Schism

The Раскол refers to the period of the First Age when there was a division between the regular and the Amalgamated villagers, where the Amalgamated were heavily persecuted by the humans.

History

After the anima twist, many of the flora, fauna, and local villagers started absorbing the anima and have mutated in shape, appearance, and function over time. Certain villagers were infused with anima, making their appearance different from that of regular villagers. This appearance would make the affected villagers seem as less than human and were the subject of many cases of violence. Many of the Amalgamated villagers were later persecuted in an unknown village, where the Glass Knives, a group of assassins named after Glass Knife, specifically targeted only Amalgamated villagers. Because of the Schism that separated the regular and Amalgamated villagers, some of the regular villagers felt no remorse, as they were worried about the dangerous potential of the Amalgamated. After these tragic killings, she was caught, but her sentence was light. As the wife of an elder, she was not publicly condemned or imprisoned for her murderous crimes. Because of many of the rising number of persecuted Amalgamated villagers, they were later rescued by the Wild Knights within the unknown village.

References

↑ Journal entry of Ancient Journal Page, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "He left. Took some of the faithful with him, those who had not fallen to our cruel prejudices."
↑ Journal entry of Studded Leather Chaps, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "The assassins called themselves the "Glass Knives" in memory of the serial killer that took the lives of so many Amalgamated."
↑ Journal entry of Iron Shield, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "She was, after all, protecting humanity. Purging impurity. Ridding them all of the Amalgamated stain on their bloodlines. In her mind, she was doing the whole village a service. A worrying number of villagers agreed with her. As the wife of an elder, her sentence was light. An act of community service, doing what was already her job. She wasn’t imprisoned. She wasn’t executed. She wasn’t publicly condemned for her crime. She laughed off over a dozen murders with a cruel, smug smile."
↑ Journal entry of Hard Leather Body, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "During the schism and the inner conflicts between 'pure' humans and the Amalgamated, Wild Knights would sneak into the village and rescue persecuted Amalgamated under the dead of night."
↑ Journal entry of Ancient Journal Page, RuneScape: Dragonwilds. "In his last moments, he tasked the Wild Knights to uphold their oaths, protecting both us from the wild and the wild from us, and then he left."