The Age of Monsters

Monsters take the place of the once proud Giants, reshaping the world once again. Eventually, internal strife fells their nations, leaving room for the age of humanoids to begin.

After their destruction at the hands of the Dragons, giants reverted to primitive monsters living in the ruins of their shattered civilization as the dragons return to their secluded continent and the elves settle Aerenal. In Khorvare, The first of the goblinoid kingdoms, Dhakaan, rises in the area that will one day become Breland and Darguun. EOrc nations arise in western Khorvaire to compete with the goblinoid kingdoms. The two groups rule over a majority of Khorvare, continuing to fight against each other. Eventually, the Dhakaani unite the goblinoid nations to create the greatest empire the goblins have ever known. On the sub-continent of Aerenal, the Aerenal elves continue to spread creating clusters of city-states. This leads to the creation of the Undying Court in Aerenal, elves that, while they may have died, continue to walk among the living, guiding and teaching the other Aerenal elves. This also leads to the first skirmish between the elves and the dragons, which sets a pattern of long periods of peace punctuated by short, devastating battles every few hundred years. Aerenal elves establish a colony in what is now present-day Valenar. Peaceful coexistence doesn't last, and the elves come into conflict with the Dhakaani. The elves abandon the colony when another clash with the dragons threatens Aerenal.   While the elves, goblins, and orcs continue to evolve and change, the dragon Vvaraak, in response to a portion of The Prophecy she had been studying, begins teaching the orcs druidic magic. These orcs become the first Gatekeeper druids. The daelkyr - a race of immensely powerful beings from Xoriat, the Plane of Madness - eventually invade Eberron. They are eventually defeated by the Gatekeeper druids, who seal the portals to Xoriat and trap the remaining daelkyr below ground, but not before they decimate the western reaches of Khorvaire. Weakened by the Daelkyr War, the Dhakaani government collapses to internal power-struggles and civil strife. Goblinoid city-states and smaller nations endure, but lack the political and military cohesion of the earlier empire.   During this time, the dwarves also migrate from the Frostfell to the Ironroot Mountains.