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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 2683670" data-attributes="member: 2020">In the first IR, the druids were the first group to attack the gnomes (who were busy industrializing and spreading their industrialization around.)  Then the druids attacked the industrializing nations.  This sorta set the stage for what followed.  The druids had become the 'bad' guys.  The elves joined the druids.  Some nations allied with the elves joined the elves.  So the industrializing nations formed a confederation known, simply, as the Technomancy.  It included the FR nations of Tethyr, Amn, Calimshan, the nations of the Vilhon Reach, Unther, Mulhorand, and Thay.  The druids launched truly massive attacks that brought death to hundreds of thousands and mass destruction across the Technomancy.  They enlisted the faerie to help them.  Needless to say, everyone in the Technomancy started to hate druids, elves, the faerie, and anyone allied with them.  When Forrester, King of the Humanoids, rose in power and conquered most of northern Faerun to form the Humanoid Empire, he sided with the Technomancy.  Forrester absolutely hated elves.  Forrester wanted all that technology for himself and his people.  Because the druids had started the trouble and drawn in the elves, the elves now had to face Forrester and his Empire as well as the Technomancy.  When Forrester besieged Evereska, the Technomancy nicely looked the other way.  And even the dwarves decided to sit on the fence, since they were benefitting from the technology and in any case did not wish to be foes of the Technomancy (which sat right atop their realms.)  Forrester and his humanoids conquered and destroyed Evereska and it's people were devoured.  The Technomancy sent ambassadors to the feast.  The druids enlisted the aid of the Lord's Alliance and Evermeet, Cormyr, and other nations, but they were caught between Forrester's Empire and the Technomancy, and could not overcome all that power.  So the druids ... turned to Maxtica across the Trackless Ocean, and recruited vast numbers of faerie and elves from that continent to help them.  This, of course, pulled hapless Maztica into the war.  Then the illithid, seeing that everyone on the Surface was fighting, began a war of conquest, conquered (and ate) the drow, conquered most of the other Underdark peoples, and became a major threat to Forrester's Empire.  Perhaps at that point the druids could have enlisted the aid of the Illithid Empire in their fight.  But the Druids would not do so (perhaps the illithid ate all their emissaries?)  Forrester's Empire began a massive technological buildup to protect itself from both the Druids and the Illithid Empire, until he became so mighty he was able to attack Evermeet itself.  The siege of Evermeet was long, bitter, and ended with the destruction of the Island and almost the destruction of all surface life on the planet.  The sacrifice of the Psionic League undid enough of the damage to enable the nations to continue (and continue to fight), and of course in the Underdark the illithid were little affected by the cataclysmic destruction of Evermeet.  So now the Elven Imperial Fleet of Realmspace made a grim decision.  Extermination.  Extermination of everything on the planet.  What was happening was simply too big a threat to elves everywhere, to be allowed to continue.  The Technomancy, Humanoid Empire, Empire of Necromancy (the Shining South countries from Chult to Var the Golden) moved to protect the planet, and hired vast armies of Gith and other spelljamming beings to help them.  The illithid stayed out of it, and also the druids had little part in it.  The faerie of Toril had fled the planet after the destruction of Evermeet, abandoning it to it's fate (typical faerie behavior ...)  The assault on Toril caused the people of Zakhara to join the Technomancy for their own protection (and profit.)  Kara-Tur refused to ally with anyone, but instead formed it's own Super-Empire, creating the Union of Toril.    Then there was this great battle up in Realmspace, between the elves and the Torilians ...  But all this started because some druids decided that technology was bad, and they were going to put a stop to it, and they would do whatever it took to stop it.  EDIT:  Oh yes, the elves decided to throw a communal spell to end all magic on Toril.  This was to stop 'technomancy', the melding of magic and science.  It worked, and killed millions  of people ... and made everyone so mad at the elves that nobody interfered with Forrester's complete extermination of them.  But the druids were all for this temporary halting of magic, deeming the destruction of the Technomancy paramount to their designs.  All started by druids ...</blockquote>

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