A Brief History of Ranos

The Free Brothers

Ohaos the First Man

Xigdia the Blade of Beauty

Stroureg the Foul

The Mihan(The First Men)

The Rennegians

The Naesite Dynasty

Beastiary

The earliest Race to make Ranos its home were the Gnomes. They learned to live in small nomadic homes to be constantly on the move from predators. Soon after Gnomes inhabited nearly ever corner of Ranos and adapted to the harsh land. Traces of early Gnomish tools and carvings can be found in nearly every cave of Ranos. The coming of Orcs from the Southern wastes changed everything unfortunately.

The Orcs marched thier army in search of new lands to conquest from the South, with no actual kingdoms or armies the Gnomes were hunted and kept as livestock by Orcs for years thereafter. The surviving members retreated deep underground becoming what is known as Deep Gnomes today. Gnomes then took on a role in Orcish culture as slaves and cattle until the coming of the first men.

The first men to come to Ranos are from the further northern continents. It was then that Mihanos Teravithean built the eldest city Yaamit. It is said the towers of Yaamit scared all the Orcs far back into the south. Mihanos led a campaign after them at the behest of his daughter Emylia known now as the daughter of Mihan. It is said that Emylia felt such love and pity for the Gnomes that no soldier could deny her campaign for vengeance. In the earliest days women were granted ranks such as knight, and were even allotted to lead men in battle. Mihanos and Emylia flew south bringing death to every orc between Yaamit and the very southern wastes themselves bringing the Gnomes back with them north. Under the rule of the sons and daughters of Mihanos the kingdom of men experienced great prosperity.

It wasn't till nearly 100 years later that the dragons came from the south of Naesite lead by Sheargoth. The city of Yaamit was scorched out of existence and men were nearly shattered in the onslaught of the Dragons. It wasn't until the appearance of the lords of Wyvern and the founding of Caer Sudre and the first Dragoon men that the tides of battle changed. Under the purple banner the kingdom of Mihan and the Dragoons vanquished the Dragon King Sheargoth The Defiler himself. What was left of the dragons would slowly die out in the following years under the relentless hunt of the Dragoons of Caer.