History of Alahana

During the First Age and Second Age Alahana was occupied by the Human High Kingdom, the Elven realms of the Sea Elves and for a small part the realms of the Moon Elves,the Sun Elves and the Wood Elves. Other than that there were also Dwarven factions present in the Iron Mountains with the dwarven holds of *Gabil'irkaul* (The Great Halls) and *Dor-Mar (The Iron Mountain).*

With the end of the Second Age and the beginning of the Third Age these ancient kingdoms vanished. The Dwarves went into isolation never to be heard from ever again, the Sun - and Moon Elves went extinct, the Sea Elves went to their ancient capital on the island of Drigean and the Wood Elves retreated into their homeland of Calen-Taur. When these civilizations vanished they made way for migrating human tribes to settle the lands that created the first civilizations of the third age.

### Dark Era Civilizations (3,000 BC - 1,450 BC)

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The Dark Era is characterized by its bronze age civilizations which developed important commercial and political centers in Alahana. Unfortunately both civilizations fell to invasions of neighboring warlike societies.

The Thayt Civilization, who was famous for its bronze works and the establishment of trade and being the first human civilization to form since the humans became a nomadic culture after the decline after the second era. They also reintroduced a class system where the lower classes provided for food, tools, et cetera while the upper class would practice leadership activities to expand their influence. They would fall against the Mallor Tribes who raided their lands.

The fall of one civilization made room for another one, the Gumma civilization. Their development of a monarchist power structure ushered the region in an age of prosperity. The civilization didn't stand for very long as they were commercial minded people that didn't bother with acts of war so there was no standing army. The neighboring Mayer Civilization that came north from the lands now known as Paxallex and Mialath took the lands without problem since the Gumma's didn't have any standing army, and the Mayer civilization did. But this civilization also fell against an invasion of northern tribes that started to migrate southward raiding and pillaging everything on their path, including the Mayer cities.

### Rise of City States (1,450 BC - 611)

Soon after the collapse of the Mayer Civilization at the hands of the north-men, sea faring people originating from the coast of Ardenia started to colonize and mingle with the local populace. These people were refugees from the expanding Securia Empire that pushed these people away. All cities were destroyed so the people had to build everything up again and with the architectural prowess of these new migrants the new cities were
much more formidable, creating cities such as Adrilla and Antarpia that still stand to this day. Many more cities sprung up and were all controlled by the Deqrasil Dynasty, a dynasty of local rulers. The continuous expansion of the cities lead to trouble when they encountered tribes on the other side of the Nuhlan Isthmus who were untouched by the north-men. Some skirmishes occurred and the tribes united into an alliance called the Telran Confederation. The city states wanted to expand but the confederation didn't want these people near so they declared war upon each other. This war was called the Settler wars.

After the war was won the family members of the Deqrasil dynasty grew further away from each other until each city became an independent city state. Over time each city state developed variations on culture, religion, politics et cetera. The city states avoided contact in each possible way up to a point where there is no diplomatic or economic interaction with each other. The lack of interaction led to a lack of understanding for each other, the leaders of the city states forgot they were related. This led to more isolation of the city states, and due to the lack of proper maps , the borders of the settlements overlapped each others borders, sometimes causing conflict.

The first conflict was the Attbridge - Antarpia war in 54 BCE where the city state of Antarpia declared war upon the city state of Attbridge over a familial dispute but to move its armies to Attbridge they had to go through Adrillan territory who sided with Attbridge. Antarpia, a heavy martialized state and a highly professional army compared to their trade and economy focused counterparts, had no problem defeating the defending armies and taking their cities. With their main competitors out of the way Antarpia could move on to the conquering or vassalizing all city states north of the Nuhlan Isthmus until all were unified under one banner.

South of the Nuhlan isthmus were other weak and divided cities of which Tenasus and Bayline were the strongest and the only ones able to defend the small towns from being decimated by tribes. These small conflicts with independent tribes resulted in an event known as the Telran Crisis. A unified army of the southern cities attacked the tribes of Telra to stop the raids, a war that the southern city states won. Other wars with these tribes would follow in the future but would be swiftly taken down as well.

The southern city states had great ties with Antarpia and saw great gain to unite forces under one banner so they joined them in a marital union. The last city state to remain independent was Bayline, fiercely independent, but very fragile on its own so they too decided it was in their best interest to join Antarpia and so unite all city states under one banner. When the union was in full motion to be properly formed, the Empire of Aramei invaded Bayline, resulting in those lands being occupied by the empire. As Bayline was a close ally of the Antarpian they decided to step in and declare war upon the Arameians resulting in the Antarp - Aramei War.

Not only did the Antarpian had to fight against the Arameians, they also had a new war with the Telran Confederation who saw an oppurtunity to attack the rear of the occupied Antarpians. Antarpia had to fight on two different fronts against two powerfull adversaries but against all odds they prevailed. Antarpia defeated the technological inferior and morale depleted confederacy and decided to deal with them once and for all conquering their entire lands. Meanwhile the war with the Arameians was still going on and was won by a clever alliance with the Souther Beastmasters of Najaia. Antarpia gained the coastal lands of Aramei and the beastmasters gained the large, but empty, desert lands. These wars changed the Antarpian Kingdom into the Antarpian Empire.

### Antarpian Empire (611 - 1214)

With such a title comes a new host of enemies. On their northern border lays another empire who didn't want to be bothered by the Antarpians as they dismissed them as quareling cities and didn't have any strategic value back then. But now they started to realize that this new formed empire could be their new rival. This empire was off course the well cultured and war like Renillen Empire. They attacked and conquered the entire north-east of the Antarpian lands in the First Antarpian-Renillen war.

This rapid rise to power glorified the general that turned into the first emperor: Yaleo Quehin but with his death the empire came into turmoil. The local elite living in Antarpia installed a new emperor Breva Arant much to the disliking of the Military class who wished to see the general Seban Ketar on the throne so they did a coup d'état and removed emperor Breva and installed their general.

This new emperor was an expansionist and wished to see the empire conquer the known world. To start they invaded the Etoran tribes as to gain the Iron Mountain area that would act as natural borders and more easely defendable than the previous lowlands. After that the Antascosian Wars started where the Antarpian empire fought against another culture that looked much like their own. These were settlers that ran away from the squabiling city-states and established colonies around the Green River delta and the area around the Paragon mountains. This kingdom was known as the Kingdom of Cumenia led by King Antascos to which the wars were named. The Cumenians lost both the first and second war and were completely annexed by the Antarpians.

Antarpia is now wished to assimilate all people south of the Iron mountains as they had similar culture, language and religion. The lands lost in the first war against the Renillen empire were very much against their occupiers and requested the Antarpians aid in their revolt. They revolted and the Antarpians aided them in their revolt. The Antarpians saw a lot of initial succes against the Renillens as they were preoccupied in another high intensity war against the island nation of the free cities. The Antarpians teamed up with the free city fleet and defeated the Renillen fleet in the "Battle of Kiryat bay". This cut of the Renillen armies located on the islands and were not able to get back to the mainland to aid in the invasion of their empire severely weakening the Renillen manpower. The Renillen empire was losing ground, not only from losing it to the Antarpians in the South and the Free cities in the East, but internal conflicts caused the empire to fall even quicker. When it finally fell in 814 it was completely absorbed by the Antarpians.

With the Antarpian taking over the former empire became restless. Border regions such as Greradia (modern day Lakaii), Etora (Iron mountain region) and Eoweldia (modern day Nogard) broke off and cities that had a good life under the Renillen empire but saw their standard of life decline a little bit because the focus of the Antarpian empire was to their own homelands rose up against the new empire in the Loxias Rebellion. The rebellion was cut down relatively fast and the borderlands were again incorporated into the empire.

After these campaigns the empire turned their gaze upon their former ally, the free cities, whom help the Antarpians defeat the Renillians. They demanded a more favorable trade deal with them but the free cities refused. The Antarpians went to war, a war that the free cities anticipated. They were no warriors but they were very skilled sailors and experts in naval combat thus they stopped every attempt of the Antarpians to land on the shores on the islands. But everyone has their price and so did the admiral of the fleet protecting the northern islands. He was bribed and joined the Antarpians. The northern islands were conquered and thus the Antarpians surrounded the other islands. The free city navy was not able to stop them and surrendered. They became vassal states under the empire.

All territories under the empire became very developed and cultured, unlike the barbarian lands and exotic kingdoms that lay just across the empire's borders. The lands belonging to the empire now were known as the heartland of the Antarpian empire, the developed part with similar culture, religion and language. The heartland became rich and prosporous as the empire experienced continious expansion, conquering lands
from East Tarus to the Fudinn sea, the central Tarusian steppes, the desert and savannah kingdoms of western Ozuin and the lands of the west Ozuin gulf stopping only at the slopes of the Moonlight mountains, Titanic Tops and the Pericos mountains. This expansion spree continued for almost 200 years but when the Antarpians tried to cross these mountains, that marked their territory, into the territory of powerfull empires
and dynasties, they met their equals.

In the lands of Western Tarus there was a newly formed empire: the Qinrao Empire. An empire that recently absorbed three other major empires (Lingxin, Zhaozhou and the Javger Dynasty) to unite into one entity. It was this empire that started the downfall of the Antarpian Empire. The resulting war between the Antarpian Empire and the Qinrao empire would be called the War of the White Rose and lasted nearly a century. This war is remembered as one of the bloodiest wars of classical history as, according to ancient written sources, had a death toll of over 15 million. After a major defeat of the Antarpians the Qinraons could just walk in and raid and pillage everything in their path. They came as far as the Southern Iron Mountains and the Kendarom mountains

The war This war weakened the Antarpian Empire to the point where it could not hold on to its far away lands and thus they all declared independence from the empire all while rebel groups tried to overthrow the current emperor, this was known as the Antarpian Civil War. And as all empire's do, so did the Antarpian empire, it fell. The civil war ultimately ended with the dissolution of the empire into 48 new states.

### Alahanese Unification (1214 - 1488)

Many of these new found states were the city states of old. These were prosporous lands as they were the regions surrounding the capital of the Antarpian empire thus also enjoying in their wealth. This prosperity made them a target for larger states such as Asana and Renillia that were slowly expanding their borders and influence. While this threat was sure to arive it was still a long way from home and not an immediate threat, like the threat coming from across the reef sea. Since the influence of the empire has faded in the south the new kingdoms there were able to finally express their new religion that had been suppressed by the empire ever since its creation, Edvantism. These Edvantist states that crossed the sea in search for new ripe lands to conquer arrived on the islands in the Cerullean Sea. Trading posts were established on these islands and this brought another threat with it. These trading posts would not only become the home of the Edvantist traders and warriors, but also raiders and pirates. These would conduct raids on coastal villages on the mainland.

These new threats would result in an alliance between three states. These states were the city states of Adrilla, Attbridge and Lipeta who together formed the Union of Three States. This union had the ambition to unite all lands south of the Iron mountains under one banner. They launched war after war to conquer the
smaller city states, unleashing the Alahanese Unification War. This war was between the unionists and a coalition lead by the Kingdom of Telra and Kasilof and reinforced by the Kingdom of Bayline, the Grand Duchy of Riverfield and the Duchy of Estis. The unification war was won by the unionists and they created a new kingdom: **The Kingdom of Alahana**

### Late sacred era and early noble era (1488 - 1599)

With the unification, Alahana enjoyed a golden age in terms of economy but the manpower was depleted severely. This left some areas exposed for invasions and this is exactly what happened. The Kingdom of Karkan, a state in the north-east of Alahana located on the eastern slopes of the Iron mountains and the Kendarom mountains. Karkan wins this war but when Alahana forged an alliance with the Kingdom of Paxallex and when their manpower had recovered they started a new war conquering everything up to the Emaran river which still marks the border between Alahana and Paxallex to this day.

This conquest changed the momentum for Alahana and they started conquering other lands. They conquered the Cerullean islands from the Emirate of Ustikar in the Cerullean War and Aquila island from the Kingdom of Vendassa in the Aquilain War in the same year. They also vassalized and later incorporated the Highbank Merchant States effectively conquering the Highbank island and its surrounding islands and the Asdurn islands. But when the king of Kingdom of Tirath, a kingdom to the north of Alahana, died he left two daughters. One was married to a prince of Alahana and the other was married to a prince of Greradia, this lead to a war of succession between these two kingdoms called the Tirath Succession War and resulted in the separation of the kingdom in the north- and south Tirath. Both kingdoms build forts in the mountain passes to block the enemies movement and like this the war came to a stalemate. A peace treaty was signed where the two would split up and ultimately the south was incorporated into Alahana and the north into Greradia.

Only a few years later the First Crusade would launch. These crusades were wars to conquer former Famusm territories from Edvantist nations. The first crusade was meant to conquer the island of Marinia, a former Famust territory and a vassal of the kingdom of Bayline, as this Bayline is now incorporated into Alahana this means that Alahana now holds the right of conquest for this region. Even though Alahana was not considered a famust country it had many followers and the religion was gaining a lot of followers fast and this move was meant to persuade the people of Alahana to convert the country which it did one hundred years later. This crusade was against the Emirate of Ustikar, the same state that held the Cerullean islands that were conquered by Alahana only eleven years prior. As the emirate was a rather small state so not a lot of nations send troops and the war was still won by Alahana, effectively gaining the island of Marinia. Alahana had now reached the borders that they would have up to this day.

Early in the Noble Era Alahana came into contact with the Imperium when they conquered a small kingdom on the Alahanese border: the Kingdom of Morehan. But the independent kingdoms of eastern Tarus, now known as the eastern kingdoms, were not yet united in their fight against the imperials thus the small kingdom stood on its own against the foreign invasion. But not much later the imperium strikes again and this time by attempting to conquer the Kingdom of Etora but Etora was allied with Greradia and they were able to pull some strings to make other kingdoms consider the imperium a great threat uniting them against this common cause. This resulted in the First Imperial War where a coalition of kingdoms showed the rising Imperium that they would not be easily conquered even though they lost the war.

### Colonial Period and General Unrest (1599 - 1899)

At the end of the 16th century many countries started to colonize the new world continents. The Kingdom of Kedossia was the first with the colony on the continent of Aenverna and the Asanan Empire with a colony on the continent of Inoras. Alahana joined in as third colonizer with their colony of Carna in modern day Stedo. Alahana was quick to control large portions of Eastern Inoras mainly the lands around the Atheke Sea by making deals with the native rulers making them protectorate lands of Alahana. But it soon became clear to the natives that the colonisers were there to stay much to the disliking of the natives. They tried to expell the colonisers from their trading posts peacefully but they did not want to go. This happened all over Aenvarna and Inoras but the resources that could be extracted were to valuable to just give up so they would stay and would enforce this by sending in troops. The natives grew more rebellious and started a revolt against their overlords but due to their inferior technology failed and the lands were subsequently conquered.

Back in Alahana, due to the growing number of followers that adhered to the Famusm religion instead of their ancient religion of Phoenicis, the question arose wether or not Alahana should become an official famusm nation. In fact most commoners adhered to the Famusm religion while the nobility stayed with their ancient Phoenicis religion. But when King Glaniel II came to power in Alahana, a prince that followed the Famusm relgion, rebellion broke out. Most nobles would not support a monarch that not adhered to their ancient religion but times had changed and most nobles only openly adhered to the Phoenicis religion to save face while in reality they were believers of the Famusm religion. The war was short as King Glaniel received support from other Famusm nations crushing their rebellion. This was did not make Alahana an official Famusm country though but rather would become a country that had dual state religion of both Famusm and Phoenicis and was also one of the first nations to enforce the freedom of religion.

Now that Famusm had a lot of influence over Alahana they too were influenced by the decisions of the most holy. When the darker forms of Magic were on the rise it was decided to outlaw all forms of dark magic within the borders of famusm nations. This started a witch hunt that cracked down on the forms of magic that were considered as a dark form of magic, this was called the Mages War. The problem was that lines between natural and dark magic was vague for non-magic users. Basicly a mage that uses his own life force wields natural magic but those who use the life force of other living beings are considered wielders of dark magic. This form of magic is the most powerful because they are not weakened by the lack of their own life force as they do not use their own.

Meanwhile the imperial armies marched upon the eastern kingdoms once again. This time they invaded the Kingdom of Nogard thus a new coalition was formed to unite the eastern kingdoms once again and stop the imperial expansion into eastern Tarus. The coalition consisted out of Nogard, the Asanan Empire, Alahana, Republic of Paxallex, Kingdom of Greradia, Kingdom of Kaeidon, Kingdom of Osburn, Republic of Nohatlan and the Kingdom of Mialath. While the coalition were organizing a defensive strategy and gathering their armies, the imperial forces could push trhough the weak defensive lines and conquer a lot of territory. They were able to almost completely conquering Nogard until they encountered a mixed army of Kaeidoan, Osburnean and Alahanese troops at the Battle of Maldar which was a crushing defeat for the imperials. With the main bulk of imperial forces gone the coalition could start a reconquest and finally resulted in a victory for the coalition nations. Alahana only gained the imperial colony of Lamaii Island off the coast of the continent of Lyra. This was the first major defeat for the imperium marking the end of the imperial attempts to expand into the eastern kingdoms.

Back in the colonial lands of Aenverna and Inoras the Kedossians were expanding the colonies at an alarming rate at the expense of the natives which lead to the Inoras Refugee Crisis. The newcomers were allowed to settle in the northern lands of colonial Inoras under control of Alahana in the east and Asana in the west. But the locals of those lands did not appreciate the move of these peoples and fought them on a daily basis to scare them of but this did not work and the newcomers started to arm themselves and kill the locals. The colonial governments reacted by sending a few regiments to the region to crack down on the upcoming rebellion but it was too late, the villages and towns were in ruins. The colonial regiments were ordered to ensure that the region became peacefull again by restricting the use of weapons, capturing people who disturb the peace and killing those who resist. A few years later the Kedossians came to the Alahanese colonial lands and started setteling in their territory. War broke out between Alahana and Kedossia in the War of New Lands which was won by Kedossia. The colonial lands north of the Lavelta Mountains and west of the Rawanian Desert where lost to Kedossia.

With the end of the latest imperial war and a steady presence in colonial lands, a new age of prosperity began. People started to explore the unknown continents, trade with locals, gather resources and study the foreign life. This increased interaction with foreign lands that have exotic biology present didn't mix well with the Tarusians. Rats that were present on the ships that went to these lands got infected and upon returining to the homeport they infected the other rats. This plague was known as the Rat Plague and became the deadliest disease on Eurion. It started in the slums of cities where poor people sometimes ate pest animals such as rats. When the victim is infected they started to show symptoms of the disease almost instantly. The disease also leads to a significant decrease in cognitive ability making them very aggressive. Those people that showed clear signs of infection would be killed by cleansers and their bodies would be burned. Other species like rodents such as rats would start following a different behavior pattern. They would hunt prey in large groups, often in packs of hundreds of rats. Humans were also attacked by these groups and eaten alive. Cleansers would also hunt these packs and kill them.

1784 War of new allies

1885 Third Imperial War

### Civil war and democracy (1899 - 1912)

1899 Alahanese Civil War

1903 Loss of Marinia

### Great Wars Period (1912 - 1983)

1912 - 1918 First Eurion War

1937 Iron Rebellion

1974 - 1983 Second Eurion War

### Post-War and Globalism (1983 - Present)

1983 Formation of Tarusian union

1987 formation of world council

1995 War of the Lion

2000 Formation of Eurion Alliance

2008 Marinia Conflict

2014 Third Dindar Crisis

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