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In the first cycles of the First Age of the First World, when t h e lands were still young and the people n e w, there was a s m a l l chasm that many called home. For a long time, the people of t h i s
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chasm worked hard and worked together, content and carefree to a fault. To t h e i r doom.
Darkness crept in, unnoticed.
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Sensing a weakness
in the people, it mani- fested itself within the
chasm, g a i n i n g power and strength with each passing day.
Perceiving its time had come, t h e darkness then struck hard and
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fast, sparing none in its way and pillaging the chasm until only a w i t h e r e d husk remained.
This was the first of the Great Disasters of the old days. T h e i r home destroyed and
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and their population
d e c i m a t e d, the surviving chasmfolk became the founders of many new places, which would in turn grow into homes for many more to come.
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Thus the world was populated, and the First Age came to an end.
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