Tunara

Summary

Before the founding of Yn-av-Agova, the majority of human civilization was centered around a region of southern Elderic. Part of it is now southern Bitu-en-Sul and straddles the Ring of Fire. Much of it is now beneath the Sundered Sea. The First Men appeared here some three millenia before the arrival of the Sidhe.

Prehistory

The earliest written records discovered on Tierra come from approximately 1,200 years before the First Golden Age and was chiseled into stone in proto-Dwarven pictographs. It was carved on the tomb of Dwarf-Emperor Craw Ironblade in the ancient Dwarven city of Dreth Dogal and recounts his inheritance of the Empire of the Hundred Grandfathers from his father and lists a long line of ancestors. In addition to suggesting that Dwarven history goes back thousands of years before humans began planting crops and gathering into towns, the inscription lists the people who paid tribute to Emperor Ironblade and includes human tribes described as the Fishers of Kov, Swamp-Men of Tunar, Farmers of Northshore, and over a dozen tribes of Plainsmen.

History

While older fragments of human writing have been found, the first significant, legible documents were a collection of sixty-one clay tables collectively known as Norick's Histories. Kept by Norick, First Script of Kov, they detail the rise of Kov, a human city of nearly 5,000 citizens on the shore of the Eastern Sea. Between the histories and the writing of Dwarven scribes of the same era, it's believed the city was founded a little over three hundred years before the coming of the Sidhe. The impetus was a civil war in the Empire of the Hundred Grandfathers that allowed humans to take over some of the southernmost iron mines and to use the ready availability of iron to spread the influence of King Baelin the First over the swamps and plains of Tunara.

Even in 300 BF, there were mentions of Chaos Shamans among the Swamp-Men and the sumpfgotten.