About Athas(why closed)

Well, I almost gave you the long version but decided the short one will do.
An extremely brief history of the burnt world
The Blue Age
The sun was blue, the world was an ocean and there was was nobody but
halflings and half-witted thri-kreen. Paradise. The wee ones used biomorphic
tech(neither magic nor psionics) and accidentally screwed up their ocean.
The Rebirth (-14,100)
They fix the ocean by changing the sun with the pristine tower. There is now
more land and the sun is now yellow. They then change themselves into all
the other races vowing never to bend nature again.
The Green Age (-14,000)
Sprung straight out of the rebirth. Everybody flourishes and psionics(the
likes of witch have never been seen since) replaces nature manipulation.
Paradise anew.
The Time of Magic (-8,000)
A pyreen named Rajaat(he was ugly) discovers the principles of magic.
Teaches only humans, preserving magic openly- defiling magic secretly to a
select few. Then goes to the Pristine tower to channel the sun's energy into
himself and his select champions. The sun turns dark and crimson. Every
thing goes straight to the ninth layer of Baator.
The Cleansing Wars (-3500)
Rajaat still kickn around and orders his champions to kill the other races
so he can give the world back to the halflings to start a new blue age. They
sack the orcs, lizard men, gnomes and many others before finding out about
the halfling part of the plan and Borys lead the revolt. Rajaat is
imprisoned in the hollow. Borys and crew become the sorcerer-kings.
Age of the Sorcerer-Kings (-2000)
Borys becomes a dragon. The others become dragons. And noone is surprised to
find themselves on the tenth layer of Baator as the Dragons/sorcerer kings
run amuck squirting defiling magic out their wazzoos. By the time they get
bored and lazy like most other kinds of dragons the world of athas is as we
see it today.
Age of Heroes (-11 to present)
TODAY!

When the halflings changed the sun with the pristine tower , they also
altered the "very building blocks of life". Then twisted old Rajaat tweaked
them again. Then the Sorcerer/kings sucked most of the life out it all.
So between the three of them, they inadvertently managed to almost
completely seal of their entire sphere. That's story explanation.
Mechanic explanation is that if it is any bit less than worse than
impossible to come and go from athas then it wouldn't be athas anymore.
People would start using magic other than defiling/perserving and more over-
Everyone would leave! because Athas is a pretty miserable place to be, of
course that's more than half the fun.

P.S. Hey George, your little snippet about the approach of the drow fleet
was beautiful.

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