History of the Wasteland of Li'minar

Although it did not survive to this day, records tell of the Celestial Column. A device that supposedly allowed the gods to share their power with mortals. According to the surviving records, this was used as a way of bridging the understanding between gods and mortals.

The rise of Li'gnax was a welcome reprieve for the gods in Niko. After the destruction of the Celestial Column, their power had vaned and they had become unable to control the battle around Niko. With the new world tree, the battle quickly shifted to this new land.

As a reaction to Li'minar falling, many mortals began fearing for their survival. One of just three world trees had just fallen and taken a huge amount of land with it. Fearing a chain reaction a camp was founded with the express purpose of ensuring the disaster would not get worse or happen again.

As the war ended and the outsiders started helping to stop the spread of the desert that had now appeared, Nisdain quickly found itself a centre of attention as many outsiders settled here in hopes of finding clues about the fall of Li'minar.

Having realized that the state of Li'minar was stable and the expansion of the desert had stopped, many outsiders lost interest in the problem and instead preferred to use their resources elsewhere. So they spread out across E'ath and Nisdain, as well as the rest of the wasteland, lost many of its scholars and powerful individuals.

As the years went by, the Holy Order of Druid only gained political power and with it their chokehold of Nisdain and by extension the rest of the wasteland. As the years passed and the situation became increasingly critical as the wasteland had relied on trade for food, the inhabitants of Niko and the rest of the wastelands began looking for food elsewhere. The Gulf of Li'minar quickly became a primary food source, but its unpredictable currents meant that boats could not fare far enough away from the coast to feed everyone. The solution eventually came in the form of diplomatic relations with aquatic races that had somehow made the gulf a home for themselves when no one believed the waters to be habitable.

Although slower to act the gods too saw the threat of Li'minar dying. They had lost many followers in the war with the great evil and needed to gather more followers before they could once again act and influence the world. The first such influence came in the form of visions of revelations telling their most devout followers to go and help save Li'minar.

Although Zemos did not have many followers it still made the Holy Order of Druids nervous when he moved to the Wasteland of Li'minar. According to records Zemos stated that he did not want to rock the balance but merely help mortals analyze the state of Li'minar.

Equipped with the knowledge of Zemos' studies, many now set out to apply it to Li'minar. After almost a century, this finally paid off and many of those who had worked on the project reported that the tree had once again begun to grow. Although scholars today are not able to measure the growth and no outsiders were able to verify the claims, many still agree that real progress was made.

As the invasion of the Wasteland of Li'minar progressed the Holy Order of Druids increasingly gained a strong foothold. In the end, they had almost complete control over the wasteland except for the area around Zemos' library. This was allowed to stand until the third archdruid died and the new archdruid wanted new achievement. The library then became their next target.