History

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When the times were most wicked and the people most starved, the grande saviors arrived. They, who were holy creatures descended from Avalon, had come to save those that were left from the slaughter and sorrow. The grande war of destruction was over and initiated was the rebith of Mereldia. For this rebirth, we were the chosen ones who should start this new age. In the female folk's wombs, our offspring shall grow, for our children will be the first generation born in this new and glorious age.

No grudges were held, even when we were of different kinds and came from different lives and lands. The saviors brought us all together and this is how it shall be. They built us shelter in what the ancients left us and gave us food in a land of cold and snow.

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The gryphons were the first burden to take. They had been here long before us and claimed the land by the name of Sraderham as theirs. They did not share what they owned and basked in their own gloriful pride. They did not need to be saved, so they looked down on us, who were nothing but refugees lead by the most glorious six creatures in existence. It was then, that those very same gods declared themselves to be our guardians and that we should henceforth refer to them as such. And so we did.

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A border was drawn between our land and Sraderham. While the guardians argued that borders were the reason that lead to the grande war of destruction, they also agreed that there was no way to appease the gryphons otherwise. Our land, then was Nordberg, called that after the grande mountain in the north that even lay beyond Cailleach, the impassable mountain border. This mountain, that was grander than all, reaching into the sky, was the Nordberg, called so in olden times. The guardians called our land so, to let it become just as grande as that glorious mountain in the north.

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Monsters, beasts left from the war or even before that native to this land, were roaming these grounds. They killed young and old, not concerned who it was they slaughtered. To protect us from them, the guardians built walls around our land, keeping the evil out and the good in. The gryphons, who had been too proud to build walls to secure themselves, benefited from this and so, some of them decided to move to our land, to live in safety.

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- The Keeper Scrolls, Brocwulf of Sudstow, "The Beginnings"

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I took my child and fled from it

The times of darkest war,

Nobody's fault it was at first,

And safe was Parandor

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We fought in war, but yet did not,

To keep our children living,

But then it ended and they came,

To show the gift of giving

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Abandoning our pride

It was no way to go,

But foolish ones did fly and flee,

And forth fell the white snow

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The pride of Sraderham,

Was shrinking more and more,

Not even he knew what to do,

The king of Parandor

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Those beasts of south, declared gods,

How dared they take control!

But our kin listened to them not him,

We payed a heavy toll

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Eventually it came to this,

having to surrender.

Adjusting to the city life,

From hunter to a vendor

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Greneth we kept and also,

The proud pride Sraderham.

But the king of Parandor,

Now fragile like a lamb

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Our feathers we showed proudly,

For they kept us warm,

Unlike those other fools,

Who wore cloaks in the storm

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And so it came and went,

To Nordberg we had moved

And while safe from the shee,

We still disapproved

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- Songs of Sraderham, Vol. 5, "Nordberg"

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Nordberg is one of the very few cities that still stands from human age. Magic that lingered there from the destructive war of black magic had protected it to fall apart completly.

When the war of the gods had come to an end, many mortals wandered to the ruins of the old city to find shelter. Their own lands had been destroyed and their leaders were dead. Six gods then took it upon themselves to watch over those helpless souls. Together they rebuilt the city to create more shelter from the freezing cold, and they also started to grow food in the surrounding areas.

With time, six races started to dominate the population of the city. The deer, the horses, the wolves, the owls the felines and the gryphons, who had lived in Nordberg even before the war.

To avoid fights between the dominat species, the gods, that still guarded the city, chose one leader from each species. Those five kings, together with the gryphon king of Parandor, from then on ruled Nordberg, while the gods kept protecting the city. Five castles at the edges of town were built, while the holy cathedral, that still remained from human age, was used by the six gods as a place to rest. Apart from being a home to the six guardians of Nordberg, the Cathedral also is a place to speak prayers.