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The Kaal`Kor are not a pretty race, though not unattractive. They are a short, strongly-built people, with ruddy complexions and thick, brawny frames for the males and ample curves for the females...
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Humans of Imarel and Ishaela - by T.A. Saunders ©2009 v1.7
It was because of this craving that the Prince of the Sivanoshei forbade Humans to learn magic. The Dwarves, who distrust any magic that does not come from prayer to the Old Gods, likewise admonished any teaching of magic to Humans. However, there was a great movement amongst the magic-adepts of Am-Shei that the Humans should be taught magic; that they had the right to know such things and the Elves had no province to hold it over the child race as if they were gods.
The law was made by the Prince that no Human was to be taught sorcery and it was a law almost immediately broke by a movement of Sivanoshei led by the illusionist, Ko'rashae Ri. This magic-for-all underground instructed Humans in secret, though as Humans take great pride in their deeds and their accomplishments, it was not long before it was discovered by the Prince of the Sivanoshei and later by the Dwarves.
What the other races of Ishaela had not realized that the Humans, tempted by the dark will of Khavos, the Spirit of Decay had learned far more magic on their own and delved into serving the Arch Demon in return for greater and greater power of both sorcerous and spiritual variety. It was not long after this that many of these secret acolytes of Khavos became the first vampires; the vessels of the Spirit of Decay's will on Ishaela.
With the viral capacity of the vampire to corrupt those that they came in contact with, it was not long before Elves also fell under the dark sway of Khavos and soon following the Dwarves as well. This uprising led to the overthrowing of the Human Kingdom of Sengaard with the assassination of the entire royal family. When this happened, Khavos placed his vampire lieutenants in charge of the city of Sengaard and renamed the territory the Kingdom of Xos, after his own Abyssal Plane.
Events that transpired next are well known; vampires infiltrated all nations and there was a great upheaval that led to the use of the World Gate and exodus to the mysterious World of Imarel that Ishaela has always drifted above. The Elves took what few humans remained untainted and within reach of their armies and evacuated them with their colonists, leaving behind the Sivanoshei warriors to fight off the vampiric threat and make safe Ishaela, or seal the threat of Khavos behind them forever.