A History of Spirits

The first "maramals" - the base species believed to be affected by the spirits - begin to show. The first maramals were of many different spirits, the land seemingly fragmented by several hundreds of spirits, occupying very few pockets of Earth. The origins of these first peoples are not clear and still debated.

The first days of the hyphi weren’t easy to pass. People with fungi skin show in the historical record around year 10, but the life was so tough they didn’t show as a cultural force until 124.

The Day of Fires, or by their other names: The Vulaen Fires, The Bog Fires, The Violin Fires, the Fires of Wailing, was a recent major shift in the spirit territories. It started with the Vulaen territorities, current theories going as such:   The Vulaen were a culture of music and festivities. Through these festivities, the spirit of fire was invoked often. Currently theorists have guesssed the frequent invokations allowed the spirit to make a claim on the land. This claim manifested in one day in 838, on the 7th month and 19th day, when the region entirely was engulfed in flames.   Various descriptions have described the day as near as apolcalytpic as the day of Dawning it's self. It's said in the neighbouring Innihan terrorities saw smoke from above the mountains pour for months. The ingrithid reported the sun shrinking from visibility in the resulting smog. While those who lived in the Audian Mountains described the resulting lights from the fires being like the sun never set.   Those who survived the fires sport extensive burning across their bodies. Many also have either suffered deafness or gone mute. While before the fires, vulaen music was almost common place in Alkgnir, it is now a rare spectacle.   One thing noted, espcially by denzians of the Audian mountains, was the song that overwhelmed the region. Throughout the fires instruments could be heard: sometimes deafeening war drums, sometimes violin that sounded like it was being played nearby. Towards the end of the fires, when they burned half as bright and the landscape was ash, it was said the music turned to wailing before the region fell silent.