History of the World

Many many millennia ago, it was believed that the Prime Divinities were born from the light-birth of the universe, and began to search across the universe, finding themselves and formulating who they are. In there travels, they happened upon the planet known as Aetheus and found the Primordial Titans.

The mythical battle between the Gods and Primordial Green fight and win against the Primordial Titans and Linnorm Dragons. The world of Aetheus becomes the domain of the Prime Divinities and the Primordial Green. There they share their divine essence and give life to many of the mortal races.

From the destruction wrought against the Titans and the Giants, the Elves and the Dwarves - the Abyss drew closer to the Mortal Realm... and the Chained Oblivion broke through the barriers of the world and entered Aetheus, spelling ruin and desolation. The continents were thrown into disarray, the mortal races died by the millions, as God fought God, and the Diabolical Ones seized their moment to claim power and slay the Prime Divinities and the Primordial Green. Many were corrupted by the essence of the Abyss, and Tharizdun's desire to end the universe. Only through a combination of the great powers that be, the works and blessings and prayers of the mortal races - the gods granted them new magics and powers... fighting off numerous foes and horrors, the Diabolical Ones were all eventually sealed in prisons across the cosmos. The great empires and civilisations of old were cast off as shadows, and remnants of something lost and forgotten. A shadow of what they once were. The mortal races endured, and stood vigilant against the storms and destruction that wracked their world and their divinities - no one came out of this apocalyptic conflict unscathed. Though, the last millennia of the Divine War the world sought to rebuild itself, with mankind taking charge. Most of the continent had taken a new shape, and the people's of Aetheus sought prosperity, and to take full advantage of the magics they now possessed, leading into the Arcane Era.

The era in which the mortal races became profoundly advanced and powerful through the study and experimentation in the arcane arts. The Elves & Dragonborn were particularly the most advanced - capable of creating self-sufficient flying citadels and cities and towns powered by different forms of magic and enchanted materials (Dragonshards, Brumestone). Mankind took to magic like moths drawn to a flame; going further and further beyond what was thought possible, able to turn storm clouds into castles of diamonds, be able to clone their bodies, bring back the dead and command them... here the first Liches came, one in particular came to power, Vecna, one mortal that sought to achieve godhood. Others mortals achieved godhood, one managed to slay and take the role of divinity of death, their name now forgotten save for the title (the Raven Queen). Here, it was felt through the power of magic that they were indistinguishable to actual gods... and thus, saw no reason to give themselves to the worship of the original deities. Others experimented with positive and negative energies of the world - the very fabric of reality, trying to take control of time and space... with devastating results. The Golden Age ended once one being sought to harness the power of the evil deities, the Diabolical Ones... their arrogance and hubris knew no bounds, believing they were stronger than the deities... and were manipulated to unleash them from their initial prisons, and inevitably causing the second divine battle of the world. Thrusting the world into a terrible point of darkness and devastation - unleashing the demons that have been biding their time in the Abyss, and Tharizdun unleashing madness and utter annihilation upon the world.

Due to the hubris of the classical magocracies of the world, the pursuits of Vecna and his rise of the undead kingdom of Articuno in the Southern Poles - the machinations of the gods were put to the test, as an errant and ambitious archmage called out for power from the Diabolical Ones, and unleashed their terror upon the world once again - in a greater war than the Divine War, though the world was much more prepared, and mortals joined in the battle against the armies of the Diabolical Gods. Here, gods were slain, corrupted further, and plotted and schemed between them and their factions - the Diabolical Ones rose and joined one another in a Great Convocation in Articuno - heresies and extinctions and destruction perverted the world once more, reforming it as the battleground spread worldwide. The powers of the Gods faltered and waned, but were standing triumphant as they enacted their most ambitious and sacrificial plot yet - sealing and banishing the Great Convocation of Diabolical Ones for good across different planes and realms of the universe, using the Rites of Primal Banishment, the gods stepped out of the light of the world for the last time, and shielded the world in the Divine Gate, and so the Divergence severed the divines from their children, hoping to protect them and sever the ties of the world. The Elves attempted to flee from the realm, but were thrown across the planes in a terrible planar incident after the abandonment and departure of their god, Arvanos. Lost for the centuries to come.

With the Divine Gate sealed, and the continents smoking in the aftermath of the Cataclysm - the mortal races began to prosper in relative ease, though rebuilding their civilisations, and claiming dominance of power. The mortal races scrambled for supremacy in the early days, the remnants of the Founding Nations that survived the Cataclysm less than worse for wear engaged in territorial battles, resource wars and the recollections of magic and divinity left to the world in the aftermath of the God's departure. Early on, magic was largely persecuted and laden with blame for the destruction wrought by the Cataclysm. With the Elves missing, humanity rose to dominance, the dwarves rebuilt an homage to their ancient civilisation of the Alloyar Shaperate and crowned the first Tetrarch in millennia, the Halflings seeking a new homeland, the Banaethlin Empire reuniting amongst themselves in Banaethlin, the Viragonate of the Orcs being forged under a brutal conquest by a great warlord and claiming the lands of Gwynngilliad, conflicting against the last vestiges of the Elves as they were corrupted and usurped by the Dark Powers and endeavoured into vampirism for their own survival. Ankh'hera stood as the pinnacle of the Aetha'Shar continent, rivalled closely by Ozon'Cerull. The Dragonborn worked to repair and reshape their floating citadels that stood proud in the Arcane Era. Other lands were left to become forgotten and isolated for further centuries, Zigaura left to bloom in the light of the Primordial Green - the Drow left to lick their wounds and conflict against the Duergar deep within the Underdark. The Great Burrow Wars occurred between the Gnomes and the Kobolds early on, seeking the final genocide between their races.

At the end of the Century of Broken Magic, with the ley-lines of magic reignited with great power, and the Dragonborn having survived, though short in number, and rebuilt portions of their great citadels across the world in their isolated isles - one by one the Great Dragonaughts launched into the skies once more. From there the dragons reconvened, and worked towards the re-establishment of their old power and prominence; though in a great religious schism, the Chromatics and the Metallics debated and divided themselves into differing sects of thought - no longer worshipping in tandem the Platinum Dragon and the Vice Maiden, only one or the other. Defined by the strongest of their respective spectrums of colour and metal, the Red Dragonaught and the Gold Dragonaught decided to go their separate ways and dictate the future of dragon and draconic kind.