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Chapter 1:
ONE WORLD AMONG MANY
K
hitus has a history far longer than human (or any
sentient) memory, though there are few who can
attest to the truth of it all in all things. Herewith is
an accounting of history as generally accepted and understood by modern Khitans.
In the Beginning …
Khitus flourished in times primitive, long before the
watchful Dragon Kings shepherded the young world and
its races. Warmed by the young orange sun, the planet
hosted a fertile, untouched wilderness that stretched from
pole to pole. Humans emerged as the first sentient race,
first hunting and gathering food before learning to plant
and harvest, scratching the earth with primitive tools.
Their numbers grew for millennia among the temperate plains and forests, ever adapting and expanding into
less comfortable terrains. Years passed as human cultures
built one upon another, and the other nascent races went
about their activities, animalistic or otherwise. Such was
the emergence of the Barbarian Age.
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Primitive Khitan Magics &
Minds
The largest and most successful human tribes nurtured the rare few among them who manipulated the
world around them without benefit of tools or labor. This
unseen mastery they called magic. These first mages
developed incantations to shape and bend magic, and
thus reality, to their will. Celebrants of the savage, ancient gods sought favor from or power over others
through their deity-granted spellcraft.
Ironically, these barbaric days unwittingly awakened a
dark consciousness among Khitan sorcery. Fledgling mages grew haughty through their experiments, reveling in
any successes and repeating them, their newfound power’s
glare blinding them to deeper consequences. Humanity’s
clumsy stumbles into magic nudged that consciousness
and eventually roused it to attentiveness. The erratic and
haphazard rise of magic on Khitus further irritated the
universe’s magical reservoir with its lack of respect or care
for this power. The universe expressed its offense with a re-
