History of Ashanor

Many rumors abound about the creation of Ashanor. Unfortunately most are just that rumors. As the Orcs tell it the world was forming for it's first hundred years. All that existed here were dragons and beholders. The first Orcs arrived here some time later through portals from a variety of other worlds.

The Humans believe that the world was formed by Benyar as a tribute to himself and a new empire to control. The orcs arriving was a mistake and were the cause of the dragons falling to infighting.

The elves say that it was Luvia who put forth the planet expecting to have a plane of order and law. Everything that occured to upset that was largely the dragons fault.

The Dwarves say that Markovia and Marlog conspired to create this planet. It was they that wanted a whole world dedicated to the sea. As they are the most commonly worshipped deities many who otherwise are unsure tend to lean more towards the Dwarven stories.

The flood is when most of the rest of the sapient species that weren't already here arrived. Humans were a large concentration of what arrived but with them came gnolls, ogres, bugbears, etc. The flood would occur faster than any of the other arrivals. The dwarves and elves had trickled through continuously. The flood was instead an abrupt invasion that would darken the sky with a plethora of airships and other such flying vehicles as well as some that had no vehicle at all.

The Forgotten time was a hard period for the world of Ashanor.

The great Orc War, a war that happened between 2 large rival Orc tribes, each organized and run by a different Dragon. The Black Dragon clan and The Silver Dragon Clan were at war for around 200 years, during this time fortresses were established all over the world of Ashanor. However, the last 20 were the most important as it was the time when the Silver Dragon Clan with the help of an adventuring party finally got the upper hand on the Black Dragon Clan.
  During these years the humans and elves had taken to the waters to attempt to avoid the wars. Great pirate clans and allegiances took form on the waters, and once the war was done and the cities and fortresses cleared, the pirate lords took to the land to create a new rule. The Dwarves, however retreated to their underground cities with the hope the dragons wouldn't move inward. Fortunately for them the war occupied much of their time and the orcs and dragons never felt the need to move into the dwarven lairs.
The Black Dragon clan run by the ancient dark wyrm Glismoda was a major force for evil in the world, but was thankfully opposed by the Silver Dragon Clan and their leader the dragon Rascondus.

At the end of the war Rascondus sacrificed himself in order to lock away Glismoda in the shadow plane where as far as anyone knows he resides to this day. Glismoda's absence as well as the death of Rascondus set the planet of Ashanor into a form of peace.