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‎Minotaurs

AI: /* Triththa */

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‎Triththa

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AI: /* Eventide */

2011-11-21T05:04:32Z

‎Eventide

AI: /* Silver Drakes */

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‎Silver Drakes

AI: /* Minotaurs */

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‎Minotaurs

AI: Create eastern history notes

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Create eastern history notes

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Secret stuff regarding Eastern_History (not linked because of WhatLinksHere stuff)

== Silver Drakes ==
The silver drakes are unusual in that they aren't led by a single ruler, but a council constituted from one drake of each of the castes. Succession is otherwise as normal.
The council guards the knowledge of the process of maturation into a dragon. A single ruler might be tempted, but even a large nation of drakes cannot expect to sustain a council of 5 dragons.
When the silver drakes take firecloud peak, they unknowingly share this volcano with the Fire King (one of the Earthen Kings). The fire king eventually reaches out to one of the members of the council and reveals/invents a way to only partially trigger the maturation process. This confers most of the magical strength of a dragon onto the drake, without significantly increasing its size.
This drake informed 4 trusted friends of this process, underwent it together and then had his friends challenge and defeat the other members of the council. One of the surviving council members is Græk Lon, who was exiled and soon afterwards captured by Krados. (see TSL/ask espreon)
The Fire King's angle here is that the rigid moral code of the drakes, combined with their disdain for other races, makes a very useful tool.

== Minotaurs ==
Stuff about Zeal, Askela/Uria, Rilend Ironfist and so on.

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 Zeal was defeated, but managed to bind his soul to the three crystals as he died.
-Possibly stuff about Zeal in TSL.
+It is henceforth forbidden to unite the three crystals, as the power is too dangerous to be used.
 == Eventide ==

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 Not long afterwards, firecloud peak was invaded by the silver drakes and the survivors mostly evacuated to the hills and plains of triththa. With this trade with the west was cut off. The elves were not going to let illegal settlers cross one of their most sacred forests, the drakes were hostile to everyone, the desert was too large to cross and other routes were too long to send more than occasional messengers.
-This had two important effects: runecraft was not lost and a critical ingredient for the use of thundersticks became unavailable.
+This had two important effects: runecraft was maintained, but not communicated to the west and a critical ingredient for the use of thundersticks became unavailable.
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 The forerunners of the eventide where pre-khalifate settlers who left the desert because of the taboo on magic.
 The cities of Noct and Diurna were founded after conflicts about which forms of magic should be used, which eventually consolidated around Noct using magic of darkness and Diurna using magic of light.
 The eventide formed after Noct and Diurna were both destroyed by the cataclysm described in the minotaur section. They banded together to take revenge. More by accident than through knowledge, the first target of their anger was at least the correct nation, Lithia. With the overstretched minotaur offensive crumbling and retreating beyond easy reach in the absence of its leader, the eventide quickly picked a new target, the xenophobic elves from the northern forest.
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 == Eventide ==
 The eventide formed after Noct and Diurna were both destroyed by the cataclysm described in the minotaur section. They banded together to take revenge. More by accident than through knowledge, the first target of their anger was at least the correct nation, Lithia. With the overstretched minotaur offensive crumbling and retreating beyond easy reach in the absence of its leader, the eventide quickly picked a new target, the xenophobic elves from the northern forest.
 More to come...

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 The silver drakes are unusual in that they aren't led by a single ruler, but a council constituted from one drake of each of the castes. Succession is otherwise as normal.
 The council guards the knowledge of the process of maturation into a dragon. A single ruler might be tempted, but even a large nation of drakes cannot expect to sustain a council of 5 dragons.
 When the silver drakes take firecloud peak, they unknowingly share this volcano with the Fire King (one of the Earthen Kings). The fire king eventually reaches out to one of the members of the council and reveals/invents a way to only partially trigger the maturation process. This confers most of the magical strength of a dragon onto the drake, without significantly increasing its size.
 This drake informed 4 trusted friends of this process, underwent it together and then had his friends challenge and defeat the other members of the council. One of the surviving council members is Græk Lon, who was exiled and soon afterwards captured by Krados. (see TSL/ask espreon)
 The Fire King's angle here is that the rigid moral code of the drakes, combined with their disdain for other races, makes a very useful tool.

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 == Minotaurs ==
-Stuff about Zeal, Askela/Uria, Rilend Ironfist and so on.
+The creator goddess of the minotaurs, Askela, is better known under the name Uria. She turned them from their original human forms into minotaurs after a slight that is said to be the worship of a bull.
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