The Briefest of Histories of the Anorian People by Kuya Tio.
The Iteyans, those descended from the Moon God Iteyo himself. So says the Iteyan Histories which I assure you are completely wrong, and yes, I know that you will argue that I am incorrect and that I cannot possibly know what I am talking about, but I assure you, dear reader, I know more than you. So shut up and listen.
Let's start from the beginning and when I say the beginning, what I really mean is some indeterminate amount of time during the second world, not terribly long after the second Draconic war, which human populations tend to think of as the first Draconic war. Let me guess. None of this is ringing a bell for you. Makes sense because we're talking about the second world here and you have no histories on the second world. Yes, the second world. No, you do not live in the first world nor the second. We're focusing here on a group of humans that inhabit the southern continent. This particular group has the features that we consider Iteyan today, shorter stature, higher cheekbones, wider faces, heavy epicanthic folds, brown eyes, brown hair, yada yada. These people were in the process of creating their civilization. Then along came a few gods. This essentially is a common trope in the second world. Some gods screw with people and create other races. While this group of gods had a bit of an argument and decided to create several peoples based on the looks of the current and human inhabitants.
One God took the elves and gave them what we consider Iteyan features along with long slender curving horns and skin colors of red or blue. Yes, red or blue, not reddish, not bluish, but actually red or blue, solid colors here. Also made them insane. These original Oni-Sen all had some variation of eight insanities and lived about 1000 years. Yes, I said 1000 years. Of course, as you all know Oni-Sen breeding with humans gives us Oni-Kai, which for the most part are similar to our Oni-Kai today, save that they tended to be colored a bit differently, more towards the red or more towards the blue.
Another God took the elves again, gave them the southern continent or Iteyan features and made them so they perfectly inhabited the southern Arctic circle. These people became known as the People of Snow or the Yuki No Hitto. You will notice that there are no Yuki No Hitto today. We'll get to that.
Another God again took the elves and crossed them with snakes. That is where we get the lamia or Hibijin. These are rather similar to how they are today.
The final God in this took a fox instead of starting with an elf and gave that fox human intelligence and the Iteyan features and thus the Kitsune were born. This also explains why Kitsune do not breed with any other races, nor do they quite share most of the diseases that we all get. In those times, some of these Kitsune could transform in a kind of werewolf style into actual foxes. A thing they can no longer do these days.
And thus we have the foundation for the southern continent. We're gonna fast forward a couple 1000 years. Not a lot has happened. The craziness of the Oni-Sen created a genocidal war against the Yuki No Hitto resulting in the creation of a thin strip of land encompassing the entire south pole known as the Buffer Zone. The other three countries on the southern continent all border the Buffer Zone, the ocean, and each other. These countries were Ansev-Lii, Renkyu, and of course, Iteyo. And by far the worst country to live in was Iteyo.
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As we draw closer to the end of the second world, we must focus on two key players, an Oni-Sen called Mai Nohana, daughter of the infamous Mai Rei and a very unspecial slave girl whose name was Kisuku, who you in modern times will know as the Sanguine Fox. Of course, at this point in time, she is not a God.
Mai Nohana, sometimes referred to as the butcher of Mai Rei, in many ways suffered underneath the cruelties of her mother until at one point she escaped. Mai Nohana would find herself in a continent to the northeast of Iteyo where she would become an adventurer in a party with a couple of the local inhabitants and a Fire Islander. And we shall return to her later.
The slave girl Kisuku would be sold into the arena where the quiet Kitsune girl would find herself talented in the combat arts. However, much like Mai Nohana, Kisuku would find a single opportunity to escape and take it. And again, much like Mai Nohana, she would find herself in the company of a Fire Islander as well as the inhabitants of a country controlled by the Empire of Flame. Kisuku would grow in power and influence and the girl with no surname would eventually become known as the Sanguine Fox. And yes, I do mean the Sanguine Fox that is the goddess of battles and feasts.
It is said by the Bard Tathalen Orenthandal that Mai Nohana arrived on a rainy day to beg the Sanguine Fox for help in bringing law and order to the country of Iteyo. The records are sparse and in the third world, completely non-existent, but by all accounts, this small alliance did indeed manage to unite the several factions in Iteyo under a single banner with a side benefit of ending the wicked baroness, Mai Rei, supposedly by the hands of her own daughter.
Ah, but there is another player in this story as you may have noted that the Akumajin does not exist yet, and I may have also alluded that the second world was ending. So how then do we get a country known as Iteyo to become the moon God from which all Iteyans are descended?
The answer is a demon by the name of Azelyn. In the time spent between helping Mai Nohana reconquer the country of Iteyo. The Sanguine Fox and her company of fellow adventurers were serving the whims of Azelyn, a proto-demon from the first world who was determined to survive the end again.
The first attempt to create a pocket dimension failed, whose idea it was to convert the moon to a habitable place is uncertain. What is certain is that through certain shenanigans, it was actually made possible. And what people were moved from the world unto its moon at the end, of course, the Iteyans.
And thus we can account for a few different things. Firstly, the Iteyan version of Flame Law, which is not an actual Iteyan concept. This would have been imported primarily from Mai Nohana, though likely also from the Sanguine fox herself, the demon Aezlyn may have also contributed. The second most important thing would be the Akumajin race as Aezlyn would be the progenitor demon from which all a Akumajin can trace their origin.
And then comes the chunk of Anorian history that you know, for the Iteyans descended from the moon God Iteyo, destroyed all the dragons, and created a thriving civilization. When that world was going to end, as the gods were trying to kill each other, the Iteyans broke the fabric that held the different realities apart and transferred themselves into the new world where they again rebuilt their civilization. And hence we are here.
I do understand that what I say is Heresy and that the only copy of this text will end up in the library of the Imperial Palace. That doesn't make it wrong though.
-Kuya Tio on, The Briefest of Histories of the Anorian People, Anorian Heresies located in the Grand Library of the Imperial Palace.
“What horse shit.” Ping Xiang said to himself as he closed the book and slid it back into its place on the shelf. The story was obvious drivel, though how the author knew his work would end up here caused the hair on the back of Ping’s arms to stand up on end. He felt like he was being watched.