Hysirius Empire

## **History of Hysirius**

 Hysirius (Hi-seri-uss), also known as the “Grey Empire”, is a late medieval era empire with an emphasis on knowledge of ancient magic. Spreading throughout much of Eastern Varkhest, Hysirius is a particularly complex, powerful and magic-oriented empire that is home to many of Alidom’s most well-known arcane archives. Hysirius has a very violent and bloody past, however- and much of it still exists within the Hysirius Empire now seen in Dasgnir(the capital city of the kingdom). The known history of Hysirius is somewhat little, due to too many wars provoked between neighbouring kingdoms and the destruction of many archives.

## **Origins**

Hysirius was originally part of Galdraia but broke off of the incredibly religious empire to form its nation after many conflicts between the Coriathivian (Kor-ah-thev-eean) Church and the citizens of North Galdraia. The Coriathivian Church is the lead power within the Galdraian religion and the primary government branch. It controls much of Galdraia’s economy, the land, the people, the laws, the diplomatic statuses between other empires.

The relations between the Coriathivian Church and North Galdraia were not always the best. Tensions grew steadily, as North Galdraia faced numerous challenges that the Coriathivian Church did not help them with. North Galdraia faced three invasions from Alderiin during the 5th Century and prevailed each time. However, there were extensive amounts of damage done to North Galdraia.

Despite North Galdraia, being one of the economic superpower regions of the empire, not even they could muster up the funds to repair their cities, farms and shipbuilding locations. North Galdraia called for aid from the Coriathivian Church- but received none because North Galdraia was not able to send enough offerings toward the capital of Galdraia for Cercaus, their god.

Northern Galdraia was enraged but kept quiet for the time being. Within four months, a disastrous blight swept through North Galdraia wiping out the wheat crops, devastating the carrot crops and poisoning the pear trees- three of the primary food staples that are produced in Galdraia. North Galdraia called for aid once more from the Coriathivian Church. They received none again.

At this point, North Galdraia had enough. They protested and refused to send more offerings to the capital for Cercaus. They also discontinued worshipping Cercaus as a deity, due to the neglect of Cercaus and being abandoned during a blight- thus they started to convert to another major religion- Viyranism. This enraged the Coriathivian Church, forcing them to dispatch their forces to swiftly curb the protests against their religion whilst also to eradicate the heretics preaching a false religion.

The Coriathivian Church failed bitterly, facing one of the numerous defeats to follow. North Galdraia prepared themselves for the assault and crushed the Coriathivian Church’s forces and declared war on the rest of Galdraia, inciting the exceptionally bloody, surprisingly short and viciously violent Galdraian Civil War.

Considering North Galdraia was one of the most economically stable, powerful, and populated areas of the empire, the Coriathivian Church made a huge mistake from the start. With nearly half of the empire against the Coriathivian Church, the odds seemed to favour North Galdraia, which promptly seceded and thus creating the "Hysirius Empire".