General World History

Thaloea and Ethinya
Thaloea is a planet opposite that of Ethinya in orbit around the sun. The two worlds are in constant opposition to one another around the center of the sun. Ethinya is the same size, mass, and gravity in general as Thaloea, though there are difference in some general details. No one is quite sure how they ended up opposite one another, as each world has its own creation mythos and deities.

Thaloea Creation Myths
There are a number of myths regarding the creation of Thaloea. The elves believe that the sun is an ember of the former universe death, and that the world is but a bit of ash from that ancient fire still warmed by its large neighbor. Dwarven legend tells of their gods mining the void of space until they broke through to a realm of light and energy that poured forth as the Sun, and the refuse pile of their mining formed the world. Human myth is varied across the entire world.

Ancient History

The Trog City-States

While humans were still huddling in caves and forming crude tools from stone and wood there were great Empires that were forming across the world. The earliest known stone ruins discovered on the surface by non-Outsiders are from the precursors of Troglodytes and Lizardfolk. These ancient reptilians ruled large sections of the surface, though not united as a single nation. Their various city-states fought one another in incessant warfare, succumbing one by one to the magical devastation of war. The last three city states nearly destroyed one another, but their magics reacted badly with each others and caused each of their great cities to be swallowed up by the land. The ancestors of the Lizardfolk took refuge in the boggy swamps that formed around their inundated city, while the Troglodytes disappeared into caverns far below the surface.

The Elven Empire

It would be millennia before the Elven Empire would rise. No evidence of Elves exists from the time of the Trog City-States. Elves seem to emerge on the world stage as a fully developed society in various locations across the world. Elf legend doesn't really speak of the time, as anything that happened before their empire collapsed is now considered legendary even to the Snow Elves.