In the First Age of the Ancient's Dominion, after the Creation and the Great Sculpting, the Densrilan races lay firmly under the sway of the Fourteen Ancients. The ancient catastrophes of the Regeth'monalus and the Tarklun corruption, however, resulted in the Ancients' exile and the genesis of the first three Elmarilar peoples. Human and tarklun found true independence, as did the Elmarilan ardentil, and for over a thousand years the Ancients remained in exile at the decree of Ancient Miriam, the Supreme Arbiter. It was not until the Arrival, millennia later, did the mortal races see the Ancients in their grand return to Elvimer. It was 759 years later that the Ancients were yet again removed from the world in their deaths at each other's hands. Now, 797 years after the cataclysmic death of Ancient Adirian and his brethren, the world has drastically changed. The Elmarilan and Densrilan have thousands of years of history and culture, populated by the rise and fall of civilizations, revolutions in all aspects of life, drastic changes to magic... but for the third time, the Ancients are beginning to return. Rumors of a cult of the Merelgeth, an unnamed, forgotten Ancient, spread, even to the ears of the High Council.