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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chimera" data-source="post: 933389" data-attributes="member: 2002">Roughly 4500 years previous to my first five campaigns on my Homebrew world, but about six months into the 'deep dark past' campaign that was the sixth (and 22 years before what will eventually be the seventh)...There was a huge battle on the slopes of Mount Kemensereg, between the Calaseans (powerful natural magic-users and rulers of most of the world - as slave lords) and their ancient enemies, the Elorhim.  It involved the Calasean's God (DR 20) and one million Calaseans against the Elorhim's "Prince" (DR 20), one million Elorhim, 600k Rana, two Human gods (DR 12, 1) and several million Humans.The Calaseans being highly magical and the Elorhim highly Psionic, combined with the presence of some major godhood and a stupid idea by the Calasean High Council, caused a major explosion that utterly destroyed everything within 600 miles and rendered the entire region uninhabitable for millenia.  (In the +4500 year era, this region is still some 5-600 miles in diameter)All of the combatants were wiped out, plus an additional two million Calaseans and nearly 60 million slaves.  (Nearly 20% of their people and slaves, plus their most valuable slave territory, gone in a flash.)  The Human demigod was destroyed.  The three other gods were each rendered 'unavailable' for several hundred years (Their Clerics can only do spells of up to 4th level until they 'return').Just east of this (formerly rich) region are The Shards, a range of very steep and inhospitable mountains.  The range runs north-south, about 1000 miles long and 1-200 miles wide.  They end abruptly on the east side, where great cliffs plunge into the deep and dangerous Straights of Elorhia, a 50-100 mile wide, 1500 mile long separation between two continents.A hot current flows up from the Boiling Sea in the south (where thermal vents and volcanos literally boil the sea in one large, equatorial region) through the straights, over the top of a deep, very cold current from the north.On the east side of the straights are the Mountains of Elorhia, a one million square mile expanse of mountains that includes three great valleys (where most of the Elorhim and Rana live) and the highest peaks in the world.These mountains again end in great cliffs at the Inner sea, a freshwater 'lake/sea' about 2000 miles east of the Straights.  Here the cliffs are undercut by thousands of sea level caves, through which many mountain rivers find their exit.  (One large river, coming from the largest of the great valleys, flows straight into the ground about 400 miles from the Inner Sea.)</blockquote>

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