Known History

"..And a putrid stench enveloped the streets, as aphotic mists bestowed their irregular shadow   upon the very minds of the fragile people of Ysh 'luhlua. The cacophonous roar of the ocean's   power hailed upon Ysh 'luhlua's great, domed, cyclopean citadels, collapsing the beautiful   mosaics which had been pieced a thousand years before. The City of Ysh 'luhlua was swall-   owed by the great ocean god's tumultuous fury. All that remains now are the crumbling decrepit   archways of its brobdingnagian walls, whose stone remains unknown and untouched by modern men."   -Excerpt from "The Anthropological Writings of Dr. S.H Mogenstern", published by the Universitas Omniscia in 998, Age of Enlightenment

An end to the tentative peace which existed between the survivors of Ur. Many thousands set off towards all corners of the uncharted world.

Scattered human tribes unite under a single banner and form the first permanent settlement, called Losik.

Elven artisans raise the chapel of Whitehall to their lost god, which eventually becomes the first elven settlement.

Fearing persecution by the marauding orc hordes, the survivors of Losik, aided by many other human tribes united by the Janusian menace, build the magnificent Fort Ysar into the base of Mount Ysar in the Knifetip Peaks. It takes 40 years to build, under continued assault by orcish raiders. Fort Ysar soon becomes the most stable human military power in the Known World.

Janusian fishermen encounter a school of triton warriors. They survive only by dint of a passing elven warship, who through quick and peerless archery from the bow of their birdlike vessel force the triton to retreat. The Janusians' tales of the bloodthirsty fishmen travel quickly across the Known World.

Jantine fanatics attack the elven settlement of Whitehall. Hundreds of civilians are needlessly killed, but the zealots allow many others to escape. Their aim is the temple of Whitehall itself, and the priests who reside therein. The entirety of the elven clergy is slaughtered, their holy texts burned and all iconography of their already fading god is destroyed. The effect on elven culture is devastating and permanent.

With the rise of the new millennium, the bishopric of Janus attempt to depurate their conquered lands by identifying heretics among those who had ostensibly accepted the Creed of Janus after assimilation from other religions. Surviving Jantine records, fragmented and conservative at best, indicate that an estimated 1,800,000 were tried for assorted infractions during the three-and-a-half centuries of the Jantine witch hunts, of which between 900,000 and 1,000,000 were executed outright. Merciless torture was prominent in the extraction of theological confessions, usually resulting in mutilation, infection, and death.