THE HISTORY

A Brief Synopsis…

In the begin­ning, the world was with­out form and like raw clay was mold­ed into the ear­ly stages of the world that we know as Ann­mar.  Leg­end has it that five pow­er­ful gods came and gave life to Ann­mar. They formed all the var­i­ous species into exis­tence and watched over them for thou­sands of years. Their influ­ence pushed the world towards peace and pros­per­i­ty. Each god brought its own unique influ­ence such as wis­dom, tran­quil­i­ty and love, des­tiny, mag­ic, and even war and destruc­tion to help bring bal­ance to the world. These five Gods inhab­it­ed dif­fer­ent parts of the world and helped to shape it in all that was good. How­ev­er, the world was nev­er with­out evil. It was always there, lurk­ing in the shad­ows, push­ing the inhab­i­tants to do cru­el and unspeak­able things. It proved that the utopia the five gods had cre­at­ed was noth­ing more than a myth. For thou­sands of years, these five god’s worked in har­mo­ny to make the world perfect.

Final­ly, one of these gods rebelled against the oth­er four. He sought total domin­ion over every species and inhab­i­tant of the world. For his sole pur­pose was to be the one true god that ruled over every­thing. War raged among these five gods until only two were left in exis­tence. The god of war and destruc­tion and the god of tran­quil­i­ty and love. The war over the land was bru­tal. Many inno­cents would die from the pow­er of the gods, also known as mag­ic.  For it was mag­ic that would become syn­ony­mous with evil. The god of tran­quil­i­ty and love would even­tu­al­ly be vic­to­ri­ous, but the dam­age had been too great. Mankind along with oth­er races such as elves, dwarves, halflings, and gnomes, which had been cre­at­ed along­side mankind to bring har­mo­ny to the world, rebelled against their cre­ators. The pow­er of the five gods was seen as too great for them to have and it was the cause of too many atroc­i­ties through­out the land.

Togeth­er, all races rose up and killed the last god. It was this cat­a­clysmic event that reshaped the mod­ern world. Land that had once been con­nect­ed was now sep­a­rat­ed by mas­sive oceans. Mag­ic, which had once been preva­lent in the world, dis­ap­peared. Dif­fer­ent races that had once only been sep­a­rat­ed by short dis­tances were pushed to the far­thest reach­es of the world. New home­lands had to be found. Small king­doms rose up and warred with one anoth­er. The cen­ter of exis­tence, now became known as Ann­mar.  It was the last of the con­nect­ed land where dif­fer­ent races could live and some­what coex­ist even through cau­tious sus­pi­cion. All knowl­edge of the world before lived only in myth and sto­ries that were passed down from gen­er­a­tion to gen­er­a­tion. With no record­ed his­to­ry, mankind did not know what to believe any­more and thus began the first age. It was known as the Dark Age of Ann­mar.  Only the return of mag­ic would bring Ann­mar out of the dark age. These are her record­ed his­to­ries and leg­ends.  They have become known as the Ann­mar Chronicles.

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ABOUT THE THREE AGES OF ANNMAR

THE FIRST AGE: The Age of Mag­ic                                                                  

This is the first age after the fall of the last god.  It is con­sid­ered the dark ages, at least for the first hun­dred years.  How­ev­er, this is the age where mag­ic comes back into the world.  Mag­ic is con­sid­ered to be the pow­er of the gods and was lost to the world after the fall of the last god.  It will return through five cho­sen peo­ple among the var­i­ous races in Ann­mar. Mag­ic will reshape the world for the good of all the races, but there are those who see it as pure evil and will do any­thing to rid the world of mag­ic or con­trol it for them­selves.  The First Age will see the rise and fall of mag­ic lead­ing to the great purge and the birth of monsters.

THE SECOND AGE: The Age of Empires and Monsters

This is the Age that gives rise to one of the great­est empires the world has ever seen and the mon­sters pro­duced from the sec­ond War of Mag­ic that end­ed the First Age.  After the great purge of mag­ic users from Ann­mar, the great war pro­duced myth­i­cal crea­tures known as Mon­sters.  They coex­ist­ed with the var­i­ous races and the Anntheian Empire that ruled Ann­mar. New races are intro­duced in Ann­mar.  The world will also quadru­ple in size as the Anntheian Empire extends its con­trol over the known world.  This Age will see the ongo­ing war to com­bat the mon­sters who wreak hav­oc over Ann­mar and the great­est empire start to crum­ble from with­in. This will also be the Age of rebellion.

THE THIRD AGE: The Age of Men, Mon­sters, and Magic

This is the Age where old empires will crum­ble and Ann­mar will revert back to small king­doms.  Mag­ic will come back into the world of Ann­mar stronger than ever.  A new gen­er­a­tion of mag­ic users will rise up and help bal­ance the world with mon­sters and now drag­ons.  Ann­mar will be very dif­fer­ent with­out the Anntheian Empire in con­trol, but it is very much the same. New tyrants will rise up and try to con­trol Ann­mar.  New wars will be fought.  In Addi­tion, an ancient evil will return stronger than ever to try a enslave the many races and mag­ic users of Ann­mar, which will lead to anoth­er great war. How­ev­er, this will be the Age where men, mag­ic, and mon­sters find har­mo­ny with one another.