Official History

## The Forgotten Age

Not much is known about the Forgotten Age.

## The First Destruction - The First Age

A large raging storm of lightning and redhot sand scoured the lands in the desert, a flood came from the east and washed away most of the jungle. An avalanche and storm broke the mountains to the north. A dark giant shadow could be seen by those unwise to risk death in the clouds during the storm.  The figure had many flailing arms as their silhouette was outlined by the red lightning. A familiar Stygian voice chanting near the volcano could be heard on the winds to the North.

## The Second Destruction - The Second Age

The Cult of the Dead Dragon ascended. After the living forces attempted to siege their base within the Unnamed City, the Undead Army broke out of their underground crypts and and met them on the field of battle. The living forces held their own against the Undead Dragons and the countless bodies the host had built up over the months leading up to this moment. Fearing the worst the Head Sorcerors of the Cult performed the forbidden ritual that they had been accumulating ingredients and lore for and sent out a wave of necrotic energy across the land. All living creatures caught in its wave were consumed and fueled it further reaching the ghost walls. Those that survived did so through mystical means, or took shield under their God's faith. Even then the wave drained them of their essence. Over the next year the Cult took control of the lands and gathered what they needed to escape. The Leadership of the Dead Dragons, ascended leaving behind their followers.

## The Third Destruction - The Third Age

There were noises from the deep of the mountains in the north, from the caverns in which The Library lay. Dormant no longer. Without the relics of power to exert control over the influence of the structure, its keeper, Zel Rhathra, was left powerless to intervene as a wave of energy swept throughout the land, leaving death and desolation in its wake. Those who survived were able to do so by taking cover from the advance of this wave, seeking shelter where ever able. Upon emerging, they would find the land to be a ruin, the influence of them, their friends, their enemies, all scoured clean, absorbed into the essence of the structure in the mountains. The only remaining life centred around areas of long established civilisation, with a presence tied almost to the land itself: Sepermeru, New Asagarth, the Cimmerian settlement at the Mounds of the Dead, and others. Any who explore the last known location of The Library would find it deserted once more; but the lingering, ominous influence of it still lingered. It had disappeared, but not left. Awoken once more.

## The Fourth Destruction - The Fourth Age

Although Zel Rhathra and his Undying Man were unable to retrieve the book, using the power of the Library and the two artifacts still in his possession, he was able to bring about a destruction the lands have only seen a handful of times before. At the end of the storm that ravaged anything above ground, the Library and its owner's presence was gone. Those inhabitants that were unable to find shelter with the Turanian Expedition or via their own means were destroyed by the soul winds that scoured across the earth. The Expedition and its members vanished, while a daring group of sailors and pirates took refugees, friend and foe a-like, to the waters at the furthest reaches of the Ghost Wall. The winds took their boats and some say their souls, but they survived washed up ashore in the jungle. In the aftermath of the storm, they have established a small trade hub and settlement: New Venzia. The owner of the book and a small group of hooded individuals were known to have gone to the Library to face Zel Rhathra. Rumours since the storm say that their efforts are why there are any survivors at all, and that all who ventured in to the halls of the structure paid the ultimate sacrifice.

## The Fifth Destruction - The Fifth Age

Despite the Library being banished through the sacrifices made by Urda, Raya and others who gave their lives in the fight, the lingering effects of its malignance can still be felt - a festering wound of instability present in the land itself. This was no more apparent than when the volcano to the far north, long thought to be mostly dormant, grew cataclysmically back to life, leaving settlements scorched and buried in fire and ash. Those who survived did so by fleeing to the far south of the land, close to and amongst the dunes themselves. Others hid in caverns and cave systems to protect them from the violence of the land above. If one suspected that such a violent and sudden return to activity for the volcano might not be entirely natural, their suspicions would quickly be confirmed as the effects of the volcanic eruption faded as hastily as it had appeared. Lands that had been immolated and charred returned to their normal state, the only thing missing the settlements once built there. The exact cause of such a thing is not immediately obvious, but what is clear is that there is work still to be done to heal the land. A new settlement has also sprung up in the far south, made up of many of the refugees who sought safe haven from the eruption. Calling themselves Twin Rocks, they feature a number of familiar faces and are offering shelter and aid to all those who require it.