Rise of the Julous Dominion
In the Marrow Valley, the numerous decades following
the Divergence left the landscape blackened and inhospitable.
The remaining people struggled for food and
shelter as they wandered the rocky hills for centuries,
avoiding the colder weather of the north. Nomadic
sects of humans and halflings defended themselves
against the hungry beasts and lingering evils threatening
their homesteads, and fought with each other over
fertile land.
Small civilizations began to form amid the chaos, but
it wasn't until the central township of Zadash was established
as a safe outpost that the unification of the Marrow
Valley began. Helmed by the Julous family, supposedly
of noble blood from before the Calamity, a guarded
community with an organized military force was built in
the center of the valley around four hundred years ago.
It became both a haven for the struggling masses and a
center for agricultural expansion.
Increasing their strength with each generation, this
movement guided by the julous family became known as
the julous Dominion, stretching across the south end of
Western Wynandir. Not all agreed to join the Julous Dominion,
however. Some outliers rejected the Julous interests,
founding their own village of Kamordah on the
boiling earth of the hills in the southwest Marrow Valley.
In time, the people of Kamordah came to worship a being of primordial fire that lives beneath the mountains
and speaks to them in dreams and visions.
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