World History

Creation and the Fall

In the beginning, Anara and Dhaara danced across the tapestry of heaven. In the wake of graceful Anara, life burst forth in all its myriad forms while in the sweep of silent Dhaara came the quiet of the end. Across the heavens and through the ages did the Twin Gods dance the great Dance of Life.

And so it was, for ages untold.

But then came Morithal to cast the Dancers into darkness. Morithal the Weaver of Shadows, who rejects life and denies death. Morithal, who is the Soulblighter and Worldender, the Voidlord and the Reaver. In those places where Morithal touched the Dance, there was left only void where all that was fell to nothing.

And in these days, humanity shook with awesome fear as the Weaver of Shadows did corrupt the Dance and blight the earth.

The Great Struggle

With the rise of Morithal came the gift of the Radiant and the Twin Flames. Heroes rode forth, under the blessing of the Radiant, to resist the corrupting influence of the Reaver. At their vanguard the Twin Flames, and where the flames went the void receded. So was the Weaver of Shadows cast into darkness.

Yet even in victory came defeat for the next age dawned to tribulation and death as Morithal’s dreaded voidreavers drew all the world into war. So began a time of titanic struggles, when heroes were born, died, and born again. Year upon year, decade upon decade, century upon century of devastation.

This suffering ended only when Kaelen Stormweaver, holding the Prism of Creation in his right hand and the Gavel of Final Judgements in his left, rode into the midst of the voidreavers and cast them into oblivion.

In the aftermath of this Great Struggle, humanity embarked upon an era of renewal. In these days, great nations rose and fell, only for another to arise, one replacing the next, only to be swallowed again. Thus was born humanity’s great Dance, a cycle of rise and fall, that echoes the rhythms of Anara and Dhaara.

Current Age

Scholars mark the start of the current era at the founding of Valoria some 3,200 years ago. They chronicle its ascent to imperial dominance - when its frontiers met and marched past the Endless Sands and its mariners dared the deepest depths of the Cerulean Sea - until its decline a millennium past.

Today, history unfurls in the rise and fall of lesser realms and fleeting strife, a stage for the temporal and terrestrial while beneath this surface, the profound questions of the day go unasked and unanswered, their truths obscured amidst fleeting concerns.