The Creation of the World according to the DM

### Religion

All Religions are correct to a certain degree. The First one was the equivalent of Reb, Uz- Dukov, and Zedi in the religions of this world. The being, Genderless and infinitely powerful, Created existence. Now this God was so powerful he had three personalities all who remember the creation of the world differently. The personality Reb thinks it was done by him and him alone and that these people he created need to learn the ways of the world. It is not uncommon for followers of his personality to have visions of past lives they have lived and lessons they may have learned in the past as a way for Reb to guide them towards becoming a Tukehay ed Reb. It is very rare for Reb himself to visit a servant himself. He usually sends a Tukehay ed Reb as a guide.

The personality Uz- Dukov an angrier and far more aloof creator than Reb. Rarely do clerics or paladins serve him, usually one of his children would be their master. The truth of creation is this single being created all these lesser gods worshiped in the Riso and Vazerian Religions. These beings have a great amount of power granted to them by the original creator similar to persons on Kega of great power. The most powerful of these gods have two personalities that can be worshiped separately as in Lata and Venti, Dugon and Apize, Bavock and Ov (the personality of Ov has been banished and appears only rarely in conflicts among the Gods), Mano and Suv, and Zeda and Het.

If these personalities were to conflict as in a cleric of Lata and Venti fighting each other it would feel as if their reality were being pulled apart. Spells would fizzle as each personality tries to take control to defeat the other. (If someone gets a 30 on an intelligence or religion check during one of these battles, they might be able to figure this personality thing out. For one who has and serves both personalities as one they would get a power boost after the fight with spells from each and be able to stop their spells from fizzling.) Examples of thing that could happen: Between Mano and Suv Weapons may break apart and people fighting may trip and fall when they should have succeeded. Between Lata and Venti things may die sooner than they should nature should appear fighting against itself.

This original being (or the minor gods he has created) created the multiverse and the life on Kega.

## Early work on the History of Governments

In the year 1PW Illiria was established by the elves and the Kingdom of Bholdor by the dwarves. The only two race exclusive nations in Kega. In Ihos there is a constant battle between the elf, halfling, and gnome dominated Tirana and the uncharted lands to the south. They are mostly protected by the Tiranan River and the Kite’ Mountian Range But there is a small area where the feral races can get through and are constantly trying to gain more territory and the Tiranans are in a constant struggle to protect their people. The fey dominated Xupril has similar issues but the Kite’ Mountians offer them better protection than the Tiranans.

Valeria is a large continent which is protected from the uncharted lands by ocean on all sides and from threats by the valerian concord, an agreement between many of the valerian nations organized by the United Kingdom of valeria when it was formed that if one nation was attacked by an emissary of the uncharted lands or by the elves in illiria or dwarves in bholdor the other nations would come to their aid. It has been centuries and this agreement was made nad infighting amoungst the 8 nations has destroyed almost all the old bonds and the agreement exists on paper only. Who knows what would happen if that agreement were called into question today.

After the dragon wars there were hundreds of small kingdoms that slowly began to band together into nations for protection led by the war’s leaders. The first nations to develop were Anyrion, the first nation in 10Pw, Metldum the Ranger nation in 30Pw, and Vala in 35 Pw. Vala and Anyrion were fast enemies due to their close proximity and often fought throughout the first century. Metldum fought many civil wars amongst itself during this time before the ranger coalition was established in 101 Pw and the nation became fairly stable. Anyrion eventually won and conquered Vala in 93 Pw. At this point Anyrion controlled the western half of the continent ending at astrikane in the north and the plish gulf in the south. They enjoyed 30 years of peace until 129 Pw when the Valerian rebellion began. At this same time in 121 Pw Wintervale was founded, Epsil in 133Pw, and Mellum in 125Pw. Mellum and Metldum were strong allies because their two rulers were brothers. Metldum’s ruler was the king’s eldest son and his younger, desiring a kingdom of his own moved to Mellum’s lake and soon became that city’s ruler through hard work and good deeds. He then lead that city state throughout the land that is today mellum conquering all the land not held by Epsil or anyrion and forming Mellum City near the border of Metldum. Despite family ties no longer holding these two naitons in an alliance they still are friendly to each other till this day. Back to the Valerian Revolt. The original Vala began to be angry at the Anyrion’s taxes and their continued rule. They did not mind that their ansestors used to rule the land and now the Anyrion’s did becaue national identiy no longer united them. Their greatest issue was the anyrion’s only accepted the so called normal races into society. The Vala had welcomed all and it was this argument that united them. They formed a revolt and attacked the anyrion govenors with the ideals of freedom, no taxation without representation, and equality and acceptance. The Vala called themselves the Valarians which meant the new Vala or new honored. Their leader a great human wizard named Vanda was smart and convinced the newly formed mellum and Metldum to help them as Metldum had long wanted to knock Anyrion down a peg and mellum’s ruler was sympathetic to their cause. With these stong nations helping them the Valarians pushed the Anyrions back to the Cresent river and even slightly north of the southern tip of Anyrion Lake. Mellum sized the southern land that is now the Eshkon Confederacy but The New United Kingdom of Valaria took all the rest of the land and Van wrote a constitution of inclusivity and representation that still governs Valeria to this day. The war officialy ended in 141 Pw With the The Great treaty being signed. Anyrion’s rulers promised never to try to move south of Valaria’s new border and valaria promised not to try and take further land from Anyrion. Mellum got the land that is today the Eshkon mountians and plains. And Metldum recived Govonorship of of Anyrion’s southernmost city something they had desired for years to show Anyrion their power.

This began Valaria’s great peace which has lasted 4 centuries now. Valaria has sent troops to help other nations but has never itself been at war since this successful revolution. With capitalism, good roads, representation, and strong leaders Valaria skyrocketed into the continent’s watchdogs and strongest nation, due to it’s inclusivity and oporunities it surpassed even Metldum in size and power. After Mellum’s First ruller died however The ehskon lands while on paper belonging to Mellum were no longer rulled by mellum as weaker rullers took over. In the year 600 Pw Eshkon finally became it’s own nation as the city states formed a confederacy. It’s rulers modeled themselves on Valaria’s government and are trying to become stronger than Valaria. They are sort of like Valaria’s little brother who Valaria doesn’t care about but it would mean the world to Eshkon to get Valaria’s notice and respect. In 300 Pw Illiria tried to move onto the Valarian continent by taking Wintervale who was an easy capture as it was frequently plagued by civil wars. Valaria against this helped Wintervale get it’s freedom again with troops and commanders for their armies. They also formed the valerian Concord in 305 Pw which Mellum, Metldum, Wintervale, and surprisingly the failing Anyrion signed. (Anyrion had fallen into an almost perpetual state of civil war from the time Valaria beat them till 400 Pw.) (At this point they were much weaker, but their name still carried weight.) This concord convinced Illiria to leave Wintervale and retreat to their continent.

Since the defeat of the dragons Illiria has been ruled in the same fashin though not always by the same family. The king lives in the capital with his sons, daughters, and other relatives being sent out to rule the other large cities and their surrounding areas. When the new king has more children they are mad the new govenors and the old kids and their kids are given smaller land ever 100 years or so a new line would be installed and the lands would start over from scratch. The elves since they lead the victory in the dragon war have been reasonably prosperous. They do not hate the other races and do have some living there but they are very careful to keep the elves always in ruling positions and the majority. It was illegal for a non-elf to hold any office, but they could become citizens and members of society. In 630 the current family has been ruling for 60 years and is near the second half of it’s rule where people usually begin to discuss deposing them.

#### Isle of Bholdor:

Rulled by dwarves since the begining times. They are rulled by a king who controls local govenors. They are one of the few naitons to never have had a civil war. The dwarves allow very few non-dwarves to live there as you must speak dwarvish to get by and they cannot hold an office in the government. But mot races are tolerated and it does have a small population of gnomes. The dwarves are experts in smithing and alchemy the weapons known as the Embolden are the strongest in the world. They are also known for producing powerful enchantments on these weapons. An enchanted embolden weapon is a force to be reckoned with in even untrained hands.