in the age before, when humanity had grown enough, they managed to open a long sealed space that enjoined the ancient world of Arrya to the earth. thousands of years had passed and humanity had learned to co-exist with the various races and grow and flourish.
the date was commemorated as the 1st day of the 1st month of the 1st year of the Common Calendar. with the various races, came technology and magic.for 10,000 years humanity co-existed alongside the elves and dwarves, forged trade routes with goblins and intermarried with the northern Barbarians.
then, out of nowhere the human emperor arose. a descendant of the First Knight, he started a war of supremacy. he conquered the elven forests, the beastmen plains and the dwarven mountains. after conquering the known world, his hubris led him to the Crimson Desert, where he broke the seal that bound the Void demons.
a ruthless race, they had no compassion, no morals and no ideals of ruling. they were pure destruction given form and they devoured the world. the Human Emperor raised his armies and ceded land to the conquered races in order to forge alliances, and thus, the coalition army was born.
for 576 years, they fought and finally, they prevailed. the 12 sages cast a sealing spell anchored to the very life force of the planet and in doing so created an era of peace. or so it was thought, you see, Emperor August the 6th, was a war-born, war-raised and war-mad man. after the demons were sealed away, he restarted the war of conquest and thrust the land once again, into war.
the next 400 years war ravaged the already fragile land and the forests burned, the oceans boiled and the rivers dried up. a millenium of war destroyed almost all that remained of the cultures of the world.