Primeval Discoveries

Hey y'all! A little story behind this one -- it's all headcannon so feel free to ignore it but I feel it makes the hideout make more sense! I have all of the important masters/crafting benches in the basement (besides for Alva who you will need to find on the second floor). The only MTX I'm aware of using is 'Sunrise Objects' but it's pretty core to Alva's placement, but if you can find any pyramid alternative, that would do just nicely.

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Amidst flying through planes and destroying godlike enemies, Zana discovers an anomaly in the outer realms. Discovering a large amount of azurite, and seemingly a blind spot in Sirus' reign, she consults with Kirac and Niko to go investigate. Jun needs direction in her Path after defeating the Mastermind, and Alva thinks the architecture described sounds similar to Vaal buildings she studied, and thus both masters follow along.  Upon arriving Niko immediately recognizes the distinct glow of Azurite, but can't figure out where it could have come from. A glowing puddle of azurite also takes up the center of the room, and Zana realizes she can use it as a conductor to power a map device.

Research continues for weeks, at which point Alva decides to get to the bottom of this anomaly, by returning back in time. Everything goes awry. Kitava in a completely different timeline recognizes the force of time-bending, and makes a jump in spacetime. Before reaching his destination, Kitava is lost in a realm where time doesn't seem to move until he decides to take action, so he ponders. Meandering to other realms of his existence, he watches himself meet the same fate, from one exile to the next. He also realizes that if he continues to the Primeval Hideout, that he will certainly meet the same fate. Deciding to knock out two birds with one stone, he starts to gather Kitava's from other timelines to stage an attack on the exile and their masters, finally ready to enact his revenge.

Alva leaves her time travel, immediately recognizing the danger. The exile and the masters gather together to slay hordes of the once fiend of Oriath. Eventually, The Kitava who organized this whole attack was injured in battle and his own greed and insatiable hunger led him to attempt to feast on his counterpart from a different timeline. Whilst cruel and rash with hatred, his other forms noticed this and started to believe they had been led into a trap that was planned by their own kin. They turned on their leader and those who survived the war retreated back to their own timelines.

This was not however, before they had caused massive destruction and ruin at the primeval hideout, and all surrounding areas. Einhar was contacted to come survey the beasts that had managed to survive the massive destruction, and Tane followed to examine the evolutionary traits monsters in the area had to rapidly assume to survive the destruction. Cassia and Helena shortly arrived after to work on building a memorial for the event, and keep as much wildlife growth as they can at home base, before attempting to repopulate the surrounding area with flora. The gardens at the very end of the hideout symbolize a time of peace and safety from the great evils.

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Anyways I really hope y'all enjoyed, if you want to chat with me or send me a forked version of this with your own changes, PM me in game @DilatedEyeballs (Ritual League Character name). I'd love to see edits to the story // the hideout if you have good ideas for either!

Much love, good luck exile.