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The History of Cambrecia

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===Foundation of Cambrecia===
{{:Foundation of Cambrecia}}
===Imperial Cambrecia===
{{:Imperial Cambrecia}}
===Cambrecia and the Derlic War===
{{:Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}
===Cambrecia and the Long Discontent===
{{:Cambrecia and the Long Discontent}}
===Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace===
{{:Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace}}
===Cambrecia and the Neptaran Crusade===
{{:Cambrecia and the Neptaran Crusade}}
===The Cambrecian Civil Wars===
{{:The Cambrecian Civil Wars}}
===Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia===
{{:Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia}}
===Cambrecia and the Mage War===
{{:Cambrecia and the Mage War}}
===The Zelosian Schism===
{{:The Zelosian Schism}}
===Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods===
{{:Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods}}
===Cambrecia in the Fourth Age===
{{:Cambrecia in the Fourth Age}}
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Cambrecia

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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.
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|name = Cambrecia
|fullname = The Holy See of Cambrecia
|emblem = Fw_cambrecia_web.png
|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.
|continent = Duria
|location = Southern [[Duria]], along the shores of the [[Maroshan Sea]]
|land_area = 21197
|coastline = 285
|terrain = 
|waterways =
* [[Maroshan Sea]]
* [[Septimia River]]
|society= 
|population = 750,000 (90% humans, 4% hobbits, 6% other)
|language = [[Cambrecian Language|Cambrecian]]
|locations= 
|persons = Archbishop [[Alexander Desteos]] of [[Belora]], Archbishop [[Gawyn Marcos]] of [[Amesand]], High Protector [[Marcus Aquilius Severus]] of the [[Golden Guard]]
|government=
|government_type = Theocracy (Potentate, Archbishop, Bishop, Temple Speaker, Podesta)
|ruler = His Holiness the Potentate of Zelos, [[Gabriel II]]
|arms = Potent, a book argent bordered by two altars argent with flames gules, to chief a crown or.
|capital = [[Zelosia City]] (pop 20,450)
|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.
|hostilities = The state has had some skirmishes with pirates from [[Marosh]] and [[Tamerynd]], but has no formally declared wars.
|law = 
|military=
* [[Golden Guard]]
|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.
|pantheon = Formally neutral, though there are strong sympathies to followers of the [[Koramian Heresy]]
|patron = [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]]
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|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.
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|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)
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|black_market = 
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===Foundation of Cambrecia===
{{:Foundation of Cambrecia}}
===Imperial Cambrecia===
{{:Imperial Cambrecia}}
===Cambrecia and the Derlic War===
{{:Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}
===Cambrecia and the Long Discontent===
{{:Cambrecia and the Long Discontent}}
===Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace===
{{:Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace}}
===Cambrecia and the Neptaran Crusade===
{{:Cambrecia and the Neptaran Crusade}}
===The Cambrecian Civil Wars===
{{:The Cambrecian Civil Wars}}
===Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia===
{{:Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia}}
===Cambrecia and the Mage War===
{{:Cambrecia and the Mage War}}
===The Zelosian Schism===
{{:The Zelosian Schism}}
===Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods===
{{:Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods}}
===Cambrecia in the Fourth Age===
{{:Cambrecia in the Fourth Age}}
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{{Duria_Guide|chapter= Regions}}
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Cambrecia and the Neptaran Crusade

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}}</noinclude>To later Cambrecian chroniclers, the century of fighting that followed became known as the [[Neptaran Crusade]]: a holy war that [[Severinus of House Gabinius|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] launched against the [[Neptaris|Neptaran]] democracy, that a second Pontifex and a second Legate, both brothers, fought all over again two generations later, and that finally guttered out only when a third Pontifex judged the whole enterprise not worth finishing.

Severinus's five-year ultimatum expired in {{ICYear|281}} with Neptaris exactly as democratic as it had ever been, and the Pontifex called for a Crusade to free the city from itself. The Crusade was slower to gather than he had hoped, priests and lay Zelosites trickling into [[Septarium]] through the following year before he judged himself ready, and when he finally marched south he brought an army twice the size of anything Neptaris could field. It did not matter. Severinus was a Pontifex, not a general, and at the [[Battle of Perrenoth Fields]] his numbers meant nothing against a Neptaran army under the more experienced [[Lewt Morgar|Marshal Lewt Morgar]] that simply outfought him. The Pontifex escaped the field with what remained of his staff and spent the next decade bleeding Neptaris slowly, through Crusader raiding bands that harried the Territories and burned what they could not hold, rather than risking his own person in the field again.

The war Cambrecia actually remembers begins in {{ICYear|296}}, when Marshall Morgar's men found and destroyed a Crusader camp near the Cambrecian border. [[Garulan Gweri|King Garulan]] called it a village under his own protection and declared war on Neptaris for breach of the [[Treaty of Neptaris]]. Whether it had ever been a village at all is a question Cambrecian chroniclers have never much wanted to ask out loud, since the Church's own doctrine held that legitimate rule justifies itself through evidence rather than assertion, and Garulan's casus belli was never given much of either. It was, at least, a popular war. By {{ICYear|300}}, he and the aging Pontifex Severinus had raised an army and marched into the Territories together, the King leading and the Pontifex accompanying him in body if not in command, and for three grinding years they inched toward Neptaris through guerrilla resistance and a summer of miserable weather. They were within sight of the city's walls in {{ICYear|303}} when Severinus's heart finally gave out. A quarter of the army were crusaders loyal to the Pontifex personally and they departed for Septarium with his body. Garulan, unwilling to spend the rest of the army on a failed siege, retreated with them.

Garulan spent what remained of his reign building [[Fort Speculium]], a fortress raised on the Neptaran border massive enough to anchor a war for a generation. Garulan died in {{ICYear|310}} with the walls nearly finished, and his son [[Medeno III Gweri|Medeno III]], a far less martial man than his father, inherited both the throne and the fortress. He was ready to use it by {{ICYear|313}}, only to watch the Legion he was counting on sail home to [[Zeth]] without him: Emperor [[Androcles Leto]] of [[House Zetar]] had died heirless, and [[the First Succession War]] had begun without any regard for what it cost Cambrecia. The Legion was recalled to secure the Empire at its very capital.

Medeno III spent the better part of a decade fighting alone and losing ground, until the Neptaran [[Angar Tivalos|Marshal Angar Tivalos]] put Fort Speculium itself under siege in {{ICYear|321}}. It held through a mild winter and subsequent spring, and by late summer of {{ICYear|322}}, just as Tivalos looked ready to finally crack it, the [[Legion III Cambrecia]] returned: the Succession War had resolved in [[Antipater of House Varro|Antipater]] of [[House Varro]]'s favor, and his first act as Emperor was to send help. Tivalos was broken at the [[Battle of Mists]].

What followed was less a war than an occupation that never quite incorporated the subjugated into the Empire. The Legate, a careful officer named [[Aulus Ostorius]], judged his own losses too heavy to press on Neptaris and withdrew to Septarium and, Zetian bureaucracy being what it is, reinforcements did not reach him again for five years. When they finally arrived in {{ICYear|327}}, he settled into Fort Speculium as a base and spent over a decade grinding out marginal gains in the Territories that never added up to anything decisive. Tivalos, patient in a way Ostorius was not, simply went around him in {{ICYear|340}} and marched into Cambrecia proper, burning the undefended countryside between the fortress and Septarium while Ostorius dithered over whether it was even real. By {{ICYear|345}}, the damage was done: farmers across southern Cambrecia had had enough, and whole communities picked up and migrated north to the empty shore of the Sea of Swords, land that would eventually be settled properly as [[Enesia]] three centuries later. Medeno III in {{ICYear|344}}, still king of a stalemate, and his son took the throne as [[Corvos II Gweri|Corvos II]], reviving the founding name in a war that badly needed some of the first Corvos's luck.

For a while it looked like the war might simply exhaust itself. Ostorius's Legion, unable to feed itself from a countryside that had emptied out from under it, ended up farming its own abandoned fields to survive, and Tivalos went home to Neptaris a hero, dying in {{ICYear|353}} believing he had won for good. He had not; there had never been a treaty, only an absence of anyone willing to keep fighting. That changed in {{ICYear|360}}, when the [[Caurus of House Valerius|Emperor Caurus]] of [[House Valerius]] appointed a new pair of brothers to break the deadlock: [[Petros of House Zetar|Petros]] as Pontifex, and [[Demetrios Paolus of House Zetar|Demetrious Paolus]] as Legate, both brothers of [[House Zetar]]. They arrived together, refortified Speculium by {{ICYear|363}}, and ran the kind of coordinated campaign Cambrecia had not seen in generations, capturing the Territories' trade centers to strangle Neptaran supply while methodically outmatching a complacent [[Doncan Mathros|Marshal Doncan Mathros]], who was routed at the [[Battle of Dry Fields]] in {{ICYear|367}} and stripped of his rank for it.

Neptaris answered with its own hard man, a smith named [[Prentor Perrenoth]] who imposed martial law and conscripted the city bodily to keep fighting. He put Speculium under [[Siege of Speculium|an eight-month siege]] in {{ICYear|368}} that failed to take the fortress but badly wounded the Legion holding it and when Petros and Demetrios finally struck back in {{ICYear|372}}, they went straight for Neptaris itself rather than fighting over the Territories again. Five months of siege breached the outer walls and killed Perrenoth in the fighting, and the city's defenders fell back to [[Castle Zepharos]] for what should have been the war's final act. It never happened. Before they had even finished reconstructing their siege engines, the entire Legion suddenly picked up and departed for Zeth. Word had reached them that the [[Semelius Secundis of House Furius|Emperor Semelius Secundis]] of [[House Furius]], last of the Elected Emperors, had been murdered by [[Ditis Carnifex of House Gabinius|Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]] in {{ICYear|371}}, plunging Zeth into [[the Second Succession War]]. Petros and Demetrios abandoned the siege overnight to go defend [[Marcellus of House Zetar|Marcellus]]'s claim to the throne. Neptaris took the opening for exactly what it was and retook Fort Speculium while the Legion's back was turned. They pushed gains back into Cambrecian territory that had cost two Legates and thirty years to win in the first place.

By the time the Second Succession Wars were over in {{ICYear|376}}, Corvos II had been king for over thirty years of a war that had outlived two of his predecessors and consumed a piece of his own kingdom's population. The new Pontifex, a quieter man named [[Nicanor of Zelos|Nicanor]], had no appetite for reclaiming what the Zetar brothers had lost, and encouraged the aging King to end the war. Corvos II signed the [[Treaty of Speculium]] in {{ICYear|378}}, granting Neptaris the independence it had already effectively won and formally returning what little Cambrecia had actually managed to hold onto. A century after Severinus first called his Crusade, Cambrecia had spent an entire dynasty's patience, an army's worth of dead, and a piece of its own farmland to end up exactly where the Treaty of Neptaris had left things a hundred years before. Notably, Nicanor failed to formally issue a revocation of Pontifex Severinus' [[Denunciation of Democracy]]... he simply stopped enforcing it.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace

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}}</noinclude>Neptaris had already been an independent, rebel city for sixteen years by the time [[Corvos I Gweri|King Corvos]] was crowned in {{ICYear|166}}. [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] had torn it out of the Empire's hands the same year [[Basran Sugurd|King Basran Sugurd]] died and [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Ionnanes's]] regency began. It wasn't until {{ICYear|173}}, seven years into Corvos's own reign, that [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] took the city within a month and burned three quarters of it to the ground in what would become known to historians as the [[Fortnight of Screams|Pacification of Neptaris]]. Flush with that victory, he marched his Legion northward the following year by way of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], razing any foothill town he suspected of harboring rebel sympathy. King Corvos rode out personally to help organize the towns' defense, an instinct no Sarnicid king had ever shown, and took a wound in the fighting that would trouble him for the rest of his life.

The dwarves of [[Derlos]] ended Zemarchus's campaign for him. Late in {{ICYear|174}}, [[Jormung of Derlos|King Jormung]]'s warriors swept out of the mountains and gutted his Legion, sending the Legate fleeing back to [[Septarium]]. Instead of the sanctuary he expected, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] had him arrested for the massacre in Neptaris and subsequent attack on Imperial citizens in Cambrecia. He was charged with tyranny, treason and parricide (the Pontifex contended the hillfolk were his cousins). Ionnanes II himself presided over the trial. When found guilty, the Legate demanded the right of his station to throw himself on his own sword, but the Pontifex instead ordered ''poena cullei'', the "penalty of the sack." Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius was dressed in a bloody wolfskin, forced to wear wooden shoes and sewn into a heavy sack with a pack of rats. He was carted, screaming, through Septarium and tossed into the [[Septimia River]] to drown. It was a remarkable assertion of authority for a churchman to make over an Imperial commander and sent a clear message to the Legion: Cambrecia was under the patronage of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]] and no soldier, even a scion of one of the [[Great Houses of Zeth|Great Houses]], could place himself above the God of the State. Unfortunately, it did nothing to solve the deeper problem: the dwarves of Derlos kept right on arming and training Neptaris's rebels out of Cambrecian territory, a quiet hemorrhage Ionnanes never managed to stop. He spent his last five years trying, and died in {{ICYear|180}} still negotiating.

His successor, a Cambrecian-born cleric raised through the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and taking the pontifical name [[Aurelian of Zelos|Aurelian]], succeeded where his mentor hadn't. Within a few years he brokered what has come to be called the [[Foothill Accord]] with King Jormung, a grudging but real peace that finally ended Derlos's support for the rebels. It was overshadowed at the time by Corvos's own decline: his old wound worsened through the early 180s, and grew resistant to magickal healing over time, dying of its complications in {{ICYear|184}}, a quieter death than any king in living memory. He was only 35 years old. His six year old son, [[Medeno II Gweri|Medeno II]] was crowned without a single rival claimant coming forward, the first uncontested succession Cambrecia had seen in generations, and Aurelian stepped into the regency Ionnanes had once held as though it were simply the natural order of things.

The decade that followed was the closest thing to an easy stretch in this entire history. The cathedral Ionnanes had started in {{ICYear|149}} was finally completed and consecrated around {{ICYear|186}}, giving the regency an early, unifying moment of pride. The Order of the Lawspeaker spent much of the decade compiling the [[Codex of Twelve Pillars]], the first attempt to reconcile a century of contradictory Cambrecian royal decrees into one coherent body of law. Trade recovered, Septarium grew as both a pilgrimage site and a genuine center of legal scholarship, and the whole period would later be remembered as proof that the [[Zelos|Goldenhand]]'s own virtues, stewardship, continuity, diligence, could hold a province together without a war anywhere in sight.

It did not last. In {{ICYear|195}}, with the regency completed only a year prior, Aurelian pressed the newly-arrived [[Sarapion Leo of House Valerius|Legate Sarapion Leo]] of [[House Valerius]] to operate under the command of the young King in their war against recalcitrant Neptaris. Sarapion ignored the Pontifex and began to march his Legions south, but was seized en-route by crusaders lead by the [[Order of the Unwilling Crown]] and hauled back to Septarium on charges of heresy. The Legate, however, escaped his own trial with help from his troops, who stormed the city within the week. Victorious even from a prison cell, Sarapion declared martial law, arrested both the Pontifex Aurelian and King Medeno II on charges of treason against the Emperor and marched on Neptaris anyway. What followed was ugly on every side: atrocities against Cambrecian farmers when Sarapion's supply lines failed, a daring raid by [[Griori Burgden|Admiral Blacklocks]] that burned the rebuilt Neptaran shipyards and years of grinding stalemate that ended only when one of Sarapion's own guards assassinated him in {{ICYear|202}}.

The Pontifex and young King, even closer than they had been during the King's regency, had been released five years prior, without the Legate's knowledge. In the aftermath of Sarapion's assassination, the Pontifex appointed King Medeno II to the Imperial Legate's vacant post, a startling arrogation of an Imperial military office that nonetheless went unchallenged from [[Zeth]]. True to the arrangement, Medeno spent the office fighting the war he actually cared about, the low-grade native insurgency still smoldering in the foothills of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]] long after the [[Foothill Accord]] had cut the dwarves out of it. For the better part of a decade he simply ignored Aurelian's protests that the coast deserved his attention instead. The Legion slipped from his hands only once, in {{ICYear|219}}, when Emperor [[Semelius of House Furius|Semelius]] of [[House Furius]] appointed his own brother, [[Tiberius Phocas of House Furius|Tiberius Phocas]], to the post Medeno had held for seventeen years, but a Senate coup in Zeth swept Semelius aside within the year and the Legate's chair reverted to the Crown almost as an afterthought.

Away from the coast, this was Cambrecia's longest stretch of uninterrupted internal peace since the conquest. Aurelian, who had shepherded two Cambrecian kings through the church's partnership with the crown, died of old age around {{ICYear|215}} and was succeeded by Pontifex [[Leontius of Zelos|Leontius]], an Aescalapean-trained scholar with no taste for politics who poured the church's resources into learning instead. Under Leontius, the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] gave the [[Codex of Twelve Pillars]] its first major revision in a generation, and Septarium's reputation as a center of legal scholarship hardened into something concrete: the [[Auditors' College]], chartered in {{ICYear|224}} to formally train the [[Order of Auditors]], drew students from as far as [[Koramia]]. Cambrecian wine, an investment in the countryside made by Ionnanes himself, became the province's quiet economic engine through these decades, carried down the [[King's Road]] that Medeno had built to move troops to the mountains and that merchants adopted just as happily. It's one of the era's sharper ironies that the tariffs Cambrecia later found itself paying into Neptaris's treasury fell, in no small part, on its own wine reaching Neptaran tables.

Medeno II reigned for fifty-one years and died peacefully in {{ICYear|235}}, remembered less for any battle than for simply never losing his throne to war, plague, or a rival's blade the way every king before him had. His son took the crown as [[Tarnos IV Gweri|King Tarnos IV]], reviving a name that hadn't sat on a Cambrecian throne since [[House Dravos]] fell a century and a half earlier, a deliberate gesture tying the young Corvosid line to the memory of the one it had replaced. Leontius died a few years into Tarnos's reign and was succeeded by Pontifex [[Cassian of Zelos|Cassian]], who inherited a treasury already feeling Neptaris's reversal of fortune and spent his tenure trying, and failing, to talk the Neptaran [[Supreme Assembly]] out of it.

By {{ICYear|262}}, and again in {{ICYear|265}}, the sitting Pontifex of Zelos traveled to Neptaris himself to plead for relief from those tariffs, and was refused both times. He never got a third chance to ask; in {{ICYear|271}}, pirates sank his ship off the Neptaran coast and all hands were lost. His successor, [[Severinus of House Gabinius|Severinus]] of [[House Gabinius]], a man scarred in battle during the last days of the old rebellion decades before, arrived in Septarium in {{ICYear|273}} in no mood for patience. He demanded the King break the long peace and retake Neptaris outright. The King refused, invoking the [[Treaty of Neptaris]] that had ended the Great Rebellion more than forty years before, and for a time it seemed the matter would simply die there. It didn't. Late in {{ICYear|276}}, Severinus issued the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], declaring the Freecity of Neptaris' very form of government an offense against the law of Zelos, and gave the city five years to reform itself or answer for it.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

The Second Cambrecian War

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The turn of [[Neptaris|Neptaris']] 11th century saw the city in a state of reconstruction. In {{NCYear|1005}}, the city underwent redistricting, adding [[the Naval Docks]] as a District of the city itself. By the second decade of the 11th century, Neptaris was again prosperous as trade increased with the Empire. Only [[Cambrecia]] was heavily taxed by the Assembly. In {{NCYear|1012}} and again in {{NCYear|1015}}, the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in [[Septarium]] met with the Assembly to ask for a decrease in these tariffs, but both times the Assembly refused. While making a third trip in {{NCYear|1021}}, the Pontifex's ship was attacked by pirates and sank off the coast of Neptaris. The Pontifex was killed in the attack.

Emperor [[Androcles Leto]] of [[House Zetar]] (and son of the now deceased Emperor Androcles) chose [[Severinus of House Gabinius|Severinus]] of [[House Gabinius]] as the new Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in {{NCYear|1023}}. Severinus was actually present in Cambrecia during the final days of [[the Great Rebellion of Neptaris|the Great Rebellion]] and had been horribly scared in a battle near Neptaris. As soon as he arrived in [[Septimius]], he demanded that the King of Cambrecia attack Neptaris immediately and regain the territory. The King refused, citing that he was honor-bound to obey the Treaty that had been forged forty years previously. The Pontifex was incensed at the King's defiance, but there seemed little he could do.

Late in {{NCYear|1026}}, Pontifex Severinus decided on a plan. He issued the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], which stated clearly that democracy and, hence, democratic states existed in violation of the law of Zelos. Within, he permitted a five-year period in which democracies were to be converted to a more "stable" form of government before action would be taken. Neptaris, of course, refused to convert. In {{NCYear|1031}}, the Pontifex called for a Crusade to free the ignorant people of Neptaris from their oppressive democracy.

[[The Neptaran Crusade]] was slow to start, as priests and lay people loyal to Zelos began to trickle into Septarium. By {{NCYear|1030}}, the Pontifex decided that he had the support he needed to attack Neptaris and personally led his troops into Neptaran territory. Neptaris sued for peace on the grounds that most of the Pontifex's army was composed of retired Legionnaires and, thus, must abide by [[the Treaty of Neptaris]]. The Emperor did not respond to this request, and the Pontifex continued to march on Neptaris. As {{NCYear|1030}} drew to a close, the crusading army wintered in the Territories, preparing for their siege the following spring.

The legal maneuverings of the Assembly, as well as the exceptionally long winter that year, gave Neptaris time to prepare for the Pontifex and his men. New walls were constructed and troops were trained throughout the winter. Finally, after the first spring thaw of {{NCYear|1031}}, the Neptaran army under the command of Marshall [[Lewt Morgar]] left the city to face the Pontifex. The two armies met in [[the Battle of Perrenoth Fields]], where the Pontifex proved to be the weaker military commander. Even though the Zelosite army was twice the size of the Neptaran army, they were resolutely defeated. Unfortunately, the Pontifex and most of his staff escaped and returned to Septarium to lick their wounds.

For the next decade, the Pontifex directed small bands of Crusaders as they harried Neptaran troops and pillaged whatever villages they could find in the Territories. Neptaris continued to plead with the Emperor and the King of Cambrecia to put a stop to the Crusade, but both refused to respond from any messages from Neptaris. In {{NCYear|1046}}, Marshall Morgar discovered and destroyed a Crusader camp near the Cambrecian border. [[Garulan]], the King of Cambrecia, claimed that the camp was actually a village under his protection and immediately declared war on Neptaris for violation of the Treaty. Neptaris, despite attempts to apologize for the action, had to again prepare for war.

The King and the Pontifex began massing an army in Septarium while courting the Legion's assistance in the matter. By {{NCYear|1050}}, they were ready to attack, relying heavily on the assistance of the Legion, though not direct support. The King marched through the Territories fighting guerilla tactics from locals and dealing with the wet weather that summer received. The Pontifex, now in advanced old age, chose to accompany the King in this effort. Their success came slowly, but it was still an inexorable movement towards the city itself. In {{NCYear|1053}}, they were within sight of Neptaris when the Pontifex died of a heart seizure. Without the direct support of their high ecclesiast, many of the crusaders departed the army. With a fourth of his army departing the battlefield, the King decided to retreat back to Septarium instead of trying to take the city, which would certainly have been a bloody affair.

Upon his return to Septarium, the King of Cambrecia immediately set about preparing another attack, this time with the full assistance of the Legion. The King began to construct a massive fortress, called [[Fort Speculium]], near his border with Neptaris. Despite many successive attacks by Neptaran forces, the fortress was almost complete in {{NCYear|1060}}, when King Garulan died. His son, [[Medeno III]], was not as aggressive military as his father was, but by {{NCYear|1063}}, he was prepared to attack Neptaris, using Fort Speculium as his headquarters. Within days of the planned attack, most of the Legion upon which he relied boarded ships of [[the Second Fleet]] and went home to Zeth. The [[Androcles Leto of House Zetar|Emperor Androcles Leto]] of [[House Zetar]] had died without an heir and what would come to be known as [[the First Succession War]] had begun.

King Medeno III tried in vain to attack Neptaris, but without the support of the Imperial Legions, he was pushed back each time. In {{NCYear|1071}}, Marshall [[Angar Tivalos]] began a counteroffensive against King Medeno III, easily defeating what meager forces he had in the Territories. By autumn, Tivalos had settled in for a winter's siege at Fort Speculium. The winter was surprisingly mild that year, but by the spring of {{NCYear|1072}}, Tivalos had not yet breached the walls of the Cambrecian fortress. By late summer, it seemed that Tivalos was going to finally breach the defenses of the supposedly impenetrable castle when the Imperial Legion arrived. Unfortunately for Neptaris, the First Succession War was over, and [[Antipater of House Varro|Antipater]] of [[House Varro]] was selected as the first of the Elected Emperors. Antipater immediately sent a Legion back to Cambrecia with the intent of taking Neptaris. In the subsequent [[Battle of Mists]], Marshall Tivalos and the army of Neptaris were defeated by the Imperial Legion.

After the Battle of Mists, the Legion marched towards Neptaris, but the Legate decided that his army had suffered too many losses to attempt to take the city. He returned to Septarium to prepare for the next years' battle. Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems in Zeth prevented reinforcements from arriving for five years. When they did finally arrive in {{NCYear|1077}}, Neptaris had again rebuilt its defenses and was prepared for conflict. The careful Legate decided to take his Legion to Fort Speculium and use the castle as a base from which to wear down the Territories. As so many had before, the Legate soon discovered that taking the Territories was almost as difficult as taking Neptaris itself. By {{NCYear|1090}}, the Legate had made some marginal gains in the Territories, but nothing that seriously weakened Neptaris or its navy.

In the summer of {{NCYear|1090}}, Marshall Tivalos marched on Cambrecia, avoiding Fort Speculium and the parts of the Territories the Legate had gained altogether. The Legate was slow to react, believing the sorties to be a trick, and the Neptaran forces began to lay waste to the undefended countryside between Fort Speculium and Septarium. With supplies running low, the Legate finally decided to take Marshall Tivalos' attacks seriously in {{NCYear|1092}} and pulled his army from the Territories to fight the Neptaran army. Marshall Tivalos was not looking to confront the Legion, however. He continued to attack small farming villages, remaining a step ahead of the Imperial Legate. In {{NCYear|1095}}, the Marshall's plan came to fruition. Many of the farmers of Cambrecia began to migrate northward, away from the fighting and Fort Speculium. They eventually settled in an unclaimed territory on the southern shores of the Sea of Swords (the land they settled would come to be known as [[Enesia]] three centuries later).

With much of the food the Legion needed to fight no longer readily available, the Legate was forced to put his men to work in the abandoned fields of southern Cambrecia. Marshall Tivalos returned to Neptaris and was hailed as a hero for ending the war. The celebrations were premature, but all available evidence did suggest that Cambrecia was finally defeated, despite the lack of a Treaty. Marshall Tivalos died in {{NCYear|1103}} of old age, believing that he had saved Neptaris once and for all.

In the summer of {{NCYear|1110}}, the Emperor [[Caurus of House Valerius|Caurus]] of [[House Valerius]] made two appointments that would renew the Second Cambrecian War. The first was [[Petros of House Zetar|Petros]] of [[House Zetar]] as Pontifex of [[Zelos]]. The second was his brother, [[Demetrios Paolus]] of House Zetar, as Legate of the Cambrecian Legion. The two arrived in Septarium late in {{NCYear|1110}} and immediately began reconstructing the Legion in preparations for war. By the fighting season of {{NCYear|1113}}, they were thus prepared and had refortified Fort Speculium. Marshall [[Doncan Mathros]] was more of a politician than a military commander, and did not foresee the trouble that the two brothers would cause. Thus, when Legate Demetrios began attacking the Territories with a well trained and well supplied Legion and Pontifex Petros renewed the call for Crusade, Marshall Mathros was unprepared for the fight that was to come.

The Legate and the Pontifex were both careful men, but not unwilling to take risks to achieve their strategic ends. They systematically captured significant trade centers in the Territories, which not only served to cripple Neptaran supply lines but bolster their own. Their tactics in this matter were remarkably similar to Marshall Tivalos' two decades before, though it did not achieve the same desired results. The farmers of the Territories took up arms when they could to hamper the Legion, but they proved to be no match for the well trained Imperial soldiers with two strong leaders. In {{NCYear|1117}}, Marshall Mathros finally lead an army out of Neptaris to stop the Legion, but he was sorely defeated in [[the Battle of Dry Fields]]. He did escape and return to Neptaris, but the Assembly immediately tried him for dereliction of duty. The trial was more of an excuse to replace Marshall Mathros than actually punish him for any real crime and the only sentence he received was to be stripped of his rank.

The Assembly chose a wily smith by the name of [[Prentor Perrenoth]] as their new Marshall of Arms, and he immediately set about preparing Neptaris for an extended campaign for its very survival. He requested permission to establish martial law in Neptaris, which the Assembly agreed to in a very controversial decision. Marshall Perrenoth immediately issued a law which called for involuntary, though temporary, enlistment of all able bodied citizens into the military. With the strength of the merchant class behind him, he marched on Fort Speculium in the spring of 1118, the headquarters of the Imperial forces.

[[The Siege of Speculium]] lasted for eight months. As winter approached, Marshall Perrenoth lifted the siege and returned to Neptaris. Despite his failure at capturing the fortress, he was successful in dealing a heavy blow to the Imperial forces. The following spring, Marshall Perrenoth was able to retake most of the land in the Territories that had been lost while Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros repaired the damage the siege had caused to their fortress and their respective armies. In the spring of {{NCYear|1122}}, they were prepared to fight. Instead of attempting to recoup their losses in the Territories, the brothers decided to march on Neptaris itself. They arrived at the city gates and prepared for a long siege. After five months, the outer walls were breached and Marshall Perrenoth had been killed in battle. The Neptaran forces retreated to Castle Zepharos and the brothers began to prepare a siege there as well. Before they had even finished reconstructing their siege engines, the entire Legion suddenly picked up and departed for Zeth. The previous year, [[Semelius Secundis]] of [[House Furius]], last of the Elected Emperors, had been murdered by [[Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]], sparking [[the Second Succession War]] in the Empire. Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros both hurried back to Zeth to defend the claim of their cousin, [[Marcellus of House Zetar|Marcellus of House Zetar]], to the Imperial throne. Neptaris recognized the advantage and immediately attacked and took Fort Speculium. From that base, they continued to make gains into Cambrecian territory. When the Second Succession Wars ended in {{NCYear|1126}} with [[Octavius Augustus]] of House Zetar as the victor, the newly appointed Pontifex of Zelos (Petros had died in battle) was not interested in expanding his influence into Neptaris. He encouraged the King to sign [[the Treaty of Speculium]] in {{NCYear|1128}}, which granted Neptaris independence and returned the lands that they had taken to Cambrecia. Neptaris had finally won its freedom from Cambrecia.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Neptaris]][[Category:Neptaran History]]</noinclude>

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{{EventRow|120|odd|
* [[The Third Age of Man]] begins; [[The Foundation of Zeth]]
* [[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.
* Rise of the [[Empire of Balguran]]}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|152|odd|[[Meargagh]], chieftain of the [[Kamaros]], jealous of [[Neptaris|Neptag's]] wealth, besieges the city but fails to breach its walls.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|293|odd|[[Republic of Zeth|The Republic]], falsely touted to be the first democracy, is founded in Zeth.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|551|odd|[[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] ships first arrive at [[Zeth]] to trade goods from the barbarian north.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|631|odd|
* 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.
* [[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.
}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|664|odd|[[Septimius of House Varros]] defeats [[Aaronar VI]], the last King of the [[Kamaros]], in present-day Cambrecia}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|721|even|[[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]], first emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]], is born}}
{{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.}}
{{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]]}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|916|odd|[[Corvos I Gweri|Corvos]], son and heir to deceased Cambrecian King [[Basran Sugurd]], ascends to the throne of [[Cambrecia]] under the watchful direction of his Regent, tutor and surrogate father, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]], re-establishing traditional kingship in Cambrecia after decades of unpopular Kings appointed by the [[Great Empire|Zetian Emperor]]. This is considered to be the end of what has become known in Cambrecia as the [[Cambrecia and the Long Discontent|Long Discontent]].}}
{{Eventrow|923|even|[[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.}}
{{EventRow|936|even|[[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.}}
{{EventRow|980|odd|The [[Treaty of Neptaris]] is signed by [[Androcles of House Zetar|Androcles]] of [[House Zetar]] as a condition of his release from imprisonment in [[Neptaris]] so that he could return to Zeth to be crowned Emperor. The treaty released the city from Imperial control and promised that the Great Empire would never again attempt to subjugate the city.}}
{{EventRow|1026|odd|[[Severinus of House Gabinius|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}
{{EventRow|1062|even|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of [[Androcles Leto of House Zetar|Emperor Androcles Leto]] of [[House Zetar]] without heir.}}
{{EventRow|1068|odd|[[Antipater Varro]] becomes first [[Time of Elected Emperors|Elected Emperor]] since Octavius.}}
{{EventRow|1071|even|Imperial forces defeat the last of the pretenders to the Imperial throne, ending the [[First Succession War]].}}
{{EventRow|1095|odd|Farmers, irritated with Imperial power in [[Cambrecia]], migrate to present-day [[Enesia]].}}
{{EventRow|1121|even|[[Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]] murders ruling Emperor, ending the [[Time of Elected Emperors]] and starting the [[Second Succession War]].}}
{{EventRow|1126|odd|[[Octavius Augustus Zetar]] defeats [[Vitellis Gabinius]], last of the pretenders, ending the [[Second Succession War]].}}
{{EventRow|1181|even|The [[Empire of Balguran]] crumbles; [[Adanar]] is founded by [[King Falgran]]}}
{{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]]}}
{{EventRow|1378|even|The last two Imperial garrisons in present-day [[Koramia]] proclaim their independence from the Empire, ending Imperial rule in the region.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|1554|even|The Electorate in [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] decides to disband and elects [[Bernard Margwenth]] as its [[Lord Earl]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|1723|odd|After a crippling merchant war at home in [[Lagorka]], the [[Vazdids]] leave [[Nadera]], which is subsequently plundered by Vazdid's enemies.}}
{{EventRow|1730|even|The [[Gray Lord of Thet]] is defeated in the [[Battle of Bloodrust]] in [[Adanar]] by [[King Ilyard]] of [[Haleli]].}}
{{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."}}
{{EventRow|1741|even|By this time, [[Aishah Izuel|Aishah "the Bloody"]] has taken effective control of [[Nadera]] and is crowned Sovereign Queen.}}
{{EventRow|1752|odd|Death without issue of Emperor [[Orestes Sergius]] results in the [[Third Succession War]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1779|odd|[[Gaius Aurelius Zetar]] defeats [[Manius Acilius Drusus]], ending the [[Third Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]].}}
{{EventRow|1783|even||The [[Fell King]] of [[Thet]] marches against [[Adanar]], starting the [[Long War]]}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1825|even|The signing of the [[Naderan Royal Code]] ends the [[Naderan Civil War]] after twenty long years, establishing the [[Council of Princes]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1858|even|The bloody [[War of Eagles]] begins in [[Adanar]] with the death of King [[Galen Tolgran]] without heir.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|1930|odd|[[William I Greysword|William V Greysword]] is elected [[Lord Earl of Paeldain]], the youngest to hold that position}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1960|odd|[[Koramia]] is reunified under [[William I Greysword|King William Greysword I]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1997|odd|[[Kor'dal]] becomes [[Great Khan]] of the orcs of [[Tazgrat]] and begins to march his armies towards the [[Mabean Marches]].}}
{{EventRow|1998|even|
* 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.
* [[Lucasa]] becomes [[Mage-King]] of [[Lun Dorak]].}}
{{EventRow|1999|odd|
* As Lucius, Mage-King [[Lucasa]] secretly becomes advisor to Emperor [[Publius Antonius]] of [[House Zetar]].
* [[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.}}
{{EventRow|2000|even|
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.}}
{{EventRow|2001|odd|
* 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.
* 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.
* In [[Lun Dorak]], the Mage-King [[Lucasa]] discovers the [[Magesword]].
* Near Webwood Forest, [[Math Mathowny]], villain of the [[Tuatha de Dannan]], is slain by [[Cuchulain]].
* [[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]].}}
{{EventRow|2002|even|
* 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.
* In [[Adanar]], the dwarves of the Janos mountains open an embassy and begin trade negotiations with humans in the region.}}
{{EventRow|2003|odd|
* [[Gar'dun]] becomes [[Great Khan]], uniting the orcish tribes of [[Vor Midal]] and attacks [[Lun Dorak]].
* 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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|2005|odd|
* [[Dracia]] declares independence from the Empire and [[Vladimir Vtalasav]] is crowned King.
* 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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|2007|odd|
* 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.
* 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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|2012|even|
* The [[Crimson Plague]] strikes in [[Neptaris]], likely brought by traders from the east. From Neptaris, the Plague spreads quickly to [[Koramia]], [[Tamerynd]] and [[Zeth]].
* The [[Fourth Succession War]] grinds to a stalemate as the Crimson Plague takes several prominent leaders and decimates the population.
* The [[Valtaan|Valtang]] barbarians of Mitaria march on [[Narbonne]].}}
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The Second Cambrecian War

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The turn of [[Neptaris|Neptaris']] 11th century saw the city in a state of reconstruction. In {{NCYear|1005}}, the city underwent redistricting, adding [[the Naval Docks]] as a District of the city itself. By the second decade of the 11th century, Neptaris was again prosperous as trade increased with the Empire. Only [[Cambrecia]] was heavily taxed by the Assembly. In {{NCYear|1012}} and again in {{NCYear|1015}}, the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in [[Septarium]] met with the Assembly to ask for a decrease in these tariffs, but both times the Assembly refused. While making a third trip in {{NCYear|1021}}, the Pontifex's ship was attacked by pirates and sank off the coast of Neptaris. The Pontifex was killed in the attack.

Emperor [[Androcles Leto]] of [[House Zetar]] (and son of the now deceased Emperor Androcles) chose [[Severinus of House Gabinius|Severinus]] of [[House Gabinius]] as the new Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in {{NCYear|1023}}. Severinus was actually present in Cambrecia during the final days of [[the Great Rebellion of Neptaris|the Great Rebellion]] and had been horribly scared in a battle near Neptaris. As soon as he arrived in [[Septimius]], he demanded that the King of Cambrecia attack Neptaris immediately and regain the territory. The King refused, citing that he was honor-bound to obey the Treaty that had been forged forty years previously. The Pontifex was incensed at the King's defiance, but there seemed little he could do.

Late in {{NCYear|1026}}, Pontifex Severinus decided on a plan. He issued the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], which stated clearly that democracy and, hence, democratic states existed in violation of the law of Zelos. Within, he permitted a five-year period in which democracies were to be converted to a more "stable" form of government before action would be taken. Neptaris, of course, refused to convert. In {{NCYear|1031}}, the Pontifex called for a Crusade to free the ignorant people of Neptaris from their oppressive democracy.

[[The Neptaran Crusade]] was slow to start, as priests and lay people loyal to Zelos began to trickle into Septarium. By {{NCYear|1030}}, the Pontifex decided that he had the support he needed to attack Neptaris and personally led his troops into Neptaran territory. Neptaris sued for peace on the grounds that most of the Pontifex's army was composed of retired Legionnaires and, thus, must abide by [[the Treaty of Neptaris]]. The Emperor did not respond to this request, and the Pontifex continued to march on Neptaris. As {{NCYear|1030}} drew to a close, the crusading army wintered in the Territories, preparing for their siege the following spring.

The legal maneuverings of the Assembly, as well as the exceptionally long winter that year, gave Neptaris time to prepare for the Pontifex and his men. New walls were constructed and troops were trained throughout the winter. Finally, after the first spring thaw of {{NCYear|1031}}, the Neptaran army under the command of Marshall [[Lewt Morgar]] left the city to face the Pontifex. The two armies met in [[the Battle of Perrenoth Fields]], where the Pontifex proved to be the weaker military commander. Even though the Zelosite army was twice the size of the Neptaran army, they were resolutely defeated. Unfortunately, the Pontifex and most of his staff escaped and returned to Septarium to lick their wounds.

For the next decade, the Pontifex directed small bands of Crusaders as they harried Neptaran troops and pillaged whatever villages they could find in the Territories. Neptaris continued to plead with the Emperor and the King of Cambrecia to put a stop to the Crusade, but both refused to respond from any messages from Neptaris. In {{NCYear|1046}}, Marshall Morgar discovered and destroyed a Crusader camp near the Cambrecian border. [[Garulan]], the King of Cambrecia, claimed that the camp was actually a village under his protection and immediately declared war on Neptaris for violation of the Treaty. Neptaris, despite attempts to apologize for the action, had to again prepare for war.

The King and the Pontifex began massing an army in Septarium while courting the Legion's assistance in the matter. By {{NCYear|1050}}, they were ready to attack, relying heavily on the assistance of the Legion, though not direct support. The King marched through the Territories fighting guerilla tactics from locals and dealing with the wet weather that summer received. The Pontifex, now in advanced old age, chose to accompany the King in this effort. Their success came slowly, but it was still an inexorable movement towards the city itself. In {{NCYear|1053}}, they were within sight of Neptaris when the Pontifex died of a heart seizure. Without the direct support of their high ecclesiast, many of the crusaders departed the army. With a fourth of his army departing the battlefield, the King decided to retreat back to Septarium instead of trying to take the city, which would certainly have been a bloody affair.

Upon his return to Septarium, the King of Cambrecia immediately set about preparing another attack, this time with the full assistance of the Legion. The King began to construct a massive fortress, called [[Fort Speculium]], near his border with Neptaris. Despite many successive attacks by Neptaran forces, the fortress was almost complete in {{NCYear|1060}}, when King Garulan died. His son, [[Medeno III]], was not as aggressive military as his father was, but by {{NCYear|1063}}, he was prepared to attack Neptaris, using Fort Speculium as his headquarters. Within days of the planned attack, most of the Legion upon which he relied boarded ships of [[the Second Fleet]] and went home to Zeth. The [[Androcles Leto of House Zetar|Emperor Androcles Leto]] of [[House Zetar]] had died without an heir and what would come to be known as [[the First Succession War]] had begun.

King Medeno III tried in vain to attack Neptaris, but without the support of the Imperial Legions, he was pushed back each time. In {{NCYear|1071}}, Marshall [[Angar Tivalos]] began a counteroffensive against King Medeno III, easily defeating what meager forces he had in the Territories. By autumn, Tivalos had settled in for a winter's siege at Fort Speculium. The winter was surprisingly mild that year, but by the spring of {{NCYear|1072}}, Tivalos had not yet breached the walls of the Cambrecian fortress. By late summer, it seemed that Tivalos was going to finally breach the defenses of the supposedly impenetrable castle when the Imperial Legion arrived. Unfortunately for Neptaris, the First Succession War was over, and [[Antipater of House Varro|Antipater]] of [[House Varro]] was selected as the first of the Elected Emperors. Antipater immediately sent a Legion back to Cambrecia with the intent of taking Neptaris. In the subsequent [[Battle of Mists]], Marshall Tivalos and the army of Neptaris were defeated by the Imperial Legion.

After the Battle of Mists, the Legion marched towards Neptaris, but the Legate decided that his army had suffered too many losses to attempt to take the city. He returned to Septarium to prepare for the next years' battle. Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems in Zeth prevented reinforcements from arriving for five years. When they did finally arrive in {{NCYear|1077}}, Neptaris had again rebuilt its defenses and was prepared for conflict. The careful Legate decided to take his Legion to Fort Speculium and use the castle as a base from which to wear down the Territories. As so many had before, the Legate soon discovered that taking the Territories was almost as difficult as taking Neptaris itself. By {{NCYear|1090}}, the Legate had made some marginal gains in the Territories, but nothing that seriously weakened Neptaris or its navy.

In the summer of {{NCYear|1090}}, Marshall Tivalos marched on Cambrecia, avoiding Fort Speculium and the parts of the Territories the Legate had gained altogether. The Legate was slow to react, believing the sorties to be a trick, and the Neptaran forces began to lay waste to the undefended countryside between Fort Speculium and Septarium. With supplies running low, the Legate finally decided to take Marshall Tivalos' attacks seriously in {{NCYear|1092}} and pulled his army from the Territories to fight the Neptaran army. Marshall Tivalos was not looking to confront the Legion, however. He continued to attack small farming villages, remaining a step ahead of the Imperial Legate. In {{NCYear|1095}}, the Marshall's plan came to fruition. Many of the farmers of Cambrecia began to migrate northward, away from the fighting and Fort Speculium. They eventually settled in an unclaimed territory on the southern shores of the Sea of Swords (the land they settled would come to be known as [[Enesia]] three centuries later).

With much of the food the Legion needed to fight no longer readily available, the Legate was forced to put his men to work in the abandoned fields of southern Cambrecia. Marshall Tivalos returned to Neptaris and was hailed as a hero for ending the war. The celebrations were premature, but all available evidence did suggest that Cambrecia was finally defeated, despite the lack of a Treaty. Marshall Tivalos died in {{NCYear|1103}} of old age, believing that he had saved Neptaris once and for all.

In the summer of {{NCYear|1110}}, the Emperor [[Caurus of House Valerius|Caurus]] of [[House Valerius]] made two appointments that would renew the Second Cambrecian War. The first was [[Petros of House Zetar|Petros]] of [[House Zetar]] as Pontifex of [[Zelos]]. The second was his brother, [[Demetrios Paolus]] of House Zetar, as Legate of the Cambrecian Legion. The two arrived in Septarium late in {{NCYear|1110}} and immediately began reconstructing the Legion in preparations for war. By the fighting season of {{NCYear|1113}}, they were thus prepared and had refortified Fort Speculium. Marshall [[Doncan Mathros]] was more of a politician than a military commander, and did not foresee the trouble that the two brothers would cause. Thus, when Legate Demetrios began attacking the Territories with a well trained and well supplied Legion and Pontifex Petros renewed the call for Crusade, Marshall Mathros was unprepared for the fight that was to come.

The Legate and the Pontifex were both careful men, but not unwilling to take risks to achieve their strategic ends. They systematically captured significant trade centers in the Territories, which not only served to cripple Neptaran supply lines but bolster their own. Their tactics in this matter were remarkably similar to Marshall Tivalos' two decades before, though it did not achieve the same desired results. The farmers of the Territories took up arms when they could to hamper the Legion, but they proved to be no match for the well trained Imperial soldiers with two strong leaders. In {{NCYear|1117}}, Marshall Mathros finally lead an army out of Neptaris to stop the Legion, but he was sorely defeated in [[the Battle of Dry Fields]]. He did escape and return to Neptaris, but the Assembly immediately tried him for dereliction of duty. The trial was more of an excuse to replace Marshall Mathros than actually punish him for any real crime and the only sentence he received was to be stripped of his rank.

The Assembly chose a wily smith by the name of [[Prentor Perrenoth]] as their new Marshall of Arms, and he immediately set about preparing Neptaris for an extended campaign for its very survival. He requested permission to establish martial law in Neptaris, which the Assembly agreed to in a very controversial decision. Marshall Perrenoth immediately issued a law which called for involuntary, though temporary, enlistment of all able bodied citizens into the military. With the strength of the merchant class behind him, he marched on Fort Speculium in the spring of 1118, the headquarters of the Imperial forces.

[[The Siege of Speculium]] lasted for eight months. As winter approached, Marshall Perrenoth lifted the siege and returned to Neptaris. Despite his failure at capturing the fortress, he was successful in dealing a heavy blow to the Imperial forces. The following spring, Marshall Perrenoth was able to retake most of the land in the Territories that had been lost while Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros repaired the damage the siege had caused to their fortress and their respective armies. In the spring of {{NCYear|1122}}, they were prepared to fight. Instead of attempting to recoup their losses in the Territories, the brothers decided to march on Neptaris itself. They arrived at the city gates and prepared for a long siege. After five months, the outer walls were breached and Marshall Perrenoth had been killed in battle. The Neptaran forces retreated to Castle Zepharos and the brothers began to prepare a siege there as well. Before they had even finished reconstructing their siege engines, the entire Legion suddenly picked up and departed for Zeth. [[Semelius Secundis]] of [[House Furius]], last of the Elected Emperors, had been murdered by [[Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]], sparking [[the Second Succession War]] in the Empire. Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros both returned to Zeth to defend the claim of their cousin, [[Marcellus of House Zetar|Marcellus of House Zetar]], to the Imperial throne. Neptaris recognized the advantage and immediately attacked and took Fort Speculium. From that base, they continued to make gains into Cambrecian territory. When the Second Succession Wars ended in {{NCYear|1127}} with [[Octavius Augustus]] of House Zetar as the victor, the newly appointed Pontifex of Zelos (Petros had died in battle) was not interested in expanding his influence into Neptaris. He encouraged the King to sign [[the Treaty of Speculium]] in {{NCYear|1128}}, which granted Neptaris independence and returned the lands that they had taken to Cambrecia. Neptaris had finally won its freedom from Cambrecia.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Neptaris]][[Category:Neptaran History]]</noinclude>

The Second Cambrecian War

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The turn of [[Neptaris|Neptaris']] 11th century saw the city in a state of reconstruction. In {{NCYear|1005}}, the city underwent redistricting, adding [[the Naval Docks]] as a District of the city itself. By the second decade of the 11th century, Neptaris was again prosperous as trade increased with the Empire. Only [[Cambrecia]] was heavily taxed by the Assembly. In {{NCYear|1012}} and again in {{NCYear|1015}}, the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in [[Septarium]] met with the Assembly to ask for a decrease in these tariffs, but both times the Assembly refused. While making a third trip in {{NCYear|1021}}, the Pontifex's ship was attacked by pirates and sank off the coast of Neptaris. The Pontifex was killed in the attack.

Emperor [[Androcles Leto]] of [[House Zetar]] (and son of the now deceased Emperor Androcles) chose [[Severinus of House Gabinius|Severinus]] of [[House Gabinius]] as the new Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in {{NCYear|1023}}. Severinus was actually present in Cambrecia during the final days of [[the Great Rebellion of Neptaris|the Great Rebellion]] and had been horribly scared in a battle near Neptaris. As soon as he arrived in [[Septimius]], he demanded that the King of Cambrecia attack Neptaris immediately and regain the territory. The King refused, citing that he was honor-bound to obey the Treaty that had been forged forty years previously. The Pontifex was incensed at the King's defiance, but there seemed little he could do.

Late in {{NCYear|1026}}, Pontifex Severinus decided on a plan. He issued the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], which stated clearly that democracy and, hence, democratic states existed in violation of the law of Zelos. Within, he permitted a five-year period in which democracies were to be converted to a more "stable" form of government before action would be taken. Neptaris, of course, refused to convert. In {{NCYear|1031}}, the Pontifex called for a Crusade to free the ignorant people of Neptaris from their oppressive democracy.

[[The Neptaran Crusade]] was slow to start, as priests and lay people loyal to Zelos began to trickle into Septarium. By {{NCYear|1030}}, the Pontifex decided that he had the support he needed to attack Neptaris and personally led his troops into Neptaran territory. Neptaris sued for peace on the grounds that most of the Pontifex's army was composed of retired Legionnaires and, thus, must abide by [[the Treaty of Neptaris]]. The Emperor did not respond to this request, and the Pontifex continued to march on Neptaris. As {{NCYear|1030}} drew to a close, the crusading army wintered in the Territories, preparing for their siege the following spring.

The legal maneuverings of the Assembly, as well as the exceptionally long winter that year, gave Neptaris time to prepare for the Pontifex and his men. New walls were constructed and troops were trained throughout the winter. Finally, after the first spring thaw of {{NCYear|1031}}, the Neptaran army under the command of Marshall [[Lewt Morgar]] left the city to face the Pontifex. The two armies met in [[the Battle of Perrenoth Fields]], where the Pontifex proved to be the weaker military commander. Even though the Zelosite army was twice the size of the Neptaran army, they were resolutely defeated. Unfortunately, the Pontifex and most of his staff escaped and returned to Septarium to lick their wounds.

For the next decade, the Pontifex directed small bands of Crusaders as they harried Neptaran troops and pillaged whatever villages they could find in the Territories. Neptaris continued to plead with the Emperor and the King of Cambrecia to put a stop to the Crusade, but both refused to respond from any messages from Neptaris. In {{NCYear|1046}}, Marshall Morgar discovered and destroyed a Crusader camp near the Cambrecian border. [[Garulan]], the King of Cambrecia, claimed that the camp was actually a village under his protection and immediately declared war on Neptaris for violation of the Treaty. Neptaris, despite attempts to apologize for the action, had to again prepare for war.

The King and the Pontifex began massing an army in Septarium while courting the Legion's assistance in the matter. By {{NCYear|1050}}, they were ready to attack, relying heavily on the assistance of the Legion, though not direct support. The King marched through the Territories fighting guerilla tactics from locals and dealing with the wet weather that summer received. The Pontifex, now in advanced old age, chose to accompany the King in this effort. Their success came slowly, but it was still an inexorable movement towards the city itself. In {{NCYear|1053}}, they were within sight of Neptaris when the Pontifex died of a heart seizure. Without the direct support of their high ecclesiast, many of the crusaders departed the army. With a fourth of his army departing the battlefield, the King decided to retreat back to Septarium instead of trying to take the city, which would certainly have been a bloody affair.

Upon his return to Septarium, the King of Cambrecia immediately set about preparing another attack, this time with the full assistance of the Legion. The King began to construct a massive fortress, called [[Fort Speculium]], near his border with Neptaris. Despite many successive attacks by Neptaran forces, the fortress was almost complete in {{NCYear|1060}}, when King Garulan died. His son, [[Medeno III]], was not as aggressive military as his father was, but by {{NCYear|1063}}, he was prepared to attack Neptaris, using Fort Speculium as his headquarters. Within days of the planned attack, most of the Legion upon which he relied boarded ships of [[the Second Fleet]] and went home to Zeth. The [[Antigonus of House Gabinius|Emperor Antigonus]] of [[House Gabinius]] had died without an heir and what would come to be known as [[the First Succession War]] had begun.

King Medeno III tried in vain to attack Neptaris, but without the support of the Imperial Legions, he was pushed back each time. In {{NCYear|1071}}, Marshall [[Angar Tivalos]] began a counteroffensive against King Medeno III, easily defeating what meager forces he had in the Territories. By autumn, Tivalos had settled in for a winter's siege at Fort Speculium. The winter was surprisingly mild that year, but by the spring of {{NCYear|1072}}, Tivalos had not yet breached the walls of the Cambrecian fortress. By late summer, it seemed that Tivalos was going to finally breach the defenses of the supposedly impenetrable castle when the Imperial Legion arrived. Unfortunately for Neptaris, the First Succession War was over, and [[Antipater of House Varro|Antipater]] of [[House Varro]] was selected as the first of the Elected Emperors. Antipater immediately sent a Legion back to Cambrecia with the intent of taking Neptaris. In the subsequent [[Battle of Mists]], Marshall Tivalos and the army of Neptaris were defeated by the Imperial Legion.

After the Battle of Mists, the Legion marched towards Neptaris, but the Legate decided that his army had suffered too many losses to attempt to take the city. He returned to Septarium to prepare for the next years' battle. Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems in Zeth prevented reinforcements from arriving for five years. When they did finally arrive in {{NCYear|1077}}, Neptaris had again rebuilt its defenses and was prepared for conflict. The careful Legate decided to take his Legion to Fort Speculium and use the castle as a base from which to wear down the Territories. As so many had before, the Legate soon discovered that taking the Territories was almost as difficult as taking Neptaris itself. By {{NCYear|1090}}, the Legate had made some marginal gains in the Territories, but nothing that seriously weakened Neptaris or its navy.

In the summer of {{NCYear|1090}}, Marshall Tivalos marched on Cambrecia, avoiding Fort Speculium and the parts of the Territories the Legate had gained altogether. The Legate was slow to react, believing the sorties to be a trick, and the Neptaran forces began to lay waste to the undefended countryside between Fort Speculium and Septarium. With supplies running low, the Legate finally decided to take Marshall Tivalos' attacks seriously in {{NCYear|1092}} and pulled his army from the Territories to fight the Neptaran army. Marshall Tivalos was not looking to confront the Legion, however. He continued to attack small farming villages, remaining a step ahead of the Imperial Legate. In {{NCYear|1095}}, the Marshall's plan came to fruition. Many of the farmers of Cambrecia began to migrate northward, away from the fighting and Fort Speculium. They eventually settled in an unclaimed territory on the southern shores of the Sea of Swords (the land they settled would come to be known as [[Enesia]] three centuries later).

With much of the food the Legion needed to fight no longer readily available, the Legate was forced to put his men to work in the abandoned fields of southern Cambrecia. Marshall Tivalos returned to Neptaris and was hailed as a hero for ending the war. The celebrations were premature, but all available evidence did suggest that Cambrecia was finally defeated, despite the lack of a Treaty. Marshall Tivalos died in {{NCYear|1103}} of old age, believing that he had saved Neptaris once and for all.

In the summer of {{NCYear|1110}}, the Emperor [[Caurus of House Valerius|Caurus]] of [[House Valerius]] made two appointments that would renew the Second Cambrecian War. The first was [[Petros of House Zetar|Petros]] of [[House Zetar]] as Pontifex of [[Zelos]]. The second was his brother, [[Demetrios Paolus]] of House Zetar, as Legate of the Cambrecian Legion. The two arrived in Septarium late in {{NCYear|1110}} and immediately began reconstructing the Legion in preparations for war. By the fighting season of {{NCYear|1113}}, they were thus prepared and had refortified Fort Speculium. Marshall [[Doncan Mathros]] was more of a politician than a military commander, and did not foresee the trouble that the two brothers would cause. Thus, when Legate Demetrios began attacking the Territories with a well trained and well supplied Legion and Pontifex Petros renewed the call for Crusade, Marshall Mathros was unprepared for the fight that was to come.

The Legate and the Pontifex were both careful men, but not unwilling to take risks to achieve their strategic ends. They systematically captured significant trade centers in the Territories, which not only served to cripple Neptaran supply lines but bolster their own. Their tactics in this matter were remarkably similar to Marshall Tivalos' two decades before, though it did not achieve the same desired results. The farmers of the Territories took up arms when they could to hamper the Legion, but they proved to be no match for the well trained Imperial soldiers with two strong leaders. In {{NCYear|1117}}, Marshall Mathros finally lead an army out of Neptaris to stop the Legion, but he was sorely defeated in [[the Battle of Dry Fields]]. He did escape and return to Neptaris, but the Assembly immediately tried him for dereliction of duty. The trial was more of an excuse to replace Marshall Mathros than actually punish him for any real crime and the only sentence he received was to be stripped of his rank.

The Assembly chose a wily smith by the name of [[Prentor Perrenoth]] as their new Marshall of Arms, and he immediately set about preparing Neptaris for an extended campaign for its very survival. He requested permission to establish martial law in Neptaris, which the Assembly agreed to in a very controversial decision. Marshall Perrenoth immediately issued a law which called for involuntary, though temporary, enlistment of all able bodied citizens into the military. With the strength of the merchant class behind him, he marched on Fort Speculium in the spring of 1118, the headquarters of the Imperial forces.

[[The Siege of Speculium]] lasted for eight months. As winter approached, Marshall Perrenoth lifted the siege and returned to Neptaris. Despite his failure at capturing the fortress, he was successful in dealing a heavy blow to the Imperial forces. The following spring, Marshall Perrenoth was able to retake most of the land in the Territories that had been lost while Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros repaired the damage the siege had caused to their fortress and their respective armies. In the spring of {{NCYear|1122}}, they were prepared to fight. Instead of attempting to recoup their losses in the Territories, the brothers decided to march on Neptaris itself. They arrived at the city gates and prepared for a long siege. After five months, the outer walls were breached and Marshall Perrenoth had been killed in battle. The Neptaran forces retreated to Castle Zepharos and the brothers began to prepare a siege there as well. Before they had even finished reconstructing their siege engines, the entire Legion suddenly picked up and departed for Zeth. [[Semelius Secundis]] of [[House Furius]], last of the Elected Emperors, had been murdered by [[Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]], sparking [[the Second Succession War]] in the Empire. Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros both returned to Zeth to defend the claim of their cousin, [[Marcellus of House Zetar|Marcellus of House Zetar]], to the Imperial throne. Neptaris recognized the advantage and immediately attacked and took Fort Speculium. From that base, they continued to make gains into Cambrecian territory. When the Second Succession Wars ended in {{NCYear|1127}} with [[Octavius Augustus]] of House Zetar as the victor, the newly appointed Pontifex of Zelos (Petros had died in battle) was not interested in expanding his influence into Neptaris. He encouraged the King to sign [[the Treaty of Speculium]] in {{NCYear|1128}}, which granted Neptaris independence and returned the lands that they had taken to Cambrecia. Neptaris had finally won its freedom from Cambrecia.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Neptaris]][[Category:Neptaran History]]</noinclude>

The Second Cambrecian War

2026-09-13T02:19:37Z

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The turn of [[Neptaris|Neptaris']] 11th century saw the city in a state of reconstruction. In {{NCYear|1005}}, the city underwent redistricting, adding [[the Naval Docks]] as a District of the city itself. By the second decade of the 11th century, Neptaris was again prosperous as trade increased with the Empire. Only [[Cambrecia]] was heavily taxed by the Assembly. In {{NCYear|1012}} and again in {{NCYear|1015}}, the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in [[Septarium]] met with the Assembly to ask for a decrease in these tariffs, but both times the Assembly refused. While making a third trip in {{NCYear|1021}}, the Pontifex's ship was attacked by pirates and sank off the coast of Neptaris. The Pontifex was killed in the attack.

Emperor [[Androcles Leto]] of [[House Zetar]] (and son of the now deceased Emperor Androcles) chose [[Severinus of House Gabinius|Severinus]] of [[House Gabinius]] as the new Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in {{NCYear|1023}}. Severinus was actually present in Cambrecia during the final days of [[the Great Rebellion of Neptaris|the Great Rebellion]] and had been horribly scared in a battle near Neptaris. As soon as he arrived in [[Septimius]], he demanded that the King of Cambrecia attack Neptaris immediately and regain the territory. The King refused, citing that he was honor-bound to obey the Treaty that had been forged forty years previously. The Pontifex was incensed at the King's defiance, but there seemed little he could do.

Late in {{NCYear|1026}}, Pontifex Severinus decided on a plan. He issued the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], which stated clearly that democracy and, hence, democratic states existed in violation of the law of Zelos. Within, he permitted a five-year period in which democracies were to be converted to a more "stable" form of government before action would be taken. Neptaris, of course, refused to convert. In {{NCYear|1031}}, the Pontifex called for a Crusade to free the ignorant people of Neptaris from their oppressive democracy.

[[The Neptaran Crusade]] was slow to start, as priests and lay people loyal to Zelos began to trickle into Septarium. By {{NCYear|1030}}, the Pontifex decided that he had the support he needed to attack Neptaris and personally led his troops into Neptaran territory. Neptaris sued for peace on the grounds that most of the Pontifex's army was composed of retired Legionnaires and, thus, must abide by [[the Treaty of Neptaris]]. The Emperor did not respond to this request, and the Pontifex continued to march on Neptaris. As {{NCYear|1030}} drew to a close, the crusading army wintered in the Territories, preparing for their siege the following spring.

The legal maneuverings of the Assembly, as well as the exceptionally long winter that year, gave Neptaris time to prepare for the Pontifex and his men. New walls were constructed and troops were trained throughout the winter. Finally, after the first spring thaw of {{NCYear|1031}}, the Neptaran army under the command of Marshall [[Lewt Morgar]] left the city to face the Pontifex. The two armies met in [[the Battle of Perrenoth Fields]], where the Pontifex proved to be the weaker military commander. Even though the Zelosite army was twice the size of the Neptaran army, they were resolutely defeated. Unfortunately, the Pontifex and most of his staff escaped and returned to Septarium to lick their wounds.

For the next decade, the Pontifex directed small bands of Crusaders as they harried Neptaran troops and pillaged whatever villages they could find in the Territories. Neptaris continued to plead with the Emperor and the King of Cambrecia to put a stop to the Crusade, but both refused to respond from any messages from Neptaris. In {{NCYear|1046}}, Marshall Morgar discovered and destroyed a Crusader camp near the Cambrecian border. [[Garulan]], the King of Cambrecia, claimed that the camp was actually a village under his protection and immediately declared war on Neptaris for violation of the Treaty. Neptaris, despite attempts to apologize for the action, had to again prepare for war.

The King and the Pontifex began massing an army in Septarium while courting the Legion's assistance in the matter. By {{NCYear|1050}}, they were ready to attack, relying heavily on the assistance of the Legion, though not direct support. The King marched through the Territories fighting guerilla tactics from locals and dealing with the wet weather that summer received. The Pontifex, now in advanced old age, chose to accompany the King in this effort. Their success came slowly, but it was still an inexorable movement towards the city itself. In {{NCYear|1053}}, they were within sight of Neptaris when the Pontifex died of a heart seizure. Without the direct support of their high ecclesiast, many of the crusaders departed the army. With a fourth of his army departing the battlefield, the King decided to retreat back to Septarium instead of trying to take the city, which would certainly have been a bloody affair.

Upon his return to Septarium, the King of Cambrecia immediately set about preparing another attack, this time with the full assistance of the Legion. The King began to construct a massive fortress, called [[Fort Speculium]], near his border with Neptaris. Despite many successive attacks by Neptaran forces, the fortress was almost complete in {{NCYear|1060}}, when King Garulan died. His son, [[Medeno III]], was not as aggressive military as his father was, but by {{NCYear|1063}}, he was prepared to attack Neptaris, using Fort Speculium as his headquarters. Within days of the planned attack, most of the Legion upon which he relied boarded ships of [[the Second Fleet]] and went home to Zeth. The Emperor Androcles Leto had died without an heir and what would come to be known as [[the First Succession War]] had begun.

King Medeno III tried in vain to attack Neptaris, but without the support of the Imperial Legions, he was pushed back each time. In {{NCYear|1071}}, Marshall [[Angar Tivalos]] began a counteroffensive against King Medeno III, easily defeating what meager forces he had in the Territories. By autumn, Tivalos had settled in for a winter's siege at Fort Speculium. The winter was surprisingly mild that year, but by the spring of {{NCYear|1072}}, Tivalos had not yet breached the walls of the Cambrecian fortress. By late summer, it seemed that Tivalos was going to finally breach the defenses of the supposedly impenetrable castle when the Imperial Legion arrived. Unfortunately for Neptaris, the First Succession War was over, and [[Antipater of House Varro|Antipater]] of [[House Varro]] was selected as the first of the Elected Emperors. Antipater immediately sent a Legion back to Cambrecia with the intent of taking Neptaris. In the subsequent [[Battle of Mists]], Marshall Tivalos and the army of Neptaris were defeated by the Imperial Legion.

After the Battle of Mists, the Legion marched towards Neptaris, but the Legate decided that his army had suffered too many losses to attempt to take the city. He returned to Septarium to prepare for the next years' battle. Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems in Zeth prevented reinforcements from arriving for five years. When they did finally arrive in {{NCYear|1077}}, Neptaris had again rebuilt its defenses and was prepared for conflict. The careful Legate decided to take his Legion to Fort Speculium and use the castle as a base from which to wear down the Territories. As so many had before, the Legate soon discovered that taking the Territories was almost as difficult as taking Neptaris itself. By {{NCYear|1090}}, the Legate had made some marginal gains in the Territories, but nothing that seriously weakened Neptaris or its navy.

In the summer of {{NCYear|1090}}, Marshall Tivalos marched on Cambrecia, avoiding Fort Speculium and the parts of the Territories the Legate had gained altogether. The Legate was slow to react, believing the sorties to be a trick, and the Neptaran forces began to lay waste to the undefended countryside between Fort Speculium and Septarium. With supplies running low, the Legate finally decided to take Marshall Tivalos' attacks seriously in {{NCYear|1092}} and pulled his army from the Territories to fight the Neptaran army. Marshall Tivalos was not looking to confront the Legion, however. He continued to attack small farming villages, remaining a step ahead of the Imperial Legate. In {{NCYear|1095}}, the Marshall's plan came to fruition. Many of the farmers of Cambrecia began to migrate northward, away from the fighting and Fort Speculium. They eventually settled in an unclaimed territory on the southern shores of the Sea of Swords (the land they settled would come to be known as [[Enesia]] three centuries later).

With much of the food the Legion needed to fight no longer readily available, the Legate was forced to put his men to work in the abandoned fields of southern Cambrecia. Marshall Tivalos returned to Neptaris and was hailed as a hero for ending the war. The celebrations were premature, but all available evidence did suggest that Cambrecia was finally defeated, despite the lack of a Treaty. Marshall Tivalos died in {{NCYear|1103}} of old age, believing that he had saved Neptaris once and for all.

In the summer of {{NCYear|1110}}, the Emperor [[Caurus of House Valerius|Caurus]] of [[House Valerius]] made two appointments that would renew the Second Cambrecian War. The first was [[Petros of House Zetar|Petros]] of [[House Zetar]] as Pontifex of [[Zelos]]. The second was his brother, [[Demetrios Paolus]] of House Zetar, as Legate of the Cambrecian Legion. The two arrived in Septarium late in {{NCYear|1110}} and immediately began reconstructing the Legion in preparations for war. By the fighting season of {{NCYear|1113}}, they were thus prepared and had refortified Fort Speculium. Marshall [[Doncan Mathros]] was more of a politician than a military commander, and did not foresee the trouble that the two brothers would cause. Thus, when Legate Demetrios began attacking the Territories with a well trained and well supplied Legion and Pontifex Petros renewed the call for Crusade, Marshall Mathros was unprepared for the fight that was to come.

The Legate and the Pontifex were both careful men, but not unwilling to take risks to achieve their strategic ends. They systematically captured significant trade centers in the Territories, which not only served to cripple Neptaran supply lines but bolster their own. Their tactics in this matter were remarkably similar to Marshall Tivalos' two decades before, though it did not achieve the same desired results. The farmers of the Territories took up arms when they could to hamper the Legion, but they proved to be no match for the well trained Imperial soldiers with two strong leaders. In {{NCYear|1117}}, Marshall Mathros finally lead an army out of Neptaris to stop the Legion, but he was sorely defeated in [[the Battle of Dry Fields]]. He did escape and return to Neptaris, but the Assembly immediately tried him for dereliction of duty. The trial was more of an excuse to replace Marshall Mathros than actually punish him for any real crime and the only sentence he received was to be stripped of his rank.

The Assembly chose a wily smith by the name of [[Prentor Perrenoth]] as their new Marshall of Arms, and he immediately set about preparing Neptaris for an extended campaign for its very survival. He requested permission to establish martial law in Neptaris, which the Assembly agreed to in a very controversial decision. Marshall Perrenoth immediately issued a law which called for involuntary, though temporary, enlistment of all able bodied citizens into the military. With the strength of the merchant class behind him, he marched on Fort Speculium in the spring of 1118, the headquarters of the Imperial forces.

[[The Siege of Speculium]] lasted for eight months. As winter approached, Marshall Perrenoth lifted the siege and returned to Neptaris. Despite his failure at capturing the fortress, he was successful in dealing a heavy blow to the Imperial forces. The following spring, Marshall Perrenoth was able to retake most of the land in the Territories that had been lost while Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros repaired the damage the siege had caused to their fortress and their respective armies. In the spring of {{NCYear|1122}}, they were prepared to fight. Instead of attempting to recoup their losses in the Territories, the brothers decided to march on Neptaris itself. They arrived at the city gates and prepared for a long siege. After five months, the outer walls were breached and Marshall Perrenoth had been killed in battle. The Neptaran forces retreated to Castle Zepharos and the brothers began to prepare a siege there as well. Before they had even finished reconstructing their siege engines, the entire Legion suddenly picked up and departed for Zeth. [[Semelius Secundis]] of [[House Furius]], last of the Elected Emperors, had been murdered by [[Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]], sparking [[the Second Succession War]] in the Empire. Legate Demetrios and Pontifex Petros both returned to Zeth to defend the claim of their cousin, [[Marcellus of House Zetar|Marcellus of House Zetar]], to the Imperial throne. Neptaris recognized the advantage and immediately attacked and took Fort Speculium. From that base, they continued to make gains into Cambrecian territory. When the Second Succession Wars ended in {{NCYear|1127}} with [[Octavius Augustus]] of House Zetar as the victor, the newly appointed Pontifex of Zelos (Petros had died in battle) was not interested in expanding his influence into Neptaris. He encouraged the King to sign [[the Treaty of Speculium]] in {{NCYear|1128}}, which granted Neptaris independence and returned the lands that they had taken to Cambrecia. Neptaris had finally won its freedom from Cambrecia.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Neptaris]][[Category:Neptaran History]]</noinclude>

Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace

2026-09-13T02:13:21Z

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|main_article=The History of Cambrecia
}}</noinclude>Neptaris had already been an independent, rebel city for sixteen years by the time [[Corvos I Gweri|King Corvos]] was crowned in {{ICYear|166}}. [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] had torn it out of the Empire's hands the same year [[Basran Sugurd|King Basran Sugurd]] died and [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Ionnanes's]] regency began. It wasn't until {{ICYear|173}}, seven years into Corvos's own reign, that [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] took the city within a month and burned three quarters of it to the ground in what would become known to historians as the [[Fortnight of Screams|Pacification of Neptaris]]. Flush with that victory, he marched his Legion northward the following year by way of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], razing any foothill town he suspected of harboring rebel sympathy. King Corvos rode out personally to help organize the towns' defense, an instinct no Sarnicid king had ever shown, and took a wound in the fighting that would trouble him for the rest of his life.

The dwarves of [[Derlos]] ended Zemarchus's campaign for him. Late in {{ICYear|174}}, [[Jormung of Derlos|King Jormung]]'s warriors swept out of the mountains and gutted his Legion, sending the Legate fleeing back to [[Septarium]]. Instead of the sanctuary he expected, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] had him arrested for the massacre in Neptaris and subsequent attack on Imperial citizens in Cambrecia. He was charged with tyranny, treason and parricide (the Pontifex contended the hillfolk were his cousins). Ionnanes II himself presided over the trial. When found guilty, the Legate demanded the right of his station to throw himself on his own sword, but the Pontifex instead ordered ''poena cullei'', the "penalty of the sack." Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius was dressed in a bloody wolfskin, forced to wear wooden shoes and sewn into a heavy sack with a pack of rats. He was carted, screaming, through Septarium and tossed into the [[Septimia River]] to drown. It was a remarkable assertion of authority for a churchman to make over an Imperial commander and sent a clear message to the Legion: Cambrecia was under the patronage of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]] and no soldier, even a scion of one of the [[Great Houses of Zeth|Great Houses]], could place himself above the God of the State. Unfortunately, it did nothing to solve the deeper problem: the dwarves of Derlos kept right on arming and training Neptaris's rebels out of Cambrecian territory, a quiet hemorrhage Ionnanes never managed to stop. He spent his last five years trying, and died in {{ICYear|180}} still negotiating.

His successor, a Cambrecian-born cleric raised through the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and taking the pontifical name [[Aurelian of Zelos|Aurelian]], succeeded where his mentor hadn't. Within a few years he brokered what has come to be called the [[Foothill Accord]] with King Jormung, a grudging but real peace that finally ended Derlos's support for the rebels. It was overshadowed at the time by Corvos's own decline: his old wound worsened through the early 180s, and grew resistant to magickal healing over time, dying of its complications in {{ICYear|184}}, a quieter death than any king in living memory. He was only 35 years old. His six year old son, [[Medeno II Gweri|Medeno II]] was crowned without a single rival claimant coming forward, the first uncontested succession Cambrecia had seen in generations, and Aurelian stepped into the regency Ionnanes had once held as though it were simply the natural order of things.

The decade that followed was the closest thing to an easy stretch in this entire history. The cathedral Ionnanes had started in {{ICYear|149}} was finally completed and consecrated around {{ICYear|186}}, giving the regency an early, unifying moment of pride. The Order of the Lawspeaker spent much of the decade compiling the [[Codex of Twelve Pillars]], the first attempt to reconcile a century of contradictory Cambrecian royal decrees into one coherent body of law. Trade recovered, Septarium grew as both a pilgrimage site and a genuine center of legal scholarship, and the whole period would later be remembered as proof that the [[Zelos|Goldenhand]]'s own virtues, stewardship, continuity, diligence, could hold a province together without a war anywhere in sight.

It did not last. In {{ICYear|195}}, with the regency completed only a year prior, Aurelian pressed the newly-arrived [[Sarapion Leo of House Valerius|Legate Sarapion Leo]] of [[House Valerius]] to operate under the command of the young King in their war against recalcitrant Neptaris. Sarapion ignored the Pontifex and began to march his Legions south, but was seized en-route by crusaders lead by the [[Order of the Unwilling Crown]] and hauled back to Septarium on charges of heresy. The Legate, however, escaped his own trial with help from his troops, who stormed the city within the week. Victorious even from a prison cell, Sarapion declared martial law, arrested both the Pontifex Aurelian and King Medeno II on charges of treason against the Emperor and marched on Neptaris anyway. What followed was ugly on every side: atrocities against Cambrecian farmers when Sarapion's supply lines failed, a daring raid by [[Griori Burgden|Admiral Blacklocks]] that burned the rebuilt Neptaran shipyards and years of grinding stalemate that ended only when one of Sarapion's own guards assassinated him in {{ICYear|202}}.

The Pontifex and young King, even closer than they had been during the King's regency, had been released five years prior, without the Legate's knowledge. In the aftermath of Sarapion's assassination, the Pontifex appointed King Medeno II to the Imperial Legate's vacant post, a startling arrogation of an Imperial military office that nonetheless went unchallenged from [[Zeth]]. True to the arrangement, Medeno spent the office fighting the war he actually cared about, the low-grade native insurgency still smoldering in the foothills of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]] long after the [[Foothill Accord]] had cut the dwarves out of it. For the better part of a decade he simply ignored Aurelian's protests that the coast deserved his attention instead. The Legion slipped from his hands only once, in {{ICYear|219}}, when Emperor [[Semelius of House Furius|Semelius]] of [[House Furius]] appointed his own brother, [[Tiberius Phocas of House Furius|Tiberius Phocas]], to the post Medeno had held for seventeen years, but a Senate coup in Zeth swept Semelius aside within the year and the Legate's chair reverted to the Crown almost as an afterthought.

Away from the coast, this was Cambrecia's longest stretch of uninterrupted internal peace since the conquest. Aurelian, who had shepherded two Cambrecian kings through the church's partnership with the crown, died of old age around {{ICYear|215}} and was succeeded by Pontifex [[Leontius of Zelos|Leontius]], an Aescalapean-trained scholar with no taste for politics who poured the church's resources into learning instead. Under Leontius, the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] gave the [[Codex of Twelve Pillars]] its first major revision in a generation, and Septarium's reputation as a center of legal scholarship hardened into something concrete: the [[Auditors' College]], chartered in {{ICYear|224}} to formally train the [[Order of Auditors]], drew students from as far as [[Koramia]]. Cambrecian wine, an investment in the countryside made by Ionnanes himself, became the province's quiet economic engine through these decades, carried down the [[King's Road]] that Medeno had built to move troops to the mountains and that merchants adopted just as happily. It's one of the era's sharper ironies that the tariffs Cambrecia later found itself paying into Neptaris's treasury fell, in no small part, on its own wine reaching Neptaran tables.

Medeno II reigned for fifty-one years and died peacefully in {{ICYear|235}}, remembered less for any battle than for simply never losing his throne to war, plague, or a rival's blade the way every king before him had. His son took the crown as [[Tarnos IV Gweri|King Tarnos IV]], reviving a name that hadn't sat on a Cambrecian throne since [[House Dravos]] fell a century and a half earlier, a deliberate gesture tying the young Corvosid line to the memory of the one it had replaced. Leontius died a few years into Tarnos's reign and was succeeded by Pontifex [[Cassian of Zelos|Cassian]], who inherited a treasury already feeling Neptaris's reversal of fortune and spent his tenure trying, and failing, to talk the Neptaran [[Supreme Assembly]] out of it.

By {{ICYear|262}}, and again in {{ICYear|265}}, the sitting Pontifex of Zelos traveled to Neptaris himself to plead for relief from those tariffs, and was refused both times. He never got a third chance to ask; in {{ICYear|271}}, pirates sank his ship off the Neptaran coast and all hands were lost. His successor, [[Severinus of House Gabinius|Severinus]] of [[House Gabinius]], a man scarred in battle during the last days of the old rebellion decades before, arrived in Septarium in {{ICYear|273}} in no mood for patience. He demanded the King break the long peace and retake Neptaris outright. The King refused, invoking the [[Treaty of Neptaris]] that had ended the Great Rebellion more than forty years before, and for a time it seemed the matter would simply die there. It didn't. Late in {{ICYear|276}}, Severinus issued the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], declaring the Freecity of Neptaris' very form of government an offense against the law of Zelos, and gave the city five years to reform itself or answer for it.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

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{{EventRow|120|odd|
* [[The Third Age of Man]] begins; [[The Foundation of Zeth]]
* [[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.
* Rise of the [[Empire of Balguran]]}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|152|odd|[[Meargagh]], chieftain of the [[Kamaros]], jealous of [[Neptaris|Neptag's]] wealth, besieges the city but fails to breach its walls.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|293|odd|[[Republic of Zeth|The Republic]], falsely touted to be the first democracy, is founded in Zeth.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|551|odd|[[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] ships first arrive at [[Zeth]] to trade goods from the barbarian north.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|631|odd|
* 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.
* [[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.
}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|664|odd|[[Septimius of House Varros]] defeats [[Aaronar VI]], the last King of the [[Kamaros]], in present-day Cambrecia}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|721|even|[[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]], first emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]], is born}}
{{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.}}
{{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]]}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|916|odd|[[Corvos I Gweri|Corvos]], son and heir to deceased Cambrecian King [[Basran Sugurd]], ascends to the throne of [[Cambrecia]] under the watchful direction of his Regent, tutor and surrogate father, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]], re-establishing traditional kingship in Cambrecia after decades of unpopular Kings appointed by the [[Great Empire|Zetian Emperor]]. This is considered to be the end of what has become known in Cambrecia as the [[Cambrecia and the Long Discontent|Long Discontent]].}}
{{Eventrow|923|even|[[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.}}
{{EventRow|936|even|[[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.}}
{{EventRow|980|odd|The [[Treaty of Neptaris]] is signed by [[Androcles of House Zetar|Androcles]] of [[House Zetar]] as a condition of his release from imprisonment in [[Neptaris]] so that he could return to Zeth to be crowned Emperor. The treaty released the city from Imperial control and promised that the Great Empire would never again attempt to subjugate the city.}}
{{EventRow|1026|odd|[[Severinus of House Gabinius|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}
{{EventRow|1062|even|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[Antigonus Gabinius]].}}
{{EventRow|1068|odd|[[Antipater Varro]] becomes first [[Time of Elected Emperors|Elected Emperor]] since Octavius.}}
{{EventRow|1071|even|Imperial forces defeat the last of the pretenders to the Imperial throne, ending the [[First Succession War]].}}
{{EventRow|1095|odd|Farmers, irritated with Imperial power in [[Cambrecia]], migrate to present-day [[Enesia]].}}
{{EventRow|1121|even|[[Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]] murders ruling Emperor, ending the [[Time of Elected Emperors]] and starting the [[Second Succession War]].}}
{{EventRow|1126|odd|[[Octavius Augustus Zetar]] defeats [[Vitellis Gabinius]], last of the pretenders, ending the [[Second Succession War]].}}
{{EventRow|1181|even|The [[Empire of Balguran]] crumbles; [[Adanar]] is founded by [[King Falgran]]}}
{{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]]}}
{{EventRow|1378|even|The last two Imperial garrisons in present-day [[Koramia]] proclaim their independence from the Empire, ending Imperial rule in the region.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|1554|even|The Electorate in [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] decides to disband and elects [[Bernard Margwenth]] as its [[Lord Earl]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|1723|odd|After a crippling merchant war at home in [[Lagorka]], the [[Vazdids]] leave [[Nadera]], which is subsequently plundered by Vazdid's enemies.}}
{{EventRow|1730|even|The [[Gray Lord of Thet]] is defeated in the [[Battle of Bloodrust]] in [[Adanar]] by [[King Ilyard]] of [[Haleli]].}}
{{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."}}
{{EventRow|1741|even|By this time, [[Aishah Izuel|Aishah "the Bloody"]] has taken effective control of [[Nadera]] and is crowned Sovereign Queen.}}
{{EventRow|1752|odd|Death without issue of Emperor [[Orestes Sergius]] results in the [[Third Succession War]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1779|odd|[[Gaius Aurelius Zetar]] defeats [[Manius Acilius Drusus]], ending the [[Third Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]].}}
{{EventRow|1783|even||The [[Fell King]] of [[Thet]] marches against [[Adanar]], starting the [[Long War]]}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1825|even|The signing of the [[Naderan Royal Code]] ends the [[Naderan Civil War]] after twenty long years, establishing the [[Council of Princes]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1858|even|The bloody [[War of Eagles]] begins in [[Adanar]] with the death of King [[Galen Tolgran]] without heir.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|1930|odd|[[William I Greysword|William V Greysword]] is elected [[Lord Earl of Paeldain]], the youngest to hold that position}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1960|odd|[[Koramia]] is reunified under [[William I Greysword|King William Greysword I]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1997|odd|[[Kor'dal]] becomes [[Great Khan]] of the orcs of [[Tazgrat]] and begins to march his armies towards the [[Mabean Marches]].}}
{{EventRow|1998|even|
* 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.
* [[Lucasa]] becomes [[Mage-King]] of [[Lun Dorak]].}}
{{EventRow|1999|odd|
* As Lucius, Mage-King [[Lucasa]] secretly becomes advisor to Emperor [[Publius Antonius]] of [[House Zetar]].
* [[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.}}
{{EventRow|2000|even|
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.}}
{{EventRow|2001|odd|
* 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.
* 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.
* In [[Lun Dorak]], the Mage-King [[Lucasa]] discovers the [[Magesword]].
* Near Webwood Forest, [[Math Mathowny]], villain of the [[Tuatha de Dannan]], is slain by [[Cuchulain]].
* [[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]].}}
{{EventRow|2002|even|
* 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.
* In [[Adanar]], the dwarves of the Janos mountains open an embassy and begin trade negotiations with humans in the region.}}
{{EventRow|2003|odd|
* [[Gar'dun]] becomes [[Great Khan]], uniting the orcish tribes of [[Vor Midal]] and attacks [[Lun Dorak]].
* 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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|2005|odd|
* [[Dracia]] declares independence from the Empire and [[Vladimir Vtalasav]] is crowned King.
* 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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|2007|odd|
* 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.
* 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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|2012|even|
* The [[Crimson Plague]] strikes in [[Neptaris]], likely brought by traders from the east. From Neptaris, the Plague spreads quickly to [[Koramia]], [[Tamerynd]] and [[Zeth]].
* The [[Fourth Succession War]] grinds to a stalemate as the Crimson Plague takes several prominent leaders and decimates the population.
* The [[Valtaan|Valtang]] barbarians of Mitaria march on [[Narbonne]].}}
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====[[916]]====
* [[Corvos I Gweri|Corvos]], son and heir to deceased Cambrecian King [[Basran Sugurd]], ascends to the throne of [[Cambrecia]] under the watchful direction of his Regent, tutor and surrogate father, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]], re-establishing traditional kingship in Cambrecia after decades of unpopular Kings appointed by the [[Great Empire|Zetian Emperor]]. This is considered to be the end of what has become known in Cambrecia as the [[Cambrecia and the Long Discontent|Long Discontent]].
====[[923]]====
* [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.
====[[980]]====
* The [[Treaty of Neptaris]] is signed by [[Androcles of House Zetar|Androcles]] of [[House Zetar]] as a condition of his release from imprisonment in [[Neptaris]] so that he could return to Zeth to be crowned Emperor. The treaty released the city from Imperial control and promised that the Great Empire would never again attempt to subjugate the city.

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* The [[Treaty of Neptaris]] is signed by [[Androcles of House Zetar|Androcles]] of [[House Zetar]] as a condition of his release from imprisonment in [[Neptaris]] so that he could return to Zeth to be crowned Emperor. The treaty released the city from Imperial control and promised that the Great Empire would never again attempt to subjugate the city.

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* The [[Treaty of Neptaris]] is signed by [[Androcles of House Zetar|Androcles]] of [[House Zetar]] as a condition of his release from imprisonment in [[Neptaris]] so that he could return to Zeth to be crowned Emperor. The treaty released the city from Imperial control and promised that the Great Empire would never again attempt to subjugate the city.

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* The [[Treaty of Neptaris]] is signed by [[Androcles of House Zetar|Androcles]] of [[House Zetar]] as a condition of his release from imprisonment in Neptaris so that he could return to Zeth to be crowned Emperor. The treaty released the city from Imperial control and promised that the Great Empire would never again attempt to subjugate the city.

Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace

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}}</noinclude>Neptaris had already been an independent, rebel city for sixteen years by the time [[Corvos I Gweri|King Corvos]] was crowned in {{ICYear|166}}. [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] had torn it out of the Empire's hands the same year [[Basran Sugurd|King Basran Sugurd]] died and [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Ionnanes's]] regency began. It wasn't until {{ICYear|173}}, seven years into Corvos's own reign, that [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] took the city within a month and burned three quarters of it to the ground in what would become known to historians as the [[Fortnight of Screams|Pacification of Neptaris]]. Flush with that victory, he marched his Legion northward the following year by way of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], razing any foothill town he suspected of harboring rebel sympathy. King Corvos rode out personally to help organize the towns' defense, an instinct no Sarnicid king had ever shown, and took a wound in the fighting that would trouble him for the rest of his life.

The dwarves of [[Derlos]] ended Zemarchus's campaign for him. Late in {{ICYear|174}}, [[Jormung of Derlos|King Jormung]]'s warriors swept out of the mountains and gutted his Legion, sending the Legate fleeing back to [[Septarium]]. Instead of the sanctuary he expected, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] had him arrested for the massacre in Neptaris and subsequent attack on Imperial citizens in Cambrecia. He was charged with tyranny, treason and parricide (the Pontifex contended the hillfolk were his cousins). Ionnanes II himself presided over the trial. When found guilty, the Legate demanded the right of his station to throw himself on his own sword, but the Pontifex instead ordered ''poena cullei'', the "penalty of the sack." Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius was dressed in a bloody wolfskin, forced to wear wooden shoes and sewn into a heavy sack with a pack of rats. He was carted, screaming, through Septarium and tossed into the [[Septimia River]] to drown. It was a remarkable assertion of authority for a churchman to make over an Imperial commander and sent a clear message to the Legion: Cambrecia was under the patronage of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]] and no soldier, even a scion of one of the [[Great Houses of Zeth|Great Houses]], could place himself above the God of the State. Unfortunately, it did nothing to solve the deeper problem: the dwarves of Derlos kept right on arming and training Neptaris's rebels out of Cambrecian territory, a quiet hemorrhage Ionnanes never managed to stop. He spent his last five years trying, and died in {{ICYear|180}} still negotiating.

His successor, a Cambrecian-born cleric raised through the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and taking the pontifical name [[Aurelian of Zelos|Aurelian]], succeeded where his mentor hadn't. Within a few years he brokered what has come to be called the [[Foothill Accord]] with King Jormung, a grudging but real peace that finally ended Derlos's support for the rebels. It was overshadowed at the time by Corvos's own decline: his old wound worsened through the early 180s, and grew resistant to magickal healing over time, dying of its complications in {{ICYear|184}}, a quieter death than any king in living memory. He was only 35 years old. His six year old son, [[Medeno II Gweri|Medeno II]] was crowned without a single rival claimant coming forward, the first uncontested succession Cambrecia had seen in generations, and Aurelian stepped into the regency Ionnanes had once held as though it were simply the natural order of things.

The decade that followed was the closest thing to an easy stretch in this entire history. The cathedral Ionnanes had started in {{ICYear|149}} was finally completed and consecrated around {{ICYear|186}}, giving the regency an early, unifying moment of pride. The Order of the Lawspeaker spent much of the decade compiling the [[Codex of Twelve Pillars]], the first attempt to reconcile a century of contradictory Cambrecian royal decrees into one coherent body of law. Trade recovered, Septarium grew as both a pilgrimage site and a genuine center of legal scholarship, and the whole period would later be remembered as proof that the [[Zelos|Goldenhand]]'s own virtues, stewardship, continuity, diligence, could hold a province together without a war anywhere in sight.

It did not last. In {{ICYear|195}}, with the regency completed only a year prior, Aurelian pressed the newly-arrived [[Sarapion Leo of House Valerius|Legate Sarapion Leo]] of [[House Valerius]] to operate under the command of the young King in their war against recalcitrant Neptaris. Sarapion ignored the Pontifex and began to march his Legions south, but was seized en-route by crusaders lead by the [[Order of the Unwilling Crown]] and hauled back to Septarium on charges of heresy. The Legate, however, escaped his own trial with help from his troops, who stormed the city within the week. Victorious even from a prison cell, Sarapion declared martial law, arrested both the Pontifex Aurelian and King Medeno II on charges of treason against the Emperor and marched on Neptaris anyway. What followed was ugly on every side: atrocities against Cambrecian farmers when Sarapion's supply lines failed, a daring raid by [[Griori Burgden|Admiral Blacklocks]] that burned the rebuilt Neptaran shipyards and years of grinding stalemate that ended only when one of Sarapion's own guards assassinated him in {{ICYear|202}}.

The Pontifex and young King, even closer than they had been during the King's regency, had been released five years prior, without the Legate's knowledge. In the aftermath of Sarapion's assassination, the Pontifex appointed King Medeno II to the Imperial Legate's vacant post, a startling arrogation of an Imperial military office that nonetheless went unchallenged from [[Zeth]]. True to the arrangement, Medeno spent the office fighting the war he actually cared about, the low-grade native insurgency still smoldering in the foothills of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]] long after the [[Foothill Accord]] had cut the dwarves out of it. For the better part of a decade he simply ignored Aurelian's protests that the coast deserved his attention instead. The Legion slipped from his hands only once, in {{ICYear|219}}, when Emperor [[Semelius of House Furius|Semelius]] of [[House Furius]] appointed his own brother, [[Tiberius Phocas of House Furius|Tiberius Phocas]], to the post Medeno had held for seventeen years, but a Senate coup in Zeth swept Semelius aside within the year and the Legate's chair reverted to the Crown almost as an afterthought.

Away from the coast, this was Cambrecia's longest stretch of uninterrupted internal peace since the conquest. Aurelian, who had shepherded two Cambrecian kings through the church's partnership with the crown, died of old age around {{ICYear|215}} and was succeeded by Pontifex [[Leontius of Zelos|Leontius]], an Aescalapean-trained scholar with no taste for politics who poured the church's resources into learning instead. Under Leontius, the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] gave the [[Codex of Twelve Pillars]] its first major revision in a generation, and Septarium's reputation as a center of legal scholarship hardened into something concrete: the [[Auditors' College]], chartered in {{ICYear|224}} to formally train the [[Order of Auditors]], drew students from as far as [[Koramia]]. Cambrecian wine, an investment in the countryside made by Ionnanes himself, became the province's quiet economic engine through these decades, carried down the [[King's Road]] that Medeno had built to move troops to the mountains and that merchants adopted just as happily. It's one of the era's sharper ironies that the tariffs Cambrecia later found itself paying into Neptaris's treasury fell, in no small part, on its own wine reaching Neptaran tables.

Medeno II reigned for fifty-one years and died peacefully in {{ICYear|235}}, remembered less for any battle than for simply never losing his throne to war, plague, or a rival's blade the way every king before him had. His son took the crown as [[Tarnos IV Gweri|King Tarnos IV]], reviving a name that hadn't sat on a Cambrecian throne since [[House Dravos]] fell a century and a half earlier, a deliberate gesture tying the young Corvosid line to the memory of the one it had replaced. Leontius died a few years into Tarnos's reign and was succeeded by Pontifex [[Cassian of Zelos|Cassian]], who inherited a treasury already feeling Neptaris's reversal of fortune and spent his tenure trying, and failing, to talk the Neptaran [[Supreme Assembly]] out of it.

By {{ICYear|262}}, and again in {{ICYear|265}}, the sitting Pontifex of Zelos traveled to Neptaris himself to plead for relief from those tariffs, and was refused both times. He never got a third chance to ask; in {{ICYear|271}}, pirates sank his ship off the Neptaran coast and all hands were lost. His successor, [[Severinus of House Gabinius|Severinus]] of [[House Gabinius]], a man scarred in battle during the last days of the old rebellion decades before, arrived in Septarium in {{ICYear|273}} in no mood for patience. He demanded the King break the long peace and retake Neptaris outright. The King refused, invoking the [[Treaty of Neptaris]] that had ended the Great Rebellion more than forty years before, and for a time it seemed the matter would simply die there. It didn't. Late in {{ICYear|276}}, Severinus issued the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], declaring the Freecity of Neptaris' very form of government an offense against the law of Zelos, and gave the city five years to reform itself or answer for it.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

Cambrecia

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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.
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{{Nation
|name = Cambrecia
|fullname = The Holy See of Cambrecia
|emblem = Fw_cambrecia_web.png
|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.
|continent = Duria
|location = Southern [[Duria]], along the shores of the [[Maroshan Sea]]
|land_area = 21197
|coastline = 285
|terrain = 
|waterways =
* [[Maroshan Sea]]
* [[Septimia River]]
|society= 
|population = 750,000 (90% humans, 4% hobbits, 6% other)
|language = [[Cambrecian Language|Cambrecian]]
|locations= 
|persons = Archbishop [[Alexander Desteos]] of [[Belora]], Archbishop [[Gawyn Marcos]] of [[Amesand]], High Protector [[Marcus Aquilius Severus]] of the [[Golden Guard]]
|government=
|government_type = Theocracy (Potentate, Archbishop, Bishop, Temple Speaker, Podesta)
|ruler = His Holiness the Potentate of Zelos, [[Gabriel II]]
|arms = Potent, a book argent bordered by two altars argent with flames gules, to chief a crown or.
|capital = [[Zelosia City]] (pop 20,450)
|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.
|hostilities = The state has had some skirmishes with pirates from [[Marosh]] and [[Tamerynd]], but has no formally declared wars.
|law = 
|military=
* [[Golden Guard]]
|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.
|pantheon = Formally neutral, though there are strong sympathies to followers of the [[Koramian Heresy]]
|patron = [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]]
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|persecuted_faiths = 
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|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.
|exports = 
|imports = 
|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)
|guilds = 
|black_market = 
|history =
===Foundation of Cambrecia===
{{:Foundation of Cambrecia}}
===Imperial Cambrecia===
{{:Imperial Cambrecia}}
===Cambrecia and the Derlic War===
{{:Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}
===Cambrecia and the Long Discontent===
{{:Cambrecia and the Long Discontent}}
===Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace===
{{:Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace}}
===The Cambrecian Civil Wars===
{{:The Cambrecian Civil Wars}}
===Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia===
{{:Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia}}
===Cambrecia and the Mage War===
{{:Cambrecia and the Mage War}}
===The Zelosian Schism===
{{:The Zelosian Schism}}
===Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods===
{{:Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods}}
===Cambrecia in the Fourth Age===
{{:Cambrecia in the Fourth Age}}
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{{Duria_Guide|chapter= Regions}}
[[Category:Cambrecia]]
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===Foundation of Cambrecia===
{{:Foundation of Cambrecia}}
===Imperial Cambrecia===
{{:Imperial Cambrecia}}
===Cambrecia and the Derlic War===
{{:Cambrecia and the Derlic War}}
===Cambrecia and the Long Discontent===
{{:Cambrecia and the Long Discontent}}
===Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace===
{{:Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace}}
===The Cambrecian Civil Wars===
{{:The Cambrecian Civil Wars}}
===Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia===
{{:Cambrecia and the Rise of Koramia}}
===Cambrecia and the Mage War===
{{:Cambrecia and the Mage War}}
===The Zelosian Schism===
{{:The Zelosian Schism}}
===Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods===
{{:Cambrecia and the Recession of the Gods}}
===Cambrecia in the Fourth Age===
{{:Cambrecia in the Fourth Age}}
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Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace

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}}</noinclude>Neptaris had already been an independent, rebel city for sixteen years by the time [[Corvos I Gweri|King Corvos]] was crowned in {{ICYear|166}}. [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] had torn it out of the Empire's hands the same year [[Basran Sugurd|King Basran Sugurd]] died and [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Ionnanes's]] regency began. It wasn't until {{ICYear|173}}, seven years into Corvos's own reign, that [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] took the city within a month and burned three quarters of it to the ground in what would become known to historians as the [[Fortnight of Screams|Pacification of Neptaris]]. Flush with that victory, he marched his Legion northward the following year by way of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], razing any foothill town he suspected of harboring rebel sympathy. King Corvos rode out personally to help organize the towns' defense, an instinct no Sarnicid king had ever shown, and took a wound in the fighting that would trouble him for the rest of his life.

The dwarves of [[Derlos]] ended Zemarchus's campaign for him. Late in {{ICYear|174}}, [[Jormung of Derlos|King Jormung]]'s warriors swept out of the mountains and gutted his Legion, sending the Legate fleeing back to [[Septarium]]. Instead of the sanctuary he expected, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] had him arrested for the massacre in Neptaris and subsequent attack on Imperial citizens in Cambrecia. He was charged with tyranny, treason and parricide (the Pontifex contended the hillfolk were his cousins). Ionnanes II himself presided over the trial. When found guilty, the Legate demanded the right of his station to throw himself on his own sword, but the Pontifex instead ordered ''poena cullei'', the "penalty of the sack." Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius was dressed in a bloody wolfskin, forced to wear wooden shoes and sewn into a heavy sack with a pack of rats. He was carted, screaming, through Septarium and tossed into the [[Septimia River]] to drown. It was a remarkable assertion of authority for a churchman to make over an Imperial commander and sent a clear message to the Legion: Cambrecia was under the patronage of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]] and no soldier, even a scion of one of the [[Great Houses of Zeth|Great Houses]], could place himself above the God of the State. Unfortunately, it did nothing to solve the deeper problem: the dwarves of Derlos kept right on arming and training Neptaris's rebels out of Cambrecian territory, a quiet hemorrhage Ionnanes never managed to stop. He spent his last five years trying, and died in {{ICYear|180}} still negotiating.

His successor, a Cambrecian-born cleric raised through the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and taking the pontifical name [[Aurelian of Zelos|Aurelian]], succeeded where his mentor hadn't. Within a few years he brokered what has come to be called the [[Foothill Accord]] with King Jormung, a grudging but real peace that finally ended Derlos's support for the rebels. It was overshadowed at the time by Corvos's own decline: his old wound worsened through the early 180s, and grew resistant to magickal healing over time, dying of its complications in {{ICYear|184}}, a quieter death than any king in living memory. He was only 35 years old. His six year old son, [[Medeno II Gweri|Medeno II]] was crowned without a single rival claimant coming forward, the first uncontested succession Cambrecia had seen in generations, and Aurelian stepped into the regency Ionnanes had once held as though it were simply the natural order of things.

The decade that followed was the closest thing to an easy stretch in this entire history. The cathedral Ionnanes had started in {{ICYear|149}} was finally completed and consecrated around {{ICYear|186}}, giving the regency an early, unifying moment of pride. The Order of the Lawspeaker spent much of the decade compiling the [[Codex of Twelve Pillars]], the first attempt to reconcile a century of contradictory Cambrecian royal decrees into one coherent body of law. Trade recovered, Septarium grew as both a pilgrimage site and a genuine center of legal scholarship, and the whole period would later be remembered as proof that the [[Zelos|Goldenhand]]'s own virtues, stewardship, continuity, diligence, could hold a province together without a war anywhere in sight.

It did not last. In {{ICYear|195}}, with the regency completed only a year prior, Aurelian pressed the newly-arrived [[Sarapion Leo of House Valerius|Legate Sarapion Leo]] of [[House Valerius]] to operate under the command of the young King in their war against recalcitrant Neptaris. Sarapion ignored the Pontifex and began to march his Legions south, but was seized en-route by crusaders lead by the [[Order of the Unwilling Crown]] and hauled back to Septarium on charges of heresy. The Legate, however, escaped his own trial with help from his troops, who stormed the city within the week. Victorious even from a prison cell, Sarapion declared martial law, arrested both the Pontifex Aurelian and King Medeno II on charges of treason against the Emperor and marched on Neptaris anyway. What followed was ugly on every side: atrocities against Cambrecian farmers when Sarapion's supply lines failed, a daring raid by [[Griori Burgden|Admiral Blacklocks]] that burned the rebuilt Neptaran shipyards and years of grinding stalemate that ended only when one of Sarapion's own guards assassinated him in {{ICYear|202}}.

The Pontifex and young King, even closer than they had been during the King's regency, had been released five years prior, without the Legate's knowledge. In the aftermath of Sarapion's assassination, the Pontifex appointed King Medeno II to the Imperial Legate's vacant post, a startling arrogation of an Imperial military office that nonetheless went unchallenged from [[Zeth]]. The decades that followed are thin in the record, but the broad shape of them is clear enough: Neptaris slowly rebuilt itself into a genuine trading power, and by the middle of the third century after the conquest the old order had quietly inverted itself. It was Cambrecia now paying heavy tariffs into Neptaris's own treasury, a bitter irony for a province that had once ruled the place by fiat.

By {{ICYear|262}}, and again in {{ICYear|265}}, the sitting Pontifex of Zelos traveled to Neptaris himself to plead for relief from those tariffs, and was refused both times. He never got a third chance to ask; in {{ICYear|271}}, pirates sank his ship off the Neptaran coast and killed him. His successor, [[Severinus of House Gabinius|Severinus]] of [[House Gabinius]], a man scarred in battle during the last days of the old rebellion decades before, arrived in Septarium in {{ICYear|273}} in no mood for patience. He demanded the King break the long peace and retake Neptaris outright. The King refused, invoking the [[Treaty of Neptaris]] that had ended the Great Rebellion more than forty years before, and for a time it seemed the matter would simply die there. It didn't. Late in {{ICYear|276}}, Severinus issued the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], declaring the Freecity of Neptaris' very form of government an offense against the law of Zelos, and gave the city five years to reform itself or answer for it.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

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==General Events==
End of the [[First Age of Elvenkind]]; [[the Dagda]] returns to the [[Tuatha de Dannan]]. After a brief meeting with [[Nuada|King Nuada]], the latter orders the Tuatha to retire to [[Otherworld]].
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* [[The Foundation of Neptaris]] along the wild shores of the [[Duria|Durian continent]] by the explorer [[Zarakos of Taranio]].

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==General Events==
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* [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the '''Pacification of Neptaris''' in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.

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|width="100" align="center"|'''Aebasan Year'''
|width="100" align="center"|'''Neptaran Year'''
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{{EventRow|120|odd|
* [[The Third Age of Man]] begins; [[The Foundation of Zeth]]
* [[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.
* Rise of the [[Empire of Balguran]]}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|152|odd|[[Meargagh]], chieftain of the [[Kamaros]], jealous of [[Neptaris|Neptag's]] wealth, besieges the city but fails to breach its walls.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|293|odd|[[Republic of Zeth|The Republic]], falsely touted to be the first democracy, is founded in Zeth.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|551|odd|[[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] ships first arrive at [[Zeth]] to trade goods from the barbarian north.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|631|odd|
* 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.
* [[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.
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{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|664|odd|[[Septimius of House Varros]] defeats [[Aaronar VI]], the last King of the [[Kamaros]], in present-day Cambrecia}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|721|even|[[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]], first emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]], is born}}
{{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.}}
{{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]]}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|916|odd|[[Corvos I Gweri|Corvos]], son and heir to deceased Cambrecian King [[Basran Sugurd]], ascends to the throne of [[Cambrecia]] under the watchful direction of his Regent, tutor and surrogate father, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]], re-establishing traditional kingship in Cambrecia after decades of unpopular Kings appointed by the [[Great Empire|Zetian Emperor]]. This is considered to be the end of what has become known in Cambrecia as the [[Cambrecia and the Long Discontent|Long Discontent]].}}
{{Eventrow|923|even|[[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.}}
{{EventRow|936|even|[[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.}}
{{EventRow|1026|odd|[[Severinus of House Gabinius|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}
{{EventRow|1062|even|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[Antigonus Gabinius]].}}
{{EventRow|1068|odd|[[Antipater Varro]] becomes first [[Time of Elected Emperors|Elected Emperor]] since Octavius.}}
{{EventRow|1071|even|Imperial forces defeat the last of the pretenders to the Imperial throne, ending the [[First Succession War]].}}
{{EventRow|1095|odd|Farmers, irritated with Imperial power in [[Cambrecia]], migrate to present-day [[Enesia]].}}
{{EventRow|1121|even|[[Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]] murders ruling Emperor, ending the [[Time of Elected Emperors]] and starting the [[Second Succession War]].}}
{{EventRow|1126|odd|[[Octavius Augustus Zetar]] defeats [[Vitellis Gabinius]], last of the pretenders, ending the [[Second Succession War]].}}
{{EventRow|1181|even|The [[Empire of Balguran]] crumbles; [[Adanar]] is founded by [[King Falgran]]}}
{{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]]}}
{{EventRow|1378|even|The last two Imperial garrisons in present-day [[Koramia]] proclaim their independence from the Empire, ending Imperial rule in the region.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|1554|even|The Electorate in [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] decides to disband and elects [[Bernard Margwenth]] as its [[Lord Earl]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|1723|odd|After a crippling merchant war at home in [[Lagorka]], the [[Vazdids]] leave [[Nadera]], which is subsequently plundered by Vazdid's enemies.}}
{{EventRow|1730|even|The [[Gray Lord of Thet]] is defeated in the [[Battle of Bloodrust]] in [[Adanar]] by [[King Ilyard]] of [[Haleli]].}}
{{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."}}
{{EventRow|1741|even|By this time, [[Aishah Izuel|Aishah "the Bloody"]] has taken effective control of [[Nadera]] and is crowned Sovereign Queen.}}
{{EventRow|1752|odd|Death without issue of Emperor [[Orestes Sergius]] results in the [[Third Succession War]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1779|odd|[[Gaius Aurelius Zetar]] defeats [[Manius Acilius Drusus]], ending the [[Third Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]].}}
{{EventRow|1783|even||The [[Fell King]] of [[Thet]] marches against [[Adanar]], starting the [[Long War]]}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1825|even|The signing of the [[Naderan Royal Code]] ends the [[Naderan Civil War]] after twenty long years, establishing the [[Council of Princes]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1858|even|The bloody [[War of Eagles]] begins in [[Adanar]] with the death of King [[Galen Tolgran]] without heir.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|1930|odd|[[William I Greysword|William V Greysword]] is elected [[Lord Earl of Paeldain]], the youngest to hold that position}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1960|odd|[[Koramia]] is reunified under [[William I Greysword|King William Greysword I]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1997|odd|[[Kor'dal]] becomes [[Great Khan]] of the orcs of [[Tazgrat]] and begins to march his armies towards the [[Mabean Marches]].}}
{{EventRow|1998|even|
* 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.
* [[Lucasa]] becomes [[Mage-King]] of [[Lun Dorak]].}}
{{EventRow|1999|odd|
* As Lucius, Mage-King [[Lucasa]] secretly becomes advisor to Emperor [[Publius Antonius]] of [[House Zetar]].
* [[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.}}
{{EventRow|2000|even|
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.}}
{{EventRow|2001|odd|
* 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.
* 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.
* In [[Lun Dorak]], the Mage-King [[Lucasa]] discovers the [[Magesword]].
* Near Webwood Forest, [[Math Mathowny]], villain of the [[Tuatha de Dannan]], is slain by [[Cuchulain]].
* [[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]].}}
{{EventRow|2002|even|
* 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.
* In [[Adanar]], the dwarves of the Janos mountains open an embassy and begin trade negotiations with humans in the region.}}
{{EventRow|2003|odd|
* [[Gar'dun]] becomes [[Great Khan]], uniting the orcish tribes of [[Vor Midal]] and attacks [[Lun Dorak]].
* 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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|2005|odd|
* [[Dracia]] declares independence from the Empire and [[Vladimir Vtalasav]] is crowned King.
* 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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|2007|odd|
* 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.
* 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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|2012|even|
* The [[Crimson Plague]] strikes in [[Neptaris]], likely brought by traders from the east. From Neptaris, the Plague spreads quickly to [[Koramia]], [[Tamerynd]] and [[Zeth]].
* The [[Fourth Succession War]] grinds to a stalemate as the Crimson Plague takes several prominent leaders and decimates the population.
* The [[Valtaan|Valtang]] barbarians of Mitaria march on [[Narbonne]].}}
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==General Events==
===Duria===
* [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.

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==General Events==
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* [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris. The legendary Neptaran military leader, [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] is subsequently executed.

Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace

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}}</noinclude>[[Corvos I Gweri|King Corvos]] had worn the crown for only four years when [[Neptaris]] tore itself out of the Empire's hands, and for the next several years [[Cambrecia]] found itself paying for a rebellion it hadn't started. [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]], recalled from [[Ciritasnia]] to crush [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] in {{ICYear|173}}, retook the city within a month and burned three quarters of it to the ground in what would become known to historians as the [[Fortnight of Screams|Pacification of Neptaris]]. Flush with that victory, he marched his Legion homeward the following year by way of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], razing any foothill town he suspected of harboring rebel sympathy. King Corvos rode out personally to help organize the towns' defense, an instinct no Sarnicid king had ever shown, and took a wound in the fighting that would trouble him for the rest of his life.

The dwarves of [[Derlos]] ended Zemarchus's campaign for him. Late in {{ICYear|174}}, [[Jormung of Derlos|King Jormung]]'s warriors swept out of the mountains and gutted his Legion, sending the Legate fleeing back to [[Septarium]]. Instead of the sanctuary he expected, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] had him arrested for the massacre in Neptaris and subsequent attack on Imperial citizens in Cambrecia. He was charged with tyranny, treason and parricide (the Pontifex contended the hillfolk were his cousins). Ionnanes II himself presided over the trial. When found guilty, the Legate demanded the right of his station to throw himself on his own sword, but the Pontifex instead ordered ''poena cullei'', the "penalty of the sack." Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius was dressed in a bloody wolfskin, forced to wear wooden shoes and sewn into a heavy sack with a pack of rats. He was carted, screaming, through Septarium and tossed into the [[Septimia River]] to drown. It was a remarkable assertion of authority for a churchman to make over an Imperial commander and sent a clear message to the Legion: Cambrecia was under the patronage of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]] and no soldier, even a scion of one of the [[Great Houses of Zeth|Great Houses]], could place himself above the God of the State. Unfortunately, it did nothing to solve the deeper problem: the dwarves of Derlos kept right on arming and training Neptaris's rebels out of Cambrecian territory, a quiet hemorrhage Ionnanes never managed to stop. He spent his last five years trying, and died in {{ICYear|180}} still negotiating.

His successor, a Cambrecian-born cleric raised through the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and taking the pontifical name [[Aurelian of Zelos|Aurelian]], succeeded where his mentor hadn't. Within a few years he brokered what has come to be called the [[Foothill Accord]] with King Jormung, a grudging but real peace that finally ended Derlos's support for the rebels. It was overshadowed at the time by Corvos's own decline: his old wound worsened through the early 180s, and grew resistant to magickal healing over time, dying of its complications in {{ICYear|184}}, a quieter death than any king in living memory. He was only 35 years old. His six year old son, [[Medeno II Gweri|Medeno II]] was crowned without a single rival claimant coming forward, the first uncontested succession Cambrecia had seen in generations, and Aurelian stepped into the regency Ionnanes had once held as though it were simply the natural order of things.

The decade that followed was the closest thing to an easy stretch in this entire history. The cathedral Ionnanes had started in {{ICYear|149}} was finally completed and consecrated around {{ICYear|186}}, giving the regency an early, unifying moment of pride. The Order of the Lawspeaker spent much of the decade compiling the [[Codex of Twelve Pillars]], the first attempt to reconcile a century of contradictory Cambrecian royal decrees into one coherent body of law. Trade recovered, Septarium grew as both a pilgrimage site and a genuine center of legal scholarship, and the whole period would later be remembered as proof that the [[Zelos|Goldenhand]]'s own virtues, stewardship, continuity, diligence, could hold a province together without a war anywhere in sight.

It did not last. In {{ICYear|195}}, with the regency completed only a year prior, Aurelian pressed the newly-arrived [[Sarapion Leo of House Valerius|Legate Sarapion Leo]] of [[House Valerius]] to operate under the command of the young King in their war against recalcitrant Neptaris. Sarapion ignored the Pontifex and began to march his Legions south, but was seized en-route by crusaders lead by the [[Order of the Unwilling Crown]] and hauled back to Septarium on charges of heresy. The Legate, however, escaped his own trial with help from his troops, who stormed the city within the week. Victorious even from a prison cell, Sarapion declared martial law, arrested both the Pontifex Aurelian and King Medeno II on charges of treason against the Emperor and marched on Neptaris anyway. What followed was ugly on every side: atrocities against Cambrecian farmers when Sarapion's supply lines failed, a daring raid by [[Griori Burgden|Admiral Blacklocks]] that burned the rebuilt Neptaran shipyards and years of grinding stalemate that ended only when one of Sarapion's own guards assassinated him in {{ICYear|202}}.

The Pontifex and young King, even closer than they had been during the King's regency, had been released five years prior, without the Legate's knowledge. In the aftermath of Sarapion's assassination, the Pontifex appointed King Medeno II to the Imperial Legate's vacant post, a startling arrogation of an Imperial military office that nonetheless went unchallenged from [[Zeth]]. The decades that followed are thin in the record, but the broad shape of them is clear enough: Neptaris slowly rebuilt itself into a genuine trading power, and by the middle of the third century after the conquest the old order had quietly inverted itself. It was Cambrecia now paying heavy tariffs into Neptaris's own treasury, a bitter irony for a province that had once ruled the place by fiat.

By {{ICYear|262}}, and again in {{ICYear|265}}, the sitting Pontifex of Zelos traveled to Neptaris himself to plead for relief from those tariffs, and was refused both times. He never got a third chance to ask; in {{ICYear|271}}, pirates sank his ship off the Neptaran coast and killed him. His successor, [[Severinus of House Gabinius|Severinus]] of [[House Gabinius]], a man scarred in battle during the last days of the old rebellion decades before, arrived in Septarium in {{ICYear|273}} in no mood for patience. He demanded the King break the long peace and retake Neptaris outright. The King refused, invoking the [[Treaty of Neptaris]] that had ended the Great Rebellion more than forty years before, and for a time it seemed the matter would simply die there. It didn't. Late in {{ICYear|276}}, Severinus issued the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], declaring the Freecity of Neptaris' very form of government an offense against the law of Zelos, and gave the city five years to reform itself or answer for it.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

The Great Revolution in Neptaris

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In the spring of {{NCYear|900}}, the response to the Imperial edict that ceded [[Neptaris]] to [[Cambrecia]] came in the form of [[Hadrag of House Markos|Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]]. Hadrag, despite his descent from nobility, refused to align himself with the Empire and found himself imprisoned for his volatile beliefs more than a few times in the last decade of the 9th century. In the winter of {{NCYear|899}}, he was released from his most recent stint in the work camps only to start fomenting rebellion again. This time, his voice was heard and the people rallied behind him. In the elections of {{NCYear|900}}, Hadrag and two of his strongest supporters, [[Richard Goldshield]] and [[Theod Maquin]], were elected to the Supreme Assembly. After passing a measure to declare their independence from the Empire, Hadrag stepped down and was immediately named Marshall of Arms for Neptaris.

Immediately upon his confirmation as Marshall of Arms, Hadrag gathered together a group of soldiers who despised the Empire and sacked the Imperial garrison in Neptaris. He also arrested Imperial tax collectors, bureaucrats and naval captains as enemies of the state and had many of them executed. Those who were not executed were stripped of their properties and sent to Septarium wearing nothing but hair shirts.

The King of Cambrecia, [[Basran Sugurd]], massed an army and prepared to march on Neptaris. His trip to the city was fraught with danger as rebellious agents within Cambrecia harried his every step. When he reached Neptaris, he had only 500 soldiers with which to attack the city. Unfamiliar with military tactics, King Basran chose to attack, despite being outnumbered. His men were slaughtered by Marshall Hadrag and his army. Hadrag killed King Basran himself in battle and the royal's head was sent to [[Septarium]] as a lesson to the Empire.

Unfortunately, the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in Septarium got the message all too well. He used the opportunity to name himself Regent of Basran's young son and recalled the Imperial Legate, [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] from northern [[Ciritasnia]] to fight against the rebels of Neptaris. Legate Zemarchus at first chose to ignore the pleas from the Pontifex and continued fighting against rebels in Ciritasnia. The Pontifex tried to amass what military strength he could, but continued rebellions kept most of the Imperial forces busy in central Cambrecia. The Pontifex finally realized that Neptaris was a fortified city, not a small rebel camp, and decided not to march on the city with the small army he was able to amass. He did, however, command the Imperial navy to begin sinking any vessel that carried the standard of Neptaris. The navy did not share the Legate's apathy for the situation, and Neptaris found itself unable to trade with its neighbors.

Marshall Hadrag, realizing that he must take the seas if he was going to achieve independence for the city, commissioned [[Garen Taltosbane]] as the first [[Grand Admiral of the Seas of Neptaris]]. Admiral Taltosbane, a former pirate that Hadrag had met in prison, quickly mobilized not only the Neptaran fleet but many pirate vessels from [[Marosh]] and slowly took control of the waters around Neptaris. By {{NCYear|923}}, most of the Imperial fleet had been destroyed. It was in this year, however, that Legate Zemarchus had finally answered the summons of the Pontifex.

Marshall Hadrag, who had received little real resistance from the Empire, was now faced with a mighty Legion that was well supplied and trained. Within a month, Legate Zemarchus had taken the city. Imperial troops flooded into the city, raping and pillaging throughout, while Zemarchus executed everyone in the city holding a title. Marshall Hadrag was drawn and quartered and pieces of his corpse were hung from each gate. The Legate then set the city ablaze and locked the portculli of the gates into place, trapping the citizens within. The city burned for two weeks before the fires finally subsided. Almost three-quarters of the city's population died in what would become known as the [[Fortnight of Screams]].

Legate Zemarchus, arrogant from his victory at Neptaris, decided to solve all of Cambrecia's ills by taking his army back to Ciritasnia by way of the foothills of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the center of rebellious thought in Cambrecia. As he moved through the foothills, he razed many towns and villages suspected of supporting rebellion. Late in the season of {{NCYear|924}}, while Zemarchus and his Legion were enjoying their latest rampage through a defenseless town, a contingent of dwarven troops suddenly swarmed out of the mountains. The dwarves, led by King [[Jormung of Derlos]], decimated Zemarchus' Legion and sent the Legate himself sneaking back to Septarium. Upon his arrival, the Pontifex had Zemarchus arrested, tried and executed for his actions in Neptaris.

The Neptarans were not appeased by the actions of the Pontifex, however, and the farmers of the former Territories began attacking any Imperial dignitary or fuctionary they could find. Their attacks were initially met with failure, but they eventually began to wear down the military presence Zemarchus had left behind. On the oceans, Admiral Taltosbane continued to maintain dominance from Marosh and prevented reinforcement by the Empire. Meanwhile, King Jormung began to supply the rebels of Cambrecia with weapons, food and much-needed training. Acknowledging the dangers of a three-pronged attack, the Pontifex of Zelos traveled to the Cambrecian Mountains to meet with a dwarven delegation in {{NCYear|925}}. He initially met with some success, but a diplomatic blunder on the part of the Pontifex ended negotiations rather abruptly. He continued to attempt a diplomatic solution with the dwarves for the next five years, until his death in {{NCYear|930}}.

Meanwhile, Neptaris itself was still under Imperial rule, though the Territories were now in full-fledged rebellion. Admiral Taltosbane died in {{NCYear|929}}, but he had selected [[Griori "Blacklocks" Burgden]] as his successor. Blacklocks was a former [[Warcaptain]] from [[Tamerynd]], and not only did he understand warfare at sea, but he had some experience in marine actions as well. His ships moved up and down the Cambrecian coast, attacking naval vessels, merchant vessels and coastal towns with no small measure of success. Hadrag's son, [[Creos]], established a government-in-exile, called [[the War Assembly]], on the island of Marosh in {{NCYear|932}}. He and the fellow members of his Assembly officially recognized Admiral Blacklocks and began to coordinate efforts to retake the city itself. Unfortunately, the vast distances between the three forces made just sort an effort almost impossible.

In {{NCYear|936}}, a gentleman farmer by the name of [[Simon Perrenoth]] rowed into the [[Maroshan Sea]] in search of one of Blacklocks' vessels. Miraculously, he succeeded and established contact between the rebellious Territories and the War Assembly. Creos Markos sent Simon Perrenoth back to the mainland with encrypted battle information for the dwarves. By the end of that year, Perrenoth had succeeded in constructing a secret means of communication between the three forces.

It is notable that, in this year, [[Garimund of Ryard]] stumbled across a flying ship in [[Ciritasnia]]. After boarding that ship, he discovered the decaying corpse of a man in strange armor with a book lying before him. That book, which would later be known as the Koram, would late become the founding notion of the Koramian Heresy.

Perrenoth's [[Neptaran Underground]] was operating at full force by the fighting season of {{NCYear|937}}. Over the next five years, dwarves, farmer and pirates fought on the land and in the sea to free Neptaris. In {{NCYear|943}}, Admiral Blacklocks and Creos Markos penetrated the Imperial defenses in [[the Bay of Krios]] and landed in Neptaris. They were able to secure most of the city, but the Imperials had decided to hole up in [[Castle Zepharos]]. The Siege of Zepharos lasted ten months. In the winter of {{NCYear|943}}, Creos Markos died due to complications from the extreme temperatures of that winter and his subordinates decided to lift the siege. Admiral Blacklocks limped back to Marosh with the few troops who had survived.

By {{NCYear|945}}, the Imperial Legion had finally recovered from its disastrous defeat at the hands of the dwarves. Legate [[Sarapion Leo]] of [[House Valerius]] arrived after sneaking through Blacklocks' barricade. When he arrived at [[Septarium]], the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] supported the concept that the King, now of age, should command the Legions attempting to take Neptaris. Legate Sarapion refused and began to march on Neptaris when crusaders from the Church of Zelos captured him and brought him back to Septarium to answer for charges of heresy. During his trial, the Legate escaped long enough to get a message to his troops. On the day he was to be sentenced, they attacked Septarium and within a week had breached the walls. Upon being rescued by his men, the Legate declared martial law in Cambrecia and had the Pontifex and the King arrested on charges of treason. Sarapion, however, was not interested in conducting a trial. With the Pontifex and King out of his way, he again ordered the Legion to Neptaris.

Legate Sarapion's disagreement with the Pontifex and King of Cambrecia took several months to resolve and it was late autumn before his Legion reached Neptaris. He proceeded to reinforce the battered walls of Castle Zepharos and ordered the construction of massive numbers of warships in Neptaris' shipyards. Unfortunately, finding food was a problem. None of the farmers in the Territories would send food to Neptaris and shipments over both land and sea more often ended up in the hands of his enemies than in the mouths of his soldiers. When the spring of {{NCYear|946}} arrived, he found his food stores empty. Sarapion took the bulk of his Legion into the now-dangerous countryside near Neptaris and began taking whatever food he could find, executing every farmer he could get his hands on. The atrocities committed during this time are still legendary, and some suggest that it was not just beef that the Legion subsisted off of that summer.

Perrenoth was able to get word to Blacklocks of the Legate's movements and the Admiral planned a daring blockade of Krios Bay. With only twelve ships, he entered the harbor and pounded the Neptaran shipyards in the early morning hours. Fortunately, Perrenoth had succeeded in warning the Neptaran people and only six people died in the conflagration that ensued. Needless to say, the Legate was incensed by the bold attack and immediately returned to Neptaris. He executed some two hundred people that were supposed to be working that day for dereliction of duty, even though the vast majority of them were civilians. He spent the rest of the fighting season of 946 between rebuilding his shipyards and trying to locate enough food to feed his troops.

In the spring of {{NCYear|947}}, the Pontifex and King were released from their imprisonment and sent a message describing their ordeals to the Emperor. [[Metius]] was enraged by the actions of his Legate and immediately issued an order to Sarapion that he was to return to Zeth for trial. Sarapion, apparently, never received that message. He continued to fight against the rebels in the Territories and Blacklocks' men at sea until {{NCYear|952}}, when a member of his personal guard assassinated him. Despite his political blunders, Legate Sarapion was the most effective Imperial military commander of the Great Rebellion.

Upon Sarapion's death, the Pontifex appointed King [[Medeno II]] of Cambrecia to the position of Legate, despite the fact that, according to Imperial law, only the Emperor had such power. Medeno, unfortunately, took his time with Neptaris. More interested in fighting the rebels closer to his own center of power, he recalled most of the Legion from Neptaris and sent them into the foothills of Cambrecia to fight the rebels there and their dwarven advisors. In the spring of {{NCYear|954}}, Admiral Blacklocks sailed his flagship into Krios Bay without any serious resistance. He and his troops easily took Castle Zepharos and re-established Neptaran rule in the city. The following month, Neptaris held the first elections that it had seen in over three decades. Both Admiral Blacklocks and Simon Perrenoth were both elected to the Supreme Assembly. Unfortunately, Blacklocks proved to be a better naval commander than politician. In the winter of {{NCYear|956}}, he was imprisoned for murder after a bar room brawl in which he was involved got out of hand.

Despite this turn of events, Medeno still refused to march on Neptaris and take it back, despite the protestations of the Pontifex. For the next decade, he continued to move his troops in the northern and western regions of Cambrecia, only sending a periodic raiding party into the Territories to cause trouble. Finally the Emperor [[Semelius of House Furius|Semelius]] of House Furius, upon his ascension to the throne in {{NCYear|968}}, announced the creation of [[the Second Fleet]], which was responsible for assisting in the conquest of Ciritasnia, Cambrecia and Neptaris. He also appointed [[Tiberius Phocas]], also of House Furius and the younger brother of the Emperor, Legate of the Cambrecian army.

Tiberius arrived in Septimius with his newly established Fleet late in {{NCYear|969}}. King Medeno quickly turned over the Legion to Tiberius, despite the fact that many of its members were now native Cambrecians. Tiberius found the Legion ill-trained and poorly outfitted, by Imperial standards, and immediately set about preparing them for battle. Unfortunately, Tiberius would never actually face Neptaris in battle. In {{NCYear|970}}, the Imperial Senate decided, with the support of [[House Zetar]] and the Legions near Zeth, that Semelius could not retain the title of Emperor, as he was only the son-in-law of the previous regnant. When the Senate chose [[Antonius of House Zetar|Antonius]] of House Zetar as the new Emperor, few were surprised. Antonius immediately set about reversing most of his successor's decisions, including Tiberius' appointment as Legate. It is notable that he did not, however, disband the Second Fleet... he ordered new ships to be built and refocused the Fleet to pirate suppression. In a politically unusual move, the man he chose to lead the Second Fleet was his own son, [[Androcles]].

Admiral Androcles immediately identified Neptaris as a safe haven for pirates and thieves and when his first major military action was to take the waters near Neptaris. By the winter of {{NCYear|972}}, he had succeeded in blockading the city. Realizing that they could not defeat the Second Fleet, the Supreme Assembly pardoned Admiral Blacklocks of his crimes and recommissioned him as Admiral of Neptaris. Within a week, he had disappeared. With Blacklocks having fled the city, most citizens considered the battle for freedom truly lost. They tried in vain to break the Imperial blockade for the next year and a half. Finally, the Supreme Assembly began to compose articles of surrender late in {{NCYear|974}}. Contemporary reports suggest that the first person to notice ships flying a standard composed of two black keys was the messenger carrying those articles. Admiral Blacklocks had returned and he had brought three major pirate fleets with him from Tamerynd.

[[The Battle of Lost Souls]] was tremendous in proportions. Admiral Androcles had over 200 warships in or near Krios Bay and Blacklocks had brought 160 pirate vessels to fight them. For three days, ships, seawizards and priests fought in and near Krios Bay. Finally, on the third day, Androcles retreated and Blacklocks sailed into Krios Bay, victorious.

Androcles was not so easily beaten, however. Realizing that he could not defeat Blacklocks on the ocean, he retired as Admiral of the Second Fleet and was given command of a Legion by his father in {{NCYear|975}}. Burned by his defeat at the Battle of Lost Souls, Legate Androcles trained his men by fighting rebels in the hills of the Cambrecian Mountains for three years before finally deciding to again attack Neptaris. As Androcles raged across the Territories, Neptaris discovered that the Legate was a much better army commander than a naval one. He initially avoided Neptaris altogether, instead choosing to pacify the land that fed the city. In {{NCYear|979}}, he was ready to besiege Neptaris.

The siege was initially successful for the Imperial army as they shattered Neptaran defenses. After two months of fighting, Androcles finally broke into the city itself as its defenders moved to defend Castle Zepharos. One man, however, chose not to flee to the Castle, citing the lack of taverns there. Castle Zepharos had been besieged only a week when Admiral Blacklocks, now in his early eighties, snuck into the Imperial camp and kidnapped the thirty-year old Legate.

The Legion was shaken to its roots when it realized that their Legate, who was also the Emperor's son and heir, had been stolen from their very midst. The Supreme Assembly sent a message to the Legion informing the soldiers that the Assembly was awaiting terms of surrender. Not knowing what to do, Androcles' subordinates sent a message to Zeth in the hope that one of them would be raised to the position of Legate and receive the honor of rescuing the Emperor's son. For almost a year, the Legion maintained a military presence in the city while the Assembly and their hostage waited in Castle Zepharos (food and provisions were permitted within, to insure the Legate's continued good health). The message they received from Zeth was even more shocking than the kidnapping of Androcles: the Emperor Antonius had died and Androcles must be returned home to receive his crown at all costs. The Legion took this to mean surrender and promptly did so, with the condition that Androcles would be permitted safe passage to Zeth. The Assembly readily agreed and Neptaran independence was finally regained in {{NCYear|980}}. Within days of the surrender, Admiral Blacklocks died in a tavern due to excessive celebrations. Androcles returned to Zeth to be crowned Emperor and surprisingly upheld the terms of surrender his troops had signed. Contemporaries lauded [[the Treaty of Neptaris]], but it would pave the way for over one hundred years of fighting in the next century.
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Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace

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The dwarves of [[Derlos]] ended Zemarchus's campaign for him. Late in {{ICYear|174}}, [[Jormung of Derlos|King Jormung]]'s warriors swept out of the mountains and gutted his Legion, sending the Legate fleeing back to [[Septarium]]. Instead of the sanctuary he expected, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] had him arrested for the massacre in Neptaris and subsequent attack on Imperial citizens in Cambrecia. He was charged with tyranny, treason and parricide (the Pontifex contended the hillfolk were his cousins). Ionnanes II himself presided over the trial. When found guilty, the Legate demanded the right of his station to throw himself on his own sword, but the Pontifex instead ordered ''poena cullei'', the "penalty of the sack." Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius was dressed in a bloody wolfskin, forced to wear wooden shoes and sewn into a heavy sack with a pack of rats. He was carted, screaming, through Septarium and tossed into the [[Septimia River]] to drown. It was a remarkable assertion of authority for a churchman to make over an Imperial commander and sent a clear message to the Legion: Cambrecia was under the patronage of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]] and no soldier, even a scion of one of the [[Great Houses of Zeth|Great Houses]], could place himself above the God of the State. Unfortunately, it did nothing to solve the deeper problem: the dwarves of Derlos kept right on arming and training Neptaris's rebels out of Cambrecian territory, a quiet hemorrhage Ionnanes never managed to stop. He spent his last five years trying, and died in {{ICYear|180}} still negotiating.

His successor, a Cambrecian-born cleric raised through the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and taking the pontifical name [[Aurelian of Zelos|Aurelian]], succeeded where his mentor hadn't. Within a few years he brokered what has come to be called the [[Foothill Accord]] with King Jormung, a grudging but real peace that finally ended Derlos's support for the rebels. It was overshadowed at the time by Corvos's own decline: his old wound worsened through the early 180s, and grew resistant to magickal healing over time, dying of its complications in {{ICYear|184}}, a quieter death than any king in living memory. He was only 35 years old. His six year old son, [[Medeno II Gweri|Medeno II]] was crowned without a single rival claimant coming forward, the first uncontested succession Cambrecia had seen in generations, and Aurelian stepped into the regency Ionnanes had once held as though it were simply the natural order of things.

The decade that followed was the closest thing to an easy stretch in this entire history. The cathedral Ionnanes had started in {{ICYear|149}} was finally completed and consecrated around {{ICYear|186}}, giving the regency an early, unifying moment of pride. The Order of the Lawspeaker spent much of the decade compiling the [[Codex of Twelve Pillars]], the first attempt to reconcile a century of contradictory Cambrecian royal decrees into one coherent body of law. Trade recovered, Septarium grew as both a pilgrimage site and a genuine center of legal scholarship, and the whole period would later be remembered as proof that the [[Zelos|Goldenhand]]'s own virtues, stewardship, continuity, diligence, could hold a province together without a war anywhere in sight.

It did not last. In {{ICYear|195}}, with the regency completed only a year prior, Aurelian pressed the newly-arrived [[Sarapion Leo of House Valerius|Legate Sarapion Leo]] of [[House Valerius]] to operate under the command of the young King in their war against recalcitrant Neptaris. Sarapion ignored the Pontifex and began to march his Legions south, but was seized en-route by crusaders lead by the [[Order of the Unwilling Crown]] and hauled back to Septarium on charges of heresy. The Legate, however, escaped his own trial with help from his troops, who stormed the city within the week. Victorious even from a prison cell, Sarapion declared martial law, arrested both the Pontifex Aurelian and King Medeno II on charges of treason against the Emperor and marched on Neptaris anyway. What followed was ugly on every side: atrocities against Cambrecian farmers when Sarapion's supply lines failed, a daring raid by [[Griori Burgden|Admiral Blacklocks]] that burned the rebuilt Neptaran shipyards and years of grinding stalemate that ended only when one of Sarapion's own guards assassinated him in {{ICYear|202}}.

The Pontifex and young King, even closer than they had been during the King's regency, had been released five years prior, without the Legate's knowledge. In the aftermath of Sarapion's assassination, the Pontifex appointed King Medeno II to the Imperial Legate's vacant post, a startling arrogation of an Imperial military office that nonetheless went unchallenged from [[Zeth]]. The decades that followed are thin in the record, but the broad shape of them is clear enough: Neptaris slowly rebuilt itself into a genuine trading power, and by the middle of the third century after the conquest the old order had quietly inverted itself. It was Cambrecia now paying heavy tariffs into Neptaris's own treasury, a bitter irony for a province that had once ruled the place by fiat.

By {{ICYear|262}}, and again in {{ICYear|265}}, the sitting Pontifex of Zelos traveled to Neptaris himself to plead for relief from those tariffs, and was refused both times. He never got a third chance to ask; in {{ICYear|271}}, pirates sank his ship off the Neptaran coast and killed him. His successor, [[Severinus of House Gabinius|Severinus]] of [[House Gabinius]], a man scarred in battle during the last days of the old rebellion decades before, arrived in Septarium in {{ICYear|273}} in no mood for patience. He demanded the King break the long peace and retake Neptaris outright. The King refused, invoking the [[Treaty of Neptaris]] that had ended the Great Rebellion more than forty years before, and for a time it seemed the matter would simply die there. It didn't. Late in {{ICYear|276}}, Severinus issued the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], declaring the Freecity of Neptaris' very form of government an offense against the law of Zelos, and gave the city five years to reform itself or answer for it.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

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* [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] besieges the [[Neptaris|city of Neptaris]] and takes it in four weeks The subsequent massacre, known as the Pacification of Neptaris in the Empire and the [[Fortinight of Screams]] in Neptaris.

The Great Revolution in Neptaris

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In the spring of {{NCYear|900}}, the response to the Imperial edict that ceded [[Neptaris]] to [[Cambrecia]] came in the form of [[Hadrag of House Markos|Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]]. Hadrag, despite his descent from nobility, refused to align himself with the Empire and found himself imprisoned for his volatile beliefs more than a few times in the last decade of the 9th century. In the winter of {{NCYear|899}}, he was released from his most recent stint in the work camps only to start fomenting rebellion again. This time, his voice was heard and the people rallied behind him. In the elections of {{NCYear|900}}, Hadrag and two of his strongest supporters, [[Richard Goldshield]] and [[Theod Maquin]], were elected to the Supreme Assembly. After passing a measure to declare their independence from the Empire, Hadrag stepped down and was immediately named Marshall of Arms for Neptaris.

Immediately upon his confirmation as Marshall of Arms, Hadrag gathered together a group of soldiers who despised the Empire and sacked the Imperial garrison in Neptaris. He also arrested Imperial tax collectors, bureaucrats and naval captains as enemies of the state and had many of them executed. Those who were not executed were stripped of their properties and sent to Septarium wearing nothing but hair shirts.

The King of Cambrecia, [[Basran Sugurd]], massed an army and prepared to march on Neptaris. His trip to the city was fraught with danger as rebellious agents within Cambrecia harried his every step. When he reached Neptaris, he had only 500 soldiers with which to attack the city. Unfamiliar with military tactics, King Basran chose to attack, despite being outnumbered. His men were slaughtered by Marshall Hadrag and his army. Hadrag killed King Basran himself in battle and the royal's head was sent to [[Septarium]] as a lesson to the Empire.

Unfortunately, the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in Septarium got the message all too well. He used the opportunity to name himself Regent of Basran's young son and recalled the Imperial Legate, [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] from northern [[Ciritasnia]] to fight against the rebels of Neptaris. Legate Zemarchus at first chose to ignore the pleas from the Pontifex and continued fighting against rebels in Ciritasnia. The Pontifex tried to amass what military strength he could, but continued rebellions kept most of the Imperial forces busy in central Cambrecia. The Pontifex finally realized that Neptaris was a fortified city, not a small rebel camp, and decided not to march on the city with the small army he was able to amass. He did, however, command the Imperial navy to begin sinking any vessel that carried the standard of Neptaris. The navy did not share the Legate's apathy for the situation, and Neptaris found itself unable to trade with its neighbors.

Marshall Hadrag, realizing that he must take the seas if he was going to achieve independence for the city, commissioned [[Garen Taltosbane]] as the first [[Grand Admiral of the Seas of Neptaris]]. Admiral Taltosbane, a former pirate that Hadrag had met in prison, quickly mobilized not only the Neptaran fleet but many pirate vessels from [[Marosh]] and slowly took control of the waters around Neptaris. By {{NCYear|923}}, most of the Imperial fleet had been destroyed. It was in this year, however, that Legate Zemarchus had finally answered the summons of the Pontifex.

Marshall Hadrag, who had received little real resistance from the Empire, was now faced with a mighty Legion that was well supplied and trained. Within a month, Legate Zemarchus had taken the city. Imperial troops flooded into the city, raping and pillaging throughout, while Zemarchus executed everyone in the city holding a title. Marshall Hadrag was drawn and quartered and pieces of his corpse were hung from each gate. The Legate then set the city ablaze and locked the portculli of the gates into place, trapping the citizens within. The city burned for two weeks before the fires finally subsided. Almost three-quarters of the city's population died.

Legate Zemarchus, arrogant from his victory at Neptaris, decided to solve all of Cambrecia's ills by taking his army back to Ciritasnia by way of the foothills of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the center of rebellious thought in Cambrecia. As he moved through the foothills, he razed many towns and villages suspected of supporting rebellion. Late in the season of {{NCYear|924}}, while Zemarchus and his Legion were enjoying their latest rampage through a defenseless town, a contingent of dwarven troops suddenly swarmed out of the mountains. The dwarves, led by King [[Jormung of Derlos]], decimated Zemarchus' Legion and sent the Legate himself sneaking back to Septarium. Upon his arrival, the Pontifex had Zemarchus arrested, tried and executed for his actions in Neptaris.

The Neptarans were not appeased by the actions of the Pontifex, however, and the farmers of the former Territories began attacking any Imperial dignitary or fuctionary they could find. Their attacks were initially met with failure, but they eventually began to wear down the military presence Zemarchus had left behind. On the oceans, Admiral Taltosbane continued to maintain dominance from Marosh and prevented reinforcement by the Empire. Meanwhile, King Jormung began to supply the rebels of Cambrecia with weapons, food and much-needed training. Acknowledging the dangers of a three-pronged attack, the Pontifex of Zelos traveled to the Cambrecian Mountains to meet with a dwarven delegation in {{NCYear|925}}. He initially met with some success, but a diplomatic blunder on the part of the Pontifex ended negotiations rather abruptly. He continued to attempt a diplomatic solution with the dwarves for the next five years, until his death in {{NCYear|930}}.

Meanwhile, Neptaris itself was still under Imperial rule, though the Territories were now in full-fledged rebellion. Admiral Taltosbane died in {{NCYear|929}}, but he had selected [[Griori "Blacklocks" Burgden]] as his successor. Blacklocks was a former [[Warcaptain]] from [[Tamerynd]], and not only did he understand warfare at sea, but he had some experience in marine actions as well. His ships moved up and down the Cambrecian coast, attacking naval vessels, merchant vessels and coastal towns with no small measure of success. Hadrag's son, [[Creos]], established a government-in-exile, called [[the War Assembly]], on the island of Marosh in {{NCYear|932}}. He and the fellow members of his Assembly officially recognized Admiral Blacklocks and began to coordinate efforts to retake the city itself. Unfortunately, the vast distances between the three forces made just sort an effort almost impossible.

In {{NCYear|936}}, a gentleman farmer by the name of [[Simon Perrenoth]] rowed into the [[Maroshan Sea]] in search of one of Blacklocks' vessels. Miraculously, he succeeded and established contact between the rebellious Territories and the War Assembly. Creos Markos sent Simon Perrenoth back to the mainland with encrypted battle information for the dwarves. By the end of that year, Perrenoth had succeeded in constructing a secret means of communication between the three forces.

It is notable that, in this year, [[Garimund of Ryard]] stumbled across a flying ship in [[Ciritasnia]]. After boarding that ship, he discovered the decaying corpse of a man in strange armor with a book lying before him. That book, which would later be known as the Koram, would late become the founding notion of the Koramian Heresy.

Perrenoth's [[Neptaran Underground]] was operating at full force by the fighting season of {{NCYear|937}}. Over the next five years, dwarves, farmer and pirates fought on the land and in the sea to free Neptaris. In {{NCYear|943}}, Admiral Blacklocks and Creos Markos penetrated the Imperial defenses in [[the Bay of Krios]] and landed in Neptaris. They were able to secure most of the city, but the Imperials had decided to hole up in [[Castle Zepharos]]. The Siege of Zepharos lasted ten months. In the winter of {{NCYear|943}}, Creos Markos died due to complications from the extreme temperatures of that winter and his subordinates decided to lift the siege. Admiral Blacklocks limped back to Marosh with the few troops who had survived.

By {{NCYear|945}}, the Imperial Legion had finally recovered from its disastrous defeat at the hands of the dwarves. Legate [[Sarapion Leo]] of [[House Valerius]] arrived after sneaking through Blacklocks' barricade. When he arrived at [[Septarium]], the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] supported the concept that the King, now of age, should command the Legions attempting to take Neptaris. Legate Sarapion refused and began to march on Neptaris when crusaders from the Church of Zelos captured him and brought him back to Septarium to answer for charges of heresy. During his trial, the Legate escaped long enough to get a message to his troops. On the day he was to be sentenced, they attacked Septarium and within a week had breached the walls. Upon being rescued by his men, the Legate declared martial law in Cambrecia and had the Pontifex and the King arrested on charges of treason. Sarapion, however, was not interested in conducting a trial. With the Pontifex and King out of his way, he again ordered the Legion to Neptaris.

Legate Sarapion's disagreement with the Pontifex and King of Cambrecia took several months to resolve and it was late autumn before his Legion reached Neptaris. He proceeded to reinforce the battered walls of Castle Zepharos and ordered the construction of massive numbers of warships in Neptaris' shipyards. Unfortunately, finding food was a problem. None of the farmers in the Territories would send food to Neptaris and shipments over both land and sea more often ended up in the hands of his enemies than in the mouths of his soldiers. When the spring of {{NCYear|946}} arrived, he found his food stores empty. Sarapion took the bulk of his Legion into the now-dangerous countryside near Neptaris and began taking whatever food he could find, executing every farmer he could get his hands on. The atrocities committed during this time are still legendary, and some suggest that it was not just beef that the Legion subsisted off of that summer.

Perrenoth was able to get word to Blacklocks of the Legate's movements and the Admiral planned a daring blockade of Krios Bay. With only twelve ships, he entered the harbor and pounded the Neptaran shipyards in the early morning hours. Fortunately, Perrenoth had succeeded in warning the Neptaran people and only six people died in the conflagration that ensued. Needless to say, the Legate was incensed by the bold attack and immediately returned to Neptaris. He executed some two hundred people that were supposed to be working that day for dereliction of duty, even though the vast majority of them were civilians. He spent the rest of the fighting season of 946 between rebuilding his shipyards and trying to locate enough food to feed his troops.

In the spring of {{NCYear|947}}, the Pontifex and King were released from their imprisonment and sent a message describing their ordeals to the Emperor. [[Metius]] was enraged by the actions of his Legate and immediately issued an order to Sarapion that he was to return to Zeth for trial. Sarapion, apparently, never received that message. He continued to fight against the rebels in the Territories and Blacklocks' men at sea until {{NCYear|952}}, when a member of his personal guard assassinated him. Despite his political blunders, Legate Sarapion was the most effective Imperial military commander of the Great Rebellion.

Upon Sarapion's death, the Pontifex appointed King [[Medeno II]] of Cambrecia to the position of Legate, despite the fact that, according to Imperial law, only the Emperor had such power. Medeno, unfortunately, took his time with Neptaris. More interested in fighting the rebels closer to his own center of power, he recalled most of the Legion from Neptaris and sent them into the foothills of Cambrecia to fight the rebels there and their dwarven advisors. In the spring of {{NCYear|954}}, Admiral Blacklocks sailed his flagship into Krios Bay without any serious resistance. He and his troops easily took Castle Zepharos and re-established Neptaran rule in the city. The following month, Neptaris held the first elections that it had seen in over three decades. Both Admiral Blacklocks and Simon Perrenoth were both elected to the Supreme Assembly. Unfortunately, Blacklocks proved to be a better naval commander than politician. In the winter of {{NCYear|956}}, he was imprisoned for murder after a bar room brawl in which he was involved got out of hand.

Despite this turn of events, Medeno still refused to march on Neptaris and take it back, despite the protestations of the Pontifex. For the next decade, he continued to move his troops in the northern and western regions of Cambrecia, only sending a periodic raiding party into the Territories to cause trouble. Finally the Emperor [[Semelius of House Furius|Semelius]] of House Furius, upon his ascension to the throne in {{NCYear|968}}, announced the creation of [[the Second Fleet]], which was responsible for assisting in the conquest of Ciritasnia, Cambrecia and Neptaris. He also appointed [[Tiberius Phocas]], also of House Furius and the younger brother of the Emperor, Legate of the Cambrecian army.

Tiberius arrived in Septimius with his newly established Fleet late in {{NCYear|969}}. King Medeno quickly turned over the Legion to Tiberius, despite the fact that many of its members were now native Cambrecians. Tiberius found the Legion ill-trained and poorly outfitted, by Imperial standards, and immediately set about preparing them for battle. Unfortunately, Tiberius would never actually face Neptaris in battle. In {{NCYear|970}}, the Imperial Senate decided, with the support of [[House Zetar]] and the Legions near Zeth, that Semelius could not retain the title of Emperor, as he was only the son-in-law of the previous regnant. When the Senate chose [[Antonius of House Zetar|Antonius]] of House Zetar as the new Emperor, few were surprised. Antonius immediately set about reversing most of his successor's decisions, including Tiberius' appointment as Legate. It is notable that he did not, however, disband the Second Fleet... he ordered new ships to be built and refocused the Fleet to pirate suppression. In a politically unusual move, the man he chose to lead the Second Fleet was his own son, [[Androcles]].

Admiral Androcles immediately identified Neptaris as a safe haven for pirates and thieves and when his first major military action was to take the waters near Neptaris. By the winter of {{NCYear|972}}, he had succeeded in blockading the city. Realizing that they could not defeat the Second Fleet, the Supreme Assembly pardoned Admiral Blacklocks of his crimes and recommissioned him as Admiral of Neptaris. Within a week, he had disappeared. With Blacklocks having fled the city, most citizens considered the battle for freedom truly lost. They tried in vain to break the Imperial blockade for the next year and a half. Finally, the Supreme Assembly began to compose articles of surrender late in {{NCYear|974}}. Contemporary reports suggest that the first person to notice ships flying a standard composed of two black keys was the messenger carrying those articles. Admiral Blacklocks had returned and he had brought three major pirate fleets with him from Tamerynd.

[[The Battle of Lost Souls]] was tremendous in proportions. Admiral Androcles had over 200 warships in or near Krios Bay and Blacklocks had brought 160 pirate vessels to fight them. For three days, ships, seawizards and priests fought in and near Krios Bay. Finally, on the third day, Androcles retreated and Blacklocks sailed into Krios Bay, victorious.

Androcles was not so easily beaten, however. Realizing that he could not defeat Blacklocks on the ocean, he retired as Admiral of the Second Fleet and was given command of a Legion by his father in {{NCYear|975}}. Burned by his defeat at the Battle of Lost Souls, Legate Androcles trained his men by fighting rebels in the hills of the Cambrecian Mountains for three years before finally deciding to again attack Neptaris. As Androcles raged across the Territories, Neptaris discovered that the Legate was a much better army commander than a naval one. He initially avoided Neptaris altogether, instead choosing to pacify the land that fed the city. In {{NCYear|979}}, he was ready to besiege Neptaris.

The siege was initially successful for the Imperial army as they shattered Neptaran defenses. After two months of fighting, Androcles finally broke into the city itself as its defenders moved to defend Castle Zepharos. One man, however, chose not to flee to the Castle, citing the lack of taverns there. Castle Zepharos had been besieged only a week when Admiral Blacklocks, now in his early eighties, snuck into the Imperial camp and kidnapped the thirty-year old Legate.

The Legion was shaken to its roots when it realized that their Legate, who was also the Emperor's son and heir, had been stolen from their very midst. The Supreme Assembly sent a message to the Legion informing the soldiers that the Assembly was awaiting terms of surrender. Not knowing what to do, Androcles' subordinates sent a message to Zeth in the hope that one of them would be raised to the position of Legate and receive the honor of rescuing the Emperor's son. For almost a year, the Legion maintained a military presence in the city while the Assembly and their hostage waited in Castle Zepharos (food and provisions were permitted within, to insure the Legate's continued good health). The message they received from Zeth was even more shocking than the kidnapping of Androcles: the Emperor Antonius had died and Androcles must be returned home to receive his crown at all costs. The Legion took this to mean surrender and promptly did so, with the condition that Androcles would be permitted safe passage to Zeth. The Assembly readily agreed and Neptaran independence was finally regained in {{NCYear|980}}. Within days of the surrender, Admiral Blacklocks died in a tavern due to excessive celebrations. Androcles returned to Zeth to be crowned Emperor and surprisingly upheld the terms of surrender his troops had signed. Contemporaries lauded [[the Treaty of Neptaris]], but it would pave the way for over one hundred years of fighting in the next century.
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* The Imperial Legate of [[Legion II Simmeria]], [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] arrives at the [[Neptaris|city of Neptaris]] in command of both his legion and [[Legion III Cambrecia]]. The siege of Neptaris lasts barely four weeks. Imperial troops flood into the city, raping and pillaging throughout, while Zemarchus executes everyone in the city holding a title, including the legendary [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]]. Zemarchus orders his war-mages to set fire to everything they can as the Legions depart the city, sealing the gates as they depart.

Cambrecia and the Long Discontent

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}}</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.

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.

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.

[[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] was [[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]], not Zetian, the fourth son of a wealthy vintner 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.

[[Gaius Marendic]] died in {{ICYear|149}}, cut down putting down one rising too many, and the Sarnicid line's last clear claimant proved to be a nephew named [[Basran Sugurd]], hastily acclaimed with none of the old ceremony and no real base of support among either the nobility or the commons. [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] arrived in [[Septarium]] that same year with a mandate from [[Metius the Elder|Emperor Metius the Elder]] to raise a cathedral. Where Basran had no foundation to build on, Ionnanes built one immediately: he declared the [[Neptaris|Neptaran]] clergy of [[Zelos]] still resident in Septarium heretical, expelled them, and sent them back across the border bearing the Emperor's own edict that Neptaris was to be ceded to [[Cambrecia]], transferring all religious authority over the god of the state within Cambrecia to himself in the same stroke. He then made a public liturgy of the doctrine that legitimacy is a debt renewed each generation rather than a prize seized once, a doctrine that flattered no Sarnicid king who had ever held the throne. Commoners found in him a patron who tied [[The Founding|the Founding]] and the [[Day of Ash and Oath]] to public works and open courts, while the native nobility, stripped of most of its old authority under decades of puppet kings, found in the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and the [[Order of Auditors]] a new avenue to relevance that did not depend on the crown at all.

Then Neptaris rose. When [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] broke the Imperial garrison and declared the city's independence in {{ICYear|150}}, in direct response to the Imperial edict Ionnanes had sent, King Basran marched on it himself with only five hundred men, ignorant enough of soldiering to attack a fortified city while outnumbered. Hadrag killed the King personally and sent his head to Septarium as a message to the Empire. Ionnanes read that message for exactly what it was worth to him: within weeks he had named himself Regent for Basran's infant son. Ionnanes sent a message to the [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]], who was campainging at the head of [[Legion II Simmeria]] in northern [[Ciritasnia]], and ordered him to Cambrecia to take command of both Legions and take Neptaris. The young Legate was not about to ignore his standing orders from the Emperor to attend to a mere priest, so continued his campaign north of the [[Divian Mountains]]. The Pontifex continued to plead, both to the Legate and the Emperor, but neither seemed inclined to assist. The Pontifex briefly tried to organize the [[Legion III Cambrecia]] himself, but as astute a politician and administrator he was, he was no military commander. Thus, for the next decade and a half he governed Cambrecia in a boy's name while the province's nobility continued draining into holy orders around him and the old Sarnicid apparatus withered for want of a king who could actually sit a throne. It was during this time that Ionnanes encouraged the foundation of several wineries in Cambrecia, even going so far as to import cuttings from his father's family vineyard back in Aescalapea. Meanwhile, in {{ICYear|158}}, the Pontifex called upon an old family friend, the [[Publius Rufus of House Rutilius|Praefectus Classis Publius Rufus]] of the Aescalapean minor [[House Rutilius]] to bring his fleet to the [[Maroshan Sea]] to harass the Neptaran armada, commanded by the city's first [[Grand Admiral of the Seas of Neptaris|Grand Admiral]], [[Garen Taltosbane]]. Though Taltosbane himself evaded capture, over the next eight years, Rufus slowly wore down the Neptaran merchant and naval fleets, making trade by sea into the city all but impossible.

By {{ICYear|166}} the boy, named [[Corvos I Gweri|Corvos]], whom Ionnanes had personally raised and tutored, had come of age. A cousin of the old Sarnicid line, [[Decimus Sarnicos]], chose that moment to press a rival claim rather than see the regency simply hand power back. Ionnanes settled it the way he had spent almost two decades teaching Cambrecia to expect: Corvos's blood was tested before the [[Coronal of Twelve Thorns]] and drew no blood, Decimus' did. The cousin yielded the rest of his claim on the floor of the trial rather than face Corvos in single combat. Corvos was crowned before the [[Unsheathed Word]] by Ionnanes's own hand, and rather than keep his father's surname, he took his mother's, a native Cambrecian noblewoman of [[House Gweri]], marking the new line as a deliberate return to home-grown blood after generations of Zetian appointees. He reigned as the first king of the [[Corvosid dynasty]]: legitimate by primogeniture, confirmed by combat, and crowned by a church that had just spent sixteen years making itself indispensable to answering exactly that question.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

The Great Revolution in Neptaris

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In the spring of {{NCYear|900}}, the response to the Imperial edict that ceded [[Neptaris]] to [[Cambrecia]] came in the form of [[Hadrag of House Markos|Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]]. Hadrag, despite his descent from nobility, refused to align himself with the Empire and found himself imprisoned for his volatile beliefs more than a few times in the last decade of the 9th century. In the winter of {{NCYear|899}}, he was released from his most recent stint in the work camps only to start fomenting rebellion again. This time, his voice was heard and the people rallied behind him. In the elections of {{NCYear|900}}, Hadrag and two of his strongest supporters, [[Richard Goldshield]] and [[Theod Maquin]], were elected to the Supreme Assembly. After passing a measure to declare their independence from the Empire, Hadrag stepped down and was immediately named Marshall of Arms for Neptaris.

Immediately upon his confirmation as Marshall of Arms, Hadrag gathered together a group of soldiers who despised the Empire and sacked the Imperial garrison in Neptaris. He also arrested Imperial tax collectors, bureaucrats and naval captains as enemies of the state and had many of them executed. Those who were not executed were stripped of their properties and sent to Septarium wearing nothing but hair shirts.

The King of Cambrecia, [[Basran Sugurd]], massed an army and prepared to march on Neptaris. His trip to the city was fraught with danger as rebellious agents within Cambrecia harried his every step. When he reached Neptaris, he had only 500 soldiers with which to attack the city. Unfamiliar with military tactics, King Basran chose to attack, despite being outnumbered. His men were slaughtered by Marshall Hadrag and his army. Hadrag killed King Basran himself in battle and the royal's head was sent to [[Septarium]] as a lesson to the Empire.

Unfortunately, the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in Septarium got the message all too well. He used the opportunity to name himself Regent of Basran's young son and recalled the Imperial Legate, [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] from northern [[Ciritasnia]] to fight against the rebels of Neptaris. Legate Zemarchus at first chose to ignore the pleas from the Pontifex and continued fighting against rebels in Ciritasnia. The Pontifex tried to amass what military strength he could, but continued rebellions kept most of the Imperial forces busy in central Cambrecia. The Pontifex finally realized that Neptaris was a fortified city, not a small rebel camp, and decided not to march on the city with the small army he was able to amass. He did, however, command the Imperial navy to begin sinking any vessel that carried the standard of Neptaris. The navy did not share the Legate's apathy for the situation, and Neptaris found itself unable to trade with its neighbors.

Marshall Hadrag, realizing that he must take the seas if he was going to achieve independence for the city, commissioned [[Garen Taltosbane]] as the first [[Grand Admiral of the Seas of Neptaris]]. Admiral Taltosbane, a former pirate that Hadrag had met in prison, quickly mobilized not only the Neptaran fleet but many pirate vessels from [[Marosh]] and slowly took control of the waters around Neptaris. By {{NCYear|923}}, most of the Imperial fleet had been destroyed. It was in this year, however, that Legate Zemarchus had finally answered the summons of the Pontifex.

Marshall Hadrag, who had received little real resistance from the Empire, was now faced with a mighty Legion that was well supplied and trained. Within a month, Legate Zemarchus had taken the city and executed its leaders. Marshall Hadrag was drawn and quartered and pieces of his corpse were hung from each gate. The Legate then set the city ablaze and locked the portculli of the gates into place, trapping the citizens within. The city burned for two weeks before the fires finally subsided. Almost three-quarters of the city's population died.

Legate Zemarchus, arrogant from his victory at Neptaris, decided to solve all of Cambrecia's ills by taking his army back to Ciritasnia by way of the foothills of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the center of rebellious thought in Cambrecia. As he moved through the foothills, he razed many towns and villages suspected of supporting rebellion. Late in the season of {{NCYear|924}}, while Zemarchus and his Legion were enjoying their latest rampage through a defenseless town, a contingent of dwarven troops suddenly swarmed out of the mountains. The dwarves, led by King [[Jormung of Derlos]], decimated Zemarchus' Legion and sent the Legate himself sneaking back to Septarium. Upon his arrival, the Pontifex had Zemarchus arrested, tried and executed for his actions in Neptaris.

The Neptarans were not appeased by the actions of the Pontifex, however, and the farmers of the former Territories began attacking any Imperial dignitary or fuctionary they could find. Their attacks were initially met with failure, but they eventually began to wear down the military presence Zemarchus had left behind. On the oceans, Admiral Taltosbane continued to maintain dominance from Marosh and prevented reinforcement by the Empire. Meanwhile, King Jormung began to supply the rebels of Cambrecia with weapons, food and much-needed training. Acknowledging the dangers of a three-pronged attack, the Pontifex of Zelos traveled to the Cambrecian Mountains to meet with a dwarven delegation in {{NCYear|925}}. He initially met with some success, but a diplomatic blunder on the part of the Pontifex ended negotiations rather abruptly. He continued to attempt a diplomatic solution with the dwarves for the next five years, until his death in {{NCYear|930}}.

Meanwhile, Neptaris itself was still under Imperial rule, though the Territories were now in full-fledged rebellion. Admiral Taltosbane died in {{NCYear|929}}, but he had selected [[Griori "Blacklocks" Burgden]] as his successor. Blacklocks was a former [[Warcaptain]] from [[Tamerynd]], and not only did he understand warfare at sea, but he had some experience in marine actions as well. His ships moved up and down the Cambrecian coast, attacking naval vessels, merchant vessels and coastal towns with no small measure of success. Hadrag's son, [[Creos]], established a government-in-exile, called [[the War Assembly]], on the island of Marosh in {{NCYear|932}}. He and the fellow members of his Assembly officially recognized Admiral Blacklocks and began to coordinate efforts to retake the city itself. Unfortunately, the vast distances between the three forces made just sort an effort almost impossible.

In {{NCYear|936}}, a gentleman farmer by the name of [[Simon Perrenoth]] rowed into the [[Maroshan Sea]] in search of one of Blacklocks' vessels. Miraculously, he succeeded and established contact between the rebellious Territories and the War Assembly. Creos Markos sent Simon Perrenoth back to the mainland with encrypted battle information for the dwarves. By the end of that year, Perrenoth had succeeded in constructing a secret means of communication between the three forces.

It is notable that, in this year, [[Garimund of Ryard]] stumbled across a flying ship in [[Ciritasnia]]. After boarding that ship, he discovered the decaying corpse of a man in strange armor with a book lying before him. That book, which would later be known as the Koram, would late become the founding notion of the Koramian Heresy.

Perrenoth's [[Neptaran Underground]] was operating at full force by the fighting season of {{NCYear|937}}. Over the next five years, dwarves, farmer and pirates fought on the land and in the sea to free Neptaris. In {{NCYear|943}}, Admiral Blacklocks and Creos Markos penetrated the Imperial defenses in [[the Bay of Krios]] and landed in Neptaris. They were able to secure most of the city, but the Imperials had decided to hole up in [[Castle Zepharos]]. The Siege of Zepharos lasted ten months. In the winter of {{NCYear|943}}, Creos Markos died due to complications from the extreme temperatures of that winter and his subordinates decided to lift the siege. Admiral Blacklocks limped back to Marosh with the few troops who had survived.

By {{NCYear|945}}, the Imperial Legion had finally recovered from its disastrous defeat at the hands of the dwarves. Legate [[Sarapion Leo]] of [[House Valerius]] arrived after sneaking through Blacklocks' barricade. When he arrived at [[Septarium]], the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] supported the concept that the King, now of age, should command the Legions attempting to take Neptaris. Legate Sarapion refused and began to march on Neptaris when crusaders from the Church of Zelos captured him and brought him back to Septarium to answer for charges of heresy. During his trial, the Legate escaped long enough to get a message to his troops. On the day he was to be sentenced, they attacked Septarium and within a week had breached the walls. Upon being rescued by his men, the Legate declared martial law in Cambrecia and had the Pontifex and the King arrested on charges of treason. Sarapion, however, was not interested in conducting a trial. With the Pontifex and King out of his way, he again ordered the Legion to Neptaris.

Legate Sarapion's disagreement with the Pontifex and King of Cambrecia took several months to resolve and it was late autumn before his Legion reached Neptaris. He proceeded to reinforce the battered walls of Castle Zepharos and ordered the construction of massive numbers of warships in Neptaris' shipyards. Unfortunately, finding food was a problem. None of the farmers in the Territories would send food to Neptaris and shipments over both land and sea more often ended up in the hands of his enemies than in the mouths of his soldiers. When the spring of {{NCYear|946}} arrived, he found his food stores empty. Sarapion took the bulk of his Legion into the now-dangerous countryside near Neptaris and began taking whatever food he could find, executing every farmer he could get his hands on. The atrocities committed during this time are still legendary, and some suggest that it was not just beef that the Legion subsisted off of that summer.

Perrenoth was able to get word to Blacklocks of the Legate's movements and the Admiral planned a daring blockade of Krios Bay. With only twelve ships, he entered the harbor and pounded the Neptaran shipyards in the early morning hours. Fortunately, Perrenoth had succeeded in warning the Neptaran people and only six people died in the conflagration that ensued. Needless to say, the Legate was incensed by the bold attack and immediately returned to Neptaris. He executed some two hundred people that were supposed to be working that day for dereliction of duty, even though the vast majority of them were civilians. He spent the rest of the fighting season of 946 between rebuilding his shipyards and trying to locate enough food to feed his troops.

In the spring of {{NCYear|947}}, the Pontifex and King were released from their imprisonment and sent a message describing their ordeals to the Emperor. [[Metius]] was enraged by the actions of his Legate and immediately issued an order to Sarapion that he was to return to Zeth for trial. Sarapion, apparently, never received that message. He continued to fight against the rebels in the Territories and Blacklocks' men at sea until {{NCYear|952}}, when a member of his personal guard assassinated him. Despite his political blunders, Legate Sarapion was the most effective Imperial military commander of the Great Rebellion.

Upon Sarapion's death, the Pontifex appointed King [[Medeno II]] of Cambrecia to the position of Legate, despite the fact that, according to Imperial law, only the Emperor had such power. Medeno, unfortunately, took his time with Neptaris. More interested in fighting the rebels closer to his own center of power, he recalled most of the Legion from Neptaris and sent them into the foothills of Cambrecia to fight the rebels there and their dwarven advisors. In the spring of {{NCYear|954}}, Admiral Blacklocks sailed his flagship into Krios Bay without any serious resistance. He and his troops easily took Castle Zepharos and re-established Neptaran rule in the city. The following month, Neptaris held the first elections that it had seen in over three decades. Both Admiral Blacklocks and Simon Perrenoth were both elected to the Supreme Assembly. Unfortunately, Blacklocks proved to be a better naval commander than politician. In the winter of {{NCYear|956}}, he was imprisoned for murder after a bar room brawl in which he was involved got out of hand.

Despite this turn of events, Medeno still refused to march on Neptaris and take it back, despite the protestations of the Pontifex. For the next decade, he continued to move his troops in the northern and western regions of Cambrecia, only sending a periodic raiding party into the Territories to cause trouble. Finally the Emperor [[Semelius of House Furius|Semelius]] of House Furius, upon his ascension to the throne in {{NCYear|968}}, announced the creation of [[the Second Fleet]], which was responsible for assisting in the conquest of Ciritasnia, Cambrecia and Neptaris. He also appointed [[Tiberius Phocas]], also of House Furius and the younger brother of the Emperor, Legate of the Cambrecian army.

Tiberius arrived in Septimius with his newly established Fleet late in {{NCYear|969}}. King Medeno quickly turned over the Legion to Tiberius, despite the fact that many of its members were now native Cambrecians. Tiberius found the Legion ill-trained and poorly outfitted, by Imperial standards, and immediately set about preparing them for battle. Unfortunately, Tiberius would never actually face Neptaris in battle. In {{NCYear|970}}, the Imperial Senate decided, with the support of [[House Zetar]] and the Legions near Zeth, that Semelius could not retain the title of Emperor, as he was only the son-in-law of the previous regnant. When the Senate chose [[Antonius of House Zetar|Antonius]] of House Zetar as the new Emperor, few were surprised. Antonius immediately set about reversing most of his successor's decisions, including Tiberius' appointment as Legate. It is notable that he did not, however, disband the Second Fleet... he ordered new ships to be built and refocused the Fleet to pirate suppression. In a politically unusual move, the man he chose to lead the Second Fleet was his own son, [[Androcles]].

Admiral Androcles immediately identified Neptaris as a safe haven for pirates and thieves and when his first major military action was to take the waters near Neptaris. By the winter of {{NCYear|972}}, he had succeeded in blockading the city. Realizing that they could not defeat the Second Fleet, the Supreme Assembly pardoned Admiral Blacklocks of his crimes and recommissioned him as Admiral of Neptaris. Within a week, he had disappeared. With Blacklocks having fled the city, most citizens considered the battle for freedom truly lost. They tried in vain to break the Imperial blockade for the next year and a half. Finally, the Supreme Assembly began to compose articles of surrender late in {{NCYear|974}}. Contemporary reports suggest that the first person to notice ships flying a standard composed of two black keys was the messenger carrying those articles. Admiral Blacklocks had returned and he had brought three major pirate fleets with him from Tamerynd.

[[The Battle of Lost Souls]] was tremendous in proportions. Admiral Androcles had over 200 warships in or near Krios Bay and Blacklocks had brought 160 pirate vessels to fight them. For three days, ships, seawizards and priests fought in and near Krios Bay. Finally, on the third day, Androcles retreated and Blacklocks sailed into Krios Bay, victorious.

Androcles was not so easily beaten, however. Realizing that he could not defeat Blacklocks on the ocean, he retired as Admiral of the Second Fleet and was given command of a Legion by his father in {{NCYear|975}}. Burned by his defeat at the Battle of Lost Souls, Legate Androcles trained his men by fighting rebels in the hills of the Cambrecian Mountains for three years before finally deciding to again attack Neptaris. As Androcles raged across the Territories, Neptaris discovered that the Legate was a much better army commander than a naval one. He initially avoided Neptaris altogether, instead choosing to pacify the land that fed the city. In {{NCYear|979}}, he was ready to besiege Neptaris.

The siege was initially successful for the Imperial army as they shattered Neptaran defenses. After two months of fighting, Androcles finally broke into the city itself as its defenders moved to defend Castle Zepharos. One man, however, chose not to flee to the Castle, citing the lack of taverns there. Castle Zepharos had been besieged only a week when Admiral Blacklocks, now in his early eighties, snuck into the Imperial camp and kidnapped the thirty-year old Legate.

The Legion was shaken to its roots when it realized that their Legate, who was also the Emperor's son and heir, had been stolen from their very midst. The Supreme Assembly sent a message to the Legion informing the soldiers that the Assembly was awaiting terms of surrender. Not knowing what to do, Androcles' subordinates sent a message to Zeth in the hope that one of them would be raised to the position of Legate and receive the honor of rescuing the Emperor's son. For almost a year, the Legion maintained a military presence in the city while the Assembly and their hostage waited in Castle Zepharos (food and provisions were permitted within, to insure the Legate's continued good health). The message they received from Zeth was even more shocking than the kidnapping of Androcles: the Emperor Antonius had died and Androcles must be returned home to receive his crown at all costs. The Legion took this to mean surrender and promptly did so, with the condition that Androcles would be permitted safe passage to Zeth. The Assembly readily agreed and Neptaran independence was finally regained in {{NCYear|980}}. Within days of the surrender, Admiral Blacklocks died in a tavern due to excessive celebrations. Androcles returned to Zeth to be crowned Emperor and surprisingly upheld the terms of surrender his troops had signed. Contemporaries lauded [[the Treaty of Neptaris]], but it would pave the way for over one hundred years of fighting in the next century.
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The Great Revolution in Neptaris

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In the spring of {{NCYear|900}}, the response to the Imperial edict that ceded [[Neptaris]] to [[Cambrecia]] came in the form of [[Hadrag of House Markos|Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]]. Hadrag, despite his descent from nobility, refused to align himself with the Empire and found himself imprisoned for his volatile beliefs more than a few times in the last decade of the 9th century. In the winter of {{NCYear|899}}, he was released from his most recent stint in the work camps only to start fomenting rebellion again. This time, his voice was heard and the people rallied behind him. In the elections of {{NCYear|900}}, Hadrag and two of his strongest supporters, [[Richard Goldshield]] and [[Theod Maquin]], were elected to the Supreme Assembly. After passing a measure to declare their independence from the Empire, Hadrag stepped down and was immediately named Marshall of Arms for Neptaris.

Immediately upon his confirmation as Marshall of Arms, Hadrag gathered together a group of soldiers who despised the Empire and sacked the Imperial garrison in Neptaris. He also arrested Imperial tax collectors, bureaucrats and naval captains as enemies of the state and had many of them executed. Those who were not executed were stripped of their properties and sent to Septarium wearing nothing but hair shirts.

The King of Cambrecia, [[Basran Sugurd]], massed an army and prepared to march on Neptaris. His trip to the city was fraught with danger as rebellious agents within Cambrecia harried his every step. When he reached Neptaris, he had only 500 soldiers with which to attack the city. Unfamiliar with military tactics, King Basran chose to attack, despite being outnumbered. His men were slaughtered by Marshall Hadrag and his army. Hadrag killed King Basran himself in battle and the royal's head was sent to [[Septarium]] as a lesson to the Empire.

Unfortunately, the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in Septarium got the message all too well. He used the opportunity to name himself Regent of Basran's young son and recalled the Imperial Legate, [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius]] of [[House Gabinius]] from northern [[Ciritasnia]] to fight against the rebels of Neptaris. Legate Zemarchus at first chose to ignore the pleas from the Pontifex and continued fighting against rebels in Ciritasnia. The Pontifex tried to amass what military strength he could, but continued rebellions kept most of the Imperial forces busy in central Cambrecia. The Pontifex finally realized that Neptaris was a fortified city, not a small rebel camp, and decided not to march on the city with the small army he was able to amass. He did, however, command the Imperial navy to begin sinking any vessel that carried the standard of Neptaris. The navy did not share the Legate's apathy for the situation, and Neptaris found itself unable to trade with its neighbors.

Marshall Hadrag, realizing that he must take the seas if he was going to achieve independence for the city, commissioned [[Garen Taltosbane]] as the first [[Grand Admiral of the Seas of Neptaris]]. Admiral Taltosbane, a former pirate that Hadrag had met in prison, quickly mobilized not only the Neptaran fleet but many pirate vessels from [[Marosh]] and slowly took control of the waters around Neptaris. By {{NCYear|923}}, most of the Imperial fleet had been destroyed. It was in this year, however, that Legate Zemarchus had finally answered the summons of the Pontifex.

Marshall Hadrag, who had received little real resistance from the Empire, was now faced with a mighty Legion that was well supplied and trained. Within a month, Legate Zemarchus had taken the city and executed its leaders. Marshall Hadrag was drawn and quartered and pieces of his corpse were hung from each gate. The Legate then set the city ablaze and locked the portculli of the gates into place, trapping the citizens within. The city burned for two weeks before the fires finally subsided. Almost three-quarters of the city's population died.

Legate Zemarchus, arrogant from his victory at Neptaris, decided to solve all of Cambrecia's ills by taking his army back to Ciritasnia by way of the foothills of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the center of rebellious thought in Cambrecia. As he moved through the foothills, he razed many towns and villages suspected of supporting rebellion. Late in the season of {{NCYear|924}}, while Zemarchus and his Legion were enjoying their latest rampage through a defenseless town, a contingent of dwarven troops suddenly swarmed out of the mountains. The dwarves, led by King [[Jormung of Derlos]], decimated Zemarchus' Legion and sent the Legate himself sneaking back to Septarium. Upon his arrival, the Pontifex had Zemarchus arrested, tried and executed for his actions in Neptaris.

The Neptarans were not appeased by the actions of the Pontifex, however, and the farmers of the former Territories began attacking any Imperial dignitary or fuctionary they could find. Their attacks were initially met with failure, but they eventually began to wear down the military presence Zemarchus had left behind. On the oceans, Admiral Taltosbane continued to maintain dominance from Marosh and prevented reinforcement by the Empire. Meanwhile, King Jormung began to supply the rebels of Cambrecia with weapons, food and much-needed training. Acknowledging the dangers of a three-pronged attack, the Pontifex of Zelos traveled to the Cambrecian Mountains to meet with a dwarven delegation in {{NCYear|925}}. He initially met with some success, but a diplomatic blunder on the part of the Pontifex ended negotiations rather abruptly. He continued to attempt a diplomatic solution with the dwarves for the next five years, until his death in {{NCYear|930}}.

Meanwhile, Neptaris itself was still under Imperial rule, though the Territories were now in full-fledged rebellion. Admiral Taltosbane died in {{NCYear|929}}, but he had selected [[Griori "Blacklocks" Burgden]] as his successor. Blacklocks was a former [[Warcaptain]] from [[Tamerynd]], and not only did he understand warfare at sea, but he had some experience in marine actions as well. His ships moved up and down the Cambrecian coast, attacking naval vessels, merchant vessels and coastal towns with no small measure of success. Hadrag's son, [[Creos]], established a government-in-exile, called [[the War Assembly]], on the island of Marosh in {{NCYear|932}}. He and the fellow members of his Assembly officially recognized Admiral Blacklocks and began to coordinate efforts to retake the city itself. Unfortunately, the vast distances between the three forces made just sort an effort almost impossible.

In {{NCYear|936}}, a gentleman farmer by the name of [[Simon Perrenoth]] rowed into the [[Maroshan Sea]] in search of one of Blacklocks' vessels. Miraculously, he succeeded and established contact between the rebellious Territories and the War Assembly. Creos Markos sent Simon Perrenoth back to the mainland with encrypted battle information for the dwarves. By the end of that year, Perrenoth had succeeded in constructing a secret means of communication between the three forces.

It is notable that, in this year, [[Garimund of Ryard]] stumbled across a flying ship in [[Ciritasnia]]. After boarding that ship, he discovered the decaying corpse of a man in strange armor with a book lying before him. That book, which would later be known as the Koram, would late become the founding notion of the Koramian Heresy.

Perrenoth's [[Neptaran Underground]] was operating at full force by the fighting season of {{NCYear|937}}. Over the next five years, dwarves, farmer and pirates fought on the land and in the sea to free Neptaris. In {{NCYear|943}}, Admiral Blacklocks and Creos Markos penetrated the Imperial defenses in [[the Bay of Krios]] and landed in Neptaris. They were able to secure most of the city, but the Imperials had decided to hole up in [[Castle Zepharos]]. The Siege of Zepharos lasted ten months. In the winter of {{NCYear|943}}, Creos Markos died due to complications from the extreme temperatures of that winter and his subordinates decided to lift the siege. Admiral Blacklocks limped back to Marosh with the few troops who had survived.

By {{NCYear|945}}, the Imperial Legion had finally recovered from its disastrous defeat at the hands of the dwarves. Legate [[Sarapion Leo]] of [[House Valerius]] arrived after sneaking through Blacklocks' barricade. When he arrived at [[Septarium]], the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] supported the concept that the King, now of age, should command the Legions attempting to take Neptaris. Legate Sarapion refused and began to march on Neptaris when crusaders from the Church of Zelos captured him and brought him back to Septarium to answer for charges of heresy. During his trial, the Legate escaped long enough to get a message to his troops. On the day he was to be sentenced, they attacked Septarium and within a week had breached the walls. Upon being rescued by his men, the Legate declared martial law in Cambrecia and had the Pontifex and the King arrested on charges of treason. Sarapion, however, was not interested in conducting a trial. With the Pontifex and King out of his way, he again ordered the Legion to Neptaris.

Legate Sarapion's disagreement with the Pontifex and King of Cambrecia took several months to resolve and it was late autumn before his Legion reached Neptaris. He proceeded to reinforce the battered walls of Castle Zepharos and ordered the construction of massive numbers of warships in Neptaris' shipyards. Unfortunately, finding food was a problem. None of the farmers in the Territories would send food to Neptaris and shipments over both land and sea more often ended up in the hands of his enemies than in the mouths of his soldiers. When the spring of {{NCYear|946}} arrived, he found his food stores empty. Sarapion took the bulk of his Legion into the now-dangerous countryside near Neptaris and began taking whatever food he could find, executing every farmer he could get his hands on. The atrocities committed during this time are still legendary, and some suggest that it was not just beef that the Legion subsisted off of that summer.

Perrenoth was able to get word to Blacklocks of the Legate's movements and the Admiral planned a daring blockade of Krios Bay. With only twelve ships, he entered the harbor and pounded the Neptaran shipyards in the early morning hours. Fortunately, Perrenoth had succeeded in warning the Neptaran people and only six people died in the conflagration that ensued. Needless to say, the Legate was incensed by the bold attack and immediately returned to Neptaris. He executed some two hundred people that were supposed to be working that day for dereliction of duty, even though the vast majority of them were civilians. He spent the rest of the fighting season of 946 between rebuilding his shipyards and trying to locate enough food to feed his troops.

In the spring of {{NCYear|947}}, the Pontifex and King were released from their imprisonment and sent a message describing their ordeals to the Emperor. [[Metius]] was enraged by the actions of his Legate and immediately issued an order to Sarapion that he was to return to Zeth for trial. Sarapion, apparently, never received that message. He continued to fight against the rebels in the Territories and Blacklocks' men at sea until {{NCYear|952}}, when a member of his personal guard assassinated him. Despite his political blunders, Legate Sarapion was the most effective Imperial military commander of the Great Rebellion.

Upon Sarapion's death, the Pontifex appointed King [[Medeno II]] of Cambrecia to the position of Legate, despite the fact that, according to Imperial law, only the Emperor had such power. Medeno, unfortunately, took his time with Neptaris. More interested in fighting the rebels closer to his own center of power, he recalled most of the Legion from Neptaris and sent them into the foothills of Cambrecia to fight the rebels there and their dwarven advisors. In the spring of {{NCYear|954}}, Admiral Blacklocks sailed his flagship into Krios Bay without any serious resistance. He and his troops easily took Castle Zepharos and re-established Neptaran rule in the city. The following month, Neptaris held the first elections that it had seen in over three decades. Both Admiral Blacklocks and Simon Perrenoth were both elected to the Supreme Assembly. Unfortunately, Blacklocks proved to be a better naval commander than politician. In the winter of {{NCYear|956}}, he was imprisoned for murder after a bar room brawl in which he was involved got out of hand.

Despite this turn of events, Medeno still refused to march on Neptaris and take it back, despite the protestations of the Pontifex. For the next decade, he continued to move his troops in the northern and western regions of Cambrecia, only sending a periodic raiding party into the Territories to cause trouble. Finally the Emperor [[Semelius of House Furius|Semelius]] of House Furius, upon his ascension to the throne in {{NCYear|968}}, announced the creation of [[the Second Fleet]], which was responsible for assisting in the conquest of Ciritasnia, Cambrecia and Neptaris. He also appointed [[Tiberius Phocas]], also of House Furius and the younger brother of the Emperor, Legate of the Cambrecian army.

Tiberius arrived in Septimius with his newly established Fleet late in {{NCYear|969}}. King Medeno quickly turned over the Legion to Tiberius, despite the fact that many of its members were now native Cambrecians. Tiberius found the Legion ill-trained and poorly outfitted, by Imperial standards, and immediately set about preparing them for battle. Unfortunately, Tiberius would never actually face Neptaris in battle. In {{NCYear|970}}, the Imperial Senate decided, with the support of [[House Zetar]] and the Legions near Zeth, that Semelius could not retain the title of Emperor, as he was only the son-in-law of the previous regnant. When the Senate chose [[Antonius of House Zetar|Antonius]] of House Zetar as the new Emperor, few were surprised. Antonius immediately set about reversing most of his successor's decisions, including Tiberius' appointment as Legate. It is notable that he did not, however, disband the Second Fleet... he ordered new ships to be built and refocused the Fleet to pirate suppression. In a politically unusual move, the man he chose to lead the Second Fleet was his own son, [[Androcles]].

Admiral Androcles immediately identified Neptaris as a safe haven for pirates and thieves and when his first major military action was to take the waters near Neptaris. By the winter of {{NCYear|972}}, he had succeeded in blockading the city. Realizing that they could not defeat the Second Fleet, the Supreme Assembly pardoned Admiral Blacklocks of his crimes and recommissioned him as Admiral of Neptaris. Within a week, he had disappeared. With Blacklocks having fled the city, most citizens considered the battle for freedom truly lost. They tried in vain to break the Imperial blockade for the next year and a half. Finally, the Supreme Assembly began to compose articles of surrender late in {{NCYear|974}}. Contemporary reports suggest that the first person to notice ships flying a standard composed of two black keys was the messenger carrying those articles. Admiral Blacklocks had returned and he had brought three major pirate fleets with him from Tamerynd.

[[The Battle of Lost Souls]] was tremendous in proportions. Admiral Androcles had over 200 warships in or near Krios Bay and Blacklocks had brought 160 pirate vessels to fight them. For three days, ships, seawizards and priests fought in and near Krios Bay. Finally, on the third day, Androcles retreated and Blacklocks sailed into Krios Bay, victorious.

Androcles was not so easily beaten, however. Realizing that he could not defeat Blacklocks on the ocean, he retired as Admiral of the Second Fleet and was given command of a Legion by his father in {{NCYear|975}}. Burned by his defeat at the Battle of Lost Souls, Legate Androcles trained his men by fighting rebels in the hills of the Cambrecian Mountains for three years before finally deciding to again attack Neptaris. As Androcles raged across the Territories, Neptaris discovered that the Legate was a much better army commander than a naval one. He initially avoided Neptaris altogether, instead choosing to pacify the land that fed the city. In {{NCYear|979}}, he was ready to besiege Neptaris.

The siege was initially successful for the Imperial army as they shattered Neptaran defenses. After two months of fighting, Androcles finally broke into the city itself as its defenders moved to defend Castle Zepharos. One man, however, chose not to flee to the Castle, citing the lack of taverns there. Castle Zepharos had been besieged only a week when Admiral Blacklocks, now in his early eighties, snuck into the Imperial camp and kidnapped the thirty-year old Legate.

The Legion was shaken to its roots when it realized that their Legate, who was also the Emperor's son and heir, had been stolen from their very midst. The Supreme Assembly sent a message to the Legion informing the soldiers that the Assembly was awaiting terms of surrender. Not knowing what to do, Androcles' subordinates sent a message to Zeth in the hope that one of them would be raised to the position of Legate and receive the honor of rescuing the Emperor's son. For almost a year, the Legion maintained a military presence in the city while the Assembly and their hostage waited in Castle Zepharos (food and provisions were permitted within, to insure the Legate's continued good health). The message they received from Zeth was even more shocking than the kidnapping of Androcles: the Emperor Antonius had died and Androcles must be returned home to receive his crown at all costs. The Legion took this to mean surrender and promptly did so, with the condition that Androcles would be permitted safe passage to Zeth. The Assembly readily agreed and Neptaran independence was finally regained in {{NCYear|980}}. Within days of the surrender, Admiral Blacklocks died in a tavern due to excessive celebrations. Androcles returned to Zeth to be crowned Emperor and surprisingly upheld the terms of surrender his troops had signed. Contemporaries lauded [[the Treaty of Neptaris]], but it would pave the way for over one hundred years of fighting in the next century.
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Cambrecia and a Fragile Peace

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}}</noinclude>[[Corvos I Gweri|King Corvos]] had worn the crown for only four years when [[Neptaris]] tore itself out of the Empire's hands, and for the next several years [[Cambrecia]] found itself paying for a rebellion it hadn't started. [[Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius|Legate Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]], recalled from [[Ciritasnia]] to crush [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] in {{ICYear|173}}, retook the city within a month and burned three quarters of it to the ground. Flush with that victory, he marched his Legion homeward the following year by way of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], razing any foothill town he suspected of harboring rebel sympathy. King Corvos rode out personally to help organize the towns' defense, an instinct no Sarnicid king had ever shown, and took a wound in the fighting that would trouble him for the rest of his life.

The dwarves of [[Derlos]] ended Zemarchus's campaign for him. Late in {{ICYear|174}}, [[Jormung of Derlos|King Jormung]]'s warriors swept out of the mountains and gutted his Legion, sending the Legate fleeing back to [[Septarium]]. Instead of the sanctuary he expected, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] had him arrested for the massacre in Neptaris and subsequent attack on Imperial citizens in Cambrecia. He was charged with tyranny, treason and parricide (the Pontifex contended the hillfolk were his cousins). Ionnanes II himself presided over the trial. When found guilty, the Legate demanded the right of his station to throw himself on his own sword, but the Pontifex instead ordered ''poena cullei'', the "penalty of the sack." Zemarchus Comitas of House Gabinius was dressed in a bloody wolfskin, forced to wear wooden shoes and sewn into a heavy sack with a pack of rats. He was carted, screaming, through Septarium and tossed into the [[Septimia River]] to drown. It was a remarkable assertion of authority for a churchman to make over an Imperial commander and sent a clear message to the Legion: Cambrecia was under the patronage of [[Zelos|Zelos Goldenhand]] and no soldier, even a scion of one of the [[Great Houses of Zeth|Great Houses]], could place himself above the God of the State. Unfortunately, it did nothing to solve the deeper problem: the dwarves of Derlos kept right on arming and training Neptaris's rebels out of Cambrecian territory, a quiet hemorrhage Ionnanes never managed to stop. He spent his last five years trying, and died in {{ICYear|180}} still negotiating.

His successor, a Cambrecian-born cleric raised through the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and taking the pontifical name [[Aurelian of Zelos|Aurelian]], succeeded where his mentor hadn't. Within a few years he brokered what has come to be called the [[Foothill Accord]] with King Jormung, a grudging but real peace that finally ended Derlos's support for the rebels. It was overshadowed at the time by Corvos's own decline: his old wound worsened through the early 180s, and grew resistant to magickal healing over time, dying of its complications in {{ICYear|184}}, a quieter death than any king in living memory. He was only 35 years old. His six year old son, [[Medeno II Gweri|Medeno II]] was crowned without a single rival claimant coming forward, the first uncontested succession Cambrecia had seen in generations, and Aurelian stepped into the regency Ionnanes had once held as though it were simply the natural order of things.

The decade that followed was the closest thing to an easy stretch in this entire history. The cathedral Ionnanes had started in {{ICYear|149}} was finally completed and consecrated around {{ICYear|186}}, giving the regency an early, unifying moment of pride. The Order of the Lawspeaker spent much of the decade compiling the [[Codex of Twelve Pillars]], the first attempt to reconcile a century of contradictory Cambrecian royal decrees into one coherent body of law. Trade recovered, Septarium grew as both a pilgrimage site and a genuine center of legal scholarship, and the whole period would later be remembered as proof that the [[Zelos|Goldenhand]]'s own virtues, stewardship, continuity, diligence, could hold a province together without a war anywhere in sight.

It did not last. In {{ICYear|195}}, with the regency completed only a year prior, Aurelian pressed the newly-arrived [[Sarapion Leo of House Valerius|Legate Sarapion Leo]] of [[House Valerius]] to operate under the command of the young King in their war against recalcitrant Neptaris. Sarapion ignored the Pontifex and began to march his Legions south, but was seized en-route by crusaders lead by the [[Order of the Unwilling Crown]] and hauled back to Septarium on charges of heresy. The Legate, however, escaped his own trial with help from his troops, who stormed the city within the week. Victorious even from a prison cell, Sarapion declared martial law, arrested both the Pontifex Aurelian and King Medeno II on charges of treason against the Emperor and marched on Neptaris anyway. What followed was ugly on every side: atrocities against Cambrecian farmers when Sarapion's supply lines failed, a daring raid by [[Griori Burgden|Admiral Blacklocks]] that burned the rebuilt Neptaran shipyards and years of grinding stalemate that ended only when one of Sarapion's own guards assassinated him in {{ICYear|202}}.

The Pontifex and young King, even closer than they had been during the King's regency, had been released five years prior, without the Legate's knowledge. In the aftermath of Sarapion's assassination, the Pontifex appointed King Medeno II to the Imperial Legate's vacant post, a startling arrogation of an Imperial military office that nonetheless went unchallenged from [[Zeth]]. The decades that followed are thin in the record, but the broad shape of them is clear enough: Neptaris slowly rebuilt itself into a genuine trading power, and by the middle of the third century after the conquest the old order had quietly inverted itself. It was Cambrecia now paying heavy tariffs into Neptaris's own treasury, a bitter irony for a province that had once ruled the place by fiat.

By {{ICYear|262}}, and again in {{ICYear|265}}, the sitting Pontifex of Zelos traveled to Neptaris himself to plead for relief from those tariffs, and was refused both times. He never got a third chance to ask; in {{ICYear|271}}, pirates sank his ship off the Neptaran coast and killed him. His successor, [[Severinus of House Gabinius|Severinus]] of [[House Gabinius]], a man scarred in battle during the last days of the old rebellion decades before, arrived in Septarium in {{ICYear|273}} in no mood for patience. He demanded the King break the long peace and retake Neptaris outright. The King refused, invoking the [[Treaty of Neptaris]] that had ended the Great Rebellion more than forty years before, and for a time it seemed the matter would simply die there. It didn't. Late in {{ICYear|276}}, Severinus issued the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], declaring the Freecity of Neptaris' very form of government an offense against the law of Zelos, and gave the city five years to reform itself or answer for it.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

Cambrecia and the Long Discontent

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}}</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.

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.

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.

[[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] was [[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]], not Zetian, the fourth son of a wealthy vintner 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.

[[Gaius Marendic]] died in {{ICYear|149}}, cut down putting down one rising too many, and the Sarnicid line's last clear claimant proved to be a nephew named [[Basran Sugurd]], hastily acclaimed with none of the old ceremony and no real base of support among either the nobility or the commons. [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] arrived in [[Septarium]] that same year with a mandate from [[Metius the Elder|Emperor Metius the Elder]] to raise a cathedral. Where Basran had no foundation to build on, Ionnanes built one immediately: he declared the [[Neptaris|Neptaran]] clergy of [[Zelos]] still resident in Septarium heretical, expelled them, and sent them back across the border bearing the Emperor's own edict that Neptaris was to be ceded to [[Cambrecia]], transferring all religious authority over the god of the state within Cambrecia to himself in the same stroke. He then made a public liturgy of the doctrine that legitimacy is a debt renewed each generation rather than a prize seized once, a doctrine that flattered no Sarnicid king who had ever held the throne. Commoners found in him a patron who tied [[The Founding|the Founding]] and the [[Day of Ash and Oath]] to public works and open courts, while the native nobility, stripped of most of its old authority under decades of puppet kings, found in the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and the [[Order of Auditors]] a new avenue to relevance that did not depend on the crown at all.

Then Neptaris rose. When [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] broke the Imperial garrison and declared the city's independence in {{ICYear|150}}, in direct response to the edict Ionnanes had sent, King Basran marched on it himself with only five hundred men, ignorant enough of soldiering to attack a fortified city while outnumbered. Hadrag killed him personally and sent his head to Septarium as a message to the Empire. Ionnanes read that message for exactly what it was worth to him: within weeks he had named himself Regent for Basran's infant son, and for the next twenty years he governed Cambrecia in the boy's name while the province's nobility continued draining into holy orders around him and the old Sarnicid apparatus withered for want of a king who could actually sit a throne. It was during this time that Ionnanes encouraged the foundation of several wineries in Cambrecia, even going so far as to import cuttings from his father's family vineyard back in Aescalapea.

By {{ICYear|166}} the boy, named [[Corvos I Gweri|Corvos]], whom Ionnanes had personally raised and tutored, had come of age. A cousin of the old Sarnicid line, [[Decimus Sarnicos]], chose that moment to press a rival claim rather than see the regency simply hand power back. Ionnanes settled it the way he had spent almost two decades teaching Cambrecia to expect: Corvos's blood was tested before the [[Coronal of Twelve Thorns]] and drew no blood, Decimus' did. The cousin yielded the rest of his claim on the floor of the trial rather than face Corvos in single combat. Corvos was crowned before the [[Unsheathed Word]] by Ionnanes's own hand, and rather than keep his father's surname, he took his mother's, a native Cambrecian noblewoman of [[House Gweri]], marking the new line as a deliberate return to home-grown blood after generations of Zetian appointees. He reigned as the first king of the [[Corvosid dynasty]]: legitimate by primogeniture, confirmed by combat, and crowned by a church that had just spent sixteen years making itself indispensable to answering exactly that question.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

Cambrecia and the Long Discontent

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}}</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.

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.

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.

[[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] was [[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]], not Zetian, the fourth son of a wealthy vintner 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.

[[Gaius Marendic]] died in {{ICYear|149}}, cut down putting down one rising too many, and the Sarnicid line's last clear claimant proved to be a nephew named [[Basran Sugurd]], hastily acclaimed with none of the old ceremony and no real base of support among either the nobility or the commons. [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] arrived in [[Septarium]] that same year with a mandate from [[Metius the Elder|Emperor Metius the Elder]] to raise a cathedral. Where Basran had no foundation to build on, Ionnanes built one immediately: he declared the [[Neptaris|Neptaran]] clergy of [[Zelos]] still resident in Septarium heretical, expelled them, and sent them back across the border bearing the Emperor's own edict that Neptaris was to be ceded to [[Cambrecia]], transferring all religious authority over the god of the state within Cambrecia to himself in the same stroke. He then made a public liturgy of the doctrine that legitimacy is a debt renewed each generation rather than a prize seized once, a doctrine that flattered no Sarnicid king who had ever held the throne. Commoners found in him a patron who tied [[The Founding|the Founding]] and the [[Day of Ash and Oath]] to public works and open courts, while the native nobility, stripped of most of its old authority under decades of puppet kings, found in the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and the [[Order of Auditors]] a new avenue to relevance that did not depend on the crown at all.

Then Neptaris rose. When [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] broke the Imperial garrison and declared the city's independence in {{ICYear|150}}, in direct response to the edict Ionnanes had sent, King Basran marched on it himself with only five hundred men, ignorant enough of soldiering to attack a fortified city while outnumbered. Hadrag killed him personally and sent his head to Septarium as a message to the Empire. Ionnanes read that message for exactly what it was worth to him: within weeks he had named himself Regent for Basran's infant son, and for the next twenty years he governed Cambrecia in the boy's name while the province's nobility continued draining into holy orders around him and the old Sarnicid apparatus withered for want of a king who could actually sit a throne. It was during this time that Ionnanes encouraged the foundation of several wineries in Cambrecia, even going so far as to import cuttings from his father's family vineyard back in Aescalapea.

By {{ICYear|166}} the boy, named [[Corvos I Gweri|Corvos]], whom Ionnanes had personally raised and tutored, had come of age. A cousin of the old Sarnicid line, [[Decimus Sarnicos]], chose that moment to press a rival claim rather than see the regency simply hand power back. Ionnanes settled it the way he had spent almost two decades teaching Cambrecia to expect: Corvos's blood was tested before the [[Coronal of Twelve Thorns]] and drew no blood, Decimus' did. The cousin yielded the rest of his claim on the floor of the trial rather than face Corvos in single combat. Corvos was crowned before the [[Unsheathed Word]] by Ionnanes's own hand, and rather than keep his father's surname, he took his mother's, a native Cambrecian noblewoman of [[House Gweri]], marking the new line as a deliberate return to home-grown blood after generations of Zetian appointees. He reigned as the first king of the [[Corvosid dynasty]]: legitimate by primogeniture, confirmed by combat, and crowned by a church that had just spent sixteen years making itself indispensable to answering exactly that question.<noinclude>{{Duria_Guide|chapter= History}}[[Category:Cambrecia]]</noinclude>

Third Age of Man Timeline

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* [[The Third Age of Man]] begins; [[The Foundation of Zeth]]
* [[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.
* Rise of the [[Empire of Balguran]]}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|152|odd|[[Meargagh]], chieftain of the [[Kamaros]], jealous of [[Neptaris|Neptag's]] wealth, besieges the city but fails to breach its walls.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|293|odd|[[Republic of Zeth|The Republic]], falsely touted to be the first democracy, is founded in Zeth.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|551|odd|[[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]] ships first arrive at [[Zeth]] to trade goods from the barbarian north.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|631|odd|
* 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.
* [[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.
}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|664|odd|[[Septimius of House Varros]] defeats [[Aaronar VI]], the last King of the [[Kamaros]], in present-day Cambrecia}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|721|even|[[Octavius of House Zetar|Octavius]] of [[House Zetar]], first emperor of [[Zeta|Zeth]], is born}}
{{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.}}
{{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]]}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|916|odd|[[Corvos I Gweri|Corvos]], son and heir to deceased Cambrecian King [[Basran Sugurd]], ascends to the throne of [[Cambrecia]] under the watchful direction of his Regent, tutor and surrogate father, [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]], re-establishing traditional kingship in Cambrecia after decades of unpopular Kings appointed by the [[Great Empire|Zetian Emperor]]. This is considered to be the end of what has become known in Cambrecia as the [[Cambrecia and the Long Discontent|Long Discontent]].}}
{{EventRow|936|even|[[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.}}
{{EventRow|1026|odd|[[Severinus of House Gabinius|Pontifex Severinus]] of [[Zelos]] issues the [[Denunciation of Democracy]], making democratic governments heretical in the eyes of Zelos.}}
{{EventRow|1062|even|[[First Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]] begins with the death of Emperor [[Antigonus Gabinius]].}}
{{EventRow|1068|odd|[[Antipater Varro]] becomes first [[Time of Elected Emperors|Elected Emperor]] since Octavius.}}
{{EventRow|1071|even|Imperial forces defeat the last of the pretenders to the Imperial throne, ending the [[First Succession War]].}}
{{EventRow|1095|odd|Farmers, irritated with Imperial power in [[Cambrecia]], migrate to present-day [[Enesia]].}}
{{EventRow|1121|even|[[Ditis Carnifex]] of [[House Gabinius]] murders ruling Emperor, ending the [[Time of Elected Emperors]] and starting the [[Second Succession War]].}}
{{EventRow|1126|odd|[[Octavius Augustus Zetar]] defeats [[Vitellis Gabinius]], last of the pretenders, ending the [[Second Succession War]].}}
{{EventRow|1181|even|The [[Empire of Balguran]] crumbles; [[Adanar]] is founded by [[King Falgran]]}}
{{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]]}}
{{EventRow|1378|even|The last two Imperial garrisons in present-day [[Koramia]] proclaim their independence from the Empire, ending Imperial rule in the region.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|1554|even|The Electorate in [[Paeldain|Paladinium]] decides to disband and elects [[Bernard Margwenth]] as its [[Lord Earl]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|1723|odd|After a crippling merchant war at home in [[Lagorka]], the [[Vazdids]] leave [[Nadera]], which is subsequently plundered by Vazdid's enemies.}}
{{EventRow|1730|even|The [[Gray Lord of Thet]] is defeated in the [[Battle of Bloodrust]] in [[Adanar]] by [[King Ilyard]] of [[Haleli]].}}
{{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."}}
{{EventRow|1741|even|By this time, [[Aishah Izuel|Aishah "the Bloody"]] has taken effective control of [[Nadera]] and is crowned Sovereign Queen.}}
{{EventRow|1752|odd|Death without issue of Emperor [[Orestes Sergius]] results in the [[Third Succession War]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1779|odd|[[Gaius Aurelius Zetar]] defeats [[Manius Acilius Drusus]], ending the [[Third Succession War]] in [[The Old Empire|the Great Empire]].}}
{{EventRow|1783|even||The [[Fell King]] of [[Thet]] marches against [[Adanar]], starting the [[Long War]]}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1825|even|The signing of the [[Naderan Royal Code]] ends the [[Naderan Civil War]] after twenty long years, establishing the [[Council of Princes]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1858|even|The bloody [[War of Eagles]] begins in [[Adanar]] with the death of King [[Galen Tolgran]] without heir.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{EventRow|1930|odd|[[William I Greysword|William V Greysword]] is elected [[Lord Earl of Paeldain]], the youngest to hold that position}}
{{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.}}
{{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]].}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1960|odd|[[Koramia]] is reunified under [[William I Greysword|King William Greysword I]].}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|1997|odd|[[Kor'dal]] becomes [[Great Khan]] of the orcs of [[Tazgrat]] and begins to march his armies towards the [[Mabean Marches]].}}
{{EventRow|1998|even|
* 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.
* [[Lucasa]] becomes [[Mage-King]] of [[Lun Dorak]].}}
{{EventRow|1999|odd|
* As Lucius, Mage-King [[Lucasa]] secretly becomes advisor to Emperor [[Publius Antonius]] of [[House Zetar]].
* [[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.}}
{{EventRow|2000|even|
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.}}
{{EventRow|2001|odd|
* 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.
* 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.
* In [[Lun Dorak]], the Mage-King [[Lucasa]] discovers the [[Magesword]].
* Near Webwood Forest, [[Math Mathowny]], villain of the [[Tuatha de Dannan]], is slain by [[Cuchulain]].
* [[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]].}}
{{EventRow|2002|even|
* 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.
* In [[Adanar]], the dwarves of the Janos mountains open an embassy and begin trade negotiations with humans in the region.}}
{{EventRow|2003|odd|
* [[Gar'dun]] becomes [[Great Khan]], uniting the orcish tribes of [[Vor Midal]] and attacks [[Lun Dorak]].
* 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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|2005|odd|
* [[Dracia]] declares independence from the Empire and [[Vladimir Vtalasav]] is crowned King.
* 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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|2007|odd|
* 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.
* 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.}}
{{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.}}
{{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.}}
{{EventRow|2012|even|
* The [[Crimson Plague]] strikes in [[Neptaris]], likely brought by traders from the east. From Neptaris, the Plague spreads quickly to [[Koramia]], [[Tamerynd]] and [[Zeth]].
* The [[Fourth Succession War]] grinds to a stalemate as the Crimson Plague takes several prominent leaders and decimates the population.
* The [[Valtaan|Valtang]] barbarians of Mitaria march on [[Narbonne]].}}
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Cambrecia and the Long Discontent

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}}</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.

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.

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.

[[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] was [[Aescalapea|Aescalapean]], not Zetian, the fourth son of a wealthy vintner 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.

[[Gaius Marendic]] died in {{ICYear|149}}, cut down putting down one rising too many, and the Sarnicid line's last clear claimant proved to be a nephew named [[Basran Sugurd]], hastily acclaimed with none of the old ceremony and no real base of support among either the nobility or the commons. [[Ionnanes II of Zelos|Pontifex Ionnanes II]] arrived in [[Septarium]] that same year with a mandate from [[Metius the Elder|Emperor Metius the Elder]] to raise a cathedral. Where Basran had no foundation to build on, Ionnanes built one immediately: he declared the [[Neptaris|Neptaran]] clergy of [[Zelos]] still resident in Septarium heretical, expelled them, and sent them back across the border bearing the Emperor's own edict that Neptaris was to be ceded to [[Cambrecia]], transferring all religious authority over the god of the state within Cambrecia to himself in the same stroke. He then made a public liturgy of the doctrine that legitimacy is a debt renewed each generation rather than a prize seized once, a doctrine that flattered no Sarnicid king who had ever held the throne. Commoners found in him a patron who tied [[The Founding|the Founding]] and the [[Day of Ash and Oath]] to public works and open courts, while the native nobility, stripped of most of its old authority under decades of puppet kings, found in the [[Order of the Lawspeaker]] and the [[Order of Auditors]] a new avenue to relevance that did not depend on the crown at all.

Then Neptaris rose. When [[Hadrag of House Markos|Marshal Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]] broke the Imperial garrison and declared the city's independence in {{ICYear|150}}, in direct response to the edict Ionnanes had sent, King Basran marched on it himself with only five hundred men, ignorant enough of soldiering to attack a fortified city while outnumbered. Hadrag killed him personally and sent his head to Septarium as a message to the Empire. Ionnanes read that message for exactly what it was worth to him: within weeks he had named himself Regent for Basran's infant son, and for the next twenty years he governed Cambrecia in the boy's name while the province's nobility continued draining into holy orders around him and the old Sarnicid apparatus withered for want of a king who could actually sit a throne. It was during this time that Ionnanes encouraged the foundation of several wineries in Cambrecia, even going so far as to import cuttings from his father's family vineyard back in Aescalapea.

By {{ICYear|166}} the boy, named [[Corvos I Gweri|Corvos]], whom Ionnanes had personally raised and tutored, had come of age. A cousin of the old Sarnicid line, [[Decimus Sarnicos]], chose that moment to press a rival claim rather than see the regency simply hand power back. Ionnanes settled it the way he had spent almost two decades teaching Cambrecia to expect: Corvos's blood was tested before the [[Coronal of Twelve Thorns]] and drew no blood, Decimus' did. The cousin yielded the rest of his claim on the floor of the trial rather than face Corvos in single combat. Corvos was crowned before the [[Unsheathed Word]] by Ionnanes's own hand, and rather than keep his father's surname, he took his mother's, a native Cambrecian noblewoman of [[House Gweri]], marking the new line as a deliberate return to home-grown blood after generations of Zetian appointees. He reigned as the first king of the [[Corvosid dynasty]]: legitimate by primogeniture, confirmed by combat, and crowned by a church that had just spent sixteen years making itself indispensable to answering exactly that question.

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>

The Great Revolution in Neptaris

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In the spring of {{NCYear|900}}, the response to the Imperial edict that ceded [[Neptaris]] to [[Cambrecia]] came in the form of [[Hadrag of House Markos|Hadrag]] of [[House Markos]]. Hadrag, despite his descent from nobility, refused to align himself with the Empire and found himself imprisoned for his volatile beliefs more than a few times in the last decade of the 9th century. In the winter of {{NCYear|899}}, he was released from his most recent stint in the work camps only to start fomenting rebellion again. This time, his voice was heard and the people rallied behind him. In the elections of {{NCYear|900}}, Hadrag and two of his strongest supporters, [[Richard Goldshield]] and [[Theod Maquin]], were elected to the Supreme Assembly. After passing a measure to declare their independence from the Empire, Hadrag stepped down and was immediately named Marshall of Arms for Neptaris.

Immediately upon his confirmation as Marshall of Arms, Hadrag gathered together a group of soldiers who despised the Empire and sacked the Imperial garrison in Neptaris. He also arrested Imperial tax collectors, bureaucrats and naval captains as enemies of the state and had many of them executed. Those who were not executed were stripped of their properties and sent to Septarium wearing nothing but hair shirts.

The King of Cambrecia, [[Basran Sugurd]], massed an army and prepared to march on Neptaris. His trip to the city was fraught with danger as rebellious agents within Cambrecia harried his every step. When he reached Neptaris, he had only 500 soldiers with which to attack the city. Unfamiliar with military tactics, King Basran chose to attack, despite being outnumbered. His men were slaughtered by Marshall Hadrag and his army. Hadrag killed King Basran himself in battle and the royal's head was sent to [[Septarium]] as a lesson to the Empire.

Unfortunately, the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] in Septarium got the message all too well. He used the opportunity to name himself Regent of Basran's young son and recalled the Imperial Legate, [[Zemarchus Comitas]] of [[House Gabinius]] from northern [[Ciritasnia]] to fight against the rebels of Neptaris. Legate Zemarchus at first chose to ignore the pleas from the Pontifex and continued fighting against rebels in Ciritasnia. The Pontifex tried to amass what military strength he could, but continued rebellions kept most of the Imperial forces busy in central Cambrecia. The Pontifex finally realized that Neptaris was a fortified city, not a small rebel camp, and decided not to march on the city with the small army he was able to amass. He did, however, command the Imperial navy to begin sinking any vessel that carried the standard of Neptaris. The navy did not share the Legate's apathy for the situation, and Neptaris found itself unable to trade with its neighbors.

Marshall Hadrag, realizing that he must take the seas if he was going to achieve independence for the city, commissioned [[Garen Taltosbane]] as the first [[Grand Admiral of the Seas of Neptaris]]. Admiral Taltosbane, a former pirate that Hadrag had met in prison, quickly mobilized not only the Neptaran fleet but many pirate vessels from [[Marosh]] and slowly took control of the waters around Neptaris. By {{NCYear|923}}, most of the Imperial fleet had been destroyed. It was in this year, however, that Legate Zemarchus had finally answered the summons of the Pontifex.

Marshall Hadrag, who had received little real resistance from the Empire, was now faced with a mighty Legion that was well supplied and trained. Within a month, Legate Zemarchus had taken the city and executed its leaders. Marshall Hadrag was drawn and quartered and pieces of his corpse were hung from each gate. The Legate then set the city ablaze and locked the portculli of the gates into place, trapping the citizens within. The city burned for two weeks before the fires finally subsided. Almost three-quarters of the city's population died.

Legate Zemarchus, arrogant from his victory at Neptaris, decided to solve all of Cambrecia's ills by taking his army back to Ciritasnia by way of the foothills of the [[Cambrecian Mountains]], the center of rebellious thought in Cambrecia. As he moved through the foothills, he razed many towns and villages suspected of supporting rebellion. Late in the season of {{NCYear|924}}, while Zemarchus and his Legion were enjoying their latest rampage through a defenseless town, a contingent of dwarven troops suddenly swarmed out of the mountains. The dwarves, led by King [[Jormung of Derlos]], decimated Zemarchus' Legion and sent the Legate himself sneaking back to Septarium. Upon his arrival, the Pontifex had Zemarchus arrested, tried and executed for his actions in Neptaris.

The Neptarans were not appeased by the actions of the Pontifex, however, and the farmers of the former Territories began attacking any Imperial dignitary or fuctionary they could find. Their attacks were initially met with failure, but they eventually began to wear down the military presence Zemarchus had left behind. On the oceans, Admiral Taltosbane continued to maintain dominance from Marosh and prevented reinforcement by the Empire. Meanwhile, King Jormung began to supply the rebels of Cambrecia with weapons, food and much-needed training. Acknowledging the dangers of a three-pronged attack, the Pontifex of Zelos traveled to the Cambrecian Mountains to meet with a dwarven delegation in {{NCYear|925}}. He initially met with some success, but a diplomatic blunder on the part of the Pontifex ended negotiations rather abruptly. He continued to attempt a diplomatic solution with the dwarves for the next five years, until his death in {{NCYear|930}}.

Meanwhile, Neptaris itself was still under Imperial rule, though the Territories were now in full-fledged rebellion. Admiral Taltosbane died in {{NCYear|929}}, but he had selected [[Griori "Blacklocks" Burgden]] as his successor. Blacklocks was a former [[Warcaptain]] from [[Tamerynd]], and not only did he understand warfare at sea, but he had some experience in marine actions as well. His ships moved up and down the Cambrecian coast, attacking naval vessels, merchant vessels and coastal towns with no small measure of success. Hadrag's son, [[Creos]], established a government-in-exile, called [[the War Assembly]], on the island of Marosh in {{NCYear|932}}. He and the fellow members of his Assembly officially recognized Admiral Blacklocks and began to coordinate efforts to retake the city itself. Unfortunately, the vast distances between the three forces made just sort an effort almost impossible.

In {{NCYear|936}}, a gentleman farmer by the name of [[Simon Perrenoth]] rowed into the [[Maroshan Sea]] in search of one of Blacklocks' vessels. Miraculously, he succeeded and established contact between the rebellious Territories and the War Assembly. Creos Markos sent Simon Perrenoth back to the mainland with encrypted battle information for the dwarves. By the end of that year, Perrenoth had succeeded in constructing a secret means of communication between the three forces.

It is notable that, in this year, [[Garimund of Ryard]] stumbled across a flying ship in [[Ciritasnia]]. After boarding that ship, he discovered the decaying corpse of a man in strange armor with a book lying before him. That book, which would later be known as the Koram, would late become the founding notion of the Koramian Heresy.

Perrenoth's [[Neptaran Underground]] was operating at full force by the fighting season of {{NCYear|937}}. Over the next five years, dwarves, farmer and pirates fought on the land and in the sea to free Neptaris. In {{NCYear|943}}, Admiral Blacklocks and Creos Markos penetrated the Imperial defenses in [[the Bay of Krios]] and landed in Neptaris. They were able to secure most of the city, but the Imperials had decided to hole up in [[Castle Zepharos]]. The Siege of Zepharos lasted ten months. In the winter of {{NCYear|943}}, Creos Markos died due to complications from the extreme temperatures of that winter and his subordinates decided to lift the siege. Admiral Blacklocks limped back to Marosh with the few troops who had survived.

By {{NCYear|945}}, the Imperial Legion had finally recovered from its disastrous defeat at the hands of the dwarves. Legate [[Sarapion Leo]] of [[House Valerius]] arrived after sneaking through Blacklocks' barricade. When he arrived at [[Septarium]], the Pontifex of [[Zelos]] supported the concept that the King, now of age, should command the Legions attempting to take Neptaris. Legate Sarapion refused and began to march on Neptaris when crusaders from the Church of Zelos captured him and brought him back to Septarium to answer for charges of heresy. During his trial, the Legate escaped long enough to get a message to his troops. On the day he was to be sentenced, they attacked Septarium and within a week had breached the walls. Upon being rescued by his men, the Legate declared martial law in Cambrecia and had the Pontifex and the King arrested on charges of treason. Sarapion, however, was not interested in conducting a trial. With the Pontifex and King out of his way, he again ordered the Legion to Neptaris.

Legate Sarapion's disagreement with the Pontifex and King of Cambrecia took several months to resolve and it was late autumn before his Legion reached Neptaris. He proceeded to reinforce the battered walls of Castle Zepharos and ordered the construction of massive numbers of warships in Neptaris' shipyards. Unfortunately, finding food was a problem. None of the farmers in the Territories would send food to Neptaris and shipments over both land and sea more often ended up in the hands of his enemies than in the mouths of his soldiers. When the spring of {{NCYear|946}} arrived, he found his food stores empty. Sarapion took the bulk of his Legion into the now-dangerous countryside near Neptaris and began taking whatever food he could find, executing every farmer he could get his hands on. The atrocities committed during this time are still legendary, and some suggest that it was not just beef that the Legion subsisted off of that summer.

Perrenoth was able to get word to Blacklocks of the Legate's movements and the Admiral planned a daring blockade of Krios Bay. With only twelve ships, he entered the harbor and pounded the Neptaran shipyards in the early morning hours. Fortunately, Perrenoth had succeeded in warning the Neptaran people and only six people died in the conflagration that ensued. Needless to say, the Legate was incensed by the bold attack and immediately returned to Neptaris. He executed some two hundred people that were supposed to be working that day for dereliction of duty, even though the vast majority of them were civilians. He spent the rest of the fighting season of 946 between rebuilding his shipyards and trying to locate enough food to feed his troops.

In the spring of {{NCYear|947}}, the Pontifex and King were released from their imprisonment and sent a message describing their ordeals to the Emperor. [[Metius]] was enraged by the actions of his Legate and immediately issued an order to Sarapion that he was to return to Zeth for trial. Sarapion, apparently, never received that message. He continued to fight against the rebels in the Territories and Blacklocks' men at sea until {{NCYear|952}}, when a member of his personal guard assassinated him. Despite his political blunders, Legate Sarapion was the most effective Imperial military commander of the Great Rebellion.

Upon Sarapion's death, the Pontifex appointed King [[Medeno II]] of Cambrecia to the position of Legate, despite the fact that, according to Imperial law, only the Emperor had such power. Medeno, unfortunately, took his time with Neptaris. More interested in fighting the rebels closer to his own center of power, he recalled most of the Legion from Neptaris and sent them into the foothills of Cambrecia to fight the rebels there and their dwarven advisors. In the spring of {{NCYear|954}}, Admiral Blacklocks sailed his flagship into Krios Bay without any serious resistance. He and his troops easily took Castle Zepharos and re-established Neptaran rule in the city. The following month, Neptaris held the first elections that it had seen in over three decades. Both Admiral Blacklocks and Simon Perrenoth were both elected to the Supreme Assembly. Unfortunately, Blacklocks proved to be a better naval commander than politician. In the winter of {{NCYear|956}}, he was imprisoned for murder after a bar room brawl in which he was involved got out of hand.

Despite this turn of events, Medeno still refused to march on Neptaris and take it back, despite the protestations of the Pontifex. For the next decade, he continued to move his troops in the northern and western regions of Cambrecia, only sending a periodic raiding party into the Territories to cause trouble. Finally the Emperor [[Semelius of House Furius|Semelius]] of House Furius, upon his ascension to the throne in {{NCYear|968}}, announced the creation of [[the Second Fleet]], which was responsible for assisting in the conquest of Ciritasnia, Cambrecia and Neptaris. He also appointed [[Tiberius Phocas]], also of House Furius and the younger brother of the Emperor, Legate of the Cambrecian army.

Tiberius arrived in Septimius with his newly established Fleet late in {{NCYear|969}}. King Medeno quickly turned over the Legion to Tiberius, despite the fact that many of its members were now native Cambrecians. Tiberius found the Legion ill-trained and poorly outfitted, by Imperial standards, and immediately set about preparing them for battle. Unfortunately, Tiberius would never actually face Neptaris in battle. In {{NCYear|970}}, the Imperial Senate decided, with the support of [[House Zetar]] and the Legions near Zeth, that Semelius could not retain the title of Emperor, as he was only the son-in-law of the previous regnant. When the Senate chose [[Antonius of House Zetar|Antonius]] of House Zetar as the new Emperor, few were surprised. Antonius immediately set about reversing most of his successor's decisions, including Tiberius' appointment as Legate. It is notable that he did not, however, disband the Second Fleet... he ordered new ships to be built and refocused the Fleet to pirate suppression. In a politically unusual move, the man he chose to lead the Second Fleet was his own son, [[Androcles]].

Admiral Androcles immediately identified Neptaris as a safe haven for pirates and thieves and when his first major military action was to take the waters near Neptaris. By the winter of {{NCYear|972}}, he had succeeded in blockading the city. Realizing that they could not defeat the Second Fleet, the Supreme Assembly pardoned Admiral Blacklocks of his crimes and recommissioned him as Admiral of Neptaris. Within a week, he had disappeared. With Blacklocks having fled the city, most citizens considered the battle for freedom truly lost. They tried in vain to break the Imperial blockade for the next year and a half. Finally, the Supreme Assembly began to compose articles of surrender late in {{NCYear|974}}. Contemporary reports suggest that the first person to notice ships flying a standard composed of two black keys was the messenger carrying those articles. Admiral Blacklocks had returned and he had brought three major pirate fleets with him from Tamerynd.

[[The Battle of Lost Souls]] was tremendous in proportions. Admiral Androcles had over 200 warships in or near Krios Bay and Blacklocks had brought 160 pirate vessels to fight them. For three days, ships, seawizards and priests fought in and near Krios Bay. Finally, on the third day, Androcles retreated and Blacklocks sailed into Krios Bay, victorious.

Androcles was not so easily beaten, however. Realizing that he could not defeat Blacklocks on the ocean, he retired as Admiral of the Second Fleet and was given command of a Legion by his father in {{NCYear|975}}. Burned by his defeat at the Battle of Lost Souls, Legate Androcles trained his men by fighting rebels in the hills of the Cambrecian Mountains for three years before finally deciding to again attack Neptaris. As Androcles raged across the Territories, Neptaris discovered that the Legate was a much better army commander than a naval one. He initially avoided Neptaris altogether, instead choosing to pacify the land that fed the city. In {{NCYear|979}}, he was ready to besiege Neptaris.

The siege was initially successful for the Imperial army as they shattered Neptaran defenses. After two months of fighting, Androcles finally broke into the city itself as its defenders moved to defend Castle Zepharos. One man, however, chose not to flee to the Castle, citing the lack of taverns there. Castle Zepharos had been besieged only a week when Admiral Blacklocks, now in his early eighties, snuck into the Imperial camp and kidnapped the thirty-year old Legate.

The Legion was shaken to its roots when it realized that their Legate, who was also the Emperor's son and heir, had been stolen from their very midst. The Supreme Assembly sent a message to the Legion informing the soldiers that the Assembly was awaiting terms of surrender. Not knowing what to do, Androcles' subordinates sent a message to Zeth in the hope that one of them would be raised to the position of Legate and receive the honor of rescuing the Emperor's son. For almost a year, the Legion maintained a military presence in the city while the Assembly and their hostage waited in Castle Zepharos (food and provisions were permitted within, to insure the Legate's continued good health). The message they received from Zeth was even more shocking than the kidnapping of Androcles: the Emperor Antonius had died and Androcles must be returned home to receive his crown at all costs. The Legion took this to mean surrender and promptly did so, with the condition that Androcles would be permitted safe passage to Zeth. The Assembly readily agreed and Neptaran independence was finally regained in {{NCYear|980}}. Within days of the surrender, Admiral Blacklocks died in a tavern due to excessive celebrations. Androcles returned to Zeth to be crowned Emperor and surprisingly upheld the terms of surrender his troops had signed. Contemporaries lauded [[the Treaty of Neptaris]], but it would pave the way for over one hundred years of fighting in the next century.
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Thallos

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====God of Strength====
''The Bearer''
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Thallos, god of strength, encourages his followers to be strong in body and mind, willing to accept and overcome any challenge. He is strangely democratic in this belief, in that the strong should rule, regardless of heritage or title. His clergy tend to be small but influential in most lands, but are extremely prominent in [[Halgard]], where Thallos is the national patron. Worshippers vary from laborers who seek to improve their lot in life to military commanders willing to accept the challenges of war. Though [[Phemos]], God of Sport, is an ally, the friendly competitions between the two are legendary. Thallos’ gravest enemy is [[Ruminus]], God of Disease, and to die of disease in one’s own bed is considered the worst of deaths to Thallean worshippers.

Thallos’ mother, [[Pelactere]], Goddess of Rage, tricked [[Virtus]], God of Courage, into lying with her intending to give birth to a god who would serve her, but Thallos rebelled against his mother, which has put their respective followers at odds.
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|avatar = Balukor the Brave
|consort = None
|allies = [[Baelthor]] (paternal grandfather), [[Kratos]], [[Ladon]], [[Mulciber]], [[Ophion]], [[Orestea]], [[Phemos]], [[Selene]] and [[Virtus]] (father).
|foes = [[Pelactere]] (mother), [[Phlegethon]], [[Polydorus]], [[Ruminus]], [[Stheno]] and [[Zephyrus]].
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|nature = Anarchistic
|ethos = Agathocacological
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|minor_influence = Challenges, Sport and War
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Thallos

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WikiSysop:

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====God of Strength====
''The Bearer''
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Thallos, god of strength, encourages his followers to be strong in body and mind, willing to accept and overcome any challenge. He is strangely democratic in this belief, in that the strong should rule, regardless of heritage or title. His clergy tend to be small but influential in most lands, but are extremely prominent in [[Halgard]], where Thallos is the national patron. Worshippers vary from laborers who seek to improve their lot in life to military commanders willing to accept the challenges of war. Though [[Phemos]], God of Sport, is an ally, the friendly competitions between the two are legendary. Thallos’ gravest enemy is [[Ruminus]], God of Disease, and to die of disease in one’s own bed is considered the worst of deaths to Thallean worshippers.

Thallos’ mother, [[Pelactere]], Goddess of Rage, tricked [[Virtus]], God of Courage, into lying with her intending to give birth to a god who would serve her, but Thallos rebelled against his mother, which has put their respective followers at odds.
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|consort = None
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