The Age of Darkness

The longest age ever recorded aside from the primordial age, which must have lasted for at least 10 000 years, the age of darkness lasted for 4000 years. This age is the darkest chapter in human history, and it started after the great collapse of the age of perfection. The age of darkness was a dangerous time when the very survival of mankind was far from guaranteed. Now homeless and robbed of their culture and way of life, all remaining humanoid supersoldiers and the original humans that now depended on them for protection, had no choice but to set out into the wild, a world they had lost touch with, and no longer knew or understood.

It was during the age of darkness that the modern humanoids slowly evolved through generations of interbreeding between diffirent types of specialised super-humans and originals. The last of the true human originals went extinct as a result of them not having the genetic enhancements of the super humans.

The age of darkness was incredibly harsh due to the climate being much darker and colder then today. Mankinds struggle to compete with the many species of monsters that inhabit Forthelore was most intense during this age. Near monthly monster attacks, plague and inter-humanoid conflicts wittled out those who could not adapt to this hostile new world. The modern kingdoms of Forthelore all arose during this dark age and they are the ones that coped the best with the landscape and all of its monsters. It was around the middle of this age that the dungeon masters hid away thousands of treasures in advanced dungeons and cave systems all over Forthelore. It was because of the god Sulzifer gaining popularity in these times of great corruption, death, fear and tyrrany. Sulzifer is the god of gold, desire and riches, and those who followed him achieved great material riches, and their riches was not to die with them.