In the mid-19th century, the Atlanteans - that is, the underwater race whose culture was based on Atlantis's remains - relocated to Antarctica, as did Lemurian rebels called the Ancients. In the 1770s, Captain James Cook became the first human explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle, but apparently neither he nor most subsequent explorers discovered the Savage Land. He was attacked by Garokk's worshippers and forced to flee across the jungle - only to awaken back in England without any idea of how he had gotten there. Thirsty and fatigued, he wandered across a shrine for the stone God Garokk, in front of which stood a cup with a strange liquid in it. When the sailor washed up in the Savage Land, he believed himself in a land of the dead. In the 1400's an English vessel searching for a new passage around the South Pole crashed on an iceberg, leaving only a single sailor surviving. During the battle, a pipe was accidentally struck, releasing an unknown liquid that placed Belasco in suspended animation.Dante's men were mutated into the Children of Dis. Dante found them just in time to witness Beatrice dying in childbirth and, enraged, he attacked Belasco. He embarked onto the island, closely pursued by Dante and his men, and took Beatrice into a network of underground passages designed to resemble Hell. While en route, Belasco raped Beatrice, and she was nine months pregnant by the time they arrived. Flavius, where their summoning ritual could take place. He fled with her to the Savage Land where the Elder Gods directed him to Mt. in 1380 A.D., the demon sorcerer Belasco kidnapped Beatrice dei Portinari, beloved of Dante, to give birth to the first of this new race. This realm was apparently a timeless realm where he would live out his exile until the 'Earth disintegrated'. In 1245 A.D., Khor, the sorcerer was an active practitioner of the black arts in France was banished to the so called 'Land Where Time Stands Still' for some unspecified crime. In 3000 BC two godlike aliens briefly made the Land their home, and at some point Sagittarians stored a Planet-Destroyer there with a gigantic robot, Umbu, to guard it. Every thousand years or so, high priests needlessly conducted human sacrifices to 'protect' the Land. The animal-people developed their own societies, sometimes, as with the Aerians and Pterons, resorting to war. Some survivors clung to Atlantean culture in cities like Lemura and Sylanda others forgot their origins, becoming ancestors of the Swamp Men and other tribes. The Beyonders, having observed their preserve over the millennia, sent Fortisquian operatives, later called the Caretakers of Arcturus, to repair its environmental system, but nonetheless, over half the population perished. In 18,000 BC, alien and mystic conflicts resulted in the Great Cataclysm, sinking Atlantis and ending its empire, but the Land and Pangea were protected from inundation by surrounding mountains.

The Beast-Men became dissatisfied with servitude and, following Pangea's automation, rebelled in the First Pangean War and were allowed to colonize underpopulated areas rendered habitable by the Nuwali effect. Atlantean scientists extended the tropical effect, creating a recreation/commerce center called ' Pangea,' then genetically altered Man-Apes into humanoid versions of birds, monkeys, fish, and other animals.

In 18,500 BC, it was colonized by humans of Atlantis, who exported prehistoric life throughout their empire while importing unicorns and other mystic creatures. Early HumanityĪ faction of superhuman Eternals dwelt there at least briefly, leaving a temple complex behind. They supplemented their preserve with prehistoric mammals and early hominids, or ' Man-Apes.' Following the Nuwali's departure in 200,000 BC, little is known of the Land's history for over a hundred millennia.

When Earth's continents shifted circa 50 million BC, the Nuwali augmented the Land's volcanoes to preserve its tropical status. They however were able to survive in the Savage Land. Dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period when a meteorite struck the Earth. The Nuwali stocked the Land with Earthly life of the era, most notably dinosaurs as Earth's flora and fauna changed over succeeding millions of years. 200 million years ago, the alien Nuwali created the Savage Land, in Antarctica as one of several planetary 'game preserves' for the mysterious godlike Beyonders.

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