History

Most universes are not like that of the one we live in for they are formed of void and ocationaly æther. It is only a long series of flukes that alowed the universe to develop life as we know it.

The Beginning
At first there was nowhere. There was no time and no space for there to be none of. And then the universe sprung into existence, a 2 dimensional space, the dimensions are now known as the 4th and 5th dimensions by mortals, which was impossible to quantify yet did have a bound, full of empty, dark grey void.

Then into this universe came, from above the 5th dimension, æther, a deep purple fluid that leisurely swam into the universe. However it rested and settled with it's lower levels solidifying and distilling until they became Gaia. The weight upon Gaia was, however to much so she allowed the æther to fall through her but she strapped some æther above which formed a vapor and then Neptune. The æther that had been allowed to pass below Gaia had however become trapped against the edge of the universe and had become doomed to be used for the petty whims of mortal men.

Gaia and Neptune decided to make a demonstration of their new found power to create another set of dimensions and not wanting to be out done by the universe before they created 3. But this drained their power and so they could only extend into their new dimensions a limited amount. This also caused the elements that they were formed out of to become less and less mixed and to begin to clump together until one day a craggy edge of Gaia became made only out of the element Earth and a drop of Gaia that flew into the Neptune before it could be reabsorbed became only made out of water.

This of course caused an imbalance in those areas that split them permanently from Gaia thrusting consciousness upon them creating what are now known as the elementals named after the elements that Gaia and Neptune have always been made of. This of course displeased Gaia despite the fact that in her weakened state she could do nothing to stop it. Meanwhile Neptune was having his own problems for from him came the other opposed pair : Fire and Air.

The great elemental war
It is unknown weather the elemental pairs where opposed from the beginning or whether some event drove them apart as it seems that they are opposites in their very being yet it was their in fighting that saved Neptune and Gaia and brought about The Great Elemental War.

During this war the elements combined to create new elements and although their predecessors believed that the fight was necessary the new elementals where unconvinced. Eventually the new elementals ceased fighting and the original ones where to few and far between to carry on the fight.

A brave new world
The new elementals decided that to get over the fighting they would create a lush green beautiful world inhabited by wonderful animals. Eventually from one of the animals evolved a creature that was, barely, conscious.

Meanwhile in an attempt to continue the great elemental war the elemental of earth and water decided to create their own races, those being the Duradin and the Alran respectively.

Yet these races did not fight either and so came a time when they all prospered.

The cataclysm
Earth now betrayed twice became incredibly vengeful and so created the ultimate plot to annoy the elementals of water and shame the new elementals.

They raised a land of the bed of the sea known as Atoland and populated it with the primitive humanoid that the new elements had made but filled their heads with ideas of slaughter and bloodshed which such a primitive race could not defend against and then equipped them with revolutionary technologies that allowed them to build great weapons, ships and monuments with which they sailed forth into the rest of the world.

There is little documentation of what they did as the Atolandians did not keep records and most of the records belonging to their opponents were destroyed but from the evidence it appears that they sailed to the human nation of eJ and those of Minutia and, most significantly, Athelron.

Minutia
Minutia is by far the least documented case and so we shall examine it first. By around 2,000 years ago a few city states had formed in the land we now call Ilia. The strongest of these city states, Thebs, was razed to the ground and almost immediately afterwards Attica and Midea began to strengthen their defenses and it seems likely that other kingdoms did so to.

However it is evident this did them no good as around 70 years latter Pylos was also razed and documents indicating hasty preparations of defenses have been found in the ruins.

eJ
In eJ documents were very well kept and so we know with detail about coastal raiders unknown to the residents of eJ coming from the north west and raiding minor coastal settlements but dispersing before eJ's army could arrive and as eJ lacked a navy they could not pursue them at sea.

Athelron
Several fishing boats and two trade ships were sized by a mysterious force that then burnt the capital of Athelron, Alfheim.

The elementals of water struck back telling eJ how to construct a navy which allowed them to inflict a great defeat upon the forces of Atoland forcing them to return home to lick their wounds. However the elementals of water had other ideas and returned Atoland to the depths of the sea.

The attack had created a weakness in the personality of the elves who had lost their forgiving after witnessing their homes burnt to the ground allowing water to add to their above it all personality a feeling of superiority over other races and a desire to attack water's enemies and pointed them in the direction of the dwarves.

However on the way towards the dwarves a group of air elementals wanting to keep the peace brewed up a stormed that shattered boats and snapped masts and although the elves did eventually make it to land they, with a few exceptions did not want to press on.

But in stopping one attack the elementals created another for, seeing air elementals attack forces about to attack earth, fire turned the permanent irritation that was the orcs into a undefeatable fighting force that stormed into the central mountains and caused the semi-collapse of dwarven civilization.

The rise of man
Things rose to a peak for the dwarves when the High King was kidnapped by the Greenskins fortunately for the dwarves he was saved by the son of a cheif of a human tribe who hapend to be out with a group of men atempting to rid his future lands of orcs

The dwarf king was very grateful and gifted to their leader, Aruseus, a weapon of great power who determined to use it to united humanity. He travelled from the north sea to the south rallying humanity to his cause and marched through the desert shattering seemingly endless greenskin armies with his tactics and wisdom.

The Battle of the River Ind
Eventually he and his exhausted forces came to a beautiful river (now known as the Ind) but as they settled down to rest they saw coming back through the desert a vast greenskin army. He rallied his men for one more fight telling them the most inspirational phrases he could think of and charged head long into the on coming greenskins coming straight out the other side. the victory was very close but after 10 long hours of fighting the soldiers of man had won. However the victory had been Pyrrhic for Aruseus had been stuck in the arm by an arrow. The best doctors spent days differing over whether to take it out of not before Aruseus pulled it out himself.

He lived but was significantly weekend by his ordeal and had to be carried back to his home village where despite the doctors insistence that he get early nights, lots of rest and drank a lot of water he stayed up late plotting campaigns and drinking wine. He quickly caught the fever and it became clear that he was going to die and his only living relative as his 3 year old cousin and so his cavalry commander, Briskos, asked him to who he would leave his vast empire. Aruseus did his empire no faifors with his next words for amongst groans and moans of pain he managed to get out in a horse wisper “to the strongest”

Divisions
Naturally everyone thought they were the strongest and after much arguing they eventually decided that it would be best to divide the empire between them and see whose nation became the strongest.

Briskos, leader of the cavalry, took the lands to the west and called them Leon.

Phatypus, The king's best friend and cook, took the lands to the south (then Minutia) and named them Ilia.

Ablerus, The leader of the infantry was tasked with looking after Aruseus's closest relation, His three year old nephew, Euphorion, and sent back to Aruseus home town, then Leris now Pleitsdorf.

The sacking of Adwnglor
Aruseus's elite bodyguards, lead by Dreadalos, were unhappy with the passiveness of Ablerus and that they had not been given their own piece of land and so they went to join Briskos. They arrived in Adwnglor and went through the great gates and up to the palace of kings were they requested an audience with Briskos.

Briskos demanded that they bow before him and grovel in the dirt but Dreadalos refused and his forces followed suit. Briskos told them to go but they decided to sack the market place first causing Briskos to release his elite cavalry catching Dreadalos unaware.

Dreadalos and his forces fled Adwnglor and returned to the freshly dubbed Aruseus's land where they were greeted by border guards that refused to let them in. They fled north until they reached the northern extremity of Euphoria where they crossed The Devils Gap into Narlwage were they founded what has become known as The Tribes of Norwage.

The Rise of The Dead
The outer edge of Achthal has always been a wild place with numerous forests and