Ragnarok Forum The Points of Interest in Ragn..

Throughout history, even more than ever now with the chaos caused by the nuclear fallout, the east has always been a place of poison, dangers, and mystery most of all. As explained beforehand, at one time in the past, the anima species altogether took up that side of the super continent. When the wolfish wolken rose to power though, the eastern realm was fated then to become a land that would be feared, hated, as well as repelled by the western civilizations forever afterwards.

Even with the age of Gaia having passed by and Ragnarok present, the west has very good reason to continue to look upon the east - even though empty, quiet, a void in itself - with hateful mistrust. In the first place, the western peoples have fallen from their places of grace due to the past actions of their eastern counterparts. In the second place, the east may be silent nowadays but its eeriness, dangers, plus history are more than plain to those who go anywhere near it. And as for going anywhere near the eastern side of the super continent, the few who do are usually the most experienced units of the human, elven, along with anima military.

Whether or not it is obvious to see, there is a reason for why the west sends its best warriors, soldiers, defenders, to watch over the only pass - the Fated Pass - that links the grim eastern reaches to the cautious western lands. There is a reason why sane citizens do not venture near that pass. All a person has to do to learn why is simply ask anyone who has gone close to that area and that anyone would claim that their hearts had increased in speed, their blood had gone cold, and their eyes had maybe seen things that weren't there.

250 years ago, Ragnarok was started. Today, the west is energetically trying to recover itself from the aftermath. As for the east, nothing is going on or is truly known about things over there. Yet, each time anyone is sent over there to try to figure out why things seem so quiet... those individuals, no matter how talented, hardly come back. And if they do come back, they don't come back the same or sane.

When the wolken invaded the elves so long ago, the rest of the anima species rebelled against such harsh actions that would supposedly secure glory for them all. Amongst the anima who would help the west win against the east and be quite successful at it too, were the Lizdra or the reptilian folk closely allied with the amphibious ones. Since then, since the industrial age where they were called traitors by the wolves of the east to the Ragnarok age today, the reptiles have self established the swampy coastal kingdom of Serkwesh just south of Lytainia.

Nowadays and as they have done in the past, with or without the understanding of the patient elves, the Lizdra have survived, hunted, built, along with plenty more while remaining completely cut off from the outside world. No, while the northern anima are more than eager to earn the alliances of humans as well as elves, the southern anima are not and have never been at all interested in such things. Perhaps, when the world war came to such a terrible end 250 years ago, the Lizdra's mistrust, impatience, along with caution towards outsiders have been dramatically increased.

More and more like the east with each passing day, little is known about Serkwesh nor the scaly people it is the homeland for. All that can be said for sure is that Serkwesh is just off of the coast of Lytainia, that the marshlands are a distraction, and that the Lizdra's actual homes are underwater in the collections of reeds.

As for the northern anima, they say that the southern anima will one day realize that they need others than just themselves to reach their full potential. Hopefully, someday soon, that prediction will come true. Most certainly, the Lizdra would help the west very much and, in turn, the west would help them just as much if given the chance.