How we got here.
Everything before the last beat is the first game. It is the background AION 2 assumes you know, and the first game's story is not spoiled here beyond what AION 2 itself tells you.
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A god, a world and a Tower
The god AION made Atreia and, at its centre, the Tower of Eternity. He also made the Drakan, a dragon-like people, to watch over it.
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Five dragons say no
Five of the Drakan's leaders, the Dragon Lords, gave up the name AION had given them and became the Balaur. One account says the Balaur were the first people AION made; another says the Drakan were. The story does not settle it.
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Twelve Lords and the first Daevas
AION answered with twelve Empyrean Lords. Using aether they raised a barrier around the Tower, and the humans sheltered inside it were given flight and power: the Daevas. The long war that followed is called the Millennium War.
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The Cataclysm
A peace meeting at the foot of the Tower went wrong and the Balaur struck. The Tower broke, the world split into sunlit Elysea and dark Asmodae with the Abyss between, and the survivors became the Elyos and the Asmodians. Each side tells it differently; the Elyos hold the Asmodians to blame. Two Lords, Siel and Israphel, are said to have given their life energy to save what they could.
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Two hundred years on
AION 2 is set about two centuries later. The Lords gave themselves to raise the Bulwark, the Daevas' power is running low, and you are one of the Daevas left outside it, on Balaur-held land.
