Age of Man in Vored

The Almerithan Empire considers history to have begun with the founding of the First Primal Kingdoms. Thanks to their empire this view of history is the one used by most peoples in the Cradle Lands.   For those who follow this calendar any time before this is simply called the Dark Times.

Shadow Age

With the founding of the first Treasure Hold and permanent human settlement, history is regarded as having officially begun, with humanity in the shadows of the Mythic Beasts

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    The first Primal Pact
    Founding

    The first Primal pact is made creating the Dracodian species, marking the beginning of the Primal Era

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Primal Age

With the creation of the Primal races and the weakening of the Mythic Beasts, this era is considered by many as the transitional era into human dominance the world knows today.

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    The first Primal Pact
    Founding

    The first Primal pact is made creating the Dracodian species, marking the beginning of the Primal Era

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    Almaras Coup
    Era beginning/end

    Almara seizes control of the city of Heilitras, this marks the founding the Almerithan Empire, and what many would in hindsight consider the beginning of a new Era.

Imperial Age

Marked by the founding of the Almerithan Empire, this age covers the Empire's birth and rise to its highest glory, up until its collapse and near destruction with the beginning of the Tide Wars.

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    The Drakes War
    Military action

    A brutal thirty year conflict that saw the destruction of the old powers of the Dragon Realms in Druzohpia and the rise of the Almerithan Empire as the sole Hegemon of Vorad.

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    Drakes War
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    The Great Cooling
    Geological / environmental event

    Across the climate begins to cool, creating a ripple that would shake societies across the globe.

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    War of the Dancing Crown
    Military action

    A brutal civil war that wracked the Almerithan Empire and would see a multi generational struggle between the competing branches of the Imperial family.

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    March of the Five kings
    Population Migration / Travel

    Five Horun Kings lead their people on a great migration that will destroy two empires and reshape a continent.

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    The Second Wurgos Invasion
    Military action

    The second and most devastating Wurgos invasion, as Wurgos tribes gathered under King Rexigor and laid waste to northern Vorad.

Feudal Age

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With the decline of the Almerithan Empire the Horun established themselves as masters of the Cradle lands, implementing a Feudal system which gives the age its name.

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    Brothers War
    Military action

    Kings Salor and Ursel begin fighting one another over the borderlands between their two kingdoms. Kicking of the final breaking of alliances between the five kings.

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    The Orgos Invasion
    Population Migration / Travel

    Also called the Third Wurgos Invasion, one last major Wurgos tribe, the Orgos, would carve out a kingdom in the centre of the Salorian realm, which soon collapsed as a result.

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    Coup in Acedia
    Political event