The Beginning

In another world there was...

a time known as The Age of Man. The Forgotten races had disappeared several centuries before and as their name suggests much of what they had achieved was no longer remembered. Ruins of these empires stretch across Adune dotting its landscape. Travelers pay them little attention as all that could be scavenged from them has been. Legend has it the Forgotten races kept their most precious secrets hidden away and that those have not yet been found by the dungeon raiders who once prowled the ruins. It is said that the hidden magic of the Forgotten could make a man an emperor and an emperor a god. However, this is just a legend. As the Forgotten faded away human men had built great fortresses and monuments to themselves across the world of Adune. Many great leaders fought with each other for wealth, land, and the power to create their own expansive empire. Of all things, magic was that which could bring power but of magic there was precious little to be found. Many people of Adune possessed some magic but most of it was weak capable only of healing small cuts or charms to ward off vermin. The few that possessed stronger magic, war magic or the great healing magic of the clerics of Ormond, guarded it zealously and withdrew from society or lashed out at it to bend the people to their will. The few scholars who understood what once could have been achieved by magical means considered this age to be one which had fallen into darkness. In this darkness the story of the world of Adune begins.