The Alien Invasion

The turning point was in the summer of 1499. Up until this point, both factions of the Attari still saw Earth as having nothing to offer them. It was not until 1499 that a Zerakni scouting party, visiting Earth on a beaureaucratic formality, realized that the magic practiced by Humans interfered with Attari technology. They realized that the knowledge contained on Earth may provide the trump card by which they might finally defeat their longtime enemies. Thus, the Attari began to send spies to infiltrate the various Earth governments. The Zerakni were a fiercely rationalistic people; this was their greatest strength and their greatest weakness. They thus decided that the best course would be to impersonate dieties in hopes that the humans would blindly obey them.

The Zerakni would initiate their invasion by creating catastrophes such as earthquakes and hurricanes to make people believe that the end of the world was at hand. This component of the invasion began at January 3, 1501.

1. Ironically, it was on that very day that Andrea de Croix, an Earth noblewoman turned adventurer, began her first quest. She would become very important as the war went on.
2. The Zerakni also used mindbombs to stimulate mass hysteria. One detonated on that day would cause many of the world's greatest warriors to leave their kingdoms in search of a completely nonexistant artifact called the "Golden Dishcloth of Righteousness.