History of Kutania

As the Zhethrh'ithar become more advanced in their learning and understanding, they start to seek out a deeper desire to believe in something greater than themselves. During this golden age of peace and advancement is when they first discovered means to make contact with an unknown, all-powerful entity that was incomprehensible to them. Soft whispers of promises came to them, offering help of understanding and a lifelong paradise world of mutual peace. Being the only race in the world, they were rather naive, did not fully comprehend lies and deception very well.

On the biggest Zhethrh'ithar holy day, the gate was activated with much rejoicing until the sleeping god emerged from the portal. Rejoicing quickly turned into screams of madness, horror and suffering. The ocean turned to blood, then slowly boiled away leaving a desert wasteland of no life. All that witnessed the sleeping god were cursed, driven mad and swore themselves to him. As he walked the world, the land changed around him. Insanity was now the new normal, things were permanently changed across the lands.   The sleeping God had tricked them all, laughing at their naive stupidity. Being released into this world, he changed the race into what he wanted and forced them all into worshipping him. The once peaceful race turned cruel, vicious and found great enjoyment in torturing others.

The sleeping God brought into existence other races to serve him including elves, dwarves, halflings, orcs and all the others. This was merely done to have playthings to torment and to generate even more negative energy which the sleeping god lives off. Zhethrh'ithar society became caste based, as they were born being medically altered to better fit their predetermined caste. Being altered, cursed and changed by the sleeping God they never once questioned anything only blindly believing in their Saviour. They, being gifted with powers from the sleeping god, quickly conquered the lands, making all other races into their slaves and playthings.

Led by the rebellious humans, all of the slave races start to revolt against the Zhethrh'ithar. The different races joining together under the banner of the humans, they formed one group and fought back. Soon humans made pacts with the vampyre and Grimfangs in order to enlist their help which was so desperately needed. Using guerilla style tactics, hit and run maneuverers with the willingness to give their lives for the cause, they continued to fight for their freedom.

The Zhethrh'ithar where punished by the sleeping god for allowing so many slaves to escape which drastically dropped the amount of negative energy there was in the world. As the sleeping god came out of the ocean, it walked across the continent heading towards the direction that all the slaves fled. As the sleeping god was so enormous in size and radiated so much power, as it walked over the continent it caused earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, canyons to open up, lakes spilled out, rivers change directions and other apocalyptic changes were permanently made in the homeland of the Zhethrh'ithar. As the sleeping god was weakened from the loss of all that negative energy and traveling. He forseen where the escaped slaves would go and just as he could see the shores off in the far distance… the Shinzoku and the dragons banded together attacking the sleeping god. While the sleeping god was being distracted, Shub-Niggurath was able to use all of its power to lure the sleeping god into a deep sleep. The ocean ran red from the blood of dragons, demons, Shinzoku and the mazokus. Afterwards the sleeping god laid down on the ocean floor out away from what is now called Echo Bay. The Shinzoku being so few in numbers retreated which caused a bitter split between ancient dragons and the other dragons. The mazoku also losing heavy numbers went into hiding along with the others.

After five long years of living out on the vast oceans, being able to find the occasional tiny island here and there, a new land was discovered. As the slave fleet made for shore, scouts where quickly reporting vast lands as far as the eye could see. Filled with fresh crystal-clear waters, fruit bearing trees, vast numbers of wildlife and lands that where perfect for farming. The slaves quickly named this new land 'Kutania' which in the old language meant 'paradise'.

This war killed about 70% of all life including plants, mammals, fish, insects and all life in general in this world. It is not clear on how it started or where it started but some records indicate it was a small village in the mountains that found a meteorite which had fallen from the skies above. Unknown to the villagers within this metal sphere was the most dangerous bioengineered weapon to be made. Its origins are unknown, the technology is unknown, and most records were destroyed in the great war. Shortly after the item was placed inside the village, its villagers started to get very sick.   The virus had a chain reaction mutation that altered it into something completely different. A stronger, deadlier virus that would merge with its host both mutating together to become a new living lifeform that would then go forth to infect others. Within a week, the entire kingdom had fallen, and the virus infected all living life within the kingdom. It would appear that the virus could not only infect humanoids but also plants, animals, insects and all life as we know it.

The Mazoku and the Shinzoku finally agreed to work together because if the infected took over everything, there would be no positive or negative energies in the world meaning both sides would die off. Working together, they were able to gain the attention of The Golden Mother of Darkness. Being an entity of pure neutrality, she had no feelings and no cares of what was going on but the fact that the negative and the positive side came together as one intrigued her interest for a moment in time. On a whimsical notion, she spent a total of 8 seconds giving 1% of her attention to this world. The sun became blocked out as the world was covered in one thunderstorm, the entire world was drenched in healing rains but the rain continued non-stop for 33 days causing most of the world to flood destroying everything that survived the world war.   Upon the 34th day, the skies finally cleared revealing a world destroyed by war and by flooding. By some miracle, 33% of all life survived with no signs of any of the infected surviving at all. The small groups of the different races set out upon the permanently changed world that was left behind. Having no technology, no tools, no written information had to revert back to being primitive in nature as life once again was reset back to the very beginning.