The Known History Of Oud'Vhar

Oud'Vhar has, since the beginning of recorded history, been a land of relative peace and prosperity. The Oud Council Treaty has ensured that the Six Kingdoms Of Oud'Vhar have never known war or faced any lasting division between the kingdoms, and the power of the united Oud Council has been strong enough that the three independent realms have never represented any serious threat to peace on Oud, despite the occasional minor rebellion.

Oud'Vhar was once comprised of two mega-continents, Colhar: the Land of Sorrows, and Eritreme: The Land of Light. When the Great Rupture occurred, and the Alter-God Vharesoudir apppeared to the Colharians and the Eritrimites many millennia ago, it is said that the denizens of Colhar agreed that the newly formed land of Oud'Vhar would host the Twelve Lesser Terrors in exchange for ten more weeks of precious sunlight, a resource the Colharians desperately needed to save its people from starvation. The Eritrimites also agreed to host the terrors and allow the lands of Colhar and Eritreme to be reformed in exchange for the Horn of Suderis, a drinking vessel that was promised to bring an end to the Lightbourne Plague.

In the years since, the Oud Council was formed, three leaders from the the Colharians and three from the Eritrimites (see the First Oud Council) who would be charged with containing the Twelve Lesser Terrors and leading the lands of Austeron, Selrune, Edarah, Nikkemis, Titan Vale and Medratheer. Since the formation of the council, the Eritrimite leaders have been reduced to one, due to recurring waves of Lightbourne Plague depleting the Eritrimite population, and fears that the plague might jump to those of Colharian heritage. This has, in turn, resulted in only 9 Magical Lines remaining in Oud'Vhar today, and the odd occurrence of arcane propensity outside of the lines, which more often than not leads to the Magus Alium being directed to one of the four Arcane Schools.