The Gralan Mythos extends back over eleven thousand years; and extends through to incorporate elements of Shirithian and Jasonian mythos also, providing a rich tapestry of friends and foes, races and monsters, demigods and demons. Much of this mythos has been built out of the Gralan concept of 'expeditions' - effectively joint story telling exercises where a number of Gralans go on an adventure together, each posting a couple paragraphs to advance the storyline. Through these expeditions the bulk of Gralan foes have been discovered and understood - the demon prince Arrtu, The Whisperer and The Servant, the Items of Fate, the Queen of the Shadows - these and many more were first encountered in expeditions. The mythos surrounding them and uniting all these features has then been built up to the extent that, coming in now, it'd almost appear someone had planned it all to fit perfectly together from the start.
With much of it emerging from expeditions, however, spread across several forums and diverse threads, it has long been hard for anyone to even begin to understand the vast mythos - even Gralans who have joined later in the nation's history have trouble with some of the finer points. But with a lot of hard work the bulk of it has been assembled and formatted for easy public consumption, and it is this which we present to the Expo today.
Magical texts on all manner of things, including the text for almost every expedition; as well as magical stories from other nations; have been assembled in the Great Library of MANA. The Great Library is a fine place to turn for someone wanting to get right in and read a story or too.
For the more focussed scholar, the bulk of what is in the Great Library, as well as explanations and reference pages, are available on our wiki. Not only can you look at timelines and examine the finer points of each Age; you can find further details on lots of historical items and personages, such as the orbs, The Servant or the race of Krynii. If ancient history is not your thing, you can see what actually occured in modern times in magic, view the full text of different events, view expeditions thematically, with the overall storyline explained, or even look at the opinion of modern magical scholarship on matters like demons. If you want to delve into one of the most developed and interesting set of micronational legends, at least of those written after the fall of Menelmacar, now is the time to start.
And of course, though we use the word 'Mythos', IC it's all historical fact.
