World History

Udaria was a world rich in magic. The people lived in
harmony for generations using the natural magic to create great feats of
engineering and technology. This was the first Age, known as the age of unity
and lasted for many milenia. At the end of this age a supreme mage conducted a
great ritual to attempt to create new life. He succeeded. This new life fed off
of the belief of others, and soon spawned more of its kind. They became
powerful enough to rue the people of Udaria as gods. The new gods ruled
benevolently over the land for many centuries during the age of Divinity. This
was not to last, soon the gods become so numerous that the belief they so desperately
need to survive was spread too thin. Wars soon broke out as god fought god
using their followers as pawns. This came to be known as the age of War. Many
died both gods and men. The war threatened to tear the world asunder. Until one
man stood forth denouncing all gods and made a stand. Fighting waves of men
this man protected a small village from the wrath of an angry god. Some say
that the villagers began to believe in him, as they once did in the gods, which
is what allowed him to fight with such skill and ferocity. Others that he was a
demigod himself or possibly even a god. Some claim he wasn’t a single man but a
collection of well-trained warriors. The truth has been lost to time. The story
says he fought off gods in one on one combat. After many victories his power
grew. He fought many of the gods and was victorious many times. The mortal
races gathered around him and unified under one banner. This man managed to
banish the gods' power using the same magic that had created them condemning
them to live among the mortals that they had enslaved. This brought to an end
to the age of War. The fourth age was short and was the age of man, after the
vanquishing of the gods, humans spread across the world making great cities and
ruling over the “lesser” races harshly. Some say they were worse than the gods
but who can know for sure. This lasted only 400 years before the age of Sin. At
the end of the age man the power the gods once wielded changed hands, now the
true evil which the gods had kept at bay was free. The Demon armies of Infernum
broke through. Ruled by Lucifer Prince of darkness and ruler of the nine
circles of Infernum. He is assisted by his 9 dukes each of whom control a
circle. They destroyed almost all vestiges of the empire of man and enslaved the
world. All that could withstand against the armies of Lucifer were the Great
citadel of Kaldria and the dragon lords of the Free Isles. The Great citadel is
now a self-contained community of all races living in relative safety within
the great magic of the citadel. The ancient magic of the tundra keep the demons
at bay. The Dragon Lords are powerful enough in their own right and the isles
they inhabit make them hard to invade even with out the dragons. They live in
relative peace occasionally trading with the demon armies but always watchful
for an attack.

The Demons rule over everything else. They live in luxury
feasting off of the spoils of the enslaved mortals. Mainly using corrupted
mortal servants to enforce their laws they imbue them with power as to better
do their bidding. These men and women are corrupted and twisted visages of what
they once were crueler and more callous than the devil lords and almost as
barbaric as the demons.

This is the age of sin. A corrupted age that is drawing to a
close as an old power begins to raise its head. And soon the second age of
Divinity will begin.