THE FIFTH AGE OF URTHE: 4300—2150 BCE

The Age of Earth—The Age of Agriculture—The Age of the Bull

Greater Forces of the Age include the good goddess of Agriculture and two good Giantish Gods; the neutral creator god of the Giants; and evil gods of Oppression, Destruction, and War.

The First Humans

Although this is the Fifth Age of Urthe, some name this time The First Age of Man, for it was at this time that the first true Humans (as cavemen) appeared on the Urthe, evolved from the Elven-bred dakon apes. Lead by a man born Oct 13, 4115 BCE, the Men soon traded with their fellow Urthe races, and became particularly friendly with the Elves, from whom they learned much lore and many skills, including Agriculture, which the Humans used extensively. The plow is first used in this age, and humans make their own pottery. By 3500 BCE, Humans have developed their own writing. By 3114 BCE, mesoamerican humans had developed a calendar from which to reckon their history on Urthe.

The population of Men exploded in the Age of the Bull. Some, very rare humans began to commune with the Forces, and the first human clerics and wizards began their arts near the end of this age. The Elvish Bloodline had been sundered by this time, with the varied Elvish peoples splitting into distinct nations of their kindred, though all Elves still reckon this the Age of The Grey Elf King of Anatolia. His lands extended from the Ionian Sea to the Taurus Mountains, and his capital was in Crete at the High Seat of Cydonia. A common unit of currency is the shekel, which is a silver piece.

In 2807 BCE, a stone from the sky struck the Urthe.

The First Bronze

The movement of the continents had slowed to an apparent stop in this age, with the map of the fifth age looking almost identical two ages later; however, sages contend that the movement has not stopped completely, and that the continents are still moving, albeit very slowly. It was in this fifth Age that the Dwarves smelted the first bronze in 2300 BCE, which they traded for the papyrus invented by the Elves. The Elves forged their Blades of Ceremony, and the Dwarves wrote their first Scrolls of Metallurgy. Skills and products were all traded freely amongst the good races of the young Urthe.

This age saw the rise and fall of King Sargon of Akkad.

Aom looked on…