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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Ithaqua's Founding and the Wrath of Nemesis=== | |||
In the year 420 AA, an expedition composed of [[lycaean|lycaeans]] and [[sylayan|sylayans]] made their way north, led by [[Galt Lyesmith]], to escape the civil unrest caused by war in [[Kinsarmar]] and [[Stavenn]]. After passing through a previously uncharted trail in the [[Reate Forest]], they came upon the dark, black pine barrens of the Ithaquan Forest, which were inhabited by packs of abnormally huge feral wolves, which stalked and picked off members of the expedition, including [[Knut Lyesmith]]. The arboreals in the group decided that the party should seek safety in the trees, and spent many years building platforms and catwalks spanning the branches of the pines. | In the year 420 AA, an expedition composed of [[lycaean|lycaeans]] and [[sylayan|sylayans]] made their way north, led by [[Galt Lyesmith]], to escape the civil unrest caused by war in [[Kinsarmar]] and [[Stavenn]]. After passing through a previously uncharted trail in the [[Reate Forest]], they came upon the dark, black pine barrens of the Ithaquan Forest, which were inhabited by packs of abnormally huge feral wolves, which stalked and picked off members of the expedition, including [[Knut Lyesmith]]. The arboreals in the group decided that the party should seek safety in the trees, and spent many years building platforms and catwalks spanning the branches of the pines. | ||
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Though they had founded Ithaqua together, the two races found themselves pitted against each other in a battle for survival. The lycaeans struck first, calling the elves to a council meeting and then springing an ambush upon them. The nearly feral wolfmen offered the blood of the fallen to Nemesis and then feasted upon their flesh. The elven arboreals that survived decided to conduct a ritual that would cause the forest itself to smite the traitorous lycaeans, but Nemesis intervened, calling the elves out for trying to tip the natural balance of the dark forest in their favor. A great storm, far greater than the blizzard that had previously ravaged their village, was summoned and in its wake, Ithaqua was destroyed and nearly every inhabitant of the village was slain. | Though they had founded Ithaqua together, the two races found themselves pitted against each other in a battle for survival. The lycaeans struck first, calling the elves to a council meeting and then springing an ambush upon them. The nearly feral wolfmen offered the blood of the fallen to Nemesis and then feasted upon their flesh. The elven arboreals that survived decided to conduct a ritual that would cause the forest itself to smite the traitorous lycaeans, but Nemesis intervened, calling the elves out for trying to tip the natural balance of the dark forest in their favor. A great storm, far greater than the blizzard that had previously ravaged their village, was summoned and in its wake, Ithaqua was destroyed and nearly every inhabitant of the village was slain. | ||
The survivors of the Red Maiden's wrath were led by a Noctusari known as [[Birk Bonecaster]], who also led a cult devoted to Nemesis. They gathered the corpses of the fallen and placed them on a great pyre, and Birk uttered a phrase that would still be proudly declared in Ithaqua to this day: "Meat for the pack!" Thus began the village's iconic reverence for cannibalism. | |||
==Landmarks== | ==Landmarks== | ||