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from A Brief History of Tarien, compiled by Xeerix Zenzorax Shar´iish´ta and Jez´bali´dahn were exceedingly displeased by the destruction of Tarien. The blame fell not on the sentient races, but on the now worshiper-less and therefore powerless Guardians. Once again, the Mother and Father summoned the Old Ones from their distant slumber. They recreated Tarien exactly as it was before the great wars, but eliminated all knowledge of Teck´nahl´eesh. Jez´bali´dahn bound the excess energy from left from the dissipation of Teck´nahl´eesh into an azure flame on the uppermost point of the Peak of the World. A large tree grew there, its leaves engulfed with this azure fire, guarding the mass of energy and the essence of Jez´bali´dahn. By this time, many other gods had come into existence, either through affairs between themselves or with mortals, and some began to chose races as their children. [Editor´s note: for more detailed information regarding the history of the Gods, see The Imperial University of Karradone´s Manual for Religious Studies, 6th Edition .] Tyloma, chose the noble Soulmeliti. Khadric the smith chose the Khadric, who had a name lost to history at the time,but changed it to reflect their devotion to their deity. Grashua claimed the Orks. All the various Goblinoid races that developed over the years, due to freak magical happenings, inbreeding, crossbreeding, and the like, all continue to worship Grashua. Humans, by now the most diverse of the races, accepted a myriad of deities, each effecting a different aspect of their lives. The only races affected by this picking and choosing were the Kari-zaro and the Tzechni´korack, who remained strong in their faith toward Shar´iish´ta. A great peace that lasted for a millennia of millennia followed. The races of Tarien rebuilt its splendor without entrance of Teck´nahl´eesh into the world. New races also came into existence during this time. A group of Humans, while first exploring the sea, became shipwrecked along the shores of the Malorian Swamps. At the same moment, a group of Tanar´ri forces infiltrated the depth of the Nine Hells and destroyed a Pit Fiend. The ensuing explosion spilled into Tarien for some unknown reason and metamorphisized these humans, shrinking their bodies until they became Kyusho. Kyusho legend states that in order to survive the first month, they had to eat the body off their dead crew mates, thus installing cannibalism into Kyusho culture. Noshru, feeling pity on these poor fellows, adopted them as his own. Intrix, the God of Mischief and Trickery, in an effort to win a bet with Nerrid, the God of Curiosity and Invention, sprinkled divine dust over the cribs of one hundred children of Khadric. The babies´ noses grew long, their voice´s gained pitch, and their girth shrunk. The children of Khadric, displeased with these mutant looking babies, abandoned them in the mountains. Nerrid felt a responsibility for their abandonment, as it was his bet that brought them into existence, and swept them up whirlwind, dropping them safely in the wild hills to the far west, making them the Nerrids, and his chosen race. Affairs between various gods and immortals also spawned offspring. At one point, Grashua took a harem of twenty Titan women. The children that resulted became the giants of Tarien, who along with the Orks and other goblinoids, worshiped him. As Grashua hungered for power, and power came from his worshipers, he imbued his chosen races with the exceptional fertility that they possess to this very day. An affair between Tyloma and the cat lord Feldane resulted in a litter of ten Elynthi children. The cat lord, fickle in his affairs, left them alone in the Soulmeliti forests for the noble race to raise. Their numbers grew and the two races existed in harmony for thousands of years. Their mother, Tyloma, however, felt slighted by the cat lord and his impure children, leaving a latent feeling of hostility toward the in the quickly developing church of Tyloma. Peace gave way to small skirmishes and eventually minor wars broke out between various races. Most notably, the Kari-zaro and the Tzechni´korack fought a constant war in the Jungles of Thallox. On a grander scale, the Orks and the Soulmeliti fought in the forested hills that divides their homelands. Humans, constantly bickering, fought among themselves. Finally, about five thousand years before the crowning of the first Emperor in Eldoria1, the Soulmeliti developed writing. The Elynthi, who by now occupied the southern part of the forest, quickly followed suit. By the end of the next millennia, writing had expanded to the Khadrics, Nerrids, and Humans. By the date of 2,123 before the first Emperor of Eldoria was crowned, Soulmeliti scholars began recording history in scrolls. |
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