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In the months leading up to Halitus of 651 AD, Lionas, the Prophet of the  
The modern history of the Redwood Provinces began when Lyria and a band of refugees fled a Stavenn-
previously-magickal council of Khandava laid the seeds for what was to become a  
occupied Kinsarmar to the natural shelter of the forest. Bound together by the menace of Imperial
new council. Approached by the Dryad of the corrupted Al'Drym, he met with  
oppression and the mutable light of Moradeim, the refugees found themselves transfigured into the  
Roudimus, a flame-seared treant, who gave him the ability to twist the ground of
first lycaeans who grew close to the uncanny magickal presence within their wood. The combined
the forest. The ground now fertile with demonic taint, the seeds that would grow
populations of the newly-risen lycaeans and the native sylayans lived largely in harmony for
to be the mighty leechtree were sewn. Months passed, and the saplings gave way
centuries within the Khandava, producing citizens who wielded a great affinity for mediation and
to mighty roots as the tree rose above Khandava. It was then that Lionas and his
political endeavors. The protection of Nature was an important duty, along with a close vigil over
lieutenant, Ahkan, planted the final seeds - within the guildhalls of the  
those who would take advantage of its bounty.
Arboreals and Earthsingers. These gave the tree the final strength it required  
to fully corrupt the council, giving way to a new age of Khandavan sovereignty.  
Over half a millennium passed before Khandava found its true path. The Prophet of the time, Lionas
On the 9th day of Halitus, in the summer of 651 AD, the new Khandava was born.
Sol'Anlumaire, was approached by a dryad of the mist-shrouded Al'Drym. She encouraged him to meet
with Roudimus, the flame-seared treant, promising that the old sage would see the council to
greatness. After much counsel and consideration, the Prophet and his most trusted cohorts met with
the treant in secret. Roudimus bestowed upon those gathered the ability to twist the very ground of  
the forest, allowing it to become fertile with demonic energies. The seeds that would grow to be the  
mighty Leechtree were sown in those clandestine moments.
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Months passed in speculation and confusion before the saplings finally erupted from the soil,
surging forth and twisting into mighty roots that would birth a leechwood which stretched far above
the Khandava canopy. It was then that the final seeds were planted within the guildhalls of the  
Arboreals and Earthsingers. These seeds blossomed into writhing labyrinths of roots which consumed
all before them, destroying the guilds and those who resided within, bringing with them the close of
an era. The new growth imbued the demonic leechwood with the strength it required to fully convert
the council. The magick of the forest was drained from the land itself by the ravenous roots, filled
instead with something ancient and unknown, beginning a new age of Khandavan sovereignty. On the 9th  
day of Halitus, in the summer of 651 AD, a new Khandava was born from blood and desecrated loam.
It is upon that day that the first Defiler's thirst for desecration sprang forth, for it was the
roots of the leechwood that pierced the barriers between this world and the Pit, prying open the
cages of fiends trapped there. A Defiler's ability to torment their foes is born of these same
entities, coupled with the burning ire granted by their connection with Sukhder, the Moon of Terror.
The Deadwood now stands in testament to those who wrought it, eagerly practicing arts once shunned
to preserve and protect their beloved Leechtree.


The ranks for Khandava are:
The ranks for Khandava are:
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