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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Inchoroi" data-source="post: 6521982" data-attributes="member: 6752135">Hm. I don't even think it needs to be erased, either. One thing I do wonder, though, is if ruins would actually survive or not, on the islands that remain after the bombardment by asteroids. I remember reading a few years ago that a large enough impact might cause the beginnings of a continental shift (although I couldn't tell you where I read it...I read too much). Well, that just gave me an idea. Many thousands of years before, a large portion of humanity was ruled over by a despotic wizard. Obsessed with his own mortality, he invented the practice of necromancy, using it to prolong his life as long as possible. Through his work, he discovered mithril's magical properties, and began mining it, even though it was horribly rare. He required more. Through the sacrifice of many lives, he gathered enough energy to draw from the outer sphere one of the moons, shattering it into a halo around the world; made of pure mithril, this moon rained down in pieces on the planet; however, this necromancer miscalculated. Mithril rained down upon the world, destroying so many fledgling civilizations that the only remnants are the ruins found beneath the ground and those legends that founded the religions of man. The wizard's own empire bore the brunt of the destruction.Where his nation is now is an enormous sea; the world shook with its impact, and the only things that remain are scattered islands with even more scattered ruins, preserved only by the lifeforce used to build them. One of the slaughtered was the wizard--he had planned for his demise, however. He had prepared a phylactery, a necromantic advice that can hold his soul in stasis until such time as his body can be rebuilt, and he taught a few of his cultists the rituals necessary to draw life from one being and transfer it to another, so they may continue his work and eventually bring him to life. The survivors numbered 144,000 (because biblical references are the best references) across the world. A small group of the survivors, maybe totaling 20,000, survived in a desert on the opposite side of the world. The group was led by three brothers; they carried the oral traditions of their peoples, which told of the destruction of the greatest empire, smited by God's anger. What caused the split between the groups is not recorded in anything save the holy books of the three empires. The story they tell speaks of a woman who came to them; she was fair beyond comprehension, spoke words that only God should know, and all three brothers loved her. Thus, they fought over her beauty. All the while, this woman was draining the life out of this small group; they were listless and torn and beaten down solely by her presence. Once the brother's realized what she was doing, they formed the Trials. In a ruin that had no name, they staked her through her stomach to a wall with a cold iron spike, and left her to die. Her curses rang out for miles. The brothers vowed that this would never happen, but the damage between them was done. Her presence showed the brothers their true natures in whole, and so they took their private supporters, and each fled in three directions away from that ruin that had no name.Through time, the oral traditions would be recorded in scrolls and books, became religions, lost the other two brothers from each, and the brother that they hold high is named the Prophet of God, and be changed to fit specific needs of their environment, and eventually came to forge nations. The woman came to be known as a mithrin, a person who stole God's grace, and she was served by mithlings, those who stole God's luck. Her punishment formed the basis of the Trials, and the hatred of magic users, and the eventual formation of the Inquisition.</blockquote>

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