The story of humanity is, as I have previously written, the story of the Glanos, Sahart, Enalia, and their offspring. Glanos and Sahart were brothers and possessed the irresistible charisma of their father, Carme. They both took Enalia as lover and both sired three children by her. Hopelessly in love with them both, she was unable to choose between them and so vacillated weakly, bearing each of them children. Though at first each professed not to care, their pride was too great for them to stand the thought of his lover sleeping with his greatest rival. Great friends initially, this jealousy ruined their friendship and, in lieu of coming to blows, they went from Ceylon and journeyed in different directions.
Glanos settled finally in an area of plains near the Western Ocean and at the northern end of the Vashnar mountains, while Sahart came finally to the Peshwar delta near the Eastern Ocean and settled at the southern end of a great, lush valley. These two brothers, formerly virtual partners in everything, never saw each other again. With each came his children, grandchildren, and various allies amongst the other humans, until over half the humans had gone to rally around either Glanos or Sahart.

The places that Glanos and Sahart settled were, of course, eventually became known as Ashtan and Shallam, respectively. Time passed and though there were legends in each city of the other, there was no contact between the two for a millennia. When they finally did re-discover each other, it was with animosity in their hearts. Each searching for a source of precious metals without the risks of the perilous Vashnar mountain range, they met north of the Siroccian mountains, within which both had discovered significant mining potential. Initially only wary of each other, they quickly mustered arms to protect these new-found resources and began their legendary conflict.

Though the battles they fought and the campaigns against each other that they won and lost are too numerous to be described individually, the ebb and flow of the campaign took place in three distinct cycles.