Death, Life, Fire, Water, Air and Earth, the elemental forces. Each force had a plane, and each plane had its inhabitants, creatures native to their element.

But the lords of the planes, powerful beings of raw magic, looked upon each other with hatred, and the battle of the elementals begun.

Fiery deamons battled shadowy begins, spectral air creatures unleashed their power on dryads and earth golems and the lords of the planes themselves locked in struggle.

A few forsaw the end, realized that the elemental forces were too balanced, that the power unleashed in this war would be the doom of all. They fled to the material plane, a vast empty space with lifeless rocks.

They found refuge on a planet in the very edge of the material universe, and surrounded it with their protective forces. They were what we today refer to as gods.

Tyrin, a creature of the life plane, led them. He installed the lesser creatures they had brought along with them onto the world. Humans, Elves, Orcs, Ratmen and other races began to inhabit their new home.

The gods created minature versions of the planes, a home for those creatures that could not live on a material world. They also created a higher plane to be their home.

But after the passing of a few years, the war of the elements came to its climax, when the six lords locked in a struggle with each other. They unleashed their full power on each other, but the force they unleashed was so great that it consumed both them and the planes, and even spilled into the material world.

Only the new world, named Chabrot by its inhabitants, was spared beacuse of its distance from the other planes, and its protective barrier.

Chabrots sun was consumed in the blast, and the gods realized that they had to bring warmth to the world, or the creatures inhabiting it would die out along with the rest of the universe.

They created the everlight, a great magical device built in the undestroyable metal bloodrock that through a system of "lightbearers" sent light and heat out onto the world, then circulated it back into the everlight to be sent out again.

Thus, Chabrot, the world of eternal day, sits alone amidst a empty universe.

The War of the Gods
K'Yz'Nyaal, a being of the plane of death, was jealous of Tyrin's position as leader and opposed against the creatures of Chabrot being allowed to act upon free will, rather than serving the Gods in everything they did. He gained supporters amidst some of the other gods, and devised a plan.

As the others were resting, K'Yz'Nyaals followers struck their blow, killing numerous of the gods still loyal to Tyrin. The others were only saved by the mental warning from one of them seconds before he was slain by the attackers.

Tyrins followers rallied to face K'Yz'Nyaals, and the two sides battled for possession of the high plane. Eventually, those that followed K'Yz were driven back and banished from the higher plane. But the gods, once numbering two dozen, now only were nine left.

K'Yz and his few followers, banished from the higher plane, constructed a plane of their own, the shrouded plane, as their home. K'Yz, having not forgotten his humiliating defeat, devised a plan to sieze the power in the world. He and his followers began a ritual of great power, shaping a barrier between the higher plane and Chabrot. When Tyrin realized what had happened, it was too late. The barrier prevented the good gods from directly traveling to chabrot, only enabling them to project mental images through it for short periods of time.

Around 780 AE K'Yz descended upon Chabrot. Creatures of the death plane followed him, many among them possessing necromatic powers which enabled K'Yz to summon an army of dead. He first attacked the elven city of Tynator. Tynator has always been a home to a rebellious group of elves who took great interest in magical studies, and in exchange for lessons of necromancy, they pledged themselves to K'Yz and marched with his army of the dead. They were the first dark elves.

The great army of K'Yz marched into the elven forests, where the elves met them in a quite similar way they fought the human invasion in 671 AE. Groups of elves rained arrows oon the army and withdrew into the forest.

But the elves that had sides with K'Yz knew the location of their hiding places, they could track down elven scouts and knew the defenses of the other towns. The army of K'Yz smashed their way through the elven homelands.

The current elven king, Ayan, a descendant to Ayariel the Great, had been leading an elven force to join up with the defenses of Ymtu, but was caught and surrounded by the massive undead army. The undead closed in for the kill, while the elves prepared to sell their lives dearly, but then, something unexcepted indeed happened. The image of Tyrin appeared in front of the elf, holding a shimmering two-handed sword in its hands. It gave the sword to the elf king and then faded. The elf king, knowing instantly what to do, stepped forward and shouted a challenge to K'Yz. The god laughed, lifted into the air on his mighty wings and landed in front of the elf. A beam of shadow shot forth from his outstretched finger towards the king, but the king lifted the sword, which absorbed the shadowy beam. He then rushed the god, striking him with the sword.

In that minute, the sword began to shine brightly, and beams of pure light shot from it into the dark god. K'Yz screamed as the light vaporized his body, destroying him. His servants of the death plane fled, the undead army collapsed and his dark elves scattered to the four winds.

When the dark god died, Tyrin appeared once more. He told them how they should recreate the ritual that K'Yz did to seal of the shrouded plane on the same way, and prevent the gods that had followed K'Yz from returning.

And thus, the planes of the gods and Chabrot were parted, and the dark K'Yz destroyed.

The History of the Humans

The earliest records of the human race is somewhere around 100 AE (after the creation of the everlight). The human race, having been one of the largest to be installed onto the surface of Chabrot, scattered to the four corners of the world, constructing cities to live in and developing a civilization.

In the year 436 AE, a man named Johann the Conqueror managed to unite three of the largest human cities and created a army. He conquered the other human towns, one by one, and in the end he was the ruler of the entire human race, save for the fierce tribes that lived on a island in the northeastern corner of the world.

The human race continued to expand and invent, and eventually they set their eyes the great forests of the northwest, home to the elven race.

The elves steadfastly refused human settlers into their lands, and 671 AE the current human emperor, Krag the Ruthless declared war upon the elves.

The enourmous human army marched into the elven lands. The elves, vastly outnumbered, fought a series of guerilla style wars, using their bows to inflict severe casualties upon the elves and then withdrew into the forests. The humans answered by burning down elven villages and clearing large areas of trees.

The creatures of the forest, mighty treants, subtle dryads and packs of Karra Wolves, a very intelligent species of wolves, sided with the elves and the elves finally met the human army on clear ground outside the elven treetown of Yrain.

The humans had discovered magic sometime during the 6th century, and their mages met the dryads and treants in magical battle, as elven longsword and human spear clashed on the battlefield.

Despite the assistance of the forest creatures, the human army had greater numbers, and they managed to press back the elves to a hill just outside the city.

But the elves had prepared one last surprise. The humans had not yet discovered horses, as the horses of that time only lived in the elven forest, and as the elves fell back into defensive positions, a large force of elven cavalry led by the elven warrior Ayadrel smashed into the rear of the human army, crashing into the human royal guards. In the midst of the melee Ayadrel spotted the human emperor Krag, and rode up to challenge him.

After a short fight, the much more skilled elf drove his longsword through the emperors head, and attacked from the behind by elves mounted on creatures they had never seen before, and with their emperor slain, the human army broke the lines and fled.

Few made it back to the human lands, but the elves, weakened by the war, made no attempt to attack the humans.

What followed was a series of desperate wars against orcs and ratmen who raided the weakened human empire. Under the 8th century the human empire had finally been somewhat restored, but it was no near as strong as before.

The humans made peace with the elves, and began to purchase horses from them.

For three hundred years it continued like this, but in the year 1040 AE the current emperor died without a heir, and the human empire was thrown into a civil war. Noble families contested for the throne, cities openly battled each other, and in the end, the previous empire had been scattered into half a dozen independent cities.

And so it has continued to the present.

A simple listing of the Gods

The evil gods:

• K'Yz'Nyaal - Master God of Evil (destroyed)
• Nythaal - God of Plague
• Fyghal - God of War
• Zyrtha - Goddess of Pain

The good gods:

• Tyrin - Master God of Good
• Lana - God of Healing
• Ymmer - God of the Forest
• Astyiha - Goddess of Love
• Mugg - God of Eating