6.Syann the Age of Old Empires (EE)

01-5000 EE-Races rebuild and reclaim what they can. The elves, Dwarves and Gnomes long since tired of empires and unable to support such large bases of power seem like a shadow of their past selves. Now mixing among humanity their homelands often seeming reclusive and empty to the eyes of outsiders. This decline marks the largest shrinking of ancestral lands once claimed by elven and dwarven people. Though the marks and work of these races are found across the north as are pockets of their people from Paladius to Vistaghast and farther still.   01 EE: Age of Mankind's rise. Across the globe one race endured the age of ice like no other. One race that had spread to every corner of the world and had been shaped by a thousand destinies into a thousand variations. Mankind by virtue of being the greatest survivor was set to rule this age.   1000 EE-Human Cities arise in the fertile river valleys between Lumia and the Terrigoth; these early cities become an archetype that other human settlements across the globe with no connection whatsoever start to follow. Humankind soon after rediscovers Metalwork, rudimentary Arcane magic and arts and sciences thought lost in record time.   7000 EE- The Old Empires Era reaches its defining point when the largest empires of human history co-exist. Zibera, The Parashan, Kholundani and Khemetra empires divide much of Lumia, Terrigoth and Athila among themselves. Their wars and conquests shape the world for ages to follow. In the Aftermath only Ziberia and Khemetra remain though reduced to mere nations after their respective declines. The Parashan are lost to the sands and blades of the first Assassins while the Kholundani are crushed under their own Hubris.   The age of Rebirth-The old races had known little of the first cities plans for war, nor their insidious designs they had been rebuilding and reclaiming what they could of their lost legacies and securing their homes and exploring a changed world. So did arise the new nations of the old races. As the shattered remains of the first cities population of humanity spread they settled in many lands bringing fractured secrets and lore to their barbarian kin from these ashes the old kingdoms would rise in Lumia and in the Eastern Teragoth though legends said that humanity had scattered to other lands far and away lands unknown beyond the great seas.   -The Time of the old Kingdoms: A time when the old kingdoms rose an age of rediscovery of lost science and knowledge for much of man. Little can be said of this long and difficult time without detailing the trials of each of the Old Kingdoms as they made their mark upon Syann. An age where Bronze gave birth to Iron, where mankind reclaimed some fragment of his destiny yet furthered to separate and divide themselves on cultural lines. An ages of wars and legends among all the races of the world an age that ended with the return of high magic to humanity.