The old empire succumbs under unknown circumstances. However, some scholars speculate that it could have been a plague or an invasion. Multiple art from the era depicts horned men fighting against the winged men of the empire.
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Histories of Westoria
The general history of the continent.
The Common Era
0 1500 CE
The era after the fall of the empire.
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0 CE
The Fall of the Empire
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1 CE
358 CE
The Great Man-Elven Wars
Military actionAs men began to push eastward for land to settle, they found themselves in conflict with the elves that already lived there. A conflict that would last centuries. The petty clans and kingdoms of men would cut down the sacred fae woods for land to farm and settle, while building wood forts to protect their conquest, a practice unseen among the sylvan elves.
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1 CE
100 CE
The Great Flight
Population Migration / TravelWhatever the causes that instigated the fall of the empire and the extinction of the winged men, they also created the circumstances for the great migration of man. The empire was known to use humans as bureaucratic slaves, and as life in the west became unbearable, many decided to escape and traveled eastward. The largest of these migrations was led by Alasdair "The Walker" and his younger brother Arthios, both of whom are now edged into Westorian myth as the forefathers of the Wesman and Middlanders. These migrations however created many a conflict, especially with the elves and humans already living in this land. Eventually this would boil over as the Great Man-Elven Wars and the end of the petty kingdoms.
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38 CE
372 CE
The Age of Petty Kings
Era beginning/endAfter the death of Alasdair "The Walker", the relatively vast kingdom he had carved for himself suddenly fell into civil war, putting a pause on the expansion of men into the Fae Woods. With many wanting to take the reins of the kingdom, and others wanting to be independent, the kingdom fractured into many kingdoms that would war with each other for centuries.
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337 CE
The Council of the Sylvan Elves
FoundingAfter suffering numerous defeats, especially as the tide of the war began to shift towards the kingdoms of men in the last century. And with the men getting closer to the tree of life, the sylvan elves, who had previously organized as a loose confederacy of communes, decided to call for an unprecedented council in which they would crown a king of the elves to unite them against the men. In the end, after deliberating for a long time, Aster "The glory of the Morning" was crowned as the first Green King. He would then go on not only to deal massive defeats for the kingdoms of men, but he would also create alliances with some of them, pitching them against each other. This would ultimately result in the treaty of the green river, finally dividing Westoria in half and ending the expansion of men.
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454 CE
The Riverfolk raids
Military actionThe brief period of peace and prosperity after the treaty of the Green River began to crumble as a people from the west would begin to raid the kingdom of the Westfold. Their use of the rivers for quick attacks and fish-like appearance dubbed them the Riverborn among Westorians.
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542 CE
667 CE
The War of the Two Dragons
Military actionThe War of the Two Dragons was a conflict that spanned over a hundred years, and started on the spring of 542 when River King Sigiburg, then a merchant and raider, led his people to the Westerlands in order to escape the Great Wild.
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542 CE
Sigiburg "The Riverborn" Invades the Westerlands
Military actionThroughout the decades the Riverborn raids had become more organized and powerful in nature. And in 579 they flared up to unprecedented levels, as united under the banner of Sigiburg "The Riverborn", they became a full blown invasion of the Westerlands. This is classified by naturalists as the Second Great Invasion of the Wild. The first is thought to be what caused the fall of the empire, although the elves and northmen incorrectly believe that the Great Migration was the first. However, in time, this conflict would be more famously known as the war of the dragons.
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1380 CE
1386 CE
The Fourth Great Invasion of the Wild
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1410 CE
4 /5
The Red and Blue tourney.
Cultural eventAs the marking of the anniversary of the victory of the Westfold and the Middlands against the Wild King drew near, both kingdoms decided to hold a tourney at their borders as celebration. This tourney would go on to become one of the grandest tourneys of its time, as not only Westerner and Middlander knights attended, but warriors from the south and north did as well. Many a song would be written about the tourney, especially of the Middland prince as he won the tourney while dressed as a mystery knight.
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1420 CE
28 /4
The Battle of the Princes
Military actionThe western prince finally forced a pitch battle against Prince Liam by surprising their encampment. In the end the Middland's forces would be surrounded and butchered, and the rose knight would lose his eye in an attempt to save the prince. Despite the massive loss for the Middlands, the victory proved to be a thin one, and wouldn't allow the western king to push further into the mountains.
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