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[edit] Coming of the Dragons
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[edit] Second Empire Under Emperor Repme
- 331: Emperor Repme came to the throne and created a huge temple to honor the sacrifice of the previous Emperor.
- 332: Emperor Repme sent a huge army into the Nicetheen forest and captured more goblins. He then had them publicly humiliated in order to damage Hobgoblin's reputation.
[edit] Coming of the Dragons
- 333: From an alternate, dystopian timeline of Lorica, three mages used retromancy to open a time portal and sent a fleet of dragons of varying sizes into the world of Lorica. It took them three years before they first engaged in war with humanity.
- 336: Emperor Repme vainly fought the dragons, which were attempting to infringe on his territory. Though he lost the engagement (as no methods were then known on how to destroy the dragons), he did learn valuable lessons and wrote them in his diary, the Codex Repme.
- 338: Emperor Repme died, before he was able to slay them with his knowledge.
- 339: The dragons returned to the offensive. Being nearly invincible, they stormed the lands of the First Empire and eradicated Emperium. The Empire was over. From then onwards, they continually dominated the lands of what is now Arkanros proper (which was the lands of the Empire).
- 340: Some drunkard in one of the remaining settlements claimed that a book existed that could tell a would-be hero how to slay the dragons. Hence, the Age of Myths began.
[edit] Order of the Dragonslayer
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[edit] The Second Empire
[edit] First Slaying of Dragons
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[edit] Second Slaying of Dragons
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[edit] Third Slaying of Dragons
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[edit] Reconstruction
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[edit] "Reconstruction" Document
This is a random document that was found back in the classical age, but with dates that seem to be totally insensible. At any rate, it was kept in a library for 'mysterious documents'.
- 662: The reconstruction began: people came out of hiding and established their towns, villages, and farmlands once again. But the peace would not last for long.
- 664: In the wake of the fall of the dragons, there was a vacuum of power which many ambitious people were willing to take as their own. The Second Empire, at this time the most forceful and credited with the success and with the fall of two chaos dragons, moved to restore order. Many scouting parties were sent out to hunt for those who disregarded the laws and the rules established by the Second Empire.
- 665: Bane gave some of his fiends to Lamoth in an attempt to have him take over the Midworld using them.
- 666: In this year, the fiends of Lamoth were unleashed by him into the Midworld. At first, they were not noticed, and thus they began to establish their power while hidden from discovery.
- 669: When it came to the first meeting, the Emperor of the Second Empire, realizing the climate and the situations surrounding the title of Second Empire, decided that it was more suited to change the name to the Third Empire, thus forever establishing the Second Empire as a lost rule locked in combat with the dragons, and not with the times of peace that followed. The Third Empire was thus born, and Emperor Valwy came to the throne.
- 673: Emperor Valwy kept the status quo, without major shifts from what had been, half a century ago. In 673, he died, and Emperor Tywy came to the throne.
- 674: After consolidating his power, Emperor Tywy began moderate reforms, such as the establishment of paved roads for the first time.
- 675-679: War broke out between the Third Empire and the Force tribe to the south. The Force tribe was defeated in several confrontations, and lost half of its territory.
- 685-687: The Third Empire declared war on the Wrath tribe, and defeated it. The entire tribe was annexed by the Empire, but as the people of the tribe willed it thus, realizing that being part of a larger entity would ultimately protect them, there was not much dissent.
[edit] First Fiend War
- 695: The fiends were finally ready to come out into the open and confront the power of the Third Empire. However, as of yet humanity had still yet to discover the power of magic for their own purposes, while the fiends had always had some magic as their gift from Lamoth, and thus humanity was in a major disadvantage, as was the case with the dragons. Now they struck out at a small village, and overnight the population vanished, abducted into the nearby woods. A scouting party was dispatched from the town of Arkanros, several hundred strong, into the woods. But they came out with half their number, wailing for their lost brethren and complaining of how many tricky death-traps were hidden away in the woods; ordinary difficulties that would be simple nuisances in most cases were always deadly in that woods, and their men died left and right from unknown causes. The scouting party retreated back to Arkanros, convincing Emperor Tywy that there was something grave prowling in those woods.
- 695-697: During the subsequent two years, those woods became darker and darker, and people in the surrounding places became increasingly terrified with being anywhere near the place during the night. Disappearances mounted, resulting in whole settlements becoming deserted as those who could, escaped to some farther place untainted by the corruption of Lamoth's fiends.
- 697: Emperor Tywy sent out another scouting party, this time two-pronged, to cut through the woods from two opposite sides, attempting to catch the fiends in between them. The attempt utterly failed, as more and more disappearances took place. One entire party disappeared in the woods. The others, having travelled all the way through the woods and back into the sunlight, had lost most of their number and still had found nothing. In the subsequent weeks, Emperor Tywy ordered the construction of outpost forts around the woods, and advised that those living near the woods evacuate immediately.
[edit] Second Fiend War
- 699: Emperor Tywy died, and Emperor Wynwy arose. He brought with him his friend High Priest Judarin, who was immediately dispatched with another scouting party to the woods to settle the affair. Upon arriving at the edges of the forest, Judarin commenced to raze the trees, progressing inward as the fires spread. There were high-pitched, unhuman squeals and shrieks, and many others died from the pervading unfortunate-ness, but in the end the High Priest and his men burned the forest to the ground. In the core, now relieved of its covers, was a greater fiend, which the knowledge of Tywy told him was Cowardice personified. All that remained was for its cowardice to be used against itself. High Priest Judarin challenged him to a duel, which scared the greater fiend so much that it attempted to flee. Meanwhile, the men rounded up the lesser fiends, bringing them to Arkanros for investigation and eradicating others. Those of the Paradox variety were particularly tricky, and took down many an unfortunate soul who answered their riddles incorrectly, but Judarin was always there, ensuring that the fiends self-destructed as a result of his replies.
- 699-720: With the eradication of the fiends, peace returned, at least for the time being. High Priest Judarin aged, and there was doubt whether he would be available the next time around.
- 705: Invention of the wheelbarrow greatly increased agricultural productivity.
[edit] Third Fiend War
- 721: Lamoth wasn't finished. He dispatched another of his greater demons to the Midworld, there to ally with the majority of the fiends (as Judarin had only vanquished some of the fiends in the woods). Thus began the Third Fiend War.
- 724: The Third Empire dispatched High Priest Judarin to the waters of the Arkanros River, where trouble was brewing, as the fiends of this particular group were active underwater. High Priest Judarin met with the merpeople, the descendents of the few that survived, and allied with them in the war against the invading fiends.
- 727: High Priest Judarin constructed a large ship that sailed down the Arkanros River.
- 730: The fiends flooded a coastal village, drowning half the population and inciting anger among the peoples of the Third Kingdom.
- 731: Judarin and company discovered the next group of fiends in the waters around the Mouth of Lamoth, ravishing a host of mermaids. He immediately realized what the fiend was: Lust. He presented the greater fiend with a beautiful mermaid, and had her remain inside an open giant clam. The fiend, upon seeing her, immediately forgot everything else and rushed at her. As soon as it grasped her, however, the giant clam closed shut its huge mouth, trapping the fiend inside. The humans and merpeople then made a great festival in honor of the mermaid's sacrifice.
[edit] Discovery of Magic
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[edit] Discovery of Magic
- 987: Horseshoes, stirrup, and saddle were invented for better posturing of the first knights.
- 995: King Jendin I disbanded his military in favor of the palace guard.
- 999: The scattered spiritual remains of Tyrael were finally rediscovered by a young boy named Kirin adventuring into the Nicetheen forest. He and his friends discovered more and more of this magic and called themselves the Kirin Tor, and began performing research and inventing more magic to suit their needs.
- 1020: The Kirin Tor finally obtained the attention of the peoples when its members defeat some of Arkanrosa's Royal enforcers. Suddenly, the emperor found himself in a crisis. He arranged for a certain bearded and self-assured old man to pose as a powerful wizard and kept him around himself all the time, while ignoring the growing forces of the Kirin Tor.
- 1023: The emperor finally went to meet with the Kirin Tor for an encounter. The boys had heard about the "powerful wizard" and fled without engaging the fake. The enforcers then prowled the region, searching for any hints that would point to where the pieces of Tyrael might lie.
- 1025: After two years of fruitless searching, the enforcers managed to kidnap one of the children of the Kirin Tor and forced him into revealing his secrets under duress. But he lied, so that when the enforcers go look in the Southern Caverns beneath what is now Dingwalayo, they were overcome by a handful of fiends.
- 1030: It took these five more years before the enforcers captured another boy. When the boy said the secrets were in the Southern Caverns, he was tortured into confessing the truth: that it was hidden in a cave somewhere inside the depths of the Nicetheen Forest. A major scouting party was assembled to look for the secrets.
- 1031: The next year, the scouting party collided with another, which had been dispatched by a duke out to gain more power for himself, and both sides were devastated in a battle of jealousy. The duke then fled into hiding.
- 1032: King Jendin II rises to the throne.
- 1033: The Kirin Tor spellcasters return to the offensive, sending people into mass confusion with their spells. Jendin II uses his enforcers to restore order, but they could barely win, and they only managed to win when the Kirin Tor leader decided that he'd had enough of "this nonsense".
[edit] Rediscovery of Magic
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- 1036: The scouting party finally came across a single piece of Tyrael's Schismated spirit remnants. The leader was obsessed with it and disobeyed an order from the king to hand it over, and instead used it to destroy all the others in his party. He then fled deep into the woods.
- 1039: The leader was rediscovered dead, in the woods and obviously slain by a spell that had backfired on him, by a local hunter. He too took up the (now three) pieces of Tyrael's spirit that the leader had with him, and proceeded to investigate more. Meanwhile, the Kirin Tor, once again safe in complete secrecy, worked on developing their spells.
- 1041: The emperor died of a disease and is succeeded by his grandson, who continued the grand work of peace that his parents had initiated.
- 1044: After maneuvering the other power-hungry bureaucrats in the empire, the emperor sent out bulls (mandates) to be posted in village forums that he would welcome any member of the Kirin Tor (whose achievements have likewise entered folklore). The hunter of five years ago showed up, claiming to be the leader of the Kirin Tor, and was immediately executed unawares by several Imperial bowmen out of fear by the emperor. Only afterwards did he realize that the man was no Kirin Tor.
- 1046: The emperor, intrigued by the wonders of the artifacts that the hunter had collected, abdicated in favor of his son, while he himself ventured forth into the Nicetheen Forest in search for more pieces.
- 1050: A bureaucrat, on his own initiative, launched an expedition to hunt down the abdicated emperor and brought him back to his manor alive. He then attempted to ransom his charge to the current emperor at that time, who instead abdicated in favor of his hated cousin.
- 1050-1053: As the bureaucrat continued to hold his captive indefinitely, the new emperor worked to consolidate his power before finally paying the price for the ransom: a duchy of his empire. Just as he did so, however, word of it spread throughout the realm, and people looked to the old emperor (who still wielded considerable power) for a meaningful response. He galvanized the population with nationalistic fervor, and led a peoples' army to the doorsteps of the palace, whereupon the new emperor fled ignominously before some people loyal to the old emperor (now back on the throne) captured and executed him. The restored emperor then annulled the secesion of the duchy to the bureaucrat, who immediately fled from his manor.
[edit] Kirin Tor Split
- 1059: The Kirin Tor captured the bureaucrat along his itinerary, and turned him over to the emperor in exchange for being given a chance to serve him and thus be part of something big. But the entirety of the Kirin Tor was not behind this, so they formed two factions: those that agreed to this process and those who struck an independent course. Meanwhile, the emperor, in need of support, accepted the offer.
- 1059-1064: For five years, the royalist Kirin Tor members shared their secrets in exchange for hospitality, prestige, and leverage in affairs. The emperor came to see them as useful tools for his own rule, which was blessed for the first time with constructive marvels. At the end of this period, they were told to go find the other Kirin Tor faction and exterminate them.
- 1067: Discovery of Unicorn Island.
- 1069: The two factions collided in a major but rather unnoticed confrontation that resulted in the royalist Kirin Tor members' total defeat and no casualties on the other side. The emperor realized that the Kirin Tor would now have the power to spread chaos across his kingdom, so he abdicated in favor of a not so well known and well disliked niece. The niece knew that he would have to settle the Kirin Tor matter satisfactorily, but knew that his uncle was setting him up, so he instead had the most popular member of the Royal court announce that it was the abdicated emperor's decision to concede territory to the Kirin Tor. In anger, the people and the Royal enforcers joined to capture the abdicated emperor and imprisoned him.
