History of Eos

At some point during the Age of Creation, the Old Ones agreed that traversing the Astral Plane was too troublesome, and resolved to create a neutral ground on which to convene and easily travel between their respective domains.   However, because they did not posses the power to create or realign planes within Aon and Noa's Lattice, they were forced to create their grand nexus within the physical confines of pre-existing cosmic space, a chaotic expanse known as the Phlogiston.   To do so, they gathered together the prime elemental forces of earth, fire, air, and water to create a crystalline sphere amid the chaos of the Phlogiston, and within them, they created the lifegiving orb of fire and light, known as Fyr, and the inhabitable orb of earth, air, and water, known as Eos. All of this comprises what we now refer to as the Prime Material Plane.   At the time of its creation, the surface of Eos was composed of a large, solid central landmass surrounded by water, throughout which were situated planar gates, allowing for travel to and from the outer planes. Underneath the world's surface, the dark Aspects built a vast network of caverns and tunnels, allowing their representatives to travel the plane in darkness, away from the light of Fyr.

Having discovered the existence of the Ethereal Plane, several other Old Ones decided to create similar planes overlapping the material plane, both as methods of travel and homes for their creations.   The Feywild and The Shadowfell, both of which overlap and correspond to physical locations in the Material Plane, were created during this period of the Age of Creation.

Though little is known about this period, oral histories and folklore tell of centuries of war between armies of dragons, giants, early elves, and a mythical race known as Olorans (or Goliaths) for dominion over large areas of land in the central and northern parts of Eos.   Many dragons and giants are slain in battle, and their numbers ultimately dwindle, paving the way for the spread of smaller humanoid civilizations.

Several high elven city-states in what is now northwestern Mythra form a unified government with the express purpose of defending, exalting, and advancing high elven culture and new magical theory. Led by a tribunal of powerful manaborn, they quickly begin a campaign of expansion and discovery.

Several hundred years after the founding of the Maenar Imperium, a court mage and explorer named Hallanwe Olessiendyn discovers a fey portal in the upper reaches of the Underdark. Over the next several years, he makes two trips into the Feywild, returning each time with a handful of feystone specimens, which he delivers to the Maenan court.   The court, realizing the nature and potential application of the stones, quickly begins financing expeditions into the portal and research into Feywild gating magic. Because of the elusive nature of Feywild portals and the difficulties posed by time dilation when passing between the material plane and the Feywild, progress is initially slow.   A royal office is soon established with the express purpose of discovering, obtaining, and researching feystone, and within a decade, the Imperium is overseeing the development of new technologies and weapons that will spark their ascendance to global domination.

For a period of four years, magic and technology ceases to work or, in many cases, becomes violently corrupted. Many Manaborn, especially magic users, go insane and are unable to control their powers. Maenan technology ceases to function or is destroyed.   Maenan cities collapse, and many become engulfed by a corrosive mist, known now as the Greymist. Within the Greymist, magic becomes unstable and amplified. Most Greymist anomalies still exist centuries after the Spellplague.   As the Maenan empire collapsed, libraries and stores of knowledge were destroyed or lost to the Greymists. Subjugated races rebelled and overthrew their oppressors, and most high elves were killed or fled to remote corners of the world.

During the War of the Hand in Celosia, a half-elf lieutenant of the Davican Ranged Guard named Jakoreth Heavyhammer is, according to legend, besieged with his contingent in a country meadery by a raiding band of orcs. Having run out of rations and water, the contingent drinks up the remaining mead, and, free of fear and inhibition, rages forth into the night, routing their attackers.   Jakoreth, being indebted to the owner of the meadery, a human female named Brigid, agrees to stake her business so long as he can also use it as a base of operations for his mercenary work. Both businesses flourish and merge, becoming the first Muster Hall.   Over time, the organization grows into a global adventurer's guild, with locations on every continent.

The first Free Temple is founded in Cenestra by a female wood elf cleric of Belenus named Felyrian Nettlewain.

A dwarven foreman named Hallas Silverbeam, employed by a mining outfit of the dwarven Broadstone clan in Ivaryll, accidentally discovers that the formerly worthless mineral known as hacksilver, when melted down into a liquid and combined with an acid, creates an extremely volatile compound that explodes when exposed to oxygen and any amount of force.   Hallas does not survive the discovery, but the potential martial and alchemical applications of quicksilver lead to a period of accelerated global experimentation. Many begin to refer to the period between the discovery of quicksilver and the present the Age of Alchemy.