Old Empire

The elves boast that their memory is long, but even the tales of the Elves of Elysium can't explain what remains of the Old Empire.

Crumbling spires and collapsing, weed choked ruins are all that mark a society that once inhabited much of Malex, and perhaps beyond. The design of these decaying edifices does not betray influences on the works of the living races in Malex now, with a primeval, oppressive, alien design to them.

The few scholars in Malex who study this forgotten society agree that the Old Empire was concentrated around Isidis Bay, at least what existed in Malex. Isidis, the Coastland city, is said to be built up from an Old Empire complex that sat on the coast. While ruins dot the Coastlands and in deep forests of the Lowlands, into the eastern hills and mountains, the Old Empire's reach seems to have never extended to the island continent.

From the remaining scraps of information, either taken from carvings or precious surviving artifacts, it's clear the Old Empire was a magic-using people. They seemed to have delved into dark magics based around several gods, or a god or gods that took multiple forms. The symbol "X" features prominently in Old Empire work.

Beyond the little that has been gathered, mostly amongst scholars at the Arcane Academy in Port-of-Utopia, nothing is known of the people who appeared to once span the world.