Primal Wilds

forThe Primal Wilds is an Aemidium plane and birthplace of the barbarian. It is a realm of untamed wilderness, vast jungles, megaflora and megafauna. It is deadly to all but the most skilled of hunters and barbarians. It's ruler Ardemys is the Aedric Lord of Instinct. He crafted the realm to be a place in which life was driven entirely by instinct, regardless of capacity for intellect. The hunter-prey relationship is no better represented anywhere else than in the Primal Wilds.

Barbarians
The first barbarians were a lupine-humanoid hybrid created by Ardemys, known as skinwalkers. They were native to the Primal Wilds, where they hunted and lived completely ignorant of the wider universe. When Midrann, Aedric Lord of Bastion invaded the Primal Wilds, Ardemys needed warriors to defend his realm. He taught his aedrith how to tap into the deepest recesses of the psyche, and draw forth a primal rage that allowed his warriors to tear apart their enemies.

Eventually Ardemys's barbarian hordes beat back the aedrith of Midrann, but the damage was done. The Primal Wilds had been corrupted beyond recognition, pitched in a perpetual battle between civilization and nature. Many barbarians left the Primal Wilds, traveling across Aemidium and laying waste to the various micro-realms they discovered. Some ventured into the Physical Realms where they taught mortals the secret to Primal Rage.

Very quickly the concept of a barbarian spread throughout the Physical Realms; worlds were sundered beneath unending hordes of mortal barbarians. Soon there was not a single world untouched by the rage, and the conflict that played out in Aemidium all those millennia ago was now being replayed across countless worlds.