Editing Trinity:History (section)

==The First Age==
The gnomes and halflings, who had survived the destruction and resulting fallout, headed northeast, to avoid the destruction. The gnomes and dwarves built a flying city, which they named [[Trinity:Urilaulri | Urilaulri]], and flew into the skies, to not be heard of again until the Third Age. The halflings, meanwhile, built standard sailing ships and sailed to the northeast, leaving a multitude of ruins in their wake. They found themselves on the southwestern coast of the continent of [[Trinity:Chaliraz | Chaliraz]], and found fey and other races, such as the [[Trinity:Lunari | lunari]].

Meanwhile, in [[Trinity:Lotharien | Lotharien]], the slaves of the illithids had managed to throw off the yolk of oppression, and sent their masters scurrying back through the portal whence they came - but their freedom had a cost: the entirety of the continent sank beneath the waves, leaving only a few hundred survivors. The only remaining part of the continent became known as the "[[Trinity:Lost_Isle |Evil Isle]]", in remembrance of the evil that had spawned from the continent it was once a part of. In the wake of the illithids, members of a race not native to Adnez - the githyanki - were left here.

The surviving members of the other races in Woodland - the elves, and the humans - ventured north, and found a new continent, [[Trinity:Ashkar | Ashkar]], also filled with humans and elves. At the time, the existence of elves and humans on another continent was not questioned, given that intercontinental travel had not existed prior to this point in history.

However, shortly after the various races had moved about the world, the dragons of the world stirred. How long they had slumbered was unknown; where they came from was as equally mysterious. However, it was believed that the destruction of the Ronkan Empire had been the cause of their awakening, and they roamed the skies, warring amongst each other for unknown reasons. This time period came to be known as the Dragon Wars, and few societies managed to make any advances in this time.

It is from this time period that the vast majority of dragons comes from, and this knowledge is rather limited in scope. The various colors of dragons have been recorded; their likenesses have been recorded in a good many books written during the period. Few dragons were taken down by mortal means - it had been found that certain varieties of dragon were resilient to certain effects, and thus did the traditional organizations of dragon (that is, chromatic, metallic, gem, and ore) come to be formalized as a method of recognizing what a given dragon would be largely immune to.

Despite the dragons, some cultures did manage to continue to thrive. The elves on Ashkar forged a new nation called [[Trinity:Adren | Adren]] with their southern brethren, and the Ashkar elves did not fear arcane magic as did their cousins - thus did they, too, begin to return to the arcane. Using their newfound-might, the elves conquered the whole of eastern Ashkar, easily overtaking the nation of humans, called [[Trinity:Dralin | Dralin]]. They named their empire the [[Trinity:Ashkian_Empire | Empire of Ashk]], and they would rule over the region for hundreds of years to come.

After there were only a few dragons left, they returned to their slumber, to places unknown. The races of the world came out of hiding, and began to build civilization once more. 

It was in the second half of the First Age that the other races from [[Trinity:Sarteri | Sarteri]] began to spread, such as the orcs and the sedan. However, some segments of the Ronkan Empire remained behind as city-states, only loosely allied to each other; however, the Ronkan Empire would never again hold as much power as it did before the First Age.

Those who had escaped the illithids on [[Trinity:Lotharien | Lotharien]] continued to flee, heading east and southeast from the Lost Isle; some arrived on [[Trinity:Molandum | Molandum]], while others arrived on [[Trinity:Ashkar | Ashkar]], where they were treated as second-class citizens by the elves -  save for the [[Trinity:Githyanki | githyanki]], who the elves felt were long-lived enough to gain true wisdom.

Late in the First Age, a human by the name of [[Trinity:Kotrit_Wayveri | Kotrit Wayveri]] was born in the Empire of Ashk. With the bloodline of the Wayveris flowing through him, he manifested sorcerous powers at an incredibly young age. Hateful towards the Empire, and becoming egomaniacal with his power, he would shortly become the most dangerous being ever known in Trinity.