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100,000 BEW: The ancient dragons, The Great wolves, & the divine monkeys are created

70,000 BEW — The Divine Genesis

Aerion, Goddess of the Forest, births Adamas the Father and Evaline the Mother. The first divine twins. The roots of all elvenkind.

65,000 BEW — The First Emergence

From Adamas and Evaline, 9,000 children are born. This marks the true rise of the elves as a race of permanence and grace.

63,000 BEW—The Pact of the Lupine Lords

The elves make contact with the Great Wolves, ancient beast-kings of the North. A blood bond of mutual respect and borderline telepathy is formed.

50,000 BEW — The Sudden Dawn

Both the Aetherian Church and the Crimson Senate appear. With no historical record, no founders, and no origin—they simply exist, like two shadows cast by an unseen flame.

40,000 BEW — The Vanishing

Adamas and Evaline disappear. Elvish society is left in infancy, guided only by oral wisdom and holy memory.

39,999 BEW — The Rise of the Varnus

The Varnus system is introduced. Elves are divided into four castes by role: Bhrihmans (scholars), Kshatriyastriyas (warriors), Baniyuns (merchants), and Shurudras (laborers & craftsmen).

30,000 BEW—The First Corruption

The Church weaponizes the Varnus system. What was once role-based becomes birth-based, birthing inequality among immortal kin.

27,000 BEW — The Coming of Man

Humanity emerges upon the eastern continents. Fragile, fast-breeding, and relentless in their ambition.

20,000 BEW: Some factions of humanity, in pursuit of gold and precious minerals, ventured deep into the cave systems that riddled the roots of the mountains. Over millennia, their bodies adapted to the subterranean life—growing shorter, stockier, and more durable, their eyes adjusting to low light, and their culture revolving around craftsmanship, stonework, and mining. Thus, the Dwarves emerged—not a divine creation, but an evolution forged by the pressure and patience of the earth itself.

20,000 BEW—The Jihad of Conversion

The Church of Aetheria declares holy war on humanity, branding them heretics for worshipping the Four Gods. Raulus the White rises to lead the war. Humans are conquered and converted, forced under Aetherian law and creed.

20,000 BEW — Severus the Black and Lilisia the Cradler of Abyss venture beyond the fog while his brother wages war.

19,000 BEW: In a cosmic contest of pride and divine ego, the god of wisdom and mountains, Parvat, accompanied by Nomolos and Aerion, approached the Goddess of rivers and stories, Aeron, to determine whose creation reigned supreme. Aeron, with clarity and poetic honesty, ranked the Great Wolves first, the Ancient Dragons second, and the Divine Monkeys last. Enraged by this verdict, Parvat's pride twisted into wrath. In a furious frenzy, he lay with Aerion for seven days in defiance and desperation to create something unrivaled. From this tumultuous union, Aerion birthed the Orcs—a brutal, powerful race made not from love or wisdom, but from spite, pride, and divine rage.

17,000 BEW—Severus and Lilisia return with 5,678 children, the Dark Elves, marking the Second Emergence: golden eyes, deep skin, and red-purple hair.

15,000 BEW — Kainas the Following is born to Raulus the White.

14,700 BEW — Abalus the Other is born without eyes, heart, or limbs; Kainas makes a pact with the Mountain God to restore him and contracts a disease.

14,500 BEW—Kainas the Following becomes King of the Holy Elvish Empire.

11,400 BEW—Bastard Black is born to a nun of the Church of Aerion, who is burned at the stake for her relations with Kainas the Following; Kainas falls into guilt and depression, worsening his disease

10,000 BEW — Rikkard the Mad is born..

9,000 BEW — Ella the Begotten is born.

5,000 BEW: I got transmigrated to Drakastradorn, met Bastard Black, and we discovered Ella and Rikkard's incest. Bastard Black convinces Queen Rawa to marry off Ella to Nile Omen, the human, to protect her from Rikkard.

2,000 BEW: Rikkard ascends the throne after the 13th man-elf hybrid is born between Nile and Ella. Bastard Black is framed, imprisoned, and paralyzed from the waist down after being stabbed in the back by a Church Sparrow. Abalus the Other flees to the world of men, Ni'kahj'yu.

0 BEW: Rikkard wages war against Nile Omen with help from the Aetherian Church and its Pope-Mother, Raiayay. Abalus flees with Bastard Black; together, they rally the men and crush the elves. Rikkard commits the Sinful Night, murdering the 13 hybrid children in their sleep. Then kills Nile. Ella dies of grief. Abalus curses the throne before getting assassinated by the church. Enraged, Bastard Black unleashes the Narayan Astra, ending the war, and gets executed. I get Kuwau the Left to ascend the throne.

300 AEW: Abalus II the Fruitful ascended the throne after the tragic suicide of his predecessor, bringing with him a reign of peace, prosperity, and verdant transformation. Known for his gentle, scholarly nature and deep reverence for nature, Abalus II led a botanical renaissance across Drakastradorn. He commissioned the Verdant Codex, a legendary tome cataloguing over 12,000 species of plants, fungi, and herbs, and constructed the Hanging Gardens of Ghal Míriel—an architectural wonder suspended by mantra-infused waters and sacred vines. Under his rule, the Green Pact was declared, outlawing mindless deforestation and reinforcing spiritual rituals in communion with nature spirits. Though his benevolence and eco-centric reforms won him the admiration of druids, herbalists, and even human farmers, the Crimson Senate whispered that he lacked the ruthlessness needed for statecraft.

1,000 AEW: Rynhawrd the Womaner, nephew of Abalus II, rose to power following his uncle's untimely death via a Mawa Bee sting. In stark contrast to his predecessor, Rynhawrd's reign was one of unbridled decadence. His court became infamous for its indulgence—housing 47 concubines, dozens of lavish orgies, and nearly a dozen acknowledged bastard heirs. He repurposed the once-sacred Hall of Truth into the Palace of Velvet and Gold, transforming it into a den of sensual luxury and excess. Despite a lack of interest in governance or diplomacy, Rynhawrd's nonstop patronage of the arts, wine industry, and entertainment led to a minor cultural bloom—an era dubbed the Velvet Bloom. His rule, while chaotic, sowed unexpected economic growth and artistic innovation.

1,300 AEW: Ygritte the Rider came to power in the ashes of Rynhawrd's debauchery—not through royal blood, but by the legendary feat of taming Sylva, the ancient matriarch of all wyverns, whose wingspan measured 10 Berids and height 1 Fersah. After Rynhawrd's death in a fiery wine-fountain accident, she was crowned by both the Senate and the Temple without contest. Her reign brought sweeping reforms known as the Wyvern Reformation, reclaiming the skies from raiders and establishing order among lesser dragons. Ygritte constructed Drakhalde, a floating fortress in Sylva's mountainous domain, marking the first aerial dominion in elvish history. She revitalized elvish martial discipline, forged new treaties with sea-folk and desert tribes, and re-established Drakastradorn's place as a skyborne empire, first queen of the Holy Elvish Empire."

2,000 AEW: Ygritte the Rider met her tragic end during a violent tempest when she was flung from Sylva's back and perished in the mountains of Kel Beryn. Her fall marked the end of the Wyvern Reformation. Her nephew-son, Jacoba the Bright—so named for his dazzling intellect and radiant aura—ascended the throne. His reign spanned a monumental 8,000 years, becoming one of the longest in elvish history. Jacoba championed logic and discovery, ushering in the Age of Etherglass, when astronomy, alchemy, and rune technology flourished. He defied the dogma of the Aetherian Church by legalizing scientific practice outside ecclesiastical control, which earned him both praise from scholars and hatred from zealots. Ultimately, his belief in progress led to his assassination by an elite sparrow of the Church, stabbed in the heart during the Eclipse Summit.

10,000 AEW: Following Jacoba's assassination, succession fell to his fourth son, Rorsckok The rider, as the eldest, had died alongside Ygritte, and the two middle heirs perished in infancy. Rorsckok, an enigmatic and reclusive figure, ruled with rigid pragmatism, reverting to conservative principles in an attempt to stabilize the empire and avoid the fate of his father. Despite his secretive nature, he was an adept ruler, quelling rebellions in the southern swamps and strengthening fortifications around the Mist Gate. His rule lasted two millennia, until his sudden and unexplained disappearance during a pilgrimage to the Temple of Sylva left the empire in turmoil.

12,000 AEW: The throne passed to his nephew, Horskock the Unlikely, a lesser-known noble raised far from the capital, with no formal claim until the disappearance of his uncle. His reign was brief and plagued by paranoia and whispers of madness. Feeling unworthy of his lineage and tortured by visions of fire and betrayal, Horskock killed himself by leaping into the Moon Cauldron during a lunar eclipse—an act seen by some as martyrdom and by others as weakness.

13,000 AEW: Alyra the Phoenix, great-granddaughter of Ygritte the Rider and niece to Horskock, seized the throne in a brutal coup. She set her own siblings ablaze in the Gardens of Flame, invoking the wrath and awe of both court and commoner alike. Her ascension marked her as the second queen of the Holy Elvish Empire after Ygritte. Fierce, cunning, and utterly ruthless, Alyra declared the Age of Ash and Flame, swearing to "burn out the rot of the realm." She centralized power, purged corrupt clergy, and allied with wyvern-kin who had remained hidden since Ygritte's death. Under her reign, the empire became a pyre of revolution and reckoning.

15,000 AEW: Alyra the Phoenix met her end at the hands of her own son, Kainas II the Matricider, after uncovering the truth behind her unstable reign—millennia of incestuous bloodlines had warped her mind and body, leading to generations of degenerative madness. Kainas II, horrified by the curse festering within their noble lineage, slew her in the Burning Throne Room. Though he attempted to stabilize the crumbling empire, his efforts were in vain. He ruled for 3,000 years, slowly succumbing to the very affliction he sought to end—his body riddled with tumors born of centuries of inbreeding. He died in his sleep, covered in lesions, mourned by no one but remembered as a tragic symptom of imperial decay.

18,000 AEW: His only surviving son, Rikkard II the Loser, ascended a throne that was already nothing more than ash and legacy. Burdened by the weight of his name—forever associated with the genocidal Rikkard of the Sinful Night—and the genetic curses passed down through generations, Rikkard II could not bear the symbolic pressure. In a quiet and pitiful act, he drowned himself in a garden pond, bringing an unceremonious end to the once-mighty Holy Elvish Empire after its staggering 38,000 years of rule. Thus, the age of gods, dragons, incest, and empires collapsed into silence, fulfilling the 13-generation curse by Abalus the Other.

18,500 AEW: Yohan Greystone The Dragonslayer, a towering figure hailing from the iron-blooded clans of the Greystone Valley Divide, emerged as a unifying force during a time of chaotic succession and civil war. After nearly 500 years of political turmoil following the fall of the Holy Elvish Empire, Yohan seized the moment. With cunning diplomacy, brutal military strategy, and rumored dragon-slaying feats, he declared himself rightful heir to the ancient throne, establishing the Greystone Dynasty. This marked a turning point, as the fractured elvish, human, and hybrid remnants were absorbed under a new banner, not of holy divinity, but mortal authority.

20,000 AEW: Seeking dominion free of celestial interference, Yohan Greystone issued a royal decree that would change the face of the world forever—The Banishment of the Ancients. In a campaign of fire, steel, and Aetherian technology, he drove the Ancient Dragons from the mortal realm, exiling them to the sky and seas beyond known maps. Over time, the displaced dragons diverged into distinct subspecies:

Wyverns: Born in the high cliffs and fractured skies, these two-legged dragons became swift aerial predators. Smaller than their ancestors, they lacked forelimbs but developed powerful wings and venomous tails. Wyverns are the most commonly seen draconic beasts in modern warfare, often tamed or bound by magic.

Hydras: Cast deep into swamp and marsh, hydras mutated in isolation. Multi-headed and amphibious, they regenerate from wounds, making them nearly impossible to kill by traditional means. Often considered avatars of decay and rebirth, they are feared more for their resilience than intelligence.

Wyrms: These serpentine dragons slithered into the world's root tunnels and became beings of mythic proportions. Without wings or limbs, they use colossal force and arcane breath to burrow through worlds. Revered by earthbound cults, Wyrms embody silence, patience, and ancient hunger.

Drakes: The most humanoid and versatile of the dragonkin, Drakes retained intellect and elemental control. Often bipedal or quadrupedal, they served as emissaries and warlords. While no longer divine, Drakes command nations in the shadows, especially in southern continents.

Sea Serpents: A rare few Ancient Dragons dove into the ocean depths during exile. In isolation, they grew longer, sleeker, and adapted to extreme pressure and darkness. Some grew so vast they became indistinguishable from underwater mountain chains. They command the tides and are worshiped by seafaring tribes as deities.

Only a handful of Pure Ancient Dragons remain—those who refused to adapt or split—hidden in the far reaches of the cosmos or the folds of reality itself, slumbering with old grudges and older powers beyond the fog.

21,000 AEW: Yohan Greystone, the founder of the Greystone Dynasty, mysteriously vanished from all records and realms, echoing the strange disappearance of Rorsckok from a previous age. Rumors spread that he left for the Sky Beyond to seek out the Ancients he exiled, but none ever confirmed his fate. His sudden absence left a power vacuum but also birthed legends.

22,000 AEW: His son, Yohan II the Wielder, assumed the throne with a deep sense of duty and inherited paranoia. Known for wielding the legendary Greystone Blade—said to be forged from the fang of a Pure Ancient—he tried to unite the lands under stricter rule. His reign was marked by constant monster hunts and expansionism into the Griffin Highlands.

23,000 AEW: Tragedy struck when Yohan II was ambushed during a royal expedition; a great Griffin tore his abdomen open and left him bleeding over the cliffs of Varmyr. His grieving son, Yohan III, later took the throne—earning the moniker the Griffin for slaying the beast that killed his father and wearing its pelt as his crown.

25,000 AEW: Obsessed with grief and spiritual identity, Yohan III descended into madness, convinced he could become a Griffin through magic and metamorphosis. His rule saw increasingly strange laws, ritualistic body alterations, and sacrificial rites. Ultimately, his quest to transform ended in his death—his body found fused with feathers and bone, mid-ritual, eyes wide with horror or revelation. His court was left speechless, his reign immortalized in cautionary tales.

25,000 – 30,000 AEW: A brutal 5,000-year Succession War engulfed the Greystone lands after Yohan III's grotesque demise. Dozens of claimants—illegitimate children, bastard nobles, foreign kings, and mad prophets—declared themselves heirs to the broken throne. The continent fractured into hundreds of micro-kingdoms ruled by warlords, each claiming divine blood. The turning point came with the rise of Thalion the Skybreaker, a lowborn orphan believed to be descended from a hidden branch of the Greystones. Through sheer charisma and unmatched aerial warfare, he tamed three Griffins, symbols of royal power, and bent them to his will—earning the awe of both commoner and noble. He stormed capital after capital on griffin-back, leaving only ash in his wake. By 30,000 AEW, he unified the realm and was crowned King of Skystone, bringing the Succession War to an end and beginning a new age of airborne dominion.

31,000 AEW: Thalion the Skybreaker, once the unifier of a fractured realm, dies in undignified agony from explosive diarrhea caused by a cursed Skyfruit offered by a jealous court alchemist. In his absence, the throne is seized by Yohan IV the Pirate, a distant Greystone bastard raised among sea-raiders, who claimed lineage through his mother's drunken tales and a stolen crown.

34,000 AEW: Deluded by stories of Thalion's glory, Yohan IV believes himself destined for immortality and leads the entire Greystone navy against the mythical Kraken in the Sapphire Deep. The entire fleet vanishes, and weeks later, coastal villages report a strange, new delicacy washing ashore—"Royal Calamari." Yohan IV is declared dead.

35,000 AEW: His son, Yohan V the Evil, ascends the throne. A hedonistic sadist, his reign one of the worst—he marries his Griffin, hosts orgies in sacred temples, and declares himself a living god. He burns historians alive for writing anything older than him, and once demanded all mirrors in the empire be destroyed because they "slandered his divinity." His court becomes a theater of madness, and the realm begins to rot from the inside under his cruel, delusional grip.

36,000 AEW: During a grotesque and opulent consummation ritual with her uncle-fiancé Yohan V the Evil, Fatiba Greystone plunges a ceremonial blade into his heart, ending his reign of madness. As blood splattered the silk sheets of the Moonlit Hall, she drags his naked corpse through the streets of Olive Dale, parading it for days as a symbol of liberation and vengeance. Her act is both justice and scandal—for Yohan V had executed her beloved husband in order to claim her as his bride. Now widowed twice, Fatiba ascends the throne as queen and shocks the realm further by marrying her son from her late husband, citing ancient royal precedence and "the will of Aerion" as justification. Her reign begins soaked in controversy, but for a time, it brings eerie stability.

37,000 AEW: Upon Queen Fatiba the spider's death during childbirth, her son-husband Yohan VI the Mother Fucker ascends the throne—earning his infamous epithet from the very nature of his conception and reign. The scandal is no longer whispered but shouted across the Greystone lands. His reign is marked by an eerie silence in the cradle halls: none of his thirteen children with his own mother survive infancy, each succumbing to grotesque deformities or stillbirths. The court physicians quietly record it as divine punishment, while poets and commoners alike mockingly ask, "Who would've thought breeding with your own mother was a bad idea?" His throne, once lined with velvet, soon stinks of incense and failure.

39,000 AEW: Yohan VI the Mother Fucker dies the way many in his cursed bloodline do—stupidly. Drunk on wine and grief, he challenges a Griffin to a duel, shirtless and barefoot, shouting slurred insults about "air superiority." The Griffin obliges. His mangled body is recovered days later, mostly digested. His throne passes to his Cousin-Nephew, Thalion II the Flyer, a man bred from a tree far too twisted in branches.

40,000 AEW: Predictably, the cycle of inherited madness continues. Thalion II, a product of so much incest his birth was considered a medical miracle and a divine warning, attempts to "fly like the Griffins" by leaping off the top of the Green Tower in Olive Dale. With no wings, no plan, and no understanding of gravity, he plummets like a stone to his death. Thus ends the Greystone Dynasty, exactly like the Holy Elvish Empire before it—collapsed under the weight of its own incestuous idiocy.

41,000 AEW: The Church, after watching millennia of inter-family bed-hopping spiral into national degeneracy, finally stepped in and issued a divine proclamation: Stop fucking your relatives. But Yohan VII the Inbred, born with one eye and three nipples, took this as a personal challenge. Determined to break every possible taboo, he impregnated every female in his family line capable of bearing children—including cousins, aunts, nieces, and even his half-sister-grandmother. The result was a population boom of malformed heirs, and a dynasty spiraling into mutant chaos. The Church, done playing nice, unleashed the Sparrows—its assasins inquisitors—who stormed Olive Dale and put an end to Yohan VII's thousand-year debauchery in blood and fire, finally decapitating the Greystone in every sense.

42,000 AEW: In the ashes of a ruined throne, Fatiba II the Mother of Giants rose, towering both politically and literally. A woman of colossal ambition and divine bloodlust, she seduced Parvat—the ancient God of Mountains and Wisdom himself. Their union shook the land and sky for seven days and birthed twin demigods: Yuno and Kuwa. These twins, vast and mighty, would become to the race of giants what Adamas and Evaline were to the elves—founders, guardians, and eventual myths carved into the bones of mountains. Thus began the Age of Giants.

43,000 AEW: Fatiba II, the Mother of Giants, died in an entirely predictable way—by trying to mate a second time with Parvat, a literal god twice her size. The result was internal destruction so complete even the divine couldn't save her. Her death made way for her deranged nephew, Yohan VIII the Mad, to seize the throne. In the mold of Emperor Nero, he played the flute while Olive Dale burned, having set the city ablaze himself to scapegoat the Yugmari, a minority religion deemed heretical by the Church. The Church, in its eternal zealotry, turned a blind eye, delighted that someone else was doing their holy genocide for them.

45,000 AEW: The people finally had enough. A mob of furious, ash-covered peasant elves dragged Yohan VIII out of his gilded brothel-palace and tore him apart limb by limb, ending the cursed Greystone dynasty after a reign that lasted 26,500 years—from 18,500 AEW (Yohan I's claim) to 45,000 AEW (Yohan VIII's brutal demise). Though shattered, scattered remnants of the dynasty retreated back to the remote Greystone Valley Divide, broken and forgotten… for now.

Age of Fracture (47,000 AEW-55,000 AEW)

Event: The Throne Lies EmptyWith the sudden death of the last Trueblood Sovereign and no heir of divine right, the continent plunged into chaos. The noble houses—each descended not from royalty, but from commoners elevated during the last divine war—now seek to claim the throne. A power struggle erupts, later known as:

The Battle of the 13 crown

Each house rose from merit, valor, or deception—but all are flawed legacies of mortal ambition. Below are outlines of the 13 contenders:

1. House Varnor – The Steel Law

Motto: "Order is the highest mercy."

Strength: Ironclad military rule, elite enforcers.

Flaw: Inflexible, oppressive.

2. House Iverene – The Mirrorborn

Motto: "To see is to rule."

Strength: Illusionists, spies, masters of deception.

Flaw: Paranoid, distrust even among kin.

3. House Senbarra – The Harvest Crown

Motto: "All kingdoms hunger."

Strength: Controls food supply and agrarian trade.

Flaw: Militarily weak; depends on alliances.

4. House Karushad – The Ashwrights

Motto: "From ruin, we rise."

Strength: Rebuilders of fallen cities; command ash magic.

Flaw: Feared for necromancy; viewed as cursed.

5. House Gwelden – The Lion's Jest

Motto: "Laughter hides the blade."

Strength: Charismatic leaders, assassins, entertainers.

Flaw: Never taken seriously—until it's too late.

6. House Thirel – The Voice of the Storm

Motto: "Let the skies crown us."

Strength: Skyships, stormcallers, weather dominion.

Flaw: Prone to arrogance and rash decisions.

7. House Mo'rak – The Mountain's Oath

Motto: "The earth remembers."

Strength: Dwarven lineage, unmatched metallurgy.

Flaw: Isolated and distrustful of outsiders.

8. House Caelyra – The Blooming Fang

Motto: "Beauty is a weapon."

Strength: Mastery of poisons, genetics, and charm.

Flaw: Bloodlines often unstable due to forced breeding.

9. House Faeborne – The Twilight Pact

Motto: "Shadow binds light."

Strength: Half-fey blood, old contracts with unseen powers.

Flaw: Cursed by ancestral bargains—fragile mortality.

10. House Dravath – The Crimson Accord

Motto: "Peace is paid in blood."

Strength: Mercenaries, warlords, blood-binding contracts.

Flaw: Loyalty bought, not earned.

11. House Arqen – The Ledger Crown

Motto: "Gold writes history."

Strength: Controls the banks, guilds, and debt networks.

Flaw: Power only lasts while the coin flows.

12. House Vess'Tora – The Void Heralds

Motto: "The stars owe us."

Strength: Void priests, space-folding mantra.

Flaw: Considered heretics by other houses.

13. House Yngir – The Flamebound Legacy

Motto: "Only the fire endures."

Strength: Dragon-kin descendants, fire-blooded warriors.

Flaw: Prone to infighting and volatile emotions.

Also called: The Age Without Starlight / The Fractured Epoch

Context:

Began with the death of the last Sovereign with divine blood, leaving the Elvish continent leaderless.

Triggered the Battle of the 13 Houses—a brutal, generation-spanning civil war between newly risen noble houses of commoner origin.

Ancient forests burned, ley lines cracked, and the high elven culture of art, song, and celestial study collapsed.

Cultural Fallout:

Loss of the Moon Choirs: Sacred celestial hymns were banned or forgotten after House Vess'Tora declared music a conduit for Void Madness.

Elven Lifespan Manipulated: Some houses (like Caelyra and Karushad) began experimenting with extending or weaponizing elven longevity—causing deformities and soul-degeneration.

Language Splintering: Classical High Elvish fractured into dialects—many of which are now lost. Magic rooted in old tongue became dangerous or unstable.

Civil Collapse:

No unified elven kingdom for over 80 centuries. Every city-state became a fortress. Treaties lasted months, betrayals were weekly.

High Magic was outlawed in many regions, seen as a threat to house dominion.

Sunwell Temples and ancient arcanums were sacked or defiled by houses like Dravath and Arqen seeking power relics.

Spiritual Consequences:

The Starlight Exodus: Elven gods withdrew their favor. Oracles ceased speaking. Comets (seen as omens) stopped appearing for 2,000 years.

Many elves believed the stars themselves had turned away in shame.

Warfare and Catastrophes:

The Twelvefold Betrayals: Every noble house at some point switched alliances multiple times—no side remained righteous.

The Ash Rains of Year 3,022: Magical fallout from a failed binding ritual between Karushad and Vess'Tora caused skies to rain cinders for 47 days.

The Sundering of Ael'Doran: Once the floating capital of the Elves, it crashed into the sea due to sabotaged storm magics.

Notable Legends Born:

The Pale Watcher: An unnamed elf who watched all 13 houses from a hidden tower, documenting 8,000 years of carnage in scrolls no one has yet read without going mad.

The First Blade of Mercy: A child from House Gwelden who assassinated her entire family and surrendered to a rival—starting the first brief ceasefire in 4,000 years.

Legacy:

The modern noble houses—like Ellarion—descend from those who survived the war and either rewrote their origins or purged their own bloodlines to claim legitimacy.

The Elven Calendar was reset after peace was restored. Many records from the dark era were destroyed intentionally.

The phrase "Fractured Blood" is still used today as an insult to elves with uncertain or dishonored ancestry.

55,000 AEW: House Karushad emerges victorious after centuries of conflict. Virytkoli Karushad The King crowned King of Olive Dale, marking the formal end of the Battle of 13 Houses.

55,050 AEW: The First Elven Civil War begins between Dark Elves and Light Elves, triggered by the post-13 Crowns food crisis. Due to differing metabolisms, both races require distinct diets. Light Elves, supported by the Great Wolves and House Karushad, win the war and begin the enslavement of Dark Elves. Light Elves initiated expansionist wars against Men and Giants.

55,500 AEW: Discontent brews in the empire. Revolutionary and educational movements emerge among the Imperial nobles. The Javokin Club is formed in defiance of slavery, despite the reigning king Emesdoni Karushad ("the Oblivious") being unaware of the club's subversive goals.

57,000 AEW: Bardwin I the Broken is born.

57,700 AEW: Bardwin becomes obsessed with an ancient prophecy concerning a messianic figure—the Kalki, referred to in his writings as mnqya.

60,000 AEW: Halasar Karushad the Old is born.

60,000 AEW: Bardwin I performs the sacred mantra ritual Janmagnisanskarah—he leaps into a sacred fire and emerges miraculously pregnant. He gives birth to 19 twins: one boy and eighteen girls, whom he claims will herald the age of mnqya.

61,000 AEW: The Second Elven Civil War erupts — far more catastrophic than the first. The scale of bloodshed is so immense that pure-blooded Light Elves go extinct. The Dark Elves suffer extreme genetic degradation and mutations due to prolonged magical and biological stress.

The war ends with the signing of the Evening Glory Valley Treaty.

Bardwin II the Father and his sister-wives initiate the repopulation of the Elven race, establishing new bloodlines.

Some genetic diversity survives, particularly in the Greystone Valley Divide.

Halasar Karushad the Old becomes the Wandering Guru, devoting his life to searching for and guiding the prophesied messiah his father once foresaw.

The once-dominant House Karushad vanishes, retreating into the Agony Desert beyond the Sea of Glass.

65,000 AEW: The Kingdom is rebranded as the Imperial Elvish Kingdom.

The term "Light Elves" is officially discarded, replaced with "Imperial Elves", marking a cultural and racial shift after centuries of war and loss.

The Imperial Family comes under the leadership of House Ellarion, a new dominant noble line.

House Ellarion descends from Bardwin II's union with the surviving daughters of House Gwelden, preserving and fusing two powerful bloodlines.

65,000 AEW:Ronard Ellarion the Singer takes the throne. A deeply artistic soul, Ronard believed harmony in governance must reflect harmony in music. He introduced the controversial Music Laws — decrees mandating tonal frequencies in public architecture, ritual chants in politics, and bardic roles in court trials.Under his patronage, the Aetherian Church was founded, linking divine favor to music and sound. This era saw the Empire stretch beyond the skies, colonizing nearby moons where crystal resonance was used for communication and prayer. The Ellarions were worshipped as "Voices of Aether."

66,000 AEW:Rynard Ellarion the Barbarian — Ronard's younger brother — ascends the throne after the Singer's mysterious disappearance on a moon pilgrimage. A stark contrast to his predecessor, Rynard valued raw strength and gladiatorial honor over song.He transformed politics by introducing Colosseums where nobles fought disputes through champions.His son, Prince Veylen, attempted a coup against the Crimson Senate, accusing it of heresy and musical corruption. The coup failed.To prevent further rebellion, Rynard sanctioned the first Khalasar — warrior tribes that worshipped the forgotten Mountain God and vanished into the Stoneweald.Rynard died in solitude, possibly devoured by the first Khalasar he helped create.

67,000 AEW:Queen Alenyra the Explorer, Rynard's niece, became the first ruling imperial elven Queen since the Second Civil War. A scholar and cartographer, she led expeditions across the sea of glass, documenting ruins, bones, and shattered thrones of earlier forgotten empires.Alenyra passed the famous Incest Law, banning royal interbreeding after discovering how deeply genetic rot had taken root in her bloodline.She also founded the Moon Mapping Guild and attempted peaceful treaties with non-elven lunar beings.But during the Siege of Everdusk — a moon near the coast of the shattered star lakes — her cousin Bardwin III the Usurper overthrew her, citing ancient blood claims.Fleeing east, Alenyra vanished beyond the sea of glass — toward the same Agony Desert where her ancestors once fled. Her fate remains unknown.Bardwin III ruled alone. He had no heirs, openly loving men — a scandal for the Church, but the poets adored him.

68,000 AEW:Godwin the Bastardly — Bardwin III's second cousin — seizes the throne after the Usurper dies in his sleep. Godwin was the product of a Niyoga between an Ellarion uncle and a witch.Despite the stigma, Godwin proved himself militarily competent and ruthlessly pragmatic.He consolidated the moons, reformed the Senate with harsher authority, and burned half the bards loyal to Ronard's old laws.His reign marked the slow fading of mysticism in favor of Empire-first militarism, also started conflict with the Khalasars..dubbing them 'Barbarians'.

68,000 AEW:Godwin the Bastardly dies of a disease later identified as Aids, though it remained a court taboo to speak of it for centuries. His only legitimate heir, Rokhan the Industrialist, takes the throne.

68,000–75,000 AEW:Rokhan the Industrialist ushers in the Era of Steam and Gears. A technocrat with no patience for poetry, religion, or magic, Rokhan mechanized vast swathes of the Empire.

Crystal-temples were converted into machine-factories.

Slavery was abolished, not out of morality, but efficiency — machines didn't rebel.

He introduced the Worker's Law and Steel Tax, which funded expansion of the undercities and early sky-rail networks.

Rokhan also clashed with remaining Aetherian cultists, burning the last moon-temple.

His reign ended tragically when he fell into the Great Gearworks during a solo inspection of his master invention, the Heartcore Engine.

75,000 AEW:Quazo the Obsessed ascends to the throne. In the royal archives, he uncovers the forbidden writings of Bardwin I the Broken and becomes consumed by the prophecy of the mnqya — a messianic savior said to be born with red eyes and platinum (silver) hair.

Quazo departs on a decade-long pilgrimage, returning mad with purpose. In Greystone Valley Divide, he finds a mysterious woman matching half the prophecy: silver-haired with a noble yet feral aura. He makes her his queen, convinced she will bear the mnqya.

They bear 11 children over two centuries:

Some with red eyes but no silver hair.

Some with silver hair but mundane eyes.

None complete the prophecy.

His queen, too, succumbs to the obsession. She dies giving birth to their final child — Luthor the Just — .

77,000–80,000 AEW:The Great Barbarian War erupts between House Ellarion and the Khalasars. Brutal and long, the war sees the Khalasars eventually pushed beyond the Sea of Glass, out of Imperial Elvish lands. However, the conflict severely devastates Greystone Valley Divide, both ecologically and culturally.

80,000 AEW:Quazo the Obsessed dies, having completed his life's masterpiece — a painting of the mnqya, the prophesied hero. The painting is said to induce madness in those who stare too long. His final act marks the end of an era.Luthor the Just ascends to the throne.

80,000–95,000 AEW:The Golden Age under Luthor Ellarion begins. Peace, trade, arcane development, and imperial expansion reach their peak. The empire stabilizes and thrives.

95,070 AEW:Luthor Ellarion meets Mellirion Greystone, a scholar and healer from the battered Greystone Valley Divide. Despite political tension, they fall in love and marry, forming a union that bridges two deeply scarred legacies.

98,000 AEW:Paliv Ellarion is born to Luthor and Mellirion — a prodigious child bearing the silver bloodline of Ellarion and the wisdom of Greystone.

98,900 AEW:Luthor Ellarion dies under mysterious circumstances. Rumors abound — assassination, madness from the painting, or divine punishment.Mellirion the drunk ascends as Queen, .

99,400 AEW:The world meets Shotaro Mugyiwara.