Lineage II: Goddess of Destruction (lore and concept art)

The Goddess of Destruction has awakened, and the Humans have joined forces with the Giants to resist her.

When the fourth seal was broken, Shilen, the Goddess of Destruction, awakened from a long sleep in the darkness. In effort to eliminate the remaining three seals that confined her soul, Shilen sacrificed her followers in the Necropolis and Catacombs, using their dark energy to summon the "Dark Moon," which would be her eyes upon the world. 

When Shilen exhaled bloody air, the sky turned red. Fear and anxiety encroached upon the world. Soon, when Shilen sprayed her blood over the continent, monsters drank her blood and became extremely violent, destroying villages and wreaking carnage across the land. Countless lives were sacrificed, and villages and ports were shut down one by one. 

The Goddess of Destruction dropped and broke an item called "E Sagira" in order to release the spirit of the Giant Hermuncus from within. Shilen and the Giants went back a long way: She had once approached and persuaded the Giants, a tribe that desired to become gods, to steal power from the god Einhasad. However, the Giants incurred the wrath of the God and brought themselves to ruin. Their last survivor, Hermuncus, hid Einhasad's power somewhere deep in a lost dimension, after realizing that his tribe had been used by Shilen's evil conspiracy. Shilen dropped E Sagira, hoping to seize Einhasad's power, which had been hidden by Hermuncus, while inevitably giving the Giant a chance to revive his tribe.

Hermuncus, thus awakened, laughed at the gods that had ended up confining themselves while struggling for power against each other. Determined to release himself from his shackles and reclaim the world from his nemesis, the gods, Hermuncus made a proposition to the panicked Humans, who, at the verge of the end of the world, were unable to communicate with their gods. The Humans reluctantly accepted his proposition: to help him revive his tribe, in return for which he would awaken their latent power. 

Shilen, the Goddess of Destruction.

New town.

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