The Phyrmyran Empire

This is an article on the History of Feyworld

Years: c. 4000 BF to c. 3000 BF

Age: The First Age of Man

Continent: Aurea

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Forgotten Empires on Aurea

That giants once ruled central Aurea is no secret, though some human scholars tried to discount the few visible ruins as remnants of a human culture of monument builders. Recently uncovered dwarven records of the War of the Sun, however, record that a race of giants not only lived in the Temesh river valley, but ruled an Empire that stretched from the shores of Sonat Bay to the Two Kings. According to dwarven lore, they built vast cities throughout the region, enslaving other races to their will. It was these ‘Phyrmyrans’ who first built fortifications at the Two Kings, the carvings on which still remain today, some seven millennia later.

Dwarven records claim that these Giants worshiped Mormo as Chagan of the Birchwood Rood and, though they briefly allied with the dwarves against the humans of Aurea, they soon betrayed the dwarves and took both humans and dwarves as slaves. Their leader at this time was the Tyrant Hiranya, though there are few specifics about Hiranya, why he betrayed his dwarven allies and even where his seat of power lay.

Though most ruins of the Phyrmyran Empire have long since turned to dust, the foundations of the Two Kings and the Ruins of the Granite Lords are the two their most famous remains. It is said that the highlands of the Moldogoi Hills and the Negruja Hills still hide giant-sized labyrinths and, for the daring or foolish, giant-sized hordes of gold from an all-but forgotten age.