Salior

Salior, meaning "Safety" in Alewic, a realm once inhabited by trolls, is currently the only realm inhabited by freemen. The realm is massive, covered by cold taigas in the north (which include the penninsula of Avalon), a massive temperate continent south of that known as Heim, and an arid desert even farther south known as Aran. To the far west, there is a vast rainforest region known as Squam. There is also an island far out in the western ocean known as Heroshi.

## History

·
Humanity lives in the realm of Alew, a world
that is enslaved by a group known as the Derype. The Derype have dark magicks
and live forever, at the cost of having a huge thirst for human blood. In order
to quench this thirst, the derype farm the humans of alew like cattle, and use
them to sustain their thirst.

·
A religion forms amongst the enslaved known as
the Trodden, who worship a god known as The Lord of the Trodden. The religion
teaches that humanity is trodden upon, but will one day gain freedom.

·
When the Derype hear of this new religious
movment forming, they try their best to end it by slaughtering humans by the
thousands. This causes the trodden to worship in secret, to avoid being caught
by their Derype overlords.

·
A group within the Trodden forms, known as the
Raimsar (meaning “hope” in Alewish). The Raimsar underground organization
begins doing all it can to fight against the Derype, but is not very
successful.

·
The Raimsar make a breakthrough when they
discover a portal to another realm. The new realm is named “Salior”. Rumors of
Salior spread amongst humanity.

·
In secret, the Raimsar manages to gather a group
of humans and send them through the portal to the new realm to settle there.
The group of humans, after arriving in this new realm, is slaughtered by a
local race which become known as “trolls”.

·
The Raimsar gather a second raiding party to
Salior, this time armed and ready to fight.

·
The Spoken Era begins.

·
The first humans arrive in the world of Salior
from Alew, and build a fortress of Clainswort. The portal opening opened up in
Avalon. Avalon is a harsh northern continent, and proves to be a hard place for
the humans to survive in. South of Avalon over an ocean is the continent of
Heim, which is much more temperate.

·
Meanhwile in Alew, the Derype discover the
Raimsar’s portal. In order to prevent the derype from taking over Salior, the
portal is blocked, meaning no one could go back and forth from either side
anymore.

·
The fortress of Clainswort is sieged by an
alliance of troll tribes from northern Avalon. The humans are defeated.

·
Survivors of the battle are enslaved by the
trolls.

·
Trolls learn much from humanity, stealing their
technologies like metal smithing.

·
Human slaves are traded to regions as far as the
desert of Aran.

·
 A group
of Raimsar continues to exist in secret, and manages the portal block to keep
the Derype from coming through. The portal becomes known as “The Bolted Door”.

·
After about a thousand years, the human slaves
outnumber the trolls.

·
Human rebellions are instilled by the secretive
Raimsar. One by one, troll civilizations fall into civil war as the Great Slave
Rebellion rages on.

·
The trolls are slowly defeated, as human warlords
rise to power across the land.

·
Eventually, three human religions compete for
control of Heim: the Irkene, the Druids, and the Stillarts.

·
A man named Haravin comes to the conclusion that
all three gods worked together to make creation, starting the belief of
Makerism.

·
The belief starts out as unpopular, but it is adopted
by the Ravadine peoples.

·
The Ravadine peoples build a massive army, and
slowly conquer all of Heim, forming a massive empire. When they do this, the
belief of Makerism is forced throughout the land and becomes commonplace.

·
The Raimsar suffer from an internal civil war,
where a group of confederates say that the empire is enslaving mankind, and it
must be stopped. This eventually leads to the use of dark magicks from Alew to
cause chaos and break apart the empire.

·
After a thousand years of unification, a great
zombie plague occurs, and the empire pulls its forces into its capital to
defend their homeland. After this, the empire slowly falls apart. All that is
left of the empire is the “Imperial Remnant,” which eventually changes its name
to the Kingdom of Ravadine.

·
After a long and cold winter, the zombies freeze
to death and the plague ends. 90% of the population has been wiped out to the
plague.

·
The age of low kingdoms begins, as several small
kingdoms emerge from the ruins of the zombie plague. This is a dark age, where
paganism sweeps across Heim from the north, and Makerism begins to lose ground.
New parties raid from Avalon, and take over many regions, bringing paganism
along with them. Many wooden settlements are built in the ruins of ancient
stone cities of the Ravadine, as people begin to repopulate the world. The
church of the maker is separated by many schisms, as different popes vie for
power.

·
The Bloodwines, a group founded by a man named
Rama Blackadder, forms in northern Raland. This cult of brigands worships the
god Ramaraunt, who teaches that “the weak must pay the strong, or die”.

·
The Trisades begin, as an army of makerists all
over Heim fight against the pagans in a series of conflicts in attempt to
regain ground.

·
As the human population begins to grow again,
kingdoms begin to grow in size as they conquer one another. From the darkness
of the age of low kingdoms rises a society of scholars and sprawling cities. The
church of the Makerists reunifies under one pope. The age of High Kingdoms
begins.