User:ProphetPX/Xal'Anim (3.5e Campaign Setting)/History

History

Herein is detailed a brief history of my world, which will be expanded gradually as I have time...

The Nothing:

"Before there was Space, there was The Nothing. But The Nothing, had Presence..."

The Presence:

"As to this Presence, we know not who, or whom, but at some time sundry, The Emanation was begun in bright song and glorious cacophony. And as read from every known, extant ancient text (most now being lost, but few relics and fragments remain) we now know NOT the how, nor the when, but at least, The What:"

The What:

"The Presence, at a time keen only to it's conscience, forced forth the hew and sinew of raw elements from a forge of it's own sheer Will and Power."

The Elements:

"The Elements became the orchestral majesties which brought forth, over much time and symphonic generation: The System, and The Structure."

The System:

"Elemental Majesties, those founding Elemental Forces, singular in their unific, transcendant objective of conspiration, of orchestration, FIRST set forth to surround their burgeoning idea of creation with the first spawned sweep of gas cloud which slowly exploded in a bloom of gaseous dust, finally settling at the preset edge of The System to form The Veil."

"Then, to sublimely BRING FORTH The Definition and The Connection whereby fundamental concepts of length, width, depth, FUNCTION, basis, color of shadow and shade of light, could finally, after much furious creation effort, would CONNECT one endpoint to another, and thus form The Known Worlds. After their creation effort was systematized, functionalized, harmonized, and initiated in-utero to be VIVIFIED; the unique conditions of life here not yet established, but the preset needs of such, also not necessarily unconsidered, either."

The Definition:

The Connection:

The Structure:

The (Initial) Known Worlds (with pronunciation key):

Xalliche (chall-eesh) - Capital World

Ayshpraezhigo (aie-shh-pray-zhee-go) -

Santhannierre (sann-thann-i-err-ee) - Sundry relics

Mysthaerrys (miss-thay-er-iss) - Mythological and Religious Center for various faiths

Dizanthronum (Dizz-ann-throe-numm) - The Origin of Royalty

Valladiasciae (Vall-add-ias-see-ayy) - Border Dimension between this life and the next

Borzik Tzunn (Boarr-zikk tZ-unn) - The Wildscape of the Damned

Chenndrovan Seven (Chenn-droh-vahn Seven) - The Seventh Ulterior Scape of The Nineteen

Ranna Tsimak (Ron-nah Tsimm-Akk) - Forestal Confusion

Hueeshyll Shammarod (Hwee-sheell Sham-maer-rod) The Paradise of Beasts

Premise

• The "Creator"

The ritual of an (epic-level) mysterious, aberrant Wild ArchMage / Mystic Theurgist, bent on ascending into godhood, gets spun awry by forces beyond his control, which tear up the entire space-time continuum, and (ie: akin to the "Gray Gem" of DragonLance(TM) Krynn fame), the ripple-effect transforms and modifies the entire local cosmos into a warped reality personally possessed (and tortured) by his own soul. Thus, a new bizarre cross-planar world of quasi-physics and elemental chaos is borne... full of strange dysfunctional landscapes, and new, awakened life forms.

Premise

• The "Creator"

The ritual of an (epic-level) mysterious, aberrant Wild ArchMage / Mystic Theurgist, bent on ascending into godhood, gets spun awry by forces beyond his control, which tear up the entire space-time continuum, and (ie: akin to the "Gray Gem" of DragonLance(TM) Krynn fame), the ripple-effect transforms and modifies the entire local cosmos into a warped reality personally possessed (and tortured) by his own soul. Thus, a new bizarre cross-planar world of quasi-physics and elemental chaos is borne... full of strange dysfunctional landscapes, and new, awakened life forms.

The Present

• Rulership

The cosmos has eventually come to be ruled by usurpers: super-intelligent, yet aberrant 'Amoebic' life-forms, whose despotic rule is enforced by their elite legions, the 'Virals' (these names will change later, but for now, they are referred to as such conveniently to help people grasp the concept of life here).

This universal rule is countered in the balance and opposingly checked by scattered pockets of resistance led by 'Bacterials', my world's version of "freedom fighters".

This contrast of black vs. white is hardly the full extent of it, for most of the realm is neutral or isolationist and self-centered, except a few predominant factions whose various allegiances are unique to them.

The Past

• Creation

T.B.A.

The Future

• Ominous Portents

T.B.A.