Second Age

The **Second Age** was one of many ancient ages that existed in the early history of the planet Jerde.

## History

The peoples of Jerde were mastering iron, naval exploration, and the forge when their world was invaded by various alien invaders: the Ente-Ruri, the Anevondir, and the two Celestial factions.

## Nations of the world

* Rannar
	+ A thriving collection of kingdoms at the far north.
	+ Some of its peoples went westwards to found Freyrgard, while others went through the northern pole to become the ancestors of the Slavonians.
* Marnos
	+ Its people were the first to domesticate foxes.
* Rai
	+ A thriving civilisation at the desert lands north of Assuwas. After the death of its emperor at the hands of the aliens, it was split between its two princes.
* Assuwas
	+ Walkorudur
	+ New Assuwas
* Aute
* Pelgir kingdoms
	+ A realm of fair-skinned peoples to the south.
* Zarandu
	+ A realm of tan-skinned peoples in the east.
	+ While their kingdom burned in a civil war, some of its nobles and their followers sailed westwards. Some of these people intermarried with a local, and founded the kingdom of Assuwas.
* Oruz
	+ The first and earliest sophisticated Slavic civilisation on Jerde.
	+ Located at southwest Darros, this nation venerated monoliths and stone circles. They became the ancestors of the Kingdom of Rukania.

## Second Age timeline

* At the start of this empire's era, the Celestials and the first mortal king of their civilisation, Druvara, returned to their home dimension from Novantir (then known as Sadřavan); they are venerated as gods. Before then, they shielded Novantir's star system with a magical storm to prevent their Eimares masters and the Anevondir from finding the system and killing its people.
* Some Rannariskar migrate west, founding Freyrgard; other cross the north pole into Darros.
* King Minkumoz rebels against Emperor Plagoressam of the Anevondir Empire. After a series of victories, he was drunk, and he stumbled into an escape pod that crashlanded on Jerde, where he was imprisoned in Assuwas for stealing wine.
* The Ente-ruri invade Assuwas and wreak havoc, devouring as many people as they could find. Assuwas collapses into chaos, and Rai (its northern neighbour) splits into two.
* The Star of Erzesas crashlands in the Paharal Jungle. Its crew taken in hundreds of refugees, and they reunite the fractured colonies in the Paharal Jungle into the federation of New Assuwas.
* An expedition finds King Minkumoz as a prisoner in the city of Walkorudur and rescues him.
* The Star of Erzesas travels eastward to the sea, where Ronokoz brings the Celestial to his ship from an island. There, the Celestial restores the prisoners extracted from the Ente-ruri.
* The forty tribal chiefs of the Paharal Jungle form their own kingdom, Prumthesan. Aided by Bariwas, they seize control of the northwestern lands of New Assuwas and force the rulers of New Assuwas to return the lands and people enslaved by the Assuwelli. Both countries later establish diplomatic relations with each other.
* While evacuating people out of the town of Kūrortoraz, Aumoriksas is ambushed by Celestials. More Celestials attack the Star of Erzesas.
* After a ceremony at a shrine to Tarhunz to bless the voyage to Aute, Ronokoz reveals that he was one of the Nagiruge all along.
* The Star of Erzesas teleports to the northwestern corner of the Galaxy, far away from the Anevondir Kinslaying. The thousands of humans within its fleet found the Londurilli civilisation: using technology from the Anevondir aliens, they became into the first human civilisation in space. As much of the northwest was uninhabited, they quickly dominated the northwestern section of the Galaxy within 760 years.
* The fractured Anevondir were defeated by the Nabenans, who after suffered from a civil war.
* Afterwards, the forces of Sadřavan spread throughout the Galaxy, to the extent that its stability made some historians classify it as the Second Galactic Empire instead of the volatile Nabenan civilisation.
* Oruz, the first Slavic kingdom, was founded at southwestern Darros. Its people build many stone circles in honour of their gods.

* War of the Three Princes (first)
* Magahinkan Plague (second)
* Darkening of Parselia (third) - the destruction of the nation of Parselia by hundreds of solar storms and supernovas.
* Parhelia Kinslaying (fifth)
* The Great Nets (eighth) - angered by the Sky-tyrants' genocide of their own people, slave rebellions broke out all over the civilisation. It led to the defeat of the Sky-tyrants and the abolition of slavery for thousands of years.

## See also

* Celestial Age
* First Age
* Eighth Age
* Sixteenth Age