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<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div>{{TOC left}}<br /> ===Foundation of Cambrecia===<br /> {{:Foundation of Cambrecia}}<br /> ===Imperial Cambrecia===<br /> {{:Imperial Cambrecia}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Derlic War===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Long Discontent===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Long Discontent}}<br /> ===The Cambrecian Civil Wars===<br /> {{:The Cambrecian Civil Wars}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Mage War===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Mage War}}<br /> ===The Zelosian Schism===<br /> {{:The Zelosian Schism}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods}}<br /> ===Cambrecia in the Fourth Age===<br /> {{:Cambrecia in the Fourth Age}}<br /> <noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}{{Fey_Source|chapter= History|article= Third Age}}[[Category:History]][[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia_and_the_Long_Discontent&diff=22603 Cambrecia and the Long Discontent 2026-09-10T03:31:42Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Cambrecia and the Long Discontent}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 829<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 1473<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Cambrecia and the Derlic War<br /> |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude>[[Quintus Sarnicos|King Quintus Sarnicos]] ruled the [[Cambrecia|Kingdom of Cambrecia]] for seventeen years knowing his crown existed only so long as [[Great Empire|Zeth]] found him useful, and he governed accordingly: taxes rose, informers multiplied, and any noble house suspected of lingering loyalty to [[House Dravos]] found itself stripped of land and title within five years of his coronation. He died in {{ICYear|95}} without a son, and the throne passed instead through his daughter, [[Livia Sarnicos|Livia]], to her husband, a Zetian-born officer named [[Lucius Andarion]] who had spent most of his career garrisoned in the [[Cambrecian Mountains]]. Historians would later group Andarion into the same Sarnicid dynasty as his father-in-law, though in truth the crown had already changed hands by marriage rather than blood, a pattern that would repeat itself more than once.<br /> <br /> Andarion's reign is remembered for the [[Revolt of Duvarna]], when the descendants of the old Duvarna tribe, crushed by taxation and by a string of bad harvests, rose up along the middle Kambros River and briefly drove out every Imperial tax-collector between [[Septarium]] and the foothills. King Lucius answered with a severity that shocked even his own Imperial advisors: entire villages were burned, and the survivors resettled by force onto Imperial estates further south, a policy that broke the rebellion but left the region depopulated and bitter for a generation afterward. He died in {{ICYear|115}}, reportedly of a wasting illness, though rumors in Septarium's taverns preferred to whisper of poison.<br /> <br /> His successor, [[Gaius Marendic|King Gaius Marendic]], came to the throne with no blood connection to Sarnicos or Andarion at all, simply the next man Zeth judged reliable, and his reign became defined by an uprising of a different character entirely. In {{ICYear|131}}, a coalition of merchants and lesser priests in Septarium itself, citing [[Neptaris|Neptaris's]] [[Supreme Assembly]] as their model exactly as [[Fufidius Cato|Fufidius Cato's]] petitioners had a century before, attempted to revive the old dream of a Cambrecian Senate under the banner of a rebuilt [[Concilium Septariae|Concilium]]. King Gaius crushed the movement's leadership within weeks, but unlike Lucius' brutal cleansing of the Duvarna valley, he could not stamp out the idea itself; the countryside remained restless for the rest of his reign, and it was this stubborn, low-grade defiance, impossible to kill with a sword no matter how many heads it took, that finally convinced the [[Metius the Elder of House Livius|Emperor Metius the Elder]] of [[House Livius]] that Cambrecia needed a different kind of conqueror. By {{ICYear|149}}, he had settled on the Pontifex of Zelos instead.<br /> <br /> [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] was [[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]], not Zetian, the son of a minor priest of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]] in a province that had spent four decades under the iron rule of [[House Gabinius]] before the Church of Zelos even expanded there, and he had grown up watching what that kind of rule cost long after the rebellions themselves were over. "Ionnanes" wasn't his birth name at all, but the regnal name he took upon his elevation to the Pontificate, a custom of the Zelos priesthood that few people outside its ranks paid much attention to at the time, but which, centuries later, the Potentates of Cambrecia would inherit without anyone quite remembering where it started. Emperor Metius the Elder chose him precisely because he wasn't a soldier: where Titus Nepos, Cyricus Isidorus, and every Cambrecian king from Quintus to Gaius had answered Cambrecian defiance with the sword and only sharpened it, Ionnanes proposed something no Legate had ever tried: offering the Cambrecians not a conqueror to submit to, but a god to belong to. The Pontificate of Zelos had stood in Zeth itself since the earliest days of the Republic, seated at the literal heart of the state Zelos embodied, and moving it across an entire ocean to a half-pacified frontier province was, by any measure, a considerable gamble. Neither Metius nor Ionnanes could have known it at the time, but in trading the safety of Zeth for the volatile soil of [[Zelosia City|Septarium]], they planted the seed of something the Empire could not have predicted: a priesthood answerable, in theory, to the Emperor, but rooted now in Cambrecian ground, drawing Cambrecian converts, and building, cathedral stone by cathedral stone, a foundation of authority that would one day answer to no Emperor at all and yet maintain Imperial traditions long after the Empire had fallen.<br /> <br /> Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia&diff=22602 Cambrecia 2026-09-10T02:43:02Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference<br /> |article= Cambrecia<br /> }}</includeonly><br /> Long the center of the worship of [[Zelos]], God of the State, in the Imperial Pantheon, The Holy See of Cambrecia was long the last nation loyal to [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]] in [[Duria]], despite being an essentially independent state. Cambrecia suffered greatly during [[the Dark Times]], with chaos and rebellion ravaging the land after the fall of the Mage-King [[Lucasa]] and the [[Crimson Plague]] decimating the population thereafter. At the dawn of [[the Fourth Age of Man]], the Potentates of Zelos have re-established their authority, despite losing a great deal of territory during the Dark Times. Despite the more liberal policies of recent Potentates, there are still some rebels covertly working to replace the theocracy with a monarchy.<br /> <noinclude><br /> {{TOC left}}<br /> {{Nation<br /> |name = Cambrecia<br /> |fullname = The Holy See of Cambrecia <br /> |emblem = Fw_cambrecia_web.png<br /> |geography = Cambrecia is a fertile coastal land, enjoying a long, temperate planting season and a short winter. The terrain is primary chaparral that has been extensively cultivated.<br /> |continent = Duria<br /> |location = Southern [[Duria]], along the shores of the [[Maroshan Sea]]<br /> |land_area = 21197<br /> |coastline = 285<br /> |terrain = <br /> |waterways = <br /> * [[Maroshan Sea]]<br /> * [[Septimia River]]<br /> |society= <br /> |population = 750,000 (90% humans, 4% hobbits, 6% other)<br /> |language = [[Cambrecian Language|Cambrecian]]<br /> |locations= <br /> |persons = Archbishop [[Alexander Desteos]] of [[Belora]], Archbishop [[Gawyn Marcos]] of [[Amesand]], High Protector [[Marcus Aquilius Severus]] of the [[Golden Guard]]<br /> |government= <br /> |government_type = Theocracy (Potentate, Archbishop, Bishop, Temple Speaker, Podesta) <br /> |ruler = His Holiness the Potentate of Zelos, [[Gabriel II]]<br /> |arms = Potent, a book argent bordered by two altars argent with flames gules, to chief a crown or.<br /> |capital = [[Zelosia City]] (pop 20,450)<br /> |alliances = Trading agreements with [[Auteria]], [[Danas]], [[Daredonia]], the dwarves of [[Derlos]], [[Enesia]], [[Kamaros]], [[Koramia]], [[Malvetia]], [[Neptaris|the Freecity of Neptaris]] and [[Numentora]]. No formal military alliances, by decree of the Potentate.<br /> |hostilities = The state has had some skirmishes with pirates from [[Marosh]] and [[Tamerynd]], but has no formally declared wars.<br /> |law = <br /> |military= <br /> * [[Golden Guard]]<br /> |religion = The worship of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]] is absolutely predominant in Cambrecia. Despite a historic prohibition against formal worship of any deity not directly descendant from [[Ptharos|Lord Ptharos]] himself, recent Potentates have relaxed these regulations to permit temples to any non-Dagonian god; even Druidic shrines dedicated to the Tuatha are permitted in the countryside. [[Betshaba|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] has a strong following along the coastal cities of Cambrecia. Despite their more liberal policies in the last century, the priests of Zelos still maintain their feared Inquisitors, those priests dedicated to finding and executing worshippers of the children of [[Dagon|Dagon the Adversary]], particularly worshipers of [[Phlegethon|Phlegethon Ironfist]], who are reputed to seek to overthrow the Holy See and replace the Potentate with a civilian tyrant.<br /> |pantheon = Formally neutral, though there are strong sympathies to followers of the [[Koramian Heresy]]<br /> |patron = [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]]<br /> |dominant_faiths = <br /> |secondary_faiths = <br /> |persecuted_faiths = <br /> |major_temples = <br /> |economy = Though grapes and olives were once the crops of choice in its southern regions, necessity during [[the Dark Times]] required much of the country to focus on corns and bean crops for sustenance. Trade during [[the Fourth Age of Man]] has sharply increased in the nation under the gentle guidance of a series of liberal Potentates, who lifted most of the restrictions to trade imposed on Cambrecians during [[the Third Age of Man]]. There have even been nascent attempts to restore the once-famous wines of Cambrecia, with the full support and encouragement of the Church.<br /> |exports = <br /> |imports = <br /> |coinage = 10 copper Pennies (1 cp) = 1 silver Eagle (1 sp), 2 Eagles = 1 Double Eagle (2sp), 25 Eagles = 1 gold Sceptre (25sp), 5 Sceptres = 1 platinum Solid (125sp)<br /> |guilds = <br /> |black_market = <br /> |history = <br /> ===Foundation of Cambrecia===<br /> {{:Foundation of Cambrecia}}<br /> ===Imperial Cambrecia===<br /> {{:Imperial Cambrecia}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Derlic War===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Long Discontent===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Long Discontent}}<br /> ===The Cambrecian Civil Wars===<br /> {{:The Cambrecian Civil Wars}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Mage War===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Mage War}}<br /> ===The Zelosian Schism===<br /> {{:The Zelosian Schism}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods}}<br /> ===Cambrecia in the Fourth Age===<br /> {{:Cambrecia in the Fourth Age}}<br /> |current_events= <br /> |map= <br /> |update_year= <br /> }}<br /> {{Duria_Guide|chapter= Regions}}<br /> [[Category:Cambrecia]]<br /> </noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=The_History_of_Cambrecia&diff=22601 The History of Cambrecia 2026-09-10T02:42:32Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div>{{TOC left}}<br /> ===Foundation of Cambrecia===<br /> {{:Foundation of Cambrecia}}<br /> ===Imperial Cambrecia===<br /> {{:Imperial Cambrecia}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Derlic War===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}<br /> ====Cambrecia and the Long Discontent====<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Long Discontent}}<br /> ===The Cambrecian Civil Wars===<br /> {{:The Cambrecian Civil Wars}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Mage War===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Mage War}}<br /> ===The Zelosian Schism===<br /> {{:The Zelosian Schism}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods}}<br /> ===Cambrecia in the Fourth Age===<br /> {{:Cambrecia in the Fourth Age}}<br /> <noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}{{Fey_Source|chapter= History|article= Third Age}}[[Category:History]][[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia_and_the_Long_Discontent&diff=22600 Cambrecia and the Long Discontent 2026-09-10T02:42:01Z

<p>Noctifer: Created page with "<includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Cambrecia and the Long Discontent}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle |startyear= 829 |startyearcirca= |endyear= 1473 |endyearcirca= |continent= Duria |previous_article= Cambrecia and the Derlic War |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars |main_article=The History of Cambrecia }}</noinclude>King Quintus Sarnicos ruled the Kingdom of Cambrecia for seventeen years knowing his crown exis..."</p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Cambrecia and the Long Discontent}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 829<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 1473<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Cambrecia and the Derlic War<br /> |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude>[[Quintus Sarnicos|King Quintus Sarnicos]] ruled the [[Cambrecia|Kingdom of Cambrecia]] for seventeen years knowing his crown existed only so long as [[Great Empire|Zeth]] found him useful, and he governed accordingly: taxes rose, informers multiplied, and any noble house suspected of lingering loyalty to [[House Dravos]] found itself stripped of land and title within five years of his coronation. He died in {{ICYear|95}} without a son, and the throne passed instead through his daughter, [[Livia Sarnicos|Livia]], to her husband, a Zetian-born officer named [[Lucius Andarion]] who had spent most of his career garrisoned in the [[Cambrecian Mountains]]. Historians would later group Andarion into the same Sarnicid dynasty as his father-in-law, though in truth the crown had already changed hands by marriage rather than blood, a pattern that would repeat itself more than once.<br /> <br /> Andarion's reign is remembered for the [[Revolt of Duvarna]], when the descendants of the old Duvarna tribe, crushed by taxation and by a string of bad harvests, rose up along the middle Kambros River and briefly drove out every Imperial tax-collector between [[Septarium]] and the foothills. King Lucius answered with a severity that shocked even his own Imperial advisors: entire villages were burned, and the survivors resettled by force onto Imperial estates further south, a policy that broke the rebellion but left the region depopulated and bitter for a generation afterward. He died in {{ICYear|115}}, reportedly of a wasting illness, though rumors in Septarium's taverns preferred to whisper of poison.<br /> <br /> His successor, [[Gaius Marendic|King Gaius Marendic]], came to the throne with no blood connection to Sarnicos or Andarion at all, simply the next man Zeth judged reliable, and his reign became defined by an uprising of a different character entirely. In {{ICYear|131}}, a coalition of merchants and lesser priests in Septarium itself, citing [[Neptaris|Neptaris's]] [[Supreme Assembly]] as their model exactly as [[Fufidius Cato|Fufidius Cato's]] petitioners had a century before, attempted to revive the old dream of a Cambrecian Senate under the banner of a rebuilt [[Concilium Septariae|Concilium]]. King Gaius crushed the movement's leadership within weeks, but unlike Lucius' brutal cleansing of the Duvarna valley, he could not stamp out the idea itself; the countryside remained restless for the rest of his reign, and it was this stubborn, low-grade defiance, impossible to kill with a sword no matter how many heads it took, that finally convinced the [[Metius the Elder of House Livius|Emperor Metius the Elder]] of [[House Livius]] that Cambrecia needed a different kind of conqueror. By {{ICYear|149}}, he had settled on the Pontifex of Zelos instead.<br /> <br /> The Imperial response was heavy-handed at first, but in {{ICYear|149}}, the Emperor [[Metius the Elder]] decided on a more surreptitious approach to quelling the Cambrecians. In his role as [[Pontifex Maximus]] of the Imperial pantheon, he sent the [[Pontifex of Zelos]], god of the State, to Septarium to build a great cathedral and begin the conversion of the populous to [[Zelos]]. The Pontifex of the time, [[Ionnanes II]], was a persuasive man, and was able to quickly convert most of the local leadership to his banner. Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia_and_the_Derlic_War&diff=22599 Cambrecia and the Derlic War 2026-09-10T02:33:18Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 800<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 828<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Imperial Cambrecia<br /> |following_article=Cambrecia and the Long Discontent<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude>Under [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], [[Legion III Cambrecia]] moved into the trackless wilds of what had even then become known as the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], chasing rumors of wealthy dwarven miners high in the peaks. In a mistake that would resonate for decades to come and permanently alter the political landscape of southern Duria, the Legion slaughtered an ostensibly peaceful dwarven ambassadorial party from the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]], which initiated what would become known as the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]] in the Empire with the express intention of conquering the subterranean Kingdom. The Legion spent the first few months of the "War" failing to even locate the entrance to the underground mountain kingdom. The dwarves were shocked by the behavior of humans they thought were friendly and prepared themselves for battle, but cooler heads prevailed and an envoy was sent to [[Neptaris]], who had allied with the dwarves of Derlos some six centuries prior during the [[War of the Dark Rider]]. After brief deliberations, the [[Triumvirate]] of Neptaris secretly decided to maintain their alliance with [[Derlos]] and prepare for war against this new Empire. In {{ICYear|55}}, Neptaris formally declared war on Zeth and immediately took one of their key military outposts in the foothills of the Cambrecian Mountains, [[Fort Pagulium]].<br /> <br /> What began as an exploratory expedition against [[Derlos]] quickly grew into a war Cambrecia had not prepared for. Neptaran Marshal [[Aador Manx|Marshal Aador Manx]], moving in concert with dwarven irregulars from Derlos, exploited the fall of [[Fort Pagulium]] to seize five more Imperial supply depots before the year was out, and for two years [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Isidorus]] found himself fighting a war on ground he had not chosen. The tide turned only when the Imperial fleet broke Neptaris's navy at the [[Battle of Nimble Point]] in {{ICYear|57}} and sealed [[Krios Bay]], cutting the rebellious Freecity off from the sea it depended on. Any relief the victory brought was short-lived: a plague swept along the Cambrecian coast the following winter, and among its dead was Isidorus himself, the very Legate whose slaughter of the Derlic envoys had started the war in the first place. Command passed to [[Valerius Lucius|Legate Valerius Lucius]], who spent the next several years rebuilding the Legion's strength even as Neptaris, unbeknownst to the Empire, was doing the same in secret shipyards along its own coast. Marshal Manx fought on until his death at Fort Pagulium, and his successor, [[Greor Alcyon of House Markos|Marshall Greor Alcyon]] of [[House Markos]], briefly seized command of the [[Maroshan Sea]] with a fleet of thirty warships, but Imperial spies located and burned Neptaris's hidden shipyards in the winter of {{ICYear|65}}, and with reinforcement from the fleets of [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] in [[Koramia|Imperial Simmeria]], Valerius Lucius laid siege to [[Neptaris]] itself. The city fell within a fortnight when an Imperial sympathizer inside its walls opened the gates, and Marshal Alcyon, upon hearing the news, took his own life rather than witness Neptaris's surrender. With their human allies defeated, the dwarves of Derlos sealed off the entrances to their subterranean kingdom and disappeared into the roots of the mountains.<br /> <br /> For Cambrecia, the years after the Derlic War brought no relief, only a change in the shape of their subjugation. The dwarven wealth that had first drawn the Legion into the mountains was never recovered; the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]] had sealed its gates and vanished into the roots of the mountains rather than ever treat with the Empire again, so the war that cost [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Isidorus]] his life had, in the end, won Zeth nothing at all. Command remained with [[Valerius Lucius|Legate Valerius Lucius]], who spent his remaining years in Septarium keeping the Legion garrisoned and the tribute rolls full, but the endless cycle of rebellion made direct military rule an expense Zeth could not sustain indefinitely.<br /> <br /> Cambrecia's own house was no steadier than the Empire's patience. In the plague-stricken winter of {{ICYear|58}} that claimed Legate Isidorus, the same sickness reached Septarium and took [[Tarnos III Dravos|King Tarnos III]], leaving the throne to his young son, [[Kestor Dravos|Prince Kestor]], no more than five years old. A regency council, drawn from mostly Kamaros-descended nobility and backed by the increasingly influential priesthood of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], ruled in the boy's name. With Zeth's full attention on the war against Neptaris and Derlos, no one in the capital was minding Cambrecia's own succession, and [[Bellenos Dravos]], of the old Amesi-descended branch of the royal house, a line that had never accepted being passed over for the throne generations before, raised his own claim. The resulting [[Dravosid Kinstrife]] dragged on for sixteen years, a slow civil war fought in the shadow of the Empire's own occupation, until Kestor, grown to manhood, finally defeated and killed Bellenos in personal combat in {{ICYear|74}} at the [[Battle of Vetrenos]] and reunited the kingdom under his own rule for the first time in a generation.<br /> <br /> It was precisely this victory that doomed him. A legitimate, battle-hardened king who had reunified Cambrecia without any help from Zeth was a far more troubling prospect to the Empire than a child regency had ever been, and Emperor [[Leto I of House Livius|Emperor Leto I]] of [[House Livius]] had no intention of recognizing a monarch who might one day decide he owed the Empire nothing at all. In {{ICYear|78}}, fresh Imperial legions arrived in Septarium, declared Kestor's rule illegitimate despite the regency council's own endorsement years before, and installed a man with no connection to House Dravos whatsoever, [[Quintus Sarnicos]], as King of Cambrecia in his place. What became of Kestor Dravos, the last of his line, has never been settled. Some in Septarium still whisper that he was quietly put to the sword in the dungeons beneath his own palace and buried without rite, so that Zeth would leave the Cambrecian people no grave to mourn at and no martyr to rally behind. Others insist he escaped the city before the legions arrived and lived out his years in exile, some say in Neptaris, others in the depths of the Cambrecian Mountains, given quiet sanctuary by the dwarves of Derlos, who, whatever else divided them from the surface, understood better than anyone what it meant to be betrayed by the Empire's ambitions.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Third_Age_of_Man_Timeline&diff=22598 Third Age of Man Timeline 2026-09-10T02:12:03Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference<br /> |article= Third Age of Man Timeline<br /> }}</includeonly><br /> {| width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br /> |- class="tableheader" valign="bottom"<br /> |width="100" align="center"|'''Imperial Year''' <br /> |width="100" align="center"|'''Aebasan Year'''<br /> |width="100" align="center"|'''Neptaran Year'''<br /> |'''Event'''<br /> {{EventRow|120|odd|<br /> * [[The Third Age of Man]] begins; [[The Foundation of Zeth]]<br /> * [[Orris of House Ikthian]] is found in exile in the [[Arisian forest]] and is crowned King of [[Neptaris|Neptag]], despite the fact that he had neither visited the city before nor spoke the language. [[The First Neptaran Ecumenical Council|the First Ecumenical Council]] is called to determine who should serve as Regent. [[Joandar]], Rector of [[the House of the Quill]] and himself half-elven (though raised by his human family), was chosen to serve.<br /> * Rise of the [[Empire of Balguran]]}}<br /> {{EventRow|121|even|[[The War of the Dark Rider]] beings as [[The Dark Rider|the Dark Rider]], a mysterious dark-armored figure upon a demonic horse, leads the orcs of [[Karad-ul]] in an attack on the dwarves of the Kingdom of [[Derlos]], beneath the [[Cambrecian Mountains]]. Though the orcs sustain heavy losses, they far outnumber the dwarven defenders.}}<br /> {{EventRow|124|odd|[[The War of the Dark Rider]] escalates as the orcs of [[Karad-ul]] find a way into the royal court of [[Sverni VII]], King of [[Derlos]] and massacre his entire court. A contingent of dwarven refugees flee to the surface and approach the elves of the [[Arisian forest]] to request assistance. The elves are at first resistant to the idea, but when the orcs of Karad-ul began to stream from the mountains to attack the elves, they quickly organize with the dwarven refugees to fight the orcs to a stand-still.}}<br /> {{EventRow|126|even|[[Neptaris|Neptag]], under the young King [[Orris]], formally enters [[the War of the Dark Rider]] in support of the dwarves of [[Derlos]] and the [[Arisian elves]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|152|odd|[[Meargagh]], chieftain of the [[Kamaros]], jealous of [[Neptaris|Neptag's]] wealth, besieges the city but fails to breach its walls.}}<br /> {{EventRow|155|even|[[Meargagh]], chieftain of the [[Kamaros]], still jealous of [[Neptaris|Neptag's]] wealth, besieges the city for a second time but again fails to breach its walls.}}<br /> {{EventRow|157|odd|Formal peace is established between the [[Kamaros]] and [[Neptaris|Neptag]] with [[the Treaty of Tawn]] between [[Meargagh]], chieftain of the Kamaros, and [[Regent Joandar]] of Neptag. As a promise of his good behavior, Meargagh offers his eldest son, [[Irgalach]], as hostage to Neptag.}}<br /> {{EventRow|167|even|[[Meargagh]], chieftain of the [[Kamaros]], dies. [[Irgalach son of Meargagh]], his eldest son who was kept hostage in [[Neptag|Neptaris]] as a result of [[the Treaty of Tawn]], is released to assume the Kamaran throne.}}<br /> {{EventRow|170|odd|[[Irgalach son of Meargagh|King Irgalach]] of [[Kamaros]], former hostage of [[Joandar|Regent Joandar]], ruler of [[Neptag|Neptaris]] arrives at the gates of Neptag with a Kamaran army trained in the Neptag battle tactics he learned growing up there. The city falls within a month, with Regent Joandar taken back to Kamaros to serve as tutor for Irgalach's children, leaving the young [[Orris|King Orris]] to rule Neptag as a dependent monarch.}}<br /> {{EventRow|180|even|[[Orris|King Orris]], the young half-elven King of [[Neptaris|Neptag]], allies with the nearby [[House Arisan|Arisan Elves]] and marches on [[Kamaros]], capturing the tactically-critical [[Fort Tintagar]]. He would hold the Fort through five years of near constant warfare and sieges.}}<br /> {{EventRow|185|odd|After five years of war, [[Orris|King Orris]] of [[Neptaris|Neptag]] achieves victory in the [[Last Battle of Kamaros]] when a stray arrow slays [[Irgalach son of Meargagh|King Irgalach]] of the Kamarans. In the resulting treaty, [[Joandar|Regent Joandar]] is released from his imprisonment and returns with King Orris to [[Neptaris|Neptag]], where both receive a hero's welcome.}}<br /> {{EventRow|206|even|A drought strikes southern [[Duria]] and the last of the [[House Arisan|Arisan elves]] depart their forests to seek sanctuary in the city of Neptag. To commemorate the event, the half-elven King of Neptag, [[Orris]], renames the city [[Neptaris]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|210|odd|At the age of 105, the half-elven [[Orris|King Orris]] of [[Neptaris]] abdicates his crown after failing to resolve a rebellion by [[Politos of House Rimman|Politos]] of [[House Rimman]]. As his last act of office, Orris designates his mentor, [[Joandar|Regent Joandar]], to select his successor. He then takes the cloth and becomes a monk of [[Clementia|Clementia the Dove]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|211|even|[[The Second Neptaran Ecumenical Council]] is held by the priests of [[Neptaris]] to revoke the trust [[Orris|King Orris]] had placed in [[Joandar|Regent Joandar]] to select a new King. The people of Neptaris rise up against Joandar and he is stoned on the steps of the [[Clementia|Temple of Clementia]]. Later that year, the Council selects [[Tivan Laes]] of [[House Kraegar]] to become the new ruler of the city. Furthermore, they issued [[the Rule of Neptaris]], which renamed the royal ruler "Neptarch" and established the [[Betshaba|Church of Betshaba]] as the authority through which all nobles would be granted the right to rule.}}<br /> {{EventRow|214|odd|[[Politos of House Rimman|Politos]] of [[House Rimman]], a [[Neptaris|Neptaran]] noble and politician known for his repeated opposition to the selection of a new ruler of the city by [[Joandar|Regent Joandar]] or [[The Second Neptaran Ecumenical Council|the Second Ecumenical Council]] dies in ignominy at the age of 52 when his body is found in a ditch behind a less-than-reputable tavern in the city.}}<br /> {{EventRow|230|even|[[Tivan Laes]] of [[House Kraegar]], first Neptarch of [[Neptaris]], dies and the [[Betshaba|Church of Betshaba]] recognizes his eldest son, [[Iolomar of House Kraegar|Iolomar]] as his successor to the Neptaran throne.}}<br /> {{EventRow|293|odd|[[Republic of Zeth|The Republic]], falsely touted to be the first democracy, is founded in Zeth.}}<br /> {{EventRow|451|even|The semi-legendary [[Velthur the Boar-Crowned|King Velthur]], called the Boar-Crowned, unites the hill-tribes and the plains-folk of [[Milosia]] into one kingdom after leading them to a great victory over a horde of raiding [[Antasian Mountains|Antasian]] giants and goblins. He establishes his seat in the city of [[Tasca Obodos]] and founds the royal [[House Velthuri]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|506|odd|The [[Archmage Veseverus]], an exile from the wizard community in [[Zeth]], secretly unifies various human tribes to the west of [[Camaria]] under his banner as their ruler, founding the [[Medalia|Kingdom of Medellis]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|548|even|[[Sergius II|King Sergius II]] of [[Camaria]] sends envoys to the [[Republic of Zeth]] to request aid against his aggressive neighbors, the [[Medalia|Medellans]]. Though the Senate initially declines his request, a young Senator from [[House Zetar]], [[Marcus Publius of House Zetar]] meets with the King and strikes a private bargain to assist him in convincing the Senate to overturn its decision. M. Publius is successful and the Senate commands the standing [[Defensor Rei Publicae]], [[Crassus of House Zetar]], to take the Legions to defend their Camarian allies. Later historians believe that M. Publius convinced Crassus, his uncle, to conquer Medellis in the name of [[House Zetar]], not for the Republic.}}<br /> {{EventRow|551|odd|[[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] ships first arrive at [[Zeth]] to trade goods from the barbarian north.}}<br /> {{EventRow|556|even|After victory of the [[Medalia|Medellans]] in the [[Battle of Denamore]], the victorious Zetian general [[Crassus of House Zetar|Crassus]] of [[House Zetar]] delares Medellans subject to House Zetar and their ally, the [[Camaria|Camarian]] [[Sergius II|King Sergius II]] his personal client. The Zetian Senate revokes the proclamation later that year, but the concept that a King might be personally considered a client of a member of one of the [[Great Houses]] takes hold in popular imagination in the Republic, paving the inevitable road towards Empire.}}<br /> {{EventRow|559|odd|The [[War of the Golden Coast]] begins when an [[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] pirate vessel attacking [[Zeta|Zetian]] merchant vessels is discovered to be lead by an Aescalapean nobleman.}}<br /> {{EventRow|562|even|During the [[War of the Golden Coast]], [[Zeta|Zeth]] is blockaded by the powerful [[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] navy. The blockade is recalled as Zetian infantry arrive in Aescalapea via [[Ganesia]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|564|odd|The [[War of the Golden Coast]] ends as the [[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] city of [[Dracar]] is sacked by [[Zeta|Zetian]] troops. The Aescalapean royal palace in Dracar is dismantled and its stones used to build a temple to [[Galea]]. [[House Gabinius]] is given oversight of the newly-founded Zetian colony.}}<br /> {{EventRow|611|even|After decades of raids and forays by [[Aescalapea|Aescalapea's]] ruling family, [[House Gabinius]], into neighboring [[Milosia]], the Milosian [[Baltos III|King BaltosIII]] declared all-out war on Aescalapea, initiating what would come to be known as the [[Gabinian War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|616|odd|Struggling with a stalemate in the [[Gabinian War]], [[House Gabinius]] of [[Aescalapea]] forms an unofficial alliance with the King of nearby [[Cordosia]], who already had great personal enmity with the Milosian [[Baltos III|King Baltos III]]. The addition of Cordosian soldiers tips the scales of the war, but it will still be 15 bloody years before Aescalapea is victorious.}}<br /> {{EventRow|623|even|A [[Zeta|Zetian]] war armada launches from Zeths, sailing eastward towards [[Duria]] to stem the tide of pirates attacking Republican merchant vessels in the [[Betshaban Ocean]]. Under command of the aging [[Androcles of House Livius|Androcles]] of [[House Livius]], the armada runs into several misadventures before finally arriving at [[Black Isle|Ylargebad Island]] the following year.}}<br /> {{EventRow|624|odd|[[Androcles of House Livius|Androcles]] of [[House Livius]], in command of the [[Zeta|Zetian]] armada, arrives at [[Black Isle|Ylargebad Island]], south of modern-day [[Koramia]]. His legion quickly defeats the unprepared barbarian pirates who called Ylargebad home and he establishes a colonial outpost on the island at the village of Lar Glarsaw, which he renames [[Marebellium]]. Androcles sends envoys to the mainland and establishes a relationship with a native tribe he calls the [[Tracini]]. He is named [[Comes Litoris Tracini]] ([[Count of the Tracini Shore]]) by a grateful Senate. This would be the first non-defensive conquest by [[the Zetian Republic]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|626|even|[[Androcles of House Livius|Androcles]] of [[House Livius]], [[Comes Litoris Tracini]] dies of natural causes in [[Marebellium]]. His body is returned to Zeth, where he receives a full state funeral. [[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] is named his successor as [[Comes Litoris Tracini]] but remains in Zeth.}}<br /> {{EventRow|628|odd|[[Larstat II]], a king of the northern barbarians who lived in present-day [[Koramia]], sends a messenger to [[Zeth]] to purchase mercenaries to assist in his war against the [[Xaclos]]. His envoys are welcomed by the Senate and lauded by [[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]], who sees an opportunity in rendering assistance to the Tracini. Under the auspices of his title as [[Comes Litoris Tracini]], M. Argentis begins to build a legion and fleet to transport them to Duria.}}<br /> {{EventRow|630|even|[[Septimius Varros]], the Legate who would one day conquer [[Cambrecia]] in the name of the Zetian Republic, is born to a plebian household.}}<br /> {{EventRow|631|odd|<br /> * The [[Gabinian War]] ends with an Aescalapean victory at the [[Battle of Tasca Obodos]]. The Milosian king is captured and executed by the victorious general, [[Menander of House Gabinius|Menander]] of [[House Gabinius]], but most of the Milosian soldiers flee westward across the [[Antasian Mountains]] with Menander's legion in pursuit.<br /> * [[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] arrives with a [[Zeta|Zetian]] fleet on the shores of present-day [[Koramia]] in support of [[Larstat II|King Larstat II]] of the [[Tracini]] in their conflict against the [[Xaclos]]. He would continue to march his legion across the [[Divian Peninsula]], bringing tribe after tribe under his command, claiming them as his personal clients.<br /> }}<br /> {{EventRow|644|even|[[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] returns to [[Zeta|Zeth]] from his conquests on the [[Divian Peninsula]]. By this point, his legion is mostly composed of foreign legionnaires loyal to him personally as their patron. Hearing rumors that the Senate was planning to arrest him for despotism, M. Argentis personally initiated his own Triumph through Zeth. When the Senate saw the popular support that M. Argentis received, they quickly acknowledged his heroic status and showered him with accolades, including a titular grant as [[Dux Duriae]] (Duke of Duria). M. Argentis returned to Duria to continue his conquests.}}<br /> {{EventRow|650|odd|[[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] dies in the [[Battle of Silva Bartica]] fighting against the Bartovici tribe in the northern reaches of the [[Divian Peninsula]]. His nephew and heir, [[Antonius Argentis]] takes up the [[Dracones]] of [[House Zetar]] and leads the legion to victory. Antonius Argentis is raised to [[Dux Duriae]] by the legion and the Zetian Senate (wisely) ratifies the declaration the following year.}}<br /> {{EventRow|654|even|By this time, [[the Zetian Republic|Zetian legions]] under the command of [[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] and his successor, [[Antonius Argentis of House Zetar|Antonius Argentis]], have conquered the [[Divian Peninsula]], including present-day [[Illyria]] and even parts of the elven [[Webwood]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|664|odd|[[Septimius of House Varros]] defeats [[Aaronar VI]], the last King of the [[Kamaros]], in present-day Cambrecia}}<br /> {{EventRow|666|even|The Senate of the [[Republic of Zeth]] votes overwhelmingly to establish [[House Varro]], the first new [[Great Houses of Zeth|Great House]] since the foundation of Zeth by the [[Septira]] to honor the hero of the [[Foundation of Cambrecia|Cambrecian Campaign]], [[Septimius Varros]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|670|odd|[[Valerius Marcosi]] establishes the [[Code of Urban Law]] in [[Neptaris]], the legal document that would be used in the city for the next millennia and a half.}}<br /> {{EventRow|676|even|[[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] holds its first democratic elections under [[Valerius Marcosi|Valerius Marcosi's]] [[Valerian Code|Code of Urban Law]], establishing the Triumvirate.}}<br /> {{EventRow|717|odd|[[Septimius Varros]] of [[House Varro]] dies peacefully at the age of 87 in [[Zelosia City|Septarium]], the city he founded at the dawn of the conquest of what would become known as the [[Cambrecia|Holy See of Cambrecia]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|721|even|[[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]], first emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]], is born}}<br /> {{EventRow|751|odd|[[Octavius of House Zetar]] elected first Emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]] by the Senate, ending the [[Republic of Zeth|Republic]]. [[Cambrecia]] is one of the last of the Outer Territories of the Republic to acknowledge his rulership, and rebellions will scar the nation for the next century and a half.}}<br /> {{EventRow|766|even|The first emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]], [[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]], dies and is succeeded by his brother, [[Claudius of House Zetar|Claudius]]}}<br /> {{EventRow|800|odd|The Imperial Legion in [[Cambrecia]] slaughters a dwarven delegation from [[Derlos]], sparking what the Empire would call the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]]. Dwarven emissaries go to the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] to enjoin assistance from their ancient allies. Secretly, the Neptaran [[Triumvirate]] agree and Neptaris quietly prepares for war.}}<br /> {{EventRow|805|even|In support of their ancient allies among the dwarves of the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]] beneath the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] declares war on the young [[Great Empire|Zetian Empire]], initiating what they would call [[the First Cambrecian War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|808|odd|The [[Saffron Scourge]] spreads throughout southern [[Duria]] and into parts of [[Koramia|Imperial Simmeria]], killing about 25% of the population in affected regions. Among those taken by the Scourge include [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], commander of the Zetian [[Legion III Cambrecia]] during the [[First Cambrecian War]] and the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian]] [[Tarnos_III_Dravos|King Tarnos III]]. The death of the latter sparked sixteen years of internecine warfare in Cambrecia referred to as the [[Dravosid Kinstrife]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|828|odd|In response to the victory of [[Kestor Dravos|King Kestor]] over contenders for the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian]] throne, [[Leto I of House Livius|Emperor Leto I]] of [[House Livius]] sends cohorts of reinforcements to Cambrecia to depose the new King and place his own successor, [[Quintus Sarnicos]], on the throne of Cambrecia. The fate of King Kestor in the wake of his usurpation is unknown.}}<br /> {{EventRow|899|even|After a century and a half of endless rebellions, Emperor [[Metius the Elder of House Livius]] sends [[Ionnanes II]], Pontifex of [[Zelos]], to [[Septarium]] in an attempt to quell the rebels through conversion.}}<br /> {{EventRow|936|odd|[[St. Garimund of Ryard|Garimund of Ryard]] discovers the [[Galley of Destiny]] and the [[Koram]], the holy book upon which the [[Koramian Heresy]] is based.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1062|even|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[Antigonus Gabinius]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1068|odd|[[Antipater Varro]] becomes first [[Time of Elected Emperors|Elected Emperor]] since Octavius.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1071|even|Imperial forces defeat the last of the pretenders to the Imperial throne, ending the [[First Succession War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1095|odd|Farmers, irritated with Imperial power in [[Cambrecia]], migrate to present-day [[Enesia]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1121|even|[[Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]] murders ruling Emperor, ending the [[Time of Elected Emperors]] and starting the [[Second Succession War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1126|odd|[[Octavius Augustus Zetar]] defeats [[Vitellis Gabinius]], last of the pretenders, ending the [[Second Succession War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1181|even|The [[Empire of Balguran]] crumbles; [[Adanar]] is founded by [[King Falgran]]}}<br /> {{EventRow|1276|odd|The [[School of St. Aurelius in Utherios]], one of the oldest existing bardic colleges outside of the Empire, is established in [[Enesia]]}}<br /> {{EventRow|1378|even|The last two Imperial garrisons in present-day [[Koramia]] proclaim their independence from the Empire, ending Imperial rule in the region.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1395|odd|King [[Alexius Duros]] is quietly crowned in [[Enesia]] by the local Episcopus of [[Podalirius]], establishing the nation as a monarchy. The Emperor of Zeth does not act to prevent this act of independence.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1467|even|[[Simão Gautaz]], a mercenary captain, is exiled from the [[Dregnost|Kingdom of Dregnost]] and uses his army to conquer the Naderan peninsula, founding the [[Nadera|Kingdom of Nadera]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1474|odd|The Emperor [[Cecropius of House Gradivius]] pens a letter to the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in [[Septarium]] informing him that [[Cambrecia]] will have to see to its own defenses, signaling the end of true Imperial power on the continent of [[Duria]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1504|even|The city of [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] in present-day [[Koramia]] proclaims its independence from the local barbarian king, using Neptaris as a model for its government.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1512|odd|[[Jeremiah Tovex]], last of the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian Kings]], abdicates his power of rulership to the Pontifex of [[Zelos]], making [[Geraldus]] the first [[Potentate of Cambrecia]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1554|even|The Electorate in [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] decides to disband and elects [[Bernard Margwenth]] as its [[Lord Earl]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1575|odd|The [[War of Flame]] begins between [[Berig Gautaz|Berig of House Gautaz]] of [[Nadera]] and [[House Vazdid]] of [[Lagorka]] due to a series of misunderstandings over a shipping accident in Lagorkan waters. Nadera finds itself unprepared for the onslaught and many Naderan cities are burned.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1582|even|[[Berig Gautaz|King Berig of House Gautaz]] of [[Nadera]] is captured at the [[Battle of the Dusk Hills]] by the [[Lagorka|Lagorkan]] forces of [[House Vazdid]], ending the [[War of the Flame]]. Nadera becomes a colony of Lagorka under the patronage/ownership of House Vazdid. The [[Saphracine Watch]] is founded to guard [[Vazdid]] interests there.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1644|odd|A bloody civil war in the [[Earldom of Margwenth]] in present-day [[Koramia]] ends in the re-establishment of the Electorate by followers of [[Vortumnus]] under the banner of [[Tristan Greysword I]] and the city of Paladinium is renamed [[Paeldain]] in defiance to its Imperial roots}}<br /> {{EventRow|1650|even|After centuries of denying power to the nobility and, eventually, inheritance by primogeniture, the [[Potentate of Zelos]] convinces the Emperor [[Metaurus of House Drusus]] to grant the nation of [[Cambrecia]] to the Church of [[Zelos]], thus establishing the Holy See of Cambrecia and permanently destroying the power of the noble families. The capital city of [[Septarium]] is renamed [[Zelosia City]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1723|odd|After a crippling merchant war at home in [[Lagorka]], the [[Vazdids]] leave [[Nadera]], which is subsequently plundered by Vazdid's enemies.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1730|even|The [[Gray Lord of Thet]] is defeated in the [[Battle of Bloodrust]] in [[Adanar]] by [[King Ilyard]] of [[Haleli]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1739|odd|[[Aishah Izuel|Aishah of House Izuel]] of [[Trevena]], [[Nadera]] swears to bring order to the nation and begins her violent two-year rise to the crown, eventually becoming Queen Aishah "the Bloody."}}<br /> {{EventRow|1741|even|By this time, [[Aishah Izuel|Aishah "the Bloody"]] has taken effective control of [[Nadera]] and is crowned Sovereign Queen.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1752|odd|Death without issue of Emperor [[Orestes Sergius]] results in the [[Third Succession War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1780|even|Queen [[Zebba Izuel|Zebba of House Izuel]] of [[Nadera]] expands the powers of the [[Saphracine Watch]] to include spying upon and enforcing the Royal Will on the nobility.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1779|odd|[[Gaius Aurelius Zetar]] defeats [[Manius Acilius Drusus]], ending the [[Third Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1783|even||The [[Fell King]] of [[Thet]] marches against [[Adanar]], starting the [[Long War]]}}<br /> {{EventRow|1805|odd|With the death of Queen [[Zebba]] in [[Nadera]] and the subsequent assassination of her successor by the [[Saphracine Watch]], the [[Succession War]] begins.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1825|even|The signing of the [[Naderan Royal Code]] ends the [[Naderan Civil War]] after twenty long years, establishing the [[Council of Princes]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1835|odd|[[Cyrus Etxeleku|King Cyrus of House Etxeleku]] of [[Bastida]], first elected King of [[Nadera]], abdicates as required by the [[Naderan Royal Code]]. By the end of the year, [[Salabus Arostegi|Prince Salabus of House Arostegi]] of [[Talergo]] is elected to the Royal Seat and immediately begins to reform the [[Saphracine Watch]] into an organization focused on information gathering outside Nadera's borders.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1858|even|The bloody [[War of Eagles]] begins in [[Adanar]] with the death of King [[Galen Tolgran]] without heir.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1879|odd|King [[Valmaar Vercimanon]] is victorious in the [[War of Eagles]] in Adanar, but the power of the crown is crushed; as a result, the [[Council of Lords]] is founded and gains the power to make laws.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1905|even|King [[Myrsus Varuna]] of [[Nadera]], elected to his position by the [[Council of Princes]], mandates that the [[Saphracine Watch]] be used to spy on its neighbors, instead of dealing with internal dissention.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1907|odd|In a successful bid to stabilize the struggling [[Nadera|Naderan]] economy, [[Myrsus Varuna|King Myrsus Varuna]] establishes several key trade agreements with neighboring states, promising intelligence gathered by the [[Saphracine Watch]]. This expanded Nadera's ability to gather intelligence abroad, establishing the Watch as an international spy organization.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1912|even|[[William I Greysword|William Greysword]], future King William I of [[Koramia]], is born to [[Richard III Greysword]], Lord Earl of Margwenth, who's seat of power was the city of [[Paeldain]] on the southern coast of the [[Divian Peninsula]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1930|odd|[[William I Greysword|William V Greysword]] is elected [[Lord Earl of Paeldain]], the youngest to hold that position}}<br /> {{EventRow|1933|even|In a narrow election by the Electorate in [[Paeldain]], William V Greysword is crowned King [[William I Greysword|William I]] of Paeldain and Lord Protector of the Koramic Code.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1947|odd|King [[William I Greysword|William I]] of [[Paeldain]] receives a vision from [[Vortumnus]], commanding him to re-unify the lands of present-day [[Koramia]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1948|even|The [[Potentate of Cambrecia]] releases trade restrictions on [[Neptaris]], resulting in increased trade and a strengthening of the merchant class in both regions.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1952|odd|The Prelate of Vortumnus in [[Paeldain]], a close ally of [[William I Greysword|King William I]] of Paeldain dies and his successor, [[Urbanus I]], is chosen by King William himself. [[Plancus of House Zetar|Emperor Plancus]] of the [[Great Empire]] sends his own priest to take on the mantle, who only finds the Prelatal Estate already inhabited. Neutered by a local priesthood that refused to recognize his authority, the Imperial Prelate returns to Zeth and Urbanus I is pronounced First Prelate of Vortumnus under the [[Koram]]. The [[Potentate of Cambrecia]] issues a strong message of condemnation for who he names the Heretic-King and breaks off trade relations with Paeldain and any who flock to the Greysword’s banner.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1958|even|[[William I Greysword|King William I]] of [[Paeldain]] is proclaimed King of [[Koramia]]. The Potentate of [[Cambrecia]] declares war on Koramia and its so-called "Heretic King", a declaration which is reciprocated by King William.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1960|odd|[[Koramia]] is reunified under [[William I Greysword|King William Greysword I]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1961|even|[[William I Greysword|William Greysword I]], King of Koramia, dies in battle, but leaves a legacy of a relatively peaceful kingdom to his heir.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1997|odd|[[Kor'dal]] becomes [[Great Khan]] of the orcs of [[Tazgrat]] and begins to march his armies towards the [[Mabean Marches]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1998|even|<br /> * In the [[Mabean Marches]], an orcish horde led by the Khan [[Kor'dal]] takes the [[Twin Towers]]. Peace is established between [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]] and [[Ywys]] and an alliance is formed against the orcish horde. Imperial law is re-written to allow the existence of Allied States.<br /> * [[Lucasa]] becomes [[Mage-King]] of [[Lun Dorak]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1999|odd|<br /> * As Lucius, Mage-King [[Lucasa]] secretly becomes advisor to Emperor [[Publius Antonius]] of [[House Zetar]].<br /> * [[Kor'dal]] is defeated by a combined Imperial and Powean army in the [[Battle of Two Kings]] in the [[Mabean Marches]]. His horde quickly disperses, but continues to trouble the Marches.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2000|even|<br /> * The [[Goblet of Gundagor]] is discovered in [[Koramia]] and returned to the dwarves under the [[Divian Mountains]]; end of the [[Second War of the Sun]]. Baron [[Algernon Marn]] of Koramia becomes first human ambassador to the dwarves in millennia.<br /> * The Imperial fleet sets sail for [[Koramia]] in a planned surprise attack on the nation. Later that year, [[William I Greysword|William Greysword I]], First King of Koramia, returns to lead his country against the Imperial invasion.<br /> * The dwarves of the [[Janos Mountains]], having received word about the return of the [[Goblet of Gundagore]], arrive in [[Adanar]] to establish trade relations with humans. The Adan, having never ever heard of the Goblet, are confused, but eagerly begin trading with the metal-rich dwarves.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2001|odd|<br /> * The assembled Imperial army, allied with [[Illyria]] and [[Cambrecia]], attacks [[Koramia]]. By the end of the season, Illyria betrays the Empire and allies with Koramia, who grants her independence. An orcish army, led by a former prisoner of Illyria known as [[Gar'dun]], joins Koramian effort. Later that year, civil war erupts in Illyria between those loyal to the crown and those who support the Empire.<br /> * In the [[Dragonlands]], the [[Order of the Brilliant Lance]], the Dragonknights, are reformed. Later in the year, Imperial forces are dealt harsh defeat at the [[First Battle of Paeldain]] in Koramia when the [[Glorious Galley]], of Vortumnian legend, appears with a Dragonknight at the helm.<br /> * In [[Lun Dorak]], the Mage-King [[Lucasa]] discovers the [[Magesword]].<br /> * Near Webwood Forest, [[Math Mathowny]], villain of the [[Tuatha de Dannan]], is slain by [[Cuchulain]].<br /> * [[Rodrigo III Espadalva|Falgao Rodrigo III Espadalva]] of [[Adanar]] grants territory along his eastern border with [[Thet]] to the newly arrived dwarven traders there, founding the nation of [[Valduran]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|2002|even|<br /> * The only son of Emperor [[Publius Antonius]] dies. The Emperor's closest advisor, [[Lucasa|Lucius]], is named heir. Lucius, now of [[House Zetar]], leads the armies in [[Koramia]] and succeeds in taking [[Paeldain]]. [[William I Greysword|King William Greysword I]] and his family are slain defending Paeldain. The Greysword's son-in-law, [[Gawyn Asheva]], is crowned King and flees to a hidden stronghold in the [[Divian Mountains]]. Late in the year, the Emperor of Zeth dies and is succeeded by Lucius, who reveals himself to be the [[Mage-King]], Lucasa of [[Lun Dorak]]. The Imperial capital is moved to the [[Sapphire City]] in Lun Dorak.<br /> * In [[Adanar]], the dwarves of the Janos mountains open an embassy and begin trade negotiations with humans in the region.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2003|odd|<br /> * [[Gar'dun]] becomes [[Great Khan]], uniting the orcish tribes of [[Vor Midal]] and attacks [[Lun Dorak]].<br /> * With the assistance of Gar'dun, the Dragonknights attack the [[Sapphire City]] and defeat the ailing [[Mage-King]], who soon dies of an unknown illness. Without its Mage-King, the [[Dorakian Empire]] immediately crumbles.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2004|even|The Imperial Governor of the [[Mabean Marches]] dies and civil war erupts between loyalists to the Empire and local forces. By the end of the year, [[Tancorix]], a Mabean member of the Imperial forces in the Mabean Marches, betrays and defeats Imperial forces. He is crowned King of [[Donnagh Saoristat|Donnagh]] by the druids of [[Ywys]]. Ywys breaks its alliance with the Empire and allies with Donnagh.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2005|odd|<br /> * [[Dracia]] declares independence from the Empire and [[Vladimir Vtalasav]] is crowned King.<br /> * King [[Clovar V Tuepierre]] declares independence from the Empire and officially converts to the [[Koramian Heresy]], wherein [[Vortumnus]] is viewed as King of the Gods. Civil war immediately erupts.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2006|even|[[Mitaria]] is attacked by an armada of [[Valtaan|Valtang]] warships. Instead of merely raiding, the Valtang barbarians begin building forts and seem intent on taking the country. Mitaria requests assistance from the Empire. Still without an Emperor, the Empire sends no troops to Mitaria to defend it from the Valtang invaders. King [[Tostig the Red]] of the Valtang arrives in Mitaria to lead the invasion.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2007|odd| <br /> * With most of the Imperial troops in Mitaria defeated, King [[Tostig the Red]] names his son, [[Aelfric the Bold]], King of Mitaria and returns to Valtaan.<br /> * After a year of sporadic incursions, the orcs of [[Vor Midal]], under the leadership of [[Gar'dun]], attack their former elven allies of the [[Webwood]] en masse. Over the next two years, most of the southern Webwood is burned to ash and well over three-fifths of the survivors departed the Webwood as refugees in nearby human lands.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2009|even|King [[Clovar V Tuepierre]] of Narbonne is slain in battle and his son, [[Dagaric]], is crowned King by the Bishop of [[Grischamp]]. By the end of the season, Dagaric has quelled most of the fighting in the nation with the assistance of the [[Order of the Red Band]], an order of Koramian Paladins.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2011|odd|The [[Crimson Plague]] strikes in [[Lagorka]] and quickly spreads along trade routes westward. By the end of the year, the Plague has reached [[Aebasa]], despite sometimes militant attempts to curb its spread.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2012|even|<br /> * The [[Crimson Plague]] strikes in [[Neptaris]], likely brought by traders from the east. From Neptaris, the Plague spreads quickly to [[Koramia]], [[Tamerynd]] and [[Zeth]].<br /> * The [[Fourth Succession War]] grinds to a stalemate as the Crimson Plague takes several prominent leaders and decimates the population.<br /> * The [[Valtaan|Valtang]] barbarians of Mitaria march on [[Narbonne]].}}<br /> |}<noinclude>{{Fey_Source<br /> |chapter= History<br /> |article= Timeline<br /> }}[[Category:History]][[Category:Timelines]][[Category:The Third Age of Man]]</noinclude></div>

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<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference<br /> |article= Third Age of Man Timeline<br /> }}</includeonly><br /> {| width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br /> |- class="tableheader" valign="bottom"<br /> |width="100" align="center"|'''Imperial Year''' <br /> |width="100" align="center"|'''Aebasan Year'''<br /> |width="100" align="center"|'''Neptaran Year'''<br /> |'''Event'''<br /> {{EventRow|120|odd|<br /> * [[The Third Age of Man]] begins; [[The Foundation of Zeth]]<br /> * [[Orris of House Ikthian]] is found in exile in the [[Arisian forest]] and is crowned King of [[Neptaris|Neptag]], despite the fact that he had neither visited the city before nor spoke the language. [[The First Neptaran Ecumenical Council|the First Ecumenical Council]] is called to determine who should serve as Regent. [[Joandar]], Rector of [[the House of the Quill]] and himself half-elven (though raised by his human family), was chosen to serve.<br /> * Rise of the [[Empire of Balguran]]}}<br /> {{EventRow|121|even|[[The War of the Dark Rider]] beings as [[The Dark Rider|the Dark Rider]], a mysterious dark-armored figure upon a demonic horse, leads the orcs of [[Karad-ul]] in an attack on the dwarves of the Kingdom of [[Derlos]], beneath the [[Cambrecian Mountains]]. Though the orcs sustain heavy losses, they far outnumber the dwarven defenders.}}<br /> {{EventRow|124|odd|[[The War of the Dark Rider]] escalates as the orcs of [[Karad-ul]] find a way into the royal court of [[Sverni VII]], King of [[Derlos]] and massacre his entire court. A contingent of dwarven refugees flee to the surface and approach the elves of the [[Arisian forest]] to request assistance. The elves are at first resistant to the idea, but when the orcs of Karad-ul began to stream from the mountains to attack the elves, they quickly organize with the dwarven refugees to fight the orcs to a stand-still.}}<br /> {{EventRow|126|even|[[Neptaris|Neptag]], under the young King [[Orris]], formally enters [[the War of the Dark Rider]] in support of the dwarves of [[Derlos]] and the [[Arisian elves]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|152|odd|[[Meargagh]], chieftain of the [[Kamaros]], jealous of [[Neptaris|Neptag's]] wealth, besieges the city but fails to breach its walls.}}<br /> {{EventRow|155|even|[[Meargagh]], chieftain of the [[Kamaros]], still jealous of [[Neptaris|Neptag's]] wealth, besieges the city for a second time but again fails to breach its walls.}}<br /> {{EventRow|157|odd|Formal peace is established between the [[Kamaros]] and [[Neptaris|Neptag]] with [[the Treaty of Tawn]] between [[Meargagh]], chieftain of the Kamaros, and [[Regent Joandar]] of Neptag. As a promise of his good behavior, Meargagh offers his eldest son, [[Irgalach]], as hostage to Neptag.}}<br /> {{EventRow|167|even|[[Meargagh]], chieftain of the [[Kamaros]], dies. [[Irgalach son of Meargagh]], his eldest son who was kept hostage in [[Neptag|Neptaris]] as a result of [[the Treaty of Tawn]], is released to assume the Kamaran throne.}}<br /> {{EventRow|170|odd|[[Irgalach son of Meargagh|King Irgalach]] of [[Kamaros]], former hostage of [[Joandar|Regent Joandar]], ruler of [[Neptag|Neptaris]] arrives at the gates of Neptag with a Kamaran army trained in the Neptag battle tactics he learned growing up there. The city falls within a month, with Regent Joandar taken back to Kamaros to serve as tutor for Irgalach's children, leaving the young [[Orris|King Orris]] to rule Neptag as a dependent monarch.}}<br /> {{EventRow|180|even|[[Orris|King Orris]], the young half-elven King of [[Neptaris|Neptag]], allies with the nearby [[House Arisan|Arisan Elves]] and marches on [[Kamaros]], capturing the tactically-critical [[Fort Tintagar]]. He would hold the Fort through five years of near constant warfare and sieges.}}<br /> {{EventRow|185|odd|After five years of war, [[Orris|King Orris]] of [[Neptaris|Neptag]] achieves victory in the [[Last Battle of Kamaros]] when a stray arrow slays [[Irgalach son of Meargagh|King Irgalach]] of the Kamarans. In the resulting treaty, [[Joandar|Regent Joandar]] is released from his imprisonment and returns with King Orris to [[Neptaris|Neptag]], where both receive a hero's welcome.}}<br /> {{EventRow|206|even|A drought strikes southern [[Duria]] and the last of the [[House Arisan|Arisan elves]] depart their forests to seek sanctuary in the city of Neptag. To commemorate the event, the half-elven King of Neptag, [[Orris]], renames the city [[Neptaris]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|210|odd|At the age of 105, the half-elven [[Orris|King Orris]] of [[Neptaris]] abdicates his crown after failing to resolve a rebellion by [[Politos of House Rimman|Politos]] of [[House Rimman]]. As his last act of office, Orris designates his mentor, [[Joandar|Regent Joandar]], to select his successor. He then takes the cloth and becomes a monk of [[Clementia|Clementia the Dove]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|211|even|[[The Second Neptaran Ecumenical Council]] is held by the priests of [[Neptaris]] to revoke the trust [[Orris|King Orris]] had placed in [[Joandar|Regent Joandar]] to select a new King. The people of Neptaris rise up against Joandar and he is stoned on the steps of the [[Clementia|Temple of Clementia]]. Later that year, the Council selects [[Tivan Laes]] of [[House Kraegar]] to become the new ruler of the city. Furthermore, they issued [[the Rule of Neptaris]], which renamed the royal ruler "Neptarch" and established the [[Betshaba|Church of Betshaba]] as the authority through which all nobles would be granted the right to rule.}}<br /> {{EventRow|214|odd|[[Politos of House Rimman|Politos]] of [[House Rimman]], a [[Neptaris|Neptaran]] noble and politician known for his repeated opposition to the selection of a new ruler of the city by [[Joandar|Regent Joandar]] or [[The Second Neptaran Ecumenical Council|the Second Ecumenical Council]] dies in ignominy at the age of 52 when his body is found in a ditch behind a less-than-reputable tavern in the city.}}<br /> {{EventRow|230|even|[[Tivan Laes]] of [[House Kraegar]], first Neptarch of [[Neptaris]], dies and the [[Betshaba|Church of Betshaba]] recognizes his eldest son, [[Iolomar of House Kraegar|Iolomar]] as his successor to the Neptaran throne.}}<br /> {{EventRow|293|odd|[[Republic of Zeth|The Republic]], falsely touted to be the first democracy, is founded in Zeth.}}<br /> {{EventRow|451|even|The semi-legendary [[Velthur the Boar-Crowned|King Velthur]], called the Boar-Crowned, unites the hill-tribes and the plains-folk of [[Milosia]] into one kingdom after leading them to a great victory over a horde of raiding [[Antasian Mountains|Antasian]] giants and goblins. He establishes his seat in the city of [[Tasca Obodos]] and founds the royal [[House Velthuri]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|506|odd|The [[Archmage Veseverus]], an exile from the wizard community in [[Zeth]], secretly unifies various human tribes to the west of [[Camaria]] under his banner as their ruler, founding the [[Medalia|Kingdom of Medellis]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|548|even|[[Sergius II|King Sergius II]] of [[Camaria]] sends envoys to the [[Republic of Zeth]] to request aid against his aggressive neighbors, the [[Medalia|Medellans]]. Though the Senate initially declines his request, a young Senator from [[House Zetar]], [[Marcus Publius of House Zetar]] meets with the King and strikes a private bargain to assist him in convincing the Senate to overturn its decision. M. Publius is successful and the Senate commands the standing [[Defensor Rei Publicae]], [[Crassus of House Zetar]], to take the Legions to defend their Camarian allies. Later historians believe that M. Publius convinced Crassus, his uncle, to conquer Medellis in the name of [[House Zetar]], not for the Republic.}}<br /> {{EventRow|551|odd|[[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] ships first arrive at [[Zeth]] to trade goods from the barbarian north.}}<br /> {{EventRow|556|even|After victory of the [[Medalia|Medellans]] in the [[Battle of Denamore]], the victorious Zetian general [[Crassus of House Zetar|Crassus]] of [[House Zetar]] delares Medellans subject to House Zetar and their ally, the [[Camaria|Camarian]] [[Sergius II|King Sergius II]] his personal client. The Zetian Senate revokes the proclamation later that year, but the concept that a King might be personally considered a client of a member of one of the [[Great Houses]] takes hold in popular imagination in the Republic, paving the inevitable road towards Empire.}}<br /> {{EventRow|559|odd|The [[War of the Golden Coast]] begins when an [[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] pirate vessel attacking [[Zeta|Zetian]] merchant vessels is discovered to be lead by an Aescalapean nobleman.}}<br /> {{EventRow|562|even|During the [[War of the Golden Coast]], [[Zeta|Zeth]] is blockaded by the powerful [[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] navy. The blockade is recalled as Zetian infantry arrive in Aescalapea via [[Ganesia]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|564|odd|The [[War of the Golden Coast]] ends as the [[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] city of [[Dracar]] is sacked by [[Zeta|Zetian]] troops. The Aescalapean royal palace in Dracar is dismantled and its stones used to build a temple to [[Galea]]. [[House Gabinius]] is given oversight of the newly-founded Zetian colony.}}<br /> {{EventRow|611|even|After decades of raids and forays by [[Aescalapea|Aescalapea's]] ruling family, [[House Gabinius]], into neighboring [[Milosia]], the Milosian [[Baltos III|King BaltosIII]] declared all-out war on Aescalapea, initiating what would come to be known as the [[Gabinian War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|616|odd|Struggling with a stalemate in the [[Gabinian War]], [[House Gabinius]] of [[Aescalapea]] forms an unofficial alliance with the King of nearby [[Cordosia]], who already had great personal enmity with the Milosian [[Baltos III|King Baltos III]]. The addition of Cordosian soldiers tips the scales of the war, but it will still be 15 bloody years before Aescalapea is victorious.}}<br /> {{EventRow|623|even|A [[Zeta|Zetian]] war armada launches from Zeths, sailing eastward towards [[Duria]] to stem the tide of pirates attacking Republican merchant vessels in the [[Betshaban Ocean]]. Under command of the aging [[Androcles of House Livius|Androcles]] of [[House Livius]], the armada runs into several misadventures before finally arriving at [[Black Isle|Ylargebad Island]] the following year.}}<br /> {{EventRow|624|odd|[[Androcles of House Livius|Androcles]] of [[House Livius]], in command of the [[Zeta|Zetian]] armada, arrives at [[Black Isle|Ylargebad Island]], south of modern-day [[Koramia]]. His legion quickly defeats the unprepared barbarian pirates who called Ylargebad home and he establishes a colonial outpost on the island at the village of Lar Glarsaw, which he renames [[Marebellium]]. Androcles sends envoys to the mainland and establishes a relationship with a native tribe he calls the [[Tracini]]. He is named [[Comes Litoris Tracini]] ([[Count of the Tracini Shore]]) by a grateful Senate. This would be the first non-defensive conquest by [[the Zetian Republic]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|626|even|[[Androcles of House Livius|Androcles]] of [[House Livius]], [[Comes Litoris Tracini]] dies of natural causes in [[Marebellium]]. His body is returned to Zeth, where he receives a full state funeral. [[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] is named his successor as [[Comes Litoris Tracini]] but remains in Zeth.}}<br /> {{EventRow|628|odd|[[Larstat II]], a king of the northern barbarians who lived in present-day [[Koramia]], sends a messenger to [[Zeth]] to purchase mercenaries to assist in his war against the [[Xaclos]]. His envoys are welcomed by the Senate and lauded by [[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]], who sees an opportunity in rendering assistance to the Tracini. Under the auspices of his title as [[Comes Litoris Tracini]], M. Argentis begins to build a legion and fleet to transport them to Duria.}}<br /> {{EventRow|630|even|[[Septimius Varros]], the Legate who would one day conquer [[Cambrecia]] in the name of the Zetian Republic, is born to a plebian household.}}<br /> {{EventRow|631|odd|<br /> * The [[Gabinian War]] ends with an Aescalapean victory at the [[Battle of Tasca Obodos]]. The Milosian king is captured and executed by the victorious general, [[Menander of House Gabinius|Menander]] of [[House Gabinius]], but most of the Milosian soldiers flee westward across the [[Antasian Mountains]] with Menander's legion in pursuit.<br /> * [[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] arrives with a [[Zeta|Zetian]] fleet on the shores of present-day [[Koramia]] in support of [[Larstat II|King Larstat II]] of the [[Tracini]] in their conflict against the [[Xaclos]]. He would continue to march his legion across the [[Divian Peninsula]], bringing tribe after tribe under his command, claiming them as his personal clients.<br /> }}<br /> {{EventRow|644|even|[[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] returns to [[Zeta|Zeth]] from his conquests on the [[Divian Peninsula]]. By this point, his legion is mostly composed of foreign legionnaires loyal to him personally as their patron. Hearing rumors that the Senate was planning to arrest him for despotism, M. Argentis personally initiated his own Triumph through Zeth. When the Senate saw the popular support that M. Argentis received, they quickly acknowledged his heroic status and showered him with accolades, including a titular grant as [[Dux Duriae]] (Duke of Duria). M. Argentis returned to Duria to continue his conquests.}}<br /> {{EventRow|650|odd|[[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] dies in the [[Battle of Silva Bartica]] fighting against the Bartovici tribe in the northern reaches of the [[Divian Peninsula]]. His nephew and heir, [[Antonius Argentis]] takes up the [[Dracones]] of [[House Zetar]] and leads the legion to victory. Antonius Argentis is raised to [[Dux Duriae]] by the legion and the Zetian Senate (wisely) ratifies the declaration the following year.}}<br /> {{EventRow|654|even|By this time, [[the Zetian Republic|Zetian legions]] under the command of [[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] and his successor, [[Antonius Argentis of House Zetar|Antonius Argentis]], have conquered the [[Divian Peninsula]], including present-day [[Illyria]] and even parts of the elven [[Webwood]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|664|odd|[[Septimius of House Varros]] defeats [[Aaronar VI]], the last King of the [[Kamaros]], in present-day Cambrecia}}<br /> {{EventRow|666|even|The Senate of the [[Republic of Zeth]] votes overwhelmingly to establish [[House Varro]], the first new [[Great Houses of Zeth|Great House]] since the foundation of Zeth by the [[Septira]] to honor the hero of the [[Foundation of Cambrecia|Cambrecian Campaign]], [[Septimius Varros]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|670|odd|[[Valerius Marcosi]] establishes the [[Code of Urban Law]] in [[Neptaris]], the legal document that would be used in the city for the next millennia and a half.}}<br /> {{EventRow|676|even|[[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] holds its first democratic elections under [[Valerius Marcosi|Valerius Marcosi's]] [[Valerian Code|Code of Urban Law]], establishing the Triumvirate.}}<br /> {{EventRow|717|odd|[[Septimius Varros]] of [[House Varro]] dies peacefully at the age of 87 in [[Zelosia City|Septarium]], the city he founded at the dawn of the conquest of what would become known as the [[Cambrecia|Holy See of Cambrecia]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|721|even|[[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]], first emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]], is born}}<br /> {{EventRow|751|odd|[[Octavius of House Zetar]] elected first Emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]] by the Senate, ending the [[Republic of Zeth|Republic]]. [[Cambrecia]] is one of the last of the Outer Territories of the Republic to acknowledge his rulership, and rebellions will scar the nation for the next century and a half.}}<br /> {{EventRow|766|even|The first emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]], [[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]], dies and is succeeded by his brother, [[Claudius of House Zetar|Claudius]]}}<br /> {{EventRow|800|odd|The Imperial Legion in [[Cambrecia]] slaughters a dwarven delegation from [[Derlos]], sparking what the Empire would call the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]]. Dwarven emissaries go to the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] to enjoin assistance from their ancient allies. Secretly, the Neptaran [[Triumvirate]] agree and Neptaris quietly prepares for war.}}<br /> {{EventRow|805|even|In support of their ancient allies among the dwarves of the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]] beneath the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] declares war on the young [[Great Empire|Zetian Empire]], initiating what they would call [[the First Cambrecian War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|808|odd|The [[Saffron Scourge]] spreads throughout southern [[Duria]] and into parts of [[Koramia|Imperial Simmeria]], killing about 25% of the population in affected regions. Among those taken by the Scourge include [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], commander of the Zetian [[Legion III Cambrecia]] during the [[First Cambrecian War]] and the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian]] [[Tarnos_III_Dravos|King Tarnos III]]. The death of the latter sparked sixteen years of internecine warfare in Cambrecia referred to as the [[Dravosid Kinstrife]].]]<br /> {{EventRow|828|odd|In response to the victory of [[Kestor Dravos|King Kestor]] over contenders for the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian]] throne, [[Leto I of House Livius|Emperor Leto I]] of [[House Livius]] sends cohorts of reinforcements to Cambrecia to depose the new King and place his own successor, [[Quintus Sarnicos]], on the throne of Cambrecia. The fate of King Kestor in the wake of his usurpation is unknown.}}<br /> {{EventRow|899|even|After a century and a half of endless rebellions, Emperor [[Metius the Elder of House Livius]] sends [[Ionnanes II]], Pontifex of [[Zelos]], to [[Septarium]] in an attempt to quell the rebels through conversion.}}<br /> {{EventRow|936|odd|[[St. Garimund of Ryard|Garimund of Ryard]] discovers the [[Galley of Destiny]] and the [[Koram]], the holy book upon which the [[Koramian Heresy]] is based.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1062|even|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[Antigonus Gabinius]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1068|odd|[[Antipater Varro]] becomes first [[Time of Elected Emperors|Elected Emperor]] since Octavius.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1071|even|Imperial forces defeat the last of the pretenders to the Imperial throne, ending the [[First Succession War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1095|odd|Farmers, irritated with Imperial power in [[Cambrecia]], migrate to present-day [[Enesia]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1121|even|[[Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]] murders ruling Emperor, ending the [[Time of Elected Emperors]] and starting the [[Second Succession War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1126|odd|[[Octavius Augustus Zetar]] defeats [[Vitellis Gabinius]], last of the pretenders, ending the [[Second Succession War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1181|even|The [[Empire of Balguran]] crumbles; [[Adanar]] is founded by [[King Falgran]]}}<br /> {{EventRow|1276|odd|The [[School of St. Aurelius in Utherios]], one of the oldest existing bardic colleges outside of the Empire, is established in [[Enesia]]}}<br /> {{EventRow|1378|even|The last two Imperial garrisons in present-day [[Koramia]] proclaim their independence from the Empire, ending Imperial rule in the region.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1395|odd|King [[Alexius Duros]] is quietly crowned in [[Enesia]] by the local Episcopus of [[Podalirius]], establishing the nation as a monarchy. The Emperor of Zeth does not act to prevent this act of independence.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1467|even|[[Simão Gautaz]], a mercenary captain, is exiled from the [[Dregnost|Kingdom of Dregnost]] and uses his army to conquer the Naderan peninsula, founding the [[Nadera|Kingdom of Nadera]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1474|odd|The Emperor [[Cecropius of House Gradivius]] pens a letter to the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in [[Septarium]] informing him that [[Cambrecia]] will have to see to its own defenses, signaling the end of true Imperial power on the continent of [[Duria]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1504|even|The city of [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] in present-day [[Koramia]] proclaims its independence from the local barbarian king, using Neptaris as a model for its government.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1512|odd|[[Jeremiah Tovex]], last of the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian Kings]], abdicates his power of rulership to the Pontifex of [[Zelos]], making [[Geraldus]] the first [[Potentate of Cambrecia]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1554|even|The Electorate in [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] decides to disband and elects [[Bernard Margwenth]] as its [[Lord Earl]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1575|odd|The [[War of Flame]] begins between [[Berig Gautaz|Berig of House Gautaz]] of [[Nadera]] and [[House Vazdid]] of [[Lagorka]] due to a series of misunderstandings over a shipping accident in Lagorkan waters. Nadera finds itself unprepared for the onslaught and many Naderan cities are burned.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1582|even|[[Berig Gautaz|King Berig of House Gautaz]] of [[Nadera]] is captured at the [[Battle of the Dusk Hills]] by the [[Lagorka|Lagorkan]] forces of [[House Vazdid]], ending the [[War of the Flame]]. Nadera becomes a colony of Lagorka under the patronage/ownership of House Vazdid. The [[Saphracine Watch]] is founded to guard [[Vazdid]] interests there.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1644|odd|A bloody civil war in the [[Earldom of Margwenth]] in present-day [[Koramia]] ends in the re-establishment of the Electorate by followers of [[Vortumnus]] under the banner of [[Tristan Greysword I]] and the city of Paladinium is renamed [[Paeldain]] in defiance to its Imperial roots}}<br /> {{EventRow|1650|even|After centuries of denying power to the nobility and, eventually, inheritance by primogeniture, the [[Potentate of Zelos]] convinces the Emperor [[Metaurus of House Drusus]] to grant the nation of [[Cambrecia]] to the Church of [[Zelos]], thus establishing the Holy See of Cambrecia and permanently destroying the power of the noble families. The capital city of [[Septarium]] is renamed [[Zelosia City]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1723|odd|After a crippling merchant war at home in [[Lagorka]], the [[Vazdids]] leave [[Nadera]], which is subsequently plundered by Vazdid's enemies.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1730|even|The [[Gray Lord of Thet]] is defeated in the [[Battle of Bloodrust]] in [[Adanar]] by [[King Ilyard]] of [[Haleli]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1739|odd|[[Aishah Izuel|Aishah of House Izuel]] of [[Trevena]], [[Nadera]] swears to bring order to the nation and begins her violent two-year rise to the crown, eventually becoming Queen Aishah "the Bloody."}}<br /> {{EventRow|1741|even|By this time, [[Aishah Izuel|Aishah "the Bloody"]] has taken effective control of [[Nadera]] and is crowned Sovereign Queen.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1752|odd|Death without issue of Emperor [[Orestes Sergius]] results in the [[Third Succession War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1780|even|Queen [[Zebba Izuel|Zebba of House Izuel]] of [[Nadera]] expands the powers of the [[Saphracine Watch]] to include spying upon and enforcing the Royal Will on the nobility.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1779|odd|[[Gaius Aurelius Zetar]] defeats [[Manius Acilius Drusus]], ending the [[Third Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1783|even||The [[Fell King]] of [[Thet]] marches against [[Adanar]], starting the [[Long War]]}}<br /> {{EventRow|1805|odd|With the death of Queen [[Zebba]] in [[Nadera]] and the subsequent assassination of her successor by the [[Saphracine Watch]], the [[Succession War]] begins.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1825|even|The signing of the [[Naderan Royal Code]] ends the [[Naderan Civil War]] after twenty long years, establishing the [[Council of Princes]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1835|odd|[[Cyrus Etxeleku|King Cyrus of House Etxeleku]] of [[Bastida]], first elected King of [[Nadera]], abdicates as required by the [[Naderan Royal Code]]. By the end of the year, [[Salabus Arostegi|Prince Salabus of House Arostegi]] of [[Talergo]] is elected to the Royal Seat and immediately begins to reform the [[Saphracine Watch]] into an organization focused on information gathering outside Nadera's borders.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1858|even|The bloody [[War of Eagles]] begins in [[Adanar]] with the death of King [[Galen Tolgran]] without heir.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1879|odd|King [[Valmaar Vercimanon]] is victorious in the [[War of Eagles]] in Adanar, but the power of the crown is crushed; as a result, the [[Council of Lords]] is founded and gains the power to make laws.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1905|even|King [[Myrsus Varuna]] of [[Nadera]], elected to his position by the [[Council of Princes]], mandates that the [[Saphracine Watch]] be used to spy on its neighbors, instead of dealing with internal dissention.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1907|odd|In a successful bid to stabilize the struggling [[Nadera|Naderan]] economy, [[Myrsus Varuna|King Myrsus Varuna]] establishes several key trade agreements with neighboring states, promising intelligence gathered by the [[Saphracine Watch]]. This expanded Nadera's ability to gather intelligence abroad, establishing the Watch as an international spy organization.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1912|even|[[William I Greysword|William Greysword]], future King William I of [[Koramia]], is born to [[Richard III Greysword]], Lord Earl of Margwenth, who's seat of power was the city of [[Paeldain]] on the southern coast of the [[Divian Peninsula]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1930|odd|[[William I Greysword|William V Greysword]] is elected [[Lord Earl of Paeldain]], the youngest to hold that position}}<br /> {{EventRow|1933|even|In a narrow election by the Electorate in [[Paeldain]], William V Greysword is crowned King [[William I Greysword|William I]] of Paeldain and Lord Protector of the Koramic Code.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1947|odd|King [[William I Greysword|William I]] of [[Paeldain]] receives a vision from [[Vortumnus]], commanding him to re-unify the lands of present-day [[Koramia]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1948|even|The [[Potentate of Cambrecia]] releases trade restrictions on [[Neptaris]], resulting in increased trade and a strengthening of the merchant class in both regions.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1952|odd|The Prelate of Vortumnus in [[Paeldain]], a close ally of [[William I Greysword|King William I]] of Paeldain dies and his successor, [[Urbanus I]], is chosen by King William himself. [[Plancus of House Zetar|Emperor Plancus]] of the [[Great Empire]] sends his own priest to take on the mantle, who only finds the Prelatal Estate already inhabited. Neutered by a local priesthood that refused to recognize his authority, the Imperial Prelate returns to Zeth and Urbanus I is pronounced First Prelate of Vortumnus under the [[Koram]]. The [[Potentate of Cambrecia]] issues a strong message of condemnation for who he names the Heretic-King and breaks off trade relations with Paeldain and any who flock to the Greysword’s banner.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1958|even|[[William I Greysword|King William I]] of [[Paeldain]] is proclaimed King of [[Koramia]]. The Potentate of [[Cambrecia]] declares war on Koramia and its so-called "Heretic King", a declaration which is reciprocated by King William.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1960|odd|[[Koramia]] is reunified under [[William I Greysword|King William Greysword I]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1961|even|[[William I Greysword|William Greysword I]], King of Koramia, dies in battle, but leaves a legacy of a relatively peaceful kingdom to his heir.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1997|odd|[[Kor'dal]] becomes [[Great Khan]] of the orcs of [[Tazgrat]] and begins to march his armies towards the [[Mabean Marches]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1998|even|<br /> * In the [[Mabean Marches]], an orcish horde led by the Khan [[Kor'dal]] takes the [[Twin Towers]]. Peace is established between [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]] and [[Ywys]] and an alliance is formed against the orcish horde. Imperial law is re-written to allow the existence of Allied States.<br /> * [[Lucasa]] becomes [[Mage-King]] of [[Lun Dorak]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1999|odd|<br /> * As Lucius, Mage-King [[Lucasa]] secretly becomes advisor to Emperor [[Publius Antonius]] of [[House Zetar]].<br /> * [[Kor'dal]] is defeated by a combined Imperial and Powean army in the [[Battle of Two Kings]] in the [[Mabean Marches]]. His horde quickly disperses, but continues to trouble the Marches.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2000|even|<br /> * The [[Goblet of Gundagor]] is discovered in [[Koramia]] and returned to the dwarves under the [[Divian Mountains]]; end of the [[Second War of the Sun]]. Baron [[Algernon Marn]] of Koramia becomes first human ambassador to the dwarves in millennia.<br /> * The Imperial fleet sets sail for [[Koramia]] in a planned surprise attack on the nation. Later that year, [[William I Greysword|William Greysword I]], First King of Koramia, returns to lead his country against the Imperial invasion.<br /> * The dwarves of the [[Janos Mountains]], having received word about the return of the [[Goblet of Gundagore]], arrive in [[Adanar]] to establish trade relations with humans. The Adan, having never ever heard of the Goblet, are confused, but eagerly begin trading with the metal-rich dwarves.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2001|odd|<br /> * The assembled Imperial army, allied with [[Illyria]] and [[Cambrecia]], attacks [[Koramia]]. By the end of the season, Illyria betrays the Empire and allies with Koramia, who grants her independence. An orcish army, led by a former prisoner of Illyria known as [[Gar'dun]], joins Koramian effort. Later that year, civil war erupts in Illyria between those loyal to the crown and those who support the Empire.<br /> * In the [[Dragonlands]], the [[Order of the Brilliant Lance]], the Dragonknights, are reformed. Later in the year, Imperial forces are dealt harsh defeat at the [[First Battle of Paeldain]] in Koramia when the [[Glorious Galley]], of Vortumnian legend, appears with a Dragonknight at the helm.<br /> * In [[Lun Dorak]], the Mage-King [[Lucasa]] discovers the [[Magesword]].<br /> * Near Webwood Forest, [[Math Mathowny]], villain of the [[Tuatha de Dannan]], is slain by [[Cuchulain]].<br /> * [[Rodrigo III Espadalva|Falgao Rodrigo III Espadalva]] of [[Adanar]] grants territory along his eastern border with [[Thet]] to the newly arrived dwarven traders there, founding the nation of [[Valduran]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|2002|even|<br /> * The only son of Emperor [[Publius Antonius]] dies. The Emperor's closest advisor, [[Lucasa|Lucius]], is named heir. Lucius, now of [[House Zetar]], leads the armies in [[Koramia]] and succeeds in taking [[Paeldain]]. [[William I Greysword|King William Greysword I]] and his family are slain defending Paeldain. The Greysword's son-in-law, [[Gawyn Asheva]], is crowned King and flees to a hidden stronghold in the [[Divian Mountains]]. Late in the year, the Emperor of Zeth dies and is succeeded by Lucius, who reveals himself to be the [[Mage-King]], Lucasa of [[Lun Dorak]]. The Imperial capital is moved to the [[Sapphire City]] in Lun Dorak.<br /> * In [[Adanar]], the dwarves of the Janos mountains open an embassy and begin trade negotiations with humans in the region.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2003|odd|<br /> * [[Gar'dun]] becomes [[Great Khan]], uniting the orcish tribes of [[Vor Midal]] and attacks [[Lun Dorak]].<br /> * With the assistance of Gar'dun, the Dragonknights attack the [[Sapphire City]] and defeat the ailing [[Mage-King]], who soon dies of an unknown illness. Without its Mage-King, the [[Dorakian Empire]] immediately crumbles.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2004|even|The Imperial Governor of the [[Mabean Marches]] dies and civil war erupts between loyalists to the Empire and local forces. By the end of the year, [[Tancorix]], a Mabean member of the Imperial forces in the Mabean Marches, betrays and defeats Imperial forces. He is crowned King of [[Donnagh Saoristat|Donnagh]] by the druids of [[Ywys]]. Ywys breaks its alliance with the Empire and allies with Donnagh.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2005|odd|<br /> * [[Dracia]] declares independence from the Empire and [[Vladimir Vtalasav]] is crowned King.<br /> * King [[Clovar V Tuepierre]] declares independence from the Empire and officially converts to the [[Koramian Heresy]], wherein [[Vortumnus]] is viewed as King of the Gods. Civil war immediately erupts.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2006|even|[[Mitaria]] is attacked by an armada of [[Valtaan|Valtang]] warships. Instead of merely raiding, the Valtang barbarians begin building forts and seem intent on taking the country. Mitaria requests assistance from the Empire. Still without an Emperor, the Empire sends no troops to Mitaria to defend it from the Valtang invaders. King [[Tostig the Red]] of the Valtang arrives in Mitaria to lead the invasion.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2007|odd| <br /> * With most of the Imperial troops in Mitaria defeated, King [[Tostig the Red]] names his son, [[Aelfric the Bold]], King of Mitaria and returns to Valtaan.<br /> * After a year of sporadic incursions, the orcs of [[Vor Midal]], under the leadership of [[Gar'dun]], attack their former elven allies of the [[Webwood]] en masse. Over the next two years, most of the southern Webwood is burned to ash and well over three-fifths of the survivors departed the Webwood as refugees in nearby human lands.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2009|even|King [[Clovar V Tuepierre]] of Narbonne is slain in battle and his son, [[Dagaric]], is crowned King by the Bishop of [[Grischamp]]. By the end of the season, Dagaric has quelled most of the fighting in the nation with the assistance of the [[Order of the Red Band]], an order of Koramian Paladins.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2011|odd|The [[Crimson Plague]] strikes in [[Lagorka]] and quickly spreads along trade routes westward. By the end of the year, the Plague has reached [[Aebasa]], despite sometimes militant attempts to curb its spread.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2012|even|<br /> * The [[Crimson Plague]] strikes in [[Neptaris]], likely brought by traders from the east. From Neptaris, the Plague spreads quickly to [[Koramia]], [[Tamerynd]] and [[Zeth]].<br /> * The [[Fourth Succession War]] grinds to a stalemate as the Crimson Plague takes several prominent leaders and decimates the population.<br /> * The [[Valtaan|Valtang]] barbarians of Mitaria march on [[Narbonne]].}}<br /> |}<noinclude>{{Fey_Source<br /> |chapter= History<br /> |article= Timeline<br /> }}[[Category:History]][[Category:Timelines]][[Category:The Third Age of Man]]</noinclude></div>

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<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div>{{CenCal|9}}<br /> ==General Events==<br /> ===Duria===<br /> ====[[805]]====<br /> * In support of their ancient allies among the dwarves of the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]] beneath the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] declares war on the young [[Great Empire|Zetian Empire]], initiating what they would call [[the First Cambrecian War]].<br /> ====[[808]]====<br /> * The [[Saffron Scourge]] spreads throughout southern [[Duria]] and into parts of [[Koramia|Imperial Simmeria]], killing about 25% of the population in affected regions. Among those taken by the Scourge include [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], commander of the Zetian [[Legion III Cambrecia]] during the [[First Cambrecian War]] and the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian]] [[Tarnos_III_Dravos|King Tarnos III]]. The death of the latter sparked sixteen years of internecine warfare in Cambrecia referred to as the [[Dravosid Kinstrife]].<br /> ====[[815]]====<br /> * After a brief naval blockade and siege, the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] is captured by [[Great Empire|Zetian Imperial]] forces, concluding the [[First Cambrecian War]]. The Empire would come to occupy the city for much of the subsequent two centuries, though never easily.<br /> ====[[828]]====<br /> * In response to the victory of [[Kestor Dravos|King Kestor]] over contenders for the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian]] throne, [[Leto I of House Livius|Emperor Leto I]] of [[House Livius]] sends cohorts of reinforcements to Cambrecia to depose the new King and place his own successor, [[Quintus Sarnicos]], on the throne of Cambrecia. The fate of King Kestor in the wake of his usurpation is unknown.</div>

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<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div>{{YearCal|808}}<br /> ==General Events==<br /> ===Duria===<br /> * The [[Saffron Scourge]] spreads throughout southern [[Duria]] and into parts of [[Koramia|Imperial Simmeria]], killing about 25% of the population in affected regions. Among those taken by the Scourge include [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], commander of the Zetian [[Legion III Cambrecia]] during the [[First Cambrecian War]] and the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian]] [[Tarnos_III_Dravos|King Tarnos III]]. The death of the latter sparked sixteen years of internecine warfare in Cambrecia referred to as the [[Dravosid Kinstrife]].</div>

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<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div>{{DecCal|801}}<br /> ==General Events==<br /> ===Duria===<br /> ====[[805]]====<br /> * In support of their ancient allies among the dwarves of the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]] beneath the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] declares war on the young [[Great Empire|Zetian Empire]], initiating what they would call the [[First Cambrecian War]].<br /> ====[[808]]====<br /> * The [[Saffron Scourge]] spreads throughout southern [[Duria]] and into parts of [[Koramia|Imperial Simmeria]], killing about 25% of the population in affected regions. Among those taken by the Scourge include [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], commander of the Zetian [[Legion III Cambrecia]] during the [[First Cambrecian War]] and the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian]] [[Tarnos_III_Dravos|King Tarnos III]]. The death of the latter sparked sixteen years of internecine warfare in Cambrecia referred to as the [[Dravosid Kinstrife]].<br /> ====[[815]]====<br /> * After a brief naval blockade and siege, the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] is captured by [[Great Empire|Zetian Imperial]] forces, concluding the [[First Cambrecian War]]. The Empire would come to occupy the city for much of the subsequent two centuries, though never easily.</div>

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<p>Noctifer: Created page with "{{YearCal|808}} ==General Events== ===Duria=== * A plague, called the Saffron Scourge by scholars of the period, spreads throughout southern Duria and into parts of Imperial Simmeria, killing about 25% of the population in affected regions. Among those taken by the Scourge include Legate Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius, commander of the Zetian Legion III Cambrecia during the First Cambrecian War and th..."</p> <hr /> <div>{{YearCal|808}}<br /> ==General Events==<br /> ===Duria===<br /> * A plague, called the [[Saffron Scourge]] by scholars of the period, spreads throughout southern [[Duria]] and into parts of [[Koramia|Imperial Simmeria]], killing about 25% of the population in affected regions. Among those taken by the Scourge include [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], commander of the Zetian [[Legion III Cambrecia]] during the [[First Cambrecian War]] and the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian]] [[Tarnos_III_Dravos|King Tarnos III]]. The death of the latter sparked sixteen years of internecine warfare in Cambrecia referred to as the [[Dravosid Kinstrife]].</div>

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<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div>{{CenCal|9}}<br /> ==General Events==<br /> ===Duria===<br /> ====[[805]]====<br /> * In support of their ancient allies among the dwarves of the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]] beneath the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] declares war on the young [[Great Empire|Zetian Empire]], initiating what they would call [[the First Cambrecian War]].<br /> ====[[815]]====<br /> * After a brief naval blockade and siege, the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] is captured by [[Great Empire|Zetian Imperial]] forces, concluding the [[First Cambrecian War]]. The Empire would come to occupy the city for much of the subsequent two centuries, though never easily.<br /> ====[[828]]====<br /> * In response to the victory of [[Kestor Dravos|King Kestor]] over contenders for the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian]] throne, [[Leto I of House Livius|Emperor Leto I]] of [[House Livius]] sends cohorts of reinforcements to Cambrecia to depose the new King and place his own successor, [[Quintus Sarnicos]], on the throne of Cambrecia. The fate of King Kestor in the wake of his usurpation is unknown.</div>

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<p>Noctifer: Created page with "{{DecCal|821}} ==General Events== ===Duria=== ====828==== * In response to the victory of King Kestor over contenders for the Cambrecian throne, Emperor Leto I of House Livius sends cohorts of reinforcements to Cambrecia to depose the new King and place his own successor, Quintus Sarnicos, on the throne of Cambrecia. The fate of King Kestor in the wake of his usurpation is unknown."</p> <hr /> <div>{{DecCal|821}}<br /> ==General Events==<br /> ===Duria===<br /> ====[[828]]====<br /> * In response to the victory of [[Kestor Dravos|King Kestor]] over contenders for the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian]] throne, [[Leto I of House Livius|Emperor Leto I]] of [[House Livius]] sends cohorts of reinforcements to Cambrecia to depose the new King and place his own successor, [[Quintus Sarnicos]], on the throne of Cambrecia. The fate of King Kestor in the wake of his usurpation is unknown.</div>

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<p>Noctifer: Created page with "{{YearCal|828}} ==General Events== ===Duria=== * In response to the victory of King Kestor over contenders for the Cambrecian throne, Emperor Leto I of House Livius sends cohorts of reinforcements to Cambrecia to depose the new King and place his own successor, Quintus Sarnicos, on the throne of Cambrecia. The fate of King Kestor in the wake of his usurpation is unknown."</p> <hr /> <div>{{YearCal|828}}<br /> ==General Events==<br /> ===Duria===<br /> * In response to the victory of [[Kestor Dravos|King Kestor]] over contenders for the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian]] throne, [[Leto I of House Livius|Emperor Leto I]] of [[House Livius]] sends cohorts of reinforcements to Cambrecia to depose the new King and place his own successor, [[Quintus Sarnicos]], on the throne of Cambrecia. The fate of King Kestor in the wake of his usurpation is unknown.</div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia_and_the_Derlic_War&diff=22589 Cambrecia and the Derlic War 2026-09-10T01:49:35Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 800<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 1473<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Imperial Cambrecia<br /> |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude>Under [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], [[Legion III Cambrecia]] moved into the trackless wilds of what had even then become known as the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], chasing rumors of wealthy dwarven miners high in the peaks. In a mistake that would resonate for decades to come and permanently alter the political landscape of southern Duria, the Legion slaughtered an ostensibly peaceful dwarven ambassadorial party from the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]], which initiated what would become known as the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]] in the Empire with the express intention of conquering the subterranean Kingdom. The Legion spent the first few months of the "War" failing to even locate the entrance to the underground mountain kingdom. The dwarves were shocked by the behavior of humans they thought were friendly and prepared themselves for battle, but cooler heads prevailed and an envoy was sent to [[Neptaris]], who had allied with the dwarves of Derlos some six centuries prior during the [[War of the Dark Rider]]. After brief deliberations, the [[Triumvirate]] of Neptaris secretly decided to maintain their alliance with [[Derlos]] and prepare for war against this new Empire. In {{ICYear|55}}, Neptaris formally declared war on Zeth and immediately took one of their key military outposts in the foothills of the Cambrecian Mountains, [[Fort Pagulium]].<br /> <br /> What began as an exploratory expedition against [[Derlos]] quickly grew into a war Cambrecia had not prepared for. Neptaran Marshal [[Aador Manx|Marshal Aador Manx]], moving in concert with dwarven irregulars from Derlos, exploited the fall of [[Fort Pagulium]] to seize five more Imperial supply depots before the year was out, and for two years [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Isidorus]] found himself fighting a war on ground he had not chosen. The tide turned only when the Imperial fleet broke Neptaris's navy at the [[Battle of Nimble Point]] in {{ICYear|57}} and sealed [[Krios Bay]], cutting the rebellious Freecity off from the sea it depended on. Any relief the victory brought was short-lived: a plague swept along the Cambrecian coast the following winter, and among its dead was Isidorus himself, the very Legate whose slaughter of the Derlic envoys had started the war in the first place. Command passed to [[Valerius Lucius|Legate Valerius Lucius]], who spent the next several years rebuilding the Legion's strength even as Neptaris, unbeknownst to the Empire, was doing the same in secret shipyards along its own coast. Marshal Manx fought on until his death at Fort Pagulium, and his successor, [[Greor Alcyon of House Markos|Marshall Greor Alcyon]] of [[House Markos]], briefly seized command of the [[Maroshan Sea]] with a fleet of thirty warships, but Imperial spies located and burned Neptaris's hidden shipyards in the winter of {{ICYear|65}}, and with reinforcement from the fleets of [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] in [[Koramia|Imperial Simmeria]], Valerius Lucius laid siege to [[Neptaris]] itself. The city fell within a fortnight when an Imperial sympathizer inside its walls opened the gates, and Marshal Alcyon, upon hearing the news, took his own life rather than witness Neptaris's surrender. With their human allies defeated, the dwarves of Derlos sealed off the entrances to their subterranean kingdom and disappeared into the roots of the mountains.<br /> <br /> For Cambrecia, the years after the Derlic War brought no relief, only a change in the shape of their subjugation. The dwarven wealth that had first drawn the Legion into the mountains was never recovered; the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]] had sealed its gates and vanished into the roots of the mountains rather than ever treat with the Empire again, so the war that cost [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Isidorus]] his life had, in the end, won Zeth nothing at all. Command remained with [[Valerius Lucius|Legate Valerius Lucius]], who spent his remaining years in Septarium keeping the Legion garrisoned and the tribute rolls full, but the endless cycle of rebellion made direct military rule an expense Zeth could not sustain indefinitely.<br /> <br /> Cambrecia's own house was no steadier than the Empire's patience. In the plague-stricken winter of {{ICYear|58}} that claimed Legate Isidorus, the same sickness reached Septarium and took [[Tarnos III Dravos|King Tarnos III]], leaving the throne to his young son, [[Kestor Dravos|Prince Kestor]], no more than five years old. A regency council, drawn from mostly Kamaros-descended nobility and backed by the increasingly influential priesthood of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], ruled in the boy's name. With Zeth's full attention on the war against Neptaris and Derlos, no one in the capital was minding Cambrecia's own succession, and [[Bellenos Dravos]], of the old Amesi-descended branch of the royal house, a line that had never accepted being passed over for the throne generations before, raised his own claim. The resulting [[Dravosid Kinstrife]] dragged on for sixteen years, a slow civil war fought in the shadow of the Empire's own occupation, until Kestor, grown to manhood, finally defeated and killed Bellenos in personal combat in {{ICYear|74}} at the [[Battle of Vetrenos]] and reunited the kingdom under his own rule for the first time in a generation.<br /> <br /> It was precisely this victory that doomed him. A legitimate, battle-hardened king who had reunified Cambrecia without any help from Zeth was a far more troubling prospect to the Empire than a child regency had ever been, and Emperor [[Leto I of House Livius|Emperor Leto I]] of [[House Livius]] had no intention of recognizing a monarch who might one day decide he owed the Empire nothing at all. In {{ICYear|78}}, fresh Imperial legions arrived in Septarium, declared Kestor's rule illegitimate despite the regency council's own endorsement years before, and installed a man with no connection to House Dravos whatsoever, [[Quintus Sarnicos]], as King of Cambrecia in his place. What became of Kestor Dravos, the last of his line, has never been settled. Some in Septarium still whisper that he was quietly put to the sword in the dungeons beneath his own palace and buried without rite, so that Zeth would leave the Cambrecian people no grave to mourn at and no martyr to rally behind. Others insist he escaped the city before the legions arrived and lived out his years in exile, some say in Neptaris, others in the depths of the Cambrecian Mountains, given quiet sanctuary by the dwarves of Derlos, who, whatever else divided them from the surface, understood better than anyone what it meant to be betrayed by the Empire's ambitions.<br /> <br /> Over the next two centuries, Cambrecia saw many rebellions as its citizens tried to found a new Senate in the capital city of [[Zelosia City|Septarium]]. The Imperial response was heavy-handed at first, but in {{ICYear|149}}, the Emperor [[Metius the Elder]] decided on a more surreptitious approach to quelling the Cambrecians. In his role as [[Pontifex Maximus]] of the Imperial pantheon, he sent the [[Pontifex of Zelos]], god of the State, to Septarium to build a great cathedral and begin the conversion of the populous to [[Zelos]]. The Pontifex of the time, [[Ionnanes II]], was a persuasive man, and was able to quickly convert most of the local leadership to his banner. Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

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Secundis]]<br /> |- valign="top" bgcolor="#c0c0c0" <br /> | [[Metius the Elder of House Livius|Metius the Elder]]<br /> | [[House Livius|Livius]]<br /> | {{ICYear|101}} - {{ICYear|153}}<br /> | {{ICYear|146}} - {{ICYear|151}}<br /> |son of [[Semelius of House Livius|Semelius]], first to resign<br /> |- valign="top" bgcolor="#c0c0c0" <br /> | [[Metius the Younger of House Livius|Metius the Younger]]<br /> | [[House Livius|Livius]]<br /> | {{ICYear|134}} - {{ICYear|217}}<br /> | {{ICYear|151}} - {{ICYear|217}}<br /> |son of [[Metius the Elder of House Livius|Metius the Elder]], first war with the Narbars<br /> |- valign="top" bgcolor="#c0c0c0" <br /> | [[Leto II of House Livius|Leto II]]<br /> | [[House Livius|Livius]]<br /> | {{ICYear|160}} - {{ICYear|217}}<br /> | {{ICYear|217}}<br /> |son of [[Metius the Younger of House Livius|Metius the Younger]]<br /> |- valign="top"<br /> | [[Semelius of House Furius|Semelius]]<br /> |[[House Furius|Furius]]<br /> |{{ICYear|187}} - {{ICYear|219}}<br /> |{{ICYear|217}} - {{ICYear|219}}<br /> | discredited Emperor, husband of [[Leto II of House Livius|Leto's]] daughter<br /> |- valign="top"<br /> | [[Antonius of House Zetar|Antonius]]<br /> |[[House Zetar|Zetar]]<br /> |{{ICYear|170}} - {{ICYear|230}}<br /> |{{ICYear|217}} - {{ICYear|230}}<br /> | grand-nephew of [[Vitellius of House Zetar|Vitellius]]<br /> |- valign="top"<br /> | [[Androcles of House Zetar|Androcles]]<br /> |[[House Zetar|Zetar]]<br /> |{{ICYear|199}} - {{ICYear|264}}<br /> |{{ICYear|230}} - {{ICYear|264}}<br /> | son of [[Antonius of House Zetar|Antonius]]<br /> |- valign="top" bgcolor="#c0c0c0" <br /> | [[Androcles Leto of House Zetar|Androcles Leto]]<br /> | [[House Zetar|Zetar]]<br /> | {{ICYear|230}} - {{ICYear|312}}<br /> | {{ICYear|264}} - {{ICYear|312}}<br /> |son of [[Androcles of House Zetar|Androcles]], died without issue<br /> |- valign="top" bgcolor="#c0c0c0" <br /> | [[Antigonus of House Gabinius|Antigonus]]<br /> | [[House Gabinius|Gabinius]]<br /> | {{ICYear|291}} - {{ICYear|313}}<br /> | {{ICYear|312}} - {{ICYear|313}}<br /> |married daughter of [[Androcles Leto of House Zetar|Androcles Leto]], died without issue, [[First Succession War]] ({{ICYear|312}} - {{ICYear|321}})<br /> |- valign="top" bgcolor="#c0c0c0" <br /> | [[Marcius of House Gainius|Marcius]]<br /> | [[House Gabinius|Gabinius]]<br /> | {{ICYear|293}} - {{ICYear|313}}<br /> | {{ICYear|313}}<br /> |brother of [[Antigonus of House Gabinius|Antigonus]], died without issue<br /> |- valign="top"<br /> | [[Domitian of House Manilius|Domitian]]<br /> |[[House Manilius|Manilius]]<br /> |{{ICYear|245}} - {{ICYear|321}}<br /> |{{ICYear|313}} - {{ICYear|319}}<br /> | nephew of [[Androcles of House Zetar|Androcles]]<br /> |- valign="top"<br /> | [[Marcellus of House Livius|Marcellus]]<br /> |[[House Livius|Livius]]<br /> |{{ICYear|294}} - {{ICYear|321}}<br /> |{{ICYear|315}} - {{ICYear|321}}<br /> | nephew of [[Androcles of House Zetar|Androcles]]<br /> |- valign="top"<br /> | [[Antipater of House Varro|Antipater]]<br /> |[[House Varro|Varro]]<br /> |{{ICYear|260}} - 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{{ICYear|1240}}<br /> |<br /> |- valign="top" bgcolor="#c0c0c0" <br /> | [[Publius Antonius of House Zetar|Publius Antonius]]<br /> | [[House Zetar|Zetar]]<br /> | {{ICYear|1219}} - {{ICYear|1252}}<br /> | {{ICYear|1240}} - {{ICYear|1252}}<br /> |The last "True Emperor" of Zeth<br /> |- valign="top" bgcolor="#c0c0c0" <br /> | [[Lucasa|Lucius]]<br /> | [[House Zetar|Zetar]]<br /> | ???? - {{ICYear|1253}}<br /> | {{ICYear|1252}} - {{ICYear|1253}}<br /> |the "Heretic Emperor," he was revealed after his ascension to be the Mage-King of [[Lun Dorak]]; [[Fourth Succession War]] begins after his death, with no clear victor<br /> |}<br /> <noinclude>[[Category:Aurea]][[Category:Zeth]][[Category:Noble Houses]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia_and_the_Derlic_War&diff=22587 Cambrecia and the Derlic War 2026-09-10T01:48:28Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 800<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 1473<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Imperial Cambrecia<br /> |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude>Under [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], [[Legion III Cambrecia]] moved into the trackless wilds of what had even then become known as the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], chasing rumors of wealthy dwarven miners high in the peaks. In a mistake that would resonate for decades to come and permanently alter the political landscape of southern Duria, the Legion slaughtered an ostensibly peaceful dwarven ambassadorial party from the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]], which initiated what would become known as the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]] in the Empire with the express intention of conquering the subterranean Kingdom. The Legion spent the first few months of the "War" failing to even locate the entrance to the underground mountain kingdom. The dwarves were shocked by the behavior of humans they thought were friendly and prepared themselves for battle, but cooler heads prevailed and an envoy was sent to [[Neptaris]], who had allied with the dwarves of Derlos some six centuries prior during the [[War of the Dark Rider]]. After brief deliberations, the [[Triumvirate]] of Neptaris secretly decided to maintain their alliance with [[Derlos]] and prepare for war against this new Empire. In {{ICYear|55}}, Neptaris formally declared war on Zeth and immediately took one of their key military outposts in the foothills of the Cambrecian Mountains, [[Fort Pagulium]].<br /> <br /> What began as an exploratory expedition against [[Derlos]] quickly grew into a war Cambrecia had not prepared for. Neptaran Marshal [[Aador Manx|Marshal Aador Manx]], moving in concert with dwarven irregulars from Derlos, exploited the fall of [[Fort Pagulium]] to seize five more Imperial supply depots before the year was out, and for two years [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Isidorus]] found himself fighting a war on ground he had not chosen. The tide turned only when the Imperial fleet broke Neptaris's navy at the [[Battle of Nimble Point]] in {{ICYear|57}} and sealed [[Krios Bay]], cutting the rebellious Freecity off from the sea it depended on. Any relief the victory brought was short-lived: a plague swept along the Cambrecian coast the following winter, and among its dead was Isidorus himself, the very Legate whose slaughter of the Derlic envoys had started the war in the first place. Command passed to [[Valerius Lucius|Legate Valerius Lucius]], who spent the next several years rebuilding the Legion's strength even as Neptaris, unbeknownst to the Empire, was doing the same in secret shipyards along its own coast. Marshal Manx fought on until his death at Fort Pagulium, and his successor, [[Greor Alcyon of House Markos|Marshall Greor Alcyon]] of [[House Markos]], briefly seized command of the [[Maroshan Sea]] with a fleet of thirty warships, but Imperial spies located and burned Neptaris's hidden shipyards in the winter of {{ICYear|65}}, and with reinforcement from the fleets of [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] in [[Koramia|Imperial Simmeria]], Valerius Lucius laid siege to [[Neptaris]] itself. The city fell within a fortnight when an Imperial sympathizer inside its walls opened the gates, and Marshal Alcyon, upon hearing the news, took his own life rather than witness Neptaris's surrender. With their human allies defeated, the dwarves of Derlos sealed off the entrances to their subterranean kingdom and disappeared into the roots of the mountains.<br /> <br /> For Cambrecia, the years after the Derlic War brought no relief, only a change in the shape of their subjugation. The dwarven wealth that had first drawn the Legion into the mountains was never recovered; the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]] had sealed its gates and vanished into the roots of the mountains rather than ever treat with the Empire again, so the war that cost [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Isidorus]] his life had, in the end, won Zeth nothing at all. Command remained with [[Valerius Lucius|Legate Valerius Lucius]], who spent his remaining years in Septarium keeping the Legion garrisoned and the tribute rolls full, but the endless cycle of rebellion made direct military rule an expense Zeth could not sustain indefinitely.<br /> <br /> Cambrecia's own house was no steadier than the Empire's patience. In the plague-stricken winter of {{ICYear|58}} that claimed Legate Isidorus, the same sickness reached Septarium and took [[Tarnos III Dravos|King Tarnos III]], leaving the throne to his young son, [[Kestor Dravos|Prince Kestor]], no more than five years old. A regency council, drawn from mostly Kamaros-descended nobility and backed by the increasingly influential priesthood of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], ruled in the boy's name. With Zeth's full attention on the war against Neptaris and Derlos, no one in the capital was minding Cambrecia's own succession, and [[Bellenos Dravos]], of the old Amesi-descended branch of the royal house, a line that had never accepted being passed over for the throne generations before, raised his own claim. The resulting [[Dravosid Kinstrife]] dragged on for sixteen years, a slow civil war fought in the shadow of the Empire's own occupation, until Kestor, grown to manhood, finally defeated and killed Bellenos in personal combat in {{ICYear|74}} at the [[Battle of Vetrenos]] and reunited the kingdom under his own rule for the first time in a generation.<br /> <br /> It was precisely this victory that doomed him. A legitimate, battle-hardened king who had reunified Cambrecia without any help from Zeth was a far more troubling prospect to the Empire than a child regency had ever been, and Emperor [[Leto I Livius|Emperor Leto I]] of [[House Livius]] had no intention of recognizing a monarch who might one day decide he owed the Empire nothing at all. In {{ICYear|78}}, fresh Imperial legions arrived in Septarium, declared Kestor's rule illegitimate despite the regency council's own endorsement years before, and installed a man with no connection to House Dravos whatsoever, [[Quintus Sarnicos]], as King of Cambrecia in his place. What became of Kestor Dravos, the last of his line, has never been settled. Some in Septarium still whisper that he was quietly put to the sword in the dungeons beneath his own palace and buried without rite, so that Zeth would leave the Cambrecian people no grave to mourn at and no martyr to rally behind. Others insist he escaped the city before the legions arrived and lived out his years in exile, some say in Neptaris, others in the depths of the Cambrecian Mountains, given quiet sanctuary by the dwarves of Derlos, who, whatever else divided them from the surface, understood better than anyone what it meant to be betrayed by the Empire's ambitions.<br /> <br /> Over the next two centuries, Cambrecia saw many rebellions as its citizens tried to found a new Senate in the capital city of [[Zelosia City|Septarium]]. The Imperial response was heavy-handed at first, but in {{ICYear|149}}, the Emperor [[Metius the Elder]] decided on a more surreptitious approach to quelling the Cambrecians. In his role as [[Pontifex Maximus]] of the Imperial pantheon, he sent the [[Pontifex of Zelos]], god of the State, to Septarium to build a great cathedral and begin the conversion of the populous to [[Zelos]]. The Pontifex of the time, [[Ionnanes II]], was a persuasive man, and was able to quickly convert most of the local leadership to his banner. Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia_and_the_Derlic_War&diff=22586 Cambrecia and the Derlic War 2026-09-10T01:47:23Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 800<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 1473<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Imperial Cambrecia<br /> |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude>Under [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], [[Legion III Cambrecia]] moved into the trackless wilds of what had even then become known as the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], chasing rumors of wealthy dwarven miners high in the peaks. In a mistake that would resonate for decades to come and permanently alter the political landscape of southern Duria, the Legion slaughtered an ostensibly peaceful dwarven ambassadorial party from the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]], which initiated what would become known as the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]] in the Empire with the express intention of conquering the subterranean Kingdom. The Legion spent the first few months of the "War" failing to even locate the entrance to the underground mountain kingdom. The dwarves were shocked by the behavior of humans they thought were friendly and prepared themselves for battle, but cooler heads prevailed and an envoy was sent to [[Neptaris]], who had allied with the dwarves of Derlos some six centuries prior during the [[War of the Dark Rider]]. After brief deliberations, the [[Triumvirate]] of Neptaris secretly decided to maintain their alliance with [[Derlos]] and prepare for war against this new Empire. In {{ICYear|55}}, Neptaris formally declared war on Zeth and immediately took one of their key military outposts in the foothills of the Cambrecian Mountains, [[Fort Pagulium]].<br /> <br /> What began as an exploratory expedition against [[Derlos]] quickly grew into a war Cambrecia had not prepared for. Neptaran Marshal [[Aador Manx|Marshal Aador Manx]], moving in concert with dwarven irregulars from Derlos, exploited the fall of [[Fort Pagulium]] to seize five more Imperial supply depots before the year was out, and for two years [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Isidorus]] found himself fighting a war on ground he had not chosen. The tide turned only when the Imperial fleet broke Neptaris's navy at the [[Battle of Nimble Point]] in {{ICYear|57}} and sealed [[Krios Bay]], cutting the rebellious Freecity off from the sea it depended on. Any relief the victory brought was short-lived: a plague swept along the Cambrecian coast the following winter, and among its dead was Isidorus himself, the very Legate whose slaughter of the Derlic envoys had started the war in the first place. Command passed to [[Valerius Lucius|Legate Valerius Lucius]], who spent the next several years rebuilding the Legion's strength even as Neptaris, unbeknownst to the Empire, was doing the same in secret shipyards along its own coast. Marshal Manx fought on until his death at Fort Pagulium, and his successor, [[Greor Alcyon of House Markos|Marshall Greor Alcyon]] of [[House Markos]], briefly seized command of the [[Maroshan Sea]] with a fleet of thirty warships, but Imperial spies located and burned Neptaris's hidden shipyards in the winter of {{ICYear|65}}, and with reinforcement from the fleets of [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] in [[Koramia|Imperial Simmeria]], Valerius Lucius laid siege to [[Neptaris]] itself. The city fell within a fortnight when an Imperial sympathizer inside its walls opened the gates, and Marshal Alcyon, upon hearing the news, took his own life rather than witness Neptaris's surrender. With their human allies defeated, the dwarves of Derlos sealed off the entrances to their subterranean kingdom and disappeared into the roots of the mountains.<br /> <br /> For Cambrecia, the years after the Derlic War brought no relief, only a change in the shape of their subjugation. The dwarven wealth that had first drawn the Legion into the mountains was never recovered; the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]] had sealed its gates and vanished into the roots of the mountains rather than ever treat with the Empire again, so the war that cost [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Isidorus]] his life had, in the end, won Zeth nothing at all. Command remained with [[Valerius Lucius|Legate Valerius Lucius]], who spent his remaining years in Septarium keeping the Legion garrisoned and the tribute rolls full, but the endless cycle of rebellion made direct military rule an expense Zeth could not sustain indefinitely.<br /> <br /> Cambrecia's own house was no steadier than the Empire's patience. In the plague-stricken winter of {{ICYear|58}} that claimed Legate Isidorus, the same sickness reached Septarium and took [[Tarnos III Dravos|King Tarnos III]], leaving the throne to his young son, [[Kestor Dravos|Prince Kestor]], no more than five years old. A regency council, drawn from mostly Kamaros-descended nobility and backed by the increasingly influential priesthood of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], ruled in the boy's name. With Zeth's full attention on the war against Neptaris and Derlos, no one in the capital was minding Cambrecia's own succession, and [[Bellenos Dravos]], of the old Amesi-descended branch of the royal house, a line that had never accepted being passed over for the throne generations before, raised his own claim. The resulting [[Dravosid Kinstrife]] dragged on for sixteen years, a slow civil war fought in the shadow of the Empire's own occupation, until Kestor, grown to manhood, finally defeated and killed Bellenos in personal combat in {{ICYear|74}} at the [[Battle of Vetrenos]] and reunited the kingdom under his own rule for the first time in a generation.<br /> <br /> It was precisely this victory that doomed him. A legitimate, battle-hardened king who had reunified Cambrecia without any help from Zeth was a far more troubling prospect to the Empire than a child regency had ever been, and Emperor [[Leto]] had no intention of recognizing a monarch who might one day decide he owed the Empire nothing at all. In {{ICYear|78}}, fresh Imperial legions arrived in Septarium, declared Kestor's rule illegitimate despite the regency council's own endorsement years before, and installed a man with no connection to House Dravos whatsoever, [[Quintus Sarnicos]], as King of Cambrecia in his place. What became of Kestor Dravos, the last of his line, has never been settled. Some in Septarium still whisper that he was quietly put to the sword in the dungeons beneath his own palace and buried without rite, so that Zeth would leave the Cambrecian people no grave to mourn at and no martyr to rally behind. Others insist he escaped the city before the legions arrived and lived out his years in exile, some say in Neptaris, others in the depths of the Cambrecian Mountains, given quiet sanctuary by the dwarves of Derlos, who, whatever else divided them from the surface, understood better than anyone what it meant to be betrayed by the Empire's ambitions.<br /> <br /> Over the next two centuries, Cambrecia saw many rebellions as its citizens tried to found a new Senate in the capital city of [[Zelosia City|Septarium]]. The Imperial response was heavy-handed at first, but in {{ICYear|149}}, the Emperor [[Metius the Elder]] decided on a more surreptitious approach to quelling the Cambrecians. In his role as [[Pontifex Maximus]] of the Imperial pantheon, he sent the [[Pontifex of Zelos]], god of the State, to Septarium to build a great cathedral and begin the conversion of the populous to [[Zelos]]. The Pontifex of the time, [[Ionnanes II]], was a persuasive man, and was able to quickly convert most of the local leadership to his banner. Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=The_Rule_of_the_Empire_in_Neptaris&diff=22585 The Rule of the Empire in Neptaris 2026-09-10T01:46:37Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 816<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 900<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= The First Cambrecian War<br /> |following_article= The Great Revolution in Neptaris<br /> |main_article= The History of Neptaris<br /> }}</noinclude><includeonly>{{Article_Reference<br /> |article= The Rule of the Empire in Neptaris<br /> }}</includeonly><br /> Imperial rule in [[Neptaris]] was surprisingly gentle, particularly compared to the harsh treatment the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian]] peoples were receiving. Neptaris received its own Prefect, or governor, and was established as a colony of the Empire separate from Cambrecia. The first Prefect of Neptaris, appointed by the Emperor [[Otho]] of [[House Zetar]] in {{NCYear|816}}, was [[Antonius Callistus]] of [[House Livius]]. Prefect Antonius was at first regarded with deep suspicion by the Neptaran people. His first edict was to re-establish the [[Supreme Assembly]], which was abolished under military rule after the end of the [[First Cambrecian War]]. The Prefect did retain the power to veto any decision of the Assembly, but this act went far towards endearing him to the people. He used his veto power rarely and even made a practice of calling for votes on some of his own legal decisions. In {{NCYear|818}}, he issued an edict that was ratified by the Supreme Assembly as Addendum XXVIII: though Neptaris would remain officially under the rule of the Empire, recognize the Emperor as their ruler and pay a 10% tax to the Empire of all income, the Supreme Assembly would be the sole governing body of the city. Prefect Antonius retired in Neptaris but was elected to the Supreme Assembly in {{NCYear|820}}. When he died in {{NCYear|832}}, he was given a state funeral and the throngs who came to pay homage were as great as any that attended the funerals of the ancient Neptarchs.<br /> <br /> It is said that one of the reasons Neptaris was given these freedoms was because of the volatile situation in Cambrecia. Neptaris had, despite its defeat, been successful in keeping the Empire out of the dwarven Kingdom of [[Derlos]]. Furthermore, the Cambrecian people were not easily pacified. Rebellions had struck throughout the countryside for the duration of Imperial rulership in the nation and intensified as the Empire continued to conquer the lands between Cambrecia and Ciritasnia (modern day [[Koramia]]). When a native King was appointed by the Emperor [[Leto]] of [[House Livius]] in {{NCYear|828}}, a new rash of rebellions sprung up as Cambrecians took offense to the entire idea of the Emperor telling them who their King should be. The fact that [[Quintus Sarnicos|King Quintus Sarnicos]], the Emperor's appointee, was not of any known royal bloodline in the nation only exacerbated the situation. The Kings of Cambrecia, understanding that their power came from the Emperor's good will, became even harsher rulers than the Imperial Prefects had been. Rebellion after rebellion was violently snuffed out, the harshness of which only resulted in more rebellions. The Empire was spending so much time and resources on Cambrecia; they simply didn't have the capacity to oppress Neptaris.<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, in Neptaris, the nobles of the city were warming up to Imperial rule even faster than the common people had. Many of the nobles saw how willing the Emperor was to install a hereditary ruler in Cambrecia and desired the same title for themselves in Neptaris. Their activism had a contrary affect on the people, however. Instead of endearing the people to the Empire, the nobles succeeded in maintaining the hint of rebellion within the city. The Supreme Assembly even issued an Addendum in {{NCYear|860}} that removed all rights of the noble class, except the ability to use their now-useless titles. In response, many of the wealthier nobles helped establish a Temple of [[Zelos]], God of the State, in Neptaris. Zelos, who was already popular with the Imperials and ruling class of Cambrecia, was not well liked by Neptarans because of his association with and support of monarchies and empires. The nobles did not realize it at the time, but it was the establishment of this Temple that would lead to the overthrow of the Empire in Neptaris.<br /> <br /> In the last few decades of the ninth century, Neptarans began to trade heavily with Cambrecia both in goods and ideas. This included, of course, the Church of Zelos in Neptaris, whose parent Temple was located in [[Septarium]], the capital of Cambrecia. The Neptaran Zeloites, however, were known to be defenders of democracy and were often viewed with contempt by their Imperial brethren. In {{NCYear|899}}, the Emperor [[Metius the Elder]] of House [[Livius]] sent [[Ionnanes II]], the Pontifex of Zelos, to Septarium in the hope of quelling the rebellions there through conversion. Ionnanes II, proclaiming the Neptaran priests of Zelos in Septarium heretics, stripped them of their robes and sent them home to Neptaris. With them, they carried a message from the Emperor that ceded Neptaris to Cambrecia. The people were so shocked that a response was not forthcoming until the following spring.<br /> <noinclude>{{Duria_Guide<br /> |chapter= History}}<br /> [[Category:Neptaris]]<br /> [[Category:Neptaran History]]<br /> </noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Imperial_Cambrecia&diff=22584 Imperial Cambrecia 2026-09-10T01:18:09Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Imperial Cambrecia}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 751<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 799<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Foundation of Cambrecia<br /> |following_article=Cambrecia and the Derlic War<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude><br /> When word reached [[Zelosia City|Septarium]] that the Senate had dissolved itself and that [[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]] had been proclaimed Emperor in {{ICYear|1}}, the court of King [[Tarnos II Dravos|Tarnos II]] met the news with open dismay. Cambrecia's client status had been built on a personal bond of patronage: first to [[Rufus Voltina of House Livius|Consul Rufus Voltina]], then, through [[Septimius Varros]], to [[House Varro]] itself. An Emperor drawn from [[House Zetar]], a family with no history of patronage in Cambrecia, offered the Dravosid crown no such assurance. Tarnos II delayed sending envoys to Zeth for the better part of two years and when he finally did swear allegiance, Cambrecia was the last of the outer territories of the old Republic to do so. Some court chroniclers of the following century would frame this hesitation as principled loyalty to the memory of House Varro and, perhaps, a growing sentiment towards the worship of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], god of the state; others, less charitably, suggested that Tarnos II and his ministers, chief among them his uncle Vardanos (a local title roughly translated as 'guardian of the hearth') [[Aroneth Dravos|Aroneth]], feared that direct Imperial oversight would strip away the informal privileges the Kamaran nobility had enjoyed as a favored client kingdom rather than a subject province.<br /> <br /> The Emperor was not inclined to let the delay pass unanswered. In {{ICYear|6}}, Octavius dispatched [[Titus Nepos of House Gabinius|Legate Titus Nepos]] of [[House Gabinius]], a family already notorious for its uncompromising governorships in [[Aescalapea]], to formalize Cambrecia's place within the Empire. Titus Nepos garrisoned a cohort of the [[Legion III Cambrecia|Third Legion]] within Septarium itself, the first standing Imperial troops the capital had ever hosted. T. Nepos also established a permanent legate's residence beside the royal palace, a deliberate arrangement meant to remind the Dravosid court exactly whose authority now took precedence in matters of war, law, and foreign relations. Alongside him came [[Gnaeus Falco|Procurator Gnaeus Falco]], charged with conducting Cambrecia's first Imperial census and establishing the tribute rolls by which the province would be taxed. Falco's assessors moved through the fields and foothills of Cambrecia methodically, and by {{ICYear|11}} the old exemptions once granted to Septimius Varros's veteran-settlers, whose descendants had, for two generations, paid only nominal dues to the Dravosid crown, were formally abolished. It is said that many of these descendants were worshipers of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], god of the state, and among them there were murmured accusations of tyranny under the new Zetian Emperor.<br /> <br /> It was both this loss of exemption and moral outrage that finally broke the Cambrecian people into open unrest. In {{ICYear|13}}, a coalition of wealthy landowners descended from Septimius's retired legionaries, led by the orator [[Gaius Fufidius Cato]], gathered in the forum of Septarium and petitioned Legate Titus Nepos for the right to elect a body of their own, a [[Concilium Septariae]], to oversee taxation and local law, citing the example of neighboring [[Neptaris]], which within living memory had cast off its own monarchy for an elected Council. What became known as the [[Sedition of Septarium]] gathered enough support among the capital's merchant class to shut down the grain markets for the better part of a month, but it found no allies among the Kamaran nobility or the crown, both of whom recognized a Senate of Fufidius Cato's design as no less a threat to Dravosid rule than to Imperial rule. King Tarnos II lent his own household guard to the Legate to help clear the forum, and the Legate had Fufidius Cato and eleven of his fellow petitioners exiled to [[Black Isle|Ylargebad Island]] rather than executed, a mercy some historians attribute to T. Nepos's wish not to make martyrs of them so early in his governorship. The Sedition failed, but the grievance did not: the dream of an elected Cambrecian Senate would resurface, in one form or another, for the better part of two centuries to come.<br /> <br /> In the decades following the failed Sedition, Cambrecia settled into an uneasy accommodation with Imperial rule. The Kamaran and Dravosid nobility increasingly adopted Zetian dress, law, and even Latin naming conventions to curry favor with the Legate's court, and King Tarnos II's own household grew steadily more dependent on Imperial recognition to shore up his legitimacy against rival branches of the [[House Dravos|Dravosid line]]. Resistance did not disappear so much as go quiet. Rural landowners, particularly those descended from [[Septimius Varros]]'s veteran-settlers, routinely under-reported their harvests to Procurator Falco's successors, and banditry along the upland roads toward the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], often blamed on displaced tribesmen but just as often the work of disaffected settler youth, grew persistent enough that Legate Titus Nepos was forced to keep a standing garrison there for the remainder of his tenure.<br /> <br /> Legate Titus Nepos commanded the [[Legion III Cambrecia]] for nearly three decades, ruling with the same uncompromising hand that had crushed Cato's rebellion at the Sedition of Septarium, but the Proconsul's refusal to ease taxation even as low-level unrest simmered on eventually drew quiet complaints to [[Zeth]] from the Cambrecian nobility itself, carried through channels the aging Legate never suspected existed. He died at his post in {{ICYear|44}}, worn down less by any single crisis than by the accumulated weight of patrolling a province that had never forgiven him for the Sedition's suppression. His successor, chosen deliberately by the Imperial court to repair the relationship, was [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], whose appointment in {{ICYear|47}} was met in [[Septarium]] with genuine, if cautious, hope. House Livius had, after all, been Cambrecia's first Imperial patron, sponsor of Septimius Varros's own conquest generations before, and many among the Dravosid court believed a Livius Legate would restore some measure of the old client kingdom's dignity. It was a hope that would make what followed all the more bitter.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=The_Cambrecian_Civil_Wars&diff=22583 The Cambrecian Civil Wars 2026-09-10T01:17:56Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 1474<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 1650<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Foundation of Cambrecia<br /> |following_article= Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia<br /> |main_article= Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude><includeonly>{{Article_Reference<br /> |article= The Cambrecian Civil Wars<br /> }}</includeonly><br /> After years of neglect for its colony, the Empire informed Cambrecia that it would have to see to its own affairs of defense in {{ICYear|724}}. The Cambrecian nobility, so reliant on the Emperor's support and guidance, immediately began to fall to internal bickering and strife, as civil war broke out across the land. For the next thirty years, war was the mainstay as monarch after monarch fell. Eventually, no heirs became apparent to the throne excepting a three year old child and the nobility, not trusting one another with the regency, elected to place the [[Pontifex of Zelos]] as regent to the crown. The Pontifex moved quickly and relentlessly in destroying the economic power of the local nobility, particularly the economies of those who opposed the Empire, [[Zelos]], or him personally. By the time that the King came of age, it was apparent that the monarchy had power only so long as it was supported by the clergy of Zelos. That King's son, [[Jeremiah Tovex]], abdicated his power of rulership to the Pontifex, making [[Geraldus]] the first Potentate of Cambrecia in {{ICYear|762}}. Civil war again erupted over the rulership of the Potentate, but, unfortunately, the power of those rebellious nobles had already been waning over the last few decades, and they proved no match for Geraldus. However, instead of replacing the defeated nobles with more nobility, they were replaced by priests of Zelos. By {{ICYear|800}}, the rebellions had ended, with nearly sixty percent of the nobility having been replaced by the church hierarchy. In {{ICYear|834}}, the Potentate declared the laws of inheritance by primogeniture anathema, and by {{ICYear|887}}, the entire noble hierarchy of Cambrecia had been replaced by the priesthood of Zelos. In {{ICYear|900}}, the Emperor [[Metaurus of House Drusus]] recognized Cambrecia officially as the Holy See of Cambrecia, and the noble class was irrevocably and completely removed from its position of rulership in the nation. It was at this time that the name of the Cambrecian capital was changed from Septarium to [[Zelosia City]]. Only the lowest position of secular rulership, that of [[Urbis Praefectus]], remained, and even they were chosen by the religious hierarchy and not permitted position by heredity.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia_and_the_Rise_of_Koramia&diff=22582 Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia 2026-09-10T01:17:49Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 1650<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 2000<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= The Cambrecian Civil Wars<br /> |following_article= Cambrecia and the Mage War<br /> |main_article= Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude><includeonly>{{Article_Reference<br /> |article= Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia<br /> }}</includeonly><br /> After the conclusion of the Cambrecian Civil Wars, the Holy See remained a stalwart supporter of Imperial interests on [[Duria]], assisting in the defense of Imperial naval interests in the [[Maroshan Sea]] and in the petty kingdoms of [[Koramia]]. When, in {{ICYear|1202}}, the self-styled King of Koramia placed his own [[Prelate of Vortumnus]] in the holy seat of [[Paeldain]], the [[Pontifex of Zelos]] handed that king and Prelate an even stronger denunciation than the [[Pontifex Maximus]] himself: the See broke off all trade relations with the Kingdom of Koramia, refusing to recognize its sovereignty. This harsh treatment sparked off a minor war between the two nations in {{ICYear|1208}} and, though the initial fighting lasted only a decade or so, no official treaty was established between the two nations. By {{ICYear|1250}}, despite a minor movement among some of the priests of Cambrecia, the Potentate was still strong in his opposition to the concept of an independent Koramian Kingdom.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia_and_the_Mage_War&diff=22581 Cambrecia and the Mage War 2026-09-10T01:17:41Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 2000<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 2002<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia<br /> |following_article= The Zelosian Schism<br /> |main_article= Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude><includeonly>{{Article_Reference<br /> |article= Cambrecia and the Mage War<br /> }}</includeonly><br /> When [[Zeth|the Great Empire]] began its reconquest of [[Koramia]] in {{ICYear|1250}}, [[Horatius IV]], the [[Potentate of Zelos]] eagerly joined in the fray. The Potentate not only reiterated that all of Koramia was anathema to Zelos, but declared anyone willing to assist them and/or trade with the Koramians on an individual basis anathema. Despite the Potentate's personal eagerness, he could not commit all of the Cambrecian forces against Koramia: Cambrecia had long, sporadic conflict with the dwarves of [[the Cambrecian Mountains]] and soon after the Cambrecians began to withdraw from the mountains to attend to the Koramia campaign, the dwarves suddenly rose up en masse to attack Cambrecia from their ancient strongholds. Unbeknownst to the Potentate, the dwarves of [[Duria]] had allied with Koramia and were coordinating against Imperial forces.<br /> <br /> While Imperial forces established a beachhead in Koramia, the Cambrecian front began to falter. Unexpectedly, the Mages of [[Lun Dorak]], having quelled resistance among the clans of the nearby [[The Calmerian Marches|Calmerian Marches]], began moving troops into the Cambrecian Mountains from the east. The Potentate quickly allied with the [[Mage-King]] [[Lucasa]] and the Dorakian forces under his command and the dwarves of the Cambrecian Mountains were driven underground. With the dwarves quelled, the combined forces of Cambrecia and Lun Dorak prepared their assault on the Cambrecian front of the war against Koramia.<br /> <br /> Early in {{ICYear|1252}}, word reached Cambrecia that the Emperor [[Publius Antonius]] had died and his successor, [[Lucasa|Lucius]] was actually the Mage-King himself. The heirarchy of Zelos in Cambrecia initially went into a frenzied debate as to whether the succession was legal according to the laws of Zelos, but the Potentate had already cast his lot. He voiced his support for Lucasa as Mage-King and Emperor, declaring any who disobeyed not only traitors to the Empire, but Anathema. It was at this point that some of the priests of Zelos realized that Potentate Horatius IV had gone quite mad.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=The_Zelosian_Schism&diff=22580 The Zelosian Schism 2026-09-10T01:17:34Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 2002<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 2012<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Cambrecia and the Mage War<br /> |following_article= Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods<br /> |main_article= Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude><includeonly>{{Article_Reference<br /> |article= The Zelosian Schism<br /> }}</includeonly><br /> After Potentate [[Horatius IV]] declared his allegiance to [[Lucasa]] as the Imperial Emperor, he commanded renewed attacks against Koramia. Nearly a third of his generals, all priests of Zelos and formerly loyal to Cambrecia, refused. They withdrew their troops to the city of [[Trias]] in northern Cambrecia and called the [[Council of Trias]]. Though they invited all priests of Zelos to this Council, those who remained loyal to Horatius IV refused. Somehow, the few priests of Zelos who followed the [[Koramian Heresy]] in [[Koramia]] made it across the Cambrecian Front and attended the Council.<br /> <br /> Three weeks of heated debate followed, with those in attendance alternatively calling for unity in the Church of Zelos and for separation from the Office of the Potentate. After three weeks, Dorakian Mages arrived at the Council with documents in hand from the Potentate ordering the Priests to Zelosia City for trial as heretics and traitors, while they would assume command of the wayward armies. The Priests were furious, both at the unilateral decision of the Potentate and at the audacity of the Lun Dorakian Mages. Their decision was made... they would no longer obey the Potentate. The Dorakian Mages were subdued in a pitched battle within the Cathedral of Trias itself, quickly tried and burned at the stake for Heresy. The Council met for one more day... by noon, it had declared Lucasa and Horatius IV both Heretics.<br /> <br /> Word of the Council of Trias spread like wildfire throughout Cambrecia. More priests declared their support for the priests, bringing their flocks with them. In the midst of one of the largest wars the world had ever seen, Cambrecia erupted in Civil War. Koramia assumed a policy of containment... they pushed Cambrecia back to their traditional borders and stopped there, instead concentrating what forces they had left against the Empire in central Koramia.<br /> <br /> The civil war in Cambrecia eventually coalesced into three main factions. The Imperials were those who remained loyal to Horatius IV and the Mage-King. [[Sacerdosi of Zelos|The Sacerdosi]], under the Episcopus of Trias, [[Cyril the Scholar]], declared for the Council of Trias. The third faction were the [[Royalists of Cambrecia|Royalists]], lead by an underground amalgam of dissenters who believed that the people were lead to ruin by the lack of a hereditary monarch. The fighting between the three factions was so intense that few seemed to notice when the [[Mage-King]] was defeated in {{ICYear|1253}} and his continent-spanning Empire collapsed.<br /> <br /> For much of the early action in the war, the main conflict was between the Imperials and the Sacerdos, with the Royalists forces skirmishing from time to time with both. No one really took the Royalists seriously until [[Neptaris|The Freecity of Neptaris]] unexpectedly entered the fray on the side of the Royalists. Despite having a long and bloody history of fighting against Cambrecia, the Council of Neptaris decided that it would rather have a belligerent Monarchy than a fanatical theocracy as a neighbor. With new troops to bolster their ranks and arguably the world's most powerful navy at their disposal, the Royalists began to make ground against the other two faction or, at least, hold their own in battle.<br /> <br /> By {{ICYear|1262}}, the fighting had reached something of an apex. No faction was prepared to give way or compromise with the other. It seemed that nothing would end the wars. Only the impossible would end the conflict.<br /> <br /> That is the year the impossible happened.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia_and_the_Recession_of_the_Gods&diff=22579 Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods 2026-09-10T01:17:26Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 2012<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 2062<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= The Zelosian Schism<br /> |following_article= Cambrecia in the Fourth Age<br /> |main_article= Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude><includeonly>{{Article_Reference<br /> |article= Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods<br /> }}</includeonly><br /> In the Spring of {{ICYear|1262}}, the [[Crimson Plague]] reached [[Neptaris]] and quickly spread into Cambrecia. Despite the Plague's resistance to magical cures, the extensive priesthoods of the Imperial and the Sacredosi factions were able to provide some care to their populace and the disease was not as rampant in the central and northern areas of Cambrecia as it was elsewhere. The Royalist forces were decimated and Neptaris withdrew its military support to help deal with the Plague in their own city. It is generally believed that the Royalist leader, [[Drogo Garibald]], was prepared to surrender by the end of spring and was en route to [[Zelosia City]] to lay down arms on the Summer Solstice.<br /> <br /> On the Summer Solstice of that year, the [[Recession of the Gods]] began. Initially, it was believed in Cambrecia that only the priests of [[Zelos]] had lost the blessing of their god. Riots by people convinced the Schism had damned them all immediately erupted throughout the nation. By nightfall, Zelosia City was in flames and by the following morning, Potentate [[Horatius IV]] lay dead on the steps of [[the Great Temple of Zelos]], having flung himself from its tower. It is said that when Drogo Garibald saw Zelosia City ablaze and received word that its priests no longer received blessings from the God of the State, he turned his entourage around and returned to the city of [[Tryscon]]. [[Trias]], the defacto capital of the Sacerdosi, were faring little better than the Imperials as the people revolted against them. [[Cyril the Scholar]] kept his head and soon discovered that all priests of the Old Gods had lost their connection to the divine and showed signs of regaining some semblance of control over the angry mobs in Trias, but he was dead of the Crimson Plague within a week.<br /> <br /> Without any divine healing, the Crimson Plague soon took Cambrecia by the same stranglehold it had elsewhere. In a panic and now without divine leadership, those who did not die from the Plague either tried to flee or rallied under corrupt charlatans claiming to have visions of the divine. Most towns and cities were struck the hardest by the Plague, with Trias losing three quarters of its population and Zelosia City some seven-eighths of its population by Autumn. In Royalist territories to the east and south, the leadership remained more or less intact and the people did not panic quite as much as in other regions of Cambrecia... many had already resigned themselves to being Anathema to Zelos, so few were interested in divine guidance already. Drogo Garibald himself was crowned Drogo I, King of [[Daredonia]] on the first of [[Mudens]] in Tryscon and immediately set about instituting draconian measures to stem the tide of the plague. He canceled all public celebrations, including religious celebrations, and forbade trade of any sort, even between villages. To ensure no one traveled the roads, he founded the [[Order of the Black Shroud]], a band of knights who would grimly travel the roads of Cambrecia, slaying any they found not of their Order, but also forbidden from entering village or town themselves.<br /> <br /> By {{ICYear|1263}}, the wars had effectively ground to a halt. [[Justinian III]], an adviser to Cyril the Scholar, became the leader of the Sacredosi in the north, though he had little authority outside Trias. The Imperials could not gather enough Episcopi to elect a new Potentate, so remained without a Head of State for almost a decade. King Drogo I was successful in stemming the tide of the Crimson Plague in the south and east, but his draconian imprisonment of the populace in their own homes was intensely despised by his people. <br /> <br /> None of the three factions had any real ability to conduct war, though there were some skirmishes over the next fifty years. Despite the priesthood having no divine power, the Imperial Zelosians were able to retain power in central Cambrecia throughout [[the Dark Times]] by focusing on their traditions and now empty rituals (and, in part, because the people just didn't have the spirit to oppose them). In the north, the Episcopi Zelosians slowly turned over power to secular representatives, in part because of a lack of priests qualified to administer the region. By {{ICYear|1300}}, the region under Episcopi control was generally known by its traditional, pre-Imperial name of [[Numentora]] and was conducting its own affairs as a sovereign nation, though this separation would not be formalized until {{ICYear|1313}}.<br /> <br /> It should be noted that, during these dark times, druids began to arrive in Cambrecia from [[the Calmerian Marches]]. Despite being welcomed by the Daredonians and, to a lesser degree, by Numentora, the powerless priests of Zelosia City treated the druids as a threat and forbade their interference and, eventually, even entry into territory they controlled. Unfortunately for the priests, this edict was generally ignored outside of Zelosia City, as the healing magics and wisdom of the druids were seen as a welcome respite to the powerless, corrupt priests of Zelos. Even in Zelosia City, a small number of druids established themselves, hidden from the priesthood's men by the populace.<br /> <br /> Most believed that the Old Gods had abandoned the mortal world forever and were fully prepared to take on the beliefs of their Druidic saviors. Then, as abruptly as their gifts were taken away, the Old Gods suddenly returned.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia_in_the_Fourth_Age&diff=22578 Cambrecia in the Fourth Age 2026-09-10T01:17:19Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 2062<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 2102<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods<br /> |following_article= <br /> |main_article= Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude><includeonly>{{Article_Reference<br /> |article= Cambrecia in the Fourth Age<br /> }}</includeonly><br /> When the Old Gods returned to the world in {{ICYear|1312}}, Cambrecia was almost immediately reborn from the ashes of [[the Dark Times]]. With no Great Empire to remain loyal to, the few remaining Episcopi still loyal to Zelosia City elected a new Potentate, [[Gabriel I]], and he formally issued the [[Edict of Absolution]], which not only absolved all who had been condemned by the Church in the past (with the notable exceptions of [[Ditis Carnifex]] and [[Lucasa|the Mage King]]), but it formally declared Cambrecia independent of any civilian government, beholden only to [[Zelos]] himself, with the Potentate as his ultimate agent in the mortal realm. Even official priestly titles were altered to the local language: Episcopi and Archisacerdi became Archbishops, Sacerdos became Bishops and Flamen became Priests (the Potentate retained his title, though he declared himself no longer subject to a Pontifex Maximus). Not only were the schismatics from the Zelosian Schism restored to the Church, but ecclesiastic ambassadors were sent to Koramia and, in {{ICYear|1320}}, Potentate Gabriel I formally announced the [[Edict of One State]], which embraced those worshipers of Zelos following the [[Koramian Heresy]], the [[Aebasan Orthodoxy]] and the [[Imperial Ecclesia]], with preference for none. Essentially, the Potentate declared that henceforth, the Church would support the decisions of the legitimate local civilian government on how the gods governed themselves.<br /> <br /> Despite having lost much of its territory to the war, strife and the depredations of the Dark Times, Gabriel I and his successors ([[Ambrose I]], [[Urban IV]] and the current Potentate, [[Gabriel II]]) seem satisfied to rule over the remaining territory as the Holy See. Though ambassadorial overtures to the splinter states were initially received suspiciously at best, the Potentates recognized the legitimacy of [[Daredonia]], [[Kamaros]], [[Numentora]], [[Auteria]] and even [[Neptaris|the Freecity of Neptaris]]. Zelosia City itself has grown quickly in [[the Fourth Age of Man]] as trade routes reopen and pilgrims travel to the Great Temple to pay homage to the renewed God of the State.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Foundation_of_Cambrecia&diff=22577 Foundation of Cambrecia 2026-09-10T01:17:02Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article= Foundation of Cambrecia}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 664<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 750<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= <br /> |following_article=Imperial Cambrecia and the Derlic War<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude><br /> After completion of the [[Zeth|Zetian]] conquest of [[Divian Peninsula|Simmeria]] in {{ICYear|-97}} by [[Antonius Argentis of House Zetar|Antonius Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]], the Zetian Senate again elected three consuls to expand Zetian territory on [[Duria]] in an attempt to establish a near-contiguous trade route around the [[Betshaban Ocean]]. [[Septimius Varros]], a legate loyal to [[Rufus Voltina of House Livius|Consul Rufus Voltina]] of [[House Livius]], was sent with the Zetian armada to Duria with the intent to conquer the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]]. He arrived on the eastern shores of the [[Maroshan Sea]] in {{ICYear|-89}}, where he chose to establish a beachhead at the mouth of a river then known as the [[Septimia River|Kambros River]] some 250 miles north of Neptaris. He sent envoys to the local tribe that called the river their home, the [[Kambros]], and began developing a relationship with them. The Kambros quickly took to working with the Zetian Legion, even providing some physical labor for the construction of Legate Septimius' fort on the banks of the river. By the following spring, Septimius was ready to expand his influence and secure the region for his ultimate march on Neptaris itself.<br /> <br /> While serving in the Zetian military in its northern frontier on [[Aurea]], Septimius Varros certainly read at least the first four books of [[Meditationes de Bello Simmerio]], those initial writings of [[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] detailing the methods and tactics he used in the first few years of the conquest of the Divian Peninsula eight years prior (Antonius Argentis, his successor, had yet to publish the final two books of the ''Meditationes''). Legate Septimius put his understanding of Argentis' writings to good use in this new land. By Spring, the leader of the Kambros, a man named [[Dravos]], had formally requested aid from the Legate against their rival tribes in the river basin (presumably, an act encouraged by the Legate or his officers). The Legate agreed, under the condition that the Kambros would consider themselves under the patronage of [[Rufus Voltina of House Livius|Consul Rufus Voltina]] of [[House Livius]], the Legate's sponsor. Perhaps not truly understanding the depth of their agreement, the Kambros enthusiastically accepted the terms. The disorganized men of the local tribes, accustomed to personal combat settling most disputes, proved no match for the highly-trained, professional soldiers of the Zetian Legion. The [[Duvarna]], along the middle of the Kambros River were first to fall, followed by the [[Sarnoi]] in the uplands. Hearing of the quick defeat of their nearby cousins, the [[Amesi]], a neighboring tribe friendly to the Kambros, secured an alliance with Kambros by offering up one of their own princesses as a wife to Dravos. By the end of summer, the Legions had also brought the [[Arishei]], [[Gweri]] and [[Moragi]] under their dominion.<br /> <br /> With the northern reaches and much of the coastline secure, Legate Septimius turned his attention to the [[Kamaros|Kingdom of Kamaros]] and their allies, the [[Malvetia|Melvartans]] and [[Auteria|Branduri]] tribes. For most of the following year, Septimius continued to wear down the Kamaran defenses. The Kamaran, to their credit, realized that they had mobility that the Zetian Legion did not and often would withdraw from a region, allowing it to be taken by the Legion, only to return once the Legion had departed to disrupt the Legion's supply lines. Septimius, however, was relentless in his march on the Kamaros royal seat at [[Cerunis]]. After a protracted siege, Cerunis finally fell. As a condition of surrender, the Kamaran [[Aaronar VI|King Aaronar VI]] challenged the Legate to a personal duel. To everyone's surprise, Septimius agreed. The two squared off in the central courtyard of the Kamaran royal castle and, after a lengthy battle, Septimius finally killed the King. This was a striking departure from what had become Zetian tradition: a victorious general was expected to return to Zeth to display his former nemesis in chains in a Triumphal march through the city, where they would then by executed by order of the Senate. Instead, by following local traditions, not only did he become a hero to the Cambrecians themselves, but led to the [[Napoci]] and [[Ossamei]] to voluntarily join under his [[Dracones]]. To ensure a lasting peace, the daughter and heir of Kamaros became a wife of Dravos, who Legate Septimius then saw crowed as King of Kambresia (it would take less than two decades for the spelling to change to Cambrecia). Thus, scholars count the founding of Cambrecia to this event in {{ICYear|-87}}.<br /> <br /> The Legate wasted no time moving to pursue a large contingent of Melvartans and Branduri who had fled from the [[Battle of Cerunis]]. Both tribes, already semi-nomadic, migrated eastward en-masse to escape the Zetian Legions. They crossed the [[Krios River]] just north of Neptaris and, as the Legate Septimius arrived in pursuit, the spring rains came and made the Krios too swollen to safely cross. Septimius quickly realized that he was in a precarious situation... his Legion was now much closer to Neptaris than to the source of his supply lines back on the Kambros River and Neptaris was certainly aware of his presence and had been preparing its own defenses. He could withdraw and lose the gains he had made to encircle Neptaris (at least to the north), nor could he wait for the Neptaran army to come meet him in the field, so he instead chose to march on Neptaris itself. Upon arriving, however, he was surprised to find that Neptaris was not prepared for war. There were few solders manning her legendary walls and the great gates were flung open to greet the Legate and his army. Among those to greet him was a Zetian ambassador sent by a rival of Consul Rufus Voltina named [[Lucius Crassus of House Manilius|Lucius Crassus]] of [[House Manilius]]. Crassus informed the Legate that Neptaris was undergoing a bloodless revolution from monarchy to democracy and had formed a direct alliance with Zeth for legal advice and assistance during the transition (not to mention a lucrative trade deal that hinged on Septimius keeping the coast secure). Septimius was ordered to stand down and return to Zeth. He obeyed without question, sending his best officers back to see to his colony and support King Dravos in stabilizing his new Kingdom... which was, nevertheless, a client state of the Zetian Republic.<br /> <br /> Septimius returned to a hero's welcome in Zeth. Stories had already been circulating about how he purposefully claimed territory in the name of his sponsor instead of aggrandizing himself, had personally fought the Kamaran King to the death and had stood down at the gates of Neptaris in accordance with Zetian law, despite the sizeable, blood-thirsty and victory-stained army at his back. Where returning generals had once faced automatic trial for despotism upon their return to Zeth, Septimius was hailed an exemplar of Zetian adherence to law and order. After a week of deliberation (and celebration), the Senate announced that, for the first time since the foundation of the city by the [[Septira]], they were elevating a family to the status of Great House. [[House Varro]] was thus founded in {{ICYear|-85}}. Septimius himself remained in Zeth for over a decade, serving both as Senator and as paterfamilia of his new House, but finally returned to the Cambrecian shore in {{ICYear|-68}}. Again, he was lauded as a returning hero. The settlement he had founded at the mouth of that great river had become the royal seat of the King of Cambrecia (now the young son of Dravos, [[Tarnos I Dravos|King Tarnos I]]). By royal decree, the city was named [[Zelosia City|Septarium]] and the river that ran through it is called the Septimia River, after Septimus' mother. The former Legate, Senator and Paterfamilia of the first new Great House lived out another three decades in peaceful retirement in the growing city that carried his name, passing peacefully at a Latrunculorum table in his favorite tavern in {{ICYear|-34}} at the age of 87. During this time, Cambrecia and her welcoming people became home to many retired Zetian Legionaires, who often constructed vast agricultural estates near Septarium and employed native labor to work, often becoming indistinguishable from the local people within a couple of generations.<br /> <br /> When the Empire was founded by [[Octavius of House Zetar]] in {{ICYear|1}}, Cambrecia, as it had become known, was one of the last of the outer territories of the Old Republic to swear allegiance to the Empire.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia_and_the_Derlic_War&diff=22576 Cambrecia and the Derlic War 2026-09-10T01:15:33Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 800<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 1473<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Imperial Cambrecia<br /> |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude>Under [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], [[Legion III Cambrecia]] moved into the trackless wilds of what had even then become known as the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], chasing rumors of wealthy dwarven miners high in the peaks. In a mistake that would resonate for decades to come and permanently alter the political landscape of southern Duria, the Legion slaughtered an ostensibly peaceful dwarven ambassadorial party from the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]], which initiated what would become known as the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]] in the Empire with the express intention of conquering the subterranean Kingdom. The Legion spent the first few months of the "War" failing to even locate the entrance to the underground mountain kingdom. The dwarves were shocked by the behavior of humans they thought were friendly and prepared themselves for battle, but cooler heads prevailed and an envoy was sent to [[Neptaris]], who had allied with the dwarves of Derlos some six centuries prior during the [[War of the Dark Rider]]. After brief deliberations, the [[Triumvirate]] of Neptaris secretly decided to maintain their alliance with [[Derlos]] and prepare for war against this new Empire. In {{ICYear|55}}, Neptaris formally declared war on Zeth and immediately took one of their key military outposts in the foothills of the Cambrecian Mountains, [[Fort Pagulium]].<br /> <br /> What began as an exploratory expedition against [[Derlos]] quickly grew into a war Cambrecia had not prepared for. Neptaran Marshal [[Aador Manx|Marshal Aador Manx]], moving in concert with dwarven irregulars from Derlos, exploited the fall of [[Fort Pagulium]] to seize five more Imperial supply depots before the year was out, and for two years [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Isidorus]] found himself fighting a war on ground he had not chosen. The tide turned only when the Imperial fleet broke Neptaris's navy at the [[Battle of Nimble Point]] in {{ICYear|57}} and sealed [[Krios Bay]], cutting the rebellious Freecity off from the sea it depended on. Any relief the victory brought was short-lived: a plague swept along the Cambrecian coast the following winter, and among its dead was Isidorus himself, the very Legate whose slaughter of the Derlic envoys had started the war in the first place. Command passed to [[Valerius Lucius|Legate Valerius Lucius]], who spent the next several years rebuilding the Legion's strength even as Neptaris, unbeknownst to the Empire, was doing the same in secret shipyards along its own coast. Marshal Manx fought on until his death at Fort Pagulium, and his successor, [[Greor Alcyon of House Markos|Marshall Greor Alcyon]] of [[House Markos]], briefly seized command of the [[Maroshan Sea]] with a fleet of thirty warships, but Imperial spies located and burned Neptaris's hidden shipyards in the winter of {{ICYear|65}}, and with reinforcement from the fleets of [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] in [[Koramia|Imperial Simmeria]], Valerius Lucius laid siege to [[Neptaris]] itself. The city fell within a fortnight when an Imperial sympathizer inside its walls opened the gates, and Marshal Alcyon, upon hearing the news, took his own life rather than witness Neptaris's surrender. With their human allies defeated, the dwarves of Derlos sealed off the entrances to their subterranean kingdom and disappeared into the roots of the mountains.<br /> <br /> Over the next two centuries, Cambrecia saw many rebellions as its citizens tried to found a new Senate in the capital city of [[Zelosia City|Septarium]]. The Imperial response was heavy-handed at first, but in {{ICYear|149}}, the Emperor [[Metius the Elder]] decided on a more surreptitious approach to quelling the Cambrecians. In his role as [[Pontifex Maximus]] of the Imperial pantheon, he sent the [[Pontifex of Zelos]], god of the State, to Septarium to build a great cathedral and begin the conversion of the populous to [[Zelos]]. The Pontifex of the time, [[Ionnanes II]], was a persuasive man, and was able to quickly convert most of the local leadership to his banner. Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.<noinclude>[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude><br /> <noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=The_Rule_of_the_Empire_in_Neptaris&diff=22575 The Rule of the Empire in Neptaris 2026-09-10T00:43:04Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 816<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 900<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= The First Cambrecian War<br /> |following_article= The Great Revolution in Neptaris<br /> |main_article= The History of Neptaris<br /> }}</noinclude><includeonly>{{Article_Reference<br /> |article= The Rule of the Empire in Neptaris<br /> }}</includeonly><br /> Imperial rule in [[Neptaris]] was surprisingly gentle, particularly compared to the harsh treatment the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian]] peoples were receiving. Neptaris received its own Prefect, or governor, and was established as a colony of the Empire separate from Cambrecia. The first Prefect of Neptaris, appointed by the Emperor [[Otho]] of [[House Zetar]] in {{NCYear|816}}, was [[Antonius Callistus]] of [[House Livius]]. Prefect Antonius was at first regarded with deep suspicion by the Neptaran people. His first edict was to re-establish the [[Supreme Assembly]], which was abolished under military rule after the end of the [[First Cambrecian War]]. The Prefect did retain the power to veto any decision of the Assembly, but this act went far towards endearing him to the people. He used his veto power rarely and even made a practice of calling for votes on some of his own legal decisions. In {{NCYear|818}}, he issued an edict that was ratified by the Supreme Assembly as Addendum XXVIII: though Neptaris would remain officially under the rule of the Empire, recognize the Emperor as their ruler and pay a 10% tax to the Empire of all income, the Supreme Assembly would be the sole governing body of the city. Prefect Antonius retired in Neptaris but was elected to the Supreme Assembly in {{NCYear|820}}. When he died in {{NCYear|832}}, he was given a state funeral and the throngs who came to pay homage were as great as any that attended the funerals of the ancient Neptarchs.<br /> <br /> It is said that one of the reasons Neptaris was given these freedoms was because of the volatile situation in Cambrecia. Neptaris had, despite its defeat, been successful in keeping the Empire out of the dwarven Kingdom of [[Derlos]]. Furthermore, the Cambrecian people were not easily pacified. Rebellions had struck throughout the countryside for the duration of Imperial rulership in the nation and intensified as the Empire continued to conquer the lands between Cambrecia and Ciritasnia (modern day [[Koramia]]). When a native King was appointed by the Emperor [[Leto]] of [[House Livius]] in {{NCYear|828}}, a new rash of rebellions sprung up as Cambrecians took offense to the entire idea of the Emperor telling them who their King should be. The fact that King [[Toral Seaguard]], the Emperor's appointee, was not of any known royal bloodline in the nation only exacerbated the situation. The Kings of Cambrecia, understanding that their power came from the Emperor's good will, became even harsher rulers than the Imperial Prefects had been. Rebellion after rebellion was violently snuffed out, the harshness of which only resulted in more rebellions. The Empire was spending so much time and resources on Cambrecia; they simply didn't have the capacity to oppress Neptaris.<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, in Neptaris, the nobles of the city were warming up to Imperial rule even faster than the common people had. Many of the nobles saw how willing the Emperor was to install a hereditary ruler in Cambrecia and desired the same title for themselves in Neptaris. Their activism had a contrary affect on the people, however. Instead of endearing the people to the Empire, the nobles succeeded in maintaining the hint of rebellion within the city. The Supreme Assembly even issued an Addendum in {{NCYear|860}} that removed all rights of the noble class, except the ability to use their now-useless titles. In response, many of the wealthier nobles helped establish a Temple of [[Zelos]], God of the State, in Neptaris. Zelos, who was already popular with the Imperials and ruling class of Cambrecia, was not well liked by Neptarans because of his association with and support of monarchies and empires. The nobles did not realize it at the time, but it was the establishment of this Temple that would lead to the overthrow of the Empire in Neptaris.<br /> <br /> In the last few decades of the ninth century, Neptarans began to trade heavily with Cambrecia both in goods and ideas. This included, of course, the Church of Zelos in Neptaris, whose parent Temple was located in [[Septarium]], the capital of Cambrecia. The Neptaran Zeloites, however, were known to be defenders of democracy and were often viewed with contempt by their Imperial brethren. In {{NCYear|899}}, the Emperor [[Metius the Elder]] of House [[Livius]] sent [[Ionnanes II]], the Pontifex of Zelos, to Septarium in the hope of quelling the rebellions there through conversion. Ionnanes II, proclaiming the Neptaran priests of Zelos in Septarium heretics, stripped them of their robes and sent them home to Neptaris. With them, they carried a message from the Emperor that ceded Neptaris to Cambrecia. The people were so shocked that a response was not forthcoming until the following spring.<br /> <noinclude>{{Duria_Guide<br /> |chapter= History}}<br /> [[Category:Neptaris]]<br /> [[Category:Neptaran History]]<br /> </noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia_and_the_Derlic_War&diff=22574 Cambrecia and the Derlic War 2026-09-09T22:30:16Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 800<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 1473<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Imperial Cambrecia<br /> |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude>Under [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], [[Legion III Cambrecia]] moved into the trackless wilds of what had even then become known as the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], chasing rumors of wealthy dwarven miners high in the peaks. In a mistake that would resonate for decades to come and permanently alter the political landscape of southern Duria, the Legion slaughtered an ostensibly peaceful dwarven ambassadorial party from the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]], which initiated what would become known as the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]] in the Empire with the express intention of conquering the subterranean Kingdom. The Legion spent the first few months of the "War" failing to even locate the entrance to the underground mountain kingdom. The dwarves were shocked by the behavior of humans they thought were friendly and prepared themselves for battle, but cooler heads prevailed and an envoy was sent to [[Neptaris]], who had allied with the dwarves of Derlos some six centuries prior during the [[War of the Dark Rider]]. After brief deliberations, the [[Triumvirate]] of Neptaris secretly decided to maintain their alliance with [[Derlos]] and prepare for war against this new Empire. In {{ICYear|55}}, Neptaris formally declared war on Zeth and immediately took one of their key military outposts in the foothills of the Cambrecian Mountains, [[Fort Pagulium]].<br /> <br /> What began as an exploratory expedition against [[Derlos]] quickly grew into a war Cambrecia had not prepared for. Neptaran Marshal [[Aador Manx|Marshal Aador Manx]], moving in concert with dwarven irregulars from Derlos, exploited the fall of [[Fort Pagulium]] to seize five more Imperial supply depots before the year was out, and for two years [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Isidorus]] found himself fighting a war on ground he had not chosen. The tide turned only when the Imperial fleet broke Neptaris's navy at the [[Battle of Nimble Point]] in {{ICYear|57}} and sealed [[Krios Bay]], cutting the rebellious Freecity off from the sea it depended on. Any relief the victory brought was short-lived: a plague swept along the Cambrecian coast the following winter, and among its dead was Isidorus himself, the very Legate whose slaughter of the Derlic envoys had started the war in the first place. Command passed to [[Valerius Lucius|Legate Valerius Lucius]], who spent the next several years rebuilding the Legion's strength even as Neptaris, unbeknownst to the Empire, was doing the same in secret shipyards along its own coast. Marshal Manx fought on until his death at Fort Pagulium, and his successor, [[Greor Alcyon of House Markos|Marshall Greor Alcyon]] of [[House Markos]], briefly seized command of the [[Maroshan Sea]] with a fleet of thirty warships, but Imperial spies located and burned Neptaris's hidden shipyards in the winter of {{ICYear|65}}, and with reinforcement from the fleets of [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] in [[Koramia|Imperial Simmeria]], Valerius Lucius laid siege to [[Neptaris]] itself. The city fell within a fortnight when an Imperial sympathizer inside its walls opened the gates, and Marshal Alcyon, upon hearing the news, took his own life rather than witness Neptaris's surrender. With their human allies defeated, the dwarves of Derlos sealed off the entrances to their subterranean kingdom and disappeared into the roots of the mountains.<br /> <br /> Over the next two centuries, Cambrecia saw many rebellions as its citizens tried to found a new Senate in the capital city of [[Zelosia City|Septarium]]. The Imperial response was heavy-handed at first, but in {{ICYear|149}}, the Emperor [[Metius the Elder]] decided on a more surreptitious approach to quelling the Cambrecians. In his role as [[Pontifex Maximus]] of the Imperial pantheon, he sent the [[Pontifex of Zelos]], god of the State, to Septarium to build a great cathedral and begin the conversion of the populous to [[Zelos]]. The Pontifex of the time, [[Ionnanes II]], was a persuasive man, and was able to quickly convert most of the local leadership to his banner. Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.<noinclude>[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Imperial_Cambrecia&diff=22573 Imperial Cambrecia 2026-09-09T22:30:08Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Imperial Cambrecia}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 751<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 799<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Foundation of Cambrecia<br /> |following_article=Cambrecia and the Derlic War<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude><br /> When word reached [[Zelosia City|Septarium]] that the Senate had dissolved itself and that [[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]] had been proclaimed Emperor in {{ICYear|1}}, the court of King [[Tarnos II Dravos|Tarnos II]] met the news with open dismay. Cambrecia's client status had been built on a personal bond of patronage: first to [[Rufus Voltina of House Livius|Consul Rufus Voltina]], then, through [[Septimius Varros]], to [[House Varro]] itself. An Emperor drawn from [[House Zetar]], a family with no history of patronage in Cambrecia, offered the Dravosid crown no such assurance. Tarnos II delayed sending envoys to Zeth for the better part of two years and when he finally did swear allegiance, Cambrecia was the last of the outer territories of the old Republic to do so. Some court chroniclers of the following century would frame this hesitation as principled loyalty to the memory of House Varro and, perhaps, a growing sentiment towards the worship of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], god of the state; others, less charitably, suggested that Tarnos II and his ministers, chief among them his uncle Vardanos (a local title roughly translated as 'guardian of the hearth') [[Aroneth Dravos|Aroneth]], feared that direct Imperial oversight would strip away the informal privileges the Kamaran nobility had enjoyed as a favored client kingdom rather than a subject province.<br /> <br /> The Emperor was not inclined to let the delay pass unanswered. In {{ICYear|6}}, Octavius dispatched [[Titus Nepos of House Gabinius|Legate Titus Nepos]] of [[House Gabinius]], a family already notorious for its uncompromising governorships in [[Aescalapea]], to formalize Cambrecia's place within the Empire. Titus Nepos garrisoned a cohort of the [[Legion III Cambrecia|Third Legion]] within Septarium itself, the first standing Imperial troops the capital had ever hosted. T. Nepos also established a permanent legate's residence beside the royal palace, a deliberate arrangement meant to remind the Dravosid court exactly whose authority now took precedence in matters of war, law, and foreign relations. Alongside him came [[Gnaeus Falco|Procurator Gnaeus Falco]], charged with conducting Cambrecia's first Imperial census and establishing the tribute rolls by which the province would be taxed. Falco's assessors moved through the fields and foothills of Cambrecia methodically, and by {{ICYear|11}} the old exemptions once granted to Septimius Varros's veteran-settlers, whose descendants had, for two generations, paid only nominal dues to the Dravosid crown, were formally abolished. It is said that many of these descendants were worshipers of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], god of the state, and among them there were murmured accusations of tyranny under the new Zetian Emperor.<br /> <br /> It was both this loss of exemption and moral outrage that finally broke the Cambrecian people into open unrest. In {{ICYear|13}}, a coalition of wealthy landowners descended from Septimius's retired legionaries, led by the orator [[Gaius Fufidius Cato]], gathered in the forum of Septarium and petitioned Legate Titus Nepos for the right to elect a body of their own, a [[Concilium Septariae]], to oversee taxation and local law, citing the example of neighboring [[Neptaris]], which within living memory had cast off its own monarchy for an elected Council. What became known as the [[Sedition of Septarium]] gathered enough support among the capital's merchant class to shut down the grain markets for the better part of a month, but it found no allies among the Kamaran nobility or the crown, both of whom recognized a Senate of Fufidius Cato's design as no less a threat to Dravosid rule than to Imperial rule. King Tarnos II lent his own household guard to the Legate to help clear the forum, and the Legate had Fufidius Cato and eleven of his fellow petitioners exiled to [[Black Isle|Ylargebad Island]] rather than executed, a mercy some historians attribute to T. Nepos's wish not to make martyrs of them so early in his governorship. The Sedition failed, but the grievance did not: the dream of an elected Cambrecian Senate would resurface, in one form or another, for the better part of two centuries to come.<br /> <br /> In the decades following the failed Sedition, Cambrecia settled into an uneasy accommodation with Imperial rule. The Kamaran and Dravosid nobility increasingly adopted Zetian dress, law, and even Latin naming conventions to curry favor with the Legate's court, and King Tarnos II's own household grew steadily more dependent on Imperial recognition to shore up his legitimacy against rival branches of the [[House Dravos|Dravosid line]]. Resistance did not disappear so much as go quiet. Rural landowners, particularly those descended from [[Septimius Varros]]'s veteran-settlers, routinely under-reported their harvests to Procurator Falco's successors, and banditry along the upland roads toward the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], often blamed on displaced tribesmen but just as often the work of disaffected settler youth, grew persistent enough that Legate Titus Nepos was forced to keep a standing garrison there for the remainder of his tenure.<br /> <br /> Legate Titus Nepos commanded the [[Legion III Cambrecia]] for nearly three decades, ruling with the same uncompromising hand that had crushed Cato's rebellion at the Sedition of Septarium, but the Proconsul's refusal to ease taxation even as low-level unrest simmered on eventually drew quiet complaints to [[Zeth]] from the Cambrecian nobility itself, carried through channels the aging Legate never suspected existed. He died at his post in {{ICYear|44}}, worn down less by any single crisis than by the accumulated weight of patrolling a province that had never forgiven him for the Sedition's suppression. His successor, chosen deliberately by the Imperial court to repair the relationship, was [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], whose appointment in {{ICYear|47}} was met in [[Septarium]] with genuine, if cautious, hope. House Livius had, after all, been Cambrecia's first Imperial patron, sponsor of Septimius Varros's own conquest generations before, and many among the Dravosid court believed a Livius Legate would restore some measure of the old client kingdom's dignity. It was a hope that would make what followed all the more bitter.<noinclude>[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia&diff=22572 Cambrecia 2026-09-09T22:29:40Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference<br /> |article= Cambrecia<br /> }}</includeonly><br /> Long the center of the worship of [[Zelos]], God of the State, in the Imperial Pantheon, The Holy See of Cambrecia was long the last nation loyal to [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]] in [[Duria]], despite being an essentially independent state. Cambrecia suffered greatly during [[the Dark Times]], with chaos and rebellion ravaging the land after the fall of the Mage-King [[Lucasa]] and the [[Crimson Plague]] decimating the population thereafter. At the dawn of [[the Fourth Age of Man]], the Potentates of Zelos have re-established their authority, despite losing a great deal of territory during the Dark Times. Despite the more liberal policies of recent Potentates, there are still some rebels covertly working to replace the theocracy with a monarchy.<br /> <noinclude><br /> {{TOC left}}<br /> {{Nation<br /> |name = Cambrecia<br /> |fullname = The Holy See of Cambrecia <br /> |emblem = Fw_cambrecia_web.png<br /> |geography = Cambrecia is a fertile coastal land, enjoying a long, temperate planting season and a short winter. The terrain is primary chaparral that has been extensively cultivated.<br /> |continent = Duria<br /> |location = Southern [[Duria]], along the shores of the [[Maroshan Sea]]<br /> |land_area = 21197<br /> |coastline = 285<br /> |terrain = <br /> |waterways = <br /> * [[Maroshan Sea]]<br /> * [[Septimia River]]<br /> |society= <br /> |population = 750,000 (90% humans, 4% hobbits, 6% other)<br /> |language = [[Cambrecian Language|Cambrecian]]<br /> |locations= <br /> |persons = Archbishop [[Alexander Desteos]] of [[Belora]], Archbishop [[Gawyn Marcos]] of [[Amesand]], High Protector [[Marcus Aquilius Severus]] of the [[Golden Guard]]<br /> |government= <br /> |government_type = Theocracy (Potentate, Archbishop, Bishop, Temple Speaker, Podesta) <br /> |ruler = His Holiness the Potentate of Zelos, [[Gabriel II]]<br /> |arms = Potent, a book argent bordered by two altars argent with flames gules, to chief a crown or.<br /> |capital = [[Zelosia City]] (pop 20,450)<br /> |alliances = Trading agreements with [[Auteria]], [[Danas]], [[Daredonia]], the dwarves of [[Derlos]], [[Enesia]], [[Kamaros]], [[Koramia]], [[Malvetia]], [[Neptaris|the Freecity of Neptaris]] and [[Numentora]]. No formal military alliances, by decree of the Potentate.<br /> |hostilities = The state has had some skirmishes with pirates from [[Marosh]] and [[Tamerynd]], but has no formally declared wars.<br /> |law = <br /> |military= <br /> * [[Golden Guard]]<br /> |religion = The worship of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]] is absolutely predominant in Cambrecia. Despite a historic prohibition against formal worship of any deity not directly descendant from [[Ptharos|Lord Ptharos]] himself, recent Potentates have relaxed these regulations to permit temples to any non-Dagonian god; even Druidic shrines dedicated to the Tuatha are permitted in the countryside. [[Betshaba|Betshaba the Wavequeen]] has a strong following along the coastal cities of Cambrecia. Despite their more liberal policies in the last century, the priests of Zelos still maintain their feared Inquisitors, those priests dedicated to finding and executing worshippers of the children of [[Dagon|Dagon the Adversary]], particularly worshipers of [[Phlegethon|Phlegethon Ironfist]], who are reputed to seek to overthrow the Holy See and replace the Potentate with a civilian tyrant.<br /> |pantheon = Formally neutral, though there are strong sympathies to followers of the [[Koramian Heresy]]<br /> |patron = [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]]<br /> |dominant_faiths = <br /> |secondary_faiths = <br /> |persecuted_faiths = <br /> |major_temples = <br /> |economy = Though grapes and olives were once the crops of choice in its southern regions, necessity during [[the Dark Times]] required much of the country to focus on corns and bean crops for sustenance. Trade during [[the Fourth Age of Man]] has sharply increased in the nation under the gentle guidance of a series of liberal Potentates, who lifted most of the restrictions to trade imposed on Cambrecians during [[the Third Age of Man]]. There have even been nascent attempts to restore the once-famous wines of Cambrecia, with the full support and encouragement of the Church.<br /> |exports = <br /> |imports = <br /> |coinage = 10 copper Pennies (1 cp) = 1 silver Eagle (1 sp), 2 Eagles = 1 Double Eagle (2sp), 25 Eagles = 1 gold Sceptre (25sp), 5 Sceptres = 1 platinum Solid (125sp)<br /> |guilds = <br /> |black_market = <br /> |history = <br /> ===Foundation of Cambrecia===<br /> {{:Foundation of Cambrecia}}<br /> ===Imperial Cambrecia===<br /> {{:Imperial Cambrecia}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Derlic War===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}<br /> ===The Cambrecian Civil Wars===<br /> {{:The Cambrecian Civil Wars}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Mage War===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Mage War}}<br /> ===The Zelosian Schism===<br /> {{:The Zelosian Schism}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods}}<br /> ===Cambrecia in the Fourth Age===<br /> {{:Cambrecia in the Fourth Age}}<br /> |current_events= <br /> |map= <br /> |update_year= <br /> }}<br /> {{Duria_Guide|chapter= Regions}}<br /> [[Category:Cambrecia]]<br /> </noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=The_History_of_Cambrecia&diff=22571 The History of Cambrecia 2026-09-09T22:29:29Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div>{{TOC left}}<br /> ===Foundation of Cambrecia===<br /> {{:Foundation of Cambrecia}}<br /> ===Imperial Cambrecia===<br /> {{:Imperial Cambrecia}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Derlic War===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}<br /> ===The Cambrecian Civil Wars===<br /> {{:The Cambrecian Civil Wars}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Mage War===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Mage War}}<br /> ===The Zelosian Schism===<br /> {{:The Zelosian Schism}}<br /> ===Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods===<br /> {{:Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods}}<br /> ===Cambrecia in the Fourth Age===<br /> {{:Cambrecia in the Fourth Age}}<br /> <noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}{{Fey_Source|chapter= History|article= Third Age}}[[Category:History]][[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Imperial_Cambrecia&diff=22570 Imperial Cambrecia 2026-09-09T22:28:40Z

<p>Noctifer: Noctifer moved page Imperial Cambrecia and the Derlic War to Imperial Cambrecia without leaving a redirect</p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Imperial Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 751<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 799<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Foundation of Cambrecia<br /> |following_article=Cambrecia and the Derlic War<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude><br /> When word reached [[Zelosia City|Septarium]] that the Senate had dissolved itself and that [[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]] had been proclaimed Emperor in {{ICYear|1}}, the court of King [[Tarnos II Dravos|Tarnos II]] met the news with open dismay. Cambrecia's client status had been built on a personal bond of patronage: first to [[Rufus Voltina of House Livius|Consul Rufus Voltina]], then, through [[Septimius Varros]], to [[House Varro]] itself. An Emperor drawn from [[House Zetar]], a family with no history of patronage in Cambrecia, offered the Dravosid crown no such assurance. Tarnos II delayed sending envoys to Zeth for the better part of two years and when he finally did swear allegiance, Cambrecia was the last of the outer territories of the old Republic to do so. Some court chroniclers of the following century would frame this hesitation as principled loyalty to the memory of House Varro and, perhaps, a growing sentiment towards the worship of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], god of the state; others, less charitably, suggested that Tarnos II and his ministers, chief among them his uncle Vardanos (a local title roughly translated as 'guardian of the hearth') [[Aroneth Dravos|Aroneth]], feared that direct Imperial oversight would strip away the informal privileges the Kamaran nobility had enjoyed as a favored client kingdom rather than a subject province.<br /> <br /> The Emperor was not inclined to let the delay pass unanswered. In {{ICYear|6}}, Octavius dispatched [[Titus Nepos of House Gabinius|Legate Titus Nepos]] of [[House Gabinius]], a family already notorious for its uncompromising governorships in [[Aescalapea]], to formalize Cambrecia's place within the Empire. Titus Nepos garrisoned a cohort of the [[Legion III Cambrecia|Third Legion]] within Septarium itself, the first standing Imperial troops the capital had ever hosted. T. Nepos also established a permanent legate's residence beside the royal palace, a deliberate arrangement meant to remind the Dravosid court exactly whose authority now took precedence in matters of war, law, and foreign relations. Alongside him came [[Gnaeus Falco|Procurator Gnaeus Falco]], charged with conducting Cambrecia's first Imperial census and establishing the tribute rolls by which the province would be taxed. Falco's assessors moved through the fields and foothills of Cambrecia methodically, and by {{ICYear|11}} the old exemptions once granted to Septimius Varros's veteran-settlers, whose descendants had, for two generations, paid only nominal dues to the Dravosid crown, were formally abolished. It is said that many of these descendants were worshipers of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], god of the state, and among them there were murmured accusations of tyranny under the new Zetian Emperor.<br /> <br /> It was both this loss of exemption and moral outrage that finally broke the Cambrecian people into open unrest. In {{ICYear|13}}, a coalition of wealthy landowners descended from Septimius's retired legionaries, led by the orator [[Gaius Fufidius Cato]], gathered in the forum of Septarium and petitioned Legate Titus Nepos for the right to elect a body of their own, a [[Concilium Septariae]], to oversee taxation and local law, citing the example of neighboring [[Neptaris]], which within living memory had cast off its own monarchy for an elected Council. What became known as the [[Sedition of Septarium]] gathered enough support among the capital's merchant class to shut down the grain markets for the better part of a month, but it found no allies among the Kamaran nobility or the crown, both of whom recognized a Senate of Fufidius Cato's design as no less a threat to Dravosid rule than to Imperial rule. King Tarnos II lent his own household guard to the Legate to help clear the forum, and the Legate had Fufidius Cato and eleven of his fellow petitioners exiled to [[Black Isle|Ylargebad Island]] rather than executed, a mercy some historians attribute to T. Nepos's wish not to make martyrs of them so early in his governorship. The Sedition failed, but the grievance did not: the dream of an elected Cambrecian Senate would resurface, in one form or another, for the better part of two centuries to come.<br /> <br /> In the decades following the failed Sedition, Cambrecia settled into an uneasy accommodation with Imperial rule. The Kamaran and Dravosid nobility increasingly adopted Zetian dress, law, and even Latin naming conventions to curry favor with the Legate's court, and King Tarnos II's own household grew steadily more dependent on Imperial recognition to shore up his legitimacy against rival branches of the [[House Dravos|Dravosid line]]. Resistance did not disappear so much as go quiet. Rural landowners, particularly those descended from [[Septimius Varros]]'s veteran-settlers, routinely under-reported their harvests to Procurator Falco's successors, and banditry along the upland roads toward the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], often blamed on displaced tribesmen but just as often the work of disaffected settler youth, grew persistent enough that Legate Titus Nepos was forced to keep a standing garrison there for the remainder of his tenure.<br /> <br /> Legate Titus Nepos commanded the [[Legion III Cambrecia]] for nearly three decades, ruling with the same uncompromising hand that had crushed Cato's rebellion at the Sedition of Septarium, but the Proconsul's refusal to ease taxation even as low-level unrest simmered on eventually drew quiet complaints to [[Zeth]] from the Cambrecian nobility itself, carried through channels the aging Legate never suspected existed. He died at his post in {{ICYear|44}}, worn down less by any single crisis than by the accumulated weight of patrolling a province that had never forgiven him for the Sedition's suppression. His successor, chosen deliberately by the Imperial court to repair the relationship, was [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], whose appointment in {{ICYear|47}} was met in [[Septarium]] with genuine, if cautious, hope. House Livius had, after all, been Cambrecia's first Imperial patron, sponsor of Septimius Varros's own conquest generations before, and many among the Dravosid court believed a Livius Legate would restore some measure of the old client kingdom's dignity. It was a hope that would make what followed all the more bitter.<noinclude>[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia_and_the_Derlic_War&diff=22569 Cambrecia and the Derlic War 2026-09-09T22:27:51Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Imperial Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 800<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 1473<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Imperial Cambrecia<br /> |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude>Under [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], [[Legion III Cambrecia]] moved into the trackless wilds of what had even then become known as the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], chasing rumors of wealthy dwarven miners high in the peaks. In a mistake that would resonate for decades to come and permanently alter the political landscape of southern Duria, the Legion slaughtered an ostensibly peaceful dwarven ambassadorial party from the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]], which initiated what would become known as the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]] in the Empire with the express intention of conquering the subterranean Kingdom. The Legion spent the first few months of the "War" failing to even locate the entrance to the underground mountain kingdom. The dwarves were shocked by the behavior of humans they thought were friendly and prepared themselves for battle, but cooler heads prevailed and an envoy was sent to [[Neptaris]], who had allied with the dwarves of Derlos some six centuries prior during the [[War of the Dark Rider]]. After brief deliberations, the [[Triumvirate]] of Neptaris secretly decided to maintain their alliance with [[Derlos]] and prepare for war against this new Empire. In {{ICYear|55}}, Neptaris formally declared war on Zeth and immediately took one of their key military outposts in the foothills of the Cambrecian Mountains, [[Fort Pagulium]].<br /> <br /> What began as an exploratory expedition against [[Derlos]] quickly grew into a war Cambrecia had not prepared for. Neptaran Marshal [[Aador Manx|Marshal Aador Manx]], moving in concert with dwarven irregulars from Derlos, exploited the fall of [[Fort Pagulium]] to seize five more Imperial supply depots before the year was out, and for two years [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Isidorus]] found himself fighting a war on ground he had not chosen. The tide turned only when the Imperial fleet broke Neptaris's navy at the [[Battle of Nimble Point]] in {{ICYear|57}} and sealed [[Krios Bay]], cutting the rebellious Freecity off from the sea it depended on. Any relief the victory brought was short-lived: a plague swept along the Cambrecian coast the following winter, and among its dead was Isidorus himself, the very Legate whose slaughter of the Derlic envoys had started the war in the first place. Command passed to [[Valerius Lucius|Legate Valerius Lucius]], who spent the next several years rebuilding the Legion's strength even as Neptaris, unbeknownst to the Empire, was doing the same in secret shipyards along its own coast. Marshal Manx fought on until his death at Fort Pagulium, and his successor, [[Greor Alcyon of House Markos|Marshall Greor Alcyon]] of [[House Markos]], briefly seized command of the [[Maroshan Sea]] with a fleet of thirty warships, but Imperial spies located and burned Neptaris's hidden shipyards in the winter of {{ICYear|65}}, and with reinforcement from the fleets of [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] in [[Koramia|Imperial Simmeria]], Valerius Lucius laid siege to [[Neptaris]] itself. The city fell within a fortnight when an Imperial sympathizer inside its walls opened the gates, and Marshal Alcyon, upon hearing the news, took his own life rather than witness Neptaris's surrender. With their human allies defeated, the dwarves of Derlos sealed off the entrances to their subterranean kingdom and disappeared into the roots of the mountains.<br /> <br /> Over the next two centuries, Cambrecia saw many rebellions as its citizens tried to found a new Senate in the capital city of [[Zelosia City|Septarium]]. The Imperial response was heavy-handed at first, but in {{ICYear|149}}, the Emperor [[Metius the Elder]] decided on a more surreptitious approach to quelling the Cambrecians. In his role as [[Pontifex Maximus]] of the Imperial pantheon, he sent the [[Pontifex of Zelos]], god of the State, to Septarium to build a great cathedral and begin the conversion of the populous to [[Zelos]]. The Pontifex of the time, [[Ionnanes II]], was a persuasive man, and was able to quickly convert most of the local leadership to his banner. Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.<noinclude>[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Imperial_Cambrecia&diff=22568 Imperial Cambrecia 2026-09-09T22:27:37Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Imperial Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 751<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 799<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Foundation of Cambrecia<br /> |following_article=Cambrecia and the Derlic War<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude><br /> When word reached [[Zelosia City|Septarium]] that the Senate had dissolved itself and that [[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]] had been proclaimed Emperor in {{ICYear|1}}, the court of King [[Tarnos II Dravos|Tarnos II]] met the news with open dismay. Cambrecia's client status had been built on a personal bond of patronage: first to [[Rufus Voltina of House Livius|Consul Rufus Voltina]], then, through [[Septimius Varros]], to [[House Varro]] itself. An Emperor drawn from [[House Zetar]], a family with no history of patronage in Cambrecia, offered the Dravosid crown no such assurance. Tarnos II delayed sending envoys to Zeth for the better part of two years and when he finally did swear allegiance, Cambrecia was the last of the outer territories of the old Republic to do so. Some court chroniclers of the following century would frame this hesitation as principled loyalty to the memory of House Varro and, perhaps, a growing sentiment towards the worship of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], god of the state; others, less charitably, suggested that Tarnos II and his ministers, chief among them his uncle Vardanos (a local title roughly translated as 'guardian of the hearth') [[Aroneth Dravos|Aroneth]], feared that direct Imperial oversight would strip away the informal privileges the Kamaran nobility had enjoyed as a favored client kingdom rather than a subject province.<br /> <br /> The Emperor was not inclined to let the delay pass unanswered. In {{ICYear|6}}, Octavius dispatched [[Titus Nepos of House Gabinius|Legate Titus Nepos]] of [[House Gabinius]], a family already notorious for its uncompromising governorships in [[Aescalapea]], to formalize Cambrecia's place within the Empire. Titus Nepos garrisoned a cohort of the [[Legion III Cambrecia|Third Legion]] within Septarium itself, the first standing Imperial troops the capital had ever hosted. T. Nepos also established a permanent legate's residence beside the royal palace, a deliberate arrangement meant to remind the Dravosid court exactly whose authority now took precedence in matters of war, law, and foreign relations. Alongside him came [[Gnaeus Falco|Procurator Gnaeus Falco]], charged with conducting Cambrecia's first Imperial census and establishing the tribute rolls by which the province would be taxed. Falco's assessors moved through the fields and foothills of Cambrecia methodically, and by {{ICYear|11}} the old exemptions once granted to Septimius Varros's veteran-settlers, whose descendants had, for two generations, paid only nominal dues to the Dravosid crown, were formally abolished. It is said that many of these descendants were worshipers of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], god of the state, and among them there were murmured accusations of tyranny under the new Zetian Emperor.<br /> <br /> It was both this loss of exemption and moral outrage that finally broke the Cambrecian people into open unrest. In {{ICYear|13}}, a coalition of wealthy landowners descended from Septimius's retired legionaries, led by the orator [[Gaius Fufidius Cato]], gathered in the forum of Septarium and petitioned Legate Titus Nepos for the right to elect a body of their own, a [[Concilium Septariae]], to oversee taxation and local law, citing the example of neighboring [[Neptaris]], which within living memory had cast off its own monarchy for an elected Council. What became known as the [[Sedition of Septarium]] gathered enough support among the capital's merchant class to shut down the grain markets for the better part of a month, but it found no allies among the Kamaran nobility or the crown, both of whom recognized a Senate of Fufidius Cato's design as no less a threat to Dravosid rule than to Imperial rule. King Tarnos II lent his own household guard to the Legate to help clear the forum, and the Legate had Fufidius Cato and eleven of his fellow petitioners exiled to [[Black Isle|Ylargebad Island]] rather than executed, a mercy some historians attribute to T. Nepos's wish not to make martyrs of them so early in his governorship. The Sedition failed, but the grievance did not: the dream of an elected Cambrecian Senate would resurface, in one form or another, for the better part of two centuries to come.<br /> <br /> In the decades following the failed Sedition, Cambrecia settled into an uneasy accommodation with Imperial rule. The Kamaran and Dravosid nobility increasingly adopted Zetian dress, law, and even Latin naming conventions to curry favor with the Legate's court, and King Tarnos II's own household grew steadily more dependent on Imperial recognition to shore up his legitimacy against rival branches of the [[House Dravos|Dravosid line]]. Resistance did not disappear so much as go quiet. Rural landowners, particularly those descended from [[Septimius Varros]]'s veteran-settlers, routinely under-reported their harvests to Procurator Falco's successors, and banditry along the upland roads toward the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], often blamed on displaced tribesmen but just as often the work of disaffected settler youth, grew persistent enough that Legate Titus Nepos was forced to keep a standing garrison there for the remainder of his tenure.<br /> <br /> Legate Titus Nepos commanded the [[Legion III Cambrecia]] for nearly three decades, ruling with the same uncompromising hand that had crushed Cato's rebellion at the Sedition of Septarium, but the Proconsul's refusal to ease taxation even as low-level unrest simmered on eventually drew quiet complaints to [[Zeth]] from the Cambrecian nobility itself, carried through channels the aging Legate never suspected existed. He died at his post in {{ICYear|44}}, worn down less by any single crisis than by the accumulated weight of patrolling a province that had never forgiven him for the Sedition's suppression. His successor, chosen deliberately by the Imperial court to repair the relationship, was [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], whose appointment in {{ICYear|47}} was met in [[Septarium]] with genuine, if cautious, hope. House Livius had, after all, been Cambrecia's first Imperial patron, sponsor of Septimius Varros's own conquest generations before, and many among the Dravosid court believed a Livius Legate would restore some measure of the old client kingdom's dignity. It was a hope that would make what followed all the more bitter.<noinclude>[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Cambrecia_and_the_Derlic_War&diff=22567 Cambrecia and the Derlic War 2026-09-09T22:27:10Z

<p>Noctifer: Created page with "<includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Imperial Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle |startyear= 800 |startyearcirca= |endyear= 1473 |endyearcirca= |continent= Duria |previous_article= Imperial Cambrecia |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars |main_article=The History of Cambrecia }}</noinclude>Under Legate Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius, Legion III Cambrecia moved into the trackles..."</p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Imperial Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 800<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 1473<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Imperial Cambrecia<br /> |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude>Under [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], [[Legion III Cambrecia]] moved into the trackless wilds of what had even then become known as the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], chasing rumors of wealthy dwarven miners high in the peaks. In a mistake that would resonate for decades to come and permanently alter the political landscape of southern Duria, the Legion slaughtered an ostensibly peaceful dwarven ambassadorial party from the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]], which initiated what would become known as the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]] in the Empire with the express intention of conquering the subterranean Kingdom. The Legion spent the first few months of the "War" failing to even locate the entrance to the underground mountain kingdom. The dwarves were shocked by the behavior of humans they thought were friendly and prepared themselves for battle, but cooler heads prevailed and an envoy was sent to [[Neptaris]], who had allied with the dwarves of Derlos some six centuries prior during the [[War of the Dark Rider]]. After brief deliberations, the [[Triumvirate]] of Neptaris secretly decided to maintain their alliance with [[Derlos]] and prepare for war against this new Empire. In {{ICYear|55}}, Neptaris formally declared war on Zeth and immediately took one of their key military outposts in the foothills of the Cambrecian Mountains, [[Fort Pagulium]].<br /> <br /> What began as an exploratory expedition against [[Derlos]] quickly grew into a war Cambrecia had not prepared for. Neptaran Marshal [[Aador Manx|Marshal Aador Manx]], moving in concert with dwarven irregulars from Derlos, exploited the fall of [[Fort Pagulium]] to seize five more Imperial supply depots before the year was out, and for two years [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Isidorus]] found himself fighting a war on ground he had not chosen. The tide turned only when the Imperial fleet broke Neptaris's navy at the [[Battle of Nimble Point]] in {{ICYear|57}} and sealed [[Krios Bay]], cutting the rebellious Freecity off from the sea it depended on. Any relief the victory brought was short-lived: a plague swept along the Cambrecian coast the following winter, and among its dead was Isidorus himself, the very Legate whose slaughter of the Derlic envoys had started the war in the first place. Command passed to [[Valerius Lucius|Legate Valerius Lucius]], who spent the next several years rebuilding the Legion's strength even as Neptaris, unbeknownst to the Empire, was doing the same in secret shipyards along its own coast. Marshal Manx fought on until his death at Fort Pagulium, and his successor, [[Greor Alcyon of House Markos|Marshall Greor Alcyon]] of [[House Markos]], briefly seized command of the [[Maroshan Sea]] with a fleet of thirty warships, but Imperial spies located and burned Neptaris's hidden shipyards in the winter of {{ICYear|65}}, and with reinforcement from the fleets of [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] in [[Koramia|Imperial Simmeria]], Valerius Lucius laid siege to [[Neptaris]] itself. The city fell within a fortnight when an Imperial sympathizer inside its walls opened the gates, and Marshal Alcyon, upon hearing the news, took his own life rather than witness Neptaris's surrender. With their human allies defeated, the dwarves of Derlos sealed off the entrances to their subterranean kingdom and disappeared into the roots of the mountains.<br /> <br /> Over the next two centuries, Cambrecia saw many rebellions as its citizens tried to found a new Senate in the capital city of [[Zelosia City|Septarium]]. The Imperial response was heavy-handed at first, but in {{ICYear|149}}, the Emperor [[Metius the Elder]] decided on a more surreptitious approach to quelling the Cambrecians. In his role as [[Pontifex Maximus]] of the Imperial pantheon, he sent the [[Pontifex of Zelos]], god of the State, to Septarium to build a great cathedral and begin the conversion of the populous to [[Zelos]]. The Pontifex of the time, [[Ionnanes II]], was a persuasive man, and was able to quickly convert most of the local leadership to his banner. Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.</div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=9th_Century_NC&diff=22566 9th Century NC 2026-09-09T22:09:34Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div>{{CenCal|9}}<br /> ==General Events==<br /> ===Duria===<br /> ====[[805]]====<br /> * In support of their ancient allies among the dwarves of the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]] beneath the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] declares war on the young [[Great Empire|Zetian Empire]], initiating what they would call [[the First Cambrecian War]].<br /> ====[[815]]====<br /> * After a brief naval blockade and siege, the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] is captured by [[Great Empire|Zetian Imperial]] forces, concluding the [[First Cambrecian War]]. The Empire would come to occupy the city for much of the subsequent two centuries, though never easily.</div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=800s_NC&diff=22565 800s NC 2026-09-09T22:09:24Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div>{{DecCal|801}}<br /> ==General Events==<br /> ===Duria===<br /> ====[[805]]====<br /> * In support of their ancient allies among the dwarves of the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]] beneath the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] declares war on the young [[Great Empire|Zetian Empire]], initiating what they would call [[the First Cambrecian War]].<br /> ====[[815]]====<br /> * After a brief naval blockade and siege, the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] is captured by [[Great Empire|Zetian Imperial]] forces, concluding the [[First Cambrecian War]]. The Empire would come to occupy the city for much of the subsequent two centuries, though never easily.</div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=810s_NC&diff=22564 810s NC 2026-09-09T22:09:17Z

<p>Noctifer: Created page with "{{DecCal|811}} ==Events== ===Duria=== ====815==== * After a brief naval blockade and siege, the Freecity of Neptaris is captured by Zetian Imperial forces, concluding the First Cambrecian War. The Empire would come to occupy the city for much of the subsequent two centuries, though never easily."</p> <hr /> <div>{{DecCal|811}}<br /> ==Events==<br /> ===Duria===<br /> ====[[815]]====<br /> * After a brief naval blockade and siege, the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] is captured by [[Great Empire|Zetian Imperial]] forces, concluding the [[First Cambrecian War]]. The Empire would come to occupy the city for much of the subsequent two centuries, though never easily.</div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=815&diff=22563 815 2026-09-09T22:08:22Z

<p>Noctifer: Created page with "{{YearCal|815}} ==Events== ===Duria=== * After a brief naval blockade and siege, the Freecity of Neptaris is captured by Zetian Imperial forces, concluding the First Cambrecian War. The Empire would come to occupy the city for much of the subsequent two centuries, though never easily."</p> <hr /> <div>{{YearCal|815}}<br /> ==Events==<br /> ===Duria===<br /> * After a brief naval blockade and siege, the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] is captured by [[Great Empire|Zetian Imperial]] forces, concluding the [[First Cambrecian War]]. The Empire would come to occupy the city for much of the subsequent two centuries, though never easily.</div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=The_First_Cambrecian_War&diff=22562 The First Cambrecian War 2026-09-09T22:01:27Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 805<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 815<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= The Imperial Conquest of Kamaros<br /> |following_article= The Rule of the Empire in Neptaris<br /> |main_article= The History of Neptaris<br /> }}</noinclude><includeonly>{{Article_Reference<br /> |article= The First Cambrecian War<br /> }}</includeonly><br /> The [[Triumvirate]] knew that its decision to support the dwarves of [[Derlos]] against [[Cambrecia]] was controversial and the Church, who was starting to establish strong ties with the [[Imperial Ecclesia|Imperial Church Hierarchy]], initially opposed them. To win the Church officials to their side, they agreed to pass an amendment that would turn over the civil judicial system of [[Neptaris]] to the priesthood of [[Aridnus]], God of Judgment. The offer of increased secular power won over many of the more moderate priests and they began oiling the political war engine from their pulpits. By {{NCYear|805}}, the people were ready for war. In that year, war was officially declared at a surprise attack on [[Fort Pagulium]] in the foothills of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]].<br /> <br /> [[Aador Manx]], Marshall of Arms from {{NCYear|800}} to his death in {{NCYear|811}} NC, led what would come to be known as the [[First Battle of Jormir Field]]. With 2000 soldiers and a handful of dwarven irregulars, he overcame the defenses of Fort Pagulium, which was manned with 600 Imperial soldiers, in three days. The Empire was taken by complete surprise and Marshall Manx pressed his advantage, taking no less than five significant supply depots in the first year of the war. The Imperial military commander, Legate [[Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], scrambled to defend Cambrecia on two fronts. Meanwhile, Neptaran naval vessels began attacking any Imperial ship they could find, including merchant vessels. In {{NCYear|806}}, Neptaran advances began to slow, with Marshall Manx only taking two minor outposts. Legate Cyricus and Marshall Manx began playing a cat and mouse game in the hills, with the Legate constantly outrunning the Marshall's more cumbersome army. Finally, in the early months of {{NCYear|807}}, the Imperial fleet was brought to bear upon Neptaris. After the disastrous [[Battle of Nimble Point]], the Imperial fleet sailed into [[Krios Bay]] and set up an unbreakable blockade.<br /> <br /> The tide of the war on the mainland almost immediately shifted to an Imperial advantage. By the end of {{NCYear|807}}, the Empire had taken back all but three of the forts that Neptaris had claimed. The dwarves continued to press on the northern frontiers of Cambrecia, but most agreed that Neptaris was doing most of the fighting by this point, and supplies were running low. In the winter of {{NCYear|808}}, a plague struck the Cambrecian coast and the war engines of Cambrecia and Neptaris slowed to a crawl. Both sides pulled their forces back to easily defendable locations, leaving entire fortresses empty. Some historians point out that Marshall Manx should have taken the advantage at this point and taken those forts that the Empire left open, but he chose to winter his troops under the walls of Neptaris itself.<br /> <br /> The next spring, new troops arrived to bolster the beleaguered Imperial Legion. Neptaris, unfortunately, did not have the manpower to generate effective reinforcements and they could not effectively press the attack. Instead of attacking Neptaris, however, Legate [[Valerius Lucius]] of [[House Gradivius]] (Cyricus had died of the plague during the winter) instead chose to attack the dwarves. With Imperial troops in their very valleys, the dwarves redoubled their efforts and held the Imperial army at a standstill. This gave Neptaris the time it needed to rebuild its army as well as establish secret shipyards in a hidden cove a day's ride south of the city. By {{NCYear|810}}, Neptaris was again ready to attack the Empire.<br /> <br /> The Imperial Legion was again taken by surprise when Marshall Manx met them on the field at [[the Second Battle of Jormir Field]]. Manx was again successful in taking Fort Pagulium and tried to press his advantage as he had done five years earlier. Unfortunately, Legate Valerius was aware of the Marshall's previous strategy and quickly pulled his men from the mountains to meet Manx in the field. As winter approached, the two armies had met twice with inconclusive results. Manx returned to Fort Pagulium to prepare for winter.<br /> <br /> Legate Valerius, unaccustomed to Cambrecian winters, decided to set siege to Fort Pagulium and destroy the Neptaran army once and for all. By the spring of {{NCYear|811}}, however, the mass of his army was still outside the walls of Fort Pagulium, sick and hungry from a particularly hard winter. They pulled back to lick their wounds and prepare another sortie. The Neptaran military was not without its problems, however. Mere days before the Empire lifted the siege of Fort Pagulium, Marshall Manx was struck by a stray catapult stone and died. The Triumvirate spent most of the season trying to vote for a new Marshall, but came to an impasse several times. Eventually, Marshall [[Greor Alcyon]] of [[House Markos]] was chosen to lead the Neptaran army and he departed to Fort Pagulium to prepare the army for the next season's battles. The loss of time was not lost on the Triumvirate, however. After the selection of Marshall Alcyon, they issued Addendum XXVII, which changed the name of the governing body to [[the Supreme Assembly]] and added two new members, in the hope that an increase in the number of voting members would result in a decrease in the number of deadlocks that they would have to work through.<br /> <br /> Marshall Alcyon decided to use a more naval approach to defeating the Empire and ordered the construction of some thirty new warships by the end of {{NCYear|812}}. He used his armies to harangue Imperial troops on the mainland, but always avoided a direct confrontation. In the spring of {{NCYear|813}}, Marshall Alcyon's fleet began to sweep the [[Maroshan Sea]] for Imperial vessels and succeeded in sinking the vast majority of the Imperial fleet that entered those waters. The destruction of Imperial vessels in the Maroshan Sea had the affect he was looking for... the Legion on the mainland started to crumble without support or fresh troops from Zeth. For most of the fighting season of {{NCYear|815}}, Marshall Alcyon met with success after success on the battlefield.<br /> <br /> During the winter of {{NCYear|815}}, however, five Imperial transports landed near Neptaris' secret shipyards. After marching for two days, they attacked the ill-defended port and burned it to the ground. The Legion wintered there, unnoticed for two months. When spring arrived, Legate Valerius and a group of handpicked soldiers moved south, past Neptaris, and met up with the now-garrisoned troops at Neptaris' secret port. The Imperial contingent moved northward as fresh warships from [[Paladinium]] (in present day [[Koramia]]) moved towards Krios Bay. The Imperial warships took the complacent Neptaran Navy by surprise, catching most of their ships in port when they arrived at Neptaris. The Empire again blockaded Krios Bay while the Legion set siege to Neptaris itself.<br /> <br /> Marshall Alcyon was preparing for battle in the foothills of the Cambrecian Mountains when word arrived that Neptaris was besieged. He ran his troops to the ground, often travelling 40 miles in a day, in an attempt to relieve the city. Legate Valerius, however, knew of an Imperial sympathizer within Neptaris and sent an envoy into the city to speak with him secretly. The sympathizer, whose name is unrecorded, had a son in the guard who was willing to open the gates to the Imperial army. With Marshall Alcyon and his army only days from Neptaris, Imperial troops walked into the city and quickly forced the Supreme Assembly to surrender. The siege of Neptaris had only lasted two weeks. When Marshall Alcyon saw the Imperial standard flying over Neptaris, he threw himself on his sword.<br /> <noinclude>{{Duria_Guide<br /> |chapter= History<br /> }}<br /> [[Category:Neptaris]]<br /> [[Category:Neptaran History]]<br /> </noinclude></div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Imperial_Cambrecia&diff=22561 Imperial Cambrecia 2026-09-09T21:45:54Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Imperial Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 751<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 1473<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Foundation of Cambrecia<br /> |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude><br /> When word reached [[Zelosia City|Septarium]] that the Senate had dissolved itself and that [[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]] had been proclaimed Emperor in {{ICYear|1}}, the court of King [[Tarnos II Dravos|Tarnos II]] met the news with open dismay. Cambrecia's client status had been built on a personal bond of patronage: first to [[Rufus Voltina of House Livius|Consul Rufus Voltina]], then, through [[Septimius Varros]], to [[House Varro]] itself. An Emperor drawn from [[House Zetar]], a family with no history of patronage in Cambrecia, offered the Dravosid crown no such assurance. Tarnos II delayed sending envoys to Zeth for the better part of two years and when he finally did swear allegiance, Cambrecia was the last of the outer territories of the old Republic to do so. Some court chroniclers of the following century would frame this hesitation as principled loyalty to the memory of House Varro and, perhaps, a growing sentiment towards the worship of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], god of the state; others, less charitably, suggested that Tarnos II and his ministers, chief among them his uncle Vardanos (a local title roughly translated as 'guardian of the hearth') [[Aroneth Dravos|Aroneth]], feared that direct Imperial oversight would strip away the informal privileges the Kamaran nobility had enjoyed as a favored client kingdom rather than a subject province.<br /> <br /> The Emperor was not inclined to let the delay pass unanswered. In {{ICYear|6}}, Octavius dispatched [[Titus Nepos of House Gabinius|Legate Titus Nepos]] of [[House Gabinius]], a family already notorious for its uncompromising governorships in [[Aescalapea]], to formalize Cambrecia's place within the Empire. Titus Nepos garrisoned a cohort of the [[Legion III Cambrecia|Third Legion]] within Septarium itself, the first standing Imperial troops the capital had ever hosted. T. Nepos also established a permanent legate's residence beside the royal palace, a deliberate arrangement meant to remind the Dravosid court exactly whose authority now took precedence in matters of war, law, and foreign relations. Alongside him came [[Gnaeus Falco|Procurator Gnaeus Falco]], charged with conducting Cambrecia's first Imperial census and establishing the tribute rolls by which the province would be taxed. Falco's assessors moved through the fields and foothills of Cambrecia methodically, and by {{ICYear|11}} the old exemptions once granted to Septimius Varros's veteran-settlers, whose descendants had, for two generations, paid only nominal dues to the Dravosid crown, were formally abolished. It is said that many of these descendants were worshipers of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], god of the state, and among them there were murmured accusations of tyranny under the new Zetian Emperor.<br /> <br /> It was both this loss of exemption and moral outrage that finally broke the Cambrecian people into open unrest. In {{ICYear|13}}, a coalition of wealthy landowners descended from Septimius's retired legionaries, led by the orator [[Gaius Fufidius Cato]], gathered in the forum of Septarium and petitioned Legate Titus Nepos for the right to elect a body of their own, a [[Concilium Septariae]], to oversee taxation and local law, citing the example of neighboring [[Neptaris]], which within living memory had cast off its own monarchy for an elected Council. What became known as the [[Sedition of Septarium]] gathered enough support among the capital's merchant class to shut down the grain markets for the better part of a month, but it found no allies among the Kamaran nobility or the crown, both of whom recognized a Senate of Fufidius Cato's design as no less a threat to Dravosid rule than to Imperial rule. King Tarnos II lent his own household guard to the Legate to help clear the forum, and the Legate had Fufidius Cato and eleven of his fellow petitioners exiled to [[Black Isle|Ylargebad Island]] rather than executed, a mercy some historians attribute to T. Nepos's wish not to make martyrs of them so early in his governorship. The Sedition failed, but the grievance did not: the dream of an elected Cambrecian Senate would resurface, in one form or another, for the better part of two centuries to come.<br /> <br /> In the decades following the failed Sedition, Cambrecia settled into an uneasy accommodation with Imperial rule. The Kamaran and Dravosid nobility increasingly adopted Zetian dress, law, and even Latin naming conventions to curry favor with the Legate's court, and King Tarnos II's own household grew steadily more dependent on Imperial recognition to shore up his legitimacy against rival branches of the [[House Dravos|Dravosid line]]. Resistance did not disappear so much as go quiet. Rural landowners, particularly those descended from [[Septimius Varros]]'s veteran-settlers, routinely under-reported their harvests to Procurator Falco's successors, and banditry along the upland roads toward the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], often blamed on displaced tribesmen but just as often the work of disaffected settler youth, grew persistent enough that Legate Titus Nepos was forced to keep a standing garrison there for the remainder of his tenure.<br /> <br /> Legate Titus Nepos commanded the [[Legion III Cambrecia]] for nearly three decades, ruling with the same uncompromising hand that had crushed Cato's rebellion at the Sedition of Septarium, but the Proconsul's refusal to ease taxation even as low-level unrest simmered on eventually drew quiet complaints to [[Zeth]] from the Cambrecian nobility itself, carried through channels the aging Legate never suspected existed. He died at his post in {{ICYear|44}}, worn down less by any single crisis than by the accumulated weight of patrolling a province that had never forgiven him for the Sedition's suppression. His successor, chosen deliberately by the Imperial court to repair the relationship, was [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], whose appointment in {{ICYear|47}} was met in [[Septarium]] with genuine, if cautious, hope. House Livius had, after all, been Cambrecia's first Imperial patron, sponsor of Septimius Varros's own conquest generations before, and many among the Dravosid court believed a Livius Legate would restore some measure of the old client kingdom's dignity. It was a hope that would make what followed all the more bitter.<br /> <br /> Under Legate Isidorus, the Legion moved into what had become known as the [[Cambrecian Mountains]] chasing rumors of wealthy dwarven miners high in the peaks. In a mistake that would resonate for decades to come and permanently alter the political landscape of southern Duria, the Legion slaughtered an ostensibly peaceful dwarven ambassadorial party from the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]], which initiated what would become known as the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]] in the Empire with the express intention of conquering the subterranean Kingdom. The Legion spent the first few months of the "War" failing to even locate the entrance to the underground mountain kingdom. The dwarves were shocked by the behavior of humans they thought were friendly and prepared themselves for battle, but cooler heads prevailed and an envoy was sent to [[Neptaris]], who had allied with the dwarves of Derlos some six centuries prior during the [[War of the Dark Rider]]. After brief deliberations, [[the Triumvirate]] of Neptaris secretly decided to maintain their alliance with [[Derlos]] and prepare for war against this new Empire. In {{ICYear|55}}, Neptaris formally declared war on Zeth and immediately took one of their key military outposts in the foothills of the Cambrecian Mountains, [[Fort Pagulium]].<br /> <br /> What began as an exploratory expedition against [[Derlos]] quickly grew into a war Cambrecia had not prepared for. Neptaran Marshal [[Aador Manx|Marshal Aador Manx]], moving in concert with dwarven irregulars from Derlos, exploited the fall of [[Fort Pagulium]] to seize five more Imperial supply depots before the year was out, and for two years [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Legate Isidorus]] found himself fighting a war on ground he had not chosen. The tide turned only when the Imperial fleet broke Neptaris's navy at the [[Battle of Nimble Point]] in {{ICYear|57}} and sealed [[Krios Bay]], cutting the rebellious Freecity off from the sea it depended on. Any relief the victory brought was short-lived: a plague swept along the Cambrecian coast the following winter, and among its dead was Isidorus himself, the very Legate whose slaughter of the Derlic envoys had started the war in the first place. Command passed to [[Valerius Lucius|Legate Valerius Lucius]], who spent the next several years rebuilding the Legion's strength even as Neptaris, unbeknownst to the Empire, was doing the same in secret shipyards along its own coast. Marshal Manx fought on until his death at Fort Pagulium, and his successor, [[Greor Alcyon of House Markos|Marshall Greor Alcyon]] of [[House Markos]], briefly seized command of the [[Maroshan Sea]] with a fleet of thirty warships, but Imperial spies located and burned Neptaris's hidden shipyards in the winter of {{ICYear|65}}, and with reinforcement from the fleets of [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] in [[Koramia|Imperial Simmeria]], Valerius Lucius laid siege to [[Neptaris]] itself. The city fell within a fortnight when an Imperial sympathizer inside its walls opened the gates, and Marshal Alcyon, upon hearing the news, took his own life rather than witness Neptaris's surrender.<br /> <br /> Over the next two centuries, Cambrecia saw many rebellions as its citizens tried to found a new Senate in the capital city of [[Zelosia City|Septarium]]. The Imperial response was heavy-handed at first, but in {{ICYear|149}}, the Emperor [[Metius the Elder]] decided on a more surreptitious approach to quelling the Cambrecians. In his role as [[Pontifex Maximus]] of the Imperial pantheon, he sent the [[Pontifex of Zelos]], god of the State, to Septarium to build a great cathedral and begin the conversion of the populous to [[Zelos]]. The Pontifex of the time, [[Ionnanes II]], was a persuasive man, and was able to quickly convert most of the local leadership to his banner. Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.</div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Imperial_Cambrecia&diff=22560 Imperial Cambrecia 2026-09-09T21:14:30Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Imperial Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 751<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 1473<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Foundation of Cambrecia<br /> |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude><br /> When word reached [[Zelosia City|Septarium]] that the Senate had dissolved itself and that [[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]] had been proclaimed Emperor in {{ICYear|1}}, the court of King [[Tarnos II Dravos|Tarnos II]] met the news with open dismay. Cambrecia's client status had been built on a personal bond of patronage: first to [[Rufus Voltina of House Livius|Consul Rufus Voltina]], then, through [[Septimius Varros]], to [[House Varro]] itself. An Emperor drawn from [[House Zetar]], a family with no history of patronage in Cambrecia, offered the Dravosid crown no such assurance. Tarnos II delayed sending envoys to Zeth for the better part of two years and when he finally did swear allegiance, Cambrecia was the last of the outer territories of the old Republic to do so. Some court chroniclers of the following century would frame this hesitation as principled loyalty to the memory of House Varro and, perhaps, a growing sentiment towards the worship of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], god of the state; others, less charitably, suggested that Tarnos II and his ministers, chief among them his uncle Vardanos (a local title roughly translated as 'guardian of the hearth') [[Aroneth Dravos|Aroneth]], feared that direct Imperial oversight would strip away the informal privileges the Kamaran nobility had enjoyed as a favored client kingdom rather than a subject province.<br /> <br /> The Emperor was not inclined to let the delay pass unanswered. In {{ICYear|6}}, Octavius dispatched [[Titus Nepos of House Gabinius|Legate Titus Nepos]] of [[House Gabinius]], a family already notorious for its uncompromising governorships in [[Aescalapea]], to formalize Cambrecia's place within the Empire. Titus Nepos garrisoned a cohort of the [[Legion III Cambrecia|Third Legion]] within Septarium itself, the first standing Imperial troops the capital had ever hosted. T. Nepos also established a permanent legate's residence beside the royal palace, a deliberate arrangement meant to remind the Dravosid court exactly whose authority now took precedence in matters of war, law, and foreign relations. Alongside him came [[Gnaeus Falco|Procurator Gnaeus Falco]], charged with conducting Cambrecia's first Imperial census and establishing the tribute rolls by which the province would be taxed. Falco's assessors moved through the fields and foothills of Cambrecia methodically, and by {{ICYear|11}} the old exemptions once granted to Septimius Varros's veteran-settlers, whose descendants had, for two generations, paid only nominal dues to the Dravosid crown, were formally abolished. It is said that many of these descendants were worshipers of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], god of the state, and among them there were murmured accusations of tyranny under the new Zetian Emperor.<br /> <br /> It was both this loss of exemption and moral outrage that finally broke the Cambrecian people into open unrest. In {{ICYear|13}}, a coalition of wealthy landowners descended from Septimius's retired legionaries, led by the orator [[Gaius Fufidius Cato]], gathered in the forum of Septarium and petitioned Legate Titus Nepos for the right to elect a body of their own, a [[Concilium Septariae]], to oversee taxation and local law, citing the example of neighboring [[Neptaris]], which within living memory had cast off its own monarchy for an elected Council. What became known as the [[Sedition of Septarium]] gathered enough support among the capital's merchant class to shut down the grain markets for the better part of a month, but it found no allies among the Kamaran nobility or the crown, both of whom recognized a Senate of Fufidius Cato's design as no less a threat to Dravosid rule than to Imperial rule. King Tarnos II lent his own household guard to the Legate to help clear the forum, and the Legate had Fufidius Cato and eleven of his fellow petitioners exiled to [[Black Isle|Ylargebad Island]] rather than executed, a mercy some historians attribute to T. Nepos's wish not to make martyrs of them so early in his governorship. The Sedition failed, but the grievance did not: the dream of an elected Cambrecian Senate would resurface, in one form or another, for the better part of two centuries to come.<br /> <br /> In the decades following the failed Sedition, Cambrecia settled into an uneasy accommodation with Imperial rule. The Kamaran and Dravosid nobility increasingly adopted Zetian dress, law, and even Latin naming conventions to curry favor with the Legate's court, and King Tarnos II's own household grew steadily more dependent on Imperial recognition to shore up his legitimacy against rival branches of the [[House Dravos|Dravosid line]]. Resistance did not disappear so much as go quiet. Rural landowners, particularly those descended from [[Septimius Varros]]'s veteran-settlers, routinely under-reported their harvests to Procurator Falco's successors, and banditry along the upland roads toward the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], often blamed on displaced tribesmen but just as often the work of disaffected settler youth, grew persistent enough that Legate Titus Nepos was forced to keep a standing garrison there for the remainder of his tenure.<br /> <br /> Legate Titus Nepos commanded the [[Legion III Cambrecia]] for nearly three decades, ruling with the same uncompromising hand that had crushed Cato's rebellion at the Sedition of Septarium, but the Proconsul's refusal to ease taxation even as low-level unrest simmered on eventually drew quiet complaints to [[Zeth]] from the Cambrecian nobility itself, carried through channels the aging Legate never suspected existed. He died at his post in {{ICYear|44}}, worn down less by any single crisis than by the accumulated weight of patrolling a province that had never forgiven him for the Sedition's suppression. His successor, chosen deliberately by the Imperial court to repair the relationship, was [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], whose appointment in {{ICYear|47}} was met in [[Septarium]] with genuine, if cautious, hope. House Livius had, after all, been Cambrecia's first Imperial patron, sponsor of Septimius Varros's own conquest generations before, and many among the Dravosid court believed a Livius Legate would restore some measure of the old client kingdom's dignity. It was a hope that would make what followed all the more bitter.<br /> <br /> Under Legate Isidorus, the Legion moved into what had become known as the [[Cambrecian Mountains]] chasing rumors of wealthy dwarven miners high in the peaks. In a mistake that would resonate for decades to come and permanently alter the political landscape of southern Duria, the Legion slaughtered an ostensibly peaceful dwarven ambassadorial party from the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]], which initiated what would become known as the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]] in the Empire with the express intention of conquering the subterranean Kingdom. The Legion spent the first few months of the "War" failing to even locate the entrance to the underground mountain kingdom. The dwarves were shocked by the behavior of humans they thought were friendly and prepared themselves for battle, but cooler heads prevailed and an envoy was sent to [[Neptaris]], who had allied with the dwarves of Derlos some six centuries prior during the [[War of the Dark Rider]]. After brief deliberations, [[the Triumvirate]] of Neptaris secretly decided to maintain their alliance with [[Derlos]] and prepare for war against this new Empire. In {{ICYear|55}}, Neptaris formally declared war on Zeth and immediately took one of their key military outposts in the foothills of the Cambrecian Mountains, [[Fort Pagulium]].<br /> <br /> Over the next two centuries, Cambrecia saw many rebellions as its citizens tried to found a new Senate in the capital city of [[Zelosia City|Septarium]]. The Imperial response was heavy-handed at first, but in {{ICYear|149}}, the Emperor [[Metius the Elder]] decided on a more surreptitious approach to quelling the Cambrecians. In his role as [[Pontifex Maximus]] of the Imperial pantheon, he sent the [[Pontifex of Zelos]], god of the State, to Septarium to build a great cathedral and begin the conversion of the populous to [[Zelos]]. The Pontifex of the time, [[Ionnanes II]], was a persuasive man, and was able to quickly convert most of the local leadership to his banner. Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.</div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Imperial_Cambrecia&diff=22559 Imperial Cambrecia 2026-09-09T21:13:59Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference|article=Imperial Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}</includeonly><noinclude>{{EventArticle<br /> |startyear= 751<br /> |startyearcirca= <br /> |endyear= 1473<br /> |endyearcirca= <br /> |continent= Duria<br /> |previous_article= Foundation of Cambrecia<br /> |following_article=The Cambrecian Civil Wars<br /> |main_article=The History of Cambrecia<br /> }}</noinclude><br /> When word reached [[Zelosia City|Septarium]] that the Senate had dissolved itself and that [[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]] had been proclaimed Emperor in {{ICYear|1}}, the court of King [[Tarnos II Dravos|Tarnos II]] met the news with open dismay. Cambrecia's client status had been built on a personal bond of patronage: first to [[Rufus Voltina of House Livius|Consul Rufus Voltina]], then, through [[Septimius Varros]], to [[House Varro]] itself. An Emperor drawn from [[House Zetar]], a family with no history of patronage in Cambrecia, offered the Dravosid crown no such assurance. Tarnos II delayed sending envoys to Zeth for the better part of two years and when he finally did swear allegiance, Cambrecia was the last of the outer territories of the old Republic to do so. Some court chroniclers of the following century would frame this hesitation as principled loyalty to the memory of House Varro and, perhaps, a growing sentiment towards the worship of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], god of the state; others, less charitably, suggested that Tarnos II and his ministers, chief among them his uncle Vardanos (a local title roughly translated as 'guardian of the hearth') [[Aroneth Dravos|Aroneth]], feared that direct Imperial oversight would strip away the informal privileges the Kamaran nobility had enjoyed as a favored client kingdom rather than a subject province.<br /> <br /> The Emperor was not inclined to let the delay pass unanswered. In {{ICYear|6}}, Octavius dispatched [[Titus Nepos of House Gabinius|Legate Titus Nepos]] of [[House Gabinius]], a family already notorious for its uncompromising governorships in [[Aescalapea]], to formalize Cambrecia's place within the Empire. Titus Nepos garrisoned a cohort of the [[Legion III Cambrecia|Third Legion]] within Septarium itself, the first standing Imperial troops the capital had ever hosted. T. Nepos also established a permanent legate's residence beside the royal palace, a deliberate arrangement meant to remind the Dravosid court exactly whose authority now took precedence in matters of war, law, and foreign relations. Alongside him came [[Gnaeus Falco|Procurator Gnaeus Falco]], charged with conducting Cambrecia's first Imperial census and establishing the tribute rolls by which the province would be taxed. Falco's assessors moved through the fields and foothills of Cambrecia methodically, and by {{ICYear|11}} the old exemptions once granted to Septimius Varros's veteran-settlers, whose descendants had, for two generations, paid only nominal dues to the Dravosid crown, were formally abolished. It is said that many of these descendants were worshipers of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]], god of the state, and among them there were murmured accusations of tyranny under the new Zetian Emperor.<br /> <br /> It was both this loss of exemption and moral outrage that finally broke the Cambrecian people into open unrest. In {{ICYear|13}}, a coalition of wealthy landowners descended from Septimius's retired legionaries, led by the orator [[Gaius Fufidius Cato]], gathered in the forum of Septarium and petitioned Legate Titus Nepos for the right to elect a body of their own, a [[Concilium Septariae]], to oversee taxation and local law, citing the example of neighboring [[Neptaris]], which within living memory had cast off its own monarchy for an elected Council. What became known as the [[Sedition of Septarium]] gathered enough support among the capital's merchant class to shut down the grain markets for the better part of a month, but it found no allies among the Kamaran nobility or the crown, both of whom recognized a Senate of Fufidius Cato's design as no less a threat to Dravosid rule than to Imperial rule. King Tarnos II lent his own household guard to the Legate to help clear the forum, and the Legate had Fufidius Cato and eleven of his fellow petitioners exiled to [[Black Isle|Ylargebad Island]] rather than executed, a mercy some historians attribute to T. Nepos's wish not to make martyrs of them so early in his governorship. The Sedition failed, but the grievance did not: the dream of an elected Cambrecian Senate would resurface, in one form or another, for the better part of two centuries to come.<br /> <br /> In the decades following the failed Sedition, Cambrecia settled into an uneasy accommodation with Imperial rule. The Kamaran and Dravosid nobility increasingly adopted Zetian dress, law, and even Latin naming conventions to curry favor with the Legate's court, and King Tarnos II's own household grew steadily more dependent on Imperial recognition to shore up his legitimacy against rival branches of the [[House Dravos|Dravosid line]]. Resistance did not disappear so much as go quiet. Rural landowners, particularly those descended from [[Septimius Varros]]'s veteran-settlers, routinely under-reported their harvests to Procurator Falco's successors, and banditry along the upland roads toward the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], often blamed on displaced tribesmen but just as often the work of disaffected settler youth, grew persistent enough that Legate Titus Nepos was forced to keep a standing garrison there for the remainder of his tenure.<br /> <br /> Legate Titus Nepos commanded the [[Legion III Cambrecia]] for nearly three decades, ruling with the same uncompromising hand that had crushed Cato's rebellion at the Sedition of Septarium, but the Proconsul's refusal to ease taxation even as low-level unrest simmered on eventually drew quiet complaints to [[Zeth]] from the Cambrecian nobility itself, carried through channels the aging Legate never suspected existed. He died at his post in {{ICYear|44}}, worn down less by any single crisis than by the accumulated weight of patrolling a province that had never forgiven him for the Sedition's suppression. His successor, chosen deliberately by the Imperial court to repair the relationship, was [[Cyricus Isidorus of House Livius|Cyricus Isidorus]] of [[House Livius]], whose appointment in {{ICYear|47}} was met in [[Septarium]] with genuine, if cautious, hope. House Livius had, after all, been Cambrecia's first Imperial patron, sponsor of Septimius Varros's own conquest generations before, and many among the Dravosid court believed a Livius Legate would restore some measure of the old client kingdom's dignity. It was a hope that would make what followed all the more bitter.<br /> <br /> Under Legate Isidorus, the Legion moved into what had become known as the [[Cambrecian Mountains]] chasing rumors of wealthy dwarven miners high in the peaks. In a mistake that would resonate for decades to come and permanently alter the political landscape of southern Duria, the Legion slaughtered an ostensibly peaceful dwarven ambassadorial party from the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]], which initiated what would become known as the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]] in the Empire with the express intention of conquering the subterranean Kingdom. The Legion spent the first few months of the "War" failing to even locate the entrance to the underground mountain kingdom. The dwarves were shocked by the behavior of humans they thought were friendly and prepared themselves for battle, but cooler heads prevailed and an envoy was sent to [[Neptaris]], who had allied with the dwarves of Derlos some six centuries prior during the [[War of the Dark Rider]]. After brief deliberations, [[the Triumvirate]] of Neptaris secretly decided to maintain their alliance with [[Derlos]] and prepare for war against this new Empire. In {{ICYear|}}, Neptaris formally declared war on Zeth and immediately took one of their key military outposts in the foothills of the Cambrecian Mountains, [[Fort Pagulium]].<br /> <br /> Over the next two centuries, Cambrecia saw many rebellions as its citizens tried to found a new Senate in the capital city of [[Zelosia City|Septarium]]. The Imperial response was heavy-handed at first, but in {{ICYear|149}}, the Emperor [[Metius the Elder]] decided on a more surreptitious approach to quelling the Cambrecians. In his role as [[Pontifex Maximus]] of the Imperial pantheon, he sent the [[Pontifex of Zelos]], god of the State, to Septarium to build a great cathedral and begin the conversion of the populous to [[Zelos]]. The Pontifex of the time, [[Ionnanes II]], was a persuasive man, and was able to quickly convert most of the local leadership to his banner. Over the next few centuries, as the power of the Empire waned in its northern territories, the Pontifex of Zelos was able to secure greater and greater power within Cambrecia, often without the Emperor's knowledge or consent. By {{ICYear|534}}, Cambrecia had become a monarchy, independent in most of its internal affairs.</div>

Noctifer http://www.infernaldreams.com/feywiki/index.php?title=Third_Age_of_Man_Timeline&diff=22558 Third Age of Man Timeline 2026-09-09T21:12:59Z

<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div><includeonly>{{Article_Reference<br /> |article= Third Age of Man Timeline<br /> }}</includeonly><br /> {| width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"<br /> |- class="tableheader" valign="bottom"<br /> |width="100" align="center"|'''Imperial Year''' <br /> |width="100" align="center"|'''Aebasan Year'''<br /> |width="100" align="center"|'''Neptaran Year'''<br /> |'''Event'''<br /> {{EventRow|120|odd|<br /> * [[The Third Age of Man]] begins; [[The Foundation of Zeth]]<br /> * [[Orris of House Ikthian]] is found in exile in the [[Arisian forest]] and is crowned King of [[Neptaris|Neptag]], despite the fact that he had neither visited the city before nor spoke the language. [[The First Neptaran Ecumenical Council|the First Ecumenical Council]] is called to determine who should serve as Regent. [[Joandar]], Rector of [[the House of the Quill]] and himself half-elven (though raised by his human family), was chosen to serve.<br /> * Rise of the [[Empire of Balguran]]}}<br /> {{EventRow|121|even|[[The War of the Dark Rider]] beings as [[The Dark Rider|the Dark Rider]], a mysterious dark-armored figure upon a demonic horse, leads the orcs of [[Karad-ul]] in an attack on the dwarves of the Kingdom of [[Derlos]], beneath the [[Cambrecian Mountains]]. Though the orcs sustain heavy losses, they far outnumber the dwarven defenders.}}<br /> {{EventRow|124|odd|[[The War of the Dark Rider]] escalates as the orcs of [[Karad-ul]] find a way into the royal court of [[Sverni VII]], King of [[Derlos]] and massacre his entire court. A contingent of dwarven refugees flee to the surface and approach the elves of the [[Arisian forest]] to request assistance. The elves are at first resistant to the idea, but when the orcs of Karad-ul began to stream from the mountains to attack the elves, they quickly organize with the dwarven refugees to fight the orcs to a stand-still.}}<br /> {{EventRow|126|even|[[Neptaris|Neptag]], under the young King [[Orris]], formally enters [[the War of the Dark Rider]] in support of the dwarves of [[Derlos]] and the [[Arisian elves]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|152|odd|[[Meargagh]], chieftain of the [[Kamaros]], jealous of [[Neptaris|Neptag's]] wealth, besieges the city but fails to breach its walls.}}<br /> {{EventRow|155|even|[[Meargagh]], chieftain of the [[Kamaros]], still jealous of [[Neptaris|Neptag's]] wealth, besieges the city for a second time but again fails to breach its walls.}}<br /> {{EventRow|157|odd|Formal peace is established between the [[Kamaros]] and [[Neptaris|Neptag]] with [[the Treaty of Tawn]] between [[Meargagh]], chieftain of the Kamaros, and [[Regent Joandar]] of Neptag. As a promise of his good behavior, Meargagh offers his eldest son, [[Irgalach]], as hostage to Neptag.}}<br /> {{EventRow|167|even|[[Meargagh]], chieftain of the [[Kamaros]], dies. [[Irgalach son of Meargagh]], his eldest son who was kept hostage in [[Neptag|Neptaris]] as a result of [[the Treaty of Tawn]], is released to assume the Kamaran throne.}}<br /> {{EventRow|170|odd|[[Irgalach son of Meargagh|King Irgalach]] of [[Kamaros]], former hostage of [[Joandar|Regent Joandar]], ruler of [[Neptag|Neptaris]] arrives at the gates of Neptag with a Kamaran army trained in the Neptag battle tactics he learned growing up there. The city falls within a month, with Regent Joandar taken back to Kamaros to serve as tutor for Irgalach's children, leaving the young [[Orris|King Orris]] to rule Neptag as a dependent monarch.}}<br /> {{EventRow|180|even|[[Orris|King Orris]], the young half-elven King of [[Neptaris|Neptag]], allies with the nearby [[House Arisan|Arisan Elves]] and marches on [[Kamaros]], capturing the tactically-critical [[Fort Tintagar]]. He would hold the Fort through five years of near constant warfare and sieges.}}<br /> {{EventRow|185|odd|After five years of war, [[Orris|King Orris]] of [[Neptaris|Neptag]] achieves victory in the [[Last Battle of Kamaros]] when a stray arrow slays [[Irgalach son of Meargagh|King Irgalach]] of the Kamarans. In the resulting treaty, [[Joandar|Regent Joandar]] is released from his imprisonment and returns with King Orris to [[Neptaris|Neptag]], where both receive a hero's welcome.}}<br /> {{EventRow|206|even|A drought strikes southern [[Duria]] and the last of the [[House Arisan|Arisan elves]] depart their forests to seek sanctuary in the city of Neptag. To commemorate the event, the half-elven King of Neptag, [[Orris]], renames the city [[Neptaris]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|210|odd|At the age of 105, the half-elven [[Orris|King Orris]] of [[Neptaris]] abdicates his crown after failing to resolve a rebellion by [[Politos of House Rimman|Politos]] of [[House Rimman]]. As his last act of office, Orris designates his mentor, [[Joandar|Regent Joandar]], to select his successor. He then takes the cloth and becomes a monk of [[Clementia|Clementia the Dove]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|211|even|[[The Second Neptaran Ecumenical Council]] is held by the priests of [[Neptaris]] to revoke the trust [[Orris|King Orris]] had placed in [[Joandar|Regent Joandar]] to select a new King. The people of Neptaris rise up against Joandar and he is stoned on the steps of the [[Clementia|Temple of Clementia]]. Later that year, the Council selects [[Tivan Laes]] of [[House Kraegar]] to become the new ruler of the city. Furthermore, they issued [[the Rule of Neptaris]], which renamed the royal ruler "Neptarch" and established the [[Betshaba|Church of Betshaba]] as the authority through which all nobles would be granted the right to rule.}}<br /> {{EventRow|214|odd|[[Politos of House Rimman|Politos]] of [[House Rimman]], a [[Neptaris|Neptaran]] noble and politician known for his repeated opposition to the selection of a new ruler of the city by [[Joandar|Regent Joandar]] or [[The Second Neptaran Ecumenical Council|the Second Ecumenical Council]] dies in ignominy at the age of 52 when his body is found in a ditch behind a less-than-reputable tavern in the city.}}<br /> {{EventRow|230|even|[[Tivan Laes]] of [[House Kraegar]], first Neptarch of [[Neptaris]], dies and the [[Betshaba|Church of Betshaba]] recognizes his eldest son, [[Iolomar of House Kraegar|Iolomar]] as his successor to the Neptaran throne.}}<br /> {{EventRow|293|odd|[[Republic of Zeth|The Republic]], falsely touted to be the first democracy, is founded in Zeth.}}<br /> {{EventRow|451|even|The semi-legendary [[Velthur the Boar-Crowned|King Velthur]], called the Boar-Crowned, unites the hill-tribes and the plains-folk of [[Milosia]] into one kingdom after leading them to a great victory over a horde of raiding [[Antasian Mountains|Antasian]] giants and goblins. He establishes his seat in the city of [[Tasca Obodos]] and founds the royal [[House Velthuri]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|506|odd|The [[Archmage Veseverus]], an exile from the wizard community in [[Zeth]], secretly unifies various human tribes to the west of [[Camaria]] under his banner as their ruler, founding the [[Medalia|Kingdom of Medellis]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|548|even|[[Sergius II|King Sergius II]] of [[Camaria]] sends envoys to the [[Republic of Zeth]] to request aid against his aggressive neighbors, the [[Medalia|Medellans]]. Though the Senate initially declines his request, a young Senator from [[House Zetar]], [[Marcus Publius of House Zetar]] meets with the King and strikes a private bargain to assist him in convincing the Senate to overturn its decision. M. Publius is successful and the Senate commands the standing [[Defensor Rei Publicae]], [[Crassus of House Zetar]], to take the Legions to defend their Camarian allies. Later historians believe that M. Publius convinced Crassus, his uncle, to conquer Medellis in the name of [[House Zetar]], not for the Republic.}}<br /> {{EventRow|551|odd|[[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] ships first arrive at [[Zeth]] to trade goods from the barbarian north.}}<br /> {{EventRow|556|even|After victory of the [[Medalia|Medellans]] in the [[Battle of Denamore]], the victorious Zetian general [[Crassus of House Zetar|Crassus]] of [[House Zetar]] delares Medellans subject to House Zetar and their ally, the [[Camaria|Camarian]] [[Sergius II|King Sergius II]] his personal client. The Zetian Senate revokes the proclamation later that year, but the concept that a King might be personally considered a client of a member of one of the [[Great Houses]] takes hold in popular imagination in the Republic, paving the inevitable road towards Empire.}}<br /> {{EventRow|559|odd|The [[War of the Golden Coast]] begins when an [[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] pirate vessel attacking [[Zeta|Zetian]] merchant vessels is discovered to be lead by an Aescalapean nobleman.}}<br /> {{EventRow|562|even|During the [[War of the Golden Coast]], [[Zeta|Zeth]] is blockaded by the powerful [[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] navy. The blockade is recalled as Zetian infantry arrive in Aescalapea via [[Ganesia]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|564|odd|The [[War of the Golden Coast]] ends as the [[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] city of [[Dracar]] is sacked by [[Zeta|Zetian]] troops. The Aescalapean royal palace in Dracar is dismantled and its stones used to build a temple to [[Galea]]. [[House Gabinius]] is given oversight of the newly-founded Zetian colony.}}<br /> {{EventRow|611|even|After decades of raids and forays by [[Aescalapea|Aescalapea's]] ruling family, [[House Gabinius]], into neighboring [[Milosia]], the Milosian [[Baltos III|King BaltosIII]] declared all-out war on Aescalapea, initiating what would come to be known as the [[Gabinian War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|616|odd|Struggling with a stalemate in the [[Gabinian War]], [[House Gabinius]] of [[Aescalapea]] forms an unofficial alliance with the King of nearby [[Cordosia]], who already had great personal enmity with the Milosian [[Baltos III|King Baltos III]]. The addition of Cordosian soldiers tips the scales of the war, but it will still be 15 bloody years before Aescalapea is victorious.}}<br /> {{EventRow|623|even|A [[Zeta|Zetian]] war armada launches from Zeths, sailing eastward towards [[Duria]] to stem the tide of pirates attacking Republican merchant vessels in the [[Betshaban Ocean]]. Under command of the aging [[Androcles of House Livius|Androcles]] of [[House Livius]], the armada runs into several misadventures before finally arriving at [[Black Isle|Ylargebad Island]] the following year.}}<br /> {{EventRow|624|odd|[[Androcles of House Livius|Androcles]] of [[House Livius]], in command of the [[Zeta|Zetian]] armada, arrives at [[Black Isle|Ylargebad Island]], south of modern-day [[Koramia]]. His legion quickly defeats the unprepared barbarian pirates who called Ylargebad home and he establishes a colonial outpost on the island at the village of Lar Glarsaw, which he renames [[Marebellium]]. Androcles sends envoys to the mainland and establishes a relationship with a native tribe he calls the [[Tracini]]. He is named [[Comes Litoris Tracini]] ([[Count of the Tracini Shore]]) by a grateful Senate. This would be the first non-defensive conquest by [[the Zetian Republic]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|626|even|[[Androcles of House Livius|Androcles]] of [[House Livius]], [[Comes Litoris Tracini]] dies of natural causes in [[Marebellium]]. His body is returned to Zeth, where he receives a full state funeral. [[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] is named his successor as [[Comes Litoris Tracini]] but remains in Zeth.}}<br /> {{EventRow|628|odd|[[Larstat II]], a king of the northern barbarians who lived in present-day [[Koramia]], sends a messenger to [[Zeth]] to purchase mercenaries to assist in his war against the [[Xaclos]]. His envoys are welcomed by the Senate and lauded by [[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]], who sees an opportunity in rendering assistance to the Tracini. Under the auspices of his title as [[Comes Litoris Tracini]], M. Argentis begins to build a legion and fleet to transport them to Duria.}}<br /> {{EventRow|630|even|[[Septimius Varros]], the Legate who would one day conquer [[Cambrecia]] in the name of the Zetian Republic, is born to a plebian household.}}<br /> {{EventRow|631|odd|<br /> * The [[Gabinian War]] ends with an Aescalapean victory at the [[Battle of Tasca Obodos]]. The Milosian king is captured and executed by the victorious general, [[Menander of House Gabinius|Menander]] of [[House Gabinius]], but most of the Milosian soldiers flee westward across the [[Antasian Mountains]] with Menander's legion in pursuit.<br /> * [[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] arrives with a [[Zeta|Zetian]] fleet on the shores of present-day [[Koramia]] in support of [[Larstat II|King Larstat II]] of the [[Tracini]] in their conflict against the [[Xaclos]]. He would continue to march his legion across the [[Divian Peninsula]], bringing tribe after tribe under his command, claiming them as his personal clients.<br /> }}<br /> {{EventRow|644|even|[[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] returns to [[Zeta|Zeth]] from his conquests on the [[Divian Peninsula]]. By this point, his legion is mostly composed of foreign legionnaires loyal to him personally as their patron. Hearing rumors that the Senate was planning to arrest him for despotism, M. Argentis personally initiated his own Triumph through Zeth. When the Senate saw the popular support that M. Argentis received, they quickly acknowledged his heroic status and showered him with accolades, including a titular grant as [[Dux Duriae]] (Duke of Duria). M. Argentis returned to Duria to continue his conquests.}}<br /> {{EventRow|650|odd|[[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] dies in the [[Battle of Silva Bartica]] fighting against the Bartovici tribe in the northern reaches of the [[Divian Peninsula]]. His nephew and heir, [[Antonius Argentis]] takes up the [[Dracones]] of [[House Zetar]] and leads the legion to victory. Antonius Argentis is raised to [[Dux Duriae]] by the legion and the Zetian Senate (wisely) ratifies the declaration the following year.}}<br /> {{EventRow|654|even|By this time, [[the Zetian Republic|Zetian legions]] under the command of [[Marcus Argentis of House Zetar|Marcus Argentis]] of [[House Zetar]] and his successor, [[Antonius Argentis of House Zetar|Antonius Argentis]], have conquered the [[Divian Peninsula]], including present-day [[Illyria]] and even parts of the elven [[Webwood]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|664|odd|[[Septimius of House Varros]] defeats [[Aaronar VI]], the last King of the [[Kamaros]], in present-day Cambrecia}}<br /> {{EventRow|666|even|The Senate of the [[Republic of Zeth]] votes overwhelmingly to establish [[House Varro]], the first new [[Great Houses of Zeth|Great House]] since the foundation of Zeth by the [[Septira]] to honor the hero of the [[Foundation of Cambrecia|Cambrecian Campaign]], [[Septimius Varros]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|670|odd|[[Valerius Marcosi]] establishes the [[Code of Urban Law]] in [[Neptaris]], the legal document that would be used in the city for the next millennia and a half.}}<br /> {{EventRow|676|even|[[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] holds its first democratic elections under [[Valerius Marcosi|Valerius Marcosi's]] [[Valerian Code|Code of Urban Law]], establishing the Triumvirate.}}<br /> {{EventRow|717|odd|[[Septimius Varros]] of [[House Varro]] dies peacefully at the age of 87 in [[Zelosia City|Septarium]], the city he founded at the dawn of the conquest of what would become known as the [[Cambrecia|Holy See of Cambrecia]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|721|even|[[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]], first emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]], is born}}<br /> {{EventRow|751|odd|[[Octavius of House Zetar]] elected first Emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]] by the Senate, ending the [[Republic of Zeth|Republic]]. [[Cambrecia]] is one of the last of the Outer Territories of the Republic to acknowledge his rulership, and rebellions will scar the nation for the next century and a half.}}<br /> {{EventRow|766|even|The first emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]], [[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]], dies and is succeeded by his brother, [[Claudius of House Zetar|Claudius]]}}<br /> {{EventRow|800|odd|The Imperial Legion in [[Cambrecia]] slaughters a dwarven delegation from [[Derlos]], sparking what the Empire would call the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]]. Dwarven emissaries go to the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] to enjoin assistance from their ancient allies. Secretly, the Neptaran [[Triumvirate]] agree and Neptaris quietly prepares for war.}}<br /> {{EventRow|805|even|In support of their ancient allies among the dwarves of the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]] beneath the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] declares war on the young [[Great Empire|Zetian Empire]], initiating what they would call [[the First Cambrecian War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|899|even|After a century and a half of endless rebellions, Emperor [[Metius the Elder of House Livius]] sends [[Ionnanes II]], Pontifex of [[Zelos]], to [[Septarium]] in an attempt to quell the rebels through conversion.}}<br /> {{EventRow|936|odd|[[St. Garimund of Ryard|Garimund of Ryard]] discovers the [[Galley of Destiny]] and the [[Koram]], the holy book upon which the [[Koramian Heresy]] is based.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1062|even|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[Antigonus Gabinius]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1068|odd|[[Antipater Varro]] becomes first [[Time of Elected Emperors|Elected Emperor]] since Octavius.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1071|even|Imperial forces defeat the last of the pretenders to the Imperial throne, ending the [[First Succession War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1095|odd|Farmers, irritated with Imperial power in [[Cambrecia]], migrate to present-day [[Enesia]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1121|even|[[Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]] murders ruling Emperor, ending the [[Time of Elected Emperors]] and starting the [[Second Succession War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1126|odd|[[Octavius Augustus Zetar]] defeats [[Vitellis Gabinius]], last of the pretenders, ending the [[Second Succession War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1181|even|The [[Empire of Balguran]] crumbles; [[Adanar]] is founded by [[King Falgran]]}}<br /> {{EventRow|1276|odd|The [[School of St. Aurelius in Utherios]], one of the oldest existing bardic colleges outside of the Empire, is established in [[Enesia]]}}<br /> {{EventRow|1378|even|The last two Imperial garrisons in present-day [[Koramia]] proclaim their independence from the Empire, ending Imperial rule in the region.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1395|odd|King [[Alexius Duros]] is quietly crowned in [[Enesia]] by the local Episcopus of [[Podalirius]], establishing the nation as a monarchy. The Emperor of Zeth does not act to prevent this act of independence.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1467|even|[[Simão Gautaz]], a mercenary captain, is exiled from the [[Dregnost|Kingdom of Dregnost]] and uses his army to conquer the Naderan peninsula, founding the [[Nadera|Kingdom of Nadera]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1474|odd|The Emperor [[Cecropius of House Gradivius]] pens a letter to the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in [[Septarium]] informing him that [[Cambrecia]] will have to see to its own defenses, signaling the end of true Imperial power on the continent of [[Duria]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1504|even|The city of [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] in present-day [[Koramia]] proclaims its independence from the local barbarian king, using Neptaris as a model for its government.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1512|odd|[[Jeremiah Tovex]], last of the [[Cambrecia|Cambrecian Kings]], abdicates his power of rulership to the Pontifex of [[Zelos]], making [[Geraldus]] the first [[Potentate of Cambrecia]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1554|even|The Electorate in [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] decides to disband and elects [[Bernard Margwenth]] as its [[Lord Earl]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1575|odd|The [[War of Flame]] begins between [[Berig Gautaz|Berig of House Gautaz]] of [[Nadera]] and [[House Vazdid]] of [[Lagorka]] due to a series of misunderstandings over a shipping accident in Lagorkan waters. Nadera finds itself unprepared for the onslaught and many Naderan cities are burned.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1582|even|[[Berig Gautaz|King Berig of House Gautaz]] of [[Nadera]] is captured at the [[Battle of the Dusk Hills]] by the [[Lagorka|Lagorkan]] forces of [[House Vazdid]], ending the [[War of the Flame]]. Nadera becomes a colony of Lagorka under the patronage/ownership of House Vazdid. The [[Saphracine Watch]] is founded to guard [[Vazdid]] interests there.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1644|odd|A bloody civil war in the [[Earldom of Margwenth]] in present-day [[Koramia]] ends in the re-establishment of the Electorate by followers of [[Vortumnus]] under the banner of [[Tristan Greysword I]] and the city of Paladinium is renamed [[Paeldain]] in defiance to its Imperial roots}}<br /> {{EventRow|1650|even|After centuries of denying power to the nobility and, eventually, inheritance by primogeniture, the [[Potentate of Zelos]] convinces the Emperor [[Metaurus of House Drusus]] to grant the nation of [[Cambrecia]] to the Church of [[Zelos]], thus establishing the Holy See of Cambrecia and permanently destroying the power of the noble families. The capital city of [[Septarium]] is renamed [[Zelosia City]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1723|odd|After a crippling merchant war at home in [[Lagorka]], the [[Vazdids]] leave [[Nadera]], which is subsequently plundered by Vazdid's enemies.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1730|even|The [[Gray Lord of Thet]] is defeated in the [[Battle of Bloodrust]] in [[Adanar]] by [[King Ilyard]] of [[Haleli]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1739|odd|[[Aishah Izuel|Aishah of House Izuel]] of [[Trevena]], [[Nadera]] swears to bring order to the nation and begins her violent two-year rise to the crown, eventually becoming Queen Aishah "the Bloody."}}<br /> {{EventRow|1741|even|By this time, [[Aishah Izuel|Aishah "the Bloody"]] has taken effective control of [[Nadera]] and is crowned Sovereign Queen.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1752|odd|Death without issue of Emperor [[Orestes Sergius]] results in the [[Third Succession War]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1780|even|Queen [[Zebba Izuel|Zebba of House Izuel]] of [[Nadera]] expands the powers of the [[Saphracine Watch]] to include spying upon and enforcing the Royal Will on the nobility.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1779|odd|[[Gaius Aurelius Zetar]] defeats [[Manius Acilius Drusus]], ending the [[Third Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1783|even||The [[Fell King]] of [[Thet]] marches against [[Adanar]], starting the [[Long War]]}}<br /> {{EventRow|1805|odd|With the death of Queen [[Zebba]] in [[Nadera]] and the subsequent assassination of her successor by the [[Saphracine Watch]], the [[Succession War]] begins.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1825|even|The signing of the [[Naderan Royal Code]] ends the [[Naderan Civil War]] after twenty long years, establishing the [[Council of Princes]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1835|odd|[[Cyrus Etxeleku|King Cyrus of House Etxeleku]] of [[Bastida]], first elected King of [[Nadera]], abdicates as required by the [[Naderan Royal Code]]. By the end of the year, [[Salabus Arostegi|Prince Salabus of House Arostegi]] of [[Talergo]] is elected to the Royal Seat and immediately begins to reform the [[Saphracine Watch]] into an organization focused on information gathering outside Nadera's borders.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1858|even|The bloody [[War of Eagles]] begins in [[Adanar]] with the death of King [[Galen Tolgran]] without heir.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1879|odd|King [[Valmaar Vercimanon]] is victorious in the [[War of Eagles]] in Adanar, but the power of the crown is crushed; as a result, the [[Council of Lords]] is founded and gains the power to make laws.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1905|even|King [[Myrsus Varuna]] of [[Nadera]], elected to his position by the [[Council of Princes]], mandates that the [[Saphracine Watch]] be used to spy on its neighbors, instead of dealing with internal dissention.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1907|odd|In a successful bid to stabilize the struggling [[Nadera|Naderan]] economy, [[Myrsus Varuna|King Myrsus Varuna]] establishes several key trade agreements with neighboring states, promising intelligence gathered by the [[Saphracine Watch]]. This expanded Nadera's ability to gather intelligence abroad, establishing the Watch as an international spy organization.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1912|even|[[William I Greysword|William Greysword]], future King William I of [[Koramia]], is born to [[Richard III Greysword]], Lord Earl of Margwenth, who's seat of power was the city of [[Paeldain]] on the southern coast of the [[Divian Peninsula]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1930|odd|[[William I Greysword|William V Greysword]] is elected [[Lord Earl of Paeldain]], the youngest to hold that position}}<br /> {{EventRow|1933|even|In a narrow election by the Electorate in [[Paeldain]], William V Greysword is crowned King [[William I Greysword|William I]] of Paeldain and Lord Protector of the Koramic Code.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1947|odd|King [[William I Greysword|William I]] of [[Paeldain]] receives a vision from [[Vortumnus]], commanding him to re-unify the lands of present-day [[Koramia]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1948|even|The [[Potentate of Cambrecia]] releases trade restrictions on [[Neptaris]], resulting in increased trade and a strengthening of the merchant class in both regions.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1952|odd|The Prelate of Vortumnus in [[Paeldain]], a close ally of [[William I Greysword|King William I]] of Paeldain dies and his successor, [[Urbanus I]], is chosen by King William himself. [[Plancus of House Zetar|Emperor Plancus]] of the [[Great Empire]] sends his own priest to take on the mantle, who only finds the Prelatal Estate already inhabited. Neutered by a local priesthood that refused to recognize his authority, the Imperial Prelate returns to Zeth and Urbanus I is pronounced First Prelate of Vortumnus under the [[Koram]]. The [[Potentate of Cambrecia]] issues a strong message of condemnation for who he names the Heretic-King and breaks off trade relations with Paeldain and any who flock to the Greysword’s banner.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1958|even|[[William I Greysword|King William I]] of [[Paeldain]] is proclaimed King of [[Koramia]]. The Potentate of [[Cambrecia]] declares war on Koramia and its so-called "Heretic King", a declaration which is reciprocated by King William.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1960|odd|[[Koramia]] is reunified under [[William I Greysword|King William Greysword I]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1961|even|[[William I Greysword|William Greysword I]], King of Koramia, dies in battle, but leaves a legacy of a relatively peaceful kingdom to his heir.}}<br /> {{EventRow|1997|odd|[[Kor'dal]] becomes [[Great Khan]] of the orcs of [[Tazgrat]] and begins to march his armies towards the [[Mabean Marches]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1998|even|<br /> * In the [[Mabean Marches]], an orcish horde led by the Khan [[Kor'dal]] takes the [[Twin Towers]]. Peace is established between [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]] and [[Ywys]] and an alliance is formed against the orcish horde. Imperial law is re-written to allow the existence of Allied States.<br /> * [[Lucasa]] becomes [[Mage-King]] of [[Lun Dorak]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|1999|odd|<br /> * As Lucius, Mage-King [[Lucasa]] secretly becomes advisor to Emperor [[Publius Antonius]] of [[House Zetar]].<br /> * [[Kor'dal]] is defeated by a combined Imperial and Powean army in the [[Battle of Two Kings]] in the [[Mabean Marches]]. His horde quickly disperses, but continues to trouble the Marches.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2000|even|<br /> * The [[Goblet of Gundagor]] is discovered in [[Koramia]] and returned to the dwarves under the [[Divian Mountains]]; end of the [[Second War of the Sun]]. Baron [[Algernon Marn]] of Koramia becomes first human ambassador to the dwarves in millennia.<br /> * The Imperial fleet sets sail for [[Koramia]] in a planned surprise attack on the nation. Later that year, [[William I Greysword|William Greysword I]], First King of Koramia, returns to lead his country against the Imperial invasion.<br /> * The dwarves of the [[Janos Mountains]], having received word about the return of the [[Goblet of Gundagore]], arrive in [[Adanar]] to establish trade relations with humans. The Adan, having never ever heard of the Goblet, are confused, but eagerly begin trading with the metal-rich dwarves.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2001|odd|<br /> * The assembled Imperial army, allied with [[Illyria]] and [[Cambrecia]], attacks [[Koramia]]. By the end of the season, Illyria betrays the Empire and allies with Koramia, who grants her independence. An orcish army, led by a former prisoner of Illyria known as [[Gar'dun]], joins Koramian effort. Later that year, civil war erupts in Illyria between those loyal to the crown and those who support the Empire.<br /> * In the [[Dragonlands]], the [[Order of the Brilliant Lance]], the Dragonknights, are reformed. Later in the year, Imperial forces are dealt harsh defeat at the [[First Battle of Paeldain]] in Koramia when the [[Glorious Galley]], of Vortumnian legend, appears with a Dragonknight at the helm.<br /> * In [[Lun Dorak]], the Mage-King [[Lucasa]] discovers the [[Magesword]].<br /> * Near Webwood Forest, [[Math Mathowny]], villain of the [[Tuatha de Dannan]], is slain by [[Cuchulain]].<br /> * [[Rodrigo III Espadalva|Falgao Rodrigo III Espadalva]] of [[Adanar]] grants territory along his eastern border with [[Thet]] to the newly arrived dwarven traders there, founding the nation of [[Valduran]].}}<br /> {{EventRow|2002|even|<br /> * The only son of Emperor [[Publius Antonius]] dies. The Emperor's closest advisor, [[Lucasa|Lucius]], is named heir. Lucius, now of [[House Zetar]], leads the armies in [[Koramia]] and succeeds in taking [[Paeldain]]. [[William I Greysword|King William Greysword I]] and his family are slain defending Paeldain. The Greysword's son-in-law, [[Gawyn Asheva]], is crowned King and flees to a hidden stronghold in the [[Divian Mountains]]. Late in the year, the Emperor of Zeth dies and is succeeded by Lucius, who reveals himself to be the [[Mage-King]], Lucasa of [[Lun Dorak]]. The Imperial capital is moved to the [[Sapphire City]] in Lun Dorak.<br /> * In [[Adanar]], the dwarves of the Janos mountains open an embassy and begin trade negotiations with humans in the region.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2003|odd|<br /> * [[Gar'dun]] becomes [[Great Khan]], uniting the orcish tribes of [[Vor Midal]] and attacks [[Lun Dorak]].<br /> * With the assistance of Gar'dun, the Dragonknights attack the [[Sapphire City]] and defeat the ailing [[Mage-King]], who soon dies of an unknown illness. Without its Mage-King, the [[Dorakian Empire]] immediately crumbles.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2004|even|The Imperial Governor of the [[Mabean Marches]] dies and civil war erupts between loyalists to the Empire and local forces. By the end of the year, [[Tancorix]], a Mabean member of the Imperial forces in the Mabean Marches, betrays and defeats Imperial forces. He is crowned King of [[Donnagh Saoristat|Donnagh]] by the druids of [[Ywys]]. Ywys breaks its alliance with the Empire and allies with Donnagh.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2005|odd|<br /> * [[Dracia]] declares independence from the Empire and [[Vladimir Vtalasav]] is crowned King.<br /> * King [[Clovar V Tuepierre]] declares independence from the Empire and officially converts to the [[Koramian Heresy]], wherein [[Vortumnus]] is viewed as King of the Gods. Civil war immediately erupts.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2006|even|[[Mitaria]] is attacked by an armada of [[Valtaan|Valtang]] warships. Instead of merely raiding, the Valtang barbarians begin building forts and seem intent on taking the country. Mitaria requests assistance from the Empire. Still without an Emperor, the Empire sends no troops to Mitaria to defend it from the Valtang invaders. King [[Tostig the Red]] of the Valtang arrives in Mitaria to lead the invasion.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2007|odd| <br /> * With most of the Imperial troops in Mitaria defeated, King [[Tostig the Red]] names his son, [[Aelfric the Bold]], King of Mitaria and returns to Valtaan.<br /> * After a year of sporadic incursions, the orcs of [[Vor Midal]], under the leadership of [[Gar'dun]], attack their former elven allies of the [[Webwood]] en masse. Over the next two years, most of the southern Webwood is burned to ash and well over three-fifths of the survivors departed the Webwood as refugees in nearby human lands.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2009|even|King [[Clovar V Tuepierre]] of Narbonne is slain in battle and his son, [[Dagaric]], is crowned King by the Bishop of [[Grischamp]]. By the end of the season, Dagaric has quelled most of the fighting in the nation with the assistance of the [[Order of the Red Band]], an order of Koramian Paladins.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2011|odd|The [[Crimson Plague]] strikes in [[Lagorka]] and quickly spreads along trade routes westward. By the end of the year, the Plague has reached [[Aebasa]], despite sometimes militant attempts to curb its spread.}}<br /> {{EventRow|2012|even|<br /> * The [[Crimson Plague]] strikes in [[Neptaris]], likely brought by traders from the east. From Neptaris, the Plague spreads quickly to [[Koramia]], [[Tamerynd]] and [[Zeth]].<br /> * The [[Fourth Succession War]] grinds to a stalemate as the Crimson Plague takes several prominent leaders and decimates the population.<br /> * The [[Valtaan|Valtang]] barbarians of Mitaria march on [[Narbonne]].}}<br /> |}<noinclude>{{Fey_Source<br /> |chapter= History<br /> |article= Timeline<br /> }}[[Category:History]][[Category:Timelines]][[Category:The Third Age of Man]]</noinclude></div>

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<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div>{{CenCal|8}}<br /> ==Events==<br /> ===Aurea===<br /> ====[[721]]====<br /> * [[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]], first emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]], is born<br /> ====[[751]]====<br /> * [[Octavius of House Zetar]] elected first Emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]] by the Senate, ending the [[Republic of Zeth|Republic]]. <br /> ====[[766]]====<br /> * The first emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]], [[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]], dies and is succeeded by his brother, [[Claudius of House Zetar|Claudius]]<br /> ===Duria===<br /> ====[[717]]====<br /> * [[Septimius Varros]] of [[House Varro]] dies peacefully in [[Zelosia City|Septarium]], the city he founded at the dawn of the conquest of what would become known as the [[Cambrecia|Holy See of Cambrecia]].<br /> ====[[751]]====<br /> * [[Cambrecia]] is one of the last of the Colonies of the Republic to acknowledge the rulership of Octavius of House Zetar, and rebellions will scar the colony the next century and a half.<br /> ====[[800]]====<br /> * The Imperial Legion in [[Cambrecia]] slaughters a dwarven delegation from [[Derlos]], sparking what the Empire would call the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]]. Dwarven emissaries go to the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] to enjoin assistance from their ancient allies. Secretly, the Neptaran [[Triumvirate]] agree and Neptaris quietly prepares for war.</div>

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<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div>{{CenCal|9}}<br /> ==General Events==<br /> ===Duria===<br /> ====[[805]]====<br /> * In support of their ancient allies among the dwarves of the [[Derlos|Kingdom of Derlos]] beneath the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] declares war on the young [[Great Empire|Zetian Empire]], initiating what they would call [[the First Cambrecian War]].</div>

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<p>Noctifer: </p> <hr /> <div>{{DecCal|791}}<br /> ==General Events==<br /> ===Duria===<br /> ====[[800]]====<br /> * The Imperial Legion in [[Cambrecia]] slaughters a dwarven delegation from [[Derlos]], sparking what the Empire would call the [[The First Cambrecian War|Derlic War]]. Dwarven emissaries go to the [[Neptaris|Freecity of Neptaris]] to enjoin assistance from their ancient allies. Secretly, the Neptaran [[Triumvirate]] agree and Neptaris quietly prepares for war.</div>

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