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The Myth of the Great War
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Almost two thousand years ago a terrible war broke out between the two mighty guilds of wizards -one good and one evil- that controlled great empires. Wizards on both sides vowed to fight until they were utterly triumphant, seeking to purge their rivals from the earth. With fearsome magic and dragon armies they battled for centuries, neither side winning final victory .:: In the process of their warfare, the wizards wrought vast devastation on the world forests blazed up, islands sank into the sea, entire races became extinct. Eventually, the the great goddess of Nature awakened from her sleep to witness the savage conflict. Shocked by the destruction, the Goddess sent a vision to a single  human: the woman who would become the first Grand Druid. Through the vision, this chosen figure saw that she must found a druidic order to preserve the fragile remains of her world's ecology. With the guidance of her goddess, the  Order grew in strength until finally it had the power to intervene in the wizard war. The force of young druids pooled  their powers and together vanquished the members of both battling guilds, transforming the combatants into innocent wild beasts. Once the former wizards now unable to fathom the concept of good versus evil - slithered, bounded, loped and crawled off into their ruined habitats, the Order began to heal the world.  Since then, the druidic order  continually works to prevent such destruction from ever occurring again. Druids pledge to make sure the wars of good  and evil no longer mar the precious earth. But, the Order also has bitter enemies in the ancient remnants of the  guilds of warring wizards- those good and evil mages who luckily escaped the fate of their fellows. Each guild claims it had been on the verge of victory and would have won, had druids not interfered. :: -As recounted by Hierophant Pulver, Master of Dungeons.