The Great Concordance of the Seven Races, in Brief

As with most worlds and most peoples, the world of Kerithar has had great civilizations and great catastrophes. The rise and fall of powerful nations and powerful individuals often dictates the course of history and affects most life on the planet. The Great Concordance of the Seven Races was the beginning of the modern calendar, and the mark of the end of the Age of Strife. The Seven Races were the humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, metallic dragons, and good-aligned giants. Each sent representatives to the Moors of Shalla to develop a treaty of peace that would bind all seven races. The Concordance came after the Dark Lords of the Arug Empire conquered the lands of Cardush and Starratherii and made war on the whole of the people of Jannath. The Dark Lords were sorcerers and warriors of fell power who were bound to the Demon Lord Urlag’gokul, who was a greater power of primordial evil. The gods of the people of Jannath rebelled against the dread god and his minions, in order to stop his conquest of the Kerithar. The result was the destruction of the Demon Lord, his Dark Lords, and the whole land of Arug.
The alliance of the seven races developed the Great Concordance in hopes that such evil would never rise again. The dark armies of orcs and goblins and their kin were slaughter and thrown back, fleeing to the southeast. Time passed quickly and the Darkness was forgotten, with the exception of periodic raids or invasions.
Peace brought prosperity, and the modern civilizations that are known are the height of achievement for all but the elves in the lands of Jannath. The ancient human kingdoms of Cardush and Starraatherii lay in ruins or buried. These kingdoms were ruled by wise kings and fought bravely against their own dark powers, but were lost to plague and famine. These kingdoms lived for two thousand years before the Great Concordance, and now, five thousand years after it, they seem only myths.
The year is 5041YC, Year of the Concordance, the month of Phalfellow, in the time of summer, and season of flowers. The Concordance recognized each races right to rule itself as it saw fit, as well as establishing respective areas where the races may settle. This recognized the boundaries of several of the surviving nations and settled land disputes that had raged for generations. It established trade rights, common currency exchanges, trade routes not infringing on any of the nations, and individual freedoms.