The Age of Assassins, the breaking of Chains

Cultural event

The death of Leadership. This is an age, where through desperation they hammered every nail that stood out.

They were stuck in a massive statemate. One they could not break through death and misery. And so the first sacrifices was made, nonhumans. They started as slaves and were proven to not be before they were blasted away in an act of explosive magic.

They would quite literally blast leadership to peices, all who were caught would, naturally be executed without hesitation. But, of course, the damage would have been done. The humans were driven back. The points of power undermined. It was a whole new type of war. One where there were no armies to be lined up, troops and points of attack, all they could do was close ranks.

Wizards would work in pairs, infiltrate and then destroy, many were freed.

It could not be stopped. Tens of thousands were killed on all sides, ships would explode, the moving of food supplies would burn. In all retaliations, they were only a handful of people would be all they could target.

And so slaves, the subjegated were forced into the seas.

They survived. Though barely.

In this day and age, there were no heroes, no great men, only monsters and assasins. Those who would snatch, and nothing more. For three thousand years, the entire continent bled.