Editing Timeline (Polesia) (section)

==Interlopers and an End to the First Empires==


'''-66,000,000 CA:''' The Great Race of Yith, facing annihilation as a comet collided with their world transfers their minds into the primitive plant creatures that evolved amidst Polesia’s jungles. The illithids and aboleths are disturbed by this event but move too slowly to counter it. Striking their enemies at the heart of their empire, the Yithians nearly cripple the illithid forces on Polesia and drive the aboleths from the land. At the same time the illithids are dealing with a threat from within their own forces as well. Their main slave stock, an offworld group of humanoids called the Gith, take the opportunity to rise against their masters, and spark a revolution across their empire. Beleaguered from three sides the illithids on Polesia fall back again and again, until the yithians are the dominant species. The fate of the off world illithid and aboleth colonies is unknown, though it is likely that huge pockets of illithid and aboleth life still exist out amongst the stars.


'''-65,000,000 CA:''' Another race descends upon Polesia from the stars. Known only as the flying polyps, these monstrous creatures fight the illithids, yithians, and even the elder things for control and nearly annihilated all three species until the yithians somehow sealed them beneath the planet's surface. It is merely a stalling tactic but it gives the three species enough time to escape the wrath of the polyps. By the time they emerge the Great Race has again migrated, this time far into Polesia’s future, the illithids displaced their last city so that it was slightly out of sync with reality, and the elder things have gone mostly into stasis to wait the crisis out. The polyps spread quickly and become the masters of Polesia, unopposed by any. However their reign is relatively short lived. Sometime later the asteroid containing the Obelisk crashes into what is now the southeastern coast of Antanides, causing destruction for hundreds of miles and the death of countless plants and animals and killed off many of the polyps. Those that survive do so by retreating underground and were lost to history. The chain reactions of this event also kill off a large portion of life on Polesia, dinosaurs for the most part die out, as do most of the larger reptiles, leaving behind the mammals to take over.