The Realm of Astranaar

The History
The Realm of Astranaar is considered to be one of the youngest realms in existence. The Realm of Astranaar was created by Astranaar himself with assistance from his brother Usess. It is perceived that the Realm is approximately 20.000 years old, and that life developed at a rapid rate in the realm thanks to godly interventions. As much of the history is shrouded in mystery and there are only few facts and artifacts left to support some theories. It is widely accepted among scholars that the all life began in the Desolate Wastes nearly 15.000 years ago when the first race of humanoid beings inhabit the lush savannas of the now desolate lands. The humanoids were merely dubbed the ancient ones, it is perceived that migration led them to inhabit the rest of the realm as the lush savannas of the south started drying out. It is unknown how many species or races existed during the migration. The event that shaped the realm into it's current state happened approximately 10.000 years ago is the First Blight. Usess being bored of taking a backseat to his brother, decided to tinker with life on his own. Astranaar did not approve of this and created the demi-god Jinnod to cull Usesses ambitions. Jinnod used the chance to claim the realm to himself by creating a destructive plague known as the Bloodleechers. These creatures were so devastating that they single-handedly wiped 90% of all living beings from the Realms during a period of only 500 years. The situation was so dire that Astranaar himself had to intervene and create a barrier between the rest of the continent and the drying Savannah. The life that remained in the Savannah started once again migrating back into other regions as the water and food supplies of the Savannah regions started fading. Bloodleechers mostly died out from starvation as they had no living beings to consume, only a handful of them still exist as they are no longer capable of spreading rapidly due to the quick evolution of other races. The most notable tribe that moved out from the Savannah were the Wanderers, they are consider to be the ancestors to all humanoid beings on the Realm. The first migrations began to the Green Vale and Green Plains. Most of the beast races that were saved from extinction moved to the The Steppes, Eastern Coast and some remained in the now Desolate Wastes. The first race that claimed large land were the Orcs, green humanoids that evolved directly from the Wanderers. Shortly following that some of them moved to the Great Plains, this race is now know as Men. All of the humanoid races stem from the Orcs and Men.