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Tales of the Dark Age

05/13/1212

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This world was meant to be somewhat similar to our world but the Dark Gods of the Hellborn decided to mess that up, a war between the Pantheon of Order and the Pantheon of Chaos raged. Order prevailed and the Earth Mother had to stick the world back together after the Dark Goddess, Larißa, ate up much of the earth. With the world stitched back up like Frankenstein's monster, life thrived and fixed the arcane scarred world with a few Geomantic spells twisting and turning some of the tectonic plates displacing many Dwarven mountain holds and causing much of the wars that will consume the world.   The first races were the Elves, the Dwarves and the Cold-Blooded Lizardmen calling themselves as the Cuetzpalin. The Cuetzpalin believed that they are the children of the Old Gods and see themselves as the heirs to this world. The Elves of the island-continent of Erethdion would challenge them with that statement as they believed they were chosen by their Gods as the rightful rulers of this world. The Dwarves stayed out of their affairs more interested with the riches beneath the earth. The Cold-Blood Cuetzpalin and the Gold Skinned, Warm-Blood Elves known as the Sun Elves (or Zundarii) at this point in time, were embroiled in a cold war until the two races fought together side-by-side against the Endless Legions of Khaos Daemons that still remember the humiliating defeat centuries ago. Defeated a second time the daemons ran back into the hell-portals from where they once came. Both the Cuetzpalin and Sun Elves ceased their old rivalry and went to lick their wounds they suffered from the decades long war.   Soon the races of Man, Ork and several others of the Old World came into the world unforgiving and full of monsters that see them as a tasty snack. Man spread throughout the world settling in numerous locations. The Orkz came from the mountains and with the Orkz, came the Goblins and a stronger and bigger version of Ork was the Druk-i. All three of them became the mortal enemy of the Dwarves, taking over their mountain holds and populating the arid and desert areas known as the Badlands. Controlling many monstrous creatures for the Orkish military. The Race of Man split into three groups: the Holy, the Vampiric and the Heretical. The Holy became the race of men who allied themselves with the Elves and Dwarves to fight off the Orkz, Vampires and of course, the Hellborn. The Vampiric are those who strive to gain immortality through vampirism. Starting in the desert kingdoms of Akhna by the physician Ngozi trying to bring his dead wife back. His work became dangerous and was kicked of Akhna only to back destruction to the Pharaohs or Priest-Kings, creating the first Necromantic threat. Ankara of Lahmazzash, an priestess-queen, got her hands on one of Ngozi's works and she herself became the first vampire the world has ever seen. Those who still follow Ngozi or Ankara became known as the Twilight Aristocracy or the Night Lords. Finally the men of Skanda and the dread arctic poles devoted themselves to the mortal enemy of the Old Gods. Vikings, Ironclad Legionaries and mutated human-animal hybrids known as the beastmen all serve the Pantheon of the Hellborn.   This world and its people are meant for a game setting like Warhammer Fantasy/40k. It will possibly have stories like the Lord of the Rings or GoT within this setting. There will be Lore and special characters but mostly meant for game play.

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