Records of Yhorgii
- City of Afkeylu founded by Ghorzon.
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- Sirin Empire expands east
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- Republic of Central Yhorgii/Scir. Suicide of Last Emperor after 'Red Palace'.
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-[ER 1] The Council of Nine is installed after the death of Ibirios and ends the Republic. Only Mages will come to occupy the council seats until the Alwath Invasion centuries later
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-Sirin armies march west to the Dantian coastal realms, beginning of the Kelhean Campaign.
-[ER 297] Autumn Civil War period begins, leading to the end of the CoN Mageocracy. The First Chairholder is assassinated.
- The Soroen people, a mercenary army from Khouross becomes trapped and sold into slavery after the defeat of Lord Darghun in Northern Yhorgii.
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-Prophets of Zong emerge as religious order against the magical arts. Organize grassroots militia in different realms to stamp out their opponents.
-[ ER 419] Cessation of Autumn Civil Wars. Two Council chairholders murdered by internal factions and the Prophets of Zong.
-Nightlaw Guilds make treaty with Dantian rulers.
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-[EA 1] Eunach Administration. Rise of 'The Butterfly Courts'.
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-[EA 39] Decade of Typhoon.
- [EA 51/ YI 1] Alwath invasions.
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-Sacking of Afkeylu. Death of two more of the Co9 mages after their estates were destroyed.
-West coast of Old Empire rebels and separates into kingdoms.
- Golexian, Favoured of the Sun takes control of Afkeylu and the center of the Old Empire. Battle of Broken Swords.
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- House Marzen (Sirin) loses ancestral estates in Dan. Change alliance before end of Broken Sword's Campaign to survive.
- The rape of Heiri and later birth of Chiazhen in the mountain cave.
-[YI 16] War of the False Armies and death of Golexian I
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- The Alliance of Five Cities is founded when a group of mercenaries seize control of Dantian coastal villages which they grow to become five small city states.
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-[CR 1] Coronation of Chiazhen I. Fhasino Dynasty begins.
-[CR 2 - 6] War of Assassins.
-[CR 5] Birth of Imperial twins, Salan & Essies
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-Battle at Seigetower.
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-[CR 9] Foundations of new capital on east bank of River Neethe.
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-[CR 12] Greywater appointed provincial capital of untamed Ashten region.
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The Present Age:
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-[CR 17] Gherlen, a mage from the Secret and Mystical Order of Jhantin (SMOJ) arrives in Yhorgii from Khouross. Rumours of a lost treasure from the age of Jhantin somewhere in the uncharted south of the Inner Sea. The expedition never returns.
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-[Late Summer] Holy relic stolen from the temple of To-Nemu-Vhana in Corova, Meres.
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-[CR 18] Discovery of Anchorite Mage in southern wastelands.
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-[Early Spring] Death of Warlord Fingers and his mother the Priestess of Namarra, Yin Yin.
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-[Spring] Siege of Greywater. Dantian forces cut off city from communication with river-forts in the east.
Concerning the Origins of Elves, Dwarfs, and the Halfling races
From what little sources remain before the Sirintai Empire of Old, The scholars and philosophers of Yhorgii speculate that there was an elder race of peoples who had bequeathed their knowledge to the races of men in their mythology and understanding of the Cosmos. The Uhru trade language of North Yhorgii is agreed by most to have borrowed many words and syntax from the elder race, as have some of the oldest songs and poetry in the repertoire of the Oztradii gypsies, rumoured to have been exiled from the north as well.
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Dubbed the ‘Elves’ by storytellers and scholars, after the sylvan sprits of the old tales, some travellers would have you believe they still exist on the southern frontiers of the Empire, but there have been no recorded sightings since the end of the Republic (five hundred years).
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Dwarfs are in the records as having been master artificers, creating wonders such as the automaton toys of spoilt nobles to the war engines employed before the Council returned peace to the continent. Some sources claim they are the Children of Iochs, born from stone to bring about a new age of invention. Regardless, they were never recorded in art or writing with children of their own and are surmised to be either extinct or near so.
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Halflings are well known as having been selectively bred humans with gnomes, a slave race used for their stature in dangerous mining and building projects. They were also employed as house servants on noble estates before the Alwath Invasions. Communities of escapees are routed out from time to time, depending on the regional governor and mood of the populace.
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Gnomes are a surviving humanoid race with unknown origins. They have migrated wherever men have in known Yhorgii and Khouross. Generally despised alongside the other demihumans, they keep to the edges of villages and cities in small backwoods families. Some are highly intelligent.
Ephemera from the Lands of Yhorgii & Khouross
Oh! Jhantin’s sorrow, woe upon woe
Was his ancient years in the ruined abode
Of Andar; whose window sill perched on
By the carrion raven, death’s companion
To remind mortal man, of the limited strands
Of our fates. Harken unto Jhantin’s rise
Before he bent the knee to sacred Hieross Prime;
The magic legacy of Fair Moon’s lover
Will rise, will crest the waves of Fortune’s gale
Until the jealousy of observing Gods prevail...
-Fragment from ‘The Liturgy of Tir; The Unhallowed Procession journeys East.’
“... when my father first called for our family to join him, we travelled north-west along the roads of the Old Empire before arriving at the southern end of the River Neethe. I had heard stories from my handmaidens that our Alwathi armies had been mercilessly pursuing the Sirintai host as it withdrew west out of Scir, leaving in our wake burning cities and villages. I saw all this to be true as we rode past the smoking remains of whole towns that had become funeral pyres, leagues of fields trampled to infertility by the iron shod hoofs of our cavalry. But, it wasn’t until our escort came to wait before the remains of the Unconquered Gates of Daozim that I felt pity for the Sirin and her subjugate peoples. These gates, the legendary Unconquered Gates, had been unhinged to flatten the innocent people caught in the streets and houses on the other side, the side of cultured centuries.
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We Alwath would fall with the same weight over all their empire, I felt pity because like the people crushed in these buildings, they would watch on in blank astonishment as we showed no mercy to achieve the impossible; Everything in our path would share the same fate until the Sirintai accepted the new Sun rising in the East...”
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- Copy of ‘My childhood in Jherjen and Afkeylu; the early Alwath Dynasty’, from the biography of Lady Teinora, daughter of General Rhadan. Five years before the reign of Golexion I
... driven by thirst toward the river Saen three days after the betrayal of Lord Dhargun’s host, the survivors were caught in the open as the Sirintai pursued us to the muddy banks, slaughtering the starving men before them. We would have been extinguished from Logross that sorrowful day if not for the bravery of General Mykos and the vengeful river god Tor-magor; Taking the last arrow from his quiver, General Mykos cried aloud to the heavens to save his people, pledging our fate to whomever would answer. The river god guided Last Arrow through the helms of Braxos and Fequies, the captains of the Sirin guard before she emerged from the blood polluted waters.
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“I have answered your death wish, Mykos. Your people will survive as you hoped, but they will never cross the sea for home. You have fouled my clean water with blood and bone...”
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- ‘The Geas of Tor-magor.' Oral tradition of the Soroen.
“... thanking the Priests of Naftir, I left the city of Gon and followed the road south to the snow crowned peaks of Fhazia, where they told me I would find a wise hermit who might know more of Tir’s legend. Along the way I picked up the language of the Paeli, and must admit I dallied among the yellow-haired peoples, whose handsome women served me amber wines while I noted down the boastful stories of their menfolk.
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They pointed to the fourth mountain from the west, if one were to be facing the mountains southward from their homeland, and told me it was their God, Oikaia the White Horse. Upon learning that I wished to transgress the sacred peaks, I was warned in time to flee the village on the advice of a young woman whom had kept my furs warm that winter.
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After many trials I found Painted Jakoo the hermit in his mountain cave. As the snow piled outside he brewed medicinal tea to revive me, continuing the story of Tir’s funeral procession after it left Dan. According to Jakoo, his grandfather had tattooed his body with the pictograph legend of what his people had witnessed. Pointing to the signs beginning on his right foot, he read the account of the Golden Ones and their angelic host, carrying sealed caskets and other treasures in a sorrowful procession toward the lands now known as Aestar...
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- Passage from Book Two of the ‘Chronicles of Zulo’, translated from surviving Eldritch Uhru & Proto-Dantii sources.
“... the Golden Tablets of the first Sirintai Emperors were found after the estates of Hekslen were opened, buried under centuries of rubbish by the undying wizard. My father was present in a war council when a messenger reported the discovery, to which he advised Our Light Golexion that it was a sign from Heiross to restore the order of heaven & earth.
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Dragging the metal plates from the basement crypts out onto the streets, a great show was made of their discovery in the streets of Afkeylu, with the butchered remains of the monster Hekslen following on a train of ox yoked wagons. I’m told the wizard’s body was as large as two elephants, scaled and stinking from wounds that emitted clouds of sulphur...”
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- ‘My Childhood in Jherjen and Afkeylu’, Lady Teinora.