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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8049891" data-attributes="member: 7023887"><p>(Just a couple more. Feel free to comment below.) </p><p><strong><u>Lizardfolk:</u></strong> At the start of the Catastrophe, when the Demons were overthrown, the demon lord Sess'innek lost his small hold over the Lizardfolk race. The Lizardfolk goddess Semuanya took this opportunity to assert control over his race, who followed him completely. He showed them signs, guided the race to safer homes and away from fiendish intruders in the Material Plane. Most lizardfolk who served dragons left their previous masters, and started new settlements inside swamps (mostly moving to the Evermoors). The lizardfolk community enjoys 79 years of total dedication to Semuanya, and then the Catastrophe ended, along with the life of Semuanya. </p><p></p><p>Utter chaos ensued. In the years following the end of the Catastrophe, the Second Dragon-Giant War caused more contention across Faerun. The lizardfolk, who had followed the dragons before and left their service on decent terms, were divided. A group of the Lizardfolk denied the death of Semuanya, claiming that he would return to guide the Lizardfolk once more. Another faction joined with the dragons, following the Bronze Dragons, whom were assigned to instruct them (the different races that followed the dragons had different commanders. The lizardfolk under the Bronze, the kobolds under the Green, and the hearthdrak under the black). The lizardfolk who followed them, over the centuries were changed, living at the bottom of the lakes, now being known as the Daervak. Eventually interbreeding with the bronze dragons, the Daervak gained the ability to breath underwater, gained larger and more powerful claws, and inherited the ability to change shape, similar to adult metallic dragons. </p><p></p><p>The Daervak are now the cunning brutes of the draconic forces. Though the Second Dragon-Giant War ended hundreds of years ago, the Daervak are still devoted to their draconic masters. Occasionally spying on others in changed form, often becoming druids, fighters, and rogues, they are suspiciously viewed on by others. Though the Daervak changed, the followers of Semuanya, now known as the Seyume. </p><p></p><p><strong><u>Goliaths:</u></strong> During the Second Dragon-Giant War, after the giants had re-organized their society to be based around Dragon-slaying, they invited the Goliaths and Firbolg to join them in their war-like society. The Firbolg did not accept the offer, but the Goliaths were, admiring the power of the newly founded Giant society. For the next few centuries during the Second Dragon-Giant War, the Goliaths acted as the Giants' medium-sized servants, attacking the Lizardfolk, Kobold, and Dragonborn servants of the dragon armies. They also would occasionally seek out and destroy dragon nests and eggs, and they were prideful of their prowess in war. </p><p></p><p>Then, the celestials forced the war to end. The Goliaths were outraged, after all, their society is based around the powerful ruling, and the weak being crushed. They viewed the Celestials as weak, as they fled the Upper Planes as the Devils conquered them, and the gods they followed had to sacrifice themselves, which they saw as a pure act of weakness. The Giants then surrendered, as well as the Dragons, but the Giants needed to reform their society. They were based around dragon-slaying, which they no longer were allowed to do. They looked to a celestial who came from the Upper Planes hundreds of years before, an Archon of Falling Stars known as Paevtara. She was a fierce combatant, who rode atop a winged lion named Scair. The Giants started following the orders of this archon, and reformed their culture around protecting the world from otherworldly threats, notably the Aboleths. Goliaths felt betrayed. They spent centuries of their existence looking up to the supposedly mighty Giants, and they gave up when the going got hard. Not only did they give up, which is taboo in Goliath culture, but they started serving a being which they saw as weak, and started fighting the mighty Krakens and Aboleths. To the Goliaths, the Giants were now weak, and the Celestials were not deserving of veneration or worthy to be followed. </p><p></p><p>Angry, the Goliaths and their primal casters gathered atop the Star Mounts, rallying on the peak of the highest mountain. Their shamans executed a powerful ritual to transform the mountain into a volcanic portal to the Elemental Plane of Fire, where they made their new home. Now dwelling atop of volcanos in the Fountains of Creation, forging weapons with the geothermal power of their new home's volcanic power, the goliaths are preparing. They are sculpting armor out of steel, creating weapons, siege weapons, and vehicles to ready themselves. Now lead by warlords, and protected by shamans and war clerics, they now are plotting. Waiting for the opportunity to take control of the Elemental Planes, they plan to kill all the celestials, and then conquer the rest of the planes. They also have war-aurochs and other domesticated animals to help provide for themselves in their blasted wasteland of a home, but they also depend on their shamans for food and water for their tribes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8049891, member: 7023887"] (Just a couple more. Feel free to comment below.) [B][U]Lizardfolk:[/U][/B] At the start of the Catastrophe, when the Demons were overthrown, the demon lord Sess'innek lost his small hold over the Lizardfolk race. The Lizardfolk goddess Semuanya took this opportunity to assert control over his race, who followed him completely. He showed them signs, guided the race to safer homes and away from fiendish intruders in the Material Plane. Most lizardfolk who served dragons left their previous masters, and started new settlements inside swamps (mostly moving to the Evermoors). The lizardfolk community enjoys 79 years of total dedication to Semuanya, and then the Catastrophe ended, along with the life of Semuanya. Utter chaos ensued. In the years following the end of the Catastrophe, the Second Dragon-Giant War caused more contention across Faerun. The lizardfolk, who had followed the dragons before and left their service on decent terms, were divided. A group of the Lizardfolk denied the death of Semuanya, claiming that he would return to guide the Lizardfolk once more. Another faction joined with the dragons, following the Bronze Dragons, whom were assigned to instruct them (the different races that followed the dragons had different commanders. The lizardfolk under the Bronze, the kobolds under the Green, and the hearthdrak under the black). The lizardfolk who followed them, over the centuries were changed, living at the bottom of the lakes, now being known as the Daervak. Eventually interbreeding with the bronze dragons, the Daervak gained the ability to breath underwater, gained larger and more powerful claws, and inherited the ability to change shape, similar to adult metallic dragons. The Daervak are now the cunning brutes of the draconic forces. Though the Second Dragon-Giant War ended hundreds of years ago, the Daervak are still devoted to their draconic masters. Occasionally spying on others in changed form, often becoming druids, fighters, and rogues, they are suspiciously viewed on by others. Though the Daervak changed, the followers of Semuanya, now known as the Seyume. [B][U]Goliaths:[/U][/B] During the Second Dragon-Giant War, after the giants had re-organized their society to be based around Dragon-slaying, they invited the Goliaths and Firbolg to join them in their war-like society. The Firbolg did not accept the offer, but the Goliaths were, admiring the power of the newly founded Giant society. For the next few centuries during the Second Dragon-Giant War, the Goliaths acted as the Giants' medium-sized servants, attacking the Lizardfolk, Kobold, and Dragonborn servants of the dragon armies. They also would occasionally seek out and destroy dragon nests and eggs, and they were prideful of their prowess in war. Then, the celestials forced the war to end. The Goliaths were outraged, after all, their society is based around the powerful ruling, and the weak being crushed. They viewed the Celestials as weak, as they fled the Upper Planes as the Devils conquered them, and the gods they followed had to sacrifice themselves, which they saw as a pure act of weakness. The Giants then surrendered, as well as the Dragons, but the Giants needed to reform their society. They were based around dragon-slaying, which they no longer were allowed to do. They looked to a celestial who came from the Upper Planes hundreds of years before, an Archon of Falling Stars known as Paevtara. She was a fierce combatant, who rode atop a winged lion named Scair. The Giants started following the orders of this archon, and reformed their culture around protecting the world from otherworldly threats, notably the Aboleths. Goliaths felt betrayed. They spent centuries of their existence looking up to the supposedly mighty Giants, and they gave up when the going got hard. Not only did they give up, which is taboo in Goliath culture, but they started serving a being which they saw as weak, and started fighting the mighty Krakens and Aboleths. To the Goliaths, the Giants were now weak, and the Celestials were not deserving of veneration or worthy to be followed. Angry, the Goliaths and their primal casters gathered atop the Star Mounts, rallying on the peak of the highest mountain. Their shamans executed a powerful ritual to transform the mountain into a volcanic portal to the Elemental Plane of Fire, where they made their new home. Now dwelling atop of volcanos in the Fountains of Creation, forging weapons with the geothermal power of their new home's volcanic power, the goliaths are preparing. They are sculpting armor out of steel, creating weapons, siege weapons, and vehicles to ready themselves. Now lead by warlords, and protected by shamans and war clerics, they now are plotting. Waiting for the opportunity to take control of the Elemental Planes, they plan to kill all the celestials, and then conquer the rest of the planes. They also have war-aurochs and other domesticated animals to help provide for themselves in their blasted wasteland of a home, but they also depend on their shamans for food and water for their tribes. [/QUOTE]
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