Encyclopedia Iannica

 “TOTO, WE’RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE.” –A FAMOUS LITTLE GIRL.

     The world, Ias, Ea, Uld, Stormworld, whatever you want to call It, Is a world trying to crawl Its way back up from the pit of a millenia old nightmare. Civilization collapsed In the distant past and took more than just the good folk of the world with It. Nature Itself lost all form of rationale. Earthquakes shook the high palaces and towers of great Wizard-Kings. Floods destoyed coastal cities and drowned once verdant forests. Volcanoes erupted In the middle of densely popluated cities and whole islands dissappered beneath the waves. And that was just the beginning.

Demons and Devils, the Infernal forces of Hell poured out of the cities of the wizard- kings. Riding across the land slaughtering, raping and enslaving, Capturing some of the great cities that still stood. The fiends turned on the mages that had enslaved them or bartered with them for dark power. They slew many or claimed their prize of souls and returned them to Hell. A great many stayed to use the world as a play ground for their Infernal pleasures.

For centuries after the Great Sundering, storms, both natural and unnatural, ravaged the survivors. Herds of beasts once domesticated, turned wild, died off from starvation or froze In freak summer time Ice storms. Cities were scoured by epic thunderstorms of acid rain. Drouts would last years In some areas, while In others, the sun would be obsured by stormclouds. Famine and plague walked the land and gorged upon the weak and the dieing.

The dwindeling survivors of the world came to realize that the great Wizard-Kings that had provided their grand civilization were the ones to be blamed for the cataclisym. The survivors quickly turned on the few that remained. Hunting them. burning their books. Outlawing magic. Destroying remnants of their magical technology and the civilisation It had built.

     The people of the world slowly turned back to the ancient gods In search of help. The Creator and the Goddess, long abandoned by the Athiest Wizard-Kings, answered the calls, and blessed new heroes to lead the folk of the world from darkness.

     No one knows how long It has been since the Great Sundering, most don't care. The world Is still a very dangerous place filled with the evils of nature, demons of hell, diseased remnant cities of the ancient civilization and mad wandering creations of that by gone era. Daily life Is a struggle amongst the survivors. A struggle to eat, to survive, to live. Some have decided to do more than struggle. Some have decided It Is time to reclaim paradise.

This Is the world to which you have been born.

This Is all you have ever known.

Welcome to your life.

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