The region now known as the Gyre is a relatively isolated segment of the greater continent of Gyaros, once held under the rule of the mighty Hepatizon Throne and its Brass Hegemony, but now a troubled welter of quarreling subject-states and trackless arratu wastelands. The formerly docile subject states now have no fear of the seemingly-indifferent Reaping King, and concern themselves with the inevitable struggle over which is to be the new hegemon of the Gyre.
Epochs of the Gyre
The common epoch of the region is the landing of the Reaping King in Ka-Adun; dates are thus measured either AL, After Landing, or BL, Before Landing. The current date in the Gyre is 1055 AL. Scholars argue over specifics, but most would place the rise of the Vothite Empire around 2500 BL, its fall and the ascent of the Republic at about 1000 BL, and the final collapse of Republican resistance in the year 241 AL. Even so, all these dates are susceptible to multiple interpretations.
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