Fifth Age

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**5A10**: The last Crusade on the Adamantium ends in retreat for Maudet.

* Lontan the Great is born as the third son of a Seaworth merchant.
* The Grey Order signs treaties with the various Drahanim jarls, and builds a fortress in Dersoden, as well as several small outposts to watch for signs of fiends.

**5A12**: The Red Crusades come to an end with the awakening of the Archfiend Xurteus and the outbreak of the Fourth Scourge. Fiends appear in great numbers in the southeast and southwest of the continent.

* The country of Lysadore is overrun. The Grey Order arrives to evacuate Venadrad but the royal family refuses to leave. The Lysadoren Royal Guard rebel and kill King Elaunzio before they are stopped by the Rangers. It is publicly reported that he was killed by the fiendish horde.
* The Grey Order evacuates the surviving royals and court members via Wyverns. As they retreat they are attacked by the Archfiend and the surviving royals are killed along with most of the Rangers.
* Using improvised Renwyls supported by magic and drawn by Wyverns, the Rangers evacuate a large number of civilians from Gusten to Alepool.
* The fiendish hordes pour into the Freemarks and Ghallen.
* The Scourge rises in Netheren as well, and the capital city of Lougrick comes under siege.
* Maudet and the Adamantium is attacked by fewer numbers and are able to drive the fiendish horde back into the depths of the Underways. Despite their success, Maudet refuses to send any aid to the Freemarks or Netheren.
* The dwarves of Ondrathum assist in lifting the siege of Vol Bethar.

**5A16**: Matron Lutensia II dies. Matron Rosamund, who was personally groomed for the position by Lutensia II, is elected. At nineteen, she is the youngest Matron in history.

**5A20**: Erenod, a Ranger of the Grey, leads an army of Rangers and Netherfolk and breaks the siege of Lougrick.

**5A21**: Fiends all but devastate the Freemarks. Chateau Hainesault becomes Fortress Hainesult, a makeshift Grey Order garrison commanded by Teseya. A refuge known as the Retreat is dug into the mountain. At the most dire point of the Fourth Scourge hundreds of fleeing Blackwall and Umberland residents call the Retreat home.

**5A22**: Erenod gathers Rangers from Maudet and Netheren and marches to Alepool. At Alepool, Erenod organizes an alliance between the leaders of the Freemarks. A united army marches south, led under the banner of the Grey Order.

**5A24**: Lysadore is freed from the fiendish horde during the infamous battle at the city of Ayesmare, where Erenod dies slaying the Archfiend Xurteus. So many fiends are slaughtered in the battle that it is considered certain that they will never return. That the Scourge continues to be felt underground by the dwarves of Ondrathum is largely ignored by most except the Grey Order. Most are eager for the war to end and for regular trade to begin.

* Rogert Valenmont, a young Maudesian captain, is declared a hero by King Azarda Campalla of Lysadore for coming to the rescue of the Lysadoren army during the Battle of Ayesmare. Rogert weds one of Azarda's daughters and the Valenmont family is elevated to the nobility. Upon returning home, the Maudesian emperor is forced to match Azarda's honors by granting Rogert a marquisate.

**5A25**: Many wyverns are killed during the Fourth Scourge. Their numbers devastated, the creatures soon die out.

**5A33**: Lontan Kaulden defeats Baron Kvesgar in the Battle of the Nordish Valley and is named Jarl of Dersoden.

**5A37**: The first king of the Anderan Larkham family, Borden Larkham, is crowned after having claimed to be a descendant of Volantus' son, who was killed in Umberland, and killing the ruling Pardasian king. Being a hero of the recent Scourge, Borden is able to stir nationalistic feelings in the eastern Freemarks against the growing power of Maudet. He proves his military might by winning several major battles against the Maudesians, establishing Anderlay as a new, growing power.

**5A42**: With the crowning of King Lontan in Dersoden, the various warring factions of Drahanim are at last united under a single banner to form Nordain. What had always been considered a land of wild, nomadic barbarians was finally a nation in its own right, though considered primitive and a backwater by most.

**5A71**: Matron Rosamund dies after fifty-five years in power. She leaves a legacy as one of the most compassionate women to ever occupy the post.

* Matron Amara III is elected. The famously fanatical leader is said to enjoy bonfires fueled by burning maleficists. Her reign does not last long.

**5A99**: Queen Madria of Lysadore, is assassinated on a hunt, stabbed in the chest by four blades.

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