History

Pre-History
The creation of the world is a matter loudly pontificated upon by priests and charlatans from one end of Var-Zyn to the other. Each religious sect claims knowledge of the truth, and each has it’s own version of that truth, but the reality of the situation is known only to the force who created the world from out of nothing, and many denizens of Var-Zyn agree that who or whatever that was is no longer present in the day to day affairs of Var-Zynan mortals.

Ancient History
Recorded history begins some 2,500 years ago when Throssus, an Orc shaman from Teph, devised the first system of writing. From that time until the rise of The Caliphate of G’hazadai, the historical record is dotted with a long string of brutal warfare and accounts of sorcerer kings attempting to ascend to godhood.

However, even in Throssus’ day, the ruins of some lost civilization dotting the landscape from one end of Var-Zyn to the other were known of. Little is known about their origins, however.

Recent History
The Cult of Valakos arrived in Var-Zyn 277 years ago from Ygran across The Blooded Sea, and quickly began spreading across Var-Zyn. Within six years, cultists had infiltrated or overthrown the governments of several Sultanates, and in an occurrence  known as The Crusade, the last remnants of those governments disloyal to The Cult were dispatched, leaving The Prophet G’hazadai and his cohort as masters  of a unified Caliphate. War followed for nearly thirty years as one by one, the independent Sultanates of the desert either bent the knee and became vassals, or were ground to dust by the Caliphate’s wrath. By 268 years ago, the there was no one else to oppose imperial hegemony west of The Tsai Ung, and the Crusade came to a merciful end.