Stevenis

Stevenis is a moon orbiting the gas giant Bol. It is inhabited by around 880 million humans (as of SY 2000) and was previously home to the now extinct Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs.
Its current inhabitants have no trace or memory of anything before SY 0, since that is when the two remaining gods reset life in the universe.

## History

Uncountably billions of years ago, there were three gods, who existed in harmony, alone in the universe. Eventually, there was a God Feud, and the third god was banished into trillions of pieces. All life grew from the scattered remains. Life emerged on many planets, including some intelligent life, such as humans on Earth. The intelligent life spread outwards into the cosmos, including to Stevenis.

Some very intelligent life worked out that if they could accumulate enough biomass, they could resurrect the third God. The remaining two gods let out their fury at this shallow attempt, and wiped out all life, except on the moon known as Stevenis. To prevent any further endeavours in resurrecting the third god, intelligent life on Stevenis was reset to low-tech tribal societies and the inhabitants given the curse of warmongering. This affected four intelligent groups: Humans, Elves, Dwarves, and Orcs.

The humans were the most widespread on Stevenis. They were initially separated into 4 people groups; the Szeina, Weiszen, Palmini, and Somic people. Humans were concentrated in the south-east of the Stevenis mainland.

Elves were originally from the island of Wordsmith and inhabited the trees.

Dwarves lived underground in \_\_\_.

Orcs lived among humans, especially in the Szeina tribe. They were the stupidest of all intelligent life and humans quickly enslaved them.

Apart from Orcs and Humans, intelligent life on Stevenis did not heavily interact. The humans dominated and eventually spread across the entire Stevenis mainland.

The Szeina people became the most successful humans on Stevenis, with the years 600-1200 being named the 'Szeina Golden Age'. Part of their success was due to their enslavement of Orcs, however, due to their harsh treatment and limited potential mates, the Orcs soon became too inbred to be useful, and were mostly worked to death between ~1000-1255. Upon conquered Szeina land, Vlid then killed any remaining Orcs, rendering them extinct.

North Somic (Wordsmithian) people had worked to eradicate Elves from their island since their arrival in 1295. They were not successful in full extermination but kept the elf population low. Elves only populated the west side of the island, which was sometimes a nation in its own right, Wallosea.

Around 1550, a small number of Elves drifted to the coast of modern day Arcan, fleeing killings on Wordsmith. They maintained a small community in the area. They came into close contact with people from the nation of Holbi For the first time in Stevenis' history, two intelligent life species achieved peaceful collaboration. A creole of the Late Elvish language and Middle Kuziel developed. However, in 1748, Holbi was invaded by Eramore, who slaughtered the Holbin Elves. Upon invading Wallosea in 1797, Eramore exterminated the remaining elf population and declared the species fully extinct. Dwarves were also declared extinct in 1797, marking the end of what Eramore called the 'War of Threes'.