The Feywyld

The Feywyld is the land of the fey. It contains the memories of the world before. It exists inside the god Khwarenah.

It is outside of time in many ways. The laws of physics operate in a different way there.

It is a place where legend and myth replace facts. Cycles repeat, emotions imprint on landscapes, what is true is what is ideal. Pain and horror manifest as things that persist.

Elves, Dwarves, Trollkin and Giants all inhabited the Feywyld, amongst many others.

The long lost elven city of Shoshodei is to be found in the Feywyld. It is a marvel to behold.

When the door back to the world opened all the fey gathered.

It was decided the godless Trollkin would re-enter the world first. They had lost their god in the war that ended the world before.

They entered into the icy wastes that covered most of the world.

The transistion to the world is more disorienting than expected.

The trollkin, without gods to guide them, soon lost their way and forgot much of who they were.

The Teklakian Ice Age

The great cold of Teklak came and covered most of the world. Animalkind and Beastkin were forced toward the equator, their old pastures and empires lost, their numbers greatly thinned. The reptile people mostly went into deep hibernation again to wait out the intense cold.

It is not now know whether Teklak was an evil god or just the name given to the ice age. Perhaps it was an evil god somehow stopped from freezing the entire world by the actions of the daring raid on the reverse houses in the age before.

Khwarenah opens doors to the Feywyld during this time and the first beings from the world before return to the world.

The Rise of Animal Kind

With the destruction of the age of Tryanixia new creatures rise to the fore. Animals came to the world, born of reptiles and with them the animal spirits are born.

Each kind has a higher spirit. The mind above it all. The dream that became real.

The animal spirits are gods.

The first spirit, the lord of all animal kind is known as the beating heart. It may take many forms. All in its vicinity with a warm beating heat will synchronise with it. Its heart glows from within whatever form it takes.

The beating heart holds one of the secrets of Khwarenah within it. The truth of fire in the water.

From it all the other animal gods were born, with the exception of Kla Kla Kla the goddess of birds, who carved her own path from the dominions of the reptile gods. It is said that the Beating heart visited her and bestowed the gift of warmth.

The spirits saw the future and the rise of men, and so adapted their kinds so they might better survive the onslaught of their arrival.

The Beastkin -Minotaurs, Wolfkind, TIgerkind, Bearkind, Elephantkind, Horsekind centaurs, pegasuses, unicorns and many others of the animal peoples were formed from this impetus.

Kla Kla Kla was the goddess of all birds. She was born when a reptile dreamed of flying. Beloved of Qescotaal, the feathered serpent.

Mah was the goddess of Minotaurs, she was beloved of Alwe, the goddess of the white moon.

Ubassti was the goddess of tigerkind, and all other feline people.

The Bears resurrected Roijukan much to the joy of Gian. The god of bears and death. Who, despite his fearsome title, is always considered kind.

Haragratha was the god of horses and pure knowledge

Galgadesh was the god of elephants, the opener of the way.

Surraughuk was the ancient god of fish, oldest of all the animal spirits. Keeper of Ancient Secrets.

The moon goods and animal spirits were in harmony.

The began creating great kingdoms in the world.

The reptile people and gods were also present in this age.

Towards the end of the age the evil of Thardel was foreseen to be rising again.

A plan was hatched to thwart the evil.

Haragratha and Roijukan led a daring raid on Thardel and the reverse houses. They breach the unlit house.

Roijukan is killed again in the raid, but not before inflicting a wound that cannot heal on Nyaju.

Haragratha and his horse headed warriors were lost, presumed all dead.

Gian dedicates a mountain forest in what would become Bajiao to Roijukan and builds a shrine to him there.

Then came the great cold of Teklak, and the world was plunged into an ice age.

Tyranixia - The Age of the Reptile Gods

From the fish of the oceans would first come the amphibians and the Frog God, then the fearsome reptiles would appear and then conquer the world.

Ultaurgoth has a single mega-continent. Tryanixia.

The Age of Tryanixia is born.

Serpent people, Dragons, Naga, Saurians and Lizardmen are born at this time.

The reptiles reject the gods of the fish, trees, insects and slimes, they will not listen to whispers of the old gods of the moons.

Even so, the doorway to Huǒtsuki is opened. The moon of red shines bright. Muard is awakened. Morterakt, Hekathia also awaken.

The gods Yig, Set, Qescotaal, Tsathoggua, Bahamut, Tiamat and The Rainbow Serpent are born in this time.

The goddess that would become Kla Kla Kla, mistress of all birds was also born during this age. She is the dream of flying made real. She was a consort of Qescotaal. Quescotaal taught Kla Kla Kla the secret of flying in her dreams so that she might fly with him.

Qescotaal takes his domain in the region that would one day be the continent of Aznêloc. The Rainbow Serpent reserves Akoura as its own.

Bahamut went to the region that would become Oreas.

Set and Tiamt went to the region the would become Harkur.

The insect gods are reduced to their current domains after fierce fighting with the reptile gods. Their wars are the stuff of horrific legend. The reptiles sacrificed gods in the rituals used to bind the insect gods to their current region.

Muard aligns with the Dragons, Bahamut and Qescotaal.

The Negala align with the Serpents, Set and Tiamat.

Tiamat is taught by Hekathia.

Set is taught the vile necromancy of Morterakt. He would create one of the strains of vampirism using this knowledge and his own godblood. 

Yig, Tsathoggua and the Rainbow Serpent remain independent.

Serpent people and Dragons dominate this eon.

The Serpent Kings began to dabble with the dark Imodian arts. This led to the corruption of their kingdoms and contact with the dark god Alhoth.

Yig and the Rainbow Serpent eventually side with Muard.

There is a great war.  Ultimon explodes. Ultimos and Necronon emerge in a battle that decimates the planet.

The veil is enforced. The moon gods and the Negala vanish. All other gods are pushed back to their higher selves.

The age of Tryanixia came to an end when the Dragons enact the ritual to crash a comet into the world causing a mass extinction. The Dragons moved their domains to higher planes. This was the only way to stop the Imodian birthing ritual enacted by the Serpent Kings. The ritual is taught to them by Ultimos.

All civilization from this time was obliterated. Most of the lesser reptile gods died along with their people, some survived in the deep depths. A fragment of these races survives in modern Aznêloc. The Dragons moved their domains to the pocket dimensions known as Dragonrealms. The Dragons slept for millennia after the destruction of Tryanixia.

It is during this age that the caverns of Thardel become infested with evil and is the origin point of the reverse houses.

The Rise of the Insect Gods

The insects rose and became many.

They open a door to Dahabqamar, the golden moon and drink of its nectar forming the Insect gods

With their arrival came destruction. Their violence knew no ends. The three queens, wasp, bee and ant laid waste to the world.

The chaos awakened Shunewn, the mad zealot god of the eclipse.

There is unending war.

Dahabqamar sees no reasoning with the insect gods and forces them to leave the golden moon.

Shunewn attempts to bring his cult to the insect gods and bring them under his dominion. The insect gods dismember him and devour his parts.

The insect gods bow to no one, with one exception.

The insect gods respect the rainbow serpent (when she manifests in the next age of Tryanixia). They crossed her once and were so savagely and comprehensively defeated they knew to never cross her again. Her will in Akoura is respected by the Insect gods.

The Parliament of Tree deals with the indignities of the Insect Gods visit upon them by reminding themselves of the plan they themselves put in motion, in which the insect gods are but a small part of a much larger and more intricate picture.

The Rise of the Green and the Parliament of Trees

The green had been there in the beginning, it had known the great protozoa in the lakes of birth but it had great vision. It wanted to feel the sun. The green was born of drinking sunlight.

The green was many, connected. Eventually they would cover the world in one single forest.

The parliament of tree is born and with it the great tree known as the green, the first tree god. The green was more than the great tree, it was the collective will of all trees.

It opened the door to Willowwood, the green moon. It went there and covered its surface with trees.

Gian the goddess of green spoke to its old friend the green and whispered secrets.

She taught the green the secrets of evolution, and how it would one day help create people with these gifts. The green was the caretaker of the world.

The green would form the first codex of time.

But first, it would create flowers, and with them insects would be born of the cephalopods.

It will always be a mystery as to why the Parliament of tree decided to create insects first. They are the most diabolic of gods. Confined but uncontrolled to the current day.

The Age of the Cephalopods

A new creature came to the oceans of the world, the cephalopods. They would conquer the world once belonging to the trilobites.

Their power grew. Cthulhu was born and became a god. R'lyeh was founded.

Cthulhu became the god of dreams opening the door to Shantasma, the purple moon, and then unlocking the dreamlands. Khwarenah is reconnected to the world through the world of dreams. The Feywyld is still within Khwarenah, and would remain hidden for many more millions of years.

The age of the cephalopods is one terrible wars and devious invention and adaption. Eventually the mind flyers would evolve forming their empires in the depths. But other less malign races evolved as well, obviously driven to war lest they become slaves to the mind flayers.

The mind flayers contacted terrible gods from beyond. Shub Niggurath, Yog Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, all were invoked leading to devastation.

The perversions of the Mind Flayers and their dealing with outer gods lead to the destruction of their world.  A mad squid priest of Nyarlathotep finally someone summoned Azathoth leading to global catastrophe.

What survived was far in the depths. They would never again rule the surface world.

Some Mind Flayer found the Unlit House of Nightmares. Nyaju found his first followers.

The octopus and squid gods still have their own secret pantheons. Hidden from the world in their secret cathedrals at the bottom of the deepest oceans. There they have been untouched for millennium. They do not seek out or have interest in other gods, they hide their existence from all.

They perform colour theorem rituals on their skin.

Fish also began to appear during this time.

Surraughuk, the fish god is the first of the animal spirits. It learned the art of colouring the skin from the Octopus gods.