4th Epoch

Having finished the Great Purge, Oremar seeks to avoid the same pitfall the sorcerers did. Rather than use the power of his order to seize control of the world, Oremar adopted a policy of isolation. The Order of Logicmasters promised not to interfere in world politics, vowing they would only interfere if sorcerous power was used to seize political power, or to hunt down any sorcerers or dragons that are found. Recognizing the Logicmasters need a place to settle, Oremar selected a relatively uninhabited island, and founded the nation of Meridian. According to Logicmaster histories, the locals of the island were joyous and grateful for the wealth they brought with them when they settled their lands. The founding of Meridian marks the end of the 3rd Epoch, and start of the 4th.

King Asharsi founds the Darnesian Kingdom, a small kingdom at the time that would face much turmoil and nearly fall to a neighboring warlord. This Kingdom is the precursor to the Darnesian Emirates, which later becomes the Darnesian Sultanate.

The Darnesian Kingdom has experienced a period of growth and successful conquest. The country reforms its system of governance, and declares themselves to be the Darnesian Emirates.

The spread of Dichotism within the Darnesian Emirates had begun a religious fervor. Darneshi are known to be hot headed and aggressive. The structure and control of organized religion gave way to street preachers and mob congregations. This tension boiled over into the 101 Year Jihad. This event has wide spanning ramifications even to the modern day. It is the fundamental cause of the collapse of the Elven Kingdom into the Elven Princedom, and spread Dichotism to communities throughout the continent of Etherionde. The Jihad spanned 2 generations, and engrained religious militarism into the Darneshi identity.

Senaria Arinos becomes the newly anointed Queen of Arbethia, and begins her reign by declaring the Second Crusade, this time setting out to conquer the Vesinian Empire. After 7 years of campaigning, a peace is agreed upon by the two nations, which left the Arbethian Kingdom controlling a large swath of Vesinian lands. This was a grave loss for the Vesinians, and is marked by many to be the root of the Empire's eventual collapse.

King Elivar Arinos III, true to his namesake, rallied the Arbethian people to embark upon a third crusade, and the last to this day. Like the second crusade, this one targeted the Vesinian Empire. This crusade hardly claimed the pretext of religious zealotry, and was clearly political opportunism. The Vesinian Empire was weak, its economy crumbling, and presented as easy pickings. Yet, threat from the Innish to the north, and possible rebellion on the Dragonshead Peninsula was stretching the Kingdom thin. This crusade was kept brief and strategic. The territories grabbed were calculated, the lands seized ensured to be the highest valuable possible, and the crusade was halted as soon as the Kingdom had obtained their goals.

The Vesinian Empire falls into economic ruin, the result of a long struggle to stabilize in the aftermath of the Third Crusade. In their efforts to draw foreign investment, they lower import and export taxes to be among the lowest in the world, and loosen a variety of trade regulations already in place. The tactic works, causing most of the largest businesses, guilds, and conglomerates of the world to make their home in the nation.   One such conglomerate, the Tensun Trading Company, became so rich, it was more powerful than the Empire itself. In order to save the failing nation, a deal was made in which the Tensun Trading Company bought the Vesinian Empire. The Tensun Trading Company then began a centuries long endeavor to reform, and rebuild the nation from the ground up. It allowed the nation to maintain its name up until the year 490, in which it officially rebranded the Vesinian Empire as the Tensun Trading Company. The transformation would include new trade regulations, redistricting, and an entirely new governmental oligarchy comprised of the nations wealthiest constituents.

The people who live in the Shasarek Desert had long suffered under the rule of the Darnesian Sultanate. With covert support from the Elven Princedom, the region geared up for rebellion, and then executed that rebellion. The rebellion was successful, repelling the Sultanates presence. The rebellion rapidly dissolved to infighting before any stability could return to the region. In this anarchy, warlords, bandits, and ravagers rise to power.

The temporary peace reached at the end of the Rashwanan Rebellion was short lived. Zealots of Dichotism gathered within the Darnesian Sultanate many times, making attempts to reconquer their lost lands of the Rashwanan Caliphate. These incursions lasted no longer than a few months each time they were attempted, but resulted in significant loss of life. The incursions were often carried out against the Sultan's wishes, by unorganized mobs, or rebellious Imams. 

Such incursions happened in the years 395, 401, 403, and 487. No such incursions have occurred since.