History of Erolan

In the early spring of 41, the warriors of Harshhorne launched a brutal assualt on the fortifications of Umbrae Valley. The Empire of Zenith had built a fort and several watchtowers in the area, nevertheless the legion left to garrison them was caught unprepared for the swiftness of the Wishlings assault.

After claiming the fort in Umbrae Valley, the soldiers of Harshhorne set about setting their own style of defenses. Traps honed on titanic Kaijin were more than effective enough to stop a cavalry charge from the enemy, so the soldiers of Harshhorne prepared to hold the Umbrae Valley against enemy assault and make any attempt into a quagmire, with no push further into Zenith.

After a grueling campaign, in the winter of 44, Zenith and Harshhorne called for peace, with the Umbrae Valley remaining in the hands of Harshhorne. The fortifications at Umbrae Valley would continue to change hands, and nearly a millenia since, it is unsure if the animosity between these two powers will ever fully cool.

The Empire of Zenith was a dominant power for many centuries, taxing trade through their territory and growing rapidly in wealth and power. It was not to last, and all tales of great power eventually come to an end. As Zenith grew powerful, so too did it grow decadent, and its political control of its various territories began to wane. The territories of Durgheim , and Draioch in the eastern provinces, as well as Il Paraonde and several small cities in the western provinces, seceded from Zenith, due to lack of leadership and extreme taxes. At the time, dubbed the Great Secession, Zenith did not have the military might to forcefully reclaim the lost provinces, and left only with its core territory, became the Kingdom of Zenith.

A mysterious magical cataclysm surged over the island Kingdom of Pheia, bringing with it tidal waves and buckling the bedrock beneath it. The Kingdom of Pheia sunk below the sea, forcing the greatest abjurers in the nation to band together and form barrier to repel the rushing waters. Soon after, with more time and magic, they were able to expand the city in domes, each with its own abjurer keeping the barrier in place. This is a taxing thing, and sometimes abjurers do not last long in maintaining bubbles, yet despite the burnout rate being high, it is considered an honor in Pheia society to literally keep the waves at bay.

The Sultanate of Sahir came to blows with the Grand Caravan of Bhutaar , whose nomadic territory had expanded greatly, and for several years the skilled Mogatai horsemasters fought with Sahirian soldiers. Eventually, a brittle peace was reached, and the forces of the Grand Caravan withdrew from Sahirian territory. Though some still distrust the Grand Caravan, in the years since the cesation of hostilities, Bhutaarian trade parties had done a great deal to establish relations between themselves and the leadership of the Sultanate.

The Dark Mage Balor layed seige to Kingdom of Draioch with an army of undead creations. At the height of the seige, King Braden slew Balor in single combat. However, with Balor’s final breath, he put a curse upon the Kingdom of Draioch. He cursed Draioch to be prowled by dangerous undead, to be cloaked in night, for the rest of time.

Deep under the mountains of Azarak, a team of miners unearthed a living river of mutative black liquid. The substance flooded the lower levels of the city-kingdom, turning victims into monstrous shells of their former selves, called Durhan by the Hursag Dwarves.

King Durgrik Ironbreaker II enacted a plan where a squadron of volunteer soldiers would stay behind and fight what they called the Durhan, and the rest would evacuate above ground, abandoning the mountain all together. The brave soldiers held their ground for as long as they could, buying the King and their people precious hours needed to complete evacuations. No one knows precisely what their last moments were, but at some point, the magmatic forges where the brave Hursag dwarves held the enemy in place were channeled to overflow, and bathed the entirety of the Azarak lower quarters in molten rock. With the sludge seemingly contained for now beneath untold tons of stone and magma, King Durgrik Ironbreaker II ordered the gates of Old Azarak sealed. The Hursag then dwelt in the surface settlement of New Azarak, a trading post and settlement for surface dwelling Hursag.

Following the guidance of the prophetic words of the scroll won from the Mind Thief, the guardians of Port Harmony follow through with locating and unsealing an ancient entity. In an effort to catalyze a series of events that would lead them through the prophecy, they felt they had no choice but to push forward, using an ancient ritual to release Manas, Child of the Unspeakable Abomination. Slowing time itself to a halt, Manas left behind a medallion, the Amulet fo Dawn, as grim thanks for his release, before animating a gallery of statues, and setting the cave into a collapse.

After Manas dissapeared, the people of Port Harmony were forced into a fighting retreat to escape the cave with their lives. Unsure of their actions in the aftermath, it was a scant few hours before they saw the first symptoms of their deeds. While returning the Amulet of Dawn to the strange sentient artifact known as Mehen, it was discovered by the arrival of a previously possessed ally that the entities of the Shadow Court had dissapeared, their influence seemingly gone from world.