History of Estel Úqua

"Legends are lessons, they ring with truths."

- Queen Elinor, from Pixar's Brave

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Estel Úqua is an old world, of many legends, many peoples, and a vast history to accompany it. With thousands of years to saddle upon its back, only small headstones tell the story of how this lush place came to be. The Sídhe are the oldest documented beings of intelligence, once at great harmony with the magic that buzzed in the air. This magic is still found in all things, even the grass we stand upon today, though it is far more diluted. But they were annoying little buggers, and as the rest of the world began to fill out, they found they took a liking to all but the Sídhe. Humans, Elves, and even Dwarves began to conquest the sacred lands to build their kingdoms and commence the carving of what is now a beautiful vast landscape of kingdoms and luscious forests full of the oldest and most dangerous of things. Dwarves carved themselves into the earth, hiding away from the forests and rivers where deeper, darker legends dwelled, and elves plowed through the lightest of monsters with their magic, Tremlins as pets at their side. But humans, they were alone. With no magic to claim and being the newest of creatures to walk these magnificent lands, their conquest was set back by a hundred-year long devastation of their people. This was often called "The Great Slaughter" by humans  or "Mass Human Slaughter" by the majority of other sentient beings. 

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THE GREAT [HUMAN] SLAUGHTER

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It started over a thousand years, so not much is recorded, as human writing in the Common Language was still a privilege to have even the slightest of access to. The greater lords and ladies and even the High Elven had few means to learn Common, much less the everyday man, who could not write or read in the slightest. Disappointingly, it was peasants and slaves that had to brave the harshest of weather and learn to survive the beasts they crossed, as they were the ones who made expansion possible. But sadly, most first hand accounts of the The Great Slaughter are not recorded on paper for hundreds of years later due to major illiteracy.