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<blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 3870050" data-attributes="member: 34958"><p>The mephit shrugs, <span style="color: violet">"My knowledge of past events is broken after the defeat of the Geomancers, and I never cared to learn where the Locusi themselves came from as they were of little concern to us until they began to approach our borders. All I know is that the nearby humans were a relatively docile and primitive lesser race before the Locusi came and a few centuries afterwards there was little left of the Locusi except in small segments of your language and the fact that your people often act like them. It's strange for me to explain this, but my master was not able to communicate for centuries after his defeat and when he now does it is normally through visions. During the rare times he doesn't dream of the past he sees what the earth sees, and passes those visions at times to his servants. Thus we learned the changes of dialect through the slow march of time, as well as parts of your history, such as the coming of the Rider and the rise of the House of Dorin. Or the gnome's loss of their original language to the corrupt version it is now. It is <em>likely</em> that you are descended from the Locusi, and it is <em>likely</em> that the elves are descended from the Avariel, but my master was not recovered enough for us to know for sure. In the centuries that were lost, the Locusi and the Avariel disappeared and the tribes that Dorin united and the elves appeared. The gnomian Geomancers brought my own people from a place outside of this world to be their servants, which we readily did once we witnessed their power. But the gnomians grew bored and eventually created weaker gnomians from pieces of themselves. This second generation lacked the powers of their parents, and could not create children for themselves... so they caused the First Betrayal and gave up the some of their few higher powers passed by their sires, and using that lost power along with Avariel help made themselves into male and female, and then begot the lesser race of the gnomes who themselves converted to the philosophies of the winged ones and attempted to free the slave races, causing the Second Betrayal. Then came the Third and Fourth Betrayal, the sins that must not be named, and with it war. As for the origins of the Geomancers, no one besides they themselves and perhaps some of their children know it for it was forbidden knowledge. The goblins and kobolds may have been created by the gnomians, but from what I remember they were already slaves before the Geomancers began playing with creation."</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deuce Traveler, post: 3870050, member: 34958"] The mephit shrugs, [color=violet]"My knowledge of past events is broken after the defeat of the Geomancers, and I never cared to learn where the Locusi themselves came from as they were of little concern to us until they began to approach our borders. All I know is that the nearby humans were a relatively docile and primitive lesser race before the Locusi came and a few centuries afterwards there was little left of the Locusi except in small segments of your language and the fact that your people often act like them. It's strange for me to explain this, but my master was not able to communicate for centuries after his defeat and when he now does it is normally through visions. During the rare times he doesn't dream of the past he sees what the earth sees, and passes those visions at times to his servants. Thus we learned the changes of dialect through the slow march of time, as well as parts of your history, such as the coming of the Rider and the rise of the House of Dorin. Or the gnome's loss of their original language to the corrupt version it is now. It is [i]likely[/i] that you are descended from the Locusi, and it is [i]likely[/i] that the elves are descended from the Avariel, but my master was not recovered enough for us to know for sure. In the centuries that were lost, the Locusi and the Avariel disappeared and the tribes that Dorin united and the elves appeared. The gnomian Geomancers brought my own people from a place outside of this world to be their servants, which we readily did once we witnessed their power. But the gnomians grew bored and eventually created weaker gnomians from pieces of themselves. This second generation lacked the powers of their parents, and could not create children for themselves... so they caused the First Betrayal and gave up the some of their few higher powers passed by their sires, and using that lost power along with Avariel help made themselves into male and female, and then begot the lesser race of the gnomes who themselves converted to the philosophies of the winged ones and attempted to free the slave races, causing the Second Betrayal. Then came the Third and Fourth Betrayal, the sins that must not be named, and with it war. As for the origins of the Geomancers, no one besides they themselves and perhaps some of their children know it for it was forbidden knowledge. The goblins and kobolds may have been created by the gnomians, but from what I remember they were already slaves before the Geomancers began playing with creation."[/color] [/QUOTE]
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