History (Book)

**History** was a historical epic written in 371 A.B. by Jasani Chemani II. It is a mostly historical account of the Selenite Wars, although heavily written from the perspective and biased towards Crestopolis.

## Plot

The book is written from the perspective of two people. A Crestopolian merchant named Gyasos Idoqarani who travels across the Selenosphere and an omniscient narrator, presumably Jasani herself. The two narrations are interwoven throughout the book.

Act I focuses primarily on Gyasos, a middle-aged, humble yet moderately wealthy merchant from the small town of Isasos, is travelling from Ravacuse to Crestopolis with his family, when he hears that a large war breaks out over a dispute in Luhan. He continues on to his travels to the capital. 3 years later he travels to the Crestopolian colony of Qorcei, in modern day northern Auuvsia. After a few months of commerce, he travels back to Crestopolis when his ship gets thrown off course and crashes near rural eastern Nunnshire in 334 A.B. The Nunnshireans; whom Gyasos regards as an incredibly rude and cruel people, want nothing to do with Crestopolian upperclassmen like him, and threaten to kill him if he does not leave their island.

Gyasos travels to the town of Thorley, when it is invaded by Crestopolian forces and subsequently captured. Desperate to get back to Crestopolis and see his family once more, he purchases a ticket to get back to Crestopolis and leaves the next morning. He walks to his family home when he notes a significant change in attitude amongst the bustling Crestopolians, whom he feels are increasingly angry and dogmatic since the wars began. He returns home to his house with his wife still there, when she tells him their only son was conscripted and killed in Cor Cardia. Devastated, he locks himself in his room for two days. After this Gyasos is forced to return to business as usual in the city, or face financial ruin from his mostly unsuccessful travels.

Act II acts sort of as a pretext to an autobiography of Jasani herself, as well as being an outlook into life within the Crestopolian royal family during and after the wars. Act II begins in 339 A.B., notably 6 years before Jasani herself was even born. The beginning of Act II focuses on Jasani's grandfather and King of Crestopolis, Pe'rofratas, who began the Selenite Wars. With the beginning of Act II, The Selenite Wars have gone on for 8 years at this point, and is in the 13th year of Pe'rofratas reign. By now Pe'rofratas health is on the decline and grows increasingly mad and secluded. The book makes frequent mention of the island of Yata, which Pe'rofratas visits twice and regards as his true home, not Crestopolis. Qasos Chemani, eldest born of the King and heir apparent returns from his stay at the University of Crestopolis, Pe'rofratas subsequently gets into an argument over the wars, before Pe'rofratas banishes him from the Royal Palace until the remainder of the year. From this point on, the book highlights the declining relationship between Pe'rofratas and his son.

Focusing back on Gyasos in the year 340, he is forced to travel to Natalon, when the town is raided by pirates from Whiteridge and he is taken hostage. Unable to communicate with the pirates due to the language barrier he is ransomed away back to Crestopolis for 40 silver sadi (De-facto currency throughout northern Blue) back to his family. after multiple months in modern-day Oxfordia. Gyasos regards the pirates, and the Whiteridge as a whole as a "gang of paganist brutes, loyal to no God, and loyal only to materialism." After returning to Crestopolis in a highly publicized event, he is invited to meet the King Pe'rofratas, whom he regards as a strong and imposing figure, an impressive representative of Crestopolis as a whole, but disappointed in his lack of ability to speak Crestopolian. It should be noted that Jasani herself intentionally learned Crestopolian as a teenager and wrote all of her works in the language, rather than the court language of Niaomin.

Returning to Act II, Pe'rofratas dies in 345 and Qasos Chemani, Jasani's father, is coronated as King in 346. Jasani speculates that her father, the new king of Crestopolis, may have played a role in Pe'rofratas death, but there is little evidence to substantiate that claim. After successfully beating Ka Gaminud in a naval battle off the coast of Auuvsia, Qasos vows to continue the Wars until a Crestopolian victory is achieved, even after nearly 15 years of war.

Gyasos returns once again to his family home in 341 A.B. to find his wife incredibly sick. He cares for her before she passes away. Devastated, he once again locks himself in his room for 2 days. After his two days of mourning, with his family gone and merchant business on the decline due to the wars, he finds that he no longer has any incentive to stay in the city. Before he leaves the city forever, he walks around the city and notes the general mood has declined even more, with the tension in the city "rising to disturbing levels, as if one spark would completely enrage the population into all out fury and rebellion." Indeed, in 342 A.B. the spark came as the state imprisoned several refugees fleeing from their homelands to the relatively unaffected Crestopolis. This would ignite the Baqu Rebellion, which lasted for several weeks and occupied vast portions of the city before being violently repressed.

Act II resumes with the second and notably brutal invasion of Cor Cardia, highlighting the brutal scorched earth tactics and the sack of Ilmeridium in 346.

Act III mainly focuses on the Crestopolian Chemani Dynasty during her lifetime, as well as her own personal life. Act III begins in 362, immediately after the conclusion of the Selenite Wars. Act III begins with the Conference of the Selenosphere, where the kings and various rulers who participated in the Selenite Wars to reconcile and establish a new peace. Jasani writes about her perspective in meeting the various monarchs across the Selenosphere and more, whom she mostly regards as being inferior to the Chemani and Crestopolians as a whole. With the destruction of the Selenite authority in Crestopolis, the aging king, Qasos Chemani, could no longer claim kingship over all Selenites. Regardless, Jasani writes about Qasos attempt to rebuild the temple within Crestopolis and establish the Crestopolian Selenite Temple, which is now broadly called Yamanaha Selenism. Act III was written mostly in real-time, beginning in 363 and ending in 370 at the publication of the final book.

In the beginning of Act III, Jasani II herself is the heir apparent to the throne and writes frequently about her excitement to lead Crestopolis into a new age of scholasticism and peace. A couple years later though, in 365, her father designates his youngest daughter, Chemasi, to be the heir apparent. Qasos dies the next year in 366. Jasani was severely upset by this, and notably takes a more negative view of her father and Crestopolis and the royal family as a whole. Some speculate this event is why she intentionally insinuates that Qasos murdered Pe'rofratas. When Chemasi, who has quite poor relations with Jasani, ascends to the throne, she exiles Jasani II to the North Quarter of the palace, but lets her continue her writings in peace. During her later writings, Jasani is quite sullen and recollects often about the nostalgia she had in Crestopolis during the early 350s and 360s, especially at the peak of Qasos "Shadow Kingdom" during the Selenite Wars.

In 366, Chemasi suddenly dies in a hunting accident. Her son, Qasos II, is coronated. Qasos II ends Jasani's exile. Jasani leaves Crestopolis and moves to a small rural mountain town in Auuvsia named D'ima. She then marries a local, effectively rescinding all claims to the Chemani dynasty and severing any remaining relations she had in Crestopolis. She finished her writings in 370 and had them published the next year, to great success. With this, she effectively gained a lifetimes fortune and retired, although she would still write for her own enjoyment throughout the remainder of her life.

In 402, The Commonwealth of Crestopolis overthrew the monarchy and killed the remaining Chemani dynasty and any of their associates. Jasani greatly feared that the Commonwealth would hunt her down and kill her for her relation to the dynasty, and as such changed her first and last name to D'ina Axawari, although they never did. Jasani lived out the rest of her days before dying in 420 A.B.