The Restructuring

With the uprising having been successful, and with what remained of the decimated Dragina clans retreating into their ancestral land, the time had come for humans, the most prolific of Fou Lu's races, to seize control.

Their first goal was survival-for generations, they had served the Draginas as lowly servants, and they now had to quickly create a societal structure of their own. With the grand spires and magnificent towers of the Dragina cities being far too grand and inconvenient for their basic needs, the humans set about tearing down the magnificent cities, using the material to create their walls and homes.

While the strong and young carried on with this, however, the magi were setting about something that would ultimately prove far more beneficial. The Draginas had lived an enchanted life while they had ruled-literally. The ruins of their cities were stocked with amazing artifacts-some of which the humans could operate, others which utilized energies far beyond their understanding. The magi set about breaking down these enchantments, separating complex spells into simpler and more understandable components. While it did destroy what remained of Dragina magic, the benefits were not to be denied-human magi of that period learned much of magic this way, setting their mages far beyond those of other races for a time.

In return for shelter, groups of human magi would summon rain for the crops, create rivers, and provide villagers with everything they needed. Of course, in their power, they grew arrogant, and with the villagers more and more dependent on them, the first human cities of the world were oppressive magocracies, with villages clinging around the gigantic towers the magi eventually had constructed. Inevitably, the minds of the magi turned to conquest, and they raised massive armies that roamed the world, claiming all in their path. Since many of the Mage-Kings now in control were descendants of the same few families of humans allowed to practice magic under the Draginas, much of the world eventually became united under a few families of 'nobles.' Though their names are now lost to time, it is rumored that many of the noble houses today can trace their origins back to these original nobles.