History

A subset of High Elves chooses to split off, and settle in the Faewood instead of more populated areas. They eventually evolved into the present-day Wood Elves.

The creation myth dictates that Baresis discovered a subset of Elves worshipping a god not in the Trogur pantheon. In his rage at this, he cursed them against Siarus' wishes, and banished them to the Underground along with the Orcs and Goblins. None of the gods could reverse the curse, and even Siarus himself failed. But Moruba, the newly contacted dark Elf goddess, could not only reverse part of it, but strengthen their minds as well. However, she could not change their new appearances: knowing that their banishment to the Underground was imminent, she instead chose to bless them with several traits that made the newly formed Dark Elves more adapted to more shadowy surroundings.

During the early years of the Age of Adventurers, Gladiators were trained to defend villages alongside the town guard, as adventurers were rare during these times. Due to attitudes at the time, they were often men, but female Gladiators certainly were not out of the question at the time. In the absence of sons in a family, women received the same training as their male counterparts. But later, they would stand at an equal position to the men, and could enroll in the class at will. It would become commonplace to see women amongst this class. At the time, Gladiators often fought in arenas during peaceful times, which would lead to their name. Due to their consistent skillsets and consistence in the items they could wield, the College of Wanderers officially acknowledged them as an adventurer class.

As more and more people chose the life of an adventurer, there was often confusion as to who worked in an adventuring party, and who worked for the town. The first group of adventurers had just saved the world from a great threat, and saw that this chaos was not helping to keep the remaining monsters at bay. Thus, the first group of adventurers of the world founded the College of Wanderers: The growing monster hordes required every able body to keep the beasts at bay, but most adventurers only learned their skills as they went. And most if them would never learn about their special abilities, believing that they were mere peasants while they held so much more potential. So some order in this chaos was needed: the College would focus on both educating beginning adventurers and invited those with potential. With the first graduates from the College, the organization would send out more powerful adventurers to handle the larger threats to the world. Through the College, the first advententurer classes were born: Gladiator, Sorcerer, and Sniper. The Gladiators proved to have exceptional skills with weapons, the Sorcerers proved to have a great aptitude for magic, and the Snipers had incredible aim with a bow.

The times during which many evil men rose to power: often, these men brought armies, and managed to sack even the greatest of cities. Some even held the thrones to entire kingdoms for a while, before brave men rose to stop them. These tyrants were called Overlords, and the adventurers managing to dethrone them were called Heroes. Conflicts between good and evil were commonplace, and it wasn't uncommon to be suffering under an iron fist one month, and be free the next.

Along many an Overlord's way to power, several small towns would be pillaged and torched. One town was often sacked by more then one Overlord, so resources were scarce due to these attacks. Famines and shortages were common. The only hope many commoners had was underground resistances plotting the takedown of these tyrants, and brave adventurers to both eliminate the tyrant's army and the tyrant themselves.

Where there were Overlords, there were resistances. Many good-aligned adventurers saw the common folk buckling under tyrannical reign, and decided that things needed to change: they would often manage to contact these resistances in some way, and eventually dethrone them by means of a small revolution.

The times in which the Orcs, Dark Elves and Goblins rioted for the permanent illegalization of owning slaves: these races have been enslaved by Overlords ever since the tyrants rose to power, and it started with a group of Orcs founding the abolitionism movement.

The day Gorax the Destoyer was slain by the Hero of Sylvenas, there was a great explosion of both positive and negative magical energy which changed the natural laws as man had come to know them.

The day that Ravgaal, Terierin and Pogvuyuk marched their army of former slaves on the stronghold of the mighty Overlord known as Alfric the Cruel. While he was not as great as Gorax the Destroyer, he defended a mighty hold of dread, and was ruling the Human Kingdom in Gorax's absence at the time. Alfric's forces famously consisted mostly of Humans, Elves and Dwarves: an extreme rarity for the times. He painted the revolution as 'dark hordes menacing the kingdom', but historians would find the truth in accounts from former slaves from the same time period.

After the fall of Alfric the Cruel, a power vaccuum was created. To prevent another tyrant from rising, the former slaves put forward Ravgaal herself. However, she passed on the honor to a particularly diplomatic Goblin named Zildrivi. This Goblin would go down in history as Zildrivi the Kind. When word of both Gorax's death and Alfric's death reached the descendants of the slain Geowald the Brave in hiding, they found it safe to resurface. They presented themselves to Ravgaal, who was serving as Zildrivi's advisor at the time, and brought them to her. The Goblin instantly abdicated with the joking words 'Ah, the the people who I kept the seat warm for are here.', and then offered the Human royal family rightful throne back.   This event served to forge an uneasy peace between the Humans, Orcs, Goblins and Dark Elves. This bond would grow over the centuries, and Humans grew accustomed to these races within their communities over time. While slavery had been abolished that day, only time and growing understanding could make the ensuing racism vanish.

The clash between Xander Ivoryvale and his Cult of Azdar, and Sayen the Undertaker and his army of Xander's undead victims. Sayen had managed to gain the support of several factions he had both aided and pleaded with during his long journey, and set out from their camp to storm Xander's stronghold within Deepview's castle. Had Xander the Mad managed to fortify this tactical position, he would've managed to breach Gelladur, and steal the Netherbane. The fallout from the magic fuelling the weapon could potentially wipe out most of the life on the planet, and it was Xander's plan to use it to kill every innocent that wasn't a white, cis Human. However, Sayen had managed to warn several authority figures of the plot: During this conflict, all mortal races of the world stood together as one to prevent this from happening, and united to defend the Netherbane. They named themselves 'The Coalition of Baresis'. When word has reached Coalition representatives that Xander had already taken over the palace at Deepview, the Coalition took swift action, and ordered this makeshift army to storm it.

Loralahne, a Warlock who had suffered grievous abuse at the hands of the Fiend lord Argathrul as a Patron, confronts her former abuser after escaping his cult which had imprisoned her. However, the way this patron treated her would eventually prove to be his downfall, and lead to the Fiend's perma-death.