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The First Year: It is the year immediately following the banishment of the Yaurdwali te Dwauta, and the Aewylin find themselves the most powerful beings in the world, surrounded as they are by various other races cast into confusion by the ferocity of the war for Hybasa and its abrupt ending. The Aewylin themselves, however, are fired by a long wish for freedom suddenly realized, and immediately set about creating a whole new world. |
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| Seventy-eight Years Therein: The Aewylin, now naming themselves the Nonduil, found their mighty nation of Eolin, centered in a great valley in the Dardannin Mountains. Here lies their capitol of Herion, of soaring towers like knife blades, but with the strength of the surrounding mountains. From here, the Eolin will spread throughout Ansend, erecting their magnificent architecture and leaving behind tales of themselves that will become the basis of future myths and legends. | |
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One Thousand Seven Hundred Years Therein: High in the Dardannin Mountains, the Äubrekka begin to learn the art of stone working from the y'Asalla Durga and the Ahlwynna loyal to him. In keeping with this, they begin to delve deep into the mountains, searching for those minerals that are most pleasing to the eye. But even as they learn this art, they learn to infuse their creations with mighty magics, thus serving the war in Hybasa. |
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Two Thousand Years Therein: In the north western regions of Ansend, a race of men come to be called the Wendol Pwyn, or the Painted Ones. Their primitive culture becomes the foundation for most future races of Men in that region. |
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Three Thousand Years Therein: In the north eastern shores of Ansend, the Enkidai race of The People of the Mother begin to learn the rudiments of agriculture. Already fishermen with a fair understanding of their rough ocean, this allows them to prosper even further, and to spread. |
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Four Thousand Years Therein: The Joppa region is overrun by the bestial Enkidai race known simply as the beast men. So horrible are they in manners and practices that even the Aewylin do not venture into their lands. They alone serve as an effective barrier between Amtherias and Ansend. |
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| Five Thousand Years Therein: Asmoghül, or rather his unbound essence, has long since seeped into the very essence of those who live in northern Amtherias. His dark magic has created a people proficient in the dark arts, and it is these that forge the nation of Paradūs, a place of dark rites and Stygian beliefs. | |
| Six Thousand Years Therein: Early e'Gratën tribes begin to gather in the glacier-haunted northern regions of the Dardannin Mountains, while at the same time their close kin begin to wander southward into other climes, spreading what will become the many races commonly called goblin-kind. | |
| Eight Thousand Years Therein: Samildanach secretly begins to send his Eldharin emissaries among the Aewylin, whispering poison into their ears, promising power, and corrupting many great families. Slowly a schism begins to appear among the fair folk. | |
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Nine Thousand Years Therein: The temptations of Samildanach reach their fruition, and in a single bloody night Herion falls as the flames of civil war erupt. Within the year, Eolin has ceased to exist, and the Aewylin are split three ways. Those who had fallen under the spell of the Autumn were driven back and fled into the deep and dark places of the earth, and were forever known as the Lómérianduil, the Betrayers of the Mother. Those who remained loyal came to call themselves the Isadrienduil, the True of the Mother. A third faction fled beyond Ansend, across the ocean, and came to dwell beneath the northern ices of that land. They were called the Belinduil, the Mother's Wounded. Ansend was left silent, with room only for the sudden expansion of the mortal races. |
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