HUMAN2

Human rebels, now experienced wilderness experts, continued the fight against
Miruvhor for many years. They built and used their great underground fortress,
Myran Dammel, as a base and raided the city-state. The Miruvhorian retribution
was terrible. The Miruvhorian army demolished the southern outskirts, rounding
up or killing all living there. Those that lived were sent to an eastern island,
thereafter named Exile. Those that died rose from their graves and the area
became the Haunted Grove. Those that escaped founded a new hidden village,
named Kashangal. Myran Dammel itself was discovered and sacked. All those that
had lived there were turned into undead abominations. Miruvhor had now entered
into a new age.
 
With war raging and death reigning in the east, Seringale was still expanding
rapidly in the west, blessed by the favor of the deities of Light, namely
Palison. Food was cultivated in the rich pastures of the south in a place called
Ofcol, and carried to Seringale by caravans through Drkshtyre Wood. This route
was historically dangerous until the Kaddar fae were pushed out of the forest
and into the Escimir E'gal. Humans also plundered their own shipments. Pirates
based near Drkshtyre Wood still today loot the Eridani and raid caravans. At
their height, their influence extended all the way onto the Dragon Teeth road.
Another access to the sea, free from pirates, was found to the north via the
Ishtar River. Falen Dara was the city that flourished around it. It was the
headquarters of the small anti-piracy organization that quickly matured into
the Justice cabal.
 
With the founding of Ofcol and Falen Dara, along with the stabilization of the
east under a new Miruvhorian command, the human world was split down the middle
between the Light and the Dark. When the Miruvhorian Dragon Teeth Road finally
hit Seringale territory, conflict was inevitable. Yet, the war was to be
delayed. A man named Cormac found a diplomatic solution and was subsequently
catapulted to great fame, eventually being crowned the human king of all
Aabahran. Cormac set his administration up in Seringale, renaming his capital
Val Miran. The world entered into a brief golden age. His reign was not to be
forever, however, and when he was assassinated by agents of the Conclave, a
brief scare of a second Bloodletting ensured.
 
Although the second Bloodletting was avoided by Raght and Alexander by removing
morality from the law, the humans and their allies found themselves factioning.
Ofcol, Falen Dara, and Gasteride's war-time fortress declared independence,
while the halflings sheltered within Val Miran's crumbling walls left to found
their own hamlet. The bulk of Cormac's army left the city and camped in the
recently formed Great Chasm, aligning with the garrison there and taking up
the name the Knights of the Crown in their quest to reestablish the golden age
of Cormac. 
 
In the east, S'handor and other Miruvhorian vassal states were lost and sacked
by forces of Darkness led by Virigoth. The last remaining Miruvhorian resistance
village, Kashangal, was wholly corrupted by demons, but left standing.
 
It was during this time that the first age of the cabals arose. The fighting
was terrible, but most of it took place outside of the human city-states. The
exception was the Justice cabal, which was devoted to the protection of the
human cities of Val Miran, Falen Dara, and Miruvhor. When Justice betrayed the
city-states and worked with the criminal organization the Conclave to release
the shades, chaos gripped the world again as Val Miran struggled to remove its
darker population. During this time, Falen Dara was abandoned by Justice,
completely sacked, and in time was reclaimed by the slith.
 
While the invasion of the shades raged on, Miruvhor saw fully half of its
remaining population emigrate to the other side of the Great Wall, where they
founded Maelbrim and were soon joined by a considerable number of Val Miran
refugees. From the union of these two peoples Maelbrim rose. Finally, a
multiracial band of heroes put an end to the invasion of the shades and
humanity, along with the rest of the world, was at peace once more. Maelbrim
soon declared full neutrality and became a major trading power, responsible
for the reconnection of the world.
 
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