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Marrishland has a long and violent history. Several civilizations have risen and fallen, here, and the book tells about events during one of the most turbulant periods - a period whose events determine whether a civilization survives or dies.

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The Hundred Tribes (ca. 3500 - 1500 A.C.)

As the Ersvol expanded rapidly throughout Marrishland, they quickly lost their cohesiveness as a culture, fracturing into any number of small tribes scattered across the subcontinent. In isolation, these tribes evolved separate identities, and this included distinct religious beliefs. These fragments of the Ersvol are known collectively as the Hundred Tribes, though their actual number is not known and was likely larger than a hundred.

This isolation, coupled with exposure to environments very different from those their ancestors had known on the coast of Marrishland, led to an evolution in their religious beliefs, as well. Like the Ersvol before them, the villages of the Hundred Tribes are identifiable by the shrines at their centers. Unlike them, however, these shrines almost always featured a statue of the tribe's patron deity, and each possessed sacred symbols and tools specifically consecrated to that deity.

During this period, the Ersvol civilization ceased its expansion, becoming just another of the Hundred Tribes. Their importance diminished considerably until only a handful of coastal villages within a few hundred miles of the Novichnevich Peninsula remained of this once dominant culture.

(Contributed by Weard Leif Gesyk)