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This section of the timeline contains one of the more poetic passages about an event that fundamentally altered Gurutama’s progression.
Unfortunately, my new philosophy of removing such flowery passages continues. The passage will be retained in the Original Timeline page and I will also attempt to work it into later posts about the religions and cultures of Gurutama.
So let’s get into the dawning of the modern age of Gurutama, The Najar Ascension (Or for the enlightened, the Navillus Ascension).
1 NA: On the summer solstice an earthquake shook the entire world of Gurutama. People across the world suffered terrible nightmares and saw horrifying prophetic visions. The volcanic peak at the heart of the Red Mountains came alive belching dark smoke into the heavens. The leaders of the scattered human communities gathered to pay homage to what had come. They crept through hollowed out caverns to the core of the volcano. There they watched in terrified silence as an impossible being arose from the writhing magma. These humbled men witnessed the world-birth of the Soul Drinker, Navillus the Demon God, The Black Prince of Gorgoth, the whirling realm of malice, chaos, and unkempt cruelty.
In the blackness beneath the shuddering mountain he spoke to them. He offered them dark secrets of power and control over all the mortal realm… for a price. All but one of the human chieftains swore themselves to the Black Prince. The barbarian king, Bwolark Bwolo, the sovereign of the Skull-Dog clan, turned his back on the Soul Drinker, proclaiming that the Skull-Dogs honored no being above the legacy of their fathers and their fathers’ fathers.
3 NA: The Kenracktopar sensed the demon’s entrance into the world through a slight pull on their rings. Dwarven scouts traveled out to the human lands. Only a few returned, reporting cruel barbarism beyond even the descriptions of the Books of Legend. Something went wrong with this cycle of the world. Navillus broke into the world from the outside, so the cycle was broken. The Books held no information on how to stop this abomination. The dwarves improvised a plan. They would unite the other races of the land against the Demon Prince.
12 NA: The sacrilege of mighty Bwolark was short lived. He rallied other lesser clans whose heroes had been unfit to bear audience to the birth of Navillus. The ensuing civil war ravaged the Valley beneath the Red Peaks. Empowered by their new patron, fanaticism swept through the rest of humankind and they broke like waves on the armies of Bwolark, driving him back from the mountains and into the sea. At last Bwolark the Unbent gathered his people and sailed out into the Maw to settle on the islands therein.
30 NA: Shattered by the civil war that purified the Valley beneath the Red Peaks, humankind reforged itself in the fires of Navillus. By his blessing the Brotherhood of the Living Immolation was formed to spread his word and lead the scattered clans into a new age. By their work and his word, humanity was recast into a unified force: the Najar, an empire destined to rule the world. The old chiefs that had witnessed the world-birth took control of the new empire and founded the Quintet, five magnificent cities, to share and balance power: the Holy City of Najar, the twin ports of Alixria and Alrdia, the fortress city of Syluk in the western mountains, and Farpoint in the shadow of Mount Solorum.
34 NA: After meticulously preparing themselves for war the finest men and women of the dwarven clans gathered at Golden Mach. There they were sent on ships to Drolfo’s Cove and then Rontu-Aru. If the avians and merfolk could unite against the Living Immolation, then hope still remained.
-Mister Ed
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