Recent History

## The Tiamat Crisis (3,357 D.E)

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The Tiamat Crisis was an unparalleled catastrophe in the story of Orbis. Even more so than the Lich King. The return of the dragon queen was in the making for centuries before it finally happened in 3,357 D.E. And still to this day, nobody knows for absolute certainty who or what managed to achieve this.

Her return caused, literal world shaking earthquakes where many parts of the world shifted and collided with each other. Forever changing the geography. Weather was unpredictable and changed on a whim. Hosts of chromatic dragons emerged from their lairs and were beset on civilization. Cities and armies had to defend against the scaled beasts, however they did not have to do it alone. As so emerged chromatic dragons to enforce the Queen's return, metallics mustered alongside the mortal races to combat their evil kin.

While war against dragons was being fought for survival, a group of powerful mortals took the fight to Tiamat herself. Her form did not come back to this world in full strength and they took this opportunity in her weakened state to have a chance to defeat her. During the conflict, something unexplainable in metaphysical terms happened.

In order to have the best chance in defeating Tiamat, with the help of the Horseman, Strife , a realm with untapped magic sprung into our world, snatched from theirs. Along came that world's gods as well. With the magic from this place, which we call Grymheim, and the help of the Horseman, the mortals that stood up against Tiamat managed to successfully repel and even defeat her.

## The Divergence and Exodus of Dragonborn (3 - 15 PTC)

Once some semblance of society was restored in Magnus Terra, Sanctus leadership was weak and fragile. Its once conquered realms that formed its theocratic republic rose up once again against their long time occupiers. Only this time it was all at once. Sanctus was pushed out of these lands back to their tarnished golden city. During this time, the whole ideology of Sanctus leadership shifted from the Elysium Church to a new found religion. The Creed of Ashes. The once conquered regions of Sanctus fought and drifted to become thier ancenstral nations once more. Before more war broke out for supremacy.

The dragonborn that called Sanctus their home felt betrayed by this. The church had abandoned Bahamut, even after one of his champions had defeated Tiamat. But the church did not see it this way. So they left Sanctus. Tore down their banners and pledged their allegiances elsewhere, becoming nomads. The powerful families of dragonborn formed into clans that travel around the globe in their troops that range from a few hundred to a few thousand at a time.

## The Inquisition of Mages (5 - 25 PTC)

After the world nearly ending, continued investigation on how this could happen, many found evidence and started to blame powerful mages for aiding the devilish creatures for bringing back Tiamat. Eventually this information started to reach the ears of common folk, who rose up with pitchforks and torches against mages. Magical students were drug out into streets, beaten. Sages that seclude themselves in woods, their huts burned. This snowballed into groups of arcane prosecutors raiding chapters that had survived the Tiamat Crisis. And since the city of Paradox was destroyed, the central government of the League of Mages was in disarray at this time and eventually collapsed. There was nothing most could do to stop this witch hunt of scapegoats.

The elders and more experienced of the Arcane Prosecutors knew this was mob mentality. With no real merit to the majority of the raids, and outcasted the aggressors in their order. These outcasts however found other like minded radicals to band together with. Over the coming years, they pledged their allegiances to the new found god simply known as ''The Grey God'' or the ''God of Ash''. This was not the end of the inquisition. But the height of it had past. In many parts of the world, mages are still persecuted, hunted, hated or segregated from the populace. In other parts however, they still welcome and train mages in their arcane pursuits. Most notably, Bordeaux, Korinthia, the Merchant States, Sengoku and especially Ombrellia.