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 For thousands of years, the planet orbiting in [[settings:jaern|Jaern's]] place around the star Onra was not Jaern. It was instead Torandor: a vast world inhabited by today's [[lore:races:humanoids|humanoid]] races. Lizardfolk, avians, and most orcs were entirely absent on Torandor.
-It was here that worship of the [[:gods|Fourteen]] originated on the Jaernian plane. Records are poor, but it is thought that the original Torandese civilization reached cultural and technological heights somewhat similar to what we see on Jaern today before it was wiped out. The calendar still used today counts its date from the mythical founding of a powerful ancient Torandese civilization, Aldeberon. Little else is known about Aldeberon, though scholars have long searched.
+It was here that worship of the [[:gods|Fourteen]] originated on the Jaernian plane. Records are poor, but it is thought that the original Torandoran civilization reached cultural and technological heights somewhat similar to what we see on Jaern today before it was wiped out. The calendar still used today counts its date from the mythical founding of a powerful ancient Torandoran civilization, Aldeberon. Little else is known about Aldeberon, though scholars have long searched.
 To Jaernians today, the most significant thing about Torandor is its death.
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 Jelwah is well known because it was ground zero for a devastating plague that decimated Torandor's elvish population, known as **Elvesbane.** In the year 5352 SF, a meteor crashed to the ground. The Elvesbane pathogen was carried with it, and millions would die in the years to come. Only one elf in a thousand was resistant to the plague and survived. The plague would change their physiology, granting them incredibly long lives at the cost of a reduced ability to bear young.
-It was accepted for a time that Elvesbane was also responsible for the soullessness of some elves with Torandese lineage, though recent evidence has proven that, for Jaernian elves, this is simply not the case and soullessness simply seems to be an innate trait possessed by some.
+It was accepted for a time that Elvesbane was also responsible for the soullessness of some elves with Torandoran lineage, though recent evidence has proven that, for Jaernian elves, this is simply not the case and soullessness simply seems to be an innate trait possessed by some.
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 Jaern drifted into the Onra system in the early 7800s SF, and collided with Tysyl, one of Torandor's moons. This collision destroyed Tysyl, and shifted Torandor out of its orbit to spiral down toward Onra. While it did not actually fall into the sun, Torandor passed close enough that the gravitational tidal forces shattered the planet into millions of pieces. It is now an asteroid belt circling near Onra, reportedly a spectacular sight for those lucky few to go to space.
-Anticipating the destruction of Torandor, a great human leader known as the **Chaos Lord** assured the survival of thousands of people by evacuating them to Jaern via the Kaaren of Destruction. This vessel, constructed by the gods, was originally intended to be a weapon of mass destruction with the intention of destroying the inbound rogue planet. However, this plan was eventually aborted and changed into an attempt to evacuate as many Torandese as possible to Jaern. It is unknown why the plan was changed.
+Anticipating the destruction of Torandor, a great human leader known as the **Chaos Lord** assured the survival of thousands of people by evacuating them to Jaern via the Kaaren of Destruction. This vessel, constructed by the gods, was originally intended to be a weapon of mass destruction with the intention of destroying the inbound rogue planet. However, this plan was eventually aborted and changed into an attempt to evacuate as many Torandorans as possible to Jaern. It is unknown why the plan was changed.
 Some say the Chaos Lord saw that the Kaaren would not be capable of destroying Jaern or stopping its collision course, while others say that [[gods:isis|Isis]], [[gods:neptune|Neptune]], and [[gods:osiris|Osiris]] intervened. They pointed out that life existed on Jaern, in the form of [[lore:races:lizards|lizardfolk]] frozen beneath the ice and [[lore:races:onivero|Onivero]] in deathlike psychic sleep.