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The modern history of the Redwood Provinces began when Lyria and a band of refugees fled a Stavenn- | |||
occupied Kinsarmar to the natural shelter of the forest. Bound together by the menace of Imperial | |||
oppression and the mutable light of Moradeim, the refugees found themselves transfigured into the | |||
Roudimus, | first lycaeans who grew close to the uncanny magickal presence within their wood. The combined | ||
the forest | populations of the newly-risen lycaeans and the native sylayans lived largely in harmony for | ||
to be the mighty | centuries within the Khandava, producing citizens who wielded a great affinity for mediation and | ||
political endeavors. The protection of Nature was an important duty, along with a close vigil over | |||
those who would take advantage of its bounty. | |||
Arboreals and Earthsingers. These | |||
to fully | 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, | 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: | ||