Aion - The Story

Aion, the newly released MMORPG in US and EU developed by NC Soft has gained a very large fan base. Since Aion's launch in Asia with a large boom, Aion continues to keep players excited. This goes for Aion fans in the west as well.

Here's a short introduction to Aion: The Tower of Eternity. Many of you probably already know the storyline behind Aion and the epic clash between the two faction. But here goes:

The world of Aion was once peaceful and inhabited by humans and overlooked by a different faction, initially bestowed to look after the world, Atreia. This Aion faction, later known as the Balaurs got power thristy and misused their powers to gain control of the world.

In attempts to keep the Balaur at bay, guardians appeared to protect the people of Atreia from the Balaurs. A conflict occured between the guardians as to how to deal with the Balaurs. At that moment, the tower, the life source and energy of Aion broke. The guardians split in two and guided so called deavas (humans with special abilities to manipulate ether) to different sides of the tower in attempts to hold it together.

The tower nevertheless broke and so did friendship and kinship. Guardians, humans, deavas at the upper end of the tower got blocked in when the tower collapse, finding themselves in forever darkness. Guardians, humans, deavas at the other end were blessed to be forever in the light.

So came the two Aion factions, Elyos and Asmodians. Over time, a portal appeared, presenting a medium to travel between the two broken parts of Atreia and thus the never-ending war between the two factions and their long time enemy, the Balaurs.