Editing Nobilis Enlightened (section)

= Prosaic Realm =

== Earth ==

=== Noteworthy Individuals=== 

== Erebea ==

A once beautiful world, a geographic wonder of continents hanging high up in the pristine skies, flooded with raw magic reminiscent of Earth about a millennium ago. It is very closely linked to earth, to the point where a good few locations on both worlds overlap, allowing easy passage from one to the other should one be lucky (or unlucky) enough to stumble upon these places of power. They are so closely linked together in fact that the two worlds share more or less the same Imperators and Nobles. Some even surmise that Erebea is a divergent Earth on a parallel timeline. 

Sanctum Excelestia was once the capital of this world, until it disappeared a few millennia ago.

== Lost Universe AD 2511 ==

The Lost Universe, now a Valde Bellum warfront. In 2400 AD, an age of galactic expansion and an Aetheric golden age for human advancement, a treacherous Imperator managed to sabotage the Shepherdess' hold on the Weirding Wall, leaving gaping holes in the defense of Creation. In the ensuing chaos, the Imperators and their nobles turned their attention to the Excrucian host gathering beyond the gap. Little did they know that they had fallen prey to a deceiver ruse. At the same time, the Excrucians were readying a pincer attack, with their mimics and strategists having established a foothold on Earth's universe. The Enlightened, at the time under great scrutiny due to the Shepherdess' apparent failure at maintaining the Weirding Wall, discovered the Excrucian plans and attempted to alert the Ymmerae. However, the Deceivers held the ears of the Ymmerae, and all the please of the Enlightened fell on deaf, suspicious, skeptical ears. 

In a daring move, the Noble of Aether secretly used almost the entirety of his power of limitless potential to create an anomalous fold in existence, tearing 500 years of the universe apart, resetting the universe to before the Excrucian plan had even begun in 1900. He brought the new fold containing the lost 500 years and the excrucian plot up and tethered it to the gaping hole in the Weirding Wall, just in time to meet the incoming Excrucian Host. The excrucian invasion began, never once suspecting that they had walked into a pocket universe. For the Noble of Aether's apparent treachery, the Locust Court condemned him to death without a trial, dispatching the Enlightened, his own family, to prove their allegiance to the court by executing their own brother. It is said that Justice was the one to rip his shard out of his chest with her bare hands. It is said that the shard shattered. Some say Justice, in her grief and rage, shattered it herself. Some say it was Aether's final gift to the Lost Universe, and to the entirety of creation. The shard dust was dispersed and embedded itself across the entirety of the Lost Universe, enchancelling it, bestowing its beings with the blessings of Aetheric Power, immunizing them to the crippling effects of dementia animus and empowering them in their coming struggle against the Excrucian invaders. Aether was forever lost to Creation, but its shadow continues to live on within the beings of the Lost Universe. As long as the children of Aether stand and the light of Aether burns on within them, the Lost Universe will always resist the Excrucian host.


The Lost Universe has since been sealed away outside the Weirding Wall, doomed to forever be an Excrucian battleground, until the day the Excrucians trapped within consume the Lost Universe and realize Aether's trickery. 

At the precise moment Aether's sacrifice enchancelled the Lost Universe, Hammond Qarn, Imperator of the Lost Universe, came into being. Having arisen from a universe so filled with the Shepherdess' own power, Hammond naturally became a Magister of the Enlightened. Furthermore, as the chancel was created using the Shepherdess' own soul shard, a fraction of the Shepherdess' own essence makes up the chancel's foundations. Thus for all intents and purposes the Enlightened can treat the Lost Universe as their own home chancel.

Few other nobles are privy to the secret of the Lost Universe's existence. Even fewer take up the fight to defend the Lost Universe in order to delay the full-scale invasion of Creation. The Nobles of Astelumina and Endeon were the first to pick up Aether's fallen banner and lead the battle against the Excrucian host and were also the first to fall. 

'Now and Forever, till the hour I too stand between Impossibility and Despair!' - Phaeron Rof Alabar Trimeniel - Emperor of Aether

=== Notable Locations ===

'''L.U. Earth AD 2511'''

In AD 2400, Astelumina and Endeon managed to rid the entire earth of deceivers, strategists and mimics, making it one of the last few human settlements still untouched by the Excrucian Scourge. The war and Aether's blessing has accelerated technology to astronomical heights in the past 111 years, bringing humanity to a point where they can overwhelm excrucian shards and at the very least annoy full excrucians, if not kill them. Earth is now the capital of the Universal Aetheric Alliance (UAA), headquarters of the Excrucian resistance. Its coordinates are guarded to the death by the Children of Aether. Those who sally forth to meet the Excrucian Host do so without carrying Earth's coordinates, knowing full well that they may never return to their beloved home.


'''L.U. Heaven’s Feel'''

The current frontier of the Lost Universe Valde Bellum, Heaven’s Feel is perhaps the most beautiful extrasolar human colony. A large T3 terraformed planet orbiting the gas giant Astelumina 3, behind a dense spherical asteroid field and a radioactive veil around the sun Astelumina, it makes a naturally fortified world. Thanks to the scattering radiation and the dense blackhole just a few megaparsecs away at the center of the galaxy, the system and planet is nigh impossible to find at the best of times, at least for marauding excrucian raiding parties. The UAA uses Astelumina’s final gift, the gift of the stars, the ability to travel on aetheric currents guided by the stars, to travel safely in and out of the system.

When excrucians do find the planet, they are immediately drawn into its orbit by the interaction of the gravity wells of Heaven’s Feel’s many moons. They have no hope of escaping to notify the host of the planet’s location before they are drawn into intense battle by the Feelians.

The planet is ravaged by repeat invasions.

=== Familia of the Lost Universe ===

More or less an extended family of the Enlightened, the Familia of the Lost Universe are the sworn guardians of Aether's legacy. 

'''Hammond Qarn - Imperator of the Lost Universe'''

Despite being an offshoot of the Shepherdess' power, Hammond Qarn is quite the opposite. He looks as human as they come. In fact, very, very much so, with his thick paternal beard, his twinkling eyes and his simple, honest expression, like a stern but compassionate father. Those who have the great honour of an audience with him are overcome with an overwhelming confidence and faith in humanity's potential and prowess. His being is shrouded in the stuff of legends. They say he single-handedly piloted an Alliance Battlecruiser straight into an Excrucian battlestation and escaped alive, unscathed. They say he personally lead the desperate charge that ended the siege of Harvest 4. They say he singlehandedly held the line at Point Hope against the entire advancing Excrucian host at the battle of Forge 3. They say a lot of things about Hammond Qarn, and when you meet him, sitting like a lighthouse exuding calm and confidence amidst the storm of war, in his simple, neatly-pressed uniform gleaming with but one badge denoting his allegiance to the Alliance, you feel naught but awe - that this man is the legend in the flesh.

'''Commander John Shepard - Power of Living Legends'''

'''Excel 7 - Commander of Super Soldiers'''



 was responsible for the Halo series and partly responsible for the Metal Gear series, amongst other things.

'''Iris Erran - Chief Admiral of Spacecrafts'''

'''ALMa OmNI. - Supreme Administrator of Aetheric Technology'''

An A.I. born of the pinnacle of Aetheric supercomputers,