The region of land that would later become Cerghaine was settled over numerous waves. After the fall of the Avernal Regimes in 2684 BBE, grand swaths of Cerghaine and Maleindour became settled, with Dinas Aurgil being founded in 2600 BBE as the oldest city yet standing in some form. Cerghaine includes the aspen woods of Tir-umbria, central Kailenfyr (including Caer Kailenfyr), and the Gellibranor administrative districts centered at Gellibran.
Settlement
(2650 BBE onward)
While Caesia Thiir only came to exist once the attention of the Avernal Regimes became divided by wars it fought in antiquity over
enlightenment, the successors to old K'thiir spread rapidly once they were allowed to indirectly by these wars. First north then east and west, the cultural capital of Von Choronzon became the hub for many a spoke throughout Caesia Thiir, including Cerghaine, which saw settlement in the decades surrounding -2650 BBE, following the Valley of Anoire and the success in diplomatic relations with the Lochlynn Hosts in 2736 BBE.
Towards the latter end of these enlightenment wars, the western half of Cerghaine was settled, with Gellibran becoming a defensive capitol and border city. A millennia later, it would still stand with a very different purpose, instead becoming an administration-executive apparatus for the Astral Deacons overseeing their vassal states and colonies. However, at its founding, it was ruled by the Diviners of Kailenfyr through an advisor capacity, and by the Caesian collective people as a strict legislative capacity, as early Caesia Thiir--due to limitations on speed of travel and communication, as well as a general cultural value of trust and pacifism--was organized as a confederated amalgamation of positive-association states and factions. This functioned primarily due to each region having an important resource the others all required, such as the Mines of Vocor and both its filtered & collapsed ectoplasmic discs as well as its proliferation of rare ritual components. As Caesia Thiir gained power, however, the eldritch-magic capital of Tor Memoir grew to such prominence that it long rivaled Von Choronzon for the position of capital of the ogenthiirocracy (
the rule by kharmic balance).
The Mourning Wars
(1785 - 1745 BBE)
While the region known in the later years of Caesia Thiir was being developed, it was known as Kailenfyr, with several cities in its unofficial borders, such as Bancwyn, Arendau, and Elltfaire, in addition to the later addition of Gellibran. With the Mourning Wars, and the resulting natural disasters, the city of Kailenfyr was sacked by the Lochlynn Hosts, and later abandoned. The central towers were converted and expanded to fortresses and orreries of introspection, being the only maintained portion of the city. Meanwhile the population of Arendau saw numerous portents and hauntings causing the majority of the populace to migrate to Lochlyre, and the remaining few to turn to despotism behind the Dusk Chancellor Veiz Cilurnos.
Within the following century, Kailenfyr was reorganized into Cerghaine, with the markets of Gellibran becoming its new capital to replace abandoned Kailenfyr. The culture of the region changed only in the east with the construction of Ür-Umbra and Elltfaire's use in the Mourning Wars as a millitary staging ground into the Umbric Strait, playing a pivotol role in defeating the sudden betrayal of Maleindour in 1772 BBE before the fall of Dinas Aurgil.
Heights of Caesia Thiir
(1750 - 1200 BBE)
Through the golden age of Caesia Thiir, the new state of Cerghaine saw an influx of trade and travel, however over these centuries it was clear that Cerghaine, as a border region that received frequent raids and assaults from forces mortal and immortal, such as the Whisperking of Pælex or the Atromaic Men, would not grow the same as other regions. By the time of the Invocation Wars in -1200 BBE, Cerghaine became a forgotten region... though not for long.
Following these wars, with the destruction of East Druum and the deconsecration of great portions of the Gravewood, Caesia Thiir was reorganized into new administrative districts and states, with the wealth of wisdom and eldritch knowledge of the Drysgol Deacons proving an insurmountable barrier against any enemy of the ogenthiirocracy, be it monstrous or economic. Central Astriocratic Caesia, with its capitol unofficially rotating between the three great cities of the nation, became a place of near miraculous magical power, which saw fit to hand down these bounties to the other regions freely.
That is, until it didn't.
Celestial Fall
(1025 - 400 BBE)
In the period known as the Celestial Fall of Caesia Thiir, these Drysgol Deacons became surplanted or co-opted by their counterparts in Tor Memoir, which became the capitol of Caesia, and each and every state of Caesia Thiir not only ceased to recieve any benefits of the deific powers of these new Astral Deacons, tribute was instead demanded. For example, in the regions of Old Fyrowyd and Cthonia, sages and seers, young or old, would be taken in order to whisper to the wills on the wind and provide answers through portents in rituals that would greatly weaken and age the seers used. Cerghaine played a critical role in this period of Caesia Thiir, acting as a staging point for the imperialist control over the Atromaic Marches and Tor Dolmenor alike, with Gellibran transitioning into said administrative hub. Kailenfyr, now known as Caer Kailenfyr, was half-rebuilt and remained as a fortress-tower of elder study.
Earthbone Apocalypse
(between 414-400 BBE until the end...)
When calamity took fair Caesia Thiir, Cerghaine may not have been the first to fall, but by 378 BBE, Gellibran was its only civilization, and within the year the last soul within had perished; with little to no survivors. Caesia Thiir never had a need for sailing ships, after all. Survivors of Cerghaine did flee north, however, taking refuge with the Viscounts of Cairtaine, who would, in turn, become subject to a plague of the organs that would cause blades of bone and carved, branched thorns to tear one apart from within over agonizing months. In 350 BBE, Dinas Aurgil would fall, but all was not lost, as Cerghaine would breathe one final gasp.
A select few survivors of disasters throughout the surrounding miles would happen upon the destroyed fortress of Caer Arendau, previously ruled by one descendant of the original Dusk Chancellor who believed themself in possession of some divine right to both a throne above a scattered few people and their bones, alike. While it was taken by the apocalypse, same as all Caesia Thiir, the Dusk Chancellor that ruled it at its fall opened the gates and sacrificed the some 150 people that lived under her in 400 BBE freely... meaning that the gates and the city defenses were, for the most part, intact.
Naming it Dinas Arendau and making a city out of a castle, these survivors reclaimed this city in 335 BBE, and by 182 BBE, still held it against the apocalypse, though in no year was their population ever truly growing, for their numbers only increased in years of significant refugees, and frequent are the deaths in defense of the city.
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