Editing Wallara (section)

==History==
The Wallara once possessed a mighty civilization, but fell afoul of the paranoia of the [[aranea]] of the [[Herath]] Empire. In those primeval days, the wallara prized the collection of knowledge for its own sake, and so had become aware of the fact that the lords of Herath were sorcerous [[therianthrope|spiderwere]]s. Terrified that the wallara would reveal this information, the aranea sought to cast a spell to wipe this information from their minds. The spell's effects exceeded its intent, reducing the wallara to Stone Age primitives. Until it was retconned in the first [[Orc's Head]] sourcebook, they were intrinsically unable to advance beyond that state, due to the lingering effects of that mind-altering spell. Even with the retcon, they spent many centuries incapable of rising above their lot and now they exist as nomadic hunter-gatherers or primitive agrarian villages in the northern grasslands of the Orc's Head Penninsula.

Incidentally, the spell's potency was way more than the aranea of Herath had intended, and it's one of those historical things that they feel pretty bad about. They even destroyed all copies of the spell of forgetting they used so it couldn't be used again. Mind you, the fact it pissed off The Great One, Immortal Patron of [[Dragon]]s and Wallaras both, so much that he sent an army of dragons to level Herath and would have killed them all if their own patron, the Immortal Korotiku, hadn't pleaded with the Great One for mercy probably convinced them it was wiser to destroy that particular spell.