N/History/Classical Age Outline
Fiction Wikia, the place where you can write fiction.
Note: This is a compilation page. Please modify contents on their respective pages.
[edit] Reign of King Horador I
N/History/Reign of King Horador I
This article is about lore, myth, and literature in Lorica.
[edit] Reign of King Horador I
- 47: King Horador I moved immediately to consolidate his rule, and put down a revolt led by an alliance of rebellious nobles.
- 49: The Vigor, Energy, and Force tribes united to challenge the new threat from the civilized tribes. King Horador I was defeated in a major engagement, forcing him to give concessions.
- 50: Undeterred, King Horador I took the offensive. Yet again, he was defeated, and in the resulting treaty lost all of what was once the Perception tribe.
- 52-53: Emboldened by their successes, the barbarian tribe leaders attacked each other. The leader of the War tribe cast the Ghoul tribe in a particularly bad position as a traitor to the side of King Horador I, and, driven to a frenzy, the other tribes proceeded to eliminate it from the political map.
- 56: Learning from what had happened, King Horador I pulled one of his own tricks: he married off one of his daughters to a barbarian tribe leader of the Health tribe so that the two could improve relations, but right before the wedding he ordered one of his men to poison her. She died while in bed with the tribal leader immediately following the marriage ceremony. The other tribal leaders accused him of the murder and of ruining one of the few chances of getting a peace with the Union, and so forced him to step down. As the father of the dead daughter, King Horador I was entitled to a piece of the land of the eliminated Health tribe. In the meantime, by sharing in the spoils of the other tribes, King Horador I befriended the leaders of the other tribes.
- 58: King Horador I adopted the policy of assimilation of the barbarian tribes by letting its peoples enter his own Union and thus share in the glory of civilization, especially the blooming city of Horadrum.
- 60: King Horador I led a repulsion against invading Gorens from the north. In the truce, the Gorens agreed to join in King Horador I's army, despite their constant ridicule of the weird-looking humanoids.
- 64: One of the barbarian tribes, Energy, saw that the policy of assimilation would be a danger to its continued survival, and thus rallied together another alliance, this time among the Energy, Wealth, and Devotion tribes. They led another attack against the Union but were repulsed by the combined forces of King Horador I and the Gorens. King Horador I died in the engagement, however, thereby passing on the throne to King Horador II.
[edit] Reign of King Horador II and III
N/History/Reign of King Horador II and III
This article is about lore, myth, and literature in Lorica.
[edit] Reign of King Horador II
- 66: King Horador II was assaulted by an alliance between Gorens and Golems. In the ensuing battle, he managed to draw even.
- 68-72: The alliance spread to include the barbarian Energy, Wealth, and Devotion tribes as well.
- 74: In another engagement, King Horador II was also fallen, and his army was crushed. King Horador III rose to the throne amid chaos, ending another particularly short reign.
[edit] Reign of King Horador IV
N/History/Reign of King Horador IV
This article is about lore, myth, and literature in Lorica.
[edit] Reign of King Horador IV
- 84: King Horador IV continued the fighting and brought it to the very heart of the Wealth tribe. Just as he was in sight of the tribe's ziggurat, however, a final desperate action pushed his forces back. Then the forces of the othe barbarian tribes joined in, progressively eroding his gains. He settled for a truce at the previous boundaries.
- 87: King Horador IV's army was routed once again, and sued for peace with the barbarians, giving them the lands of the Emotion tribe.
- 90: King Horador IV avoided yet another confrontation, and gave even more land to the barbarians.
- 92: King Horador IV gave ground yet again.
- 93: King Horador IV gave ground yet again, then turned around to strike at the barbarians when they thought they had him frightened. He destroyed the invaders and regained the previous boundaries after butchering the lands of the Wealth tribe between his Union and the War and Force tribes. The Wealth tribe was devastated, and would never remain a major political power in Lorica.
- 96: The goblins attacked the Union on their own, and annihilated the defending army. King Horador IV was not present at the fighting.
- 98-99: Gaining word, the barbarians united and struck the Union from the southwest and the southeast (in other words, from downriver). King Horador IV concentrated his forces and struck at the goblins, pushing them into the mountains. Meanwhile, the barbarians settled for peace. Horador IV was then murdered in an ill-fated attempt to gain the throne.
[edit] Second Century
[edit] Prisoner of White
Once upon a time, a prince had a great secret. Now he was in love with a beautiful princess, who also loved him very much, and they were to be wed in one year, following the Festival of the Black Cape, held only in the Union of Five, where they were to rule.
But the prince was discovered, and he was taken away, to a prison in the far north, to die as a traitor. His father wept great tears when he found out the secret of his son, and the princess was heartbroken, for the secret was so deadly to the kingdom that none but the king would ever know. For the king had sent his son himself, and the king's word was law.
But when the princess finished her mourning, she was furious and demanded to be told of what his crime was, but none would say, for none knew, and when she questioned the king, he would not even speak to her, for he had grown very sick and could not speak. And so she set off on a horse, and departed to the north by herself, to save the prince.
She passed through village after village, and all the people saw her and recognized her, for she was one of the most beautiful creatures of the Five Tribes and they all respected her, and they all remarked how she was going off to her death, for now many believed that the only crime the prince could have committed was to be the bastard son of an enchantress or be a horrible beast, for only of those could a royal be sent to the Prison of White, where it is said to be of snow and ice all year round, and cold like a bone.
As she moved further north, she found instead of villages, she came to more and more ruins, old castles and fortresses and villages long abandoned. She also noticed the sky disappear, replaced by a stretch of white ice and crystal, and she drew her heavy clothes on and became a shadow against the icy waste.
And as she came to the Prison of White, she saw why it was feared so, for hundreds of towers of smooth steel, like swords, rose up from the snow as if to pierce the sky. And so at every door, she slammed the sword of her father, the Sword of Horador, and the lock flew off like she was cutting through chaff, and she ascended, and did not find the prince, and so she continued through every tower. She found no prisoners, and no prince. But she continued.
But at one tower, nothing particular about it, when she came to the top, there was a door and she raised her sword and cleaved the door, and it fell apart like matchsticks. And she stood amazed, for on the tower, beyond the door lay a verdue of green hills bright as sun-grown jade and trees with the colors of the rainbow and leaves smooth as silk. And she watched this, enchanted, and then lowered her sword and she called out to her prince.
And far away, she discerned a city of crystal and amethyst, that hung in the air, and she saw her prince, and he spoke to her, "Come into the Overworld, my love, and we shall be together forever."
But she could not at such faith, and so the prince continued, "If you pass through those gates of green, you can never return to the world, and forever you will be with me in the land of dreams." And she still would not move, and on the grass, she saw beasts stranger than she had ever seen, and she saw a sun and a sky that was perfection, and she wept. And she cried out, "What enchantment has trapped you, my love? How can I free you of it?" And tears were on her face now, and she saw they were like crystals.
She saw the city come closer, as if riding on clouds. And the prince spoke to her and said, "This is the realm of the Overworld, where nothing dies and all is born. Pass through the green gates and come to me." And then she felt the prince's hands on her own, and went over them to make sure they were his, and then he was standing next to her, and he said, "Come," and she dropped the sword onto the coldness of the tower prison and she went with him, vanishing forever in the land of dreams.
And so it was found out later that in whispers, after the king's death, the prince was deathly sick, and some say the king could never give his throne to a boy who could not live, and so he did the only thing he could and sentenced his son to a traitor's death. But others say that the prince was sent to the fabled lands on the other side of clouds, high up in the Overworld, so that he could not die, and later, many adventurers sought to find the gate to the heavens in that steel tower. But when they came to the Sword of Gregar, it lay on the cold floor, but of a door, none there were. Only an empty prison cell.
[edit] Third Century
[edit] Fourth Century
This article is about lore, myth, and literature in Lorica.
[edit] First Empire under Emperor Senedas
- 222: The First Empire is established, via a coup de 'etat by General Senedas, who then crowned himself emperor. The military threw its weight behind the emperor and crushed a series of ill-fated rebellions.
- 223: Emperor Senedas declared that he interpreted the religion's tenets as a need to come to peace with the surrounding political forces.
- 226: The consolidation of the religion's power was nearly complete only one year later when an opposition group believing the Union to be subverted by Muka'mador was crushed in its nascent stage.
- 229: Emperor Senedas ordered the forced conversion of everyone to adopt the new religion, named Unionism because it was an altered form of the Serdian religion tuned for the needs of the state. Those who resisted were executed as heretics.
- 231: Emperor Senedas saw the religion's tenets as a need to develop more of the surrounding lands for cultivation, and thus launched an ambitious project toward that end.
- 234: A small band of rebels attempted to establish another spinoff of the Serdian religion that placed the individual at the forefront of the faith. It rapidly grew in size, but when the government troops came in, the rebellion was quickly crushed. The new religion was outlawed.
- 236: Emperor Senedas saw the religion's tenets as a need to expand the society and culture of the Union's citizens, and sent missionaries to the surrounding lands to bespeak good of the First Empire.
- 239: Emperor Senedas saw the religion's tenets as a mandate to strengthen the bureaucracy of state. The state thus turned from despotism to bureaucratic despotism--hardly a change for the better for the masses.
- 240: Emperor Senedas saw the religion's tenets as a mandate to strengthen the military forces of the state to defend from invasions. During his last few years, the military tripled in size.
- 245: Emperor Senedas finally died, from friendly fire during a visit to a military barracks training session.
[edit] Fall of the Union
This article is about lore, myth, and literature in Lorica.
[edit] First Empire Under Emperor Talirdas
- 245-250: Emperor Talirdas came to the throne; he saw the religion's tenets as a demand that he use the forces developed to bring the war of religions into uncivilized territory, and set off to fight the barbarian tribes.
- 251: The war ended with the defeat of his army in a major battle, and a loss of significant territory to another barbarian alliance.
- 252: Emperor Talirdas took the battle back to the tribes. In a series of skirmishes, he razed some land belonging to the Wealth tribe and defeated its will to fight back. It sued for peace.
- 254: However, Emperor Talirdas's actions could not prevent the tightening of the barbarian alliance. In 430 AD, the barbarians demanded more land, and gradually moved toward the rest of the First Empire.
- 255: War broke out after the barbarians issued yet another ultimatum. This time, there were two engagements, and Emperor Talirdas won one and lost another. In the treaty, he ceded even more land.
- 256: Barbarians under the non-aligned War tribe attacked again, this time driving Emperor Talirdas into solid retreat. He lost a huge piece of land in exchange for a peace treaty.
- 257: Taking advantage of internal dissent, the War tribe pushed its luck, forcing Emperor Talirdas to give ground yet again.
- 258: Emperor Talirdas, upon hearing still more demands from both the War and Wealth tribes, committed suicide.
[edit] Rise of the First Empire
N/History/Rise of the First Empire
This article is about lore, myth, and literature in Lorica.
[edit] Second Empire under Elder Campf
- 267: Elder Campf decided that Emperor Uthalas had to go, and sent assasins to successfully kill him.
- 267-268: Elder Campf led a successful battle against the Wealth tribe, depriving it of its claim to a portion of the Union. He then proclaimed the Second Empire.
- 271: Elder Campf razed many of the old settlements of the First Empire, though some remained.
- 273: Elder Campf's high priestess told him that it was best if he adopted the cultures and the customs of the old Union. He complied, and ordered that life could continue on as it did before.
- 274: Elder Campf defeated the Ghoul tribe in a small battle.
- 276: Elder Campf proclaimed the old language of the Language tribe--High Lorican, which had been used by the Union and later by the First Empire--be adopted for use. It was superior to that of the barbarians in that it was phonetic rather than glyphic.
- 277: Elder Campf defeated the Ghoul tribe in a second small battle.
- 277-278: Elder Campf, eager to see the end of Ghoul tribe disruptions, launched a major campaign. However, the Ghoul tribe allied with the Wealth tribe and together fought Elder Campf to a standstill.
- 280: Elder Camph overcame an attempted coup by hard-line generals.
- 281: Elder Camph forged an alliance with the Wealth tribe to share in the spoils of the Ghoul tribe.
- 282: The two tribes attacked the Ghoul tribe and assimilated its peoples. As Elder Campf did not want to create another enemy immediately, he agreed to split the new territory with the Wealth tribe. Elder Campf passed away the same year.
[edit] Goblin War
This article is about lore, myth, and literature in Lorica.
[edit] Second Empire under Emperor Emper
- 282: The two tribes attacked the Ghoul tribe and assimilated its peoples. As Elder Campf did not want to create another enemy immediately, he agreed to split the new territory with the Wealth tribe. Elder Campf passed away the same year, to be replaced by Elder Emper.
- 295: Elder Emper's War tribe and the Wealth tribe together fought the Vigor tribe, and defeated it. Owing to internal strife in Wealth tribe politics, Elder Emper claimed all of the Vigor tribe's land, and assimilated its people.
- 296: With the subsequent founding of Emperium, the new capital city of the War tribe, Elder Emper proclaimed himself the first Emperor, Emperor Emper (hence the name of Emperor).
- 297-299: Emperor Emper led an attack against the goblins, which were beginning to dominate the Crescent Mountains. In a brilliant campaign, he isolated them and defeated their forces. Some of them escaped, however, by fleeing west, just as the Goren had done before. He now had to face the Myrd, which were the only remaining presence to the north.
- 300: Emperor Emper declared war on the Myrd, but for the first year did not fight them.
- 302: Emperor Emper defeated the Myrd in a crushing engagement that forced their disparate tribes to draw together. One of the Myrds, Feer Varkken Fled from Emper's forces across the Great sea, where he discovered the islands of Varkken
- 303: Emperor Emper launched a second attack on the Myrd, but this was repulsed.
- 307: Emperor Emper had vowed to destroy the Myrd when he learned four years earlier of the repulsion, so he attacked them again, this time with a larger force that would sustain itself on the cold northern lands.
- 309: Emperor Emper attacked the Myrd yet again after drawing apart their alliances. One of the Myr tribes was destroyed nearly completely. There were only two others left.
- 310: Emperor Emper attacked the next Myrd tribe. However, the battle was essentially a draw.
- 311: Emperor Emper attacked the third Myrd tribe, and crippled one of its clans, but the campaign ended abruptly with the death of the emperor.
[edit] Goblin Enslavement
This article is about lore, myth, and literature in Lorica.
[edit] Second Empire under Emperor Perem
- 311: Emperor Emper died, and next was Emperor Perem.
- 313-315: When the Energy tribe attacked, Emperor Perem devastated the enemy and captured its king, who then surrendered the tribe to him. However, upon entering the Energy tribe, his forces were attacked by the remaining army, which refused to accept their warlord's surrender.
- 316: The Second Empire then attacked a growing bandit power in the vicinity, and enslaved them. Hence, slavery came gradually into acceptance.
- 317: The Second Empire's peoples, clamoring for their own slaves, made Emperor Perem attack the Myrd yet again. In a sudden attack, the Myrd vanquished the aspiring enslavers.
- 318: The Second Empire rebuilt its forces, and once again attacked the Myrd. This time the Myrd were busy bickering between the two remaining tribes, and one helped the Empire cripple the war ability of the other. In return, the last remaining Myrd tribe asked for and obtained peace.
- 319-322: However, the influx of Myrd slaves only resulted in more demand. Emperor Perem launched another attack on the Myrd. However, the Myr leader, Myrddin, cast a curse that killed Emperor Perem after exactly three years. This was enough time for Emperor Perem to destroy the opposing army, however, and only a few scattered clans united under Myrddin were able to resist enslavement.
