Lore

The Imarel Timeline - by T.A. Saunders ©2009 v1.5
Updates by S. Robles, B. Kellestine, D. Schneider.

The Three Way War - The A`Thrachian War

1354 AC -- The Kingdom of Sengaard erupts into the Three Way War. Usurpers attempt to overthrow the Priest-King Harkonan Estaran, who is assassinated early in the year. Evaran Estaran faces off against the aristocratic usurpers backing Grand Minister Amnon Aligaard, while the bulk of his army, lead by Lord-General Damian Tucker, flees over the Straights of Exodus and settles along the coast of Quivyn. Amnon Aligaard pillages much of southern Sengaard and many civilians are killed. 1355 AC – With the peace of Imarel secured, attention now turns to the growing piracy problem many nations are now experiencing. The Pact of Unified Response is signed by the Kingdom of Vyss, the Miroan Empire, the Commonwealth of Krondhir, the Kingdom of Moonfall and the Collective of Brookshire, to allow any one nation's military access to another's airspace, or waterways in an effort to engage pirates more effectively. With many of them using airships recovered from wrecks discovered during the Second Godswar, the pirate scourge makes travel unsafe on the open skies and on the open seas.

During this time, over 95% of the world's dragons gather at the Conclave, and join their brethren in the Great Slumber, including Tashalasheeri. Safeguarded by her returned mate, Hazaad and a handful of chosen ancient grand wyrms to protect them, this effectively takes the draconic population out of sight and mind of the population of the world.

After a series of successful recruitment campaigns led by the Church of Kaal, the Priest-King Evaran Estaran, son of the previous Priest-King, is able to field an army and deliver a series of decisive wins against Amnon Aligaard. The royalist campaign is aided by the appearance of three mysterious airships mounted with ‘Never Guns’. Eventually, the royalists take back Sengaard and Aligaard is executed. However, Lord-General Damien Tucker decides to keep the parts of Quivyn that his forces occupy independent.

1362 AC – A relative quiet settles over Imarel, allowing true progression in both sorcerous and scientific advancement, the latter especially true in places like Farwind (who remains somewhat isolationist) and Windsong. The Kingdoms of Moonfall and Vyss grow in their sorcerous knowledge as well and all but end the piracy matter on their shores. Attention now goes to a safe means to conduct commerce with the Moon, Ishaela.

The Kingdom of Moonfall has reunified with the Brookshire Collective, forming a Constitutional Monarchy, by way of the Unification Constitution Treaty of 1362 AC . This in effect turns Brookshire into the Parliament for the nation, while leaving the capital in Moonfall.

Meanwhile, an entirely different situation ravages Ishaela with the coming of what has been called the A'thrachian War. Because much of this war was mired in plotting and secrecy, it iss not entirely clear who started the war to begin with. Many believe that Lord Broderick Stonnes of Sengaard provoked, with the aid of the King-Priest, Evaran Estaran, by torturing and eventually murdering a secretly-kept lover. With still bitter rivalries to settle from theThree-Way War, it wasn't long before ships and men were flying and sailing across the Exodus Straits for a new war to be started. But Broderick Stonnes had a greater purpose in mind, with the bringing of the Phantom City, A'thrach. Believed to be a utopia that could be brought to Sengaard, Evran worked with Stonnes to bring the godling entity to Ishaela. The war was fought to empower the entity with the blood of sinners, and allow it to manifest. But this plan was corrupted by Stonnes, allowing it to accept all blood from those who died in war.

Presently, heroes known as the North Reach Company attempt to thwart the rise of the Phantom City and bring peace to both North Reach and Sengaard, without fighting a direct war for either side. Led by Sir Jathadrin Blackthorne, this Company is thought to be close to completing its objective at the turn of the year.

1363 AC -- Led by Sir Jathadrin Blackthorne, Heroes gathered under the banner of the North Reach Company ultimately succeeded in thwarting the rise of the Phantom City and brokered a tentative peace between North Reach and Sengaard. At the same time however, a strange celestial phenomenon purportedly related to the Ring of Falling caused an ecological disaster that would come to be known as the Great Scalding. All but the deepest reaches of World Sea's inhabitants and the sturdier marinelife perished, only to arise thereafter as immolated caricatures called the Burning Dead, which would cause havoc across Ishaela in the months that followed. After freeing the town of Thereen from the tyranny of Sengaard, it quickly became a hub of resistance against the regime. Shortly thereafter, following the capture by a man known as Praetus and eventual rescue of Sir Jathadrin Blackthorne, the House of Lords fell to its own scheming when the gate to A'thrach opened before its congregation, twisting their desires to destroy them one-by-one and swallowing Sengaard City within a dome of Anti-Light that sent the nation into chaos. As otherworldly forces marched forth to subjugate the inhabitants of Ishaela, it was an unlikely alliance between multiple rebel factions and turncoats from the Royal Army itself, alongside support from the Kaal`Kor and an ancient race of energy beings from Niraeth, that bought time for a number of the North Reach Company to slip into A'thrach and put an end to the threat of Praetus forever. According to Theologians, a pair of Lesser Spirits— or two halves of the same Spirit—rose to the cosmic stage in the aftermath of these events, however they were eventually reclassified as high-ranking Mirdahlan entities. This bloody period would come to a head with the ancient Vocorian Vakunah's awakening and subsequent rampage across the pirate-infested landmass south of Fog Fall Island, setting into motion the return of an unfathomably ancient evil.