Age of Midnight

Usrai Menda, a scholar from the south, changed the way spellwork was practiced forever. While originally part of the Age of Advancement, eventually historians changed the name of this age to signify the fact that this new understanding of magic was not for the greater good, like the rest of the discoveries during the Age of Advancement were.

6734: Usrai Menda, aevita from Easthallow, announced her intent to reign. For the past few centuries, she had been honing her skill in a new type of spellwork, an offshoot of mental magic. The only difference was that she had discovered a way to use this magic to kill, something that had never been done before.

6735: Usrai set upon the castle with a small handful of her underlings, younger aevita who she had been training. Though the Guard far outnumbered her group, she was able to fight past them and into the throne room. Instead of killing the Surian, Usrai kept her in the dungeons and began her reign.

6737: Areusor was put under strict rule. No one could pass from Isle to Isle without a permit, and the waters were patrolled by a new Guard put in place by Usrai. This Guard, though mostly humans untrained in magic, were told to kill if any rule was even slightly broken, and the fear of this kept the people from revolting.

6739: The Battle at Kernwith Keep. Usrai contacted Captain Alenia Perlin, who had by then fled to a small Isle past the known Isles, and asked Alenia to join her side. Alenia agreed to the offer, only using this agreement to her advantage as she set upon the castle with her crew in an attempt to kill Usrai and save the now elderly Surian Riss, who was still trapped in the dungeons. However, many of Captain Alenia’s crew died, and she was forced to retreat.

6742: The Revolting. Inspired by Captain Alenia’s attempts, the people finally began the attack that they had been planning for years. They rose up against the castle, trying to fight their way in. However, this battle ended in tragedy as almost everyone fighting against Usrai died. By this time, Usrai had found and trained just over 80 aevita, who were all eager to be treated like they were special and joined her side without question. They stood on the ramparts and killed the people attacking without even having to touch them.

6743: Usrai became obsessed with having her own child. She had trained many young aevita, but she wanted a second-in-command that was her own flesh and blood. She went to bed with one of her underlings, a man named Tero, and eventually became pregnant.

6744: Usrai’s young daughter, her pride and joy, came down with a fever. In a rage, Usrai killed the girl, knowing that the child’s illness meant that she was only human and not aevita. She also killed Tero. Her desire for a child who was aevita like her consumed her.

6792: Usrai had slept with and subsequently killed countless men, both aevita and human. None of her children ever made it past the age of 4, for they all eventually came down with some small ailment and thus proved themselves to be only human. She eventually became known as the Slayer of the Innocent.

6793: Usrai was killed by a man who had been working in her Guard for years. He seemed eager to sleep with her, and she trusted him. As it turned out, this man, named Warrick, had been rising in the ranks for years in an attempt for this chance to get close enough to Usrai and kill her, as part of a larger plot by Alenia. He stabbed her thrice in the gut, and her abilities as an aevita did not protect her from injuries of flesh and blood.