The goddess Eva so loved the world and its creatures that to protect it from the rising tide of monsters, she summoned the Kamael. Her desire was to bend their original god-killing purpose, and harness their immense strength to defend Aden. The results were, unfortunately, disastrous.
The awakening of the Kamael came at a high cost. To push them into the service of the Light shifted Lineage 2 Adena the natural balance of the universe. Just as there cannot be light without shadow, or summer without winter, so the benefits of the Kamael's service to Aden offset the balance elsewhere...
The Doom of Aden
Without warning, the easy Lineage 2 Adena confidence of the people of Aden was shattered. Sudden disasters were reported throughout the land: whole fields of healthy crops blighted overnight, unknown plagues laid waste to villages, and the weather itself became strange and unpredictable.
People began to pay attention to what they had previously dismissed as the ravings of the "lunatic fringe." Now those same dire prophecies of revelation and doom Lineage 2 Adena took on fresh and terrifying meaning. The sages sought to reassure the people, but their words lacked conviction, they had gazed into their crystal balls and read the cards; they too felt foreboding deep in their bones. Even the Orc shamans had prophesied that a long winter was finally about to descend.
The land's adventurers and other citizens Lineage 2 Adena had been having strange dreams, where they fought against endless hordes of shadowy enemies until overwhelmed. Some would wake up with headaches or wounds; some wouldn't wake up at all. The sages determined that the increasing tales of a dream world and the tales of prophecies had to be connected. They studied the bodies of the dream-killed and listened to the tales of the survivors. They offered a slew of competing and contradictory theories, speculations and conjectures, but there was one thing all agreed on: this was an omen of a great evil Lineage 2 Adena advancing towards Aden. To discover the exact nature of the threat, the sages feverishly scanned the stars and gazed deep into their crystals.
The Discovery of Kamaloka
It was a tremendous undertaking, but the sages' efforts finally bore fruit as the symptoms Lineage 2 Adena of the crisis revealed their true nature one by one. The deadly dreamland was, they determined, a realm created by the power of darkness. The sages named it "Kamaloka," the place between the real world and Hell. It was an apt name, the monsters encountered there, the Kaneus, were the stuff of nightmares.
