History of Ilshenar
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Title: History of Ilshenar
Author: Jerno Milik (Lycaeum)
Mondain ruled for one thousand years using the Gem of Immortality to control Sosaria and bend it to his will. Mondain's reign ended when a Stranger from the stars arrived, destroyed Mondain, and shattered the Gem of Immortality.
In the world we live in this was the end of the first age of darkness, but not in IIshenar. Let us not jump ahead though. First we must speak of shards and facets and what we know about them. When the Gem of Immortality was shattered an image of Sosaria was captured in each of the broken shards.
Each shard from that point further as far as we can tell, has its own history and peoples. In recent years we have discovered that within each shard there are what may be limitless facets that contain individual worlds - again their own histories and peoples. The possibilities of infinity inside of infinity has many people at this very moment rather upset and thinking if there are layers beneath our current layer, could we not be another layer under some other world's layer? I leave that thinking to the philosophers.
In the world we know we now have our original facet, Felucca and our new facet, Trammel. One must also consider that Minax too did come from another facet. As to the nature of her previous world we know very little, but I digress.
Trammel is in itself an oddity for it did not exist until Lord British and Nystul cast their magicks to make it so. How exactly this sorcery works it beyond my meager knowledge, beyond the fact that Lord British and Nystul drew power directly from the Virtues themselves to make it so. Then what of IIshenar our newly discoved facet.
The first brave men and women to venture into this newly discoved facet have returned with some maps and some literature.
Everyday more information is brought back to us and this new land's mysteries unfold. I have put together a patchwork of documents and tried to follow the path IIshenar's of history from the time after Mondain's defeat up until what seems to be a handful of years ago. In part this has been difficult as the people of IIshenar speak two languages often at once.
Being a schoar l find this most peculiar. The primary language is the common tongue we all know and use, scondary is foreign to an extent. It contains a very similar style of speech to the magic words we use to cast spells. An easy example is one I have found in reference to Wisps. Their word used for Wisp is "Orlor" In our world that be very similar to "Ort Lor" which translates to "Magic Light".
In fact much of the language used in speaking of magic or arcane knowledge often is done in this strange dialect. It has been a long running debate as to where the words use for spell casting originated, mayhaps Ilshenar will hold some answers for us. It leads me to wonder if these people knew more about magic then we, But again I jump ahead. Let us start at the beginning.