Age of Triumph


Index

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Year Event
  Emperor Akrodios of Ustilus begins a great campaign to reconquer all former lands from the Rakashites. This would last for the remainder of his lifetime.
3539 On his deathbed Akrodios is given a vision by Feyn telling him that in the year 4000 he will return to the mortal realm and create a new empire for humanity.
3574 King Alden I ascends to the Mazarine throne. Throughout his rule he begins a program of modernization and military reorganization.
3576 The Ustilian empire reconquers most of its former lands.
3579 Alden I changes the Mazarine capital to Svaikal, a city built by his greatest architects to rival Feyn’s Throne in splendor.
36XX Utopia and Nekthys fight a massive war over control of the southern continent. Hundreds of thousands will die in both sides as magic and technology clashes against the power of gods.
363X The use of magical superweapons completely annihilates both Utopia and Nekthys, leaving behind nothing but a magic-irradiated wasteland full of ruins.
  The Jaddites begin to migrate north after the destruction of Utopia
3645 The Chothgar chieftain’s son Meisodh is exiled after a struggle for power against his brother. He travels south guided by his clan spirit in search for a way to become stronger.
3646 The prophet Mekhatim is exiled into the Kajmasar mountains fleeing persecution from Feynist authorities. She is taken in by the leonin led by chief Canrim, who become her first converts.
3648 Meisodh arrives to the Citadel and fights against the abyssals. Guided by visions sent by his clan spirit he slays a powerful abyssal monster and crafts Ida Karun from its essence.
3650 Meisodh kills his brother and becomes great chieftain of the Chothgar. He teaches his people the Yathan’ra way, becoming a prophet of this new religion.
3652 Mekhatim leads a leonin army into Kimon and conquers vast lands, converting her subjects to the Celestial Host.
3656 Mekhatim duels the Chothgar prophet Meisodh for supremacy in Kimon. Both prophets die in battle, starting centuries of conflict between their followers.
3656 Canrim becomes first Mhayid of Arshalan. His descendants will continue to rule Arshalan until the present day.
  Religious wars break out in Geismaria between Feynists and Mekhatimists. Arshalan and Mazarin use this conflict as a proxy war.
  The religious war ends with the Geismarian lands becoming fractured in many feuding kingdoms. The League of Mercenaries, strengthened by decades of war, becomes the true power in the land.
3672 Emperor Itakamendros I of Ustilus annexes the city of Rizad, gaining control of the Continental canal
3707 Itakamendros I defeats the Mazarine armies in the battle of Cestina, liberating Kratoi from Mazarine control. King Strahil I of Mazarin is assassinated after the battle by Ustilian agents.
3707 Kratoi voluntarily joins Ustilus as a protectorate, keeping its autonomy and culture.
  The Hobgoblin legion takes advantage of a succession war in Ustilus to invade the empire, backing one of the candidates.
  The Legion besieges Feyn’s Throne but fails to take the city. The city is saved by prince Variager, who becomes a national hero.
3898 Variager ascends to the throne, boosted by his popularity. He begins to purge his political enemies and begins a genocidal campaign against the hobgoblins, becoming known as the cruel.
  The Knights of Ustilus are transformed into the empire’s religious police by Variager. They become very powerful and act like a state within a state.
3919 Variager defeats the Legion and conquers their lands, enslaving the hobgoblin people. He creates the protectorate of Iskaria to further divide and weaken the former Legion lands.
3919 The Shinri royal family is killed in a civil war. The Shinri state collapses, leading to a century of chaos known as the Age of Warlords.
  The Ustilian empire conquers the Temash lands, gaining control of the chi mines in the south.
3942 Variager is succeeded by his son Lysandros, who continues his father’s policies of expansion and fights against Arshalan and Shiraj for hegemony.
  Lysandros grants more power to the Ustilian parliament and makes concessions to the nobility, paving the road for a Constitutional monarchy.
   
3974 Emperor Stepanos III ascends to the Ustilian throne. He is a weak ruler who delegates most of his power to the Parliament and the Knights.
  Princess Theodora of Ustilus forms the Pact, a secret organization dedicated to protecting knowledge and encouraging research in science and arcane arts.
4000 On the day of Feyn’s prophesized return the god mysteriously vanishes, throwing Ustilus into a period of chaos. This event ends the age of Triumph for the Ustilian people.