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A THUMBNAIL HISTORY

Archaeological finds at the Great Ruins of Argoth, north of Felinio City, and in coastal areas around the mouth of the River of Adventure, south of Yalicia, in the Felinian Empire, have presented evidence that intelligent life was in that area as early as 13000 PA, and probably earlier. It is likely that Drakatoj moving westward from Ark-Cram across Gaiavio and the Central Ocean Islands found a comfortable, temperate home, and quickly spread in all directions.

Studies by paleontologists have confirmed that organized Lynxen tribes were living in the forests of the continent around 33000 PA, the earliest evidence of that extinct genotype on Drak. As in virtually all other corners of the planet, widely separated tribes of all the genotypes developed in relative isolation from each other on a very sparsely populated world with untapped resources available nearly everywhere. It is likely that conflict, if it occurred at all, was rare and very localized, although this cannot be confirmed or refuted by evidence surviving from this prehistoric era.

One of the oldest known written documents on Felinio, the "Kajero Genealogica de Dioj" (Genealogical Book of the Gods), which does not survive today, was quoted in many other religious and political texts written as late as 210 PK when it was used as a divine justification for the assumption of power by the first Caliph of Qitlan. Writing appears to have been virtually universal on the continent by 503 PK, the date of the founding of the Caliph's Library at the University in Paaz. Numerous examples of a relatively well-developed literature, documentation of a thriving trade, and the universal use of written religious tracts all survive in that honored institution.

Population growth on Felinio seems to have proceeded fairly evenly, though more in northern coastal areas, and less in the colder southern climate. All racial genotypes have existed on Felinio from the earliest times, though the Caliphs of Qitlan drove most of the Spirits who once populated the far north of the continent first into the mountains on the western edge of the Caliphate, then into the islands to the north, and ultimately to the lightly populated continent of Spiritio where Spirit and Spirit-derived races were even then in a great majority.