"Mondain the wizard hath wrought his malice well. Our nobles bicker amongst themselves, and each hath retired to the confines of his keep in hopes of watching the downfall of his rivals. Verily, the Evil One hath heaped indignity upon curse by releasing upon the Realm a host of creatures and beasts so bloodthirsty and wicked that our defenceless people fall as grain before the reaper's scythe. These denizens of the underworld hold sway over all that can be surveyed, save for the strongholds of the nobles besotted with their own ambition. Nowhere in our once peaceful country may a traveller find safe passage or lodging, save in the keeps of the self-proclaimed kings - - and they demand hard labours for their indulgences."
-an old artefact about Mondain.
Mondain the Wizard was a greatest conqueror known to our lands. So great was his hunger for power that he murdered his own father Wolfgang, who had refused to give him the powers of Immortality. By so doing he possessed the Gem of Immortality and entangled all Sosaria to his corruption. In his madness created foul creatures such as lizardmen and orcs which are still a living reminder of Mondain's madness.
But at the Darkest hour of Sosaria, a stranger came. No one knew whense he came, but his courage was without a match. Despite the danger, the stranger managed penetrated the Dark Citadel of Mondain. He proofed himself a saviour by slaying the wizard Mondain and shattering the Gem of Immortality.
The destruction of the gem caused a masses of earthquakes around the Sosaria, causing the land to take it's present shape. The stranger vanished in the mists of history and was not seen again, and it was said only Lord British knew his fate.
With the fall of the Age of the Darkness, as the period later came to be known, Sosaria greatly needed rebuilding. It was then when one of the Sosarian Kings, Lord British, united whole Sosaria as Britannia, and declared himself as ruler of the land. He established Virtues to fill the philosophical emptiness and needs of people to belief in something, however the seeds of Mondain's corruption are still present, even today.
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