Vaporians

Vaporians
The Vaporians (pronounced vay·por·ians) were an ancient race whose technological remnants can be seen under the grounds in [TBA]. Vaporians have an idiosyncrasy where they have trouble remembering anything that is below them. Above and to the side, no problem, but below… they forget about it. Being deep underground, the City of Vaporia posed a particular problem. Other cities couldn’t mine there in the fear that they would make the ground collapse on top of the city. The Vaporians tried to rectify this by expanding their city higher up and even above the surface, but the plans were placed in the basement of the Vault of Vaporia, so they got lost.

Many thousands of years ago, the Vaporians had protected themselves against mercenaries, bandits and nature. The true origins of the Vaporians are lost in the mists of time (which everyone admits was a bit careless). All that was known was that they began experimenting with new materials, resources and technology to create incredible new machinery... but, as so often happens, they went too far. The Vaporians found themselves advancing much faster than the other races of Rathnir. This even improved when a miner discovered a whole new ore. Redstone. Because nobody else discovered redstone yet, this discovery made them ridiculously powerful. Soon, their quest for knowledge turned into a quest for power.

The good Vaporians stood against their power-hungry brethren and said that instead, they should focus on music, the arts, and a popular sport at the time, Robot-Ball. Most peaceful Vaporians eventually disappeared, but not all of them. The war-driven Vaporians soon outnumbered the peaceful ones, and the Vaporians' conquest of the undergrounds of Rathnir began.

Led by the Vaporian King, who wielded a Golden Crown known as the Golden Crown of Vaporia, the Vaporian Empire spread like wildfire. During their rule, the Vaporians uncovered the secrets of the new ore they called redstone and guarded it to prevent other nations from discovering their secrets. Keeping it safe for the future generations of Vaporians.

The original inhabitants of that land, the [TBA], banded together to free Rathnir from the Vaporians tyrannical reign and defeat the Vaporian King. In an epic battle, they managed to lock the elite Vaporian Legion of robots who act as the King’s personal guards inside of the Vault of Vaporia. With the Vaporian forces weakened, the [TBA] went after the King and removed the Golden Crown of Vaporia from his defeated hand, destroying him and deactivating countless Vaporian robots spread across Rathnir.