In the Lands Beneath the Land

The Underrealm is world in of itself that resides in the bowels of the world, or at least under Aesyr. The people that live here are twisted malcontents forsaken by their surface brethren, warped by their experiences that tainted their blood and resulted in them being godless sycophants, psychopaths, and sociopaths.

We’re they ever to get over their own hatreds, scars, bloodthirstiness, and cynicism they would be a threat that none of the surface would be prepared to face. Only a state of tolerance is allowed here...but for how long?

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Dark Elf Ascendancy -

Little do most know, including the Elves of the surface world, other Elves had survived the downfall of the Immortal Empire following the cataclysm that created the Badlands and the world’s disconnection to the realm of the Arcane.

These Elves did not join their brethren in their swearing off of magic to find a new home, where they joined the Fey and became kings of the wilds. No, these Elves found their brethren to be idiotic to forsake magic, too narrow minded to simply swear it off instead of improving their magical knowledge and skills with feverish zeal.

They retreated to the underground, leaving behind the surface world to regroup and form a new civilization. In this new empire, they would take the absence of the Arcane to double down and perfect their practices of the dark arts and fully embrace the forbidden magics that had been the doom of their ancestors.

But the dark magic usage was not the only thing they inherited from their predecessors. Indeed, they had also inherited their egos, their narcissism and decadence, their privy to sanguine debauchery. And like with the dark practices, they have taken this to its absolute ****. The entire religion of the new Dark Elves is one of eventual apotheosis. They believe themselves to be gods in the making, achieved once they have recaptured their kinds’ immortality...and take the excuse to indulge in unholy pleasure as they so believe they deserve.

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Black Dwarf Under-Empire -

The creation of the Black Dwarves is a tale of tragedy, betrayal, ****, and liberation. And this chain of unfortunate events start with a decision made during the darkest time of Dwarven history...The Age of the Green Menance.

A decision by Dwarf King that resulted in many Strongholds in the deepest parts of the Dagger-Wall cut off from the rest of the Dwarven Empire and **** to find for themselves, **** to face the majority of the green tide.

For far too long they withstood the invasions, barely surviving thanks to their craftsmanship and fighting spirit, even when they felt that their creator had abandoned them to their dark fate. But that was when they were rescued by their new gods...and then were enslaved, tortured, and experimented for generations upon by them.

The undying spirit and stubbornness of Dwarves are never to be underestimated, though. For, in time, the Dwarves rose against their masters, their new gods, and slew every single last one. Now they are free, though changed in appearance and physiology, and with a hatred against the weak gods and their surface brethren, of whom they have been told tales of their betrayal.

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Greyskin Slaughterbands -

The members of the green tide that could not join their brethren on the surface world, locked in the dark chasms of the Underrealm with what would become the Black Dwarves. Little did these Orcs and Goblins know the transformation they would undergo through the generations here.

Giving up on fighting the Dwarves to explore and investigate this new world, the Greenskins found challenges at almost every step. The beasts and monsters of the Underrealm proved to be fights more worthy than mere stunties, true tests of strength that didn’t involve the complications siege warfare.

A combination of fighting these far more dangerous prey, diets of toxic fungi and creatures, and a disconnection from their gods demanding conquest rather than slaughter had wound up resulting in mutations within these Greenskins. Their skin darkened and their minds became clouded with more acute bloodthirstiness and a psychotic need to fight and kill. What use is there in gods that don’t come to the mortal realm and partake in the slaughter?