Milosia Before the Third Age of Man

This is an article on the History of Feyworld

Years: c. 300 BF to c. 120 NC

Age: The Long Night

Continent: Aurea

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Milosia in the Third Age of Man

Oral tradition holds that, before ever the dougle-headed dragon banners of Zeth flew, Milosia lay within the bounds of the old Aurean Empire, that loose confederation of southern tribes first bound together by the legendary Lars Tarsca to make war on the goblin hordes of the Antasian heights. Two peoples held the land between the mountains and the sea. In the western uplands dwelt the Sabamelii, a hard hill-folk of herders, miners and clan-warriors who dug copper and iron from the Antasian roots, kept the old faith of grove and spring, and reckoned the wild boar the beast of their chieftains. Below them, on the plains and along the bay, lived the Milgians, ploughmen, fishers and traders, who raised the first townlets on the coast and bartered with the foreign galleys that beached there from across the Aurean Sea. Of the Twenty Cities said to have ruled the Aurean Empire, one is rumored to have stood where the capital stands today, a timber-walled town the old tongue is said to have called Verusna, mother to later Berugia; but the Aureans built in wood, and almost nothing of those years survives save copper in the earth and names worn thin in song. As the old Aurean Empire withered and drew back at last into Ganesia, the peoples here were left to themselves, the Sabamelii to their hills and their gods and the Milgians to their coast and their foreign trade, divided as often as not by feud.