This setting was the original campaign setting used by PFC in its very early days. It is now entirely discontinued, and very little information exists on it. If you have more information about Torandor, please contact the PFC Story Board!

For thousands of years, the planet orbiting in Jaern's place around the star Onra was not Jaern. It was instead Torandor: a vast world inhabited by today's humanoid races. Lizardfolk, avians, and most orcs were entirely absent on Torandor.

It was here that worship of the 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.

To Jaernians today, the most significant thing about Torandor is its death.

On Torandor, most folk lived in rather insular communities, rarely interacting with those outside of their own racial groups. Society was divided not by where you hailed from, but what you were: elves lived with elves, humans kept to their own, dwarves did the same, and orcs mostly interacted with other people through war and violence.

The elves of Torandor claimed to be the first sentient people in all the land. Some myths purport that they were crafted from flora by the gods. They stuck close to nature, guarding it fiercely from the other folk. Few of the names of their countries or cities survived, save for one: Jelwah.

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.

Not many dwarves made it to Jaern after Torandor was destroyed, and those who did were not very happy to see a new world mostly covered with water. There was little land to be found with any similarity to their homeland of mountains and caves. For a time, most dwarves would survive amongst other peoples before a great leader, Diedrich Stohnk'lar, would call them across the world to take up a place in Kratal.

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.

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 Isis, Neptune, and Osiris intervened. They pointed out that life existed on Jaern, in the form of lizardfolk frozen beneath the ice and Onivero in deathlike psychic sleep.

The Kaaren of Destruction was rapidly refashioned into a massive starship designed for a single trip. Only a minority of Torandor's population made it onto the Kaaren for evacuation. Passage onto the vessel was managed mostly by priests of the Fourteen, and there was a significant amount of preferential treatment - passage was not cheap, either.

Notable among those left behind were people from the humble land of Alborn, who paid for passage onto the Kaaren with all their worldly possessions. They were betrayed, though, and left to die. As Torandor spiraled towards its sun and broke apart, the Albornians rejected the gods and their spirits went to the Kurago, where they became the first nomadic guardians.

The Kaaren of Destruction, carrying all that was left of Torandor, touched down on Geleia, Jaern in the year 7812.