Nimdor
In the ruined world after the Maridyn's Wrath, Nimdor, a Giant of unparalleled strength and cunning, became infamous as a relentless killer. He reveled in destruction, his colossal size and mastery of brute force making him a force of nature on the battlefield. His contempt for the Divine was unmatched, his every action a defiance of the judgment that had reshaped the world.
Nimdor’s hatred for Humanity and the Divine shaped his ambitions. He rejected the flood's moral lesson, seeing it not as a call for repentance but as proof of the Divine’s oppression. In Nimdor’s eyes, the flood was not a punishment but a challenge—a call for the strong to dominate the weak.
The Founding of Kish
On the western shores, where the waters of the flood receded last, Nimdor established the kingdom of Kish, the first of its kind in the post-flood world. Kish was a kingdom of domination, its foundation built upon the subjugation of the weak. Nimdor gathered a following of giants, many of whom shared his hatred for the Divine. Together, they carved out a domain, enforcing their will upon scattered human survivors and other species struggling to rebuild.
Kish was a brutal kingdom where strength determined status. Nimdor crowned himself its king, claiming divine authority in mocking parody of the Divine’s true order. He fashioned for himself a throne of bones and stone, symbolizing his defiance and his belief that he alone could dictate the world’s fate.
The Subjugation of the Gnomes
Nimdor continued the subjugation of the Gnomes, exploiting their diminutive size and clever minds for the benefit of the Giants. Nimdor viewed them as tools—an extension of his will—and pushed them to the brink with unrelenting demands for innovation and servitude.
When the Flood occurred, many gnomes turned to the Divine for solace, believing the catastrophe a chance for redemption. Nimdor, however, sought to use the gnomes to further his rebellion against the Divine. He sowed doubt in their ranks, encouraging them into a dangerous experiment which was supposedly intended to protect them from the Corruption plaguing the post-flood world. The experiment, known as the Organism Ooze Polymorphism Situation, was an attempt to inoculate life itself against Corruption through magical manipulation of gnomish physiology.
The experiment was a catastrophic failure for the gnomes. Instead of immunity, the gnomes were transformed into Plasmoids—ooze-like humanoids with unstable forms and a fractured sense of identity. This unintended outcome horrified the gnomes, but Nimdor saw it as a fitting curse for their perceived weakness. He mocked their suffering and forced them to continue serving Kish, leveraging their new forms to create magical weapons and tools.
Many plasmoids view their transformation in the light of Nimdor’s defiance of the Divine, blaming him for the outcome. To them, it was a declaration that he would remake the world in his image, using even the weakest to serve his purposes. To Nimdor, the Divine’s creation was a flawed experiment, and he sought to prove his superiority by reshaping it with his own hands.
The Downfall of Nimdor
Nimdor’s reign of terror did not last forever. His ambition and cruelty drew the ire of other species, including the early Eladrin and Dwarves, who viewed him as a threat to the fragile balance of the post-flood world. A coalition of species rose against Kish, waging a desperate war to dismantle Nimdor’s kingdom. The tide of the war shifted in their favor when Goliath tribes joined from the east.
In the final battle, Nimdor met his end at the hands of a goliath warrior, Elenas, who after slaying the giant cast his corpse into The Cleft. With Nimdor’s death, his kingdom fell out of the control of the giants, its survivors scattering into the wilderness. His kingdom was taken over by Elenas, and its name was changed to Elensirae.
