It is 3 o'clock past Midnight, on the Day of the Moon,
the 14th Day of the Month of the Sun, Year 317.
Chapter 1
The Creation.
There are of course many worlds, many planes, and many dimensions. Of all these, Valhalla is a relative young world. It seems that several worlds at some point in time and pace, collided, making fragments of each world detach and join together, in an ever expanding plateau. Normally when this happens the life force of the fragments is too small to remain stable for a very long time, but in this case the first fragment was no ordinary fragment but the ancient castle of Valhalla, the home of Odin the sky-father, and his god-sons. It is very likely that it was his willpower that kept the fragment 'alive' long enough for other fragments to link up with Valhalla.
It didn't take long however before other beings of power began to notice that there was a new battle arena. Tiamat the ancient evil dragon saw an opportunity to create an empire. The evil lord Asmodeus started his rise to power in the underworld, removing lesser
daemons with his army of darkness. But behind it all there seems to be another being of great power, Scroogy has not been able to find out what this being is, if it is good or evil, if it is a person or a thing, or if it is one being or several. It is however certain that it's immensely powerful, and that it seems to be leaving everyone alone, for the present at least.
As mentioned above, the castle of Valhalla was the first fragment, and there- fore the center of the world, however Odin treasures his privacy, and he provided the lesser beings with a place of their own. In memory of the world he came from, he called this place Udgaard. Valhalla is a huge castle, but Odin felt that the gods would also need space, so he created Asgaard for their use. Soon however it became a problem that whenever a mortal died in combat his spirit returned to the center of Valhalla, Odins throne room. (This had most likely something to do with the universal ways that things worked in Odins home world.) This irritated Odin, so he arranged it, for the mortals to be immediately transported back to Udgaard.
In a normal world this arrangement would have been catastrophic, making it overpopulated in a matter of few generations. In Valhalla however the ever expanding land mass provides enough space for everyone. Humans have one completely dominating sense, curiosity. It didn't take long before humans found a way through the Cypress forest out to the fertile plains. Attempts were made to farm the land, but it wasn't until almost 700 years later that the first villages began to grow up. The reason to these 'Dark Ages' as they are commonly called is all but unknown, and it is most likely a question that only the gods can answer. The villages grew, and eventually melted together on the banks of a river. Here they founded a city under the command of King Cromwell's father Tron. Tron told Odin the Sky-father that in the city, he was going to build a monument to the gods of Asgaard and asked him what he should call the city.
Odin answered with the name Midgaard, and said that Tron should be king, and that as
long as his line ruled in Midgaard the gods would protect the city. Since then Midgaard have been reinforced by walls, and a castle protects the city. Midgaard was sacked once during the great war, but quickly rebuilt. After the founding of Midgaard came the first contacts between men and elfs. The elfs were creatures of great wisdom, and good hearts, so they got along well with King Tron. The elfs had, unlike the humans, arrived to Valhalla without their patron god. Naturally they were very confused about the sudden changes in their universe so they were
quite happy to exchange knowledge with King Tron and his advisers.
The elves were not many, but their warriors were fierce, and their knowledge great, so both sides were happy to make an alliance against the constant raiding parties of orcs, goblins and other 'greenskins' that poured down from the mountains. A few years later that alliance came to include the dwarf kingdom and thus it was known as the brotherhood of the three kings. At the time of the founding of Midgaard there was
already a diversity in Valhalla unequaled anywhere else in the known worlds and planes of existence. There was a part of The old world of Valhalla itself, there was a bit of Kara-Tur, a bit of The Middle Earth in Arda, a bit from Faerun, and even a small part of the young world of Krynn. With so many different races, beliefs, and loyalties, the years of conflict that followed was really quite unavoidable.