The Dragon-Giant Wars

Era of Dragons / ~5 million years ago
Historians can only guess how long giants lived and spread in isolation before they challenged the might of dragons. Sometime though the power and number of the first true giants made them a threat to dragonkind, and their great ancestral war began. Surely the conflict started small, but over time even dragons of opposing alignments would confront the giants with a united front, even if temporarily. There is little record as to the truth of events during this period; however, giants tell many legends of the great deeds of their heroes. The ruins of ancient dragon civilizations first mark these events reaching worldwide scale sometime around five million years ago. This period is believed to have lasted for roughly a million years and changed the face of Andaria forever.

It is thought that during this time the first of the lesser humanoid species came to the world, and evidence points to the direct manipulation from their dragon and giant masters as to their creation. In the image of their dragon overlords came the reptilian and saurian races of the lizardfolk, kobolds, troglodytes, sahuagin, and their serpentine cousins like the naga. All which would learn and to this day know the dragon language of Draconic. In the likeness of the true giants came their lesser cousins including ogres, ettins, trolls, and cyclops. All which to this day speak Giant.

Perhaps the master races just needed servants and warriors due to the bloodshed of earlier days of the Dragon-Giant Wars, regardless the lesser races all lived much shorter lives and therefore multiplied much more rapidly than their masters. War continued to be waged across the world for hundreds of thousands of years as the lesser races spread across the world and joined the fray. There are some scholars that believe many of the other humanoid species of today would come from giants including humans, halflings, dwarves, gnomes, and orcs and other greenskins. Most scholars although do agree the Dragonborn came from the dragons in some way. However, these races have their own origin myths and would not appear on the world for many millennia yet. The first of today's common races to appear on the world would be the elves, and not until the age that would come after the end of the Dragon-Giant Wars.

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