History of the Empire

The Empire has a long story that starts from the creation of the world by the four mystical creatures until the present days, 2000 years later. It can be divided into 11 eras.

## Creation 0-50

In the **year 0**, four creatures decided to create a new world together where they would watch their creations grow and learn on their own. They decide not to give humans powers so that they're all equals. Each creature chose an island from where they could watch their creations grow and move. Back then, there were 4 tribes; the earth tribe, that lived on the Western Island and venerated the mystical tortoise; the water tribe, that lived on the Northern Island and venerated the mystical octopus; the fire tribe, that lived on the Eastern Island and venerated the mystical dragon; and the air tribe, that lived on the Southern Island and venerated the mystical eagle. The humans quickly adapted to their environments and started to build villages.

In the **year 31**, the creatures decide to create a fifth one that would be able to control all four elements. It lives on the island in the middle of the middle sea and the creatures train it and take care of the humans at the same time. For 10 years, peace reins and every living creature lives in harmony with the rest.

After 10 years, in the **year 41**, the fifth creatures starts to get jealous from the treatment the humans receive from the four mystical creatures. It keeps getting stronger day by day and the creatures feel that something is wrong but keep training the fifth nonetheless.

On the **year 46**, the fifth creature starts to attack humans. The four creatures can't stop it because it has become too strong and they can't bring themselves to destroy something that they created, even if it gets violent. On each of their island, they start to teach their bending art to the humans.

## The 100 Years War 50-150

On the **year 50** of this fairly new world, the battle between humans and the fifth creature starts. The four creatures assist the humans as best as they can. Five main fights happen during this time.

### Yama's formation

In the **year 61**, a battle starts to the north of the main island. Due to the fifth creature's earth bending, a chain of mountains is created, Yama. Hundreds of dead are counted on the humans' side. They however manage to hurt the fifth creature's right foot.

### Hageshi Fuyu's cold weather

In the **year 93**, a battle starts and lasts for about two years. The fifth creature wins and forces the humans to retreat by blowing cold hair with its air bending. It's the cause of the cold weather in the second main island. Hundreds of dead on the humans' side.

### Original artifacts

After the defeat in 94, humans, with the help of the four creatures, decide to create artifacts that would be able to enhance their bending abilities. They're completed in the **year 110** and only a few hundreds are made out of a rare material found in the mountains.

### Desert's creation

In the **year 122**, the fifth creature launches a new attack. The humans manage to fight back thanks to the artifacts they created. However, the fifth creature, not letting them get the upper hand, attacks with its fire bending and burns the ground of the west part of the main land. Along with hundreds of death, it results in the creation of the desert of the death. The fifth creature ends up badly hurt after the end of the battle.

### Lakes of the moon's creation

In the **year 143**, a battle takes place just above the previous one. Just like this one, the fifth creature finds itself cornered against the artifacts that the humans enhanced since last time. In order to avoid defeat, the fifth creature water bends the water running in the soil and creates three lakes, known nowadays as the lakes of the moon, and drowns hundreds of humans.

### Last battle

In the **year 147**, the four mystical creatures finally agree that the only way to stop the fifth is to seal it away. After two years of preparation, in the **year 149**, they manage to seal it in the island in the middle of the middle sea.

This marks the end of the Hundred Years War.

## Recovering Time 150-313

After such a long period of conflicts, the whole world needs time to rebuild and restart everything.

From **150** to **170**, humans help each other out to repair destroyed villages.

In the **year 173**, after making sure that the humans are safe, the mystical creatures decide to take shelter each on their own island. They decide to watch from afar and to only intervene if the human race is in danger.

In the **year 200**, a prophecy is declared on the Southern Island.

In the **year 214**, the air temple is built in the middle of the mountains of the Southern Island.

Between the **years 231 and 244**, a deadly virus is raging on the Northern Island. The mystical octopus ends up offering clean water to help the tribe. In the **year 244**, to thank the octopus for its clemency, the water tribe decides to build a temple in honor of the creature.

In the **year 257**, the earth tribe build the earth temple in the middle of the forest of the Western Island to celebrate the mystical tortoise.

In the **year 276**, the fire tribe decides to build a temple for the mystical dragon on the Eastern Island.

In the **year 293**, a group from the water tribe decides to leave the Northern Island to settle on the main island. They kind of reject the adoration of the octopus.

Same thing happens in the **year 308**. A few people from the Earth Tribe decide to leave the Western Island to discover more of the world and get away from the mystical tortoise.

## Construction of the first cities 313-538

In the **year 335**, after travelling for a few decades, people from the Western Island decide to settle to the south of the main island. They start to build what will later become the city of Saku Haru. In **361**, they build a war museum in order to always remember the plague of the war.

In the **year 423**, the people from the Northern Island decide to settle to the north of the desert where they find water underneath the ground that they can use thanks to their bending powers. They start to build what will become the city of Atsui Natsu. In the **year 430**, a violent sand storm hit the city. After this, villagers decide to build a wall all around the city. It's finished in the **year 437**.

## Atsui Natsu Kingdom 538-1142

### Hi family reign

After the city of Atsui Natsu has been thriving for decades, the Hi family arrives to the power. The first king of Atsui Natsu is a good sovereign. His reign lasts from the **year 538** to the **year 568**.

The first king's first son become the second king after his father's death in **568**.

In **571**, the second king's nephew kills his uncle, his aunt and the two heirs to the throne. He then becomes the third king of Atsui Natsu. One year only after his coronation, he orders the construction of gigantic pyramids in the desert. The third king was a really cruel man, arrogant and full of ambition.

In the **year 603**, the third king's first son becomes the fourth king after his father's death.

In the **year 662**, the fourth king dies and leaves the crown to his first son. The fifth king, before becoming king, had a child with a mistress. This illegitimate child grows up in shame and without any fatherly love. In the **year 668**, he murders his half-sister and brothers, the blood-heirs to the throne, his father and the fifth queen and becomes the sixth king. The only survivor of this massacre was the niece of the sixth king, who was 1 year old at the time.

In the **year 694**, the sixth king's niece kills him along with his wife and son and she becomes the seventh queen of Atsui Natsu. She also kills her first husband in **700** because he tried to get his hands on the throne. The seventh queen was known to be extremely powerful and strong. She left a strong print on the city and its culture.

In **718**, the pyramids were finally finished and inaugured by the seventh queen.

When the seventh queen dies in **787**, her first son inherits the throne and become the ninth king.

In the **year 793**, the ninth king dies and the only available heir is the first son of the ninth king's brother. He becomes the tenth king.

In the **year 850**, the tenth king dies and his first son becomes the eleventh king. In **857**, the eleventh king's first wife dies of illness while pregnant. The king is absolutely devastated. Just two years later, in **859**, he gets remarried because he has no choice but to have an heir to the throne. He doesn't care about his second wife or his son and still mourns his first wife's death.

In the **year 879**, the eleventh king is killed by his own son who becomes the twelfth king.

In **898**, the twelfth king's daughter becomes the twelfth queen after her father's death. Two years later, she gives birth to twin boys. The public only knows about one. Even the queen's family doesn't know about the twins because her two brothers are upset she got the throne instead of them.

In **913**, the queen's nephew kills her, the king and one of his cousins, not knowing about the younger twin. He becomes the fourteenth king.

In the **year 932**, the second twin comes back and kill the fourteenth king, therefore becoming the fifteenth king.

In **956**, when the fifteenth king dies, his son gets access to the throne and becomes the sixteenth king.

In **979**, the sixteenth king dies and his only daughter becomes the fifteenth queen.

In **988**, the fifteenth queen dies of illness and her first son, only aged twelve at the time, becomes the eighteenth king of Atsui Natsu.

In the **year 1055**, the eighteenth king dies and his first son becomes his successor, the nineteenth king.

In the **year 1073**, the nineteenth king's son becomes the twentieth king after his father's death.

In **1096**, the twentieth king's 1st daughter becomes the nineteenth queen after her father's death.

### First fruits of the war

Between the **years 1102 and 1112**, a bunch of non-benders in Saku Haru start a revolution. Despise the beginning being relatively pacific, the governor reaction is violent and leads to the group fleeing the city and creating a village just next to the lake above the city.

When in **1120** the nineteenth queen dies, her first son becomes the twenty-second king. However, contrary to the tradition to choose a bride among the richest young ladies in Atsui Natsu, he kidnapped the second daughter of the governor of Saku Haru, who was already promised to another man. This leads to tensions between the two cities and eventually to a war.

### War between Saku Haru and Atsui Natsu 1121-1141

In **1121**, a war between the two cities begins.

After a few years of battle, in **1138**, the creatures decide to create a swamp where the battles would take place, this preventing the fights.

The war finally ends 3 years later when in **1141** a coup d'état takes place in Atsui Natsu, ending the Hi family reign after more than six hundred years. After the war is over, a lot of people leave the cities to live a more tranquil life.

## Second 'industrialisation' 1142-1257

In **1151**, people from the Eastern Island leave, pushed by the mystical dragon, and start building the city later known as Mahō No Aki. In the **year 1157**, they start building mines around the city to provide for materials.

In the **year 1172**, a library is built in Fubuki. A little after that, in **1194**, people leave the Southern Island to go build a new city, called Hageshi Fuyu, on the main land.

The creatures agree that something should link all the groups of humans living all around the world and send them visions to go build a city that would be a free land and that would rule over the rest of the cities and villages. That's how in **1212**, the construction of the capital city, Shuto, starts on the island in the middle of the middle sea.

## Peaceful times 1257-1419

During this time, the construction of the cities get completed and people start to move all around the world and settle away from they were born. Knowledge is being shared and people learn now customs and traditions.

## Corruption of Saku Haru 1419-1480

In the **year 1426**, a factory is built just above Saku Haru. The main goal is to go even further in the industrialisation of the city to catch up with the more recent ones like Hageshi Fuyu and Mahō No Aki. When the construction is over, a lot of people come to work there and the influence of the CEO is growing more and more powerful by the day. In **1437**, he becomes the governor of the city.

In **1443**, the governor decides to build a tower in the center of the city. In appearance it's just a random tower but in fact, it's a watch tower that is used to watch over the inhabitants of the city and control every single one of their movements.

In **1461**, the documents in the War museum are being modified. The Hundred Years War is 'erased' and the official version is that a war broke out between benders, water benders and air benders against fire benders and earth benders. The goal is to erase the existence of the fifth creature.

## The century of discoveries 1480-1583

During this era, villages are being built all over the Empire. But it's also the moment where a movement of mass control starts.

In the **year 1488**, Scylla and Charybdis are built to connect the two main islands.

In **1495**, the Thunder Temple is built in the middle of the Thunder Prairie. Even though Kaminari Ōkusabara is a deserted place that travellers avoid due to the bad weather, a temple is built there in order to hide whenever it's necessary.

In **1507**, another temple is built, this time in the middle of the biggest lake, for the same reasons.

In the **year 1526**, the Empire creates a law prohibiting the possession of original artifacts. They are for the most confiscated and the rest is hidden by the people inside the temples.

In **1533**, a few families that refused to obey orders from the Emperor are murdered in secret. Around the same time, people notice the apparition of ghosts and spirits. It causes them to leave the Thunder Temple, the Full Moon Temple and the pyramids.

In **1568**, a group of special forces is created to protect the Imperial family. It's made out of the strongest warriors of the Empire.

In **1572**, a new town is created. It's called Kōryū No Machi and it's a merchant town located on both shores of the river Kyūryū. The town was built to control who could cross the river.

## Peaceful times 1583-1902

During this time, people start to forget about the four mystical creatures, especially in the cities. They also get used to all the new rules and laws dictated by the Emperor and almost every form of rebellion is crushed.

## Climatic disruptions 1902-2000

In this century, a lot of climatic abnormalities are noticed. The temperatures around Hageshi Fuyu drastically dropped.

In **1937**, the main volcano of the Eastern Island erupts and Kogeta, along as the rest of the island, is destroyed. People flee and split. Most of them start living in the mountains or in Mahō No Aki.

In **1994**, the city of Mahō No Aki decides to expand the mines as the city is growing. Due to this, some villages, like Yama No Mura, are forced to evacuate.

In the **year 1995**, Atsui Natsu faces the strongest sand storm ever registered. Thanks to the senses of sand benders and earth benders, most of the citizens were able to evacuate. They settled between the lakes and created the city of Atarashi Natsu.