Alfodriki

Alfodriki ("Land of the All Father" in the giant language) is the massive continent that takes up most of the landmass of Acala. It includes all but High Willibrord, Ineuberon, and the tiny islands in the open ocean surrounding them. It is the current home of the giant race. Other races live there, including humans, elves, and orcs that travelled there before the Great Receding.

## Early History

The twin Primordial Gods Alfor and Qyndarronth enjoyed sending their avatars to the Mortal Plane and exploring the lively Acala. But they wanted more. They set out to create their own life in their images. Alfor created the Titans: humanoid-like beings that stood around 40 feet tall, with different types for different environments. Qyndarronth created the Wyrms: dragon-like beings large enough for Titans to ride as mounts, with different types representing different elements, metals, and gemstones. In time, they created more creatures, most notably the Giants and Dragons, smaller and shorter-lived counterparts to Titans and Wyrms, respectively.

Their creations covered the whole of Acala save for the small continent made of up two large islands and many smaller islands where sapient life had evolved on its own. The twins thought it best to leave them to develop on their own. They, at first, named their nation Driki, a word Alfor had begun to use to mean "land", and the small continent Brordrik, meaning "brother land". Alfor, Qyndarronth, and their people shared Driki like family for millennia, but that was about to change. For reasons still unknown to sages and scholars, Alfor and Qyndarronth’s relationship soured and a war broke out between their people. A war that would last for millennia.

## The First Great War

Alfor, the titans, and the giants went to war with Qyndarronth, the wyrms, and the dragons. Alfor and Qyndarronth themselves fought as avatars on the Mortal Plane and while their true forms remained in the neutral godly plane of the Fairlands.

Each side of the war between Alfor and Qyndarronth’s people had its generals. Alfor and Qyndarronth granted more and more power to these generals, hoping to gain every advantage possible in the war. Eventually, one of Qyndarronth’s generals, a Wyrm named Bahamut, was so infused with power that he began to experience cosmic dissonance. He was brought to the Fairlands where Qyndarronth realized Bahamut’s power now rivaled that of the gods. He had ascended to godhood. Qyndarronth repeated this for her other generals Manakkal and Tiamat, and Alfor copied her, ascending his generals, and their war extended to the Fairlands.

For thousands of years the sides were evenly matched, but eventually Alfor's side gained the edge. Qyndarronth's numbers started plummeting and she eventually had to retreat. She found her people a small unsettled portion of the already small Brordrik where the Primal Race had evolved, and she took her people there, calling their new home the Aerie Dracos. Alfor and his people had won the war and rechristened their homeland Alfodriki.

## The Great Receding

With Alfor and Qundarronth's power and influence fading after the war, Alfor needed a way to safeguard his people's homeland. He instructed the titans to use their innate magic to push back the shores of the land, giving them more space to live on, and to imbue the waters with magic that would block out any creatures unwanted by giantkind. By this point, elves, humans, and orcs had already immigrated to Alfordriki from Brordrik by hopping from island to island across the ocean. However, with the waters being pushed back, the sea level on the rest of the planet rose, drowning most of the small islands between Alfodriki and Brordrik and shrinking the shore of Brordrik. Countless people died, but as giantkind is primarily concerned with giantkind, it was of no consequence to Alfor or the titans.

This Great Receding would only hold as long as the titans were alive. They were nearly immortal, but not fully. So when all but one storm titan, Omdius, had died, Omdius's fate became political.

## Titanfall

In the year 802671 Y.A. Omdius was dying. A group of storm giants led by Tombog recruited a group of half-giants to kill Omdius. More accurately, they believe Omdius wanted to die and they asked the party of half-giants to grant him his wish. But as Omdius was under heavy guard by a faction that wanted him to live as long as possible, preserving the magic that isolated Alfodriki from the rest of the world, they would need a way to infiltrate. Tombog sent them undercover as trade couriers.

They successfully infiltrated the storm giant capital and fought past the faction guarding Omdius. Omdius told them that his fate was in their hands, that no matter what they chose, he would accept his fate. The half-giants ended Omdius’s life, ending he millennia long isolation of Alfodriki and returning the shores and lands to their natural states.

## The Second Great War

After the end of the Draconic Civil War and subsequent Plateau Challenge, the dragon Brizziss rallied the three most powerful dragonborn to his cause of reigniting the war between the giants and the dragons. They brought an army of dragons to Alfodriki and the Second Great War has been raging for 70 years as of present day.