Ellarith

Ellarith is one of the 4 known continents that has been discovered and recored in the Primordial Expanse. The others Include Zephren, Arborlund and Ecria.

## Geography

Eillarith is located to the south west of the Primordial Expanse. Below Arborlund and west of Zephren

## Civilization

### Cities

There are a number of cities in Ellarith each unique in their own way. They include,

* Al- Caresh
* Broudcove
* Carneth
* Ezlaesas
* Actus
* Knightsdale

### Towns

The cities are not for everyone some live in smaller towns such as,

* Bato Archipelago
* Baywater
* Emberhelm
* Gaterlin
* Oakenheart
* Old Front
* Slavers Bay
* Stagborn
* Sungshen

### Villages

Other people prefer very small communities away from hustle and bustle or a place to create a living fishing, mining or farming, these places are,

* Deepcliff
* Hayhill
* Riverfoot
* Kelabi
* Millstrand
* Silverrun

## History

#### The Uncivilised Age - Unknown PTT

***The First Uncivilized Era*** - A time that’s is not well documented at all, but with the primordial departure from the world these new races found a new and unfamiliar sense of freedom and power, it is heavily debated to what happened to these first settlers. If they fought against each other, banded together. What is known is that many parted ways with each other and migrated to land that suited them. The only way historians even know this is with the discovery of ancient drawings on caves or relics found deep in the earth. What else is known is it would of probably been quite primitive with elves and orcs mainly dominant Ellarith.

***The Great Human Migration*** - This history is still very unclear round this time but what is known is that this age saw the humans migrate into Ellarith changing the continent forever. We also know around this time the Iris comet fell from the sky and landed in what is now Millstrand.

***The Second Uncivilised Era*** - What ended the migration era and moved us into the second uncivilised age was when the humans that came over started to band together and stop roaming the land and instead would start creating small settlements and tribes. This would create much conflict with the races already established here.

#### The Age Of Dominion

***The Tribal Era*** - Lasting nearly 400 years this era saw the tribal races constantly battle each other for dominance, while the rest of the world were making technological advancements these still quite primitive people were distracted with expansion or protecting their home or way of life,

***The Taviriom settlement*** - The Tribal Era ended when sailors of the Taviriom empire sailed down from Ecria. This new empire wanted to grow and expand their lands and after they had luck capturing ground in Arborlund they thought they now turn to the lesser advanced tribes in Ellarith across the ocean. The Settlers also brought new technology, tool and weapons with them and as a result the tribes never stood a chance. They were given one of three options. To adopt this new way, to run and retreat and never come back or to die trying to defend against the new settlers. Although the technology the Taviriom's brought was way more advanced than the tribes of Ellarith it was the way of thinking which would have the biggest impact, in this continent. The tribes saw these new settlers were not all of the same kind, different races, genders and colours working together under one rule, changed the thinking of the tribal people.

***The Age of Rebellion*** - After about 120 years of Taviriom rule the people had enough and started a rebellion, against the empire and after decades of fighting they won. However mainly due to The Taviriom Empire also being at war with the Shing dynasty's and their allied Redwood Kingdom and Ceevilan Kingdoms the Tavariom people fled back to their homeland.

***The Chromatic Dominion*** - With the first empire now leaving the continent, this left a huge power vacuum in its wake. A lot of the new settlements were now without the protection it once had. This led to a powerful and intelligent red dragon named Zeogarth to act and use this as a chance to add it its horde. However he soon noticed others of his kinds were like minded and were doing the same thing. As a result Zeogarth thought instead of fighting over spoils to bring these dragons together, and so they started of the Chromatic Dominion and enslaved most of Ellarith

After decades of rule the Chromatic Dominion ended with Zeogarth being defeated at the battle of Actus,

***The Renaissance or Age of Enlightenment*** - Now the reign of terror has ended, all races started to expand and enjoys new ways of living. A rebirth in culture, ideals and even politics swept the land. However although it wasn’t a lawless time people where still trying to figuring out what was truly right or wrong. Due to not ever having this sort of freedom a lot of people experimented and cults began to rise.

***The Great War*** - known as 'The War With Many Names', 'The Holy War', 'War of the Gods', and 'The War of The Unseen Generals'. This era saw the gods interfere with the mortals not just in Ellarith but all across the Primordial Expanse. Due to a rise in dark magic and worship, the more sinister gods tried to gain more power. This resulted in a crusade on sorts for many of the more lawful and just god gods and so sent champions to protect the realm from evil. Races and people were becoming divided and it spread futher and further across the known world, it ended with Bane and his dark alliance being defeated and banished from the material plane. As a reward the remainder of the gods created Thel Tan, a new and second moon as a thanks to their followers but also to deter anyone else who would try and challenge divine beings. It was a constant reminder and proof they defeated evils powers before and they can do it again.

*Thel Tan is now used as the timeline and calendar and is referred to as PTT*

*Post Thel Tan*

#### The Civilised Age

***The Time of Law -*** With constantly being under someones rule for hundreds of years the different towns and cities of the continent became more defensive and started to become more strategic they started implanting laws and societal measures to stop any sort of uprising or usurping.

***The Failed Serpent Wars*** - Being closed off to most of the world and being busy building up their towns no one really took notice of Al Caresh and their rising forces. As a result they took that opportunity to expand their reign and enslave more into their growing power, they however tried this at the wrong time. The Time of Law was spent getting prepared for something like this and as a result they failed at multiple attempts to expand their territory. Actus and Ezleases all thwarted their attempts with ease and the real battle was with the Dalian Fields to the north. They inevitably failed and crawled back to their dessert lands and once again shut themselves off to the world.