The Imperial Conquest of Kamaros

This is an article on the History of Feyworld
Years: 700 NC to 805 NC
Age: The Third Age of Man
Continent: Duria
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In 120 NC, while people of the city of Neptag was searching the Arisan forests for the future half-elven King Orris, seven powerful mage-priests first set foot on a peninsula to the west with seven great hills upon it. Beneath these seven hills they found and defeated a great two-headed dragon and established the city of Zeth. At the time, none in Neptag even knew this was transpiring or had ever heard of the Septira. Within four hundred years, trading vessels from this city had arrived in Neptaris, but few recognized the significance of this small, newly formed Republic. Some legal theoreticians were interested in this form of government that was so similar to that of the great city states they had left in Aebasa, but Zeth was little more than a curiosity to most Neptarans. When Marcus Argentis arrived on the shores of present-day Koramia with the bulk of the Zetian fleet in 631 NC, many started to take notice. Zeth had become an aggressive, imperialistic nation and the thought concerned many in Neptaris. When Septimius of House Varros defeated Aaronar VI, the last King of the Kamaros, in present-day Cambrecia in 664, the Neptarans knew fear.

Valerius Marcosi and the Archbishop Justar II decided on a plan. They invited Zetian scholars and legal experts to the city to assist in the creation of the Code of Urban Law, which became heavily modeled on the Zetian Code of Law due to the influence of these scholars. If they could not defeat the Zetian Republic, they would mirror them. It was easier to kill a stranger, Valerius once remarked, than a brother. Valerius' plan worked and by 700 NC, Zeth was Neptaris' major trading partner. Peace reigned between the two great cities for fifty years. Then, all of the masterful plans of Valerius and his Archbishop came crashing down one day in 751 NC. Octavius, a noble of House Zetar in Zeth, was crowned Emperor and the Republic was abolished. Neptaris was no longer a brother, but a reminder of days most in the Empire would rather forget. The Neptaran fleet tripled in size between 751 NC and 775 NC and secret pacts were made with a few large pirate fleets should Zeth attack. But Zeth held to the alliance that they had made as a Republic, and Neptaris was left to its own devices.

Meanwhile, the Empire continued to march across the old Kingdom of Kamaros, now renamed Cambrecia, and eventually came to the mountains that bordered that nation on the east. As they moved through the passes of those mountains, dwarves from the Kingdom of Derlos came to greet them. The Imperial army slaughtered the dwarven ambassadorial party to a man, and began a campaign of conquest against Derlos. When news reached Neptaris of these events in 800 NC, they knew a choice had to be made. Should they defend their weaker neighbors under the mountains, with whom they had constructed an alliance centuries ago, or should they join the more powerful Empire that could snuff out their freedoms in an instant? The Triumvirate, in a decision that would remain controversial for centuries to come, decided to defend the dwarves.