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akgumby 11-04-07, 10:28 PM	This is the first time that I've been DM and i am a little bit of a perfectionist when it comes to certain things so i decided to come up with my own world complete with a history and even a new race. I just wanted to know if anyone could give me feedback on it. Here's the history so far sorry if its a little long. Amarna, as any world, has always had its conflicts, usually minor ones in between the seven nations of the main land, but there have been a few cases of wars that have engulfed the nations from the East to the West. The world is struggling to recover from one such of these wars. Little over a century ago, the economy was thriving. It was a great period of learning, creation, commerce, and exchange of ideas. Vormĕ and Kaaj were the greatest benefactors of this and many trade towns and cities were built as a result, Eizben thrived on the trade between them.I those days, the Kaaj was ruled and populated primarily by humans while Vormĕ was primarily ruled by the elves. Enos, the leader of Kaaj was, in the beginning, a very upright and intelligent, promising young ruler. As time wore on though, he became twisted. Some at the time said it was due to mental disease brought on by the pressure of ruling while others hinted at darker reasons. Either way, Enos began to crave more wealth, land, and power. He secretly began to build up an army and provisions for a conquest of first, Vormĕ, then all of Amarna. He began recruiting, training generals and officers, requisitioning research of warcraft and weapons, and planting officials and spies into the ranks of Methuu’s ranks.Unbeknownst to Enos, Methuu became aware of this scheme early in its planning. Although this was a time of peace and prosperity, Methuu was a wise ruler and had seen times before this, he knew to be ell guarded and prepared and as a result had placed spies in Kaaj for many years before Enos father had even been conceived.After learning this, Methuu slowly began to withdraw from outposts further out and began strengthening the fortified positions, all the while trying to dissuade Enos and gain the alliance of the other nations. This all culminated into a fairly sudden end to the prosperity, Enos focused entirely on a massive buildup in arms and began the spread of propaganda for recruiting his army. While Methuu gained the alliance of the other nations of the West, Enos contracted the use of the then small Drow forces of Shorn and the unorganized, wild Kauyon of Kirtan and the plains.Enos made the first move, mobilizing the brunt of his forces and sweeping across the mountains of the Moct into Vormĕ. The first of the Western fortifications fell with surprising ease, though a few of the strongholds held. These few were simply ignored though and were bypassed by the tide of soldier s and beasts. This onslaught continued pillaging its way from city to city, region to region, until it reached the Inner Cities. After the first attack, the West was unprepared, underestimating Enos timing and the size of his forces. By the time the army had reached the Inner Cities though, the west had come together and formed a strong defensive amalgam of Dwarven structure, Gnomish mechanisms, and Elven magic. Here, they annihilated the first waves of the attackers with amazingly little casualties. This was also the time that Enos planning paid off. He brought out his greatest weapons of destruction here, made during the time of peace with the unwitting help of many of the races; huge mechanical Titans, obscure objects of untold power, and brilliant strategies of precise timing and placement. These things brought down the towering palisades of the West, inciting massive casualties on both sides.In the end, the east overcame and tore through many of the more populated areas with increasing ease, though gradually depleting his forces. When, after seventy years, Enos, finally had complete dominion over the entirety of civilization, a darkness began to spread from the North, Strange beasts appeared and many odd tales were brought from the region. Enos began to assemble what little there was left for a forcible recovery of the region, resorting to recruiting of mercenary Kauyon forces. This final campaign failed miserably and with the death soon afterward of Enos and a new lack of military presence, the growing underground resistance rose up and asserted the power back into the hands of the nations, killing what remained to the dictators followers. As a result of this period, the Kauyon became a much more ordered race, banding together under a single banner, they took the place of many of the humans now missing from Kaaj. The stream of new happenings eventually slowed as people became more accustomed to them, though there are subtle additions as a result of this, the major being the rare psionic. There are now cases of children born after the introduction of the Rift possessing psionic talent, these come from all nations, races, and classes. Some fear these changes while others choose to ignore them, either way this has marked a new chapter in Amarna, on of reconstruction and reunion, uncertainty and the unknown. It is a new age trying to overcome the past and yet be mindful of its lessons. Much of the commerce has recommenced and new leaders are striking new pacts with one another.
akgumby 11-04-07, 10:37 PM	Sorry, the Kauyon is the new race it is a caste system race working for the greater good (modeled the society after the Tau from Warhammer 40k). Slight feline appearance and different racial mods dependant upon caste. The Mact is a land bridge between the east and west and Eizben is a island nation in between the two.