[Ego Archive]

Yrth-B

The Bane Worked as designed, pulling an army across the dimensions from Gabrook to Yrth to fight the Orcish scourge. The Fires never happened, and the Ytarrian Forest still exists, and Yrth is still a mostly High mana realm, but not everything went as the Defenders had anticipated.

The Bane Gate pulled through a vast army of Lizardmen, and their Dragon Mounts, who began to immeadiately attack any races they encountered. This usually meant full on battles with the Orcs that were predomintly in this area, however Skirmishes with the Elves and Dwarves were not unheard of. The Dwarves learned what had occured, and immediately declared war on the Defenders sect, eventually under the continued onslaught of the Dwarves and occasional lizardman attacks, the "Dark Elves" drew south east farther into thier forests.

The Bane gate however, did not just pull through the Lizardman army, but it also pulled through a few unfortunate Goblin and Kobold Villages. The Goblins immediatly banded together and traveled south to the lower reaches of the Djinn Desert. The Kobolds scrurried to hide in the mountain ranges to the north and south of the western edge of the Ytarrian Forest.

The Lizardmen pushed the Orc armies North into the stretch of land above Zarak, and began a long occupation of the desert and plains areas along the western seaboard of Ytarria. Eventually the Orcs pushed East into the wild reaches of the "Nomad Lands" area.

The Gnomes of Ytarria, were largely unaffected by the arrival of the Lizardmen, choosing to migrate east away from the constant battles of the western continents.

The lack of the Banestorm allowed the Sea Elves to progress unhindered, and now they have magnificent undersea cities, with vast resources. They generally rule the oceans with an iron fist, and charge any ships a tariff for travelling through their domains.

The Ytarrian Dragons are an entirely different creature than the "Dragon Mounts" that the lizardmen brought through the "Bane Gate" with them. The Ytarrian Dragons are much larger on average, and of course are very intelligent, unlike the bestial mounts. Several Dragons currently maintain kingdoms of thier own in and around the Whitehood Mountains regions.

Obviously the Complete lack of Humans on this Parallel, has made investigating this realm very difficult. Currently there are no off-world operations being conducted, at least not officially. However it does appear that the Elves may have continued to experiment with the Gate magics, as rumors have surfaced that they have a interdimensional nexus point, called the Hall of arches.