Truths of the Gods War and the Ages Before It

Purpose

Our history is well documented back to when the world shattered, but most of what we have from before that is esoteric poems and partial etchings in stone found deep in long forgotten caverns. At least it was. With the help of the leaders of Fort Basin of Mirefield, we have uncovered the true nature of our history. The information enclosed within will detail our discovery of this Blight and what it means for those of us who live in Ovenica. I pray you take to heart these words and use them to expand your mind, not close it off. If anything, this discovery is one that should bring us all together for, as you are about to see, our existence as living beings stems from the same source.

The history of Ovenica is not, as we thought and as the Angels of Iron continue to claim, merely balanced between ten and twenty thousands of years. No, it is a history so deep that it goes back far beyond what we could possibly comprehend. It is not untrue that the gods visited us some tens of thousands of years before the world shattered. They came as benevolent but powerful outsiders to share in this world we had created for ourselves. When they arrived we were prosperous and had been living prosperously for thousands of generations. But they were not the first to arrive.

In the years before prosperity other outsiders found themselves on our world. The names of these have been long forgotten but their effects remain to this day. They were slavers, and moulders of flesh. They warped the humanity they found into shapes which suited them best, while those who escaped fled deep underground. This Blight created the species we now group together under the name Anak; Orcs, Goblins, Changelings, even Ogres, Teiflings, or Aasimar. Once we looked upon these individuals as separate, but as science has proven we all come from the same lineage. The Blight remains to this day, however, and we have not only the outsiders, but the Sorcerer Kings of prosperity to blame for some as well. Their magics, at the height of their power, were used to twist other remnants of humanity to their own designs, not learning from the mistakes of their now toppled overlords.