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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8043819" data-attributes="member: 7023887"><p>Okay, here's more lore:</p><p></p><p><strong><u>Minotaurs:</u></strong> Similar to Gnolls and Drow, they were freed at the end of the Blood War. No longer bound to their abyssal god, Baphomet, the Minotaurs were confused. They no longer had a purpose in the world, but did have a place. Becoming a fierce, but unbound race of people, they no longer had a unifying reason for existence, so they started with the basics, survival. Though they already lived in caves and dungeons, they no longer felt satisfied with their lives of terrorizing others, and hiding in dungeons worshipping dark evils. As a people, the Minotaurs left their ruinous dungeons and labyrinthine caves, and formed settlements in the forests and woods of Faerun.</p><p></p><p>At first, they were attacked by Wood Elves and other feyish and plant inhabitants of these forests, but they were powerful and strong enough to drive them out of their forests and to the north. The Minotaurs, not sure of much in the world except for the fact that they hate elves and fey, started logging. They chopped down trees, using the branches of them as fuels for fire, and with the logs they build wooden forts surrounded by mazes of wood, keeping out intruders, but easily passed through by the Minotaurs. </p><p></p><p>As the millennia went on, the Minotaurs lost their savage and brutal ways (still having no love for elves and fey), and became less monstrous. Shrinking in size, due to them no longer being cultists to Baphomet, and becoming more and more human-like, the Minotaurs became another race of humanoids. Now a race of forest-dwelling, logging, and fortress building people, they started trade with other races. Gnolls needed wood for their city's buildings, and the minotaurs needing hides and fabrics for clothing and art. Minotaurs even developed their own language, called Minotaur, which was a mix of Orc, Abyssal, and Common. They eventually learned the ways of masonry, reinforcing their fortresses with stone walls and foundations. </p><p></p><p>Nowadays, a Minotaur settlement is a fearsome place. Fortresses filled with trophies and hides of slain creatures, no one of elven or feyish descent allowed within a mile of a fortress, the roofs of the castles made out of wood, but covered in fire-proof hides. They no longer a savage and brutal people, but are an industrious and hard-working people. Their fortresses are ever-expanding, many of their fortresses have mines underneath, and forges inside, billowing smoke 24 hours a day. They're master weaponsmiths with a love for gold, whose art shows them conquering woodland creatures, treants, and druids, as well as the rise of their society. They have no religion, except capitalism. They have few laws, except that harming other minotaurs is not allowed. They trade often, but not with Elves or Firbolg. </p><p></p><p><strong><u>Aboleths:</u></strong> Residents of Toril for millenia, who dwelled here before the gods, and after the gods. Resenting all things holy for these many, many years, the Aboleths were pleased when the gods died. Finally, their patience and plotting would benefit them. Their first task as a race was to come together, and dominate the Kuo-Toa, who had fled to the ocean to avoid destruction by the Duergar. Claiming to be their gods, the Aboleths gained the complete faith and devotion of the Kuo-Toa people. </p><p></p><p>Next, they waited. It took over 28 years, but then it happened. Carefully calculating the actions of the other races, the Aboleths waited for the Illithids to leave Toril. Noticing how they kidnapped White Dragons, the Abolteths took advantage of this situation. They sent their Kuo-Toa to an underwater cave containing Bronze Dragon eggs, destroying them. They planted evidence implicating the Storm Giants in this act. When the Dragons noticed, they were infuriated. United together, the Dragons declared war on the Giants, starting the Second Dragon-Giant War. </p><p></p><p>While the war was raging, and the giants and dragons were distracted, they Aboleths swam deep into the ocean floor to the lairs of sleeping krakens. Dominating a few krakens, taking control of them, and unleashing them upon the Storm Giant strongholds of the ocean. The Krakens destroyed the Storm Giants' homes, forcing them to leave the ocean, and allowing the Aboleths to have control of the oceans of Toril. Attacking settlements on the Sword Coast, and the settlements of underwater races, they were able to ravage the races who depended on the oceans. They forced the Aquatic Elves to flee up rivers, now making their homes closer to other races, mostly in the docks of other cities, or in lakes. The Tritons left the oceans and travelled back to the Elemental Plane of Water. Merrow and Sahuagin started worshipping the krakens. Merfolk, also going up rivers, became nomadic, building no permanent homes in the rivers or lakes of the Sword Coast. </p><p></p><p>Though they had the Krakens, the Aboleths were not yet able to conquer the humanoids of Toril, for one pesky reason: the Angels. After the Catastrophe, the Solars, Planetars, and Devas decided to help the humanoid races recover from the calamitous events that occurred. Soon afterwards, the Second Dragon-Giant War started, and they Angels decided to stay to protect the cities from the dragons. Then, just as the war was raging on, the Aboleths seized control of the oceans, and the Angels had to remain to protect the cities on the coasts. </p><p></p><p><strong><u>Giants:</u></strong> The giants have had a rough couple millennia. First, Annam sent the runt Hartkiller to inform the giants that Annam was not pleased with them, and that they needed to change their ways. Infuriated, the Giants then slew Hartkiller, provoking Annam's wrath. Next, Annam was forced to abandon his children, and he revoked the Ordning, causing chaos to fill Giantish society, and a war with the smaller races is almost provoked by a scheming ancient blue dragon. Finally, Annam returns to Toril for the last time, with just enough time to tell the Giants that they are failures and to give up on Ostoria, he then sacrifices himself to protect the humanoid races of Toril, along with all of their other gods. </p><p></p><p>The giants were angry. Looked down on by their patron deity for centuries, like a disappointed father looks at a disappointing son. At first, they could not accept that the smaller races might be superior to them in any way. Begrudgingly following the last commandment of Annam, the giants give up their traditions. Having no gods to serve, no ordning to order them, and their culture completely collapsing, the giants were fractured. The Storm Giants no longer were higher in giantish society than Hill Giants, or any other giant. </p><p></p><p>Then, disaster struck again. First, the Fire and Stone Giants were forced out of the Underdark by Duergar. Next, the Dragons, chromatic and metallic, united to attack the giants, with no explanation of why. The giants, weakened and desperate, fought back. This was their only purpose at the time, the only thing that gave them a purpose, and it was to rid the world of the horrid dragons. Their fractured society reformed, but differently. No type of giant was automatically higher in ranking than others, instead they were led by a champion. Each settlement of giants worked together to fight against the dragons, and any giant who slew a dragon gained a score. This score was marked by dragon-scales, which they put on their armor to mark their ranking in the caste. The older a dragon slain by a giant, the higher ranking they received. In a giant village, the giant whose armor contained the most dragon scales, marked with a rune marking their achiements on each set of scales, became the clan's champion, and they commanded their settlement in battle. </p><p></p><p>After 86 years of the Second Dragon-Giant War, the giant strongholds in the ocean were attacked by krakens, who were controlled by Aboleths. Now discovering that it was the Aboleths who started the Second Dragon-Giant War, the Giants were forced out of the ocean. Their society now revolved around this war, and the only way to gain ranking was through the war. The Giants kept this discovery to themselves, but they were weakened from the war. They needed aid, so they turned to the Goliaths and Firbolg. The Goliaths were willing to help them in the war, but the Firbolg were currently in chaos due to the new presence of the Minotaurs in their woods, and turned down the invitation to an alliance. The Urtgardt Barbarian tribes joined the Giants in an alliance for battle.</p><p></p><p>The Second Giant-Dragon War continued for 655 years, with heavy casualties on both the giant and dragon sides. The humanoids who served the giants (goliaths, urtgardt barbarians) became rivals of those that served the dragons in the war (kobolds, lizardfolk, hearthdrak dragonborn). The war ended with a forced stalemate, with an intervention from the Celestials forcing them to stop fighting, as it was too destructive for the other races.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8043819, member: 7023887"] Okay, here's more lore: [B][U]Minotaurs:[/U][/B] Similar to Gnolls and Drow, they were freed at the end of the Blood War. No longer bound to their abyssal god, Baphomet, the Minotaurs were confused. They no longer had a purpose in the world, but did have a place. Becoming a fierce, but unbound race of people, they no longer had a unifying reason for existence, so they started with the basics, survival. Though they already lived in caves and dungeons, they no longer felt satisfied with their lives of terrorizing others, and hiding in dungeons worshipping dark evils. As a people, the Minotaurs left their ruinous dungeons and labyrinthine caves, and formed settlements in the forests and woods of Faerun. At first, they were attacked by Wood Elves and other feyish and plant inhabitants of these forests, but they were powerful and strong enough to drive them out of their forests and to the north. The Minotaurs, not sure of much in the world except for the fact that they hate elves and fey, started logging. They chopped down trees, using the branches of them as fuels for fire, and with the logs they build wooden forts surrounded by mazes of wood, keeping out intruders, but easily passed through by the Minotaurs. As the millennia went on, the Minotaurs lost their savage and brutal ways (still having no love for elves and fey), and became less monstrous. Shrinking in size, due to them no longer being cultists to Baphomet, and becoming more and more human-like, the Minotaurs became another race of humanoids. Now a race of forest-dwelling, logging, and fortress building people, they started trade with other races. Gnolls needed wood for their city's buildings, and the minotaurs needing hides and fabrics for clothing and art. Minotaurs even developed their own language, called Minotaur, which was a mix of Orc, Abyssal, and Common. They eventually learned the ways of masonry, reinforcing their fortresses with stone walls and foundations. Nowadays, a Minotaur settlement is a fearsome place. Fortresses filled with trophies and hides of slain creatures, no one of elven or feyish descent allowed within a mile of a fortress, the roofs of the castles made out of wood, but covered in fire-proof hides. They no longer a savage and brutal people, but are an industrious and hard-working people. Their fortresses are ever-expanding, many of their fortresses have mines underneath, and forges inside, billowing smoke 24 hours a day. They're master weaponsmiths with a love for gold, whose art shows them conquering woodland creatures, treants, and druids, as well as the rise of their society. They have no religion, except capitalism. They have few laws, except that harming other minotaurs is not allowed. They trade often, but not with Elves or Firbolg. [B][U]Aboleths:[/U][/B] Residents of Toril for millenia, who dwelled here before the gods, and after the gods. Resenting all things holy for these many, many years, the Aboleths were pleased when the gods died. Finally, their patience and plotting would benefit them. Their first task as a race was to come together, and dominate the Kuo-Toa, who had fled to the ocean to avoid destruction by the Duergar. Claiming to be their gods, the Aboleths gained the complete faith and devotion of the Kuo-Toa people. Next, they waited. It took over 28 years, but then it happened. Carefully calculating the actions of the other races, the Aboleths waited for the Illithids to leave Toril. Noticing how they kidnapped White Dragons, the Abolteths took advantage of this situation. They sent their Kuo-Toa to an underwater cave containing Bronze Dragon eggs, destroying them. They planted evidence implicating the Storm Giants in this act. When the Dragons noticed, they were infuriated. United together, the Dragons declared war on the Giants, starting the Second Dragon-Giant War. While the war was raging, and the giants and dragons were distracted, they Aboleths swam deep into the ocean floor to the lairs of sleeping krakens. Dominating a few krakens, taking control of them, and unleashing them upon the Storm Giant strongholds of the ocean. The Krakens destroyed the Storm Giants' homes, forcing them to leave the ocean, and allowing the Aboleths to have control of the oceans of Toril. Attacking settlements on the Sword Coast, and the settlements of underwater races, they were able to ravage the races who depended on the oceans. They forced the Aquatic Elves to flee up rivers, now making their homes closer to other races, mostly in the docks of other cities, or in lakes. The Tritons left the oceans and travelled back to the Elemental Plane of Water. Merrow and Sahuagin started worshipping the krakens. Merfolk, also going up rivers, became nomadic, building no permanent homes in the rivers or lakes of the Sword Coast. Though they had the Krakens, the Aboleths were not yet able to conquer the humanoids of Toril, for one pesky reason: the Angels. After the Catastrophe, the Solars, Planetars, and Devas decided to help the humanoid races recover from the calamitous events that occurred. Soon afterwards, the Second Dragon-Giant War started, and they Angels decided to stay to protect the cities from the dragons. Then, just as the war was raging on, the Aboleths seized control of the oceans, and the Angels had to remain to protect the cities on the coasts. [B][U]Giants:[/U][/B] The giants have had a rough couple millennia. First, Annam sent the runt Hartkiller to inform the giants that Annam was not pleased with them, and that they needed to change their ways. Infuriated, the Giants then slew Hartkiller, provoking Annam's wrath. Next, Annam was forced to abandon his children, and he revoked the Ordning, causing chaos to fill Giantish society, and a war with the smaller races is almost provoked by a scheming ancient blue dragon. Finally, Annam returns to Toril for the last time, with just enough time to tell the Giants that they are failures and to give up on Ostoria, he then sacrifices himself to protect the humanoid races of Toril, along with all of their other gods. The giants were angry. Looked down on by their patron deity for centuries, like a disappointed father looks at a disappointing son. At first, they could not accept that the smaller races might be superior to them in any way. Begrudgingly following the last commandment of Annam, the giants give up their traditions. Having no gods to serve, no ordning to order them, and their culture completely collapsing, the giants were fractured. The Storm Giants no longer were higher in giantish society than Hill Giants, or any other giant. Then, disaster struck again. First, the Fire and Stone Giants were forced out of the Underdark by Duergar. Next, the Dragons, chromatic and metallic, united to attack the giants, with no explanation of why. The giants, weakened and desperate, fought back. This was their only purpose at the time, the only thing that gave them a purpose, and it was to rid the world of the horrid dragons. Their fractured society reformed, but differently. No type of giant was automatically higher in ranking than others, instead they were led by a champion. Each settlement of giants worked together to fight against the dragons, and any giant who slew a dragon gained a score. This score was marked by dragon-scales, which they put on their armor to mark their ranking in the caste. The older a dragon slain by a giant, the higher ranking they received. In a giant village, the giant whose armor contained the most dragon scales, marked with a rune marking their achiements on each set of scales, became the clan's champion, and they commanded their settlement in battle. After 86 years of the Second Dragon-Giant War, the giant strongholds in the ocean were attacked by krakens, who were controlled by Aboleths. Now discovering that it was the Aboleths who started the Second Dragon-Giant War, the Giants were forced out of the ocean. Their society now revolved around this war, and the only way to gain ranking was through the war. The Giants kept this discovery to themselves, but they were weakened from the war. They needed aid, so they turned to the Goliaths and Firbolg. The Goliaths were willing to help them in the war, but the Firbolg were currently in chaos due to the new presence of the Minotaurs in their woods, and turned down the invitation to an alliance. The Urtgardt Barbarian tribes joined the Giants in an alliance for battle. The Second Giant-Dragon War continued for 655 years, with heavy casualties on both the giant and dragon sides. The humanoids who served the giants (goliaths, urtgardt barbarians) became rivals of those that served the dragons in the war (kobolds, lizardfolk, hearthdrak dragonborn). The war ended with a forced stalemate, with an intervention from the Celestials forcing them to stop fighting, as it was too destructive for the other races. [/QUOTE]
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