ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE DWARVES AND ELVES

   It's obvious that the carvings were meant to be painted (the earliest ones were), but the carver never seemed to get around to painting the later carvings. In fact, the carver seemed to be acting under a great rush as the last carvings look to be nothing more than rough attempts as opposed to the detailed images at the first. Sadly, the carver was busy depicting the history around him/her, and couldn't give account of his/her own happenings.

   The pictograms tell the tale of a time when dwarves and elves ruled the land and humans were little more civilized than orcs. A great evil was devouring the land. The dwarves and elves united against it, trying to fight it back to the abyss from which it came, but the best they could achieve was a stalemate. Their warring became so fierce that the safety of the entire world came into question. Rather than destroy their world, an agreement was made in which each side would sacrifice their leader and then withdraw from the land (something about the land in particular made it desirable though this is not explained clearly in the images, only wavy glowy pool-like things with occasional depictions of wavy glowy humans. It's unclear whether the humans thus depicted are suffering or not but their expressions are wide eyed and open mouthed), ending their conflict and saving the world. The Great Lord of the Dwarves (and his sons who refused to let their father bare such a burden alone), the High Matriarch of the Elves (whose children had no qualms with letting her die alone), and the Commander of the great evil were offered up as sacrifices and then all three factions left the land. The dwarves, to the West. The elves, to the South. The great evil is not depicted as going in any particular direction, but it is clear that it too left the land, perhaps disbanding and going in all directions, or else to whatever dark realm first spawned it in the first place.

   Although the act of the sacrifice depicted in the images seems to have been done before a gathering of Other Beings, who or what they are, or what their role in the rest of the conflict was, is unclear in the images. It's as though the carver of the images assumed the reader would understand and therefore didn't elaborate or explain their presence. Either way, the Other Beings and their associated insignia have no resemblance to any beings or creatures or insignia that you're familiar with today. Your guess, at this point, is as good as any.

   Following the sacrifices and subsequent mass exodus, humans rose to prominence and spread across the land, finally becoming the dominant race on this continent and the continent to the North (Thrall, Threll, Thrill). Strange that this carving would contain a history of this land that continued even after the dwarven inhabitants had left and sealed their old holds. Who then has been carving this history? And why, at the very end of the carving, are there nine lone figures: two with wings, one with horns, one with half its body depicted as an elf and the other half as a human, one with a wolfs head, one with the same wavy glowy design as the source of the ancient conflict (though the eyes are obscured, could be lack of craftsmanship, could be intentional), and two of equestrian design (one dark and other light). The final figure stands a bit apart from the rest, it's shape is unrefined, more like a reference to head, arms, torso, and legs of a person instead of an actual carving of one. No discernible features are present on its face. The stone surrounding this final carving is cracked and chipped as though struck by a heavy blow. Perhaps there was once a proper carving here and it was removed. Perhaps the chips and cracks were deliberate, as many of them seem to feed directly into the shape and form of the carving, though that could be coincidence.