They say God existed once,but now she is either dead or abandoned the world,long time ago.They say humanity's sins weighed too much for them.God left the world,and only her fragmets are left behind.Finally they say,God left behind the Decay as punishment for humanity's crimes.The decay's only purpose is to devour everything what humanity built,with time.The Decay is not something,its somewwhere.Its a place,somewhere beyond space and time.Its a world with its own rules.From time to time monstrous creatures crawl out from the Decay called Seekers.They use fissions called "Rifts" to travel from the Decay to the world.The only way to close to clore theese rifts is to kill the monster whose body contains the core(KeyHolders).This core supplies the energy needed to open the rift,without one the rift collapses.There are very rare occasions called "Tunnels" where the Rifts are no powered by monsters.No one exactly understand how the tunnels work,but the only way to close a tunnel to go to the Decay and seal it from the other side.It can save many lifes,but the Decay is certain death for anyone who dares to step foot on its land.The seekers are divided into 7 groups and 10 grade.:
1.Hauntling:Its the most common and weakest group of the seekers.They mostly look like some animal,but they are at least 2 times stronger than the given animal,and their eyes are always totally black,giving away their corrupted nature.They can be taken down by nearly any citizen if proceeded with care.Their biggest danger lays in their nunmber.
2.Bladespawn:They are mostly weird looking creatures,mostly resembles to the manequins,but they have sharp blades instead of their arms ..They can be very difficult to take down depending on their grade,but they dont pose a big theat to big groups of humans.
3.Crawlers:Maybe they was once animals,but they have deformed to the level,they cant be recognised.Their look is very variable depending on their grade ,but they are mostly four-legged and have a very big maws.They usually have spikes on their back,and the weakest ones are usually as big as an adult tiger.They can be very dangerous,if you see one and you are not a Nightsade the only chance to survive is running.
4.Shades:Theese things are the closest to what you would call a human.The only difference is they are at least 4 meters(13,12ft) tall and pitch black.They don't have crawls or any visible weapon,but they are very fast and their punches can broke through steel without breaking a sweat.They are very dungerous,NEVER try to confront one without help.From 3rd grade they can wipe out entire cities.
5.Behemoth-These things are like a stronghold.They are minimally 50 meters(164,04ft) tall.There was only one Behemoth ever recorded in Germany in 2012 was called "The Leviathan"It looked like a serpent,with blue scales,and it was 75 meters (246ft) long.Its scales was though to break through even for the strongest Nightshades.Before it was taken down by the combined efforts of 12 apostle ,it killed nearly 1 billion citizens and destroyed half of Germany.
Based on the tendency of what we know about the hiearchy of the Seekres its likely that,even stronger ones exist among them.The scariest thing is,from the 3rd grade Shades,the Seekers,posses some level of inteligency.There are NOT any record,about anyone ever saw a Grade 5,or higher Shade,but its likely,Grade 10 Shade posseses inteligence comparable Humanity.We are lucky,because God took pity on humanity before leaving and gave us one last chance to redeem ourselfs,called NighShades.They are humans,who gained great power,comparable to seekers.But,before we could breathe a sigh of relief,it turned out,every NighShade have and deadly flaw.Bigger the power,bigger its flaw is.Mostly they don't seem THAt big deal,but with using their flaw perfectly even a normal human can take down the strongest NightShade.They are divided into 7+1 groups.
Blessed-They are freshly awakened NighShades,they are mostly 3 or 4 times stronger than a citizen in a good health.
Sage-They are NightShades who honed their skills to the level,they can take on 5 BladeSpawns grade 1 in the same time
High Sage-To became a High Sage you have to have the power to fight Grade 3 bladespawns.We are stepping to the super human level of power.
Sentinel-If you managed to became a Sentinel nearly all you problems are solved for life,you never have to worry about money again,but to Achieve this level,you have to kill one KeyHolder.Don't forget,Keyholders are always stronger than their normal brothers.
Hight Sentinel-To Achieve this level,you have to be able to kill a keyholder by yourself.If you can achieve this level,its not a lie to say,that you are above the law,at this point only the stronger hunters and your morals stop you from commiting crimes.Goverments can't stop you.
Imperator-If you achieved this level,you are someone very special.You have the power to kill a Grade 3 Shade,and survive even againts a Grade 4.
Protector-They are the pinnecle of human power.They can take on Grade 4 Shades on their own.If you achieved this level,accept my gratulation,you are living as a king/queen.You can have anything you want in the world.
12 Apostle-They are very special ones,they are the ones,who killed the Leviathan.The only way to become on of them,to defeat one of them in a 1v1 battle in front of the others.Their power is so strong,its not exaggeration to call them demi gods.I hope,my intels,helped you,young NightShade to understand better our situation,and the dangers thats lurking in your way.I sincerely hope,my intels one day save at least one life.