History

## Timeline

### X million years ago

Dragons Evolved as the first sapient race in the system they evolved on Dracoterra, their true origins date to the earliest period of Reptile dominance over the land. They quickly established a civilization and dominance over the world, and dominance over magic. This was a time long before the birth of the known gods.  The dragons as they moved to what is known as a Type 1 civilization devised a plan to utilize and control 100% of the world’s energy.  So, they created the most powerful spell in history.  They created the Tree of Life. This tree converts solar energy into arcane energy. As it grew the roots of the tree reached the core of the planet and drained all the heat from the core converting that energy into arcane energy for use by the tree.  Realizing that they doomed their world the Dragons went to extreme measures to convince the newly partially sentient world tree to not destroy all life on Dracoterra.  The Tree was convinced, and now regulates the atmosphere and land masses to maintain a nice world for life. Dragons created many races to serve them, these include Dragonborn, Kobold, Lizardfolk, and other non-human based races.

Humankind and most flora and fauna familiar to humanity of our Earth actually was brought to this world in stages by the world tree, mammals, flowering plants did not evolve on Dracoterra, instead these came from a world in another reality with different physical laws.

### 100 million years ago – Stone age - Goblin and Orcs

There are periods where the tree of life alters the life on Dracoterra, and brings over entire eco systems, merging and evolving what is on this world to develop new life that fits. This includes humans, specifically humans were brought to this world in three significate waves.

Around 10 million years ago (50k years ago on Earth) The first wave of humans being brought to this world is referred to as the “Goblin and Orc Wave”, the humans, and human adjacent species from fifty thousand years ago were the first humanoids to set foot on Dracoterra. This wave included many groups of humans not just modern humans to include Neanderthal, Denisovans, and Homo floresiensis. These first humans on Dracoterra had the longest time to evolve on a magical world. Eventually they became changed by magic, and by their tribal lifestyles and became the goblinoid races. They had several large-scale Neolithic empires that became quite sophisticated and technologically advanced, but unfortunately for them, they gained the ire of dragons, and were eventually forced back into the stone age.

### Second Wave of Humans – Early Bronze age - The Elves

Around 2 million years ago (5000-1000 years ago on Earth) – the second wave of humans were taken from locations such as Ancient China & Japan, Central Africa, and Mezo America, these Humans already had early civilization on Earth, and quickly developed Magic Arts and sciences, their civilizations also enveloped Dracoterra, these Humans evolved into the first Elvin Race, These Elves made peace with the Dragons, and even learned to travel in the void between worlds. Unfortunately, an outsider race chose to invade from outside the sphere, the ensuing war against the Ithilid invaders and elves caused even the gods and greater gods to become involved. The end result was the Ithilid were removed from the system, the sphere was locked out to all but the greatest divine powers, and the elves civilization was in tatters, leaving the elves living in small enclaves of civilization scattered in every portion of the sphere.

Noted Civilizational styles even though the Elven wave developed a type 1 civilization: (Shang, Assyrian, Hittites, Mittani, Egyptian, Nubian, Hyksos, Minoan Crete, Mycenaeans, Aryans, Karasuk, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Yayoi, Gangetic, Mauryan, Magadha, Babylon, Persian, Judah, Egyptian five kingdoms, Kingdom of Metor, Adena, Hopewell, Maya, Olmec, Moche, Tia Huanaco, Huarl, Mogollon, Hokokam, Mississippian, Teltec, and the Chavin/Chorrera)

Special Note: This wave pulled people from Early Neolithic to Bronze age Civilizations across a four-thousand-year period. The world tree wanted Civilization building people. While all these peoples had 2 million years of evolution, and over all the most noted race to come from this period were the Elves, most of your fantasy race types can trace their evolution to this period of time. Elves mostly from Chinese and Japanese ancestry, Gnomes Meso Americans, Dwarves Persians, and others. There were portions who remained human from these groups, as the evolutions were a choice made by the people in power to better utilize the environments and magic. While the farmers tended to not feel the need to evolve past being human. Generally, in regions ruled by a fantasy race, there are human societies of the same or similar culture who live and work for the fantasy races in food production.

### Third Wave of Humans – Iron Age – The Romans

Although humans had come over to this world, twice before those humans evolved into something more than human, the third wave is where humans as we know them came from, around 1 million years ago (or 100ce-200ce) the Legio IX Hispana while moving from Britannia and Germania Inferior to help an uprising, vanished on the Earth, they and several thousand civilian workers and families who were traveling with them were pulled to Dracoterra by the world tree. They settled basically in the equator and developed a new Roman Empire, although as they quickly realized they were no longer on the Earth of Roma, they called their new Empire after the other twin, Remus, or Reme So the new Imperialistic Humans had settled, being a mix of Roman, Gaelic, Germanic, Sarmatians, and South Africans the new Reme society developed a strong society, however they encountered the evolved peoples in more temperate areas and were debuffed from expanding out.

Out of the Reman society came all classical European Societies, However the Empire remained Classically Roman in style, most of the culture was based on who members of the legion were in 120ce with the majority of the families being of ancient British and Germanic stock.