Clowon Empire

The Clowon Empire was the greatest world power in the ancient past, before its collapse and sequential disappearance from history. The Clowon Empire was founded by the Golden Emperor, who found the World Tree and using its mana managed to regress and with it raised his country into an Empire and he became the Emperor that led it to its golden age. The Clowon Empire developed the 'Brushel System', which used the World Tree and its avatar's mana as fuel to revert the world's time, allowing for regression. Using this, the Empire became the strongest ever, and every Emperor was competent thanks to the fact they could regress.

However, it wasn't all perfect. The Brushel System used the Golden Emperor's daughter, Serpina, as a core, furthermore, regression wasn't without fault. The more an individual regressed, the more their goals become warped until it becomes an obsession. But before it got that bad, the body send a warning to the regressor, which was when an Emperor passed on the throne to their heir. But the final Emperor did not stop. His goal to take over the world became twisted over the course of many regressions, resulting in him becoming a tyrant and resulting in a revolt. The Emperor was killed by the rebels, but the rebels felt shortly after due to the fact they collaborated with many cults of the ancient past, one of them being the Bellids.

In the end, the Empire fell and the Brushel System was hidden, until it was discovered by Ultel, who had become the Bellid Pope centuries later. The ability to regress was given to Glen Zenard of the first timeline who used it to regress, wanting to be a hero. In reality, Ultel was using him. But in the second timeline, Zich Moore regressed and managed to crush the Brushel System using the core, Serpina, and finally brought an end to the regression system.

## Introduction

A few thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago, there was an ancient empire ruled by humans named ‘Clowon,' and it was an extremely powerful empire. Legend says that Clowon was an incredible empire that produced skilled emperors from generation to generation and built an ironclad force around the emperor. Usually, when positions are passed down through the lineage, it’s normal to have a couple of incompetent emperors, but the emperors in that empire all had the best skills at least. The empire had fallen due to their last emperor, as he did not just have an awful personality—he was crazy. Because of how crazy the emperor was, there was a revolution, and that’s how the empire ended.

## History

### Tungel

Hidden behind a waterfall at a location near the merchant city of Tungel, was an ancient ruin. It had been with mithril golems as it's protector with mana lining the walls reinforcing the structure, and Lyla having a very negative feelings towards what's within the ruins. Zich party had revisited the ruins, down the tunnel, a few floors down was a staircase that lead below, but that staircase was different from all the staircases upstairs, as it was blocked by a giant door. There were all sorts of chains and items that meticulously covered the door, the door was sealed to prevent anyone from ever opening it. Inside the gated area was only one room, and in the center of it, an enormous being shaped like a giant bud of meat. It was a hideous creature made of meat pieces being sustained by mana pumps within the room, and the creature attacked Zich's party while cursing Lyla. They believed that this creature, as well as Lyla had a connection to Clowon Empire.

### Voiluwin

At the ancient ruins of Voiluwin where Zich had recieved Tornium in his previous life, and Estellade at the same location, as well as Windur at his current life, Windur had guided Zich's party into a secret passageway that leads to the tomb and burial grounds of the Clowon emperors. It was a large area, making it hard to believe that it could exist in a basement. The space in front of them almost seemed larger than the city of Violuwin right above the surface. Inside was a space larger than the Voiluwin city above them, with it been lit up and reinforced by mana within the structures. There rested many emperors, including the Golden Emperor with a large pyramid that existed behind the statue of the Golden Emperor. On top of the pyramid, something that looked like a tree sprouted out of it.

### Mentis

In the distance past, when the elf tribes lived in Mentis, Clowon’s troops stormed in and although the Great Adrowon Forest existed during that time, it didn’t deter them at all from invading Mentis. They requested the elf tribes to leave, and during that time the Clowon’s troops were overwhelmingly strong to the point that they were called an army of gods or demons. Thus the Clowon Empire had been able to force the eviction of the elven tribes out of Mentis. Although Clowon overpowered the tribes, they didn’t show much interest in the Lake Tribe as all they wanted was Mentis. They sliced the trees covering most of Mentis and began to build their city on it. The Lake Tribe didn’t know the reason why Clowon’s troops would need Mentis but then a rumor that they hid a power underneath the castle they built in Mentis spread. Clowon placed that power underneath the castle and began to take care of Mentis. Yet, even a great empire must have had difficulty managing Mentis inside the Great Adrowon Forest, and they placed one elf tribe in charge of managing the city which had been the Iron Tribe. The Iron Tribe managed Mentis and the area surrounding it, while the other elf tribes got pushed off into the forest and built a new country.

A long time passed after that, the Iron Tribe also didn’t expand their power as they were in charge of managing Mentis, but that didn’t last forever. The powerful empire, also met its fall in the end. The Iron Tribe had pressured the surrounding tribes by relying solely on Clowon’s power. Therefore, all the nearby tribes were hostile towards the Iron Tribe, and they naturally felt threatened. The Iron Tribe and the other Elf Tribes had engaged in battles, but left with casualties, both sides reach a settlement. The Iron Tribe moved out of Mentis and returned to their homeland, however, the other didn’t go back to Mentis as they were already used to living in the Droud Forest. The Clowon humans had changed the city way too much for it to be suitable for elves, thus, Mentis was made a neutral territory and also sealed the power underneath the castle. In exchange, the Lake Tribe took the treasure inside the castle, which was the Lake’s Tear.

The Lake's Tears was a treasure that contains an enormous amount of water mana and the power of purification. The shamans also predicted that it probably had the ability to control the power underneath the castle somewhat. This is also the reason why a shaman only exists in the Lake Tribe; it was a position made to manage the Lake’s Tear.

## Trivia

* Windur is related to the Clowon Empire somehow since it leads Zich to the different trees as well came from the ancient ruins of the Clowon Empire
* Windur is the Emperor's sword, Estellade the Crown Prince's sword, and Tornium the Empire's General's sword.
* Windur can open all of the Empire's places since it was the symbol of the Emperor. It can open all locks because it was the people's show in trust to the Emperor, "there was nothing to hide from the Emperor."
* Clowon invented a system that allows regression via the use of the World Tree and its avatars.
* Clowon had Dragon Slayers during its time. Furthermore, a Dragon was imprisoned in Clowon and used as a tool of the regression system.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 189
2. ↑ Chapter 206