Orphana is a world of refugees. The world has existed since the beginning of any recorded history. The first people to settle in Orphana were fleeing their home world, which was about to be destroyed by a world war. The refugees found a beautiful world teeming with life and magical energies. As they explored the world, they found cities that were perfectly preserved, as if they had been built just the previous day. Strangely, there were no signs that anyone had ever lived in any of these cities; there were no graves, no storehouses of food, no personal items, nothing but a bunch of empty buildings. Eventually the refugees settled into the largest city that they assumed was the capital and worked on beginning their new lives on Orphana. For a number of generations their numbers grew, as did their civilization in peace and quiet. Then, one day, an army was seen advancing down a mountain pass towards their beautiful city of skyscrapers and light. A militia was quickly formed to face the oncoming threat, but the Orphanians as they were calling themselves now, had never had a need for an army so were untrained and unprepared. As the Orphanian militia marched out of the city to meet the oncoming army, their leader Darsil rode ahead to meet with the enemy commander in the hopes of coming to a peaceful compromise. Darsil found the enemy army to be made up of barbarians who fought and raided just for the sake of warfare. After speaking with their commander, Darsil figured that the army must have somehow stepped through a hole out of their world and into Orphana. Hoping to resolve the entire ordeal peacefully, Darsil suggested that the commander retrace his armies step so they could get back into their world, but the enemy commander just laughed. He said it didn’t matter where they were as long as there were riches to be had. Having said that, the enemy commander drew his sword and lunged at a surprised Darsil. Shocked, Darsil held out his arm hoping to stave of the attack, but to everyone’s surprise something else happened. A sword appeared in Darsil’s hand upon which the enemy commander impaled himself. Being a bright man, Darsil used the momentary confusion to escape the enemy encampment and made his way back to his own troops. Once safely there, he took the time to marvel at the strange sword that had come in to his possession. It seemed to be made for him and him alone. The handle was just the right length, it was the perfect weight and length; everything about the sword was perfect. Always a curious man, Darsil planned a test to determine where the sword came from. Calling one of his lieutenants into his tent, Darsil swung his sword at him. As the sword drew nearer the lieutenant, he put his arms out in front him in a vain attempt to block the blow. Then came the ringing sound of metal hitting metal and as the lieutenant opened his eyes he found that he was holding a strange looking spear and had blocked the strike with it. Quickly apologizing to the lieutenant, Darsil explained what had happened to him and how he decided a test to see if the same thing would happen with his men. Having confirmed that the strange weapons somehow came from his people, Darsil had his men concentrate and practice until the all had their own unique weapons. With each weapon, it seemed that it had been made specifically for its wielder so as to maximize their abilities. So it was that the next day when they met the invaders on the battle field that the Orphanians won what they had at first thought was an impossible battle.

For the next few years, Darsil and many others studied the strange new weapons. When they noticed that a weapon vanished when its wielder died and that others couldn’t seem to wield another’s special weapon, they concluded that the weapons were in fact some extension of the person who wielded them. Also they noticed that the weapons seemed to awaken some latent abilities in the wielders, ranging from increases in physical abilities to outright control over magic. Realizing the power and danger these weapons represented, Darsil gathered everyone who had unlocked their powers and with them started a school to train others in controlling their powers and in the proper usage of said power.

Many centuries later, the school has grown to massive proportions even as the Oprhanians themselves have spread out and grown in number as well. As they expanded, the Orphanians discovered that their world was in fact a sort of hub for the multiverse. What that meant was it was rather easy to travel from Orphana to other worlds, or vice versa. Fear of invasion, and the occasional threat of an actual invasion led the Orphanins to turn to the Academy, the school that Darsil had founded. Graduates of the Academy were known as Seekers, and it was these Seekers that protected Orphana from invasion. As time progressed though, Orphana began to take an interest in the affairs of other worlds. So Seekers were sent out to explore and observe other worlds. Their explorations made them many friends and enemies and led to the establishment of the Orphana Confederation. The Orphana Confederation was made up of a number of different allied worlds that decided to make Orphana their capitol. Since then a number of wars have been waged against the Confederation and actual armies had to be built in addition to the Seekers in order to stave off invasion. Due to that the Seekers took on a new role. They now served as the guardians of justice, explorers, and protectors.

Things have been going great for the Orphana Confederation since then. The Seekers are making new earth shattering discoveries every day from their travels, there hasn’t been a war in decades, and things seem to be going very smoothly. There are some troubling reports from the outer worlds of the Confederation though. The fringe worlds claim to have encountered powerful unnatural creatures that seemed bent on the total destruction of everything they encountered. But there is no way they could be true, could it? Then there are those troubling rumors that a splinter group of Seekers is striving to overthrow the Confederation and rule the worlds themselves, but the Seekers will neither deny it nor confirm it. Also, spy reports show that some of the Confederations old enemies are building up their armies again. Hmmm, maybe things aren’t going as smoothly as I thought. Contact the Seekers, I may need their help.