The world of Eluaria has a rich and detailed history, but some players may prefer to save the mystery to learn firsthand and In-Character. If you were not directed to this text IC, and you would prefer not to see details of the beginnings of Eluaria, turn away now. You have been warned!
The Dark Age of Eluaria
There are two tomes of demonic origin housed in the most restricted sections of the Great Library at Sihirisium that are the only known sources of the history of this very first age of Eluaria, and whether either of those tomes can be trusted is the subject of much debate among the few intellectuals who have been allowed to read them.
The first of these texts is titled the ‘Librum Principium’, which scholars have translated to mean ‘Book of the Beginning’. In this book, it is written that the world was a barren thing of fire and rock, and devils and demons held dominion over all. If the texts within those pages are true, the world was created by entities outside the world itself - gods of ‘malice and malignity’ who cast the demons here to rule over the new-forged world and all that it contained. Some theologians have translated this to mean that Eluaria began as something of a prison world, and that the demons were banished there in an act of punishment, but neither of the books certainly do not document it as such.
The second book, ‘Liber Summitatem Perfectio’ details a ghastly ending to the world by fire and a return to rule by demonkind. Within its ghastly pages are details of a disturbing number of things that have come to pass - the book correctly foretells the coming (and fall) of dragons, elves and fae, and humans, and if translated correctly, might even predict the rise, fall, and rise again of the blood mages.
The contents of both of these books are highly guarded and restricted from all but members of the council at Sihirisium. One of the prophecies in Perfectio states that a ‘mage of the blood’ will ‘steal away with the Liber on a red tide of magic’, and it has been agreed that this must be prevented at all costs. It is protected with a powerful protection spell that will likely kill anyone foolish enough to touch it without first dispelling the ward. There is some discussion as to what, if anything, within the two books can be believed, as they were written by demons for demonkind. Demons conjured and questioned regarding these books have professed The only races definitively documented in either book as existing in the Dark Age were those created by devils and demonkind: goblins, orcs, ogres, and imps, and these were largely used as slaves and food sources. This is not to say that these races are demonic in origins themselves. How they came into being at this time in Eluaria’s history, we may never know.