The History of Trutina

From the beginning of time, there was an age of Order. Only the Great Machinery existed. It began its immense calculation to arrive at the perfect world which would last for an eternity. Everything was working as intended, there was no sorrow, nor evil. Every part of the Great Machinery fulfilled its role to perfection and there was harmony in the cooperation   As the Great Machinery expanded, it created the gods. First came Semernos to control the flow of time and keep events in their correct order.
After him came Enequila to judge the effectiveness of the Great Machinery and improve on its flaws.
Shortly after Enequila, Machina was given form, to create and implement the parts of the Great Machinery that Enequila improved upon.
The next god to be made was Ostinatos. As the machines of Machina were not created by the Great Machinery directly, they are not perfectly resilient and thus need repairs. Their maintenance is what Ostinatos was made for.

During their work together, Ostinatos and Machina fell in love. For the longest time, they hid their relationship from the other gods as it impaired their ability fulfill their purpose and feared the judgement of Enequila. To make up for their shortcoming, they decided to make a new helper, who could improve upon the Great Machinery without replacing its parts with new ones, altering the current ones instead. Thus, new god of Order, Kaos, came into being. He was born with a fatal flaw. Instead of consulting the other gods, he thought he knew better than the collective of the Order. Kaos started to make alteration to the Great Machinery, making it unpredictable. With the ever growing size of the Great Machinery, as well as with Ostinatos and Machina being preoccupied with each other, his work was left mostly unchecked. When he saw that the collective did not change what he had created, he realized, that over time, he could alter the Great Machinery to serve him instead of him serving it and to help with this goal, he made his most vile creation: Evil. Kaos implanted his creation into the machinery he defiled and started to expand it.   Whilst his work was unnoticed, its effects started to show in the form of disputes amongst the other gods. Enequila usually found the work of Kaos, but Machina deceived her by saying that they were new parts, but their technique improved. Semernos grew more and more agitated as he had to work harder to keep the flow of time in check after Kaos disrupted it.   To remedy the situation, the Great Machinery created a new god, Elevalos to help the gods get along and improve their work.   After a hundred years, Kaos created such an expansive abomination that the gods of Order could no longer ignore it. The faithful gods of Order armed themselves and fought Kaos. Although he was prepared, the righteous gods of Order triumphed over him following 600 years of battle.   During their battle, the gods created Trutina. Each strike against Kaos's blade created countless sparks that became the stars in the sky, every drop of a god's blood became a planet. As the fight took place in the plane of Order, most of Trutina is orderly, however as the blood of Kaos mixed with those of the Order, Chaos and thus Evil tainted this new world.   At the end of their fight, Kaos was defeated. When Semernos raised his sword to deliver the killing blow, Ostinatos stopped him. He revealed his relationship with Machina and the origin of Kaos to the other gods and pleaded them to spare their son. In exchange, he and Machina would stop their affair and vowed to never rest until the Great Machinery completes its calculation. With the help of Elevalos, the gods were convinced and Kaos was banished from the plane of Order and confined to his creation, along with Sinistos, his own son.   To ensure that Kaos and Sinistos would remain in their domain, yet another god was created by the Great Machinery, Perviga. She was tasked with watching over the Great Machinery and ensure that nothing like Kaos's betrayal could ever happen and that they never leave their realm.

After Kaos was banished into the Plane of Chaos, Machina created the Machinists, a race of highly intelligent people, who were to be the architects of Trutina. They were spread throughout Trutina to establish a perfectly orderly world. Kaos interfered with this plan and created souls for the Machinists. Originally, this proved beneficial for them, but evil soon tainted them.

The Machinists waged a bloody civil war until all of them were eradicated.

As their civil war raged on, the Machinists fought each other on many of the planets, including this one .

They were incredibly powerful and the remnants of their fight remain in Trutina to this day. Some can be seen from time to time in the form of comets - large chunks of magical energy - flying through the cosmos.

With the fall of their empire, the loyal Machinists created the Forebears to continue their legacy.

As the Forebears prospered, Evil spread throughout their dominion. Their Machinist creators knew that this would happen and made the Forebears immune to the aggression that Chaos brings.

This didn't stop the unfaithful from leaving the community and making their own civilization however.
The original Forebears became humans, while the others formed all other humanoid species, such as dwarfs, elves and goliaths.

While many of the Forebear structures remain standing to this day, very little remains of their original civilization.

As the many races separated, the original teachings of the Order faded and Chaos infiltrated all of them. People became less organized, more barbaric and animalistic.

The sciences became stagnant and false religions sprouted among people. It was truly a bad time.

As the world slowly descended into Chaos, the gods of Order sent their prophet, Probare to bring knowledge and to teach. Probare was a Machinist , but he was created anew by the gods. He brought his teachings on golden tablets, which were transcribed by human scholars.
It took three generations of ten scholars to transcribe the entirety of the teachings. When they were finished, the text filled an entire library. The scholars asked Probare for more, but he died the moment the last page was finished.
The scholars read the teachings again and again, until they memorized it and spread throughout the world to spread the word, except for one of them. The grandson of the scholar who originally helped Probare stayed at the library and turned it into a cathedral.
As more and more people returned to the teachings of Order, and decided to help him, he managed to finish the cathedral before his death and took up the name Probare to honor the prophet.

As the world slowly descended into Chaos, the gods of Order sent their prophet, Probare to bring knowledge and to teach. Probare was a Machinist , but he was created anew by the gods. He brought his teachings on golden tablets, which were transcribed by human scholars.
It took three generations of ten scholars to transcribe the entirety of the teachings. When they were finished, the text filled an entire library. The scholars asked Probare for more, but he died the moment the last page was finished.
The scholars read the teachings again and again, until they memorized it and spread throughout the world to spread the word, except for one of them. The grandson of the scholar who originally helped Probare stayed at the library and turned it into a cathedral.
As more and more people returned to the teachings of Order, and decided to help him, he managed to finish the cathedral before his death and took up the name Probare to honor the prophet.

Gennadios Atoras led his forces againts High King Nevronlimson Alfoleg Thundershield, the dwarven High King, who has ruled his vast empire for 150 years. With the use of the Singularity Device, Gennadios could defeat the warriors of the dwarf king and took over his empire.   Gennadios proclaimed the Atoras Empire that was the first human empire ever established as well as the first victory against dwarven rulers. This event led to the beginning of the downfall of the Dwarven Hegemony.

Marking the beginning of the aggressive expansion of the Order, the First Holy War was the first war involving a unified Continent and the first involving a direct war between humans and elves.