The Rise of Monsters
-100,000 YBKC – -10,000 YBKC
Summary
-100,000 YBKC – -10,000 YBKC
The Rise of the Beasts & Monsters. The end of the exploration age was brought up by the hubris of many and by the rise of monsters. Caused by many factors -- one is that a great device was made to harness the Black Glass and set off a prophecy of awakening the sleeping dragon in Dierde. As he began to awake (just beginning), it created a hollow Earth and monsters began to form which all came out and took over many parts of the Earth. This would all lead to a major explosion and the heralds of the dragon god would break free… This also opened up some of the evil gods, very much like the “old gods” of the void. They caused much havoc and helped create much of the monsters on the planet. This lasted for 5,000 years and one day. On that final day Gaea was able to take some of the energy that had built up from D’ierde’s rest to banish these old gods. Some were unable to be banished and they were put into deep hibernations in different places. For another 5,000 years and a day the main races slowly built their societies. All while the dragons began to flex their muscles causing havoc and pain. Some were killed, others went to hibernation. This was the Age of Monsters. Much before the dragons attacking places is unknown to most people at this time. Some of it is fragmented and erroneous history or repurposed by some cultures. These words are the closest to the “reality” of what has happened in this universe, but there are many events left out, some that Geskiedenis is still researching. Of course one problem is the magical retconning effect that randomly occurs and actually transforms some events currently and historically in this universe. Regardless of what the effects of this random magical problem caused by trillions of trillions of years of various magics it doesn’t create paradoxes (usually.) So, it could erase your birth yet you still exist and some random people may or may not remember the birth even though it technically didn’t happen. Confusing, of course, but so are the ways of magic. The Fall of Technology In this second cycle some of the gods also found ways to use great and powerful people of their respective races to give them more power and influence in this universe. Immortality was granted to many great and powerful creatures. This lead to the Battle of the Gods. This battle would reshape the surface of the planet and would help destroy many old cities and technologies. Many to never see the light of day again, including the ability to leave the planet. The only ones who retained this knowledge was Geskiedenis and a select few of her monks. They protect this knowledge and ability to the death. They still periodically send out ships, but it has become rarer and rarer. Lolth and her dark elves dug so much into the earth with their various slaves that they soon found D’ierde in the center resting from his wounds. This awoke D’ierde who was unaware of what happened over the past few billion years and he was not happy with what Giae had done. He also was not happy that all the different gods fought outside of his shell. He was happy that they were too busy fighting amongst themselves to attack his family, but he felt he had gained enough power to fully banish them for once and for all. The Rise of D'ierde. He escaped his shell and this caused a great hole in the islands where his dragons slept. The island they rested upon was destroyed and became all types of various islands in that region.This was D’ierde’s First Known Escape.
All of the gods, wizards, sorcerers, clerics, dragons, or anyone who could wield any form of magic or power focused their power on D’ierde and was able to force him into the bowels of Giae who used her power to turn him into a “sun” inside of the planet. Much of that magic floated inside of the now hollow planet. It helped create a very lush interesting terrain inside of the planet. This also forced all the gods and deities out of the universe. This also created Hollow Erde and was the entrapment of D'ierde. The Final Banishment. Since then there has never been a time where all of these gods have been able to reenter the universe. They do find ways to sway and influence the creatures and characters of the worlds with occasional occurrences where one or a few are able to enter this plane. They are still trying to find ways though and their avatars are getting stronger… This was also the final settling of the current planes.The Second Cycle
The Rise of Monsters
-100,000 YBKCThe First Cycle
- Pre-Creation -360,000,000,000,000+ YBKC
- The Time of Creation -360,000,000,000 YBKC
- Creation Myths
- Creation
- The First Betrayal
- The First War of the Gods
- The Dragon Gods
- The End of Creation
- Creation of Dierde
- The Time of the First Gods -200,000,000,000
- The Time of the Dark Demons -160,000,000,000
- The Stewards Arrive -140,000,000,000
- The Time of Dinosaurs -100,000,000,000
- The Ice Age -10,000,000,000
- The Rise of Man -1,000,000
- The Downfall of the Elves -500,000
The Rise of Monsters -100,000Third Cycle
- Pre-Common Era -9,000--5,000
- The Age of Heroes
- The Age of Exploration
- The Age of War
- Common Era -5,000-0
- The Rebellion
- The Great Peace 0-1000
- Modern Era 1000+
Date of Setting
-100,000 YBKC