The History of Strathas

The world of Strathas has been in existance for longer than any records show, but recent studies show that the realm may have been created about 1200 years ago.

The Age of Creation:

This age was from years 1-250, and under this the world was created.
There was a god named Aporca, who created Strathas. It took over five years to create the world, and under these years she created everything from the geography of Strathas to the different races.

There was originally three races, who lived side by side. There was the mighty human, the versatile goblins, and the mysterious vampires.
But, in 104, there begun a war between these three races. This war would be latter known as the War of Cultures. The vampires grew bloodthirstier than ever (a trick of evolution!), and soon they began hunting for animals, such as lambs, cows and hounds, to treat their new needs.
This was of course not received good with the humans. They didn't want the vampires killing their animals, and thereby King Strahmhammer of the humans in the beginning of september 104 ruled the vampire clan to stay away from their animals, or else they would use deadly force to hold them out.
The goblins never actually had anything to do with this war, as they kept mostly to their self in the Eastern Lands, but the ruler of the goblins, Dictator Kraahl Tinkertorque, had an alliance with the humans, which also included helping the human race in any war if they so needed the help. So, the wars began, and they would continue for over 10 years. But, in 118 Strahmhammer, Tinkertorque and the vampyric Overlord Bloodslith declared peace in Strathaste (the capital of Strathas) in July 21, which had many actions.
At first, the Alliance between the Goblins and the Humans had to break, and no Alliances shall be created without the permission of the three races rulers.
There was also new mapping for each race, where they could live. The Humans got Strathaste (after a lot of gold and arguments) and everything around it. The Goblins got the Southern Isles and Marchaste and Zalharg in the east. The vampires got their normal areas to the west, and also The Netherwild to the northwest and the Northern Grawoods.

This was the Age of Creation, which lasted about 250 years. Now we move into the Age of Alliances!

The Age of Alliances:

The Age of Alliances was a golden age of evolution, lasting from year 251 to 1036. In this long period of time many Alliances was created, but some civilizations were also broken or crushed.

The Age began quietly, with the Peace in Strathaste still going on, but that was going to change.
It all began when the Goblins started to revolute against Dictator Kraahl Tinkertorque III, because of his ruling skills and tyrant grip of the Goblin Race. Kraahl would eventually be assasined in 318.

Tinkertorque had a personal army of Goblins. It was built of over 300 Goblins (the Goblin Race was approximately 15000 in it's number), but these Goblins were trained to the limit of Goblin power. They knew mystical spells and curses that no other race knew of, and because of that there was no cure to the curses and no counterspell for the spells.

Kraahl had a general, General Hether Forcecraft, who was very loyal to him. Or so he thought. For real General Forcecraft was a spy, sent by the GPSO, the Goblin Peasant Spy Organization, to gather information about Tinkertorque. In august 318, Forcecraft got a short message:

         Assassin Dictator Kraahl Tinkertorque III.

This message was short, but it's message was clear. And this is what Forcecraft did. He got later the death sentence by the Tinkertorque' personal army.
After this action, the Goblins fled the Goblin Lands, and settled for a group of isles south of the Southern Isles, nowadays called Free Man Isles.

By the time the message of Dictator Kraahl Tinkertorque III was killed spread to the rulers of
the other two races, panic attacked. The Peace in Strathaste had only been in use if the Tinkertorque family was alive and ruling, or if another ruler had been appointed. Now that the last person of the Tinkertorque family tree was dead, the Peace was no more.
The Peace in Strathaste had also hold the more aggresive races of Strathas, like the Worgen, the Wild Beings and other creatures, from advancing into the civilized worlds. Now that the peace was dead, these creatures could pass into any territory.

Thereby, Overlord Bloodslith IV and King Strahnhammer Junior II created the Defenders Alliance to protect their lands from the other races. Because the Goblins were not noted of this Alliance, they of course got angry. This resulted in that the Goblin Race locked themselves to the Free Man Isles and the Southern Isles (Some minor Cults were created in the Mainland, but they live to themselves, killing everyone who trespass their territory).

They built Watchtowers and walls to surround the civilized world from the brutal kins.
The Defenders Alliance lasted through the Age of Alliances and all the way into the Modern Age.

The Lich Age:

The Lich Age was from 1037 to 1052.

The Age started with a serious threat.
In the north, norther than the Northern Grawoods and the Netherwild, a new threat lurked. Norther than these two places is only the seas, and the Storms of Death. And the reason to the threat is inside the Storms of Death. No man, vampire, goblin or anyone else for that matter have ever sailed into the Storms of Death, and come back to tell about it.
But inside the Storms of Death, a new race lived. This is the Lich, ruled by the tyrant Lich Overlord Chaear'thas Deathstorm, and they want to rule over more than just the Storms of Death. They want the whole Strathas.

The Lich lives on the Frozen Highlands, above the Mountains of Horror in the High North. The Frozen Highlands are inaccesible from the ground, because the Mountains of Horror protect the Lich territory.

In July 1040, King Strahnhammer Junior IV received a letter from the Mountains of Horror, adressed to him from Deathstorm. The letter said as following:

         Greetings, Rightren Strahnhammer Junior IV.
         Your race has lived in peace for a long time, in the Defenders Alliance with the Vampires, but this is about to change.
         I have recently recruited a Vampire Clan named The Graashat'as Clan to my reigh,          and they will help me convert the rest of the Vampires to          my grip. And as you read this letter, Overlord Bloodslith VII is sending an army to Strathaste, in plans to take over this human city.
         I have also sent my army of the Undead to help the Vampires, and together you do not stand a chance.
         
         Prepare your people for a bloody war, Rightren. It will not end unless I get control of Strathaste, and the human territory around it.
         
         Overlord Chaear'thas Deathstorm

And he didn't speak lies.

A war broke out, more deadly than any war there's ever been. This war, latter being remembered as the War on Freedom, lasted for many years.

Year 1045, five years after the beginning of the War on Freedom.
The lands are dead and broken, Strathaste has fallen and the Lich controlls all of Strathas.

Not all. Not the Free Man Isles and the Southern Isles.
The Goblins has conjured a fatal storm which has protected their race from being reached by the Lich Army.
Small amounts of humans has escaped to the Netherwild, which is also protected from the Lich Overlord by the Goblins, where they have settled nomadic camps.

Strahnhammer Junior IV, now old and broken, has fled to the Free Man Isles, where he was welcomed. Not warmthy, but still welcomed.
Now he has a plan.

He has a son, Creatas Strahnhammer, who is now willing to travel to the Frozen Highlands, and take care of the Lich Overlord once for all.
And so Creatas travelled to the Frozen Highlands, through the Netherwild to gather more recources.

When Creatas reached the Mountains of Horror, he summoned the Flying Gargoyle of Hellfire, and flew high above the Mountains of Horror, till he landed atop the Frozen Highlands.

He then travelled to the Lich Palace, where Overlord Deathstorm ruled with his tyrant grip of Strathas.
He confronted Deathstorm, with his Freezedeath-highsword in one hand, and a Symbol of Aporca in the other hand. He demanded Deathstorm to leave the human world, and never come back.

But Deathstorm didn't give up that easily. He fought Creatas Strahnhammer, and it was a bloody, long fight.

Deathstorm won in the end, but before Creatas died, he read out a Plague which made his sword take his soul when he died.
And when Creatas died, Deathstorm took the sword. At the moment that Deathstorms dead hand touched the Freezedeath, Creatas soul sucked into Chaear'thas Deathstorm. Now, Creatas being inside Deathstorm, he took the Freezedeath and stabbed Deathstorm straight into his cold dead heart.

And then they both died.

This was the end of the tyrant Lich Overlord's tyranny over Strathas.
But the Vampires didn't give up their hate against the Humans so easily. The Vampires was confuncted by the Lich Overlord, making their race hate everything but the Lich race.

Thereby the Vampires was in war with the Humans, and also the Goblins.
But the lands were still dead, and nothing lived in Strathas.

Then Lord Aporca confronted all the races in Strathas. She said that she would rebuild the world to its normal style.

This was the end of the Lich Age, and now begins the Age of Recreation.

The Age of Recreation:

The Age of Recreation was from the years 1053 to about 1199. The exact end date is unknown, because Lord Aporca stopped time in a special way, unknown to any of the races of Strathas.

There is not known much about this Age, other than that Aporca recreated the state of Strathas to what it was in the beginning.

After the Age of Recreation, we enter the Modern Age. This Age is what we live now, and it is constantly developing for a greater future.