The Twins

Click here for an early watercolor rendering of the Twins.

Only once did members of the Eleven break their Covenant not to procreate together. The risks were too high, the supernatural power that might be created too unstable. That lone exception proved to be a fatal and a terrible one.

Javan and Serac fell in love, and ultimately brought twin children into the world – a daughter, Lilya, and a son, Eleon – in the year 3356 of the Embodied Age. (Or, as modern humans refer to it, 294 BC.) That set off an immediate crisis for the Eleven, and the supernatural world they inhabited.

When the Twins were barely more than toddlers, they and their parents were brought before the remaining members of the Eleven – bound in chains of relium. Following a great debate, it was decided the penalty for breaking the Covenant must be death for the children. 

Only it didn’t work out that way.

Tamel, a member of the Eleven known as the Blade Guardian and the enforcer of the Covenant, refused to carry out his solemn duty. He would not execute innocent children, regardless of their parents’ sins. He walked away from his brothers and sisters in the Eleven, and over the centuries that followed he faded into legend in the supernatural community.  

In the chaos that ensued, the twins attacked another member of the Eleven and killed him. Armaros, the most powerful among them, was forced to use a relic known as the Circlet of Moments to trap the children forever in an opening outside of time itself. They were banished not only from the supernatural world, but the human world, as well.

The Eleven would never again be complete, and their First Born and Offspring descendants began to split into competing factions that would only intensify as the remaining angel-born began to die over the millennia.