Greyhawk Rebooted - 576CY

Zarumites fought fiercely, they were no

Origins of Humanity
Amongst the early human tribes in the
southwest of Oerik arose the first great
civilization of Zarum with its great capital
city of Anithor, thought to be home to
almost half a million people by -11,500
CY. The Zarumites dominated neighboring
peoples, such as eiger and the jeblikind
races, and their society was divided into
a rigid caste system, their lives ruled by
ancient ritual. The ruins of Old Zarum
today overflow with sacred spaces and
temples, though the names of the ancient
Zarumite animal-headed gods are still
unknown.
At some point around 11,000 years
ago, the Illithids invaded Zarum from
a neighboring plane of existence (most
believe it to be the Far Realm). Though the
match for the psionic might of the Mind
Flayers, and soon they were enslaved.
Many were brought to the Outer Planes
and elsewhere to serve as illithid slaves.
Other cities in Zarum were transformed
into work pits where illithid overseers
forced their slaves to toil for a thousand
years. Over the centuries the illithid
warped and changed many humans into
other species and these new slave races
were then redeployed throughout the
illithids’ plane-spanning empire.
In time the illithid empire was brought
down by a rebellion led by a woman named
Gith who was raised an illithid slave on
another plane but who’s ancestry stretched
back to Zarum itself. As the illithid empire
crumbled and Zarum was destroyed
by Gith’s forces, the now free residents
of Zarum fled for their lives. Although
many died trying to cross the mountain
ranges and jungles that surrounded
Zarum, eventually whole
tribes began coalescing for
protection as humanity
scattered to the four
winds.

These Zarumite
refugees also included
the races enslaved by the
empire; most notably the
Eiger and Jebli, Hochjebli
and Buchveer races.
They too were scattered
by the destruction of
Zarum with humanity
and in those early
centuries they
competed and
warred with human
tribes as they spread
out across Oerik. Over
the next 2,000 years
humanity wandered and
struggled to survive.
Multiple tribes of

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