Arilion

4th of Palesun, 56 SA

Three centuries ago, war raged fiercely on the continent of Arilion. Playing pawns to careless deities, humans, elves, and gnomes formed a coalition which sought to rid the land of orcs, dwarves, tieflings, and their gods. Aided by celestial and fiendish powers often unseen, the two armies tore at each other for over fifty years. As a result the goddess of war, Irethia, grew exhausted and fell into a deep slumber. The time which followed was one of tenuous peace and prosperity; because the mortal races were largely unaware of the influences of the gods, the rather sudden absence of those influences left them remorseful and confused. Huge swaths of the landscape between the northern Allied Dominion and the southern Fractured Reach were laid to waste, making them largely uninhabitable to this day and earning them the name “The Defiled Lands”. Enough time has passed that the gods’ goading role in the conflict has been discovered, causing the majority of the mortal races to abandon their worship and reverence. As a result, the majority of the gods have chosen to remove themselves from the Material Plane permanently, greatly diminishing their power of influence there. Those deities which have stayed have sacrificed a majority of their former power to do so, willfully or otherwise. Relationships between the mortal races are still strained at times; being unknowingly manipulated for decades sometimes has individuals jumping at shadows.