Tales of Netharia

The history of Netharia

The wind, when it touched any living thing, would destroy it utterly. Grass would turn to a blackened soot, this was usually the first sign of its approach and so it was called the Dark Plain. Any humans hit would be near stripped to the bones in near seconds.

As terrifying as this was, worse was to come. Animals and humans killed by the wind would rise the next night as hellish plain spawn. Humanity faced loss after loss before the high wizards of Itherica finally divined the spells required to push the dark plain back. So humanity rallied, armies attacked the plain spawn and the high wizards attacked the wind.

But, just as humanity was on the cusp of final victory the dark plain suddenly revealed that it wasn’t a mindless force, unbeknownst to the Wizards it had been hiding plain spawn in areas where the Wizards were likely to shelter and, at the moment the humans engaged in the final battle they struck, assassinating the high wizards before they could react.

With no way to destroy the dark plain humanity was forced to restrict it instead, using symbols given to them by the high wizards before their destruction they built “the line” a fortification that the wind could not cross.

But they had to guard the area so the plain spawn could not attack it. The first fort was destroyed by a mass attack of the plain spawn, but the second held firm. 200 years have passed and the world still feels from its history, reminded by the Guardians and their constant need of reinforcements and the still wondering packs of plain spawn.