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History of Ishi

This is the history of the Ishi Plateau, but mainly a history of the elves who live there.

  • 2400 AC

    2100 AC


    Elven Invasions / Ishi Migrations / Adellonian Massacre
    Population Migration / Travel

    Starting around the year -2400 AC, elves from Ummuland, driven from their land by famine and excited by rumors of wealth in Adellon started to found small colonies in what would eventually become known as Ishi Plateau.

    Using magic and total war tactics, both of which were practically unheard of on the continent, the elves quickly subdued the indigenous human populations, in effect genocide much of the human population north of The Kesh Forest. It is speculated that a third of humans were killed by war, plague, and starvation, a third were sold into slavery across Adellon and Ummuland, and the remaining third were almost exclusively Ropog and Yhivi, effectively erasing millennia of indigenous human culture.

  • 1794 AC


    The Invention of Secrets / Construction of The Vault Of Secrets
    Metaphysical / Paranormal event

    According to legend, The Hedon Gambler Saint-King Yal'lre ordered the construction of a secure location where secrets could be kept. Such a place, or such a thing as secrets, did not exist beforehand. The Vault Of Secrets stands in Ishi to this day, and continues to hold every secret unknown to Creation.

  • 1780 AC


    Founding of The Kingdom Of Ishi
    Founding

    Around the year 1780 AC, The Hedon Gambler Saint-King Yal'lre, taking advantage of The Vault Of Secrets, won his independence as Duke from the emperor of Great Ummu. Aware of this news, and tired of paying tribute to Ummuland, the surrounding Ishi Elf lords swore fealty to Yal'lre, forcing Great Ummu to release all their holdings in Adellon.

    The new kingdom is generally considered kinder to the Adellonian population, although only by degrees. There have been several ruling dynasties since independence.

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  • 7 ə

    Treemonth
    36 ə


    The Adellonian Mysterectomy Campaign
    Cultural event

    The Adellonian Mysterectomy is the name for the relatively successful and frequently bloody struggle to end magic use in Adellon, once it was discovered that use of magic accelerates the Dejan blight. While there are undeniably many magic users in the world today, the transition from a society that used magic to accomplish practically all tasks to one where magic is effectively taboo, and fewer and fewer people are born with any apparent potentiality to learn magic, is arguably the greatest victory Adellonian people have achieved since the era's beginning.

  • 51 ə

    137 ə


    Sisters' Crisis
    Political event

    The Sisters' Crisis was a period of great instability in The Kingdom Of Ishi which ultimately ended in the rapid expansion of skinash through the western Ishi Plateau.

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  • 87 ə

    137 ə


    Spread of Blight in Ishi
    Disaster / Destruction

    Magics used during The Sisters' Crisis, particularly by the lower nobility of The Kingdom Of Ishi, caused Skin Ash to overrun over half of the Ishi Plateau , resulting in The Empty expanding significantly. This destroyed multiple Ishi cities and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
    Fighting in The Sisters' Crisis got significantly more brutal around 87 ə, as noble clans started practicing total war against each other, and using magic in defiance of the agreements made as part of the The Adellonian Mysterectomy Campaign , which had been conducted specifically to halt the spread of skin ash. Shortly thereafter Dejan Kisses started to consume the south western edge of the plateau. Some Ishii nobles immediately appealed to the clans to stop using magic for the good of the kingdom, but others saw an opportunity to destroy their enemies' bases of power by allowing The Empty to swallow their cities.
    While blight still remains in the majority of the plateau, and continues to slowly grow, its rapid expansion ended in 137, marking what is generally considered the end of The Sisters' Crisis, although the fighting had ended more than a decade prior.

  • 211 ə

    20 Ashemonth
    223 ə

    21 Sitrimonth

    Second Gun Wars / Ishii-Yhivan Wars / War of Two Fools
    Military action

    The Second Gun Wars / Ishii-Yhivan Wars / War of Two Fools were a series of skirmishes and occasional pitched battles between The Kingdom Of Ishi and The Yhivan Empire, fought for control over a portion of The Kesh Forest.

    The Yhivi empire won handily thanks to their investment in new military technology, like brass dragons. It was the first time indigenous humans won a war against elfin settlers in the several thousand years of exchange between them.