Important World Events

The world of Presia is ancient and eventful, filled with the rise and fall of empires and wars of unification and separation. The world was engulfed by plagues and magical outbursts. Below are some of the events that shaped the continent as it rose to prominence in the wider wrold.
==The disappearance of the stars (Year: Unknown)==
The presian skyline consists of 1 sun, 2 small moons, and no stars. The Elves have a myth that explains this, which says that when their sky deity died, all celestial bodies disappeared for a month to mourn them, but the stars did not return. The skyline was also changed by this event as there was 1 moon orbiting the planet, but there were 2 when the celestial bodies returned. This is somewhat supported by the fact that there are very ancient elven murals that depict the sky with 1 moon and with stars. The matter of the fact is while the Presian continent can not perceive any stars, the continents of Dwere and the Horde homeland have stars in their skies, which is supported by the fact that Dwerian worship revolves around the stars and their manifestation in the Dwerian gods.
==The Sentient Undead (Year: *placeholder*)==
On the night of October 17th, a massive beam of light emerged from the highest peak in the Sheiding mountain range; A beam so powerful it could be spotted from both edges of the continent. Swiftly, both Alalsasaria and Givilith prepared teams to investigate the causes of this beam of light. However preliminary investigations were unable to find anything relating to the cause of it or any percieved effects. 
Three days after the appearance of this mysterious beam, the sighting of undead shot up all across the mainland. At first it was shrugged off as an anomaly but as the number of undead soon increased, with entire cemeteries rising at once, it was quite clear that there was an issue. For the next month, undead rose relentlessly all across Presia and started attacking anything and anyone in sight, forcing the nations of Alalsasaria and Givilith to go on lockdown for four months as they tried to sort out the undead problem that suddenly arose seemingly due to the beam of light.
After the dust had settled for the most part, a new kind of undead had emerged through the chaos. A sentient race or undead folk, who had retained their sanity and their memories in their undead form, had begun to appear on the continent. This kind of undead while not unheard of is very rare in the lower types of undead, so it was highly unlikely that they were caused by anything other than the light itself. 
At the beginning, governments moved to hunt down these sentient undead, no different to the other dead raised by the mysterious light, however after a lot of effort by the undead and activists within the countries, the undead were allowed to continue living within the borders of the country, being alloed to regain their old identities if possible. However, many cities enstated rules that sentient undead must cover their bodies in thick clothing to hide the fact that they are dead, deeming their existence a distrubance to public peace. These rules remain to this day in many cities.
Since then, many theories about the sentient undead have come to light; predominantly believing that the undead have retained their sentience due to the fact that their souls have remained attached to their bodies for reasons relating to mortal life and that eventually their souls will pass on, leaving the body to g feral. Due to this, the stigma that undead may go feral at any moment has spread throughout Presia, and the sentient undead are treated as second class citizens in many parts of the continent. Similarly, this has sparked an interest in most Sentient Undead to seek a way to return their bodies to life.
==The Genicde wars==
The Genocide wars are detailed in their own page, detailed here: The Genocide Wars