Entire History Of D&D Lore (FORGOTTEN REALMS)

right so there's this big main god named EO now this guy basically made everything he rules over the other gods and he doesn't get involved in many Affairs unless he asked you one of the things he made was this planet called Eber Terrell where we're going to be talking about the ages and the history of it now at this point in time the planet is just as big a vast ocean it's in an age called the Blue age because it's just one big ocean the planet had a sun there was life in the water of the planet of unfortunately there was a war occurring at the same time and this planet was the playground for it it was between the gods and the primordials to make this as brief as I can the primordials or the dawn Titans were these gods-like beings made of manifest entropy chaotic energy Andro Elemental energy a God was just this deity of the divine power who held this immense power within themselves two types of very strong beings biting each other like annoyed siblings why were they fighting well for the same reason for most wars more dominance and control over territory this fight was known as the dawn War one of the primordials known as dendar the night serpent got so fed up he decided to Devour the sun yup he ate the entire sun went straight down to his bed and they led to the temperature of the planet to go down now abertorel became this big ice Globe which with most of the life on the planet getting killed because of no sun and because there's no sun there is no light there's no heat to cultivate life this led to the end of the blue age and led to the shadow eat for age because there was just darkness despite this the Godzilla primordial still fought for dominance of the system these battles always ended in stalemates where no one was winning until one of the primordials called up touted deceiver obviously got thy name after what he's about to do betrayed the primordials in exchange for some land that they fought over this led to the primordials getting killed and imprisoned and also led to some of them just fully in hide since they've lost and the gods had won now through up Tower's portrayal after this a new son was created giving light to the next age known as the days of the Thunder days of the Thunder began with the majority of the glaciers left by the cooling of the bear Terrell's ocean to melt revealing these big super continents now life bloomed in the form of Creator races and a bunch of other Leicester races now these crater Races they were the long ancestors of some of the current prison beings in DND today there was the saruk which was this reptilian race and the creatures of the Yuan Thai the Naga the lizard folk basically anything that is serpent or sneaky like probably descended from these guys there was a parachi which was this amphibious race which led to bully walks doppelgangers and anything that is amphibious Android can shape-shift descended from this race there was the Arie which were these avian or flying creatures and it led to the arakokoras the cancus anything that was or resembled a flying humanoid there was the Fey which led to Pixies a Sprite and even else hello there and then finally us humans but at this age we're still very primitive almost ape-like dwelling in caves using simple tools now I know what you might be thinking what about the other races like the dwarves the Goblins or the Orcs will get let's focus on three of the four of these created races uh firstly the saruk now the saruku the first crater race to build some sort of structures in this new continent um they founded some Empires across the continent um however eventually some civil analysts occurred between the population and it led to many of them just traveling to different planes to find a new home uh what are planes are basically these different dimensions and the roads of Dungeons and Dragons uh we think about moving to different cities or countries these guys are moving to different dimensions the remaining saruka found the betith which was them studying A Primitive magic and recording it into Scrolls known as nether Scrolls now the Elder Scrolls but the nether Scrolls there were also said to experiment and make a lot of crossbreeds and Abominations of species and release them into the wild one of these was the one Thai which was like this half human half snake thing it basically did anything the saruk could delegate uh think of guards shopkeepers Farmers Wildlife are at the top ruling kind of like this um hedonistic Society almost but the saruk eventually died out um well the ones who own a bear Terrell died out since a lot of them went to different planes or Dimensions but you want Thai basically took the reins of the Empire that was left behind the saruks then came the time of the battery which was these amphibian boys um they came out the water and started moving on to land and dominated the land they even dominate The Dinosaurs so on the land at the time and they eventually Rose to power they easily out competed the Yuan Thai making sure they would never achieve the success that their creators the saruk did however the bharachi had their own unique problem remember when I said that most life was gone during the fights between the gods and the primordials well there were Titans or presently known as the race Giants that dwelled on a bear tutorial these Giants were much stronger versions of the present Giants depicted in present-day d d they were the sons and daughters of Adam or father who was the god of the Giants and the creator of the Giants and managed to survive all these catastrophes that befell the planet since they were so strong and durable they made their own kingdoms but didn't really close much chaos nor did they expand much from where they were given Land by Adam until the bharachi came along and because when there's big civilizations there tends to be big Wars that happen for dominance the bharachi ended up losing against the Giants because they're literally fighting descendants of gods who are Adam old father whose animal father the creator of the Giants and so they needed something to level the playing field or shift it into their favor now remember when I said that primordials lost against the gods between like the blue or Shadow Epoch age and they were killed or ran away or imprisoned by the gods well they were imprisoned on Edward Tyrone so what the bharachi did which was smart was released these primordials and thus begin the war between the gods and Primal use once again the gods obviously made quick work with the primordial since the numbers were quite low and they're very weakened but there was one primordial by the name of asgorath who was this a big dragon he's also known as the super generate her own job a dragon kind meaning a lot of all the Giants basically uh descended from him and he summoned a literal Moon made of ice and crashed it like an asteroid into the planet of a bear torrel when this occurred and the asteroid this basically big ice wound hit the planet of aviatorelle earthquakes fires windstorms they all swept across the planet literally erasing continents a rearranging seas and oceans uh asteroids were hitting other asteroids were hitting the planet many of them having dragon eggs on them and also hatching onto the planet so now you have dragons on the planet the world was basically on its way to be destroyed until if you remember the over God Ayo who doesn't like to um interfere in Affairs decided okay I think it's time for me to step in I said okay separated a bear and Torell and made them separate planets he also made something called the tablets of Fate which kept the Two Worlds separated a bear was for the primordials and Pharrell was for the gods now Tyrell was still a planet with realm space but a bearer roughly its twin was near Turtle but in a different pocket Dimension they did not they didn't share the same orbit the tablets of Fate kept these two planets separate from each other so they wouldn't um collide with each other again and this stopped the fighting between the primordials and the Giants however because of these events it led to a drastic climate change on the planet which led to a very cold period of harsh winter now the baruchi who are more used to a warmer climate could not withstand this climate so some of them decided to leave for a different plane uh most of them were left with a plane of limbo uh some of them just died and a lot of them just went back into the sea where they came from however now when they went back into the sea there were other entities that have involved like tritons and Murphy which led to the Society of the bhatarachi to the Evolve and go back to their basic ways from the crumbles of the bhadrachi Empire came the Airy greater race and I guess it was their turn to make a big civilization they also experimented on a various species specifically on landworms which were basically like wingless dragons but they're but they aren't dragons they made these landworms into wind worms or as we would know them by today Rivers who were a distant relative to dragons but they are not dragons with these creatures they dominated and built up their civilization they however also succumbed since these creatures creatures called Knolls which was this hybrid between a human and a hyena again probably an experiment from one of the crater races which managed to escape survive and reproduce these nulls spread a disease among the Airy and their crops called the wasting plague so they were dealing with this plague but also if you remember the dragon eggs that were hatching on the planet well they hatched and they grew up and they also had a hand in destroying the Aries Empire which led only enough to the end of their empire and that was the end of the Days of Thunder age and the start of my favorite age the Doge age or the age of the Dawn or the time of the Dragons or the time of the Giants there's a lot of names and it just depends on your perspective on how you see the age now not only did the dragons destroy the Eerie Empire they also had these amazing battles with the Giants and to be honest there wasn't really anything that could beat the dragons besides the Giants so their battles were pretty evenly matched and mind you these Giants and dragons are much stronger than any dragon or giant that exists in present-day torrel now remember we are now on Torell and not albertorel now despite the Giants being a good match to the dragons there were a lot of them and they managed to push back the Giants up into the North also during this time the Lesser races like the Primitive humans and the demi-humans like the Knolls the Yuan Thai who are not becoming the slaves of these dragons now many wars and battles happened within the dragons since they all followed different gods and deities um if you remember the guy who made the ice Moon crash into the world as gorath also known as tearful well he had a bunch of followers among the dragons and he was kind of the father of Muhammad and Tiamat which are popular deities in present-day D I say kind of since osgorath was slain and chopped into two pieces one became Bahamut and the other became Tiamat it's also said by Scholars that this is where the early Dragonborn were made uh According to some sources Muhammad gave these draconic blessings humanoids who were willing to fight for him turning them into the early Dragon Wars now while dragons were fighting each other and Dragons were fighting the Giants as well members of smaller human or cases began to call about their own civilizations this was also the time where dragons and Giants also built up Their Kingdoms and civilizations and would also reach the peak of their civilizations in this age now even though the Fey did not get involved in the other ages they decided to get involved now seeing how fast the dragons were growing and how much they were dominating the world they opened the planar Gates and let in the first elves to start to immigrate into Toronto now you might be thinking how the heck did the dragons not end up ruling the rest of history I mean they were fighting the Giants they were taking slaves they're making all these kingdoms across the continent surely nothing could beat them and you're right nothing could beat them and this is what beat them even though small the elves posed a big problem the reason for this is because around the world of Tyrell there was something called the weed which was this powerful layer of raw magic that was floating around and it was governed by the goddess mystery now pretty much a lot of the races could use the magic that they could get from The Weave that was surrounding Toro but they weren't that great and what made the elves very special was that they were born with this natural Affinity to use through the special Pawn that they had with the weave briefly speaking a group of elves got together and because they could use this magic very well and they liked protecting the freedom of themselves and other people and didn't like what the dragons were doing which was basically world domination at this point casted this ritual spell onto the dragons and this was called The Rage of the dragons Now The Rage of the Dragons is very detailed so I'm gonna keep as brief as I can in this video but basically the spell made them very unstable the dragons all over went into this rage uncontrollable rage and they started just killing each other dragons would kill their own families they would kill their own offspring with this inevitably led to the destruction of their own kingdoms no one could beat the dragons except themselves and with that the elves took over and marked the end of the door hinge first flowering which was the next age after the age of dawn the dawn age ended now during this period the elves roamed around the building kingdoms uh they split up into their respective Realms this period was actually quite peaceful since the elves made the light work of the dragons and it was the Elven nature to protect their own freedom and the freedom of others which is why they would cost a spell again which made the dragons unstable to kind of free up more slaves that the dragons held and also kind of keep them away from civilizations at this point human beings were in tribal Barbarian Clans that they would still be considered a lesser race at this point compared to the elves the dragons and the Giants since the horribly built their own major civilization like those races have there were minor battles that happened along this age but for the scope of this video I'm not going to go into detail the the main takeaway I want I wanted to take from this is that this was a very peaceful age compared to the other ages this eventually came to an end and the start of the next age the crown Wars is the reason why this came to an end the crown wars were these series of Wars within the elves and it nearly led to the destruction of their own race um it seems like there's a pattern here of people just ending themselves but there were five primary conflicts um I'm gonna go over this very briefly since they're each very detailed if you want videos on them just let me know down in the comments but the first Crown War basically the sun elves laid claim to a kingdom that was run by Darth and wood elves since they found that they had some sort of a link to the kingdom so they thought it belonged to them and so the sun elves began raiding and going to war against the dark and wood elves of this other Kingdom now in support of this Kingdom that was being attacked this other dark Kingdom came to their aid by attacking the Munos who were the allies of the sun elves which led to the second Crown War happening at the exact same time as the first Crown War other Crown Wars commenced after this but again I'm making this as brief as I can to fit into the video there was also a point in one of the wars where the dark elves started to worship um evil gods and so got banished into the underdark where they eventually became drow of present-day fairun after all of these wars most Elven kingdoms that were built were destroyed and the expansion that they had made had shrunk down drastically this led to the end of this era since the war stopped and to the next era known as the founding time age now the founding time or also known as the age of The Proud peoples was the period right after the end of the crown Wars now during this time dwarves and elves dominated ferroon but also the humans began their first major expansions and would ultimately make their own Realms rather than being nomadic or living in caves like they usually did where did the doors come from well their Origins is actually lost in myth the myth being the dwarves Came From The Heart of the world um back when the world was still a bear Tyrell and not separated there's many theories I'm just outlining one of the popular theories they were given Life by their God moradine who was the dwarf oh Father and made them with this hammer in his soulforge now the dwarves mostly avoided all the conflict since Their Kingdoms were mostly in the mountains or Underground but in this age along with the humans they really began their expansions and Innovations this age was swiftly followed by the age of humanity where us humans really got to shine now the age of humanity there's a lot of minor things that happened in the age of humanity well not minor more like there's a lot of little details which I I again make this brief but essentially a bunch of human Innovation occurred other races being very impressed on how fast humans could build Their Kingdoms and achieve in their short lifespans but towards the end of this age a cataclysmic event occurred causing the next age and perhaps one of the most groundbreaking things to happen now what I'm talking about here is the time of troubles so in this age also known as the era of upheaval it began with something called the time of troubles essentially what this was was AO vanished all the gods on the majority of the Gods down from the upper Plains to Rome in their mortal forms this obviously was bad because the gods would die they could die now because they're Immortals but they also LED AO to choose certain Mortals to ascend to godhood now why did this happen well there are these Gods known as Bane and Marco that plotted to steal the tablets of Fate from the Overgaard ale who's been in Merkel and what are the tablets of Fate well if you remember when I was explaining when a bear and Tyrell was separated Ayo made these tablets called the tablets of eight that made them stay separated now these tablets also were these base basically these powerful stone slabs that serve to balance the forces of Law and chaos and they also like I said before acted like a barrier between the world a bear and Terrell because they're separated now they also contain the name and purpose of every golden and primordial in the universe so like kind of outlining what their job was and who was the god of what basically um now being in Merkel have their own detailed backstories but I'll go over very briefly uh been in America will essentially wants more tools but had Ambitions of Conquering the world and the heavens where the gods are and along with ball so there was the three of them and they were known as the dead three um they formed a team and targeted the god of death gurgle um the god offered to split his power into thirds and distributed among these three they all became Gods but they also still had the ambition to comfort the heavens which is why being and Merkel attempted to take the tablets of fate now the top of the feet are nothing in power relative to AO um but Merkel and Bane don't know this and assume it is very powerful and can stop Ayo so AO the big dog got mad and was like [ __ ] you I made all the gods Mortals to walk around the world he then selected a worthy more tools to become Gods um and to fill the vacant spots that were left by casting the other gods down as Mortals a lot of other things happen during this time as well for example magic became very weird and not responsive since um well since all the gods are basically casted down it was very hard to control the minor things um EO also destroyed the tablets of Fate since he made older gods of Mortals and he was going to make new choose new ones anyway now since the tabs of Fate also acted as a barrier between a bear and Terrell these worlds started to emerge again and that is the very brief history of the origin of the at least the Forgotten realm setting in DND now there's a lot of things I didn't cover and there's probably people are going to be annoyed I didn't cover but again this video was intended for people who are just trying to get into DND and I didn't want it to be too long for a YouTube video if you're interested in a certain a certain event I wasn't covered here let me know and I'll dedicate a video to explaining it further but this is essentially just a big a conglomeration of essentially pretty much everything that's happened um thus far the present day so don't get too mad at me but um that's it for this video thanks for watching

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Published: Tue Jun 27 2023