"Starry Wisdom #3 The Children of Yig" - читать интересную книгу автора (Call of Cthulhu RPG)

Hyperboreans arrived 1 million years ago and formed a new civilization. 750,000
years ago, they too were gone. Today, the merest remnant of Hyperborea forms
Greenland.
At the time of the serpent people migration, 5 million years ago, conditions
were also changing upon the surface. The dinosaurs which had destroyed the First
Empire were long gone. The mammals had begun to rise. In Africa, the first
hominids were evolving; they were the first true ancestors of man.
After fleeing Hyperborea the Serpent People tried to form a kingdom upon the
newly risen land of Lemuria. Unfortunately they found themselves in contention
with the new-born human race. By 500,000 BC the Serpent People civilization of
Lemuria had fallen. Fleeing even further south the Serpent People came to the
Thurian Continent. Here they were finally able to reform their Empire. They
named it the Second Empire, and it was centered in Valusia, a land named after a
legend. Many wars were fought, but eventually the men of the Thurian Continent
were consigned to thralldom. Some fled to less oppressive realms, but at the
center of the world, the serpent people ruled.
Unfortunately, the Age of Reptiles was over, and the Age of Mammals had already
begun. The serpent people could oppress the most primitive humans, but they were
doomed by the relentless march of evolution. It took a million years or more,
but the earliest human civilizations arose: Kamelia, Verulia, Grondor, Thule,
Commoria, Atlantis, and Lemuria. After a hundred wars, the Second Empire of the
serpent people was destroyed. Thereafter, Valusia was ruled by humans. Some
serpent people fled to the south of the Thurian Continent to create a new
kingdom, but most went underground, hibernated, or simply died.
The serpent people who remained were unwilling to give up their mastery of the
world. Where strength had failed, they turned instead to deceit. Using their
powers of disguise, they replaced humans of power and ruled in their stead. For
aeons they were successful, but an Atlantean named Kull eventually brought their
schemes to an end. The time was 18,000 BC.
Shortly after the rule of Kull, a great cataclysm shook the Thurian continent.
It was the beginning of the end for the serpent people's southern kingdom.
Fifteen hundred years later, Lemurian survivors, hardened by centuries of
disaster and slavery, fell upon the serpent people cities that had been spared
by the cataclysm. The serpent people's southern kingdom was destroyed. However,
Stygia, the human country formed from its ashes, would carry forward many of
their beliefs, including the worship of Yig.
The last remnants of the serpent people fled ever southward, stopping only when
they reached the ocean. Here, they founded one last city, Yanyoga. It had none
of the grandeur of its predecessors. It lasted for thousands of years, but in
10,000 BC it too was destroyed, by a Cimmerian descendant of Kull.
Since then, the history of the world has scarcely been touched by the serpent
people. They still lurk, dwelling in the deepest caverns, sometimes even hiding
among us, but their power has been broken.
Serpent People in the Modern World
Four major classes of serpent people may be found in the modern world. There are
the degenerates, the lurkers, the dreamers, and the sleepers.
Degenerates have withdrawn underground and so have little effect on the modern
world. Some have degenerated due to interbreeding with humans, while others have
simply devolved. Various subspecies have lost their limbs, their intelligence,
and even their ability to speak. The best known degenerates are the worms of the