Yarma is born into one of the human tribes living among the lakes and their Islands. His tribe was fairly primitive, living a life of limited agriculture and hunting and gathering around the edges of the lake.. However - even for them - life was good and comfortable.

Yarma was an inquisitive boy, and became apprentice to the local shaman and learned the ways of the spirits of the land and the lakes, and soon rose in power and influence within his tribe, and even his nation. However, one day as he was traveling the lakes, he found a small island that he had not explored before and decided to meditate upon it. Running his canoe into the reeds he forced his way on to the land and explored it briefly. To his surprise he found a beautiful rock, deep blue veins with dark red, in the centre of the island and he determined to sit on it while he contemplated the serenity of the day and the abundance of wild life.

As he sat upon the stone he realised that he could feel its thoughts and being an inquisitive and open man, he started to share and explore its thoughts … But how could a mere man, even one such as a powerful shaman, compete with the will of a spirit rock - even an old depleted spirit rock like this one ..

From that day Yarma changed - he traveled more widely - but always came back to His island. He built his home there, his room over the spirit rock, and he gathered more and more people under his banner. He traveled more widely and visited the elves in their forests and the dwarves in their halls, and the gnomes in their hills. And as he was inquisitive, he learned from them anything they would teach him. Soon his powers grew and he traveled even more widely and visited with the Dragons in their lofty peaks and the Drow in their deep dark caverns - and still his power grew…

Gradually he bought all of the peoples of the lakes under his dominion and a great tower arose on his island, as he became even more powerful.

Slowly the other races can to see that Yarma's domination and control were spreading, and were starting to take in their outlying borders and people. With increasing momentum he was starting to take over the whole continent.

The older races banded together to repel Yarma and his new found powers and troops. The Dwarves sent armies of axe-men, while the elves sent archers and mages. And the gnomes came - both with their contraptions and cross bows … But even then - with the combined armies of all the nations, they were losing … And then the dragons came and the balance shifted although it was still a stalemate.

Finally the Drow, pitched their dark arts into the fray, just one magical strike in the dead of the night that broke Yarma's outer walls, before they retired to their deep caverns again.  Once the armies were inside the defenses, Yarma's armies were beaten. The battle was still slow - but the outcome was inevitable. Deep inside his tower Yarma gathered his power to himself in one last effort. He spent the six months it took for the combined armies to close on him gathering his power and laying his spells, and then finally he unleashed his enchantments.

Yarma had the spirit stone carried to the top of his highest tower, and standing on it called down a rain of fire and rocks from the skies.  Exploding meteors fell on the hosts of the land at his command, destroying them as they stood, pulverizing the land under their feet - leaving massive craters. And then the final masterpiece, an asteroid of great dimensions striking the command center of the opposing armies, destroying them totally. Unfortunately he had miscalculated - the impact was so great that the lands around the lakes were destroyed and earthquakes caused the ground to split asunder. The lake area sunk under the immediate impact and the two channels to the open sea opened up on either side of the dragon ranges. The impact and effects destroyed what remained of Yarma and his spirit stone and what ever civilizations he had left. The, now uncontrolled, meteoroid strong swung away out of control and away to the south, destroying everything in its path, except for the solid rock of a couple of mountain scarps and created the great swamps.