History of Dovani

Dovani is the largest and most diverse of the all the Terran continents; likewise, its history is the most complex and difficult to understand. The fact that much of the continent's oldest event went unrecorded does not help to enlighten modern scholars. Nonetheless, the rise of the Dovani nations along the northwest shores has led to a strong interest in the pursuit of knowledge concerning the continent's past.

The Dawn Age: to 6000 BCE
The period before the coming of the invaders from across the sea is known as the Dawn Age. Knowledge of this period is taken almost entirely from inter-cultural mythological analysis and from the scare ruins of the Dawn Age civilizations. The former method only yields speculative results, but the latter has given modern historians surprising, even disturbing knowledge of the past.

The great ruins of Klephom-täl and Maĵom are cities of inhuman proportions; these two were discovered submerged under the Sea of Lodo, which is an ancient plateau that sank with the rising of the seas, while some scattered remains of other cities have been found half buried throughout the continent. The masonry is constructed of massive blocks of granite generally 14.9 by 14.9 by 23.84 meters large (note that the proportions follow the golden ratio). The ruined buildings that remain are windowless and simple, although many buildings are inscribed with massive glyphs dug deep into the stone. The glyphs are still undeciphered. This is basically the only material evidence of the Dawn Age civilization.

The ruins are dated according to their locations relative to geological strata in the sedimentary rock. The discovery of these ruins from so far back (the oldest samples from before 120,000 BCE) threw off modern theories of human descent and origin. Although the only artifacts are made of stone, the Dawn Age civilizations must have been remarkably advanced in order to raise such massive structures. Modern man originated in Dorvik around 130,000 BCE, and all evidence says that these peoples only had caveman technology up until 7,000 BCE at the earliest. The existence of places like Maĵom and the rest severely confuses this "out of Dorvik" theory; how could such primitive peoples produce such advanced architecture and civilization? It even challenges the theory that there was one line of human descent. Baring the unlikely possibility of an extraterrestrial/divine intervention, the Dawn Age remnants simply cannot fit into the Dorvik Theory. The Dovani Theory states that there were at least two and possibly more independently arising lines of modern humans, only one of which dominates the present world.

The similarity or dissimilarity of this “Homo dovanis” to the Homo sapiens is impossible to determine. It is likely that both arose from a single primate species that had spread across Terra around 1.5 million years ago. Some explain these massive ruins as non-human architecture of some race unknown to modern man; this idea originated when scholars noticed the striking resemblance of mythological characters from across the Dovani cultures. A great number of them speak of some distant ruined race of non-human creatures related to the gods which were departing the continent when man was first created.

In any case, the Dawn Age ended when the first Homo sapiens arrived around 7,000 BCE.

The Archaic Age
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