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  And on the Fourth world, the patron Gods kept true to their philosophy and created not one, but innumerable races, in the hope that one of these would prove the strongest and most worth. So they created goblins, trolls, ogres, and not least, [[races:dragons]]. The Gods became known as [[gods:Gnarg|Gnarg, the Patron of Assassins]], [[gods:Ruggilli|Ruggilli, the Consuming Worm]], and [[gods:Ixalovh]].
  
  The races in the four worlds lived on for millenia, and developed, and grew, and all worlds flourished. The eight patron gods believed this was proof that they were right, and the way they lived was the best one, while the two traveling gods rather believed that the success of all the worlds was instead proof of the wisdom and power of their Mother.
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  ====Age of Death====
  
- But at some point things started to go wrong. Angels and demons would start to become priests or scholars or merchants and preach against the war. Dwarves and gnomes would start go grow sedentary and admire the crafts of the past instead of building new ones. Goblinoids would suddenly develop a taste for vegetables and become farmers, while dragons would decide that developing their magics was more important than finding food. But what was wrong was a mistery that would only begin to unfold when the High King of the elves, one day, was devoured by a dragon.
+ But at some point things started to go wrong. Angels and demons would start to become priests or scholars or merchants and preach against the war. Dwarves and gnomes would start go grow sedentary and admire the crafts of the past instead of building new ones. Goblinoids would suddenly develop a taste for vegetables and become farmers, while dragons would decide that developing their magics was more important than finding food. But what was wrong was a mystery that would only begin to unfold when the High King of the elves, one day, was devoured by a dragon.
  
- It was then that the Gods discovered that the worlds were not anymore completely isolated from one another. Someone had, somehow, teached all kinds of creatures how to follow the paths left by the traveling gods - flying creatures would ride the cross-world whirlwinds of the thunder god, and others would learn to tread the strange winding paths of the walking god. And as creatures became aware of different ways, things started to go wrong.
+ It was then that the Gods discovered that the worlds were not anymore completely isolated from one another. Someone had, somehow, taught all kinds of creatures how to follow the paths left by the traveling gods - flying creatures would ride the cross-world whirlwinds of the thunder god, and others would learn to tread the strange winding paths of the walking god. And as creatures became aware of different ways, things started to go wrong.
  
  Promptly, the Gods tried to close all portals - but it was too late. The art of magic was already known in the four worlds, and strong enough to travel between them. And the one peaceful elves were ignited, and declared war on the dragons, goblins and trolls.
  
  While a mighty army of elven warriors crossed over to the Fourth world, dwarves and gnomes found the First world almost deserted and full of wood and metal for the dwarves, and holy, peaceful places for the gnomes.
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  The part of the small peoples who remained on the Second world was faced with new problems when the demons decided they were ripe for tempting (if they could get dwarven builders and gnome sorcerers on their side, the tide of the war would turn). The angels, of course, took upon themselves to protect these strange people from their eternal enemies. So as their attention slowly shifted from the Third world to the Second, soon only the weakest of their kind were in their original world, where they began to fall prey to hungry refugees from the Fourth world, who discovered how tasty angel/demon flesh can be.
  
  And while the Gods were busy trying to even understand this chaos, the dead began to come back.
  
- Their leader was Hagguth, the Elven High King who had been eaten by a dragon. He came back as a powerful spectre, leading a powerful army of ghosts, [[races:wraiths]], skeletons and zombies in a massive attack to the Second and Third worlds. Their goal was to kill as many dwarves, gnomes, angels and demons as possible, to strenghten the number of their own undead host.
+ Their leader was Hagguth, the Elven High King who had been eaten by a dragon. He came back as a powerful spectre, leading a powerful army of ghosts, [[races:wraiths]], skeletons and zombies in a massive attack to the Second and Third worlds. Their goal was to kill as many dwarves, gnomes, angels and demons as possible, to strengthen the number of their own undead host.
  
- And when some elven wizards tried to steal the power of the undead to their own ends, they became the first vampires, lichs and demilichs - half living, half undead, but on the side of Hagguth and his misterious masters.
+ And when some elven wizards tried to steal the power of the undead to their own ends, they became the first vampires, lichs and demilichs - half living, half undead, but on the side of Hagguth and his mysterious masters.
  
  It was only when a group of reasonable elves, dwarves, gnomes and dragons managed to get together and talk, that it became clear who these masters could be. Till this point, everyone was blaming some (any) god other than the one they worshipped. But there was only one, obvious answer: the Banished Gods, the Forgotten Children who left ages ago because they didn't agree with he concept of death, were back, and enacting revenge by subverting death itself. In later days, these Gods would become collectively known as the [[gods:Devourers]].
  
  Knowing the enemy was not the solution to the war, but was a start. This group, slowly, was able to form a resistence against the undead armies, and gradually turn other people to their side. Finally, after 23 hundred years, they managed to break into the horrible fortress Hagguth had built in the First world and kill (again) the undead king.
  
  The chaos began to gradually settle down after that. But then the survivors were faced with a new problem: almost nobody was interested in reverting to the way things used to be.
  
- Yes. Entire villages of elves were settled in corners of the Fourth world for many generations, and dwarven guilds had business troughout the worlds.
+ Yes. Entire villages of elves were settled in corners of the Fourth world for many generations, and dwarven guilds had business throughout the worlds.
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  ====The Big World====
  
  So Gaea, in Her wisdom, gave the only possible solution to the problem. SHE took the four worlds in Her hand, and crushed them together. Then SHE looked at the single world she created, and at the creatures of Her children, and decided to again, after millions of years, create Her own followers. Thus SHE created the [[races:humans]], a young race eager to explore and chart this young world.
  
  It took generations for the inhabitants of the resulting world to figure out its geography and for families to reunite; when this finally happened, the stories about four different worlds becoming one were already legends not everybody believed. But still, for some reason, everyone agrees to call this world - the only one they know - [[Bigworld]].
  
   --- //[[user:lalomartins|Lalo Martins]] at some point in 2003 or whereabouts//


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