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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 1040041" data-attributes="member: 9255">UNDER A DARKSUNSEGMENT 101“Bodach: The Height and Fall Of”The history of Bodach I know of begins about 3800 years ago.  It was a magical time of peace and prosperity shared by all within and between the races.  It lay on an island within a deep bay near the sea then filled with cool water.  Because of its location, it was a source of trade connecting the sea and it’s island communities with the rest of Tyr Valley.Trade was done by all including the merfolk of the sea and the fairy-folk of the forest that covered the land around the bay.  It was known for it’s pearls and the gems mined from under the sea.  It was also a center of many of the clerics of the day.  The elements, especially water, were worshipped along with the lost gods of the day.  These clerics were different from those of today however.  These clerics believed in aiding the races and maintaining harmony and balance.  Today most are concerned only with the furthering of their chosen element only.  One of the greatest clerics of the city and perhaps the whole of Tyr Valley was Neutralis Thel.  It was he and his brother; a powerful druid named Dorag Thel that first discovered what magic was doing to the world’s life force.  Magic was new then.  Rarely controlled to gain the results sought for by its casters.  Early mages suggested that the brothers merely distrusted magic that they could not use themselves.  At this time, there was no proof what the magic could and would eventually do to the world so rich in life then.  The pyreen were very quiet on the subject of magic.  Unknown to most, the creator of magic was in fact a power pyreen himself.  Using his prestige as a pyreen he culled and lulled the growing concerns of magic and it’s possible misuse.  Those that did not obey mysteriously changed their minds or disappeared.Then the unthinkable occurred.  In secret, Rajaat had been training his favorite and most gifted students of magic to use defiler magic.  Dorag Thel confronted Rajaat directly and was never seen again.  His brother formed an alliance to stop this new form of magic.  His cries of warning were unheard as strange hate-crimes began to occur that pitted race vs. race, brother vs. brother, city vs. city.  Rajaat and his Champions of Justice stepped forward to “settle” these crimes.  Instead, his methods fanned the flames.The next several decades involve Rajaat and his Champions of Justice trying to stop the races that were “creating” strife throughout the lands.  What he did instead was kill off many of the more powerful races that had strong influences outside of the cities.  Entire races once known as Pixies, Ogres and Centaurs were killed off.  Their lands were said to have been cursed by the races to the south.  This curse was why the water table was lowering.  Bodach no longer was an island.  It’s bay was now a shallow curled waterway.  The Merfolk were driven away and never heard from again.Several cities were involved in war.  Tyr, Yondalla and Wavir were under new governments were resembled today’s city-state conditions.  Kemlok became the new dwarven capital as Moradin was ravaged by flames.  It was dark times but they would become darker yet.The Magic wars began.  Defiler vs. Preserver.  Everyone lost in these battles of magic.  The once proud city of Mechan was destroyed as an earthquake occurred.  The Gnomes never knew what hit them, as they had become so reliant on their mechanical creations.  The pyreen tried to stop the war.  They formed the Preserver Knights.  These warriors fought to stop the war.  Though they cared little for defilers, they fought against preservers sometimes in an effort to stop the war.  In truth, it never really stopped.  It only shifted directions and goals.Once Rajaat had successfully fought back the pyreen and the Knights, he directed his Champions of Justice into a genocidal war.  Races and cities already weak from the prior battles fell.  Several events occurred to mark the beginning of the Cleansing Wars.  The capture of Giustenal, and the total destruction of the two strongest cities remaining.  Bodach and Utopia.In each case, massive amounts of psionic, arcane and divine energies were unleashed at each other.  Utopia perhaps was hit the worst.  Thousands of miles of land was destroyed and cursed forever in an instant.  It is covered by thick layers of obsidian both solid and liquid and now is known as the Dead Lands.  Millions of undead are trapped within or under the glass shell.  May the gods have mercy on us if they ever escape.  Bodach was also cursed with undead.  All died within the city and the thousands of soldiers that surrounded it.  Irikos, Rajaat’s favored died within the psionic fireball that was once Jutter- Bodach’s greatest psion.  Now all that die within Bodach become undead and must protect Bodach from invaders and/or trespassers.  Most of these undead are mindless but some have wills of their own.  They are either trapped or feel compelled to stay within Bodach and it’s ruins.  Those that do not stay, the Sentinels of Bodach stop.It is believed that the undead seek to protect the cities vast riches of jewels, gems and pearls; all laced in gold, silver and platinum.I fear it holds greater secrets than that even.</blockquote>

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