Year 0 DA, Dragon Arrival
With the understanding that the feywilds ignore distance to connect to one another a gnome engineer and a fey master elf worked together to form a way to travel through the feywilds without the need to actually traverse through the dangerous and unpredictable labyrinth that it is.
the elves and gnomes create immense powerful fey twisting machines. they begin to lay down a powerful teleportation machine that could potentially send an entire city through the portal. But they used the power to have a large sustainable gate that would allow them to travel to another gate nearly 1000 miles away.
Dragins of all kinds have been decimated in numbers and they were hunted in large quantities due to the destruction they had been causing in a great area near the gates. After being driven from the area the few remaining that survived told of their experiences and speculations that drive them to their fury.
A large organization of mages formed on the side of man and began using powerful magic. the genies were banished to the realm of chaos. and giants left were subject to a no tolerance policy
This was a time after major wars for land and power from multiple nations during The Kings War that ended with the Empire Alliance The empire alliance was a universal agreement that the Races of man needed to band together against the ever present threat of ash and its encroachment on our lands. its concept that there would be four heads of the empire.