War for Dell

The War
10 races were created in the age of War; Orcs, goblins, trolls, ogres, hobgoblins, vermainians, thri-kern, lycanthropes, dragons, and kobolds. These races were the key to victory. Unfortunately, Wirr had begun to turn the races on each other, elves and dwarves fought their own kin, dark fairies built manticores, minotuars, and new species of faire. Crystalline changed and became twisted and dark versions of what they once were. Demons ran wild, built from animals and the weakest of the races mortals. Bizarre creatures such as razhakas, beholders, and gigantic worms roamed the world, spewed from a portal to the demented realm. The gods trained their armies for war, and charged out of the Shelter, slaying traitors and dark beings with ease. Then one fateful day, the dark god’s armies amassed to make a final stand, on the war-torn peninsula of Gaal. The battle raged for weeks, neither side gaining an edge for more than a few minutes. Then as an act of valor, Death and Nautire fought Wirr in a challenge. Wirr and Nautire were evenly matched, and in their clash many new races and creatures were born. Death was the one who used his might and power over necromancy to chain Wirr to his shadow form, which he still has now. Wirr was still powerful, but Galwind Craftmaster, using an orb he constructed, charged forth and trapped him inside, his own soul used as a bind.

The Result
The loss of him caused many traitors to repent, as they saw what they had done. The dark gods were defeated. Mali, Flair, and Trosilese repented as well. The repenting dwarves were changed to gnomes, Halflings, bugbears, and azers. The elves changed to draconics and the sin-elves, shaped to look more the gods so that they may forget what they were. Those who repented were thrown out of the shelter. Demons followed Goreth to the demented realm to be imprisoned for all eternity. The portal was then collapsed. Three new gods, the children of Death and Nautire, and one of Wirr, were found on the battlefield by the ones who repented. They were given to the shelter guards to be raised by their parents. The daughter of Wirr and Nautire, Raie became the goddess of plague, famine, and infestation. Oraclees the goddess of time and the sea was given to Nautire to be raised. Finally the god of judgment, Falcone, was given to Death to be raised. Falcone created the ethereal realm for the heroes of the war to go and be happy. Falcone created the winged beings called angels and Valkyries to guide the people to their destination. He also made a portal to the demented realm for Death, angels, and the traitors who fell in battle to go into. The angels would give Goreth a list of evils done by the people they guided for him to find a punishment for them. Those who still lived and did not repent became darker forms of themselves. That is when the dugbears and drow were forged from the darkness inside of themselves.

The Traitor Godess
Raie soon discovered her dark lineage, and her anger towards her mother grew. She left the Shelter and gave the forsaken technology. She then led them to attack the Savanans who were outside of the range of the gods. They were eventually defeated, Raie was captured, and to make up for the rebellion, the sin-elves constructed the Valor Temples for the worship of their chosen god. Raie was punished to kill all she touched. She harbored resentment to all the gods, all but Wirr, her father. Raie secluded herself in the Badlands. Alforn, the only who still enjoyed her, moved to the Badlands with her, as did his worshipers. Both grew resentment for the gods. In the Shelter, things began to worsen. Races began to leave, first the created in the battle against Wirr, and then the 10 war crafted races, then finally the ancient ones. Then Raie and Alforn returned, to steal the Shelter. As a last hope, Wey’vian opened a portal to the Ethereal realm and the gods were pulled in; Jaelstar, Death, Raie, Alforn, and Oraclees the last to be pulled in, the closest to the edge, able to interact. Wey’vian was partially destroyed by the portal, causing ether to spread into the wind causing a new era.