History of the Nine Realms

Elven scribes begin charting history.

The first Goliaths in Dwarna forge primitive flint tools.

"Lord Commander, the peasants refuse to give up their food stores. They say that they need it to survive the upcoming Biafel. Should we try the next settlement?"   "Kill them."   "There's.. there's forty-thousand."   "Kill them all."

The abandoned skeletal dwarf, now an adult, returns to the Dwarnan capital, single-handedly slaughtering every guard in his way. The corpses are mangled and frozen. The Dwarnan king is slain by the skeleton, who swiftly takes control as the God-Emperor of Dwarna. He is worshipped as the one true god. None stand to oppose him.

The Fifth Crusade launches a conquest into the Worldwound itself. Baphomet and Lamashtu are slain, with the only survivors of the crusade being the half-elf Rezol and the fallen paladin Sir Levaux Jacquelin. The Worldwound is closed from the inside by the legendary pirate Hurrivan. He was never recovered.   Nerfaya is scarred forever by the thousands of years of warfare and corruption. Where Thornbridge, Elvandra, and Dertia once were is now the Sinking Plains. Kenabres and Drezen are but ruins in the vast forests. Queen Galfrey ends her own life as she saw no more purpose in her existance, with the saviors dying off or disappearing.

With an army of orcs at his side, the skeletal dwarf returns to the capital. He orders a catapult attack on the mountain peak, caving in the Dwarnan Council. He then stormed the city and crushed any opposition. The God-Emperor had returned.

The scientists who carried out the Atmosphere Experiment spent years researching Orchard Empire hieroglyphs. They combined several fragments of text on a coffin to finally make a cipher. The stories told about the 'One', who supposedly created all gods, realms, races, and even biafel. The theory of the One was a major revelation in both religion and science. But the question still remains, who is it? The Treefolk concluded that it must be Tulwapec. Others claim it's the Worldwound itself. Some even say it could be a group of people.

Peace and prosperity cannot last forever. And for the Dwarnan Empire it would end in -449GE. A Creyder agent had somehow made it into the crowd of a Valley Station parade. He fired off two shots from two different pistols, in which one hit the Dwarnan God-Emperor in the shoulder. The assassin was apprehended by a guard. He was dragged through the realm gate to Nerfaya by several soldiers and hung by the 'Feltree'. Before the soldiers could make it home, thirteen Gatekeeper Union militiamen kill the Dwarnans.   The Mountain King launched massive propaganda campaigns to get as many volunteers as possible. Six-hundred thousand men rallied under the Dwarnan flag. They marched across the tundra and through the realm gate to Nerfaya.   Saying the Gatekeeper Union was underprepared is an understatement. Dwarnan soldiers swept through Gevena City, killing any opposition. Luckily Wilkes Taboth, the Creyder ambassador, managed to sneak past the soldiers and flee through the realm gate.   Two days after the Dwarnan occupation started, four-hundred thousand Creyder soldiers came to the aid of the Gatekeeper Union. The largest battle since since V-M-I Day ensued. The army of dwarves was forced out of Nerfaya and back into Valley Station. Sultan Alazin ordered his army to give chase out of sheer confidence.   The Dwarnans had faked their surrender in order to bait Alazin's men through the gate into a wall of pikes. The enemies kept pouring through, not knowing it was a trap. One-hundred thousand casualties were taken total.   The Archipelago Kingdoms soon got word of the war going on a few realms away. The council of kings voted to come to the aid of Dwarna, as they too are monarchists. After the formal declaration of war, the 300 Day Offensive began. Intense house-to-house combat began in Grendera City before a pyrrhic Archipelago Kingdom victory. The occupying forces looted and murdered for weeks on end before a new combatant entered the fray.   The Kingdom of Fey, being long-time allies of both nations in Creyder, had decided to intervene. Forty-thousand treefolk and elves marched through the realm gate and flanked Archipelago lines. They met up with resistance contacts and launched a guerilla-warfare campaign. After three-hundred days of war in Creyder, peace was finally within grasp.   With the Dwarnan Empire and Archipelago Kingdoms being deposed to their homelands, peace negotiations began. The Treaty of Ederton was held in the neutral Kingdom of Gradia. Nerfayan land was returned and the Dwarnans were forced to pay six-million gold by -2GE.

After the looting of the Gallagach City treasury, the Dwarnan economy collapsed. As the most prominent and wealthy empire in all nine realms, it ruined the economy of all other nations. Millions perished from starvation, leaving the population of all the realms at a measly one million, a fifth of what it was at its peak.

The buried child, now an adult, was finally set free after the statue was scrapped for its precious metals. He spent two years amassing great wealth by working with the pirate lord Batuna, soon returning to his homeland. He gave out all of the money he obtained to the citizens of Gallagach City, soon being appointed as the God-Emperor for a third time.

After four-hundred years of the Black Thursday crisis, economic hardship finally comes to an end. The majority of nations across the realms cut all trade from Dwarna to ensure that it would never happen again. Dwarna, unable to sustain its massive population without trade, was set on a course for steady economic decline.

Mount Talor, largest in the Crossway Mountain Chain, erupted. Ash filled the atmosphere, killing all crops in the realm. The lava poured through the tunnels and cave systems, eventually making it into the Underdark. The minotaurs were forced to evacuate to the surface, establishing a new city. Those who didn't make it to the city immigrated away as refugees.

As the Peasants' Manifesto became more and more widely available, workers across all realms rose up against their oppressors. One-hundred years of brutal military conflict ensued, with little result. The peasants won in the Elinov Federation, creating a fully Akatoshist society. In Elasvura the peasants managed to install a socialas government. All other nations either adopted minor reforms or eliminated the opposition. The legacy of the Peasants' War will forever be remembered, as five-hundred thousand were killed.

Cataclysm Report by ████████   14:00 - Minor tremors are detected in the Underdark. Mars Koltek, a drow child, is killed by a small cave-in.   14:30 - An immediate funeral service is held for Koltek.   14:45 - All two-thousand treefolk in Fienden funnel out of the realm gate into Sargot for unknown reasons. When questioned they were unresponsive.   14:53 - Non-sentient trees begin ██████████████████████████.   15:25 - Mount Talor becomes dormant.   15:27 - A document writes that 'the beams of the sun went out' for approximately 4.2 seconds.   15:30 - Several cave-ins occur in drow mineshafts.   15:35 - Funeral services are prepared.   15:45 - The last treefolk and ██████████████ make it out of the realm gate into ██████.   15:46 - Fienden's realm gate closes.   15:50 - Tiefling immigrants are unable to open the realm gate back up.   15:55 - Local guards are called in to asses the situation. They are confused.   15:56 - The Drow hold a festival, with every member of the species being present besides a PoW.   15:59 - ████████████████████████████████████.   16:00 - All mountains in Fienden have their peaks blown off, converting into volcanos by unknown means. The Underdark caves-in with no survivors.   16:02 - The eternal midnight begins as ash clouds the atmosphere. Thousands go blind from the sudden flashes of volcanic explosions.   16:03 - The realm gate reopens.   16:05 - 60% of the population of Fienden is estimated to be dead.   16:06 - A small portion of the minotaurs are able to make it to safety alongside a huge portion of tieflings.   16:07 - The Runlkfol University, a campus housing 2.6k students, 61 teachers, and 3.7k parents is destroyed by a landslide. Only two tieflings made it out, with one dying on the way to the realm gate.   16:08 - 75% of the population of Fienden is estimated to be dead.   16:09 - One drow being held prisoner is released while her captors flee. They are currently considered the last of their race.   16:10 - A category ███ earthquake occurs, instantly killing everyone who hasn't escaped already.   16:11 - The Fienden realm gate once again closes.   16:12 - Desperate family members attempt to get back through to save those they left behind in the chaos. 59 people (54 of which were children) were trampled and smothered.   16:14 - The realm gate reopens with all ash in the atmosphere being gone. Fienden was reduced to a wasteland.   18:00 - Refugees are distributed across the habitable realms by the Mountain King, who was the first governmental figure to assist the survivors.   19:00 - Realm-wide funerals begin.

Orgoth, the God of Lycanthropy and Curses ascended to godhood after slaying a massive delfara.

Early in the morning, residents of Sargot experienced a shockwave and several earthquakes. Arcane fire with a seemingly magic origins bursted from the ground north of New Greidr. Shortly before (and after) the event, the realm gate had closed. After the realm gate reopened, there was a mass exodus of refugees.   It happened again. Or at least it tried to happen again.