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A home-brew world for 4E D&D.
 
  
=Timeline:=
 
 
==Before Time==
 
* Amorphia.  Neither order nor chaos, light nor dark, Astral Sea nor Elemental Vortex
 
* Outside, only Remnants, dead worlds, and rare other pockets of amorphia
 
 
==Inspiration==
 
* Something Happens
 
* Amorphia 'curdles' into Elemental Chaos
 
* Primordials appear
 
 
==Creation==
 
* Primordials create the World, using themselves.
 
* This creates 'empty' space, which becomes Astral Sea
 
* Gods manifest in Astral Sea
 
 
==Dawn Time==
 
* Gods create Sun (golden yellow), Moon (bright silver).
 
* Primordials create life (giant plants, animals)
 
* Gods create Slaad as first intelligent species
 
* Gods walk the earth, delight in World. 
 
** Excess god-energy starts creation of Feywild, Shadowfell
 
 
==God War==
 
* Primordials, bored, want to unmake World, do something else
 
** Many are 'trapped' in form of World
 
** Gods want to keep Astral Sea, not sure if they'll exist without it.
 
** Some gods have settled on World, become Genii
 
* Fight!
 
* Dragons created
 
* Feywild and Shadowfell increase
 
* Gods learn to team up, beat Primordials
 
* Orcs created
 
 
==Inundation==
 
* Gods leave the World
 
* Feywild and Shadowfell in present configuration
 
* World suffers aftereffects of God War, takes time to recover
 
 
==Age of Towers==
 
* Genii manifest as towers
 
* Eladrin created to serve Towers
 
 
==Age of Dragons==
 
* Dragons rule.
 
* Dragon Wars.  Many Dragons killed.  Protocols developed.
 
* Githerazai and Githyanki developed as tools.
 
* Dragonborn developed as obedient warriors
 
 
==Atlantean Age==
 
* Orcs rise to prominence, develop civilization.
 
* Dragons determine Protocols apply to orcs.  Orcs not consulted.
 
* World-spanning civilization, using Etheric Science.
 
* Mumans developed as servants
 
* Tower/Atlantis War. 
 
** Many Towers shattered.
 
** Elves, dwarves, and halflings come from shattered towers.
 
** Warforged developed as soldiers
 
* High Priests become Deva
 
* Towers invoke Correllan, counterstrike
 
** Gruumsh loses an eye.  Many orcs become "full orcs"
 
** Original orcs are now called half-orcs.
 

Revision as of 09:42, 6 September 2009