Podaquorum

The Podaquorum an ancient race of psychically potent, cephalopod-like creatures which once ruled the seas of Frostfell long ago, perhaps even before the old history.

Origins in the Ancient World
When speaking about the origins of the Podaquorum one must think not about the world which came before Frostfell but the world that came before that world, the Ancient World.

The Ancient world was almost completely covered by warm tropical seas, castles and battlements of coral were home to the Podaquorum who warred against each other in great psychic wars, each clan striving to dominate and control the others.

Presence in the Old World
As time passed the seas of the Ancient World receded and revealed the continents of the Old World, there the humans, elves and dwarves built their kingdoms and empires. As the land grew, the seas shrank and as the seas shrank so did did the Podaquorm empires who now waged even fiercer wars against each other, struggling over the shrinking resources available to them.

This era of fierce combat with each other reduced the Podaquorum population to just a few isolated clans.

The Death of the Clans in Frostfell
When Nixgus cast the cataclysmic spell which turned the sun into a Cold Star it froze over many of the oceans, driving the already struggling Podaquorum into a steeper decline. The clans turned against themselves with clansman killing clansman leaving only a few individuals left standing.

These remnants tired from millennia of war and conflict fell into a deep sleep and tapped into their vast psychic reserves. The physical forms of these remnants faded away and were replaced with gargantuan beasts fuelled by psychic energies and the race's deep-seated behaviour to dominate and control. These remnants have begun trying to rebuild their empires using the civilizations above the sea as thralls and pawns in one last and great psychic war.