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| History of The Worlde; A significant planet in the Telorthus system | |
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Whilst Historians argue on what truly happened it can be agreed that the origin of The Worlde lays deep in the past and appeared to involve some fairly powerful beings that eventually settled into the role of gods, but being all-powerful deities over a set of pretty boring planets didn't work well for them. Over thousands of years as the star named Telorthus and it's various satellites cooled the gods decided that being spread all over the system didn't make sense, so they looked at one specific planet and over time they populated the planet with various races that represented themselves. As gods are likely to do some got bored and wandered off, others stayed behind, their followers changing according to those people whims until one of the gods felt that everything was wrong and in a move that stunned the other remaining gods he made himself mortal, or rather mortal in comparison to those gods, upon the Worlde he was still very much godlike, his true name both feared and almost impossible to say he earned the Title The Dark Underlord and this time was known as The First Rising. The First Rising lasted for many hundreds of years and threw The Worlde into a very dark time, many wrongs went unpunished and evil deeds came easily to most races, barring the few who remained aligned either to the gods of balance, or the gods of peace. Whilst small in power they were great in purpose and managed to convince some of the more powerful beings of The Worlde such as dragons and the great mages to aid in defeating the Dark Underlords forces, and eventually himself, however his power was so great that he could only be sealed away through the use of a variety of powerful and hidden mystical seals. Just before he was finally sealed away he prophesied that in exactly 1000 years he would return to wreck his vengeance, a threat that was soon forgotten by all but a few. Roughly 500 years after that the seals began to break, slowly at first which caused some of his stronger minions to be released who worked their way into the hearts and minds of the people and started the steady decay of morals that they hoped would speed up their master's release. Surprisingly the forces of good fought back with an unexpected vigor, older powers and new ones coming together and maintaining the remaining seals enough that eventually the final release did come at it's prophesied time. Then came the 2nd rising of the Dark Underlord, this lasted roughly 500 years and resulted in many more deaths than his first rising. The effort to control him using an awful lot of The Worlde's magic with many of it's more magical races dying off completely and mages finding themselves much weakened. This gave rise in a change of course for the people of Worlde and a sudden lurch towards technological advancement, over the next 1000 years the Worlde went from pre-industrial to a worlde capable of exploring their local stellar neighborhood. Although not before another rising occurred, this time a period known as the Techno-Wars. For a long time the Umans had been left almost completely stripped of all magic, the other races still possessing some abilities, weakened, btu still with an advantage the Umans felt unfair and unjust. They retaliated by coming up with machines, tools and weapons that were not only capable of disrupting magic but eliminating it resulting in the few remaining being that magic could keep alive being killed with these weapons. The war was relatively short, but almost as devastating as the risings had been and it took a combined world to teach the Umans the errors of their ways and shortly after this The Union was formed, a world government which then launched the efforts to explore space by combining the strength and efforts of all races, including the much humbled Umans. Whilst there may be many other worlds out there with life and space races of their own this story starts initially after The Worlde and The Union have explored and populated their own star system and are about ready to look beyond. |
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