WORLD OF KIR
The world of Kir is a fantasy setting, where magic is ever-present in the form of the Loom. There are two types of Loom, LoomDark and LoomLight. They are competing forces between the light and the night, and are a reflection of the light and penumbra cycles of the world. The balance between the forces of light, represented by Mithra, and the forces of darkness and chaos represented by Yashun, is very tight. If there is any change in the system, either of these two gods will be able to subvert and win over the other.
The timeline will give players an idea of the different eras of the world.
Year Zero: For the people there are the years before the great war and the era after the great war. While Outsiders fought each other for dominance, and for cultural dominance Yashun plotted and planned, for he knew that the balance was soon to be his.
The year started like all others, with the celebrations around the rise of the sun and the end of the penumbra. The peoples of Kir celebrated the rise of the day light, and the beginning of the life giving light. It was not to last, as the forces of darkness moved across the ocean and landed near the fishing town of Obelisk. They came to the small town and razed it to the ground, taking all into the mountains where they were sacrificed to the Dark Lord, in an orgy of blood letting. That was but the first step, as the army grew with the spirits of those who were sacrificed, They became Shades, and they advanced ahead of the army, taking others into the ranks.
By the time the army reached the fields of Northumbria it was the largest army of soldiers and Shades ever assembled. It was clear that the people of the light could loose if a miracle didn’t occur. This is where the Chroniclers tell us how things changed.
And the army of darkness gathered. They were like locusts, devouring everything on the road to the Northumbrian plain. All that stood in their way was devoured and made part of the dark lord. When they crested over the valley they covered the sun itself. There was only one thing between the darkness and the light, and that was the Knights of the Order of the Rose. They were under the command of Lord Drammaigne Duchamp.This may be a good idea for the prologue
150 C.E.This is the year that the outsiders from Britannia came through the gate There are people of Celtic decent, today. They founded the city of Iork and Lord Caedmon the Wise started the Kingdom that to this day survives as the Kingdom of Iork. The Celts brought several things with them. The first was the belief in the spirits of the land, and also a variant of early Christianity.
The other thing they brought was fine workmanship of Gold.
What they also brought were legends of faeries and spirits of the land. In this sense the Nyamn were seen as real faeries by the Celts of Iork, and accepted into the society as wise men and women. Some of their stories, such as the young woman and the Faerie became famous real life stories.
Caedmon the wise saw the valley under him. He knew that this was a fine place for his new city. He turned and asked the sages what the entrails said. He was told that the river was good, and the plain was good for sheep. Caedmon took his boots off and walked down the path, The blades of grass went in between his toes, and the dew felt good. It was… to be and he set his sword at the center of what was to become the town. To this day his sword is said to lay where he drove it home, under the stone of kings.
375 C.E The first war between the Celts and the Ionians. It was all a matter of time, but the Celts were on the way of the Ionians and the Ionians wanted the Kirgaard forrest for their own ship building. It was a nasty short war, and the Celts came victorious. It was the first time that Nymn marched as equals in any human army, as the Celts had a division of Nymn archers marching to the line. They were a very effective unit, using longbows in some ways as the English long bowmen would use archers on Earth.
610 C.E The first expedition of Ionians lands on the dark land of Yashun, establishing the port city of Dakkar This is the first Crusade to end the threat of the forces of darkness. This was an effort which was religious in nature. This is the first time that human, Nymn and Kir troops went to war together. The kingdom of Dakkar lasted for five hundred years, and in the end the troops have to pull away. The town was renamed Yashun, to honor the great Dark One himself.
1550 C.E. This is the year that some say a new discovery of the ancients began. This is also the year the First Battle of Koro’i happened. It was the first time the dark one tried to retake the continent of Kir. The battle also saw the full exercise of the Knights of the Rose as a military unit, of great renown. This is the age of great strife that last for three hundred years, ending in the second battle of Koro’i in 1866.
1970 C.E. This era sees a spike in the number of humans coming through on the portal. They bring with them strange technologies that push the world ahead into a new modern industrial revolution.