Hammerfall: The End of the Time of the Ancients
Near recent events leading to the times we live in.
The declaration of the birth of Imperial Trone also serves as the founding date for the contemporary era.
Imperial Trone undertakes to conquer and annex Gallia.
The Creeping Dark is a period of environmental changed precipitated by the ash-laden eruption of the small circle of volcanoes at the heart of the Myriand. The preceding earthquake and magma floes would disrupt and destroy towns and cities for a roughly 50 mile radius, but the ash cloud created would darken the skies for hundreds of miles and had a darkening effect for years after the original geological event.
Imperial Trone begins it's lengthy campaign to subdue and annex the Hellenic City States.
Lightning and unprovoked invasion and conquest of the Evermyriand by the Legion of Rage.
Haute-Rein Elise Ensolielier, presiding monarch of the Heslonic Triumvirate, assumes the throne following the passing of her father Armand II.