Brief World History
The World of Arinethia is one with warring Kingdoms where the common folk are free to cross boarders for trade, any groups traveling beyond an armed escort are frequently stopped and questioned at the boarder. Most of the lands are locked in a weak truce. To fearful of what another neighbor might do if they focus forces on another kingdom. Few if any are allied and most lands control key resources that gives them bargaining power to maintain friendly trade agreements.
The World once new peace in the past to distant for any of the shorter lived races to have heard nothing but legends of that time passed from Generation to generation. The Events of the Prime Doomsayer are the first Odes every aspiring bard learns and the memorization of all 20 songs recounting the rise of the Prime Doomsayer and the twenty year war that plagued the land. Is a key point of every bards Grand Master trial. After the Prime Doomsayer's death a peace fell upon the land where the kingdoms agreed to the Arinethia's Doomsayers Pact that stood for generations.
With the rise of the second Sayer a short lived rebellion arose in the distant providences, after the rebellion the High King of Somyardia was assassinated during the victors parade in the capital city of Grhntham. Thus breaking the pact and the kingdoms have been at constant war. For the true motive behind the assassination was never discovered, the assassin is still at large but thought to be since long dead due to old age.
It is many historians belief that the second Sayer was only in title and not in power, and was a ploy to draw the king out. As such there will be no other person able to wield that kind of power again. However a new cult has arisen in the dark alleys of the world, and there has been whispers that the Prime Sayer is not dead, but merely sleeping. Waiting for the moment that the kingdoms are weak to rise again and call forth his army. As those in power public turn a deaf ear to these whispers, privately they turn them in their favor. Giving rise to the belief that one of the ruling houses of the kingdoms of Arinethia has given the Prime Doomsayer refuge in one of their many holdings.
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