Awakening

South of the endless expanse on the continent of Zanfear the country of Zilcan which spanned from the east coast to the west, there were also 12 white towers made of Akariean silk now known as the Spires of Creation the demons built settlement and cities around them, as they were a large visible thing which were coveted if only because others might. All bar one of these towers, which was totally destroyed, the towers remained impregnable due to their strong walls and lack of entrances, until The Awakening in 4013. This was when simultaneously the 11 remaining spires opened and thousands of humanoids started to pour out of them. Blearily blinking in the light these confused and disoriented new people were almost instantly set upon by the various demons who had settled near each tower. Thus started the war of the awakened.

Those who were awakened, awoke with no personal memories just basic knowledge of how to speak, and the names of things, but not their own, many of them also knew how to cast spells if not how or why. But with no weapons, no spell component, and no time to formulate any kind of coordination or leadership, the war looked to be very one sided, even though they had the numbers at least in the immediate area of the spires and the demonic forces were very much caught by surprise and the awakened had already breached all defences. The advantage which the awakened had was the fact that they seemed to be able to heal from any wound even death, this meant that the demons changed from simply trying to kill them to having to capture.

The species that came from the spires can were mainly of three types, the awakened from the five spiers to the west of Zilcan were massive in size and became known as Giants, and each spire had housed a different type; hill, fire, storm, frost and stone. The three spires the east of Zilcan produced medium demonically tainted humanoids with various elemental affinities, Blue, White and Red skinned humanoids with horns and tails that became known as Tieflings. The three remaining towers in the central region of Zilcan spawned humanoids that were touched by the gods their eyes glowed and rings of light would appear over their heads along with various forms of wings that allowed some of them to fly, these became known as Aasimar, Protector, Scourge and Fallen.

The Giant's proved very hard to control and the demons in that area were forced to fall back and were quickly on the defensive. The awakened here destroyed most of the structures found near to the spires and began spreading out across the area the war quickly became one of skirmishes where fights would break out if either side thought that they had the numerical advantage in a situation. The Giants began encountering one another and although the first few encounters resulted in fights from they eventually learned that each other were similar and not part of the varied armies of the demons. As stronger demons came to combat the humanoids, they began to work together following the leadership of an awakened who named himself Kaltyen. Meanwhile to the east of this the smaller awakened were having more trouble, many were captured and taken away in chains, but then rescue missions were carried out and there was a constant back and forth between the two sides and the longer the war went on more weapons and armour the awakened were able to gather and even forge, but they also noticed that they’re ability to heal diminished over the first year and the first awoken who didn’t come back after being killed died in the late spring of 4014. News of this spread throughout the land, demoralising the awakened who thought of themselves as unkillable and spurred the demonic forces on, over the following year fatalities on the awakened’s side started to mount up while death was still mainly an inconvenience for those of the demonic forces. Once a demon died it returned to the abyssal plain to regrown a body though weaker it was able to re-join the fight mainly via one of the three planar portals found to the east of Zilcan.

By late 4014 fighting had mainly stopped in the western region due to its distance from the portals to the abyss and the growing organisation of the awakened. The Giants started to form tribes and began to develop cultures changing from occasional fights with the demons to actively hunting any remaining ones down. Having never really fought anyone but each other the demons took time to organise a strong offensive over the next three years they quelled the Aasimar and the Tieflings and started to try and make assaults on the country now known as Rexthen but neither side really made much of a head way the giants just want to smash things and attack demons on site but have little interest in invading Zilcan while the Demons often took a place but had trouble holding it either due to counter attacks or just in fighting.

Over the next few hundred years the demons of Zilcan enslaved the Tieflings and Aasimar using, as free labour but also as play things pushing them to the brink of life and often past it. Using this labour more impressive and permanent structures were crafted including many defences that lined the boarder between Zilcan and Rexthen. In 4653 Zilcan decided to mount another major attack on Rexthen which led to the Cad'Lear Rebellion and the founding of the nation of Cad'Lear, after which many of the Tieflings left alive in Zilcan were killed for fear that they may try to rebel as well and thus the Three nations of Southern Zanfear were finalised.

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