A brief history of Gelindril The world of Gelindril once belonged to a race of beings calling themselves the Acidian. They ruled the world with dozens of kingdoms holding sway over many cities sprawled across the entire world. Each of these kings answered to one great Acidian Emperor who was the greatest and wisest of all the great kings, and held his power by divine right. The great king was chosen and guided by the four divine deities of their people, the living Avatars of the Gods of the Acidians. The Acidian were not alone however, they shared this world with man, a lower form of sentient life who lived in communities of their own in between the vast tracts of land which the Acidian kingdoms held. Mankind was shunned by the Acidian, and never befriended by them. Mankind attempted many times to befriend the Acidian people, but to no avail. Many generations of hatred built up in the hearts of Mankind after their repeated attempts to befriend their neighbors, and eventually it resulted in a plot. Mankind worked in secret to overthrow the Acidians by striking them at the heart of their very existence. Mankind plotted against and slew the four great deities of the Acidians and framed it on several kingdoms. This sparked a massive civil war which mankind stood idly by to watch and wait for their change to seize power. The uprising which they caused in hopes of seizing control however, ended in a much more cataclysmic climax than was expected, for with the Gods dead and buried beneath the great temples, the power of the Acidians was also dead. Some time into the great civil war which was sparked, the Acidian empire began to break apart and the earth itself began to literally consume the great cities and her people. The entire Acidian civilization was lost, and almost every member of their immortal race was killed in the event which was later named "The Great Descent". Only a precious few remain, and their one goal is to discover what happened and why. The Immortals The Surviving Acidians are known now only as "the Immortals" as they were always and are still immortal, and those not physically killed in the great descent continue to linger on. The great descent occurred over ten thousand years ago, and slowly since then, the surviving Acidian continued to be killed off under various circumstances. Those that remain today are hideously powerful beings that no group of men, let alone single man ... |