The Flame Kingdoms
The age of the Flame Kingdoms is conventionally considered to begin in the year 75 APC when the Society of Arcane Adepts was founded to take forward the legacy of the sacrificial apotheosis of the Hylacon Peoples at the conclusion of the Breach Wars.
But the defining event which is best remembered in popular history, took place two years later in 77 APC, when a group of geomancers triggered the eruption of Mt. Defiance on the continent of Punjuki, to destroy a rogue dragon which, though isolated from its masters, had continued to terrorise the region even after the sealing of the Hylacon Gates.
To begin with, the nascent nations were little more than a number of competing fiefdoms with grandiose ideas which only gradually coalesced to form a few larger polities able to lay legitimate claim to the title of Kingdom.
The major Flame Kingdoms were confined to Punjuki with capitals at Katrapetch, Bress, Greyforest and Ibalkuth.
Raja Bhairon Shah was perhaps the most important ruler of the age, at a time when Katrapetch was the most important city in the middle of the second century APC.
It seems likely, however, that mages operating from Katrapetch in the following century, who were attempting to harness the fire in the earth, inadvertantly triggered the volcanic eruption of Mt. Gelzibom in 211 APC. This had a devastating effect on the city, covering it in ash, and weakening it for a long time thereafter.
On Myruthea, the Society of Arcane Adepts grew slowly in strength from their base in Ralsimoor.
Cleaning up operations removed the legacy of the isolated forces of the Dark Domains, although Sunrock was not reclaimed for human occupation until as late as 227 APC after a bloody battle.
Forces in the east of Tinturbean gradually liberated the settlements that had been overrun in the west but progress was slowed by the inability of the human continents to reinforce one another by sea due to the restless violence of the disturbed Deep Sleepers. It was only when this limitation ended that the era of the Water Kingdoms could begin in 467 APC
But the defining event which is best remembered in popular history, took place two years later in 77 APC, when a group of geomancers triggered the eruption of Mt. Defiance on the continent of Punjuki, to destroy a rogue dragon which, though isolated from its masters, had continued to terrorise the region even after the sealing of the Hylacon Gates.
To begin with, the nascent nations were little more than a number of competing fiefdoms with grandiose ideas which only gradually coalesced to form a few larger polities able to lay legitimate claim to the title of Kingdom.
The major Flame Kingdoms were confined to Punjuki with capitals at Katrapetch, Bress, Greyforest and Ibalkuth.
Raja Bhairon Shah was perhaps the most important ruler of the age, at a time when Katrapetch was the most important city in the middle of the second century APC.
Raja Bhairon Shah by DMFW with Midjourney
On Myruthea, the Society of Arcane Adepts grew slowly in strength from their base in Ralsimoor.
Cleaning up operations removed the legacy of the isolated forces of the Dark Domains, although Sunrock was not reclaimed for human occupation until as late as 227 APC after a bloody battle.
Forces in the east of Tinturbean gradually liberated the settlements that had been overrun in the west but progress was slowed by the inability of the human continents to reinforce one another by sea due to the restless violence of the disturbed Deep Sleepers. It was only when this limitation ended that the era of the Water Kingdoms could begin in 467 APC
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