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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nopantsyet" data-source="post: 402599" data-attributes="member: 3109">Prologue II: NephelymIn the days before our fathers left the blights, they had knowledge of the giants whom they called N'filim, or "the fallen," for they believed the giants to have fallen from the sky before they ascended the mountains. At that time, there were no wars between man and giants, for the giants were few, and turned one against another in warfare. All giants are said to have sprung from the seed of six great giant lords: Anakim, Emim, Horim, Avim, Zamzummim, and Rephaim. And those giant lords fought great wars in the mountain tops, with terrible thunderings heard in the plains below. Lightning lept from peak to peak, fires and storms raged, whole mountains were torn asunder. No man dared approach the mountains in those days for the wars of the giants were too fierce for any to abide. In time, their wars ranged across the fertile plains beside the mountains. The now desolate landscape before us bears the scars of those battles.After many wars and disputations, Anakim brought together Emim, Avim and Zamzummim in council and each agreed to peace. They built on the mountain we call Hah'reb the city of Kiriath-Arba: "The City of Four." But two were not included in the accord: Horim and Rephaim. The four quickly joined together in warfare against Horim. Some say Horim was destroyed from off the face of the earth in one great battle, others say his seed escaped to the great ice desert and now dwell in caves of snow.Kiriath-Arba stood in peace for many generations until Rephaim?whom the Anakim tongue called Bukath, or phantom?descended from Mount Shahan east of Hah'reb into Kiriath-Arba. Rephaim with the clouds in his eyes and the wind in his breath fought Anakim, Emim, Horim and Zamzummim and was victorious. He took lordship over all Nephelym and renamed Kiriath-Arba in the Rephaim tongue, Iremsha, "City of One." But within a generation of man, Zamzummim had mastered the calling forth of storms and lightning and took rulership over Iremsha. It was at that time that the giants ceased to fight among themselves and fixed their hatred strongly towards mankind.Our fathers knew not the end of the wars among the giants when they left the blights and migrated southward to our present lands. As Vek multiplied and separated garugh from garugh, Zakh was chosen by the Nephelym as the worthiest foe among the Vek, and since those days the Nephelym have made war chiefly with GarughZakh.S'Gath, Elder Sage of Garugh Zakh, speaking on the Nephelym</blockquote>

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