Khitus has a history far longer than human or any sentient memory, though there are few who can attest to the truth of it all in all things.. In the Beginning … Khitus flourished in time
Trang 1Khitus has a history far longer than human (or any
sentient) memory, though there are few who can
attest to the truth of it all in all things Herewith is
an accounting of history as generally accepted and
un-derstood by modern Khitans
In the Beginning …
Khitus flourished in times primitive, long before the
watchful Dragon Kings shepherded the young world and
its races Warmed by the young orange sun, the planet
hosted a fertile, untouched wilderness that stretched from
pole to pole Humans emerged as the first sentient race,
first hunting and gathering food before learning to plant
and harvest, scratching the earth with primitive tools
Their numbers grew for millennia among the
temper-ate plains and forests, ever adapting and expanding into
less comfortable terrains Years passed as human cultures
built one upon another, and the other nascent races went
about their activities, animalistic or otherwise Such was
the emergence of the Barbarian Age
Primitive Khitan Magics &
Minds
The largest and most successful human tribes nur-tured the rare few among them who manipulated the world around them without benefit of tools or labor This unseen mastery they called magic These first mages developed incantations to shape and bend magic, and thus reality, to their will Celebrants of the savage, an-cient gods sought favor from or power over others through their deity-granted spellcraft
Ironically, these barbaric days unwittingly awakened a dark consciousness among Khitan sorcery Fledgling
mag-es grew haughty through their experiments, reveling in any successes and repeating them, their newfound power’s glare blinding them to deeper consequences Humanity’s clumsy stumbles into magic nudged that consciousness and eventually roused it to attentiveness The erratic and haphazard rise of magic on Khitus further irritated the universe’s magical reservoir with its lack of respect or care for this power The universe expressed its offense with a
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