The Shattered Isles

Located at the east side of the known world, the Shattered Isles were once joined into a great continent. First occupied by Dragons, it was then taken over by Humans during the Punitive Wars, who crafted a great and long-lasting kingdom.
Following the events of The Shattering, great Titans were unleashed onto the world, destroying most of the human kingdom and splitting the continent into the many segregated islands one can see today.
But the Titans would ultimately be defeated, when Endemion The Lightning Emperor successfully trapped them inside the abyss of Tartarus. Bring about a new era of peace, and seafaring profitability.
== Timeline ==
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=== ?? D.E. – The Settlement of Mycenae ===
The Dragons first discover a new continent to the south-west, this new continent proved to be rich in useful resources, and magical materials. They quickly colonize the region, giving rise to many draconic settlements who later unify under the Dragon Empire.
Human tribes who were native to the region either disappear into history or become subservient to Dragon society.
=== ?? D.E. – The Golden Sun and the Punitive Wars ===
Under Kairos´ command, and as part of the Punitive War effort, the Dorian Legion, a great army commanded by the legendary hero “Aethlius, The Conqueror”, journeys into the continent to stop the hold of the Dragon Empire on the region.
The holy army sees many victories as it pierces through the Dragon Kingdom, but as the war extends, the army’s resources begin to dry up, and the Dragon’s victory begins to appear imminent.
However, the tides of battle would change when Aethlius steals the “Azure Dream” away from the Dragons and begins using the artifact as a mighty weapon.
With the Dragons now being firmly pushed back, the army establishing many cities and villages, creating the military kingdom of Dorian, with Aethlius as it’s king and unquestioned ruler.
=== 5800 D.E. – The Dragons are Defeated ===
The humans continue their battle against the Dragons like many of their mortal breather during the Punitive Wars. But the war comes to an end when the Dorian legion finally destroy the last great bastion of Dragon occupation on the continent, destroying the city of Zul’Dreo’Neth, in “The Battle of Waring Lights”.
But even with the war over, some of the Treasures of Eternity remain missing, enticing many explorers and mercenaries to search the corners of the continent for these legendary artifacts.
=== 6400 D.E. – The Shattering and the Fall of Babylon ===
On a bright stary night the moon and stars suddenly vanished, being replaced with crawling red snakes of light. An infinitude of small whispers could be heard throughout the continent as many succumb to madness. Destruction could be heard in all corners of the land, for creatures of calamity known has “The Titans” had now risen upon the continent of Mycenae, creatures of immense power who seed only chaos, destruction, and madness.
As the Titans wondered and fought others and each other, they moved mountains, split land, and raised oceans. Their calamity would leave the once prosperous continent shattered into many islands, forming the region that is now known as “The Shattered Isles”.
“Aethlius the Conqueror” would not survive The Shattering, with the king and his army sacrificing themselves to slow the Titans, allowing more people to reach safety. During the chaos the Azure Dream, the artifact of great power essential to the Dorian Kingdom, is also destroyed and broken into several pieces.
=== 6406 D.E. – The Titanomachy ===
Endemion, the surviving son of “Aethlius the Conqueror”, was able to survive The Shattering thanks to his father’s sacrifice. Determined to forge a new path for mortal kind, he follows on his father’s footsteps and begins gathering any survivors with the ultimate goal of erasing the Titans from this once prosperous land.
Eventually Endemion comes into conflict with the Titan Syronus and manages to slay a Titan for the first time in recorded history. This act of glorious and impossible defiance granted him the title of “Lightning Emperor”, uniting humanity and worrying the Titans, marking the beginning of Titanomachy war.
=== 6510 D.E. – The Treasures of Dreams ===
Eventually the Lightning Emperor comes into the possession of several piece of the broken Azure Dream, gifting these mythical artifact pieces to the most accomplished heroes of the isles.
Their use becomes instrumental in the mortal´s survival against the Titans, and the legends of these heroes and artifacts go down in history, being remembered for many generations to come.
Endemion also declares that the reforging of the Azure Dream is essential to finally defeating the Titans, causing many to search far and wide for the pieces of the legendary broken artifact, and it’s pieces are eventually nicknamed “The Treasure of Dreams”. 
=== 6600 D.E. (-200 H.E) – Arrival of Artorias on the Continent ===
Seeking safer land for the Dar´Zur race, the Dragonslayer Artorias arrives on the continent with many Dar´Zur refugees, settling on the collection of three island, commonly referred to as the “Colossus Archipelago”.
Artorias’ glory was quickly noticed by Endemion, who recruited Artorias and the Dar’Zur in the war against the Titans.
=== 75 H.E. – The Titans are sealed inside Tartarus ===
In order to finally put an end to the Titans, all mortal heroes unite for a final and glorious battle against the Titans. The battle was said to have lasted 12 suns and 12 moons, releasing enough souls to fill heaven itself.
But the battle, and the Titan´s reign, was finally brought to an end when Endemion, in an act of martyrdom, launched his own thunderous hearth towards the Titans, breaking the world and destroying the Titans once and for all. The aftermath of this battle would forever scar the world, creating an endless sprawling abyss in the middle of the isles, commonly referred to as “The Abyss of Tartarus”.
Although the continent was left shattered, and the people’s king was dead, prosperity and happiness could now return to the isles.
=== 102 H.E - The War of Thousand Knights ===
Artorias mysteriously disappears.
In his absence Eldred, Artorias’ bastard son, claims the throne of the Colossal Archipelago, sparking a war between the several dukes of the region for supremacy and claim for the throne.
=== 332-338 H.E - War of the Sunken King ===
An unknown enemy arrives from the sea with a great army on the continent of Endemion and immediately begins to wage war against the city-state of Helorus. The war lasts for several years, forcing Helorus to build increasingly powerful weapons, which leads the city to gather its masters of the arcane under a single institution, half college, half manufacturing facility, the “Institute for War and Magic” served as both a training ground for new wizards, and a forge of creation for powerful new weapons.
The war eventually ended in a great disaster that destroyed half of Helorus, sinking it to bottom of the sea, presumably also drowning the invading army and ending the war. This mysterious invading king will later be referred to as “The Sunken King”.
The “Trident of Temperance”, one of the treasures of eternity, is also lost during the fall of Helorus.
=== 410 H.E. - Dedalos steals the Institute ===
The pirate Dedalos, known in the seas as “The Iron Pirate”, sought to save the Institue from the clutches of the backwards bureaucrats of Helorus, which had grown very disconent with the Institute and its officials. The pirate convinced many members of the Institute to join him in his endeavor, and in the dead of night, the main building of the institute began to move on its own, going towards the sea and sailing away on its own to a distant land, away from Helorus and its elders. Dedalos had succeeded in stealing an entire college from the city state.
The institute then settled on a faraway island, and eventually grew into a city state, now known as Dedalos. To maintain order and protect the advancement of the sciences, the most influential members of the city gathered 3 years later, joining forces and forming the “Council for Ethics and Law”, or CEL.
=== 430 H.E - Dedalos is captured by the King of Minos ===
Qrwqgqre, the King of Minos, captures Dedalos and his son, Icarus, forcing both to creature various weapons and artifacts for the city of Minos. While captured Icarus manages to sneak around the castle and steal the Heaven Walkers from wegqer. Using the Treasure of Eternity, Icarus escapes Minos with his father and goes on to become a great and respectable hero.
=== 10 I.E - The Odessian War and the Fall of Odeos ===
The city-state of Odeos, having become the most powerful and wealthy polis in the isles, begins to have a serious of increasingly arrogant kings, until King Ineus III kidnaps one of the priestesses of Kairos as his bride, enraging the other polis and beginning a great war between Odeos, and the Polis of Athnos, Thrax, and Kallesmos. Although Odeos is initially victorious, even against three other Polis, the city is suddenly hit by a great dark storm that encompasses the entire island, leaving the city in ruins and leading to the appearance of many dangerous creatures.
=== 471-476 I.E - War of the Drown, Pact of the 5 Pirate rulers, and the construction of the Sunken Port ===
After many decades, the great storm that covered Odeos subsided, and on the island lay the ruins of the once great city, and the wreckage of many ships who wandered to close to the great storm. Eventually all these hidden and sunken treasures attracted a variety of pirates, who began to plunder the island and use it as a convenient safe haven from the laws and institutions of the isles.
But, as more and more pirates landed on the island, disputes quickly broke out between them for control and ownership of the treasures, and the island. This was the spark that ignited the “War of the Drown”, a war comprised of several minor conflict that occurred all around the isles during this period, in which pirates frequently fought each other for control of the seas and treasures that were believed to be hidden within the island.
The war eventually ended when an alliance of 4 pirates finally defeated all other major pirates and took the island. The seas of the isles were then divided into 4 regions, with each pirate controlling one region, so as to not get in the way of each other’s business. The island was also deemed as “pirate’s land”, being open for any pirate to board and conduct business. A port was also built by the pirates, being mostly put together using the remains of various boats who crashed on the island, forming the Sunken Port, a safe haven for all pirates, and pirate business.
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