the tide eater
Water - from rivers, from streams, from oceans, from lakes - is not only the foundation of life itself, but the foundation of civilization. The people of Oâ??água rely on the element of water to keep their homes afloat, to feed their loved ones and even to travel. Though their lives depict pureness, not all of the people were in fact righteous. A foolish young emperor ruling over a tiny province within the Oâ??águan archipelago had unearthed an ancient tome telling the story of a monster named â??Dormin, Eater of Tidesâ? and how the shaman who summoned him was able to use his power and rule over the realm for centuries.
Brazen and uneducated, the emperor took the tome to Dorminâ??s tomb at the heart of the archipelago in hopes to covet the same cataclysmic power the shaman once wielded. Because of the emperorâ??s hasty preparations for Dorminâ??s summoning, the ritual went awry, trapping Dorminâ??s spirit between the Realm of Tyrants and ultimately shattering the emperorâ??s soul, leaving his body to rot forever within the tomb. Craving destruction and the crisp astringency of water once more, Dormin was able to free himself from limbo and terrorize Oâ??água as he had millennia ago, but this time, without a powerful pawn to control him.
The monstrous shade turned vast forests to deserts, lakes to gaping holes and rivers to enormous fissures that once acted as the earthâ??s veins. Only descendents of the long-gone Czernon tribe - a clan of unlikely heroes consisting of rogue shamans, soothsayers and revolutionaries - would be able to subdue the beast, and without their will to thwart Dorminâ??s onslaught, his ultimate goal would be completed - to devour the ocean; the tide along with it.