The History of Dwilight
The History of Dwilight Project
This project will focus on writing a good description of the History of Dwilight based on several concepts from several players including the banner contest winners. It will mostly be place to discuss and input ideas.
Please try to stay in the rough lines of the currently existing concepts that are being discussed or placed on this page. |
The goal of this project is to eventually write one page with the history of Dwilight that combines all of the discussions and concepts into one article.
First Concept by Devercia, Shenron and Nosferatus Family
In the Times before the Easterners
Dwilight is a land separated from the East. The oceans that surround it have isolated it for many years. However it still contains indigenous people, the Lurians and Dwili or Guntor as they call themselves. The Dwili are a distrustful people. They despise being ruled over, but constantly scheme to do so over others, leading to constant strife among them. Despite this they formed several powerful kingdoms in the past. For thousands of years they feuded over the west and east Islands. The Dwili have considered the southern island cursed since time immemorial. The Lurians are a people that live on the central and southern portion of the western island. Much more affable than the Dwili, the Lurians are hill dwellers, blessed with keen vitality. This becomes evident in their warfare, which is based on hit-and-run, and guerrilla tactics. The Lurians are very artistically inclined. The amiable nature of the Lurians means that leadership and ambition are rare in their culture. The Great Migration
The Dwili and Lurians were not destined to occupy Dwilight alone. Some six centuries ago, apon ships of wood, shuffled forward by the muscle of hardened men, those from the eastern continents began arriving. The first to come settled their families on the north shore of the eastern island. Isolated from the natives, as well as each other, These villages were of little consequence to anyone, but they were a harbinger of what was to come. Three centuries later, a growing inundation of Easterners began to flow into Eastern Dwilight. In the high north, the Easterners were unwelcome by the Dwili, but the Dwili did not have the presence in the pasture lands of the north to resist. Those further south were not so lucky, and became subjugated by the Dwili. Those still further south were met peacefully by the Lurians, but struggled with the Dwili for local power.
It was not until recently that the nations that now rule the eastern and southern islands began to form. In the North, The Easterners constituted a monarchy known as Springdale. South of Springdale, a bloody war of independence, religious zeal, and hatred for the Dwili sparked Morek to distinguish itself. In hills, mountains and badlands to the south, Pian en Luries formulated despite its constant power struggle. On the southern island, the shipwrecked men of Madina made their colony, now a thriving boomtown.
The Kingdom of Springdale
In the north, where the first colonies of the Easterners arrived, the Monarchy of Springdale forged itself a mighty holding on the northern lands of Eastern Dwilight. Its great cities ruled by equally great leaders, such as the Miriel Family. This land of bounty is rich with prosperous farmland and industrious people ready to spread their way of life to the west.
The Order of Morek
South of Springdale,there is a land once torn asunder by Easternmen keen on procuring a decent life and the Dwili that took it for themselves. There, The Celestial Order of Morek has recently ousted the Dwili and rules with an iron grip. The numerous rebellions against the Dwili oppression produced a worthy insurrection, a heavenly one brought on by the Bloodstars and the "Cloudly One" Deverka Cryfdwr. With the knightly orders established under the views of Saguis Astroism, Morek now seeks to make its way to where the Bloodstars shine, where their incorporeal influence drives madness into the Dwili; The "Final Revenge" awaits in the holy lands of the west.
The Kingdom of Pian en Luries
Still further south, in the mountain, hills, and steppes of Pian en Luries lives the culturally rich native Lurians. Pian en Luries is a land divided internally by ethic differences. The political sway of its three peoples is constantly in motion. A gentle sway or a violent shift, both are common place in this land. An Easterner of Casshern, Kaennji Shenron Has been seen of late, A leader of the Lurians, making new waves in this rugged land. As a more peaceable era descends on the people of Pian en Luries, it's attention is now looking outward.
The Republic of Madina
On the southern island, sailors and mutineers fell upon the broken splinters of their vessel. Forced by their fate, they settled on the deserted island under their new captain, Abbot the Acelet. The port town quickly became a trade hub for all of Dwilight, a boomtown known as Madina. Under the leadership of the republic it rapidly expanded to cover the whole island in the south, and the shores beyond. The influx of traders, buccaneers, sailors, smugglers and a multitude of other transients has left Madina with a new need for open land to harbor these men, and their vessels.
