History is Prologue

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History is Prologue

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5,000 Years Ago

Clouds part as those who would later be hailed god descend in an airship of silver. Straddling the horizon, casting shadows over the hilly and gorge-stricken land below, rippling air with alien exhaust, the gigantic vessel hovers.

The bottom of the ship irises open, disgorging gargantuan worm creatures that fall to the earth. They land with reverberating thuds, apparently unharmed, and begin to bore and tunnel into the earth and stone below.

The ship rises into the starry skies.
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The bodies undulate, rotate, bore. Mouths within mouths within mouths iris open. A kaleidoscope of teeth existing in and out of dimension swallow, spit, secrete, shoot.

Hard earth swept aside. Rock crunched subsumed ingested sluiced spit. A warren of passageways form deep in the earth.

The nesting begins.

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4,500 Years Ago

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1,000 years Ago

Colony of troglodytes settle into caves, led the shamans claiming the Great Old God dwells there.

700 years ago

Cave floor collapses revealing strange glowing trapezohedron crystals. Gate opens to nightmare realm. Troglodytes die from disease.

500 years ago

Creatures of the underworld slowly populate the caves, controlled for the most part by Mind Flayers.

300 years ago

Mind Flayers retreat to the deepest level for unknown reasons.

100 years ago

Humans attempt to settle the lands above and around the caves. Slaughtered by monster humanoids.

50 years ago

Neighboring kingdom established fort in bordering region. Repels monsters, but makes little headway in making region safe for humans. The fort is slowly expanded into a castle.

5 Years Ago

Castellan takes command of the keep on the borderland. Marked decrease in monster activity but the Caves of Chaos and immediate environs remain problematic. Adventurers from beyond the Borderlands are invited to help rid the region of monsters.

4 years ago

Metzner the Wise becomes counselor to Castellan to assist after an increase in monster raids.

3 years ago

Among the many adventurers to arrive this year are Fingal the thief, Niles the young knight, Wulfhart the northern warrior, Boddin the hobbit, Albertus cleric of Cuthbert, Bayard cleric of Trithereon, Foracor and Luna the elves. Many die, new heroes join.

2 years ago

These Borderland adventurers disappear. Assumed to have gone missing in the Caves of Chaos, like so many others.

1 year ago

Castellan killed by poison from shapeshifter assassin. Metzner the Wise assumes command of the Keep. Tayne Tsaridian becomes advisor to Metzner.

Present

North over the border of the Borderlands, the Adventurers search for the missing children of Schwartzon village.

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