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− | ''While Sanctuary is a melting pot of many cultures from many distinct dimensions it has become a homogenous world over the many millennia. With each new arrival the world would shift, envelop, and change. In fact, it is only our heroes, fresh from their native worlds that are able to identify any distinct element of Sanctuary’s native races and traditions. Yet common cultural tendencies became strengthened as like sought like. Sanctuary today is both familiar and completely new; a stone soup of influence, invasion, and adaptation. Let us review how this fascinating world slowly simmered and matured. <includeonly>[[History Timeline: Stone Soup|Read More ..]]</includeonly><noinclude> [[Category:Lore]][[Category:Native Sub-Race]]
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− | =4000 Years Ago=
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− | ;Earliest Time
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− | :[[Cimmerian| Cimmerians]] a human race, the [[Daeves]] an Aelfeyn race, and [[Fomorian]]s a Hoggur race, are already in Sanctuary
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− | :The [[Children of the Forest]] (Daoine Sídhe) arrive or are native to Sanctuary. Their bloodline would create both witches and cat-based lycanthropy.
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− | :[[Titans|Atlanteans]] arrived to settle on Thule, Cuiveinen’s eastern island off the coast of Raeyithia.
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− | ;Over the course of the next few centuries
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− | :Half-human/half-animal sub-races such as Fauns/Satyrs, Merfolk, Centaurs, Harpies, Sphinx, Chimera, and Minotaurs would evolve on Thule.
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− | :The [[Nemed]], a slavic and eastern germanic human race, would arrive and claim most of the kingdom of Kraestrat.
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− | :The [[Rhoynar]], a dark skinned people from the far southern continent below the mainland would move into Andus.
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− | =3000 Year Ago=
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− | ;1000 years before the rise of the Thorn King three new races of Aelfeyn Arrive
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− | : Into the Northeast, [[Alfar]] and [[Jotunn]] arrive, bringing wolf and ursine lycanthropy to eastern humans.
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− | : Into the Northwest, [[Noldorian]]s, [[Dúnedain]] and [[Orc|Orcs]] would arrive.
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− | : Into Raeyithia, the [[Tuatha De Danann]] would arrive with a legion of [[Goblins |Goblins]] and fight with the [[Fomorian]]s, a [[Hoggur]] race. The [[Fomorian]]s would be driven north and many of [[Children of the Forest]] (Daoine Sídhe) would be driven our of their mounds and to all four corners of the mainland, even south, where they would interbreed with the [[Rhoynar]].
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− | : The [[Nemed|Nemeds]] would inter-breed with a particular clan of [[Fomorians]] and a dark dwarven race called the [[Duergar]] would be formed.
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− | ;A number of generations after the arrival of the [[Alfar]]
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− | :Interbreeding of [[Alfar]] and [[Jotunn]] would create a race known as the [[Trow]].
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− | :The [[Titans|Atlanteans]] would arrive on the shores of Andus and enslave the Rhoynar they find there. A half-human/half-hoggur race known as the [[Euresu]] would develop.
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− | :The [[Alfar]] race would divide, those of dark nature, the [[Drokkalfar]] would stay in Kraestret feeling more at home with the [[Nemed]] and the [[Ljósálfar]] heading into Midrvegr.
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− | ;500 years after the Aelfeyn
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− | : A new human race, known as the [[Rohirrim]] would arrive along the southern coast of Midrvegr and find a shared culture alongside the Alfar.
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− | :The [[Tuatha De Danann]] (The Gentry) would force even more of [[Children of the Forest]] (Daoine Sídhe) out of Raeyithia and into the deep underground. [[Underhill]] would form.
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− | :[[Children of the Forest]] (Daoine Sídhe) who remain among the [[Tuatha De Danann]] evolve into what would become the [[Muiri]]
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− | :The [[Tuatha De Danann]] (The Gentry) would move above ground and establish the city of Tarasinau.
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− | :The [[Tuatha De Danann]] would be renamed as “The Gentry” and those [[Children of the Forest]] (Daoine Sídhe) who stayed above ground would become second-class citizens to the new ruling class.
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− | : The [[Nemed]] would inter-breed again with the [[Drokkalfar]] and the half-Aelfyn race of [[Svartalmane]] would create.
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− | ;200 years before the rise of the Thorn King
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− | :The [[Andal|Andals]] arrive in such a large mass that they push into every corner of the mainland and truely begin to establish the cities as we know them now.
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− | : The half-breed races of [[Jot]] and [[Alfarian]] would come into being in the lands of Midrvegr.
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− | : The [[Vampir]] race would be created by the magical workings of the [[Svartalmane]].
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− | =2000 Years Ago=
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− | ; [[Time Line|The Era of the Thorn King]] lasts 2000 years
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− | : The Thorn King comes into power
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− | : During the age of the Thorn King, scholars postulated quite strongly that the [[Aelfeyn]] and the [[Muiri]] were not natural beings but were in fact demons summoned to the mortal plane to wreck unholy destruction upon the good works done in the name of The Thorn King, a mostly human God
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− | : The blended half-Hoggur race of the [[Frem]] and the half-elven race of [[Peredhil]] would come into existence as a product of interracial marriage.
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− | : [[Aelfeyn]] would retreat, with their magic and gold, deep into the forests of Raeyithia, Kraestret and Midrvegr.
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− | : The prejudice of the Thorn King followers would force the [[Hoggur]] to adapt and crossbreed, becoming more human-like and human-sized. Family generations might tell tales of their Dwarven, Giant or Troll origins, but those that wanted to survive the racial purges kept their history to themselves.
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− | : The [[Muiri]] develop; smaller, smarter, and skilled in glamour. They manage to hide among the humans, still as second class citizens, and take human mates (An act of survival or revenge?) The human population would name them demons and changelings, hunting them down never realizing how may lived as their cooks and footmen.
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− | =Current Age=
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− | ; Recently
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− | : Power of the Thorn King is broken.
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− | : The origin races emerge from hiding. Some never recover from the destruction to their culture, devolving into what would be called ferals. Some would simply never forgive their cousins for “selling out” and interbreeding with the Thorn King Humans. Others would be forgiving and embrace those who changed as a people forced to survive by any means necessary.
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