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<blockquote data-quote="Lanliss" data-source="post: 6896085" data-attributes="member: 6801219"><p><span style="color: #333333"><strong>haha, thanks to @<em><strong><u><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=1560" target="_blank">Corwin</a></u></strong></em> I can restart this thread. Same story as before.</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333">A young world, with much to promise, slowly pulling its way out of the Chaos that surrounds the universe. Constant shifting of Alliances and territories, soon leading to no one trusting anyone else. Gods are born, slowly growing in their believers eyes, and withering as a new civilization crumbles. Throughout all of this, the creatures on this world do not realize that there is more land to be found, just through the Chaos that surrounds their small country. One tribe of Hin, fed up with the wars, ask their god for a way to escape, to which the answer is simply "walk". Trusting in their god, they do. They walk directly into the Chaos, firm in the belief that they will be protected. As they do this, it melts away before them, carving a path through the billowing void that has enclosed society for so long. They push on, finding that their belief, their raw power of Need, pushes the Chaos away for miles, giving them everything they need, and a million new things they never even knew they wanted.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333">Alas, this was not to last long. With the new land came new creatures, creatures that were once nothing more than floating sparks within the Chaos, and now are living embodiments of that strange force. Even worse, the other races soon find the hole they pushed into the Chaos, and follow. The Hin were fighting a desperate war on two sides by this point, while the other races attempted to furiously charge ahead of each other into this new land to conquer. Looking for help from their god, the Hin begged, day and night, for a way to end the war, but received no answer. They had left their god behind, in the old world, and were instead under new gods. One took pity on them, and asked what she could do to help. They asked her to help them make more land, hoping that if there was more space to share, the Races would fight less. So she helped, walking to the edge of her Domain in the Divine Lands, and pushing against the Chaos there, as the Hin did the same on the Material. The goddess could not push far beyond her Domain, but passed the torch to a new god, asking him to continue her charge. Lucky for her, this new god was Warlike, and was happy to have such a destructive foe as the Chaos to fight. This was a hard time for the Hin, as they were forced to march almost constantly, day and night, to keep up with this new god. However, he was loath to pass his torch to the next god, and instead wanted to assist the new god in pushing even further. Unfortunately for the Hin, this god was happy for the help.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333">So it was that, over the following years, the Hin traveled almost constantly, shaping the world in their wake and leaving very few pockets of Chaos, on their Plane at least. As their world fell out of the Era of War, the gods above started their true battle. Chaos pushed against their Plane from all sides, and the many new gods that the Hin had found had to fight this dark force. So it was that, during the Era of Greatest Peace on the Material Plane, the Gods fought the Chaos war. A bloody battle, raging for nearly a century against seemingly endless swarms of beasts and monstrosities, the gods began to fall, and the sky below began to darken one shade at a time. In their paranoia, the races below threw themselves into war again, each one believing the fault lay with the others. Slowly but surely, despite the Hin's best efforts to bring peace, the war began again. Chaos found new roots within the world, thriving in the already untamed nature, and corrupting what gods there were that held sway in the Uncivilized Reaches. </span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333">This brings us to the New Era. Both Wars have ended, as the Chaos bled from above into the Material Plane, and the Races below had to stop their fighting, and work together simply to scrape by. An Era of relative peace, but much strife, the Races now must survive, drawing power from the few gods that remain to possibly push the Chaos back once again.</span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"></span></p><p>Second note: I have since decided this is basically the thread for my Races, while previously it was just a general worldbuilding thread. So, while there is some general stuff here at the beginning, it should be all races going forward. </p><p></p><p>EDIT: Second note being said, I will also now fix the world history, which has changed a good deal since my first posting of my scattered thoughts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanliss, post: 6896085, member: 6801219"] [COLOR=#333333][B]haha, thanks to @[I][B][U][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=1560"]Corwin[/URL][/U][/B][/I] I can restart this thread. Same story as before.[/B] A young world, with much to promise, slowly pulling its way out of the Chaos that surrounds the universe. Constant shifting of Alliances and territories, soon leading to no one trusting anyone else. Gods are born, slowly growing in their believers eyes, and withering as a new civilization crumbles. Throughout all of this, the creatures on this world do not realize that there is more land to be found, just through the Chaos that surrounds their small country. One tribe of Hin, fed up with the wars, ask their god for a way to escape, to which the answer is simply "walk". Trusting in their god, they do. They walk directly into the Chaos, firm in the belief that they will be protected. As they do this, it melts away before them, carving a path through the billowing void that has enclosed society for so long. They push on, finding that their belief, their raw power of Need, pushes the Chaos away for miles, giving them everything they need, and a million new things they never even knew they wanted. Alas, this was not to last long. With the new land came new creatures, creatures that were once nothing more than floating sparks within the Chaos, and now are living embodiments of that strange force. Even worse, the other races soon find the hole they pushed into the Chaos, and follow. The Hin were fighting a desperate war on two sides by this point, while the other races attempted to furiously charge ahead of each other into this new land to conquer. Looking for help from their god, the Hin begged, day and night, for a way to end the war, but received no answer. They had left their god behind, in the old world, and were instead under new gods. One took pity on them, and asked what she could do to help. They asked her to help them make more land, hoping that if there was more space to share, the Races would fight less. So she helped, walking to the edge of her Domain in the Divine Lands, and pushing against the Chaos there, as the Hin did the same on the Material. The goddess could not push far beyond her Domain, but passed the torch to a new god, asking him to continue her charge. Lucky for her, this new god was Warlike, and was happy to have such a destructive foe as the Chaos to fight. This was a hard time for the Hin, as they were forced to march almost constantly, day and night, to keep up with this new god. However, he was loath to pass his torch to the next god, and instead wanted to assist the new god in pushing even further. Unfortunately for the Hin, this god was happy for the help. So it was that, over the following years, the Hin traveled almost constantly, shaping the world in their wake and leaving very few pockets of Chaos, on their Plane at least. As their world fell out of the Era of War, the gods above started their true battle. Chaos pushed against their Plane from all sides, and the many new gods that the Hin had found had to fight this dark force. So it was that, during the Era of Greatest Peace on the Material Plane, the Gods fought the Chaos war. A bloody battle, raging for nearly a century against seemingly endless swarms of beasts and monstrosities, the gods began to fall, and the sky below began to darken one shade at a time. In their paranoia, the races below threw themselves into war again, each one believing the fault lay with the others. Slowly but surely, despite the Hin's best efforts to bring peace, the war began again. Chaos found new roots within the world, thriving in the already untamed nature, and corrupting what gods there were that held sway in the Uncivilized Reaches. This brings us to the New Era. Both Wars have ended, as the Chaos bled from above into the Material Plane, and the Races below had to stop their fighting, and work together simply to scrape by. An Era of relative peace, but much strife, the Races now must survive, drawing power from the few gods that remain to possibly push the Chaos back once again. [/COLOR] Second note: I have since decided this is basically the thread for my Races, while previously it was just a general worldbuilding thread. So, while there is some general stuff here at the beginning, it should be all races going forward. EDIT: Second note being said, I will also now fix the world history, which has changed a good deal since my first posting of my scattered thoughts. [/QUOTE]
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