ARETH
The planet Areth, the New Earth adopted by Kelvin Adam and his wife, Evelyn, as their home, is the setting of the Arethian Chronicles. Though the first Chronicles were recorded after the Adams' discovery of the planet, the history of the ancient realm goes back several millennia.
OLD DWELLERS
The first to walk to lands of Areth, then called Elro-viale, were a race of beings known as the Old Dwellers. Purely spiritual in nature, the Dwellers communicated through thought, and were thought to have been formed from the Creator's own essence. As such, they held the very power of creation itself, though this was limited. Known Old Dwellers are the Great Spirit Landovar, the Ancient Golem, Cal-dux the Tsunami Titan, Overlord the First Dragon and Garuda the Great.
THE ALUMARIA
One of the first children of Elro-viale, formed by the Great Spirit Landovar, were the Alumaria. Born close to the bosom of an Old Dweller, the Alumaria were gifted and adept with magical knowledge, and became the first mages. Their many exploits would result in the dimensional rifts that later allowed the dragons to pass into the planet Earth, whereupon they first encountered humankind. The Alumaria thrived for countless centuries, but grew hungry for power, abandoning their Maker and seeking to destroy the other Old Dwellers. In his anguish, the Great Spirit set a plague upon them. The plague lasted seven hundred Elro-vialen years, afterwhich the Alumaria were all but wiped out.
THE DRAGONS
Second to the Alumaria were born the Dragons, children of the First, Overlord. They were gifted with great intelligence and fiery breaths, while many of them were also attuned to the magical arts. In their earlier years of existence, the Dragons were close to their older siblings, but the Alumaria abused their magic and created dimensional portals into another realm by accident. A number of Alumaria and Dragons went through the portal, discovering a young Earth. While the Alumaria schooled humankind in the ways of magic, the Dragons left them the gift of language. Yet as the centuries passed, the humans grew afraid of the powerful Dragons, who were unlike the more man-like Alumaria, and began to hunt them down as monsters. Slain by those they had aided, the Dragons retreated back to their home realm, closing themselves off in the mountains of Articus.
