Auphan

In the time before the first age, the gods came down from their realm to touch the land, filling it with all they knew. Some created structures, massive mountains and boundless crevasses throughout the world. From the greatest heights soared creatures those of the Second Age could never fathom, and in the depths, leviathans of unimaginable size and strength roamed about on the floors of the oceans.   It was during this time that the gods would go on to create the First Men, these were the Nephilim or "children of the gods". Having no concept of relative power, the gods created supermen, capable of untold strength, feats of bravery, and nearly immortal in their lifespans. It was then that the First Age of Man would come to dawn.   During this First Age, the Nephilim would come to conquer the land, subduing it to their will and creating for themselves vast cities and various civilizations. The gods continued to oversee their activity quite closely, looking out over the things that they created and watching them interact with what they had placed along the ground and in the sea. In the First Age, there was little to no the reason for war, crops grew and people lived as they wished: birthing families and living in glorious harmony.   In the five thousandth year of the First Age came about the first of the natural disasters, an earthquake, that which rocked the very foundation of the world, tearing rifts along the great mountains to the east, creating new ones across the great sea to the south, and destroying nearly all that the First Men had come to build. With this great earthquake, many lives had been lost, some thought it to be meant as an extinction against the Nephilim as punishment for deviating from the will of the gods, others viewed it as the end of days. This event and those that would follow, including tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, violent thunderstorms, hurricanes, and other natural disasters marked the beginning of the second age.   The Second Age of Man has been widely regarded as the dawning of True Man. These are meeker in nature, weaker, cowardly, but stubborn in their will to survive. Disasters became less frequent in their occurrence, but retained much of their potency and that it kept man on their knees. Constant conflict became the norm as resources and land that had yet to be devastated became more scarce. This brings us to the current time, the four thousandth and sixty-third year of the Second Age of Man.