Third Age

The Third Age.

UNSORTED EVENTS

Muertiiv kicks off her vampiric invasion.

A girl named Emile Rasmirn is born in the mercantile city-state of Duernebi, a people who followed the Pantheon devotedly.

Duernebi is infiltrated by vampires, its merchant council infected. The vampires storm the city as it tears itself apart, every living soul either made a vampire, enslaved, or killed. It is the first civilization to fall to the Vampiric menace. As a message to the rest of the world, Emile is maimed and left in the ruins. The Ilythrians find her, but leave her there, terrified to even enter the ruins. Emile swears her life to Karthyss, and will eventually become the Krow.

Humans and others, but especially humans, prove vulnerable to the corruption of Vampires. As the Gods weaken still, the Vampiric horde grows more powerful.

Vampiric Chief Karsken is assassinated by what eye witnesses call a malicious, Voidborn entity resembling a Crow.

The Ilythrians use their magics of persuasion, gifted to them by Yarsenaug, to tame/mind control the Jarnovo Raptors native to Ilythria. The establishment of Ilythrian Mind Magic, or modernly, the Illusion School of Magic, is invented.

The Vampiric Horde establishes their stronghold of Zarakzandur atop the ruins of Duernebi, the site of their first victory.

The Orcs, oncorruptable and pursuing of Justice, are nearly wiped by the Vampires. In the process, the Orcs' indomintable will falters, and many are corrupted by Void Gods, either becoming bestial and serving the Trinity, or grey and serving Muertiiv. The remaining Orcs doubt their methods, creating a schism that will eventually lead to the separation of the Saran Jii orcs.

The Dwarves establish an underground highway between holds, and have an age of prosperity while the surface suffers, and they isolate themselves. They draw ire from the other races, and are viewed as selfish.

The Alliance of Men is defeated at the Batlte of Murroughven Bog, and Ilythrian Emperor Lysenus II is slain. A lack of unity between human forces is blamed for the loss. Things are bleak for the world.

The world is nearly lost, until the Elves rise up. The Elves, stubborn, immutable, unchanging, resist the Vampires perfectly. Having had to fight for the love of their creators who did not care for them for eons, the Elves stood strong. Uniting the rest of the sane world with them, the Elves lead the fight against the Vampires

Dwarven King Thorek Ironhand is killed by Faer Elves as an open insult for Dwarven Selfishness.

Eventually, they are victorious. Outcasts once, the Elves are rewarded and loved at last. Yet, on the precipice of their victory, Uberogg of the Julz bloodline curses the Elves, Tower of Babel style, to be split, to become mutable as the Humans they had envied were. Uberogg wields the power of madness, change, and other void Gods to work the curse. The Elven Royalty sinks on their floating cities, watching the rest of their kind splinter and war immediately against one another, a few surviving on their now-cursed home isles. Their punishment for besting the vampires.

As the Elves scatter, the Faer hero Illysiaen slays Overlord Uberogg in single combat.

The final standout of Vampiric forces are bested at the batlte of Kragmar's Rift by an Ilythrian-led human army led by Emperor Oventi IV. The Ilythrians claim the glory for beating Muertiiv's invasion, even though the Elves actually won it. However, no one has the forces to hit the Vampiric stronghold of Zarakzandur, so instead they build the Bastion to block them in.

The Elves are now the Faesei (wood Elves, Drafae (Dark Elves), Azifae (dune Elves, Sarenfae (Ocean Elves), and the Lost Ones, haunting the ruins of Persilli. The Old Kingdom of the Elves becomes the Isles of Blight, and the Lost Ones are accursed.

The ingenious Ilythrian wizard Ystul the Great creates magical archways in key Ilythrian cities. These magical gates create passage ways through the Aesi Culsn, connecting each arc. These structures are dubbed the Great Ilythrian Roads, and greatly speed travel across the planet between them. The Plaza of Arches in the city of Rythririum, capital of the Empire, contains the entrance for all the roads, with all roads leading to or from the city.

Jenulus' diivne spark begins to fade, but as the center of Ilythrian worship, he remains powerful. Jenulus strikes down his own father, and dooms the Pantheon. He decrees that the Ilythrians will expand, conquer the world, and enforce worship of solely him, so that Jenulus can protect the world against anything like the Pantheon or the Void.

Jenulus is forced into hiding by (SOMETHING), but his empire remembers his command, and begins purging remnants of the Pantheon and its worship, preparing to expand across the world. He leaves Emperor Constus II in charge.