The Antecedents

The Antecedents were the second race to inhabit Eia at the beginning of the Agae Primordia era, 19000 years before the Second Ruin. They succeeded the now-extinct Niaran race and came to Eia via the Lands of Eons Shallow.

They were blessed with godly powers and left to build the first monuments and cities that their successor race, the primordians, would later inhabit. Though they were immortal, a phenomenon known as the departure took them from Eia and into the Follow, with the exception of 3 that stayed behind to oversee the safety of their fledgling successors. Most notable was Vrithalidas, the self proclaimed deity who ended up ruling over the primordians and bore children with one of them. He would be overthrown by his grandson, Vasarth, who became Vasarth Amberfern, the first elected Primonarch of Eia. The others, Haenaar and Anver, bore children together and began a sister race to the primordians known as the Ahtex, or Old Ahtex, before ascending to the Follow themselves.

The Throne of Eia that resides in The Royal Palace of Erwood was shaped by the Antecedents and still has their names carved into its stone. Using these signatures (roughly translated into Yrdain), every park and public garden in the city was named after one of them.