History of Evara

A powerful quake shattered the mountain range below the Sirennean sea and the broken mountains rocketed into the sky.

Ever the experimentalist, Adar asks Lagahashra to choose a pair of siblings. Lagahashra chooses two elves, a brother and a sister. Adar raises them to Godhood, making Erela and Alere the first mortals to become divine.   As a consequence, two new constellations mark the sky and two new demiplanes manifest in the Divine Dimension: one for each of the newborn gods.

By -6275, the gods add seven additional deities to the pantheon: Rydia, queen of the seas; the Arya, gods of the winds; Veleda, goddess of stone; Lusticia, goddess of justice (deceased in current era) ; Toron, god of seasons (deceased in current era) ; Garstos, god of mischief (deceased in the current era) ; and Liveertia, goddess of Lightning (deceased in the current era).   The gods create the evolutionary ancestors of halflings (Garstos), dwarves (Veleda), goblins (Lagahashra), tritons (Rydia), kenku (the Arya), and minotaurs (Lusticia).

Lusticia, goddess of justice, confronts Adar about the wanton way he and the other gods grant godhood. Adar does not heed her warnings or advice. Rumblings of discontent spread throughout the pantheon without Adar’s knowledge.   Lagahashra accidentally kills Oros during an argument.

During a period of the war when three of the four Arya were imprisoned, the winds of the Ayra did not blow. Only Soreph, the south wind and bringer of summer, was free in Evara. As a consequence, the lands were trapped in summer for seven years.   As a further consequence of the wind gods' imprisonment, the floating island of Arya Voxus settled over the territory of modern Rhosia. Crops died and waters swelled as the becalmed island loitered overhead. It wasn't until Adar liberated the trapped wind gods that summer finally ended and Arya Voxus moved on.

While the Gods and their devoted Mortals continue to wage war, the natural resources of the world are exploited to feed the war engine. A young furred mantis, Kiel, demands that Ogden do his duty and protect the people of the forests. When this fails, Kiel challenges Adar directly to a duel, over the right to have a better forest God than Ogden. Adar loses. Kiel ascends as the next forest God.

While the gods tussled and the faithful followed, the peoples of Kamaraha were faced with their own conflict. Elemental spirits (genies) inhabiting the Spiral Islands took exception to draconic rule - the genies claimed that as children of the behemoths, they should reign supreme. The genies rallied the humanoid populace around them, dividing the nation and driving it to the brink of civil war. Negotiations resulted in disbanding the dracocracy. Each island was largely left to govern itself, but top representatives formed a conclave to keep the peace and serve in times of need.

Maouna Kawana in Kamaraha caused the largest volcanic eruption in history, dramatically reshaping the islands and covering a full ¼ of the world in volcanic night. The summers in the aftermath of the eruption were some of the coldest on record. Ash from the explosion buried a 20-square-mile (50-square-km) area to the mountain's west, which remains blanketed to this day. The cataclysm damaged the nearby settlements, which only fully recovered more than a century later.

The gods’ mortal armies needed additional resources to fuel their fight. Invaders from Sihnolae subjugated Ulomalomaloa (modern Sihndroma), plundering it for its rich natural resources. When Ulomalomaloa lost its independence, it lost its name. Now a colony of its militant neighbor, Sihnolae.

A host of mind flayers and their aberrant thralls invade Evara, breaching the Material Plane from manifest zones in modern Ciashra. This was the first major incursion from another plane and the first recorded proof of life in other planes.   The peoples of Ciashra, Eridania, Ekreles, and Rhosia worked together to overcome the threat. Autholokas, an elvish general from Ekreles, organized the resistance. A charismatic leader, she not only united the continent against the common threat but also persuaded nations across the Sirennean Sea - notably Darbek - to supply arms and aid. When the conflict was won, Autholokas was rewarded for her heroism by becoming an avatar of Nalani.

The printing press is invented in Arya Voxus

Eridania is “cursed” by Rydia (or possibly blessed by Adar). Either way, the Eridanian rainforest begins its transformation into an arid desert, causing mass migrations, mass extinctions, and hastening the development of new technology to combat the loss of magic.

Earthquakes along the Moau faultline have revealed ancient underground ruins. Orrdia and Sihnolae are fighting over the site, which could contain important - or powerful - historical artifacts.