Dawnforge

It’s been about 180,000 years since the Dawnforge, the event of which the land owes its name. The Dawnforge was the destruction of the midnight, and the birth of the new world. The midnight was a godless time, Demons warred with Devils, who warred with Hobgoblins, who warred with Orcs. The Cinder Wastes of what would become Dawnforge, burned bright, fueled by the ferocity of war, and burning on the blood of the fallen. Maglubiyet, the goblinoid god of war, was unfortunately the first god to touch the world. Baphomet, the demon lord was next, followed by Tiamat, the dragon goddess of evil, to rule over the demons. Gruumsh, the orc god of storms and war was the final of the original evils. But in the darkest shadows of the midnight stirred another god. Tharizdun, God of eternal darkness(A long pause). From the west came a new power, the beginning of the dawn. You see all nights must end, but(a beat) it is darkest before dawn. Tiamat, saw the first rays of light and began to prepare. First she severed her 5 heads, and let them grow into the first chromatic dragons, white, green, blue, black, and red. They grew into their own dragons and became the first of their kind, it was only a matter of days before Tiamat had regrown her heads. But, she made a mistake. A pool of her blood was struck by a ray of dawn and from it, Bahamut, dragon god of good was born. The rest of the gods prepared as well, but all were too hasty and allowed light to strike them. The first good touched the cinder wastes. The ‘Dawn Kin’ as they came to be known, were as follows: Bahamut, dragon god of good., Heironeous, god of chivalry and valor, who became the leader of the ranks of the dawn., Pholtus, god of light and law, who brought the first order to the wastes., Fharlanghn, god of horizons and travel, who carried the dawn upon his back. In the 20 so years of the dawn the rest of the gods came into the limelight. The Dawn war was volatile and crazed, but both sides knew how it would end. The dawn could not be stopped, light would continue to flood the world. Slowly the Cinder wastes turned to soil, and and pools of magma turned to water. The gods of evil started to flee, some hid in the shadows, places the light couldn’t reach, but Tharizdun, had a plan. He took what remained of the Cinder Wastes and created his own plane of existence, beyond the reach of the prime material plane, beyond the reach of the dawn. And so as such the Abyss was formed, a distorsion, and sinister spiral of madness, of the prime material plane, where the dawn could not touch. After creating and abandoning the Abyss, he marshalled an army against all the other gods and the primordials. The other gods defeated him, but could not destroy him so they bound and chained him in a secret location known only to them. There he festers dreaming of escape........ Many other gods took his idea, creating their own planes of existence. Some were formed as accidental bi-products of forming others. Eventually though, the material plane found balance.   (change song to a happy peaceful one)   And thus the day was anew. And 180,000 years later, nobody knows what time it is. No one knows weather we are seconds before dusk or in the pleasant glow of midday. The one thing people do know, is that life – for now – is ok. Common folk live in large cities for the most part. Markets line the streets, and kids run along sidewalks, chasing each other in make believe games, as their parents attempt to control them, to no avail. The political climate at the moment is more or less stable. But there are rumors of the occult taking root like a plague.