(Part 1 of a potential background story):
== The Kitin War: Kitins Advance ==
More than 70 years ago, enraged by a Fyros expedition into the Prime
Roots, the Kitin emerged to swarm the surface of the known homin lands.
Those few homins who were not brutally slaughtered fled into another
region of the Prime Roots, and emerged in a new land.
Hominkind recovered from their refugee flight and established their
presence in these new lands, each race settling in lands similar to
those they left behind. They built forward outposts, and based from
those outposts they tamed the wild new lands and constructed small
villages, towns, and cities.
In reverence to the Kami and the Karavan, and at their request and with
their assistance, homins built magnificent temples to their patron
deities. In short, hominkind had not only recovered from their
devastating losses to the Kitin in the old lands, but they began to
flourish in the new lands.
Inevitably, old feuds began to rise as concerns for every day safety
diminished. Kami followers clashed with Karavan followers.
Civilization clashed with civilization. Scattered small-scale battles
even broke out across the new lands.
That's when the Kitin, biding their time, chose to strike: when homins
were the most comfortable, the most distracted by infighting, and the
least prepared.
After the great swarming, the Kitin did not stop preparing. They were
not satisfied with an overwhelming victory. They knew that if the
homins were able to rebuild their strength, they would lead another
attack on them, just like the Fyros party which attacked them in the
beginning.
The Kitin colonies have been building forces, and mutating new, powerful
species of warriors. This time, they will not just have another
overwhelming victory.
This time, they will wipe hominkind from the face of Atys.
== The Kitin War: Kitins Advance ==
More than 70 years ago, enraged by a Fyros expedition into the Prime
Roots, the Kitin emerged to swarm the surface of the known homin lands.
Those few homins who were not brutally slaughtered fled into another
region of the Prime Roots, and emerged in a new land.
Hominkind recovered from their refugee flight and established their
presence in these new lands, each race settling in lands similar to
those they left behind. They built forward outposts, and based from
those outposts they tamed the wild new lands and constructed small
villages, towns, and cities.
In reverence to the Kami and the Karavan, and at their request and with
their assistance, homins built magnificent temples to their patron
deities. In short, hominkind had not only recovered from their
devastating losses to the Kitin in the old lands, but they began to
flourish in the new lands.
Inevitably, old feuds began to rise as concerns for every day safety
diminished. Kami followers clashed with Karavan followers.
Civilization clashed with civilization. Scattered small-scale battles
even broke out across the new lands.
That's when the Kitin, biding their time, chose to strike: when homins
were the most comfortable, the most distracted by infighting, and the
least prepared.
After the great swarming, the Kitin did not stop preparing. They were
not satisfied with an overwhelming victory. They knew that if the
homins were able to rebuild their strength, they would lead another
attack on them, just like the Fyros party which attacked them in the
beginning.
The Kitin colonies have been building forces, and mutating new, powerful
species of warriors. This time, they will not just have another
overwhelming victory.
This time, they will wipe hominkind from the face of Atys.