the plague and it was used very often
during combat. This was extremely effective and deadly and was a major
contribution to Russell’s forces. Russell also used clones in battle, unlike
Entho.
Russell
and Marjory were dubbed the Lunar Lunatic and the Riflebird due to Russell’s
obsession with the moon and how the Garen cress displayed a riflebird. The war
that the two started caused nearly 2 billion deaths total, from casualties in
combat, assassinations, bombings, and enslavement.
Meanwhile,
there was one critical line of defense against the Lunatic. Daniel and
Katherine Lowod, coincidentally the grandchildren of Garry Lowod, led forces against the warlords. Similarly, to Russell and Marjory, Daniel was the
leading fighter and more iconic leader while Katherine planned out attacks and
strategies.
The
finishing onslaught that was done against Russell’s forces was broken into two
parts. The first segment involved Lavender Avana, the aunt of Marjory, in a
long series of years so that she can be moved to a cloned body of herself.
Since Lavender and Violetta were twin clones, having Lavender looking
exactly like Marjory’s mother could give them an advantage. Marjory had missed
her mother’s death due to being busy and not knowing about her mother’s state
as she passed away, which resulted in her having a guilt for never saying a
goodbye. Lavender was able to use this to the advantage and successfully slay
Marjory while she was distracted.
The
second phase was known as the Battle of Garenburg. Daniel Lowod went in battle
with his troops to Garen Manor to fight Russell, and while many of Daniel’s
forces were slain in combat, Daniel was able to make it to Russell and
successfully fight against the Lunatic. The two dueled, and in the end they
both took each other’s lives.
Shortly
after losing both their leaders, Russell’s forces dispersed and collapsed. The
Solstice, Daniel’s military, took control of Garen soon afterwards. With
Katherine wanting to manage a family, she passed down the role of being the
second president in her brother’s place. The job went to Vincent Caris instead,
one of Daniel’s trusted military leaders.
The
war had ended, but not without its cost. There was still major destruction and
ruin worldwide from the reign of the two, and to fix the mistakes of Russell
and Marjory, there would have to be major new developments.
Except
that never happened, because with the end of the Lunacy was the beginning of a
dark age for the world and the impending end of the world.
Post-Lunacy: The Witch Hunt, Russell Lives, and
the Invasion
Shortly
after the end of the war, there was a massive shift in government due to the
Solstice taking control of Garen. With Vincent Caris as the new leader of the
country (besides the Solstice Council), the country started growing back to
what it had intended prior to the Lunacy. However, there was a heavy lack of
funds and debt the country owes for damages from the war. Garen became often
referred after the war as Garenburg despite Garenburg being the main city to
distinguish it from Encre’s name. Encre remained a respected figure but was
criticized for his daughter, despite being dead long before the Lunacy’s
beginning.
As
the country recovered, there was a confidential leak about how somebody had
supplied the Nitrogen Nukes to the Lunatic. There was a large scare as the
extended healthcare could allow somebody to live past 200 years and still be in
a good mental condition, meaning whoever contacted Russell could still be alive
and use the bombs themselves. A hunt was caused known as the Witch Hunt, in
which the supplier was called the “witch.” The hunt ended in a failure, with
the fright causing chaos and lack of trust in the country for a long period of
time.
There
was an incident in which some soldiers were murdered by a traitor in 3098. The
traitor was successfully murdered, but he claimed to do it in the name of
Russell Garen. It was discovered shortly afterwards that some remaining
Sartolgians, known as “RUSSELL LIVES,” had been plotting an attempt to find a
candidate to turn into a “Russell,” or the person to free the Celestial King.
The reasoning as to why the traitor attacked under RUSSELL LIVES’ orders was
labeled confidential by the Solstice, and until somebody access Oval Tower,
there is no way of knowing why.
On
the topic of the structure, Oval Tower was built on a small island close to
Garenburg. The tower was made to hold confidential experiments. However,
Vincent Caris secretly did illegal experiments inside Oval Tower. Marian
Carfling, a member of RUSSELL LIVES who had access to Oval Tower’s logs,
betrayed Vincent and revealed everything he had done in the tower, specifically
the [REDACTED]. This caused him to lose his role of being president and he was
sent to serve a sentence in Victoria’s Prison for his treasonous acts. He died
two months later in prison.
After
Vincent left, Katherine Lowod decided to take the role as president since she
had now grandchildren. She had the most reform and economic developments the
country had seen since the end of Entho’s War.
As
time passed, the country slowly grew better but still had issues. There was a
large amount of gang violence in the 33rd Century, and this caused less
technological advances. However, gang violence came to a halt and there was a
major scientific advance towards the end of the century.
A
man supposedly “of another world” was found trying to access logs of Oval Tower
to locate something. He had been dubbed “Anubis” by many people. Police and
Solstice military forces found him in cave on a beach. He managed to escape,
but he left behind a shard of something bizarre and a book with some notes.
It
turned out that the shard was of a device called the “Retrograph,” an object
that came from a distant world. This confirmed the Geovanni Theory of multiple
worlds, and some notes gave detail on names. The worlds, not including ours,
are Pixario, Blendaria, Illuathor, Minutrize, the Vignette, and Darklore.
Travelling through worlds uses an incredible amount of magic energy, which is
why Anubis can enter our world, but regular humans can’t exit to another. It
was discovered through further research that Minutrize allows time travel to
anybody who goes there but travelling there requires much more power and
strength.
Scientific
research and experiments to travel from our world to Minutrize started to
undertake development because if somebody could stop the Lunar Lunatic from
causing the Lunacy, over a billion lives would be saved.
However,
the lead scientist, Erin Aarwhile, contracted Entho’s Plague. She continued to
work as she was essential to the project and the plague has no treatment, she
started to lose her mind and mistakes were made in experimenting.
Since
the Retrograph shard was only a fourth of the total power, a mistake was made
and instead of creating a portal to Minutrize, it made a portal to Darklore
inside the Garenburg library. Darklore contains a large amount of magical and
dangerous creatures, and soon after the portal opened the world started to
collapse. The event has since been known as the Darklore Invasion. The portal
was successfully closed by an unknown person who had a shard luckily, but
creatures of the other land remain on our planet.
Due
to the colonization of the Moon, Mars, and Pluto, humans and animals still
managed to survive after the invasion. However, due to laws passed on the
planets, there is no travel allowed from the planets to Earth or travel from
Earth to the planets. This was done to ensure that no monsters start to cause
chaos on the other planets, and the rule has been retained. It was violated a
very low amount of times, and when it was all passengers were exterminated by
the military. Resources didn’t need to be sent between planets due to farms
created by humans.
Five
main beings rose, each named by most people after the five senses: Touch,
Sight, Hearing, Smell, and Taste. They divided and conquered different areas,
with Touch notably taking refuge in Oval Tower. Touch filled the tower with
various otherworldly beings and proceeded to protect the area with a shield.
The portal was able to be sealed shortly after being opened, but the damage was already done. The world had ended.
The portal was able to be sealed shortly after being opened, but the damage was already done. The world had ended.
And
now… all that is left is ruin…
For
information on history post-Darklore Invasion, please refer to Volume 2 of the
Garenburg History Series. It is hard to write these stories and sell them considering money is hard to come across, so thank you for your purchase.
Thanks
for reading, and good luck out there.
~Oliver
Faernthi
Unknown Year, presumed 5930s
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