Editing New Jhelom (section)

==True History of the World==
This is really undefined at the moment, so we need help expanding it in the next thread.

# Diaspora following the First War
# Old Jhelom Rises. Other kingdoms?
# The Goddesses Eaten? Leave this part blank and indistinct bar legends?
# The Elemental War, Water Elementals and their blood lines all but extinguishes, the islands of the world turned to sandy desert like areas where no rain falls.
# New Jhelom Rises
# The Viziers are power hungry madmen for the most part?
# The Last Starmage is born and fights against the Viziers.
# The first ship to the moons comes back, chaos breaks out and the Crusaders of the Holy Wastes and the Thanadi are formed.
# Gorii are defeated and turned into barbarians
# Al-Kazwa leads the rebellion against the Viziers and takes their place. 300 years of prosperity follow
# A tradition of less greedy, but increasingly iron-fisted Viziers crops up.
# Another expedition to the moons is sent by New Jhelom, ends in failure, but doesn't utterly corrupt the Empire.
# The current Vizier takes up his position (how?)
# Modern Day.

* The islands are dry because of an ancient feud between elementals that broke out many generations ago.
* The Elementals of the Sky destroyed nearly all the Elementals of the Waters - only a few remain, like the Princess of Waters.
* The greatest hero of old is Al-Kazwa the Tempest. He was a street urchin who stumbled across a mysterious and magical bauble. Everything he desired came to pass through the Bauble's powers. Many agents of the then-Vizier Talek sought to control this trinket, for Talek desired above all else to rule eternally.
*: Al-Kazwa fled from island to island until he could muster together a small militia. Together they stormed across the sea and captured all of New Jhelom. 150 men against a military of thousands. One by one he freed them from their oppressive regimes. Only one island remained, Talek's Island of Fire. Al-Kazwa awoke on the morn of battle and panicked. His bauble was gone! He searched high and low, but it was nowhere to be found. He decided to continue with his attack, and found himself, against all odds, at Talek's doorstep. He and Talek fought and Al-Kazwa prevailed, although mortally wounded. The Jhelom collectively sighed and enjoyed a golden age to last three centuries under their new order.
*: The Bauble of Al-Kazwa, has never been seen since.
* The servants of the Serpent Behind the Wall chitter in the dark places of the world, the Chasatha sacrifice their maidens' hearts on altars of obsidian in unprecedented numbers, and the Crab Men, in moments of lucidity, bemoan the Blackness that seeps from the deeps to consume them.
*: The Vizier's Astrologers consult their new Orrery, finger their talismans, and weep.
*: The Vizier himself looks through his glass Elemental Eye through the mightiest seeing lens that is, the Azure Moon. His telescope is made from steel smelted of Astrologers and Mages.
*: He gazes up, into the spaces between the stars, and he prays.
*: but to who?

** You poor fool.
*: We have always lived in the end times. Ever since the Maiden Goddesses were devoured, ever since the First Murder, this world has been slowly, steadily sullying. Each century more and more men and women fall to madness. The Empire openly deals with creatures like the Chathasa and Knife-Ears, in exchange for more magic. True, the Vizier tries to halt this, but his methods do more damage then they fix. There is a hole in the sky and demons slip into the world. The Crab-Men will rise soon.
*: The fact of the matter is, that one day the Maiden Goddesses will finally be annihilated, digested completely in the belly of the Serpent and any hope of their return will be gone. But worse, on that day, the Serpent Behind the Wall of Stars will awaken from his peaceful slumber and will slither in back through the hole he made. And he will pull out the pins of the Earth and it will fall apart into so many more Goddesses for him to devour. And then there will be nothing left of the world at all.
*: Some say the Maiden Goddesses can be awaken before then. That by sailing into the sky this can be accomplished. But look what happened when the Westerners headed to the stars. Madness and death.
*: Not even the spirits at the heart of the World are safe. And this is why set my lot with the Serpent. So that I may become one with him, rather than suffer oblivion.