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<blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 5980729" data-attributes="member: 34958"><p>The old obstinate one speaks once more. <span style="color: sienna">”The humans of the land were peaceful farmers, struggling to survive in the Land. The land was always richest around the Life Tree, and communities centered here. It is believed that the land was once richer, but as time went along crops became harder to grow and magical tools that had been used for generations began to break from overuse. Humans learned to use weaker, innnate magical powers to enforce their will, and so survived a continually hard life. It was during this time that the Land began to feel its first upheavals and there were earthquakes and occasions where the light would disappear from the sky and cast all into darkness. Light returned, but stronger magic, called gamma magic also changed creatures and men into new beings, resulting in the creation of human-like creatures such as the yuan-ti, wolfmen, flinds, and Myconid. Still the earthquakes continued.</span></p><p><span style="color: sienna"></span></p><p><span style="color: sienna">“It was then that the great ones came down from the heavens, bringing down powerful magics thought forgotten. They never called themselves gods, nor did they ever deny being such. But what else could they have been with their strange clothing and devices of life and destruction? They told the people of the Land that their world was called Warden, and that it was the center of a war in the heavens. They told the elders of the Land many weighty things, most of which the elders could not understand or refused to understand, such was the terror of the knowledge discussed. The gods said that Warden was just one of many homes to men, who were spread out and fighting a war among the stars against the Enemy. But the men of this world were different, they had been changed by gamma magic, allowing them to develop slight knacks over the generations. These knacks allowed them to survive the world’s slow degradation. But the Enemy had come to notice this world, which held the key to the ingredients of mankind. If the enemy could take Warden, it would have the knowledge to develop powerful magics tuned to humans. They would be able to kill untold amounts of humans amongst the stars; numbers that could not be fathomed by the thousands of humans of this world. The gods asked the men to join the war, and also the Myconid, yuan-ti, wolfmen and flinds. These races agreed to help men, though some grumbled that the gods sought to elevate man and make the other races subservient to mankind.</span></p><p><span style="color: sienna"></span></p><p><span style="color: sienna">That was when we were let in on the secret of our existence by Jacques d’Arc. We were the first, created by Gaia, servant of the gods, using the knowledge of Jacques d’Arc. As Myconid we were created in the Heavens and brought down to Warden to thrive. We were created to both heal the land’s soil and to help augment the defense of the world. We were meant to serve man as man must survive in order to help defeat the Enemy. The other races were also created, though they took the news of their creation with less enthusiasm than Myconid. Jacques d’Arc was pleased by our loyalty and taught Myconid how to use the magical wands. Myconid fought in the heavens against the Enemy, as did the men of Warden, yuan-ti, wolfmen, and flinds. We fought next to the gods, but were gradually pushed back. The Enemy were able to change the golems of the gods against us, then the yuan-ti. Eventually the yuan-ti began to suspect the Enemy of being true gods and the human-shaped gods as oath breakers. They turned soon after the Enemy took the Life Tree and captured Gaia. With Gaia and the Life Tree taken, the sickness of the land greatly accelerated. The battles lost any semblance of order as resistance was broken into pockets on Warden, and with the soil corrupted Myconid found itself unable to travel distances to help. We became neutral, as the Enemy and gods both came to us to help the soil recover. But the soil cannot be recovered. The Enemy finds that it cannot save the Land. It does not know how, and the races that turned to support the Enemy now doubt their own survival. Jacques d'Arc himself once said that if Warden could not be saved from the Enemy, it must be destroyed. This statement did little to endear the wolfmen or yuan-ti to him.</span></p><p><span style="color: sienna"></span></p><p><span style="color: sienna"> But your presence confuses all. Now the gods seemed to have returned, but in new and mostly non-human bodies. They do not remember their past lives, but instead patches. Perhaps they are now like Myconid, where when they are reborn they only retain some of their memories. Perhaps they are not the gods at all, but something different, as the gods they resemble had died in previous battles.”</span> The Myconid looks angry for a moment, as if something awful had crossed his mind, then says in a near whisper, <span style="color: sienna">”Perhaps they could track down the sole survivor of the last great battle, currently held in the yuan-ti ziggurat. A god named Gunter von Furhmann, Lord of Spring, and ask him what he did to the children of the gods. The children he was supposed to guard above all else? The children who bore the full brunt of his experiments with gamma magic.”</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deuce Traveler, post: 5980729, member: 34958"] The old obstinate one speaks once more. [color=sienna]”The humans of the land were peaceful farmers, struggling to survive in the Land. The land was always richest around the Life Tree, and communities centered here. It is believed that the land was once richer, but as time went along crops became harder to grow and magical tools that had been used for generations began to break from overuse. Humans learned to use weaker, innnate magical powers to enforce their will, and so survived a continually hard life. It was during this time that the Land began to feel its first upheavals and there were earthquakes and occasions where the light would disappear from the sky and cast all into darkness. Light returned, but stronger magic, called gamma magic also changed creatures and men into new beings, resulting in the creation of human-like creatures such as the yuan-ti, wolfmen, flinds, and Myconid. Still the earthquakes continued. “It was then that the great ones came down from the heavens, bringing down powerful magics thought forgotten. They never called themselves gods, nor did they ever deny being such. But what else could they have been with their strange clothing and devices of life and destruction? They told the people of the Land that their world was called Warden, and that it was the center of a war in the heavens. They told the elders of the Land many weighty things, most of which the elders could not understand or refused to understand, such was the terror of the knowledge discussed. The gods said that Warden was just one of many homes to men, who were spread out and fighting a war among the stars against the Enemy. But the men of this world were different, they had been changed by gamma magic, allowing them to develop slight knacks over the generations. These knacks allowed them to survive the world’s slow degradation. But the Enemy had come to notice this world, which held the key to the ingredients of mankind. If the enemy could take Warden, it would have the knowledge to develop powerful magics tuned to humans. They would be able to kill untold amounts of humans amongst the stars; numbers that could not be fathomed by the thousands of humans of this world. The gods asked the men to join the war, and also the Myconid, yuan-ti, wolfmen and flinds. These races agreed to help men, though some grumbled that the gods sought to elevate man and make the other races subservient to mankind. That was when we were let in on the secret of our existence by Jacques d’Arc. We were the first, created by Gaia, servant of the gods, using the knowledge of Jacques d’Arc. As Myconid we were created in the Heavens and brought down to Warden to thrive. We were created to both heal the land’s soil and to help augment the defense of the world. We were meant to serve man as man must survive in order to help defeat the Enemy. The other races were also created, though they took the news of their creation with less enthusiasm than Myconid. Jacques d’Arc was pleased by our loyalty and taught Myconid how to use the magical wands. Myconid fought in the heavens against the Enemy, as did the men of Warden, yuan-ti, wolfmen, and flinds. We fought next to the gods, but were gradually pushed back. The Enemy were able to change the golems of the gods against us, then the yuan-ti. Eventually the yuan-ti began to suspect the Enemy of being true gods and the human-shaped gods as oath breakers. They turned soon after the Enemy took the Life Tree and captured Gaia. With Gaia and the Life Tree taken, the sickness of the land greatly accelerated. The battles lost any semblance of order as resistance was broken into pockets on Warden, and with the soil corrupted Myconid found itself unable to travel distances to help. We became neutral, as the Enemy and gods both came to us to help the soil recover. But the soil cannot be recovered. The Enemy finds that it cannot save the Land. It does not know how, and the races that turned to support the Enemy now doubt their own survival. Jacques d'Arc himself once said that if Warden could not be saved from the Enemy, it must be destroyed. This statement did little to endear the wolfmen or yuan-ti to him. But your presence confuses all. Now the gods seemed to have returned, but in new and mostly non-human bodies. They do not remember their past lives, but instead patches. Perhaps they are now like Myconid, where when they are reborn they only retain some of their memories. Perhaps they are not the gods at all, but something different, as the gods they resemble had died in previous battles.”[/color] The Myconid looks angry for a moment, as if something awful had crossed his mind, then says in a near whisper, [color=sienna]”Perhaps they could track down the sole survivor of the last great battle, currently held in the yuan-ti ziggurat. A god named Gunter von Furhmann, Lord of Spring, and ask him what he did to the children of the gods. The children he was supposed to guard above all else? The children who bore the full brunt of his experiments with gamma magic.”[/color] [/QUOTE]
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