A History of the Races in Mycp

Originally, I had the world of Mcyp inhabited by: Mages, Men, Meholanian, and Boran. (I should have thought of another 'm' name. Hmmm...I hadn't noticed that until now.)


After a time they grew to include the Gwaeon (and angelic-like race with similar physical attributes to the Meholanian people. Possibly a precursor race) and two sister races to the Meholanian people who lived on islands.

None of this made much sense. So I was forced to redo it.

The world begins with the Gwaeon who are still an angel-like race. The Perfect beings who grew lonely in their world. They created a race of dragons known as the Ninewe. Thus, the Ninewe grew angry with the refusal of their gods and decided to storm their kingdom.

Their attempt to destory their creators failed and many of the Ninewe died. The captured Ninewe became playthings of the Gwaeon who tried to find a way to "fix" the Ninewe. A few of the Gwaeon, however, knew this was wrong. They rescued the captured ones, but the damage had already been done. The "fixed" Ninewe were given two forms. One beast and one more human. Some were stuck in variations between the two. So the few rebel Gwaeon gave them a safe haven in the Debuta Mountains and hid them from their brothers and sisters.

The second attempt at life was a success. The Gwaeon created a race called the Da'ld. They were perfect in form, marvelously beautiful, wise, and powerful (but nearly as powerful as the Gwaeon). But the Da'ld did something unexpected. They intermarried with the human form of the Dragon Ninewe and these children were known as the Meholanians. Powerful, but not nearly as beautiful or powerful as the Da'ld.

Some of the Meholanians who inherited the genetic attritbutes of the dragons were exiled to the Isle of Sheol to guard the Entrance to the Black Lands and known as the Asfaer.

The Gwaeon's last creation came from the Gwaeon Prince, Sael, prince of trickery and mayhem, who created the Arnog as a parody of the Da'ld.

The Arnog were ugly beings, but far more powerful than the Da'ld. The other Gwaeon hated them and sentenced the Arnog to forever serve the Da'ld.

Now the Meholanians were arrogant in their beauty and power and decided to created life for themselves. So they created Man. Man rebelled against their creators however and along with the Arnog, overthrew them and chased the Meholanians to the farthest corner of the world.

The Arnog and the Men intermarried and their race became known as the Mages.

But Man grew jealous of their more powerful cousins and sought to devise weapons to gain power over them. Naturally, the Mages were more powerful and a particularly bitter Mage (who was more Arnog than Mage) named Keleo devised a plan to get back at the race of Men. Thus the Great Mage Wars.

Oh and meanwhile, the Ninewe Dragons who were more human than dragon decided to call themselves the Boran. And they hid away in the swamps, away from all the wars. Seems to be a Ninewe thing because the Ninewe dragons didn't leave their havens in the Debuta Mountains until the Great Mages Wars and then during those wars they were almost entirely killed off.

Anyway, I think this explains Keleo and the wars a bit better. Before if was just like, "There was this dude named Keleo who went power hungry and decided to kill a bunch of people and raise a zombie-like army."

Still the Gwaeon are a little annoying in this version, but thinking about it, they've always been sort of annoying. Even way back in the first story I included them in. I think I was about thirteen when I wrote the story. The Gwaeon were these pissy beings who didn't want to help the humans and liked hiding in their really elaborate homes.

Hmmm...maybe they really haven't changed all that much.