Prologue:The Yeri lived for many years at the start of the worlds until one found the power of necromancy. The practice of extracting the life magic of a living person and using it to amplify their own spells was even then considered abhorrent. Yet, the necromancers continued their study. At first, they only used the life of small things - plants, rabbits, mice, to create spells that would benefit the whole Yeri population. Because of the benefits, it was tolerated and highly monitored.. This gradually changed to killing larger and many more creatures for complex spells. For the good of everyone they then took the life of those Yeri already dying or those whose life was forfeit. With this massive amount of magic, they created a dome to protect themselves from the outside. For the greater good millions of lives were sacrificed to create the magical shield large enough to cover several cities and enough farmland in between to sustain them. Yet still they hungered for more.
In the end, they stole the life from each other.
The War of the Old Children lasted more than a lifetime until the Yerians were almost extinct and the remaining survivors had enough power to destroy mountains and create oceans. When there was only a handful left, they called a truce. The remaining Yerians agreed that their time had ended and their world should be given another chance. With the combined power of millions before them, they destroyed what was left of their ruined world and moulded a new one.
Erosea was created from the ashes of the old world after the War of the Old Children. Each surviving Yerian created their own land and filled it with new plants and creatures.
Caewyth, who suggested the truce, created a country green and full of life with a mild climate for her humans to live in comfort. She styled different plants and animals for them to harvest and hunt, some existed simply to be beautiful. The humans revered and worshipped her, creating many temples and statues to honour her. She named her land, The Mainland.
Rokede, who had fought bravely beside Caewyth during the war, created a large desert land next to The Mainland called Waegei. He filled it with rough creatures called dwarves who lived in tunnels deep underground to shelter from the harsh sun. The dwarves were experts at tunnelling, mining and creating things out of stone. After spending so much time deep within the earth, most dwarves are unable to stay on the surface for more than a few hours, and all must wear thick goggles to protect their sensitive eyes.
Rokede and Caewyth came to an agreement, the dwarves would be able to tunnel into The Mainland in return for the trade of materials impossible to grow in the harsh desert of Waegei. The two countries lived in peace.
Elnari saw Caewyth's humans and made some of her own, except her elves were stronger, faster and wiser than their human cousins. Granted vast magical powers, Elnari also gave them the knowledge needed to keep them away from necromancy and repeating the mistakes of the past.
She named her country Essokyri and it was a varied land with warm savannah, wild forests and snow-dusted tundra. Elnari created deep forests for her elves to live in, and they soon withdrew, but they refused to have any contact with the other species in the world. They became wild, living as beasts in the forest. In an attempt to force the elves to interact with other countries Elnari sent some of them south to live in The Mainland with the humans, and Caewyth sent her creations north to live within the forests.
One known as Dracer, who had fought aggressively against all others during the war, decided to build his lands far from any other. The island country he created has no known name. His creations, known as Lisim were full of hatred for the Yeri and had immense power, both magical and physical.
To protect the species of Erosea the other Yerians gathered together and changed the Lisim. Still they kept their strength and hatred, but their skin turned to fire and stone and anything they touched burned under their fingers. Forever were they trapped on their island, for ships cannot be built from stone and the Lisim died if their burning fires went out. Dracer was furious when he found out what the others had done but none had the ability to destroy another.
The other surviving Yerians created their own lands and filled it with people to live there while they watched over it, becoming gods in the eyes of their creations. Amorris, Casion, Tenia, Filuro and Ireial were filled with humans, elves, dwarves, the half-horse athaja, winged seraten and many other peoples each ultimately governed by their own Yerian god.
Some became jealous of the devotion of the creations to their makers. Mayctor, who only survived the war through luck and cowardice, looked upon countries like The Mainland, Casion and Essokyri with envy. His own lands were barren, empty places filled with humans who feared him. He desired praise, yet didn't know how to obtain it from his followers.
Eventually, Mayctor decided to steal a portion of Caewyth's land, but only had time to move it just offshore before he was discovered. To his surprise, Caewyth allowed him to keep the land he'd stolen in exchange for his own dying country far to the north. Mayctor readily agreed to trade his barren wasteland for the island full of life and happy humans. But, as a punishment for stealing from her, Caewyth grew a volcano on the island that erupts every fifty years, meaning only one village can survive there.
To further prevent the mistakes of the past, all of the surviving Yeri agreed to give up most of their powers. They used the remaining magic to weave a spell that created the True Dragons. These beings of pure magic would be bonded to a Dragon Knight who together would guard Erosea from any threat.
To begin with, only four True Dragons were born; fire, earth, wind and water. Together with their knights, they protected the lands, and if a Knight or Dragon died, a new set would be born to replace them. Unbeknownst to the knights, they had also been created for a secondary purpose. No Yeri could kill another, only the combination of each living Dragon Knight, their True Dragons, and the consent of the other Yeri could cause their death. This was the final safeguard to protect the Yeri, considering few trusted each other. Over time, more areas of magic were added to the knights, a mixture of Yerian intervention and the natural evolution of magic caused three distinct types to form; elemental, spiritual and essence. These types of magic contained many different areas of magic, and most people of Erosea are born with the ability to use one.
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