Seventh Age

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**7A05**: After losing the Nordish throne to her cousin Gauren Kaulden, Aelaide Drysdale joins the Grey Order and rises to the rank of Ranger-Commander in Nordain.

* Gauren is considered by many to be a tyrant. Thanes approach Aelaide, asking her to intercede. She accepts and attempts a coup against her cousin using the Rangers of the Grey. After the bloody Battle of Ranger's Peak, Gauren declares himself victorious with Aelaide killed. The Grey Order is expelled from Nordain and Ranger's Peak is abandoned.

**7A23**: The Orcimar are pushed back to Verullus and Ghallen, but are well entrenched. The Battle of Oremenia Bay is the largest naval engagement in history, and results in a stalemate and the destruction of many of the ships on both sides. With both sides exhausted, an impasse begins.

**7A25–85**: The Crusades on the Orcimar are declared, by both the Adamantine Ministry - to retake Verullus and the western city of Ventara - and the Maudesian Ministry - to retake Ghallen.

**7A28**: A dragon cult following the rampage of the Dragon Galurzara devastates the southern Freemarks until the dragon is slain by a group of militia men.

**7A34**: Archon Hanthius is elected directly from the Institute of Magic. He overturns the old rules forbidding mages from taking part in Adamantine politics.

**7A44**: The newly crowned emperor of the Maudesian Empire, Lukas, allows women to become knights after witnessing the death of Ser Flavia, the Knight of Maudet.

**7A52**: The second Orsimer Crusade ends in a disaster, as the Orcimar capture much of Lysadore.

**7A54**: The Orcimar land in Westenia and use it as a launching point for fleets of dreadnoughts.

**7A55**: Raiders from Loweyn unite under the banner of the Jubilosa Armada. Together, their pirate fleets help turn the tide against the Orcimar at sea.

* A third and final Crusade on the Orcimar is called.

**7A56**: The Orcimar, although on the retreat, manage to gain a foothold in the Freemarks by landing near Zaneswick and launching assaults against Alepool and Blackwall. Alepool prevails, but Blackwall falls to the sorceries of the Jatnavha in a daring night-time raid and is occupied for several years.

**7A60**: The Blackwall City Guard is founded after the city is liberated from the occupation of the Orcimar by a Maudesian chevalier by the name of Ser Arnaud Verimilien, who becomes the city's first Viscount.

**7A71**: Eligius Pelleneur I is crowned Emperor of the Maudesian Empire.

**7A78**: The Jubilosa Armada takes Westenia following a massive naval battle with the Orcimar.

**7A82**: The Pardasian family takes over Anderlay from the rival Larkham family. In order to secure their border with Maudet, they approach Eligius Pelleneur I with an offer of marriage. The childless emperor leaves his wife of seventeen years to marry Princess Solara Pardasian.

**7A84**: By the end of the Third Orsimer Crusade, the Orcimar have only one stronghold left on the continent: the city of Kurzog.

* By then, rebuilding all of the destruction caused was considered more important than trying to dislodge the Orcimar from Kurzog once again. A meeting between envoys of all the human lands (except for the Adamantium) and the Orcimar at Loweyn results in the signing of the Loweyn Accord and peace being declared.
* Peace is not established between the Adamantium and the Orcimar, though skirmishes are few while the Orcimar pull back to Sudern and rebuild.

**7A88**: The Ministry names Lontan Kaulden one of the Anointed for spreading Sibyllism to the entire kingdom of Nordain.

**7A97**: As Emperor Eligius I remains childless, he forces his second wife, Solara Pardasian, to join a cloister so he can marry his mistress, Marquise Yvette. Anderlay sends soldiers into Maudet, but only to retrieve the princess; they do not start a war with the empire. Solara later marries a minor Maudesian noble by the name of Gustav Fleurent, and adopts his son as her own. He becomes known as Aurelian Pardasian.

**7A99**: The end of war with the Orcimar and the birth of twin boys, Guillaunt and Euccenio, to Emperor Eligius I of Maudet and his wife Yvette, usher in the new Age.

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