Apr 23, 2018
You can listen to this for a bunch of lore! Or you can skip it
and roll with it! Or you can just read this:
Long ago, there was the First Tree. From which, all forests,
flowers, and plant life grew. From this, fruit was born, and from
this fruit, other gods emerged. The first was a dryad known as the
Allmother, creator of all dryadkind. She spoke to the tree, and
asked her to introduce more life to the world, and so she did. Vyn,
the archivist, recorded the history of the world as he created his
chosen people: the illithids. The world was peaceful, but boring,
so the First Tree then created Mahurabi, Prince of All. He went
east, making promise after promise with the dryads in exchange for
land. Ultimately his promises were delivered, but not in the way
the dryads hoped, as he soon had a massive desert for his people,
the efreet. Upset by this, the Allmother asked the First Tree for a
champion to wage war with Mahurabi. She was generous, and gave her
Vestas the Wise, an iron general who built many soldiers for
himself. When their army approached the border to the desert,
Mahurabi snuck away, back into the forst, and disguised himself as
the Allmother. He tricked the First Tree into making something more
worth fighting than himself, and into the great sea went the
Eyeless One, source of storms. Vestas left the desert, searching
the world for this opponent, unable to ever track it down.
Eventually he came back to the First Tree, and begged her to give
him better tools, better resources, for his massive army had fallen
into disrepair. The First Tree sighed, and gave him Davryx the
Bronze, a great dragon who would create more dragons, as well as
the first forge. Vestas continued to wander, continued to wage this
endless war on everything, and the gods grew tired. They pleaded
with the First Tree to give them something that could stop him, and
the First Tree ignored their pleas. Seeking to solve the problem
herself, the Allmother contacted Mahurabi, despite everything.
Mahurabi stole a fruit from the First Tree, and the Allmother used
it to create Torvus, the first human, who in turn created humanity.
Humans would serve the other races, the gods, and help them to
eventually stop Vestas the Wise's massive army. Torvus, however,
was greedy, and also deceitful, nearly as much as Mahurabi, and
went to Darvyx the Bronze to have his great army outfitted with
weapons and armor to fight the other gods. His betrayal was found
out, however, Mahurabi has many eyes. He told the First Tree what
had happened, and to protect itself, the First Tree created The
Silver Warden and his army of celestials. They fought the humans,
and eventually overcame them. As punishment, humanity was Humbled,
forced to live as non-magical creatures of burden, in servitude to
the other gods and the races they created. Torvus, their god, was
ultimately beheaded by The Silver Warden, and became The Watchful,
a giant ghost who wanders the land in penance for his sins,
shepharding the lost souls of humanity.