OUTLANDERS: WILL OVER DESTINY
Architects of ritual and frozen steel. Humans who transcended Gaia's weakness to embrace the eternity of the Void.
I. The Great Schism: Why We Abandoned the "Mother"
While TessaWorld's chroniclers write odes to Gaia's supposed benevolence, we Outlanders remember the truth the world prefers to forget: abandonment. In the heights of Borea, where the air tears the lungs and sunlight is a pale memory, humanity was left to its own devices. Gaia sent no warmth, no sustenance, no protection.
Our transformation was not purely physical, but spiritual. By accepting the essence of Entropy, our blood became as cold as the permafrost of Zone 4, allowing us not only to survive but to dominate an environment the Resistance considers uninhabitable.
II. The Mask Ritual and the Ritual Hierarchy
Outlander society is articulated around secrecy and specialization. Our individual identity is sacrificed in favor of a higher cause through the Mask Ritual. Each mask of carved wood and stag bone is not a simple ornament, but a Void magic artifact.
At the top of our hierarchy are the Shamans and Void Priests. They are the ones who interpret the fluctuations of the rifts and direct the sacrificial rituals that feed Borea's Obelisks.
III. The Vanguard of Silence: Role in the Great Harvest
Many Resistance strategists make the mistake of considering us simple mercenaries for Varyn. They are wrong. Outlanders are the intellectual vanguard of Purification.
When the eternal winter finally covers Orbis, the Outlanders will be the only ones left standing. We have been purified by the cold and tempered by the shadow.