Corruption War

Many eons ago, gods walk amongst the humanoids of Kormanon and took an active role in their day-to-day lives. As with most things all was well and the people of the Terra plane (the earthly plane of Kormanon) prospered under the benevolence of the gods. However, all the humanoids of Kormanon slowly started to demand more and more outrageous things from the gods. Seeing that the humanoids were becoming sinful, despite of their best efforts. The gods gathered for a last great Pantheon of the gods in the Terra plane and, much to the annoyance of the gods of evil, they agreed to create their own plane to watch the humanoids from afar. There were a few gods, later called the Corrupted, which felt that it was their duty to continue to help the humanoids combat their sins and rebelled against the Pantheon's decision. A few centuries later and the effects of sin had twisted the minds of once noble and caring gods. They started to subjugate the humanoids rather than coexist and aid with them. The Years of Darkness as they were later called were several decades in which the humanoids of the world were enslaved and twisted by the Corrupted and their sin. The Corruption War finally began when the pleas of the enslaved humanoids became too much for the gods residing in their new plane and they decided enough was enough and finally returned to the plane they once called home to rid the plane of its oppressors. It was the first and only recorded war where there was wide spread use of dragons, both good, evil and corrupted. For a long time the war was at a stalemate but the Corrupted kept using crueller and crueller weapons, like the Necrotic destroyer, to terrifying effect, wiping out entire cities.

When the war seemed lost the gods finally came up with a weapon that could change the course of the war, the Dragonlance, a powerful weapon capable of slaying dragons instantly and, more importantly, cripple a Corrupted. Developed by Takhisis, the goddess of Darkness, it came at a terrible price. Ten young souls had to be sacrificed in order the give the Dragonlance its power. With this new weapon the gods were eventually able to banish the Corrupted to the Void plane, a prison for all-powerful beings. The devastation of the war was catastrophic and only a third of the world’s population still remained by the end. It would take 300 years of hard work to eventually repair the a lot of the damage the Corrupted had wrought on the world. Some areas, like the Badlands where the orcs reside, never were completely healed. At the point where our adventurers begin their journey, it’s been 3 millennia and most of it has been lost to legends and myth. There are some Corrupted weapons are still out there,dormant ,ready to unleash their devastating power.