Sheol

Sheol is and was a land of different people. Where most of the people of Jagdas dwelt in the sunlight, the denizens of Sheol lived in a land of blood and smoke. They knew no days and no nights, no weather or water. This land was called, "the Nether" by Overworlders, but for Sheolians, the closest word was, "home."

Mythology
It is said that Sheol has a guardian that has long existed before it. A being that has no name known to mortals, for it would cause insanity upon it being spoken. Thus, those who follow it call it, "The Leader." The Leader is not a god, but is parallel in power. Sheolians do not worship The Leader, but revere it's commands.

It is said that after the Creation, The Leader arose from the Void and was amazed. He traveled to the new world that had been made and was disgusted to find the primordial gods fighting in a manner he found wrong. He saw that they fought over the fact that they were to hot or cold, that they warped their own siblings' works due to petty reasons. When they fought, they fought with tooth and nail and never used wit among them to diffuse a situation. He was displeased.

He found some thousands of the new peoples of the new world and took them as his own and the primordial gods did not notice but to their constant infighting. He took them to the Nether where he instructed them to create weapons and battle, and the peoples whom had learned nothing from the gods due to neglect did so. The men and women fought until about two hundred remained. The Leader ordered them to halt and announced that they belong to him now and forever and that the lands they are in are theirs to control. Then as He raised one hand, purple lightning crackled out of it and struck his new people. Their forms changed from human to that of stronger and wiser pigmen and the corpses around them were raised to become hogs and rotting pigmen for their failure in combat.

From there, the people of the Leader went to conquer their new home and made grand bastions of power. They had such luxuries so that even the poorest among them wore gold.

The Voice
Then the Leader, found the greatest fighter and told him that they will guide His people as His "Voice." The Voice amounted to a king except for the fact that the Voice held a part of The Leader's essence. The Leader spoke through The Voice. It was The Voice's duty to guide and die by combat so that The Leader's essence would travel to the victor.

The Decline
Over time the luxuries of the pigmen's life affected them. They became sluggish and refused to kneel to The Voice and thus The Leader. This angered The Leader greatly and so He renounced his claim as His former people's leader. So the pigmen died and were mocked. They would fall by their own food, the hoglins and be zombified as a shame. Then they would be beaten back by unfamiliar peoples whom came in all colors and allegiances. Their bastions would become ruins for they had forgotten how to build and repair in their sloth.

History
Sheol was founded by a player that would be known as "Unnamed". Unnamed was the first leader of Sheol. The Leader found him to worthy of the mantel of The Voice and so it was. Unnamed would become a great leader for his time as he lead Sheol through troubles and trials. Sheol would grow and prosper for a time that we be know as the, "Golden Age" due to the prosperity and vast mining of the resource. Sheol would become the strongest power centered in the Nether.

The Bad Times
The Bad Times are also known as the "Time of Trials." This would be the decline of Sheol due to the hubris of The Voice. Even though that they were the chosen people of The Leader, he would not interfere in history's coarse. The Voice had an insane plan, he proposed a law to the United Nations of Jagdas, which was a reigning legal body of the Overworld. The Voice saw it as a law that would make it so that the Overworlders could not abuse the Nether for it's resources, but the Overworlder majority saw it as an act of segregation so that Sheol could have a monopoly over the entirety of the Nether. The law failed.

This would upset The Voice very much to the point that he sacrificed himself to the lava ocean, leaving Sheol leaderless and with no Voice. Most would flee, scattering in every direction of Jagdas and beyond, taking what they could and leaving the rest. Sheol would be left to rot for some time, until recently.

Sheol the Second
The Leader appeared to a refugee of Sheol known as TheRealOJOJ and ordered him to become His Voice, which he agreed to. Now Sheol the Second, also know as Sheol the Lesser, rests to the North on a mushroom island and has stayed neutral for the most part, always watching conflicts in Jagdas and taking notes about tactics for the future. Sheol the Second is a town in Apolloania. The main export is war supplies and the main import is feathers.