1. The Beginning

2. Eronoa

3. Ormathad

4. Niveriku

5. Miig'Jaiach

6. Paelywa

Miig'Jaiach
1. Processing the Ormatheen and the Lachmags
2316 – 2500

The Lakguene army brought humans back from Ormathad by the armful, sometimes in massive sacks of crudely stitched animal hide. Many humans were herded over land, but thousands of ogres carried their slaves across the Sea of Meshos. The Miig’Jaia Lakguene freely feasted on their captives, too, or tortured them, raped them, hurled them at one another, or killed their fellow’s humans in rage, as the Lakguene ever fought amongst themselves. So by the time they had returned to Miig’Jaiach, of the 100 million captured Ormatheen, only 20 million still lived.

Holes were dug in the ground and magical walls of stone were raised to keep the humans corralled at first in a slave city called Jugafing, one of only two permanent cities in Miig’Jaiach. Humans were dumped by the hundreds into the holes, where many would perish from exposure, starvation, and disease before they were claimed by other Lakguene. The only thing keeping discipline among the Lakguene army was the succubus, Chei’zise Yeinur. She had perfected techniques with her natural glamour to allow her to influence the dreams of millions of male Lakguene simultaneously. Her command of the hordes was lost, however, in 2318 when a human wizard named Lumel Raneth invaded Yeinur’s dreams and dismantled her spell. The succubus was immediately raped and eaten by a nearby ogre.

Complete chaos ensued, but as the years passed, a brutal normalcy asserted itself. Lakguene were rarely capable of cooperating with one another, so tribes of human slaves formed around smaller groups of Lakguene masters. Some attempts were made to force the humans to farm the Miig’Jaia land, but such tribes were too frequently assaulted by others. Magic-users were quickly found to be the most valuable humans as they could create and destroy large things quickly.

The normal amount of concentration and study required for a person to become a wizard was rarely possible under these living conditions, so a new kind of mage emerged, the Lachmag, who was capable of wielding massive magical energies by manipulating his or her own subconscious thought. But side effects were far more common in Lachmagoi magic. The Lakguene were as viscerally disgusted by human magic as any other faerie, but they learned to tolerate it for its efficiency. But Lachmagoi magic was frequently odious even to other humans. Structures made of Lachmagoi stone tended to have an unsettling resemblance to human flesh and would even sometimes grow limbs or hair. Often Lachmagoi objects would stink.

Lachmags also had an affinity for dead flesh and were able to animate corpses of people, Lakguene, and animals, though never resurrecting precisely the consciousness of the deceased being. Oftentimes, the resulting undead creature would be of less than animal intelligence, though still capable of causing damage, particularly in large numbers.

The Lachmag’s body would also often be subject to disturbing side-effects, causing him or her to lose limbs, change sex, grow extraneous hair or limbs, or suffer various forms of insanity. But like the other human slaves, the Lachmags were forced to obey their masters.

2. Human Survival and Culture in Miig’Jaiach
2500 – Present (2916)

Aside from the fear that the Lakguene inspired, the human slaves were kept to their tribes by the knowledge that stray humans did not survive long in the wilds of Miig’Jaiach. Some humans even developed an affection of sorts for their abusive masters.

Unable to farm, the slaves were forced to subsist on what could be hunted or what could be found already growing on the land. The flora was sparse in Miig’Jaiach, and large spaces of land were permanently scorched by magical battles. This was partly why the weather was intensely hot for the entire year. There was almost perpetual cloud cover and sometimes a strange, brackish rain would fall that seemed to do little to promote growth. The air was filled with a muggy warmth at all times.

Sycamores grew in isolation throughout the land, and sometimes the rampant magics in the air would cause them to grow fruits of varying wholesomeness. Edible fungi sometimes sprouted from the deformed soils.

Humans wore thin furs from lions, manticores, or deer or nothing at all, as was the case with the Lakguene. Lacking scrolls or books of any kind, the ability to read and write was lost over the centuries and dialect was drastically simplified and influenced by Miig’Jaiok. Raelyreen stories became simple tales of the creation of the planet by the goddess Molyi and the subsequent aimless abuse of her by Rostan before Rostan was killed and eaten by the goddess Everi. Molyi was said to gather the souls of humans to her bosom after they died, at which point the souls would abide in her love for eternity.

Everi, meanwhile, fought a constant war with Limn that was mirrored by the strife of the world. The battle was not fought for any particular purpose, but when two tribes warred, most asserted themselves as being on the side of Everi while their enemy was on the side of Limn. But there was never very much vehemence in these conflicts forced upon the humans by the Lakguene, and mostly humans preferred to hear stories of Molyi, her love, her agony, and her survival.

In the new human slave tongue, Rostan became Roustong, Everi became Evizy, and Limn became Liing. Molyi’s name remained unchanged.

3. Iyixvin
2643

After acquiring a tribe of humans with a large quantity of Lachmags, a chimera named Golupax decided to build something in his own honour that would lure and automatically kill other creatures. He used his magic to augment the twisting sorceries of the humans in order to create Iyixvin Citadel in 2643.

A place of black, organic walls and lethal phantoms, Iyixvin worked just as intended. Golupax was himself dismembered and skinned by the walls of the place, and the citadel gained a storied history of mutilation and death by countless means.

6. Paelywa