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Kingdoms & Realms
The world known as Aedenne is a world in transition. A world trying to recover the lost glories of an ancient past. Once the Human Empire of Vilania ruled most of the Known World, with the Elves and Dwarves maintaining respect and peace (if not warm relations) with this mighty Human Empire. The Humanoids of the North and far East (Orcs and their cousins the mountain dwelling Goblins and Ogres) were kept at bay by the great Vilani walls and legions. The Pax Vilania seemed destined to last forever....
But the Vilani Imperium began to rot from within. Some say it was due to the abandonment of the Elemental Gods that had made the Empire great in favor of those gods of the subjected peoples (the Ostander and Istandarii). Others say it was due to the dabbling into forbidden Magicks, a practice that continues to this day by the mage Guilds. Whatever the reasons, a great storm of fire, flood and meteors barraged the very heart of the Vilani Imperium. This disaster decimated most of the Vilani homeland and killed numbers without measure. The mountains of the west opened in great fissures and the sea rolled over the ruins, creating what is now known as the Azure Sea. Only part of the great city of Aquinas, capital of the Vilani, survived the floods due to being partially located on the great heights of the Taerra mountain.
When the elements quieted, the wars began. Sensing their chance, the barbaric tribes of the Ostander, the Tys, and the Ygithiri along with the ancient Kingdom of Istandar rebelled against the depleted and directionless legions of the Vilani. They succeeded and created their own realms. Only in that part of the Vilani land that remained above water (the Taerra Mountain and surrounding lands) did the Vilani maintain their tenuous hold upon. This time, the waters that destroyed most of their realm saved what was left. Unused to water travel, the Barbarians could not threaten the Island of Aquinas (as it was now called) for almost a century. Which, by this time the Vilani had recovered enough to defend themselves and their city-state.
The elves took this opportunity to increase their domains of woodland at the expense of the humans. Also, rumors abound of a civil war that was fought among the High Elves of Tir Ardonae, but nothing more is known other than this. The Dwarves kept to themselves in their Stone Warrens, and reduced all communications with other races save for at a single port in the crags of Darkenmoor. The halflings of the Western Cantons found themselves under the mastery of the Istandar Kingdom, but they accepted this quietly much as they did the overlordship of the Imperium.
Today, Aquinas considers itself a center of civilization in the barbarity of the Known World. many who sail the Azure seas speak of strange islands of forgotten Imperial Magicks, sunken cities, and exotic aquatic races that descend from Vilani stock. The other Kingdoms each style themselves successors to the Vilani heritage, but only time will tell if Humanity will again come under a single realm...
Human Realms
Elven Realms
Dwarven Kingdom & Warrens (inactive site)
Evil Realms (inactive site)
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