A Brief History Of Araleah.

A Brief History Of Araleah.

Part 1
At the dawn of time there was an all powerful entity. The entity existed on a planet covered entirely in water. The Entity walked on the water covered planet for 1000s of years and one day wanted to change it. With great effort the entity made a land mass that was ¼th the size of the surface of the planet. This almost destroyed it. The entity was not happy with the outcome so it flew up in to the atmosphere and stared down at the land mass for 2145 years. As it stared down each minute made it angrier. Suddenly the entity rushed toward the mass, at the speed of light, and broke it apart. In the impact the entity’s current form was destroyed. The entity broke in to pieces and the peaces formed many things including races as we know them now, magic, metal, dragons and all things that form the world as it is. The entity was never whole again. This entity had also formed gods. The gods were directly from the broken shards of the mind of the entity. Thus the reason gods are driven by one simplistic driving force or concept. 

The races of the land survived and built cities and towns. They served there gods and tried to do the biding of the gods. The gods were so focused on their purpose that they often caused the beings of the world to go to war. There were three major wars. There were so many minor wars that they could not even be counted. The original entity was made of pure good and evil. When the entity was broken up the good and evil that evolved in to the races of the land was mixed together. Some was mixed with more evil than good and some with more good than evil.

Part 2
The entities destruction is known as the “Annihilation Birth”. There have been 5 ages since the Annihilation Birth. The first age was named for the first weapons that were born of magic, The Crystal age. The second age was named for the religious battles that took place, The Faith Age. The third age was called The Reunification Age. The fourth age was named for the massive battle the shook the foundation of existence, The Age of the Scar. The current and fifth age has not been named yet. An age lasts 1000 years. It has been 4234 years since the Annihilation Birth. 
The Annihilation Birth created all things, Including evil and good. All things have some of both in them. It is thought by philosophers and profits that there are some rare things with only good and only evil in their makeup. One such legend that supports this myth is the legend of Gormack the Destroyer. It is known that Gormack created the Doom Hammer in the Age of the Scar. It is also known that seers and other dream travelers have never survived looking in to Gormacks mind. The one seer that was able to speak during an attempt to see in to its mind was able to say the word “Pure” then died. It is not known if the hammer was destroyed in the battle or if it still exists, but Gormack fell in the battle very quickly when it lost the hammer. Some believe it placed its very essence in to the crystal hammer to create it, weakening its earthly body. Others think it was only half of his pure evil essence. Regardless the hammer might still be calling to other evil in the world… wanting to be found.

Part 3
The Coramear Knights were formed during the Doom Hammer War by the kingdom of Darnath . The land of Coramear is primarily Elf, Half- Elf, Human and Orc(Crag Tops are one of the few pure Orc tribes that are nonaggressive to other races) hence there is a large amount of Half-Orc in Coramear. 
The king of the land thought that the battle was going to need not just the simple fighting forces of the past but an elite fighting force to go in and complete special missions. One such mission was “the hunt for Gormack the Destroyer”. They were tasked with finding and killing Gormack. The Coramear Knights were given the most powerful magic items known in the land, including the three Dragons Eye Gems. Part of their training was taming and breaking Tiger Dragons to be used as mounts. 
The dark tower of Gormack the Destroyer was in the south of Avguard. The bulk of Gormack’s armies were still in the area of the tower waiting to be deployed. The knights thought they would have to sneak by them to try to get directly to Gormack. When the knights arrived there they found that Gormack had killed everything surrounding the tower and all of its remaining armies. The knights entered the tower and some went mad just from being there. The knights did not find Gormack. Instead they found a book; the book detailed the method to make the Doom Hammer. Part of the book called for the blood of 50,000 to be used in the making of the hammer. Upon inspection of the main chamber they discovered the hammer was forged. Gormack was already on his way toward the gates of the abyssal plane. The armies gathered in what was called the “Meekla” a massive forest with thick magical power. Meekla was where the scar is now. The forest was the home of several tribes of Eladrin, Dragons, and Elves. When Gormack the Destroyer arrived the armies of the nearby nations gathered and fought bravely and died in mass. The Green dragon of the area was evil, as all green dragons are, but he did not want to lose his home ether so he joined the armies in the fight. The grate green realized this was going to take a measure of enormous effort to kill Gormack the Destroyer. In order to achieve this; the great green slammed himself in to the hammer ripping it from Gormacks hand. When the Coramear knights witnessed this they struck Gormack as hard as they could. Gormack fell to the armies and the great green dragon and the Doom Hammer were never seen again. The Knights of Coramear have used the Tiger Dragons to this day. Currently the riders and Tiger Dragons number in the 100s. Some of the original riders still live, some are in hiding, and others have since passed on.