After The Arcanum Revolt

The Baltican empire was one of the biggest collections of cities under one rule to ever exist. It reached all the way from The Black Steel Hills to the west, to the Willowwoods, down south to the Hollowstone Ridge. Under the rule of Argyn Valdir of Goodblood, The emperor of the Baltican empire , the empire flourished, expanding at a rate only seen by the Dragons before the Arcanum Revolt. The empire had several city-states; Yanvos, Trevos, Zazvos, and Thevos. All acting like separate independent states governing lesser cities, but all answering to Warnvos in the middle.   Argyn was described as a mighty and stoic king, but also bloodhungry and entitled, which in the end was his downfall. Argyn had a council of 12 pureblood Dragonborn that helped decide on matters. Dragonborn politics are cutthroat and so at the first sign of treachery Argyn would execute them. The empire was under heavy military doctrine governing the lives of those living within. All Dragonborns were to have many children that were forced into the army. This meant the Baltican army was large and fearless. But once the Baltican empire threatened the Orcish empire, full war ensued. It lasted for over a hundred years. Back and forth, but the Orcs aligned with giants and goblinoid creatures and managed to push them back overtaking the city-state of Yanvos (now named Argh Undt Argh translated to Blood and Blood). The war was a stalemate in the Baltican forest, known as the mud wars (The Baltican Forest is now the Perished Marshes). hundreds of thousands died and the forest became a swamp of dead corpses. In the end, the Dragonborn lost and were forced to retreat of the mainland into the Badlands.   The Orcish Empire did not manage to keep the captured city and was spread too thin and with pressure from the Black Steel Hill Dwarves and Jhankos the third of Loudwater  they left most of the cities to become ruins, but keeping Yanvos renaming it Argh Undt Argh after a famous orcish battle song sung throughout the war

In the year of 1137 after the Arcanum Revolt, the Dwarves of Ragstag Crag managed to wake a sleeping monster in the depths of the undermountain. It tore through the mountain city, destroying all in its wake and dwarves fell like flies before the monstrosity. At the behest of king Gallstone Ragstag, they retreated, but the main entrance had become blocked by rubble. At first, they tried to dig, but it failed, and so they kept retreating upwards until they reached the Gallstone Bluff. A large overhang looming over the Dwarven Restpit (formerly named the Kings Gorge). The monster did not halt and the dwarves working in the Limestone Chasm beneath watched their fellow dwarves fall 2000 feet to their demise into the Kings Gorge and renamed it the Dwarven Restpit. The mountain is abandoned, and most dwarves are fearful of ever retaking the mountain. They have built around it using some of the lesser mountains of the Ragstag mountain chain. None dare enter Gallstone’s Ragstag Crag.   Only a few dwarves from that time are still alive. The memories haunt them to this day.

In the year 1523, the chromatic city of Cialmader seized control of the Halfling city of Helften (which now lies ruin, the survivors of the war moved to what is now Seaferrow Village.) Helften was a pious theocracy living in peace with all until the Chromatic Dragonborn came. The Dragonborn wielded fire and brimstone and enslaved the Halfing Populus using them as slave labor, seizing control of the Kaien Relics and the holy Omakka. the Dragonborn were motivated by resources and xenophobic expansionist ideals. Their country is a baron wasteland and its water corrupted by acid. The Halfling Bareil, Siddik Wei ordered Helften to not fight back as it would mean the death of them all, instead they surrendered, waiting for the rest of the world to react. The occupation of Helften, and enslavement of their people lasted for 24 years. 300 000 halflings died from overwork, starvation, and dehydration.   There were several resistance groups that fought against the Dragonborn: The Shalon Ma, The Theok'Qui, and most notably The Thana Los. The “war” ended when The Twained Empereum launched a land and naval attack on the occupied city. In the wake of this two-front war, they razed the city behind them and fled or surrendered.