History

History of Lyrine
Before the year in which the world ended, there were Others. The Others settled on Lyrine, intent on creating a new civilization in which to live peacefully. The Others came from a parallel Lyrine ravaged by war and famine and this new Lyrine would give them the supplies they needed to rebuild their civilization and their race. However, every towering structure they built was overrun by the native life. Every road was buried under foliage. Nothing escaped unmolested by the virulent flora. Then, an idea occurred to them. Instead of cursing the sinkholes that frequently swallowed their structures, some of the Others decided to investigate the sinkholes and began to construct the Underdark, a series of cities built in massive underground caves and protected by massive steel “trees,” as the Underdark Humans far in the future have dubbed them. One massive pillar shores up the center of the cavern and branches out into other pillars that have provided stability for incredible amounts of time. The Underdarks and Overlanders continued to build and thrive and grew distant, beginning to evolve separately as the Underdark bridged across the known world, each cavern city connected by massive byway tunnels. The Underdark utilized automaton technology in combination with manpower to delve steadily deeper into the planet until, one day, the Others ceased to exist. History does not detail why.

However, the Others were prepared for their eventual demise. After centuries of research, “Genopods” - transparent pods made from organic tissue filled with magic-infused life sludge - were located in every part of both the Underdark and the Overland. From those Genopods crawled the thirteen known races on the planet.

Lyrine is a supercontinent on a planet several times the size of Earth. Mostly covered by massive swathes of forest twice as tall as skyscrapers and patches of swampy mushroom forest, Lyrine's Overland is home to hardy races that can easily defend themselves from its virulent flora. The Underland is populated by humans, dwarves, salamander people, massive cave trolls, and clear-skinned nightmare fodder. As the Underland stretches towards the center of the planet, it gets warmer and steadily more dangerous. The remnants of automaton technology that crawl from the depths and attempt genocide are nothing to scoff at, but the rooms upon rooms of massive dormant automatons are the true thing to be feared.