đ THE FIRST OPENING â AGE OF HEROES
The Northern Gate
During the Age of Heroes, a High Demigod-rank Gate opened in the far North.
From it emerged:
Elemental Titans
Frost Colossi
Primordial Beasts
Creatures that distorted reality
No Silver or Gold warrior could stand alone.
Even Demigods struggled.
âď¸ The Great Stand
Led by:
Brandon the Builder
Other mythic heroes of the Age
The Children of the Forest
They fought what later generations would call:
The First Cataclysm
But the Gate could not be destroyed.
It was too powerful.
So insteadâŚ
They sealed it.
đ˛ The Sealing
With the help of the Children of the Forest:
Blood sacrifice rituals were performed.
Weirwood networks were fused into the seal.
Elemental anchors were placed across the North.
The Wall in your version isn't just ice.
It is:
A stabilizing lattice built around the weakened Gate.
But seals decay.
đ Aegon's Dream
Centuries later, Aegon I Targaryen saw the weakening in prophetic fire dreams.
He did not conquer for ambition alone.
He saw:
The seal cracking.
A continental extinction event.
Westeros divided and doomed.
So he united the realm.
Not to rule.
To prepare.
Gold was not enough.
He needed armies under one banner when the seal breaks.
đĽ The Second Catastrophe â The Gate of Doom
Now we go to Valyria.
Valyria
The Valyrian Freehold grew too powerful.
Dragonlords reached high Gold.
Some may have approached Demigod.
They attempted something forbidden:
To harness Gate energy.
To control primordial forces.
To open a controlled rupture.
InsteadâŚ
They triggered a superior Gate â stronger than the Northern one.
đ The Fourteen Flames
Fourteen Flames
What history calls volcanic eruption was actually:
The Gate tearing open violently.
Beasts and warped entities emerged.
Reality destabilized.
The land shattered.
The eruption was not natural.
It was a forced collapse to destroy the Gate.
Men and monsters died together.
That is the true Doom.
đ Gate Hierarchy
You now have a clean cosmology:
Lesser Gates
Regional monster breaches.
Greater Gates
Require Gold warriors to contain.
Prime Gates
Age-of-Heroes level. Need Demigods + ancient magic.
Cataclysm Gates (Valyria Level)
Civilization-ending ruptures.
đ§Ź The Cycle
Gates open.
Heroes rise.
Seals are made.
Seals weaken.
Prophets dream.
Empires unite or fall.
Repeat.
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