Hello, everybody Jordan here. So we're continuing our Forgotten Realms history and diving in,
We left off at the Dawn War. Now, the Dawn War takes place during The Blue Age and at this point
Abeir-Toril was a large blue planet. I'm assuming it's covered in water because that's why they call it the blue planet
And the Dawn War began with some fighting between the primordials and the gods over who gets to, like, rule over Abeir-Toril.
Now, in order to talk about the Dawn War, we need to talk about the Mad God Tharizdun
Now Tharizdun was a deity who was hungry for power and
He wanted to
Basically create a little pocket of his own where he could rule and just be frickin awesome
In order to do this he found a Shard of Pure Evil
Now this shard was planted to him by the Obyrith's and this is where another reason
I'm confused is because again Lord Ao creates the universe, but these creatures, these Obyriths
Which are more or less ancient demons that predated the gods
They just kind of lived in the darkness and the void and they came like wandering out and they're like
You know what, these gods are trying to build something. We're gonna, we're gonna smash it down
Nearest I can tell they're just evil and that's what they want to do. So they have this Shard of Pure Evil
And they leave it for Tharizdun to find
Now when Tharizdun is using the Shard or he picks it up, it starts corrupting him and it drives him to madness and this is
Why he's known as the Mad God. Now, the obyriths wanted Tharizdun to take this
Shard of Evil and
Plant it in the Astral Sea and they promised that he would have complete dominion over the Astral Sea
Which is what he wanted. Now Tharizdun, although mad
Recognized that this plan was just not going to work. The gods were too strong
He was not going to be able to slip in there. He's like, "You know, this is just not going to happen so
Instead I'm going to travel to the farthest reaches of the cosmos and I'm going to plant the seed of evil in some
Primordial Expanse in the Elemental Chaos"
Now his hope was after doing that, he'd be able to seize that area as his own.
So this Shard of Evil, this seed
It grew into the abyss
and it changed the primordials there into the demons that inhabit the abyss. Now, the gods were fighting with the primordials at this time and
They kind of put, put that down on hold to deal with Tharizdun in this new weird, evil, demonic problem
So they took him and they imprisoned him in another universe known as the Void Harrow
And they left him there with all of his powers intact, but unfortunately
he's a little too crazy and so his insanity prevents him from plotting an escape, but
There's there's all kinds of various cults that still worship him, so it's a good plot device basically
We're gonna take Tharizdun, the Mad God
We're gonna give him this backstory and now I can have a bunch of crazy cults for you to play with in Dungeons and Dragons
Boom! Now, after Tharizdun was imprisoned, the primordials were led by
This demon known as Miska the Wolf Spider
And I'm kind of confused by that, I think that it's either the abyssal demons or the Obyriths
They were being led by Miska the Wolf Spider and whether he's an abyssal demon or an Obyrith
I'm not entirely sure, but I'm leaning more towards abyssal. So now
There's this abyssal-demon threat, and there's also the primordial
Versus gods threat. One of the most violent battles of the war, the Dragon God Io
Decided to face alone, a giant primordial known as the King of Terror. Now the King of Terror took his adamantium axe
And cleaved Io in two, he just cut him straight down in half during their conflict, now the two halves of Io
Actually like formed these new dragons instantaneously
And that's where we get Bahamut and Tiamat. Now, those two dragons join forces and killed the King of Terror
But this marks the only time that they've ever worked as one
Because one's good and ones evil
So they decided to hate each other after that. Now the Dawn War keeps going until we have a primordial known as
Dendar the Night Serpent and he flew up and devoured the sun
Now, devouring the sun means that there's no more heat so the entire planet iced over and
And all of the life that was there soon died. An Obyrith known as the Queen of Chaos
Allied herself with Miska the Wolf Spider which again makes me think that Miska is part of ah, is an abyssal demon
Miska the Wolf Spider gave his allegiance to the queen of Chaos to aid in destroying all of the gods
Now there was a huge battle, but these creatures called the Wind Dukes of Aaqa
Who are a group of ancient beings that resided on the Plane of Air, they defeated Miska at the Battle of Pesh
Which shattered these armies of Chaos, and the queen of Chaos retreated with her armies back into the abyss, so
early D&D and forgotten realms has a lot of
There's there's good and bad, but there's also
Law and Chaos, so a lot of these creatures are like I'm evil or I'm strictly chaotic
and I think the Wind Dukes were a very lawful good and
Obviously the queen of Chaos is very evil and chaotic
So that's partially like, where their their clash happened
and that might have been why they were fighting on the plain of air at that time. Now the gods eventually won the war because
the primordial Ub-Tao
Betrayed his fellow primordials.
He aided the gods in imprisoning many of his former allies
And then he made an agreement with the gods that he would guard
Guard the lair of Dendar the Night Serpent, should Dendar ever return and destroy Toril. And as a reward the gods
Granted him sole control over this
Peninsula, this Island called Chult
And it's an Aryan Southwestern Faerûn, and it's changed a lot
But it's kind of the the land before time of the Forgotten Realms
It's full of dinosaurs and and lots of like tribal to societies and stuff again
It was a way for them to say if you want this kind of adventure
We have that in the Forgotten Realms on here. Come explore the jungles of Chult. It sounds kind of like a
like come see
Beautiful Boston, you know the jungles of Chult. I hear they're great this time of year that
Ended the Dawn war and the era after this became known as the days of thunder. And that's where we'll leave off today
Thank you for listening to our ramble as we both
slowly figure out the history of the Forgotten Realms
I'm enjoying make putting this together, and I hope you were having fun figuring this out with me as always
I'm Jordan the ph is silent and thanks for watching.
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