History of Kryllos

In a covert action, Giants freed the mortals enslaved by the Primordials. Mankind discovered how to forge iron/steel instead of working solely in bronze, and the nearly immortal Primordials proved vulnerable to weapons of iron.

The tide turned against the self-absorbed Primordials, shifted by the captives they once considered pathetically frail and weak. Those Primordials who weren't utterly wiped out during mankind's insurrection were driven into exile, hibernated, and are now thought extinct... though some few live on as dragons of Kryllos.

Unfortunately, the damages done to the environment by prolonged warfare left scarcely any resources for the Giants and mortals to subsist upon.

Divine magic (healing; miracles) was prominent and most tribes were polytheistic and theocratic, commonly ruled by warlords. Deities communed with their worshippers, at times walking the world amongst men.

A centuries long religious war intent on exterminating Fae - purging the world of supernatural beings deemed impure or unholy.

Immediately after Starfall, civilization was disrupted and thrust into a Dark Age - a period of intellectual and cultural decline, some tribal 'survival of the fittest' mentality amongst the survivors. With the loss of the ability to commune with gods, mistrust and superstition were rampant. Some began experimenting with Witchrock.   Two surviving minor principalities, formerly small duchies/fiefdoms or petty kingdoms before Starfall, that were fortunate enough to be lifted above the devastation and survive semi-intact begin reforming into 'modern' world powers - Aetheria Dominion and Skyfront Republic.

A man named Nyseris Aralon, calling himself 'The Prophet' emerges, evangelizing the 'One True God.'
He is able to cast magick without Witchrock and claims to be able to commune with heaven. Some claim he is Veremund returned.
The Aetherian Dominion brand him a heretic and he is betrayed, captured, and martyred - cast off the edge of a floating landmass, falling to his death in the undead wasteland below.

With the Old Gods no longer responding to prayer or delivering miracles, society begins gradually drifting toward a monotheistic belief system focused on governing one's conduct in the present life - rejecting the pleasures of the physical world as evil.

With the dominant superpowers engaged in cold war infighting, they fail to notice the rising prominence of 'The One Faith' or 'Mother Church', followers of The Allfather and his son Nyseris Aralon (The Prophet.) The faithful grow in numbers, their tithes bolstering the Church's coffers.
  With missionaries proslytizing the faith across borders it becomes a dominant cultural force nearly capable of challenging the dominance and authority of the Skyfront Republic and the Aetherian Dominion.   The centre of the faith is the ACH GYATSO (similar to the Vatican), atop Mount ZHIDI'YA, currently led by His Eminence, the Exalted Patriarch TASHI.