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Crictis is a Dungeons & Dragons world created entirely on Discord. The world is modeled off of commonly played world of Faerun and is almost 2 years old having tons of homebrew races, deities and tons of lore.

The Legend of Creation
In the Beginning, the world was made by the Entity. A being beyond realities. A world made of earth, water and stone was created as the centerpiece of the planar map, with various other planes neighboring it to help maintain the Balance. Humans and Kua-toa were made to inhabit this Material Plane alongside the many animals made to flourish and grow in it. It was peaceful, and they began to study and explore the Weave and the plane.

As the 2 races grew, the Kua-Toa turned to the Weave and magic, as the Humans focused on technology and physical prowess. They started as allies, friends, but as both grew stronger they became more paranoid of each other and worried of the other's dangerous abilities. The Humans began marshalling armies and war machines. The Kua-toa sought rituals to make magical entities to protect them and their magic users. After a massive battle, where both sides were decimated, they made a truce. Have the Kua-toa ascend some exemplary Humans to deities, and the Humans grant the Kua-toa all of their technological research. Both agreed, and they also decided that the Kua-toa would live below ground as the humans took the surface.

What they didn't know was that Mindflayers had hidden themselves below ground as well, having traveled here from the Far Realms. The Kua-toa were viciously enslaved and subjected to torment and telepathic torture. The Humans didn't know this was happening, they simply thought the Kua-toa went silent to help prevent another war.

Generations passed, and the Kua-toa eventually escaped the mindflayers, but at a cost. Now insane and mentally scarred, the Kua-toa fled, a remnant of their past selves. Partially rembering the ritual they used for the humans, but fragmented and corrupted, they now spawn minor deities in the hope of their return to power. The humans, however, were busy advancing and forgot the Kua-toa during their generational absence. They made another ritual, sure they were not alone, and split the seam of reality. A flurry of new, non-human deities enterred trough this rift, and it closed behind them. Seeing the humans, they decided to divide this plane evenly and make their own peoples. "Humanoids", as they called them.

Dwarvesn, elves, gnomes, halflings, a horde of new deities and their creations. Some of the deities came through late, however, and were not happy. They felt betrayed and cheated. Gruumsh and his pantheon declared war on the humanoids for not letting him choose a domain, and he made the orcs as vengeance. Maglubyet blamed the deities for using too much creation and leaving him with no powers to create, and proceeded to slay and conquer the goblin pantheon, then the bugbear pantheon, and then the hobgoblin, before turning his sights on the orcs.

The Entity saw this chaos and made one last group of people, the Coleopterans. Large beetle-like beings that aligned the arthropods towards balance. The other insectoid peoples joined the Coleopterans, being discarded tests from other deities, and they saw Carapaca as a truly caring deity. They swore fealty to him and the Hive was made. An alliance to maintain the Balance of the planes.

The new deities saw each other pantheon as rivals and enemies, beings to fight against, and so they set their creations and themselves to try and conquer the plane. The deitic wars began, with the draconic deity Io fighting the Giant pantheon, the Goblinoid and Orc pantheons locked in eternal struggle. The elven and dwarven pantheons fractured, and the other pantheons had their own fights to survive. That war ended with Io being torn in 2, spawning Tiamat and Bahamut and many other smaller draconic dieites that all worked together to defeat the Giant pantheon. The AllFather, shamed by this defeat, left the plane until the giants return to their previous stature of control. The other deitic wars had their own separate conclusions, with the elves being banished from the afterlife by Corellon and the duergar and drow forced belowgrounds.

Then the Draconic wars began, with Tiamat, Bahamut, and Kurtalmauk being the only survivors. Unlike in other realities where Garl Glittergold, a gnomish deity, trapped Kurtalmauk in an endless maze, here Kurtalmauk was saved by the sacrifice of a loyal kobold. Tiamat and Bahamut honored this kobold's sacrifice with a truce, that Kurtalmauk and the kobolds becoming the mediators between the chromatic and metallic dragons.

Finally the Racial wars broke out, factions forming on the surface as the deities began to calm. Governments, Empires, organization of the peoples about the plane formed. It slowly fell to an uneasy simmer as the worl rolled by.

200,000 years of the First Age, the one of Kua-Toa and Humans. 500 years of the Second Age, of new Deities. 30,000 years of the Deitic Wars. 90,000 years of the Racial Wars. And 60,000 years after the Racial Wars ended, the Planar War began, and that is where we are now, 117 years in and with very little knowledge of the wars taking place in the shadows.

Monster Lore
