The old stories say that the race of man crossed the Darterre Ocean between 20,000 to 10,000 years ago and settle the continent of Ainoya. According to these stories man were fleeing from a great evil and they did not know if crossing the vast ocean would save them, but they had to try. It is unclear what these great evil was, but most have taken it to be a supernatural force. There are those, however, whom believe that this great evil was nothing more than famine or drought. Whatever the truth, those whom had made the journey across Darterre knew they had to make a home for themselves upon the strange land they found themselves upon, and hope whatever they had been fleeing from didn't follow them here.
At first, the people tried to stick together. There were strength in numbers, but there were differences they just couldn't overcome. They broke apart into four groups. The Lehamani went to the south to settle a vast thick jungle. The Yirdec settle the mountains in the east. Along the west coast is where the Meezai people made their home, and within the center the Talath people built their kingdom. These four kingdoms existed for 3,000 to 4,000 years. There were conflicts of course. Sometimes one kingdom would threaten to overtake another, but the invaded kingdom would always push back---expect in the south where the Lehamani laid. Try as one might, these were not people to be invaded, and truth be told not many were interested in trying. The land that the Lehamani made their home were not the sort that others found a great interest within.
However, after 4,000 years the three great kingdoms of the north started breaking into smaller kingdom with the kingdom of the Talath people lasting the longest. Truth be told, The Talath saw this as an opportunity to put all of the people of Ainoya underneath one banner, and some say they got close to doing just that. Yet, their kingdom crumbled before they could bring their plan to fruition. over the course of the centuries other kingdoms rose and fell until the nations of the currant age have taken shape.
