History 101
This is a very short summary of the history of my world. Hopefully it covers the main essence needed to understand my world.
It began a long time ago. Long enough that even the elves could not remember it firsthand. Six thousand years ago, there were more elves then although there was no distinction of race. The Baklandish and Suloise Empires were whimsical ideas of the Humans, and the Flanneses were mostly tribal and warlike. The dwarves delved for riches in their mines and cared not for the races above them.
The elves. It always starts with the elves. The idea was to create a series of magical gates that would allow for instant transport across the Oerth. An unusual idea for a long lived race but not everything lasted as long as the elves and this would a vast achievement of magic. Perhaps, on the surface of it all, they just wanted to see if it could be done. So they created the Gates. They were a marvel of magic creation and they did exactly what they were made for – instant travel across all the Oerth.
But, there were other functions of the gates they didn’t know about. The Demon-goddess Lolth discovered the gates and used them to corrupt the travelers in the gateways, giving birth to the Drow and the First Elven Blood war. Many of the fey folk died in that war and the world was left in ruins by the arrogance of elves. As time passed, the Humans grew and multipled – taking over the lands of the elves and the elves found themselves changed forever. Broken into different races and features, they were forever marred by the use of the gates - High Elves, Grey Elves, Wood Elves and a few others. The gates were sealed and the spells that were used to create them were locked away – supposedly forever.
Time passed. Elves and men grew to trust again, perhaps only in the realizing of the dangers of unchecked magicks. The Suloise and Baklundish empires fell in a catastrophic disaster called the Rain of Colourless Fire. The Humans left the wastelands and came over the mountains to settle in what are now Furyondy, Bissel and Keoland. Other took to the seas and forged the Kingdom of Valour on the other side of the world.
But the Elves didn’t keep to their promise. Three thousand years later and the Grey elves, figuring they had learned had to fix the mistakes of the past, worked in secret and opened the Gates once again. Lolth was not the benefactor this time. Another Demon God – Azazel Lord of the Shadow Dragons was released and took to the sky with his minions. The fallen elves rose up from death as dark insubstantial version of themselves –Shadow Elves. The grey elves ran and fleed across the Oerth, followed by the minions of Azazel. The Kingdom of Valour was decimated before they even knew what it was that attacked them. The high elves and the race of man banded together to fight. Thus began the Second Elven Blood War, and the results were more devastating than the first. Only through trickery and the powerful spells of a Human mage did Azazel become bound into his own realm again. Once more, the world rebuild itself over time, but not as it was before.
Out of the ashes of Valour came The Great Kingdom. Lead by a ruthless and cunning wizard named Vecna, the Kingdom declared elves to be the source of evil on the Oerth. They were outlawed, rounded up and executed. The Kingdom grew and grew until in became the Imperial Kingdom and the rulers - Emperors of the World. Vecna lived for many centuries spreading his power and extending his life. After he finally fell, the line of Emperors came under the name Fax, and so has ever since.
But the Empire in the last century has grown weak and is no longer so great. The nobles revel in decadence and carnal delights. The senate struggles for power and control and the current emperor spends his days locked away in his chambers with his one consort. In the pass one hundred years it has lost over 2/3 of its size to secession and open rebellion. The Legions have been fighting a losing battle to the north for a decade, attempting to take the barbarian lands. Every year the clans wait for winter and slaughter the troops in the cold and the snow, taking back all they had lost in land.
The Grey Elves stay within their own realm now, stripped of influence and power, hoping one day the world will forget what has happened. The High elves keep a tight watch on the magics. But there is a rumour that only a few hundred years ago they had to deal with one of their own – one of their best and brightest, attempting to re-open the gates. Still, that is only a rumour.
Baklundish - Mediterrian in appearance. Dark hair, white to dark tanned skin, average height
Suloise - Nordic in appearance. Blonde, blue eyes, tall
Flannese - Oriental to Native American. Darker skin, red to brown hair
High Elves - Your standard elf
Grey Elves - Shorter, Wild colouration (blue, green hair, violet eyes)
Wood Elves - stocky, stronger elves. Earth colours
Drow - Dark skinned, white hair and eyes
Shadow Elves - Look like regular elves except they have no shadow. Bodies are not solid and they are tough to kill. No Shadow elves seen in over one thousand years.
The Tired
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Posted on 2006-10-09 at 20:20:25.
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