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 ====== Age of Empires ======
-This was the age of powerful empires and large armies. The population of the world had recovered to the point that nations could not grow without pushing out their neighbors. While alliances and marriages averted many of these wars, most of them were solved by the strength of arm and power of magic. People had gone too long without a large war and the nobles had forgotten about its devastating consequences.
+The five sanctuaries created by the elves to shield humanity from the dangers of the world had been abandoned at the end of the [[lore:Classic Age]]. Humanity had scattered across the world from the snowy plains to the high deserts. Any place humans could claw a living from the world. They had their magicians to aid them against the dangers of the world, but it was the "discovery" of steel that accelerated their growth and fueled their wars.
-During this age entire empires rose and fell, only to be replaced by the next one. Huge national armies marched across the land, swelling their ranks with the local peasantry.
+The elder races had long been using steel, but the humans in the sanctuaries could not travel freely outside of its boundaries. For 4 millennia they lived in an environment controlled by the elves. Once outside they copied what they saw and their technological advancements increased ten-fold. This allowed humans to live longer lifespans and spare many of their children from an early death. Within the span of a millennia humans were the largest [[lore:race]] on [[lore:Miranda]].
-The Irillian Empire, while very corrupt at its downfall, brought to the world many benefits. They gave the world the basis for a common language and monetary system. They gave birth to the idea of educating the peasants and raising a professional army. Land ownership began to pass from the hands of the nobility to sharecroppers and merchants. It saw the rise of the merchant class as near equals to the high nobility.
+Tribes banded together and carved out the first city-states, which merged by magic and sword into the new empires. This was the longest time between appearances of the [[lore:Eye of the Magi]] and humanity conquered the world. In addition to steel; glass, paper, horseshoes, fire water, and watermills all accelerated the spread of humans. With human settlements near them the elder races began to trade more heavily with the humans, this increased humanity's wealth and influence.
-The Xianese invasion in the chaos that followed the fall of the Irillian Empire brought the worst to the world. Religious, Cultural, and racial intolerance were their motivations for war. Their powerful dromands and huge machines of war destroyed any that opposed them. Many of the nations were just recovering from warring with Irill and had very little strength to fight off the Xian. If not for the arrival of the Dakarian tribes and their dwarven allies the realms would have been plunged into darkness.
+===== Timeline =====
-The battles to halt the Xianese invasion were the last of the great wars fought during this age. There were smaller wars, and many cities fell to their neighbors, but never again did large national armies march across the lands. The world had been bled dry and the peasants again set about to rebuild what they had lost.
+  * **Empires of Steel** 0 - 950 AE
+  * **Humanity Triumphant** 950 - 1350 AE
+  * **The Wars without End** 1350 - 2100 AE
+  * **The Lost Decades** 2100 - 2150 AE
+  * **Third Comet** 2150 - 2186 AE
-====== Sorcerers Kingdom ======
-This was the first of large empire to control much of the world. While its time was brief, just a few decades, it’s prominently mentioned as the first nation where the law was based upon the rules of magic. The Archmage Thaddimus La’Nocht was considered the leading mind behind the Circle of Eight, a powerful group of magicians. As purely an academic effort he proposed replacing the petty nobility with an academic elite, which would rule a new paradise.
+The Irillian Empire, while very corrupt at its downfall, brought to the world many benefits. They gave the world the basis for a common language and monetary system. They gave birth to the idea of educating the peasants and raising a professional army. Land ownership began to pass from the hands of the nobility to sharecroppers and merchants. It saw the rise of the merchant class as near equals to the high nobility.
-For obvious reasons the nearby nobility rejected his opinion and sent their military to destroy his school. Thaddimus escape from the carnage of the midnight raid and was more serious than ever that the nobility feared true freedom of thought. Ten years later he rode at the head of his army.
+The Xianese invasion in the chaos that followed the fall of the Irillian Empire brought the worst to the world. Religious, Cultural, and racial intolerance were their motivations for war. Their powerful dromands and huge machines of war destroyed any that opposed them. Many of the nations were just recovering from warring with Irill and had very little strength to fight off the Xian. If not for the arrival of the Dakarian tribes and their dwarven allies the realms would have been plunged into darkness.
-Most academies, both mystical and mundane, were split on Thaddimus’s original proposal and gave it only a cursory thought. However, after his school was destroyed many wondered if the local lord was preparing to do the same to them. Fed by this fear they flocked to his banner by the hundreds.
+The battles to halt the Xianese invasion were the last of the great wars fought during this age. There were smaller wars, and many cities fell to their neighbors, but never again did large national armies march across the lands. The world had been bled dry and the peasants again set about to rebuild what they had lost.
-This was the first large-scale use of this new magic in battle. While many armies had several academic advisors and a few magicians in their units — an entire army of magicians was an impossible thought. However, they left their studies based upon the fear for their lives and in the end only caused the peasants to turn to the nobility for protection.
-Thaddimus’s army summoned forth specters, animated weapons, and cause the weather to turn against their enemies. The land was pulled up to form giant golems and the rivers were disrupted to deny their enemies sustenance. In the end, Thaddimus forged a land he could only rule by domination and hate. The peasants fled in fear from any magician and the remaining soldiers formed into small bands to resist his rule.
-After twenty years on the throne Thaddimus took his own life after he realized he could never bring about his academic dream of paradise. A series of magicians tried to step in and regain order, but within a decade the entire structure had collapsed. The old nobility had been scattered and the nobles that regained control after the fall of the Sorcerers Kingdom barely had the power to maintain control of their holdings.
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 The advance of the Xianese army was halted, and they were forced to retreat to a stronger defensive position, but they were not routed. No peace treaty was ever signed, and the area still remains heavily fortified many years later.
-{{tag>timeline}}
+===== Events =====
+==== Y0 ====
+  * Y398 [[atlas:Kingdom of Irill]] founded by [[people:King Akakios]]
+==== Y500 ====
+  * 845 Kingdom of Irill conquers the [[atlas:Kingdom of Myrto]]
+    * King Nicolaus names himself Emperor of the [[atlas:Irillian Empire]]
+  * 892 Holy City of Rakar of founded
+  * 938 Sturmnik Order created bringing all of the [[atlas:ruenlak_people]] under single rule
+==== Y1000 ====
+  * 1081 [[lore:Mantessi]] destroys the Holy City of Rakar in a great flood
+  * 1115 [[atlas:ruenlak_people]] ceases to exist
+  * 1158 Irillian Emperor Aulus Nicolaus Trainus dies without naming an heir
+  * 1130 Theoddius Vitae Nicolaus becomes new Emperor of Irill
+  * 1200 Escarian volcano erupts nearly destroying [[atlas:Zentirovan]] culture
+  * 1201 Jove, son of Theoddius Vitae, becomes Jove Thedonis Nicolaus Emperor of Irill
+  * 1204 Princeps Canicus Selcarius kills Jove and names himself Emperor of Irill
+  * 1216 Urianus becomes Nicolaus Urianus and Emperor of Irill after killing Canicus
+  * 1229 Livitus, son of Urianus, becomes Emperor of Irill when his father dies
+  * 1290 Dwarven [[orgs:Broken Shield Clan]] forms after war with [[atlas:Garrogh Tribe]]
+  * 1401 [[lore:Irrishite]] temples purge paganism under official writ
+  * 1482 Nicolaus Veltorius II killed by [[lore:Zenki Order]] leaving no heir
+    * [[people:Maximus Magister Alaricus]] names himself [[lore:Irrishite#Corpus Domini]]
+==== Y1500 ====
+  * 1501 [[atlas:Lordrenites]] fall as the city of [[atlas:Rendarik]] falls to the Irillian army
+  * 1518 Zenki Order begins [[lore:Selcaria Campaign]] to secure southern shore of the [[atlas:Caragan Sea]]
+  * 1690 Multiple volcanic eruptions destroy over 2/3 of life on the [[atlas:Tarakian Islands]].
+  * 1714 Province of [[atlas:Selcaria]] secured by Holy Irillian Empire
+  * 1748 Zenki Order begins [[lore:Dolmarian Campaign]] against [[atlas:Xian]] to stop their southern advance
+  * 1918 [[lore:Sea Lords]] arrive in Tarakian Islands and rebuild Zentirovan.
+  * 1937 City of [[atlas:Valparia]] signs peace accord with [[atlas:Ellendar]].
+  * 1949 Elven Army conquers port city of [[atlas:Kavasila]]
+  * 1951 Elven Army conquers Holy See city of Prima Dues, now called [[atlas:Arapis]].
+  * 1952 Irillian Province of [[atlas:Selcaria]] declares itself independent nation.
+  * 1975 [[atlas:Kingdom of Dakar]] conquers all lands along the [[atlas:Zun River]] south of [[atlas:Celinus]]
+==== Y2000 ====
+  * 2150First appearance of the comet (Eye of the Magi) in the northern hemisphere
+{{tag>timeline}}