HUMAN HUMANS MAN

HUMAN HUMANS
 
History:
The oldest settlement known on Aabahran was the city of Anduin. Anduin was a
human city in the central part of the southern half of Aabahran. Not much is
known of this ancient period of history, but only humans lived during that
time. Those early humans soon settled the city of Caranduin and began working
their way west, their farthest outpost being Thalos. It was a time of peace and
prosperity for humanity. As the barriers between the planes weakened, it was
followed by a time of death and destruction called the Bloodletting. When the
Bloodletting subsided, human civilization was in tatters. There was not a
single city remaining and the surviving humans scattered into the wilderness
in despair.
 
It is not certain when humans first arrived in the forest that was to become
the western capital, but it is known that they came from far to the west,
across the Dune Sea, and were not descendants of the Anduins. They named the
town Seringale at that time. These new humans, unable or unwilling to return
home, cleared a patch of land on the Eridani River and raised the first palisade
there that was to become a great palace many years later. Almost at the same
time, a completely different group of humans arrived from far to the east and
settled their landing cay, naming it after their leader, a great magician named
Miruvhor. In the beginning, both of these fledgling arrivals thought themselves
alone.
 
Over time, the humans rose in number and began to make their first forays into
the wilderness around them. The Seringales pushed east and rebuilt the abandoned
human city in the south-east, Thalos. It was during this time that the humans
from Seringale met the remnants of the Anduins and learned of the recent
devastation. Soon centaurs and lamias took to the forests and Thalos was
cut off from Seringale and eventually abandoned once again. Monsters and
supernatural races were arriving in Aabahran in droves.
 
On the other end of the world, Miruvhor was prospering. Miruvhorians had
claimed all the land from S'handor Fortress in Mt. Rainer in the north to the
Shadow Grove in the south. Their great wealth allowed them to wield great
power and enjoy happy lives. Miruvhorians built the Dragon Teeth Road and the
Great Wall of Aabahran, founded the holy temple of Sreyb, and cultivated the
rich Emerald Forest and the Ford. This sudden change in the balance of power
attracted the attention of the dark gods once again, and the Nameless was the
first to play its hand to the Miruvhorians.
 
The Nameless corrupted the leadership and army, causing a sharp division in
their ranks. A great religious civil war took place, in which the humans of the
Light aligned with the elves and nymphs and the humans of the Darkness aligned
with the undead, drow, demons, orcs, and fire giants. In the chaos, resistance
against the dominance of magic in Miruvhor also surfaced in the form of the
Savant-Warmaster conflict. Being split across races and ideologies, the war
was the first massive multiracial conflict and the worst war that the world had
seen since the Bloodletting. The humans were in the center of it all.
 
The orcs and elves warred over the human outpost of Greginsham, with the
outpost falling and the orcs still inhabiting the mountains today. The farmers
of the Ford were quickly overrun by the fire giants and darker forces arriving
from the desolate tundra to the south. The survivors from these two areas dug
into the mountain itself and sealed themselves in, calling the place Kaer
Banor. The entire northern and southern Miruvhorian irrigation works were
consumed by demonic energies, creating the Forsaken Lands and the Witch Wood
respectively. In the end, both sides were exhausted and the war fizzled out.
The Darkness claimed Miruvhor proper, whereas Emerald Forest, S'handor Fortress,
and the temple of Sreyb were human bastions of the Light.
 
See also: HUMAN2