The 12 Eras

The **12 Eras** are 12 different time periods in Havfron that were based on major events at the time. The world is currently in the Torn Era, the 12th Era beginning in 243 ST (current year.)

## The First Era

The first of the 12 Eras is the First Era, beginning in 1 ST when the first kingdom, The Arboran Dynasty, was founded. The Arborans ruled for 88 years in 89 ST the current king, **Cassius Arboran VI**, was assassinated and replaced with **Clement Zephyr**.

The **First Era** was a rather scientific one with the invention of string, swords, the wheel, spools, clay pottery, etc. The largest city during the First Era was **Sesol** (later renamed Clementina), the Arboran capital that spanned about half a square mile. It had a carpenter's building, a makeshift prison, a small 14 feet tall watchtower built of cobblestone, and long winding paths of dirt and gravel. At the time, the capitol building rest upon a small hill overlooking Sesol later named **Sesol Hill** (renamed to High Hill then Clementina's Hill) where a large cabin sat. The Arboran Dynasty had three "vassals" which were the clans of Nostos, Thessaloniki, and Eleftheria. Nostos was a high ranking governmental clan that ruled over the judicial system of **Sesol,** named the Branch of Nostos, while the Thessaloniki commanded the military. The Eleftheria managed the trade and economics of the dynasty, all working in unison to keep Sesol and the Arboran Dynasty afloat.

When the invading Charmolypi men of Sesol's neighboring villages ransacked the city the king, Cassius Arboran, ordered the Thessaloniki to send all of their women and children as barriers for the soldiers and nobles of the city. The Thessaloniki refused, since the Charmolypi had taken the current leader of the military clan as ransom for an alliance. They accepted this and stayed loyal to their new friends, charging **Sesol Hill** and destroying **Cassius' Watchtower** in the process. The Thessaloniki and Zephyr-Charmoly heirs married eventually creating the modern Zhepyr family name due to a number of mistranslations from the **Old Common Tongue.**

## The Sleeping Era

The Sleeping Era, also referred to as the Golden Era, was an Era mainly of peace after the establishment of the **Great Kingdom of Zephyr-Charmoly** (89 ST) where **Clement Zephyr-Charmoly** (also just known as Clement Zephyr) claimed to have received a vision from Solon, the personification of the Sun. Clement declared himself the **Great God** under Solon, the chief God, and claimed to be a God of Wisdom that had equal power to Solon. It ended in 112 ST.

As architecture and infrastructure advanced **Clement Zephyr** announced he would be going on a *Great Journey* with 500 farmers, 500 soldiers, and 500 believers to create a stone road that would eventually lead to the Great God's Peak, an alleged mountain Clement stressed was much taller than **Sesol Hill**. As he began his journey many of the people died leaving only 44 farmers, 2 soldiers, and no believers. Clement eventually reached a peak he claimed **Solon** had showed him, naming it **Soleil Peak** (meaning Peak of Sun's Kiss) and declared that his road become a hub for trade where people could stop along the way on the 12 towns Clement had been able to create on the way. The road was named **Clement's Road** after himself. **Clement Zephyr** eventually married **Melinoe Epiales**, daughter of Ter Epiales, the King of the small Epiales City. Clement annexed the city with permission from his newlywed wife and now queen, who bore him a daughter just 8 months after their marriage, raising suspicions amongst the people of Sesol - for Clement himself had claimed Solon declared premarital procreation must result in the killing of the child. Clement claimed his daughter was early (born in 90 ST) and blessed by Solon himself, naming her Clementine - meaning "Clement's Eighth" in the **Old Common Tongue**. Clement died of poisoning in 107 ST where his daughter, Clementine, took over as Queen. She renamed **Sesol Hill** to Clementina's Hill first, then named Sesol itself Clementina. Celementine was incredibly narcissistic and despised by her people, naming most buildings after her or her lineage in some way. She was killed by a mob during a public address in 112 ST, bringing the end to the era as the Zephyr-Charmoly line was predicted to soon die off due to the shame and hate for the line with nobody wanting to marry them, paving the way for new powers of the world to show their might.

It is worth nothing the Aesgardiun League both rose and fell in this area, with 44 new Kingdoms being created.

## The Rising Era

The Rising Era is the shortest of the 12 Eras, lasting only a year, but is arguably one of the most important Eras.

As Clemmens Zephyr and Clement Zephyr II, the two twins of Clementine Zephyr, began to argue over the throne in Clementina, more kingdoms began to rise. House Manhauser had become the Kingdom of Manhauser and was one of the strongest powers, but was settled too north to matter right now, while the south began to change as the mega alliance of the Aesgardiun league broke.

The destruction of the League gave the south much more complexity as all suffered from instability. One kingdom rose above the others though, the Kingdom of Eterea. Eterea formed the largest city to date, which was Culac, being three times as large as Clementina. The Kingdom of Eterea had 11 vassals, being:

1. **Idyll** - A famous house known for their paintings of religious figures, specifically Eteranos - the Dew God, who's name the Kingdom of Eterea bears.
2. **Aggeron** - A house of construction who created the Culac aqueduct
3. **Precipta** - The highest ranking house that was apart of the Kingdom's **Advisory Board**, a list of houses that advised the king.
4. **Scritor** - A relatively quiet and unimportant house that served useful for their documentation of the Era.
5. **Vis** - The house that led the military, believed to even have Thessaloniki blood.
6. **Xisphia** - The house famous for fishermen and food supply of the kingdom.
7. **Manusmann** - A farming house that's said to have northern blood, their name meaning "Men of Mann" (Mann being the Family that House Manhauser was once called)
8. **Contineo** - Architects who eventually married into the Aggeron house
9. **Icodom** - The house that led the military funding, they were considered to be "blood brothers" with House Vis
10. **Mulier** - A matrilineal house with mostly daughters that took care of children and formed Havfron's first daycares
11. **Restio** - The closest with the head house, they were also **Advisory Board** members.

The head house of Eterea was **House Eloquens**, meaning Elegant, who could prove their lineage to the **Charmoly** line and were a rival house to **House Zephyr**. In the western frontier of Hoscher, a few miles north of Culac, a new nation fueled with savagery and a desire for blood rose. **Cartouche**. Cartouche never wanted to be a house nor a kingdom and deemed themself the "**Cartouche Tribe of the River Ahkertt, the God named Cart, and Blood**." They praised the Chief God who they called, "the God named Cart," with an emphasis on the fact he was named Cart, and was not always Cart. the Cartouche Tribe is named after him.