History of Alloterra

### **Creation Myth**

Primordial forces have existed forever. They lived on their own planes of fire, water, air, earth and they would sometimes overlap creating a mix between two. However this process was detrimental to planes pulling away from them. So the primordial forces came together and took all the damaged parts of their planes and created the material plane, a place where they could come together and create without pulling from their homes. However when they created the material plane they also released power into that realm that had nowhere to go. This power eventually became the formless gods. They existed in the material plane in this state of being for a long time. But as they existed like this the primordial forces would visit the plane and create new elements and forms that would become planets. The gods grew curious as they believed they were the only ones to exist. So the gods, who wanted to become material, begin to weave their forms and some attempted to create their own planets but none did to the effect of the primordial forces. All but one failed. A now long dead god only remembered as "The Other"  spent thousands of years pulling from his own woven form to be able to finally create. He started with a small piece of his form and stretched it apart unravelling himself into this planet and the sky and throughout this excruciating process he wept and from those tears he gave birth to the first life outside of the gods and primordials. With his last breath he called out to his brother and sister gods to come and finish what he had started and so they came and they did.

### **Alloterra's Infancy (AI)**

- Super long time to develop life to a point of first civilization

- 3000ish years development of civilization

- 10 years of the Battle of Planar Independence (PI)

- 800ish years of regrowth and expansion (PPC)

The first life on this planet was microscopic and almost invisible. It evolved growing with the power emanating from the weave of The Other creating Elves, Humans, Dwarves and many of the other races over time.

The gods went and lived there and molded the planet to their liking and when life came to being they watched it grow like a puppy and loved it. It was good until the primordial forces discovered the gods and this planet and got angry so they came to the planet to try to destroy it. The gods then created dragons and other creatures to defend and work with the beings on the planet and the combined effort of the creatures who had learned to use the power woven in the planet from The Other fought the primordial forces out of the material plane but not before the primordial forces devastated the planet. The battle occurred largely on the Continent now known as Cillicia. During this time the people came to name the planet after the god who had used his life to form it, Alloterra (other earth)

### **The Primordial Chaos (PC) - 300ish years**

The primordials cleverly left monstrous seeds of their power which seeped into the world corrupting it and creating monsters that ravaged the planet with natural disasters. The creatures and gods fought together to hold back the natural disasters, each god or group coming up with their own ways to hold back the storms. This period both unified people and divided them. Some gods thought it best to create mountains to keep the massive waves from the people. Others tore the rock from the planet and floated them above the seas away from the ground to avoid the quakes and ruptures. Some moved under the ground to hide from the fires and winds. While the gods guided the people many further developed the magic they learned from the planet and with the help of the gods they caged the primordial monsters dampening their powers and affording them some peace.

The long battle against the elements tired many of the gods and so they took a period of rest in which many of the previous defenses like the floating lands began to fail. Some humans tried to overthrow the gods in an attempt to obtain the magic necessary to sustain their defenses but the gods fought them off and that society was cursed and thrown to the center of the earth where the corruption from primordial forces turned them into devils and demons and formed the abyss. The once floating island fell into the ocean and remained there. This conflict resulted in some societies to cower in fear and devote themselves fully to the gods and isolating themselves from others to avoid what they saw as corruption, some reflected upon themselves and tried to build a deeper relationship with magic and the threads of the gods and others refuted the gods and turned instead to their own ideals and forces of the only god that ever gave their all, The Other.

### **The Reconstruction Age (RA) - 700ish years**

In the current age, these societies have mainly forgotten the extreme natures of their divisions but the influences are still apparent. As these societies are coming back out of their shells or finding their footing, they are starting to explore lands that were long lost during the reformation of the planet and develop mainly with the introduction of people from a different continent inhabiting the once floating island in their own expansion and discovery of the world. The introduction has been met with both intrigue and hostility by some societies and tensions are starting to rise as they expand into areas that are believed to be the prison of the primordial monsters that were long ago fended off.

More recently some from one continent in an effort to explore the lands further came upon the fallen

### **Main historical events in the current age**

Colonialization of Calgary – approx 500 PPC

Primordial Chaos – approx 800 PPC/0 PC

The Navasiil Jungle is again traversable (not so hot you'll die) - 300 RA

First warforged developed – 680 RA

### **Current state of the world**

The continents that experienced severe damage during the Primordial Chaos are quite split. Cultures had time in isolation to develop uninhibited by globalization and so even different cities within a country may be quite different. However, after some time where people were trying to rediscover what happened around them during their times of isolation countries have somewhat normalized. Towns still have their quirks but there is a more cohesive system of interaction and culture. Those countries that were largely uninhibited during the Primordial Chaos had time to push the bounds of technology and magic and were much more influenced by each other, especially by other countries on their continent. Currently, most societies are stable, well developed and resuming their efforts to grow and improve. However, there are large efforts by some groups to unearth technology and magic that was scattered with the storms.

### **How is stability and balance of power maintained?**

In places where the Primordial Chaos was present, groups elected leaders or kept the leaders who they had before and put much of the power in their hands. For the most part, these same systems are in place and the larger government systems are a collection of these leaders who oversee their respective lands and the country at large. This is best seen in the Cardinal Confederation However, in some areas the people had such faith and power given to their leaders that they fight to control the larger area. This is best seen in Sonzia and Forlei.