Editing DissidiaTemplar West Marches/The World (section)

= The Beginning Period=
After the Armageddon, the land was ripe for new factions. (Year 0-100)

== The Genesishydra lays the seeds for Monsterkind Year 100==
'''The Genesishydra''' - the mother of monsters who undoubtedly survived Armageddon - in its eternal cycle, stirs once more, seeding the land, air, water, and aether beyond with her only by-product: The monsters of myth. Some hatch, grow or germinate quickly, becoming the earliest monsters of the new era. Others are buried deep and won't come alive for a millennia, or until disturbed by forces far later. Some take the form of insidious ideas, lodged in sapients' minds, growing and spreading as the thought is shared. The denizens of the land at the time have many names for the monsters that now stalk them in the dark: Eldrazi, Couroni, Felk, Kaiju, Kami, dinosaur, and even more for the particular breeds and individuals they come across, or are devastated by.

There is no knowable purpose to the mother of monsters' spawn, but they seem to exist at a cross-point of evolution, and each breed is unique - united only by one single behavior: each works to feed, protect, or otherwise serve the ever-enduring Genesishyrda. Beyond that, their presence stirs fear into the hearts of those who can feel it, provide deadly challenge for any heroic enough to hunt them, and resources to those capable enough down them and make use of their extraordinary remains.

=== The Anntorii and the Curtain of Death Year 110===
Somewhere in depths of time, an immensely powerful, dangerous, and presumably deranged caster erected '''The Curtain of Death'''. This nearly translucent wall completely surrounded the continent of interest, permeating deeper into the ground than any have tested and further into the air than any have reached. It has a single, baleful purpose: only one in ten of living creatures survive passing through it. All others perish, painfully, on the spot. Those that survive their first crossing are forever immune to its horrible touch, but there is no way to predict or prevent your demise without taking the ultimate risk (Heredity and astrology have so far provided no salvation). 

The breadth and depth of the heinous wall means it severed the '''Anari's''' underground empire. The majority of its citizenry left within the Curtain are the enslaved, weakly '''Molinari'''. The ruling class withdrew themselves into what quickly became their new interior capitol: '''Anntorii''', but the larger masses of '''Molinari''' rose up, embracing a form of intellectual freedom they had never known. Their greater numbers allowed them to broker for better treatment, and new positions within society. Engineer, scientist, smith and speaker were all opened to them. From there, exploration was a natural course by extension to see what now lay within their more limited domain, although it would be ages still before they sought what was above, it was a matter of course for a still expanding race: if one dimension is blocked, they would traverse in the other.

==Genesishydra is Stymed Year 120==
You would think they didn't enjoy all the new experiences She had enabled them to have,
all the exercise Her toys gave them, all the excitement! But lately they hid 
in those rocky edges of land along the shallow waters. Creating their villages and 
surviving on what the sea and land offered them.

She had been entertained as Her creatures chased them through the woods, 
as Her offspring danced on them on the open plains, as they thrashed about
above the Deep Waters when their little wooden craft were shattered by long
reaching tentacles. 

Now they hid in the cracks and crevasses of the rocky shoreline, where the
earth's hard shell gave them more protection.
Now they kept close together, with watchers on tall hill tops and horns to 
sound warnings to gather the flocks into the water splashed caves when Her
creatures approached across the moors.
Now they caught the fish and harvested the plants of the sea without leaving
their protected coves.
No longer did they come out into the Deeper Waters.
No longer did they wander to the Interesting places.

She will have to do Things about this.
Perhaps new pets that are smaller so they can mover through valleys and get closer without being seen.
Perhaps new kin that are more cunning, that can plan and coordinate together.
And let's see what seeds We have waiting in the Dark Places still. We can select some that are
not bothered by the water or the light and send them upwards too.

== The Aether Monster Year 130==
One of the first monsters created by '''The Genesishydra''' was the '''Aether Monster'''. This monster started off small but, over the course of history, grew to gigantic proportions. The monster is able to travel into the fourth spacial dimension making it seemingly able to teleport. In addition, it cannot survive under normal climate conditions, finding it most comfortable in the upper atmosphere.

The '''Aether Monster''' can appear out of nowhere, usually in a thick cloud of smoke, making the actual monster difficult to see. The most obvious precursor to its appearance is a fog appearing out of nowhere, consisting of clouds from the upper atmosphere. It comes to the surface very rarely, usually feasting on flying creatures in the sky before returning back up.

The '''Aether Monster''' acts on animal intelligence/instinct and never stops growing. It also doesn't appear to age. Given these latter two facts, by the current day, this creature would be nearly a mile tall, and its appearance would equate to an extinction-level event if it descended on a city.

Hardly anyone knows of this monster, other than those few who had survived an attack and wrote it down. The '''Aether Monster''' has been thought to be the cause of the Vanishing of Farvenor, but some are puzzled as to how the monster could have seemingly removed the city from existence; it doesn't match its known abilities.

The conclusion is that this monster is a random threat that grows more dangerous the further in the future you go.

== Monsterkind Coexsist Year 140==
Many generations after the creation of the monsters by '''The Genesishydra''', some of the monsters gained a level of intelligence to where they formed their own civilization. Largely separate from the world, since most species saw them as threats/enemies, these 50-500 foot tall kaiju looked very unique from one another.

== The Age of a Thousand sparks Year 150==
The messenger of the gods, tiny '''Tiktoskr''', seeing the struggle of mortals against the children of the Genesishydra, steals knowledge from the missives he is given and bestows it upon the mortal races. Using the stolen secrets, the mortal races start a march of invention and innovation, creating weapons, devices, and more to aid them in their struggle for survival. The gods punish Tiktoskr's well-meaning treachery, and he is not seen by the mortal races after. The fate of the messenger-god is a mystery.

== Developement of Deadman Drake's Dread Drekars of the Drapes Year 160==
With his head filled from a young age of the "good ole days" by 
the tales an ex-raider great-uncle, '''James Drake''' had
looked forward to joining the family business of merchant marine
transport for most of his life. His extended family operated 
three snekkja, used to move goods and people between the coastal
villages, and to carry lumber and ores collected from the scattered
rocky island outposts back to the mainland, and occansionally longer
journeys to trade with further off neighbors. James had worked
his way up to 'Second Mate' on the '''Cordierite Compass''' when the
'''Curtain of Death''' came down. 

They were sailing a regular delivery of food & supplies to one of the 
islands used to harvest lumber when suddenly many onboard died.
In shock, '''James''' rallied the remaining crew and few passengers and
completed their trip to the island. Over the next several days it 
became apparent how lucky they had been. Almost a quarter of the 
crew had successfully passed thru, as tavern tales of ships completely 
losing their able-bodied and seasoned crews were shared. The '''Curtain of Death'''
followed the mainland's irregular edge, but out at some distance. Some
small islands where out the 'in' side. Most of the larger islands
fell 'out' side.

Greving for lost family and crew-mates, '''James''' managed to gather his 
remaining crews, and filled them in as much as possible with survivors 
from other boats. They set about the grisly, but profitable, tasks of
scavenging cargo and recovering the many other boats now adrift throughout
to long coast. Most of the population of the '''Outer Islands''' did not want
to risk the trip back to the mainland. Once it was determined that the
mainland government was very limited in what it could do for, or to, the
'''Outer Islands''', they started forming their own, often rough and limited
version of governance. '''James Drake''' and several other surviving shippers 
set high prices for the supplies they could get to the now independent isles,
and became an important lifeline between the many isolated locales.

'''James Drake's''' son '''Daniel''' (it is unclear if Daniel was James natural or
adopted son) continued the family tradition at first. He soon expanded it
by creating a second branch that was not as clean cut as transporting goods
(only passengers were usually between various Outer Islands or were mainland village
to village where cutain fell a good distance offshore).
James had re-told the great-uncles tales to young Daniel and Daniel decided
to become a Raider. Taking one ship far down the coast, well past where any
of the settled Islands were, '''Daniel''' and his crew attacked farming villages and coastal
outposts, taking what they could. A few weeks of this ended up with Daniel
on Wanted Posters and the locals sending for proper warships to repel these raiders.

A chase soon occurred, with the larger warships gaining on '''Daniel's Drekar'''
slowed by his ill gotten gains. But '''Daniel''' had a plan. Carefully preparing his 
sails, '''Daniel''' let the warships maneuver him towards the '''Dread Curtain of Doom'''. 
Thinking they would soon have him pinned, the warships closed in. As they 
passed thru, everyone visible on Daniel's ship 'passed-on', with much theatrical 
screaching and screaming. The warships hastily turned away to avoid the same fate. 
Scanning the drekar with telescopes as it quietly sailed away from the coastline, 
the Officiers of the warships declared them all Ex-pirates. 

Playing dead until the warships were no longer visible, the drekar turned
for home. Slowly traveling since they were in friendlier waters, '''Daniel''' stopped 
further up the coast. That night, while celebrating at a tavern, '''Daniel''' was
presented with a copy of the now revoked bounty poster. His comment about
feeling pretty good for a dead man was met with cheers from his crew and
'''Deadman Drake''' became his nickname.

In the years that followed the independent '''Outer Islands''' became home to
many a raider and pirate crew, causing problems for the coast in both directions.
Eventually they took on the name '''The Drapery Islands''', after the safety the '''Curtain''' provided.
A group of well-to-do's stuck to the old name when they increased the area's financial 
stability with the creation of the Outer Bank. This soon became where many of the 
mainland's wealthy would "tuck a little something away where the tax man couldn't get to it".

==Clever Tiktoskr Year 170==
The Continent is fairly full, but it is a dangerous and resource-rich place. "Humanity" hides in it's niches, and possess little technology with which to defend and grow themselves - but they are not alone.
Tiktoskr visits with his old friend off the coast and muses about how to implement his ideas.