The Story Thus Far

This is the time before recorded history. During this time the humanoid races aside from the elves where largely nomadic and unorganized. More ancient creatures such as dragons and giants ruled the islands .

Seeing the potential in the creatures on the material plane the gods decided to bestow their gifts on the creatures within this realm. A Pantheon of gods decided to send down avatars of themselves under the disguise of their champions.   Venture Pantheon that came to Cantagon Islands:   Lythander - God of Good and the Dawn and Creativity   Mystra - God of Magic and Wonder   Tyr - God of law and justice   Silvanus - God of Nature   Raven Queen - God of Death   Waukeen - God of trade -   Seelune - God of the moon -       It was from the work of these avatars that civilization began to form. Villages turned into cities began to blossom. The avatars of the gods began to work with the forces of man, elf, halfling etc. to teach them with the respective gifts. None was more receptive than the gift of magic. With magic simple weapons became tools of the arcane, traveling and the production of different materials that was once a chore was possible in a short afternoon.

The age of Æther was a time where magic and the quest of knowledge were and the limits of the treasures found within that pursuit were the stuff of almost god like power. Within this age the prowess of magic has given the people of this land the ability to streamline many aspects of their daily life. This led to the creation of cities the floated within the sky that shown as beacons of hope and symbols of power to the races that have received the gift of the gods. In each of these cities there were schools and/or research centers that explored the different aspects of magic and the limits of their bounds of understanding and ability.

As the people of one of the floating cities exploded out of this reality, the gods saw this as act as a deviation of their plan and instruction. The gods saw this a threat to their power and they began to remove their influence from the avatars from the material plane.   One by one the avatars of the gods left the material plane and now with the imbalance struct even those of the evil pantheon lost interest and left foot holds for their influence to grow within the nature of the creatures.   Where before the strict pantheon of those whom the avatars represented were the only source of worship now once they receded this offered other beings to assert their influence on the material plane.   This depart from religion and worship caused the unifications of the humanoid races to splinter and sperate and a period of isolationism between the islands began.

A period of conflict and war between the different kingdoms on the islands. This lasted for just over 100 years