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The story of Rune Sanctuary continues two hundred and twelve years after the Worldstone is destroyed. Your village is overrun by demons from Hell. As your village burns, old magic hiding the presence of your people from the world is broken. One of the remaining dragons in the Mage Islands, The Legendary Dragon of Ra, intercepts the battle and escorts you to the End of Time. There, you learn the universe in your timeline has been destroyed, and you're one of eight who survived. You learn that the 8 survivors are descendants of the heroes fighting within Arcane Sanctuary while the Worldstone was being destroyed. During that time the Archangel Zeno gave his remaining energy to those heroes to save the mortal world.

For some unknown reason, they abandoned their quest and lived a peaceful life in the islands. Their descendants thrived for hundreds of years, shielded by magic, and forgotten by time. They were unaware that the universe was crumbling around them in the battle between Heaven and Hell. Eventually the magic collapses around your village, and you survived because you are a descendent of these blessed heroes, destined to save the universe. At the End of Time, you make the choice to remain timeless or warp back into the body of your ancestor and do what they could not. You discover this can only be done once because of the immense energy of Zeno combined with the energy absorbed from the imploding Worldstone. At that point you choose your character and start your journey within Arcane Sanctuary, returning to the mortal world torn apart by angels and demons. The carnage can be seen when the aura of light around the angels clashes with the demons aura of evil. You gain karma by assisting angels or demons, and if you have high karma with one side you don't damage them. The demon side looks like a cluster orgy, and the angel side is more independent and dispersed. You cannot destroy either side, only reduce their health until they stop attacking. When you're revered with the angels, you "Ascend" and when you're revered with the demons you "Descend". Choose your path towards saving the universe. There are many species and factions that have different alignment throughout the world. Your choices decide where you go and do next, not your level (zones scale). Different areas have unique resources and types of items, but not all can be reached based on the decisions you make. Your decisions will make you more angelic or demonic which may change the future of the universe.

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When the stone was destroyed, the dragonkin felt it and sent help for the most powerful of their kind, the Arcane Sorcerers. They brought with them Arcane Magic which gave us a fighting chance against the demons. Suddenly, we were able to forge the power from Archon artifacts into weapons. To do this, we needed to find Worldstone Shards, so we wielded powerful artifacts combined with the remains of the shards, as they emit energy the closer they are. The most powerful of all of these artifacts is the Lorekeeper helm, which was used to find most of the shards used to craft the Archon weapons. Lorekeeper will always find shards if they're nearby.