Sarid Setting Lore

It is said that the first humans were born to this land miraculously, a miracle. Each of these primordial humans were allegedly born with their own individual language upon birth. As they learned more about themselves and began to learn one another’s languages they began building communities. They eventually began asking questions of the nature of the miracle that birthed them and began studying the divine. Countless eons have passed since that day and many nations have risen, fallen, been immortalized and forgotten over the course of that time. Numerous ancient powers lay dormant in these lands due to the lost knowledge of these ancient peoples or the sacred power held by their inhabitants. While humanity has spread far since those days, many still know the name of their ancestral homeland.

•  It is said the the ancient humans studied and worshiped the divine (the specific word they used could refer to to a individual, a group of people, a natural force, or truth devoid of fact interchangeability). This seems to include the worship of gods but also the practices of the kami treating each as pieces to the whole that is the divine. 

• They have an old custom translated as legacy of heroes where certain individuals of heroic standing take on multiple partners to perpetuate their bloodline. In the case of men they have may have multiple wives but are expected to attain high levels of chivalric behavior when courting and marrying as well as expecting to take care of any offspring from the relationship. In the case of women they may only have one husband but may have children with any partner(in fact it’s customarily considered an honor). It is speculated that the tradition was started by the first adventurer who had four wives (one he married for duty, one for business, one for compassion and one for love) and was adopted by the great king of dragons. Rather notably there none have been granted the honor in recent memory and those who proclaim it for themselves are seen as pretenders or worse.

• It is said that the humans study of the divine lead the gods to Sarid and that it was these primordial humans that taught the gods of prayer, sacrament, meditation, and other religions practices now commonplace.

• It is said that the first individual to worship a god was the Sarukin of the thirteen kingdoms: the king of heroes.

• It is said that it is a land were starvation is as common as dying of starvation is uncommon. (meaning there is little but enough to survive and that it is concerning when there isn't)

• The food that grows there like milk fruits and honey cones. They are few but they are incredibly sweet and memorable. 

• The great oceans that once birthed the first civilizations have dried up and become nothing more than vast deserts containing no history of their own. 

• It is said that not only are there humans of every appearance still there but there are many humans that are largely unknown and even mysterious still living in these lands. Humans that walk like they are on stilts, humans with arms that are as long as they are tall, humans that bear the third eye of true sight, and even humans that are tall like a giraffe.

• It is said at the great library of yuhnan they trained 6 generations of demigods. And that in the next great hour of need it would be rediscovered to teach a seventh generation.