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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 848649" data-attributes="member: 2020">To continue ...The Fall of Evereska should have seen the humanoids falling apart.  Considering humanoids, this would have been their standard behavior.  However, the illithid were now coming to the surface, Underdark humanoid cities and habitats were under full attack, and more importantly the humanoids had a powerful and inspiring leader to rally around.  This leader was King Forrester.  A being who was of several humanoid races, he was able to hold them together against the odds.  And one of the primary reasons Forrester could do this was because of humanoid anger against the elves.  This anger was supported and funded by the Technomancy and other nations who saw the elves as a continued threat, and who wished to keep the humanoids off their own backs.  Certainly, they had trouble enough without Forrester attacking them.  With the general mood of anger against the elves, it was all too easy to look away from the Atrocity of Evereska, and urge the humanoids to further war ... against the elves, which is to say, against someone ELSE.  The northern nations of Faerun did NOT urge war against the elves, and did not aid Forrester.  Instead, they fell to Forrester, one by one.  The combined might of hundreds of thousands of humanoids, along with the cessation of magic these nations had depended on, and the massive destruction to their infrastructure they relied on for survival (whereas humanoids lived off the land) made them easy pickings for the humanoids, fresh off their victory at Evereska.  Cormyr went down, it's Purple Dragons overwhelmed.  Sembia, joined the Technomancy in order to survive.  The Dalelands, were swallowed up and devoured like choice meats (the Chosen of Mystra had to flee Shadowdale, for they could not call upon their magic to protect themselves.)  The Knights of Myth Drannor fell with their forest.  The drow the illithid did not kill, fell to the humanoids.  The cities of the Moonsea were more clever:  seeing the way the winds were blowing, they surrendered to Forrester and were peacefully incorporated into his growing empire.  The humanoid onslaught fed on itself.  The Vast fell, it's elves massacred, it's dwarves fleeing underground.  Then Impiltur surrendered.  Thesk tried to join Thay, saw there was nothing left to join, then also surrendered.  The people of Rashemen fought fiercely, then fled when they saw berserker strength alone could not win against Forrester.  In the west, the humanoids whelmed one region after another, until it was discovered that Forrester always accepted surrender on good terms, and your nation was peacefully incorporated.  Nobody had to die, except the elves.  The elves had to be turned over to the humanoids - all the elves, period.  Any nations protecting elves were made examples of.  Westgate surrendered.  Iriaebor was conquered.  The Western Heartlands collapsed.  Baldur's Gate was successfully stormed.  Candlekeep joined the Technomancy to save itself.  Luskan was burned to the ground.  Neverwinter and Ardeep Forest were invaded and whelmed.  The elves of the High Forest were hunted down and exterminated.  Waterdeep and Luruar withstood the attack, and threw it back.  They were the only nations that did.  Many peoples fled to those two areas, and found themselves permanently exiled, for neither of those nations had the strength to counterattack Forrester.  Thus, the Humanoid League was created.  Ruled by Forrester, and under him leaders from every kind of humanoid race, the Humanoid League held a third of the continent of Faerun.  The Technomancy, now in firm control of Thay, Candlekeep, Sembia, and other areas that had joined for protection, offered a non-aggression pact with Forrester.  Forrester, of course, accepted, then began the process of acquiring technomancy for the humanoids.  And now Forrester looked across the sea to Evermeet.  With most of northern Faerun in his hands, the technomancy a tacit ally, and with only the faerie aiding the elves in force, Evermeet was in serious trouble.  The Siege of Evermeet was the greatest battle in the 1st IR.  It killed most of the humanoids in the attack.  It killed half the faerie come to defend the island ... and sadly, afterwards the faerie departed Toril forever.  It killed countless thousands of demihumans and assorted monsters brought by both sides to aid in the battle.  Yet in the end Forrester was victorious.  The pleas of Evermeet to the Technomancy went unheeded, and finally the humanoids whelmed the island.  Again, the elves of Evermeet did something classically elvish - by the standards given in most books and novels.  That is, the elves did something really bad, really wrong.  Seeing they would be destroyed, they decided to take their destroyers with them, and to heck with the consequences.  Evermeet, exploded.  Yet again, you have to remember that this is something that the elves would have done, if you go by the defintions of elves as bigoted, racist, elitist, and a people who have no regard for life.  A people willing to destroy others in vast numbers to achieve a goal (look at the High Moor, if you want to see their true history, and it wasn't the drow who caused that, regardless of revisionist history!)  The explosion of Evermeet was a million megaton affair.  A tidal wave thousands of feet high raced for the Sword Coast.  Guess what happened there, when it hit?  Guess what happened to Waterdeep, Candlekeep, Calimport, and just about every place within 50 miles of the coast?  The blast wave then hit.  The mountains so common to Faerun stopped most of it before it destroyed too much of the continent.  Nevertheless, a greater part of the Shaar went up in flames, and from space Toril was aglow with fire.  Titanic earthquakes ripped across Toril.  Cities and whole nations were destroyed in the cataclysm.  Mountains shattered, seas rushed in, new lands pushed up, great flows of magma wreaked destruction across Faerun.  Finally, a great cloud covered all the world of Toril.  That cloud blocked out the sun.  Across all of Toril, it started to grow dark.  Across all of Toril, it started to grow cold.  The leader of the Technomancy, Darwin, looked out of the broken windows of Parliament, and sent a very sad letter to his wife in that dark hour, for he did not expect to live much longer.  Nobody expected to live much longer.  Had it not been for the sacrifice of the Psionic League in Realmspace, where over a million people gave up their lives in a combined ritual, it is possible that nobody - at least those on the surface - would have lived for very long.</blockquote>

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