His unnatural charisma lead the Church of Ancients to span worldwide and gather hundreds of thousands of members. XivassвЂ™ power provided Shepherd with the ability to influence and charm the masses. Another shred of XivassвЂ™ soul now lived within Shepherd and provided a multitude of unnatural powers. From this moment, they worked together to form the cult and to amass a following of devout believers to command. Xivass agreed to share his power with Shepherd and in exchange, Shepherd would recruit a following of worshippers greater than the tribe he had ruled centuries ago. Touching the Phylactery set loose XivassвЂ™ soul for a brief moment and allowed him to make a deal with Shepherd. Through the Phylactery he could silently observe (but not interact with) the world he was sealed off from. When touching the orb, it revealed itself to be XivassвЂ™ вЂњ PhylacteryвЂќ a pure evil object made of dark magic that acted as the creatureвЂ™s failsafe, the artefact contained a shred of XivassвЂ™ soul that linked him to the material plane (even in banished). Upon the altar depicting a mysterious god, Shepherd found the Black Orb. When exploring this forgotten civilisation, he climbed the stone pyramid at the heart of the city and found a hidden temple inside. They came across what looked like an empty jungle until stepping inside the boundry of the spellвЂ™s effect when the curse was lifted and the ancient civilisationвЂ™s legacy became visible. This lead them exactly to the place they were looking for. The Unit was left with a detailed map of the world with a blank un-plottable region left empty exactly where Parts Unknown is situated. Shepherd worked out that by plotting out every area on earth left Parts Unknown as the only place in the entire world that was unable to be pinpointed. This was until Shepherd lead an expedition with his private military unit to discover to mysterious land that was magically impossible to find.

Parts Unknown lay completely undiscovered for centuries, the curse that lay upon the land made the location un-plottable and invisible to anyone who attempted to go there. For a long time there was nothing the only sign that a civilisation had ever stood on that barren landscape was a desolated city of ruined stone buildings and a Black Crystal Orb. As Xivass was pulled away from the material plane his вЂњBite the dustвЂќ curse was activated and all life nearby was destroyed. The tribe fell in vain and Xivass was banished by the holy power of the ClericвЂ™s holy rituals. The tribe stood their ground and valiantly fought of the invaders until the Christian missionaries arrived and Xivass became unable to fight them off. This civilisation stood for quite a while before the English arrived and tried to claim the land by force. When Xivass first came to power, he did so in Parts Unknown by raising a primitive civilisation in his own image to devoutly worship him.

Phylactery of the shepherd