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Midgard World Book-19

Roughly 800 years ago, the tieflings and humans of Caelmarath society revolted against elven rule in the First Great Revolt, led by the sorceress Melathea Stross. The elves suppressed the revolt brutally but the wizards continued in secret, summoning dark powers. Within 20 years, the revolt was burned out but humans had seized control of two regions. The elves sought to limit the damage from humans wielding dark powers but struggled against human numbers. Fearing contamination of their homeland, the elves retreated from the mortal world 482 years ago, abandoning their empire.

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Midgard World Book-19

Roughly 800 years ago, the tieflings and humans of Caelmarath society revolted against elven rule in the First Great Revolt, led by the sorceress Melathea Stross. The elves suppressed the revolt brutally but the wizards continued in secret, summoning dark powers. Within 20 years, the revolt was burned out but humans had seized control of two regions. The elves sought to limit the damage from humans wielding dark powers but struggled against human numbers. Fearing contamination of their homeland, the elves retreated from the mortal world 482 years ago, abandoning their empire.

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one another, while the dwarves stood by and laughed.

Walkers whose strength grew as the portals between


worlds were disrupted and expanded. Though the shadow
Black Sorceress’s Revolt elves were corrupt, most elves remained on the side of
Roughly 800 years ago, the tieflings and humans of light, and they found the growing fusion of magical and
Caelmarath society revolted against elven rule in the First mortal realms abhorrent and vile.
Great Revolt, often referred to as the Black Sorceress’s
Revolt after Melathea Stross, the sorceress who led the The Great Retreat
uprising. The elves brutally suppressed the revolt but the At last the elves decided not to join the mages of
wizards carried on in secret, summoning fiendish allies Caelmarath in their infernal descent into ever-greater
and corrupting the fey roads. They carved out their lands madness. The elven roads shut down; the fey method of
in opposition to the elves by using dark powers. The revolt transport suddenly disappeared, and the legions marched
burned out within 20 years, between arcane cataclysm and out from Thorn and Valera for the last time, banners
the Dread Walkers and madness, but not before humans flying, to distant lands far from the reach of men. Those
seized control of Maillon and Bourgund and built arcane who believe the elves marched to war say they fought a
strongholds at Vael Turog and at Bemmea. A strange wise great battle in the Realms Beyond to undo the evils of the
woman named Baba Yaga—long known in the east— wizards of Vael Turog, House Galbrion, and the other
offered her services to the rebellion, calling up fortress diabolists. Others believe that the elves merely prevented
walls overnight, unbinding elven wards, and releasing further summoning, and reestablished the borders of the
demons by the score. Elflands on the far side of Midgard.
The elves sought to limit the damage, but the human During the Great Retreat 482 years ago, the elves
willingness to call on dark powers combined with the withdrew from the mortal world and went back to the
tremendous human advantage in numbers was difficult Elflands. The elves have never explained their decision
to withstand across an empire spread thinly from the to leave the world, and those who question them get no
Western Ocean to the Ruby Sea. The elves soon became answers. They abandoned their empire within a week,
entangled in a hopeless struggle that threatened to corrupt and houses and roads alike stood empty. The elven songs
their hidden lands. The elves feared human contamination stilled, their towers gathered spider webs, and they
of the elven homeland, and for good reason. Demons, stripped courts and halls bare of all readily portable goods.
devils, and horrors could easily walk the fey roads if elven The dwarves and humans stepped in as masters of the
vigilance slipped, or if an elf gave in to darkness. empty realms, but the high civilization of Thorn, Valera,
The records of the period say the fey roads and the Liadmura, and Sephaya was gone. Only the River Court of
Elflands became magically corrupted. The elves who Arbonesse remained as an elven stronghold, closed to all
became the shadow fey threw in their lot with the dark outside contact. The elfmarked were abandoned by their
powers that the mages of Caelmarath summoned and sent parents, forced to make their way in a newly hostile world.
against each other. The shadow elves taught even more Servitor races such as the gnomes and halflings were
foul magic to certain human and tiefling families, such suddenly free of the obligations and protections of their
as House Stross, House Neckart, and House Galbrion, elven overlords. The gnomes fled the elven halls, while the
among others. Their hideous servitor-demons were the halflings found new masters, or at least new friends, in the
shining children of Caelmarath, as well as the elder Dread small human realms.

100 to 86 years ago 85 to 61 years ago 60 to 51 years ago

• 92 years ago, the people of Zobeck cast off • 85 years ago, House Mervanta forms as a • 60 years ago, the Khazzaki of Rhos
the feudal masters of House Stross, declaring vassal of Dornig, consisting of a single tavern Khurgan, the gnomes of Niemheim, and the
Zobeck a Free City. Their patron, the Gear in Salzbach. Duke of Domovogrod ally to quell a centaur
Goddess Rava, helps them create the first • 70 years ago, Domovogrod and Vidim ally bandit king. Afterward, Niemheim’s army
gearforged north of the Middle Sea.90 years to defeat Ulf the Azure King on the plains of turns its crossbows on their Khazzaki allies
ago, a Tintager sea patrol finds Ankeshel Rhos Khurgan. in a great offering to their infernal masters.
ruins. The First Lord of the Coast, Faleron de • 52 years ago, Ra-Amon-Ra, the prophet of
• Exarch Vermes II destroys those responsible
Guimarch, founds Cassadega at the site. the Sun God Aten, is martyred in the Nurian
for the Hakren Affair.
• ~90 years ago, the alliance of shadow fey and • 70 years ago, Khazzaki heroes unite to slay city of Per-Xor by dragonfire. His followers
humans dissolves. Castle Shadowcrag falls continued to expand their faith, throwing
Achaz and destroy the Horned Crown.
into disuse. down the idols of other gods and declaring
Achaz dies but the Crown is hidden by
• ~90 year ago, Perunalia forms an alliance the supremacy of Aten
Siemev the Old.
with Zobeck.
• 66 years ago, Loki steals Menneskelig-dod
(the Azure King’s weapon) from the tsar's
palace and hides it.
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