What is now Rockall was once the northern highland region of a larger subcontinent, Atlantis. The primitive peoples of the highlands were long left in peace; but then, around four thousand years ago, the Atlanteans conquered and subjugated them. When the ocean destroyed the greater part of Atlantis, the folk of the highlands rebelled against their masters. The Atlanteans were slain or driven away surviving only on Lesser Rockall (Vragansarat) and the southern offshore islands and in hidden refuges in the lesser hills of central Rockall.

The inhabitants of the forested lowlands and northern grasslands of central Rockall were so severely decimated by plague that these regions long remained almost uninhabited. For many centuries the folk of the Northern and Eastern Mountains altogether lost contact with the peoples of the south. In the north, the Safaddnese people were long predominant, whereas the southern hills and plains became divided into a series of little realms, variously governed.

When western Europeans discovered Rockall, new settlers began to arrive. Norsemen settled in the northwestern region, Irish in the Eastern Mountains and Englishmen widely in the central plains and forests. Not until the fifteenth century, however, did south and north resume contact.

That was at a time when Atlanteans from Vragansarat and the islands attempted a reconquest of their former empire, from the south with an army largely of mercenaries. Their defeat was followed by the attempted expansion of a second empire from the northeast (Pavonara); but that did not reach beyond the Northern Mountains and soon also collapsed.

After this, though Rockall was never wholly at peace, there were three centuries of relative tranquillity, ending when the rich ores of the Reschorese mines were discovered. A fresh wave of settlement from Europe began, the French and British both establishing territorial foot holds and the Germans forging an agressive alliance with Pavonara.

Its many realms had always made Rockall vulnerable to outside conquest. The rise of a Nationalist Party, striving to unite them, was spearheaded by an imaginative leader, John Brownlow. After various internal convulsions during the First World War, Rockall was at last united and became a republic, with Brownlow as its first President and a unique constitution. Though involved in the Second World War, Rockall's policies have been, in general, isolationist and its relations to other countries as minimal as might be managed.