On the planet Terra, when recorded history began, Man coexisted with the Necroms. Necroms were intelligent catlike humanoids. The dawn of this period was known as the First Age of Magic. In the Second Age of Magic, a war broke out between Man and the Necroms. By the middle of the Second Age, Man was nearly wiped from creation. Those who survived, fled Wellspring, and journeyed across the sea into the unknown, finding new homes and created fortified domains. In the Third and final Age of Magic, Man established five island kingdoms; Commery, Fletching, Morgog, Swelldom, and Hort.

In the First Age of Metal, Man turned from the lost art of magic to the might of weapons as they discovered iron, then steel. Large armies were created, then Man fought amongst themselves forgetting the Necroms into myth. For generations the wars continued, until an arranged marriage between the two strongest kingdoms, Commery and Morgog, ceased the bloodshed. And so Man established the first Emperor and Empress and the tradition of Amalgamation. When both the Emperor and Empress of the Five Kingdoms died, the two strongest kingdoms wed, crowning a new dynasty, and so began the Age of Amalgamation.