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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bront" data-source="post: 3539244" data-attributes="member: 19696">Why is this in my honor?Anyway, here goes...----------------------IntroductionWelcome to my currently unnamed setting.  It’s currently a work in progress, so pardon the dust or any changes that may occur.  In order to understand some of the setting, a brief history is in order.For ages, the world lived in uneasy truce as the races held themselves up in their own kingdoms, till about a thousand years ago.  Humans and elves started interbreeding, and the Half-Elf population was born, and started to increase.  The Human King started negotiations with the other races to bring peace between them, and offered his daughter to the Elven Prince to unite the races.However, many of the children of the racial royalty, including the human King’s daughter, vanished and all indications were that they died.  The human King blamed the elves and began to wage war against the Elves.  The elves then turned up though investigation the plot of the human King to have his daughter assassinate her soon to be husband once the current Elven king stepped down, and seize power among the races.  With this knowledge, as well as evidence of human research into magics designed to slaughter the other races, the elves united the other known races against the Humans.The Human king was not without his resources and he denounced all other races as lesser, and vowed to kill them all.  The war took its toll on every race, but the other races, lead by the Elves, were resilient.  The Elves convinced the other races that humans had to go, with only some arguments from the Gnomes, who were reluctant to enter the fray in the first place.  It was only in discovering the slave Katarans that the Gnomes joined in force, though reluctantly.With Genocide being a distasteful, if necessary evil, many humans were allowed to disguise themselves and live as half-elves, with sympathetic onlookers turning a blind eye to their presence.  The combined might of the Elves, Orcs, Dwarves, Halflings, and Gnomes were too much for the humans, and within 2 generations, humans were no more, and the half-elf population had grown mightily. A thousand years have passed since this great Racial War (Also referred to as the Great War).  Racial nations slowly became more integrated, and many splintered off into kingdoms.  There have been many minor wars, but only involving small nations, and none with the racial overtones of the Great War.  Now, while there are many kingdoms where one race is dominant, the only true racial kingdom remaining is the Orc Nation, which has kept to the seas, and to itself.  The Katarans search for a racial identity by borrowing from other races.  Elven leaders from all nations maintain vigilant watch for the next potential ‘humans’.  Dwarves simply focus on the immediate future, and have tried to leave the past behind.  Gnomes have embraced the Katarans and sought to heal the lands and the people from such an ordeal that has ripples of effects even so many years afterwards.  Halflings have returned to their families and are perhaps the least effected today by the events of the past.  Half-Elves are still caught in the middle of a war that ended ages ago, a constant reminder of what was and what some fear could be again.Welcome to my world…---------------Ahh, stuff from my D20 setting.</blockquote>

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