The Third Empire

Sometimes referred to as the Rulers. Realm reckoned to have existed from 1412 to 187 before the common calendar, at which time it fragmented into the Successor States. The capital was at Suada (in present-day Penboyn), and an academy and university town existed at Balvine on Kartria. No certain cause of the Empire's fall is known, but most historians consider it the result of a power struggle among the gods. Cf. artifacts. A well-known legend tells that many years before the fall, the emperor decreed that the court, the regalia and the capital's greatest treasures should secretly move to a secluded place to build a new capital. Many candidates for the location of this mythical new capital exist, among the most well-known are Palmyria, Skandelion, below Suada, and the Sunken City.