A bit late, a bit lazy, but here i am. Here are the basics about Falagaland: history, politics, trade, current relations and so on. I recommend you to read this stuff before starting to play. Bear in mind that most of the data compiled is shown through the eyes of the scientists.
History of Falgaland.
Important dates.
25000 B.A. The temple of the ancestors is built. It is unknown as to why the draconians and baltans cooperated in its creation. The date has been determinate by a study made by a Unisval mage who discovered that the markings on on the wall coincide with the period of absolute truce that the Baltans and Draconians have every 10 years.
7500 B.A First human state appears. Coincidently this is also the first mention of Shiver in history.
7000-6000 B.A Age of strife, the civilization that strived for 500 years is destroyed in a brutal civil war, progress is halted and people returned to a primitive level.
6000 B.A. One of the many human tribes gains the support of Shiver. First true mages are recorded in history.
5800 B.A Most of the northern Falgaland is united. The kingdom includes most of present day Kesora and Unisval.
5500 B.A The Falgaland library was founded with the help of Shiver. It is currently knows as the Seat of Knowledge.
5400 B.A Shiver travels south, she disappears in the territory known today as Kortair.
5350 B.A The Mage Guild is formed.
5300 B.A Mage Nidal assures regency, numerous laws regarding research are issued.
5282 B.A The king dies of unknown causes, people suspect Nidal as he once again assures regency, the conflict between royalists and the Mage Guild, loyal to Nidal leads to a dictatorship.
5275 B.A The infamous *Study upon Human Conscience* is realized. The use of human live subjects sparks heavy debates in the Mage Guild and a rebellion in the eastern half of the country.
5274-5185 B.A Mage Nael takes the mantle of Archmage, renowned for his violent quenching of the rebellion. In 5185 B.A when the last rebel stronghold was destroyed the country lay in shambles.
5120 B.A Heavy taxation, the lack of any measures meant to reconstruct the country combined with the development of slavery, now widely practiced by mages aiming to free themselves for research and lack of value for the human life leads to another rebellion.
5115 B.A As the various rebellious factions were being destroyed by the Mage armies, Kazad the Great emerges as a military leader in the Talian tribe. Considered one of the founders of Kesora.
5115-5100 B.A Taking advantage by the lack of unity in the Mage Guild, Kazad unifies most of what is now western Kesora. In 5100 B.A he proclaims independence after devastating the mage armies in the battle of Lake Kesora.
5087 B.A The Talian Kingdom is recognized by the new archmage Nedal, a series of buffer states are created out of the other rebellious territories.
5000 B.A At the call made by the citizens of one of the buffer states KazadÆs grandson Cyll begins a campaign of unification. Lack of military and economic abilities plunges the Talian Kingdom in a violent war.
4985 B.A Archamge Nulen overrules the GuildÆs decision and decides to intervene in the neighboring war. His death in battle 10 month later leaves the country without a leader and in a anarchic state. Lack of interest for leaderships combined with the fact that most of the guild members considered that nothing is more important than their research lead to an anarchic state. A Archmage isnÆt picked for the next 600 years.
For 600 years, civilization was a scarce commodity, it is only because of the Librarians of Falgaland that we have recordings during that period. Known as the scientist of Unisval, the Librarians maintained the independence of The Seat of Knowledge and continued to expand the city. It is the considered the oldest surviving settlement in northern Falgaland. Most of this period is marked by violent conflicts in the east and a total lack of organization for the west. Historians consider that history stood still.
4395. B.A After countless years of war, betrayal and chaos regent Kalina unites the eastern territories
* Kesora*. She begins a campaign of conquest in the west.
4395-4385 B.A Faced with the unstoppable Talian war machine the Mage Guild reunites for the first time in 600 hundred years. The Mages refuse inviting the Librarians to the war council.
4370. B.A After witnessing defeat after defeat Archmage Nial accepts the demands that the Librarians made. The Unisval Combine is formed.
4368-4360 B.A Talian troops lay siege to the Seat of Knowledge, due to the impressive defensive array the city canÆt be conquered. In 4360 the death of Kalina prompts the Talian troops to lift the siege.
4360-4310 B.A Most of Unisval is conquered, yet the Seat of Knowledge doesnÆt fall. In 4310 the Talian king dies without a heir.
4305 B.A Talian armies support their commanders for the position of king. Taking advantage of the civil war Unisvel slowly reconquers the lost territory.
4210. Last Talian army is banished from Unisvel territory. The Librarians decide to maintain a small professional army purely for defensive purposes.
4210-4010 B.A The Talian Kingdom splints in several states that are constantly at war with each other.
4010 B.A The law of experiments is enacted. No experiments on sentients are allowed in Unisvel territory. As a result several mages point their looks at the neighboring territories.
4008 B.A Mercenary army lead by the Guild begins conquest campaign. Nomad tribe settles on the shores of Kesora and found the city of Kesora.
4005 B.A Queen Ardera defeats mercenary armies in the second battle of lake Kesora. Her politic and economic abilities bring most of what was previously the Talian Kingdom under her rule.
4000 B.A The Quendoom of Kesora is born. Queen Ardera establishes a set of rules and laws out of which the law of succession is still in effect today albeit with small modifications:
ôFor the one that takes the throne the most important thing is insuring a heir. Thus no queen of Kesora is allowed to risk her life unless she has already secured succession.ö
Her successors establish a strong matriarchy in Kesora. *Among other females were the only ones allowed to trade.*
3800 B.A Kortair is revealed to the world. Rumours appear about its mysterious ruler.
3800-2500 B.A Golden age of Falgaland.
Many consider this period as the greatest in all history. Commerce flourished, relations between the three states were excellent and first explorations of the Esterk forest take place. Trade relations are established with the baltans and the draconians.
However things were not as brilliant as they seemed, the Mage Guild lost a lot of power in Unisvel and the set of treaties that Unisvel entered severely limited their research possibilities. Overpopulation started to become a problem and many realized that things are going to change. 2500 B.A was the last year of peace for Falgaland.
2499 B.A Kesora invades Unisvel. In the following war the Unisvel mercenary armies were easy defeated by the Kesora military. Mages gain once again a position of power.
2485 B.A Undead intervention in Unisvel. Kesoran invasion is halted.
2484 B.A Baltan/Draconian mercenaries are hired by Unisvel. Kesoran fleet is destroyed.
2480 B.A Kesora signs a peace treaty with Unisvel at the pressure of the undead armies.
2475 B.A Shiver is revealed as the ruler of the Undead Kingdom.
2470 B.A As a result of the war with Kesora the Librarians lose power over the country. Use of abominations and blatant ignorance of the old laws by the Mage Guild leads to a civil war.
Many have been said about this civil war, but most historians agree that it would have ended in just a few years were it not for Kesoran and Kortair interferences which practically transformed all of Unisvel in a battleground for countless years. Slavers from Kesora made huge fortunes and slaves were a common sight in Kesora. More and more rights for males were revoked.
2200 B.A Kesora begins a costly campaign in Esterk. Costs are mainly supported by slave trade. First Nagah slaves.
*The Nagah made very poor slaves, their personal connection with nature and the way they were treated made them wither fast in captivity. Only a few cases of Nagah slaves surviving the first months of captivity are recorded.
2000 B.A The huge costs that the Esterk campaign brought, coupled with the permanent interference in Unisvel lead Kesora to bankruptcy. Power was no longer in the hands of the queen but in the hands of a few rich slave traders. Most progress is halted and the country regresses.
1800 B.A Treaty between the Librarians and the Mage Guild. Research facilities are recognized as independent regions with their own laws, in exchange all Unisvel citizens are protected from any experiments. Also the year when the first Nagah colony is founded in Unisval mostly from slaves bought from the Kesoran slave traders.
1600 B.A After witnessing the way the Nagah population developed for two hundred years numerous Mages displayed the desire to find more about them. As a result of the treaty the only way to do so was to study them in their natural habitat. An expedition force is sent to Esterk.
1599 B.A Numerous Nagah are used for experiments, upon witnessing the difference in development that a broodmistress shows from a regular Nagah one of the expedition members performed a vivisection on one of them.
1598 B.A One of Nagah hatcheries is discovered. This never happened before as not even Kesorans were able to find them. As a result the decision is taken to examine the eggs. Broodmistress Serelena fights off the attackers but loses her life in the process. With her last words she begs her fellow Nagah to protect the younglings.
The following years witnessed probably the greatest war waged by the Nagah. For the first time in history they united under a broodmistress and fought off the invaders. This didnÆt stop the mages to make periodical attempts to obtain information about the Nagah.
1400 B.A First recorded Draconian/Baltan war, though the fact that the two races were at odds was commonly known no war was accurately recorded before . Historians were amazed by the respect the two races showed to each other.
1201 B.A Second major Baltan/Draconian war begins.
1200 B.A The Mage Guild decides to explore the Temple of the Ancestors. One of the mages begins to excavate around it.
1199 B.A Baltan/Draconian war stops. The first time outside races saw the two cooperating. All mages on their territory were slaughtered. The fliers went so far as to set on fire any Mage ship they could come across.
1100. B.A Baltan/Draconians stop all relations with Kesora and Unisvel after a Kesoran slave trader was found transporting a baltan infant.
1085 B.A Archmage Neculos decides to explore The Etheria Breach. As a result trade is strangled. Mage fleets destroy any commercial ships due to the fact that they interfered with their research.
1050 B.A Situation in Kesora degenerates. Even Kesoran citizens are brought into slavery.
800 B.A The lack of trade due to the Unisvel navy determines Kesora to invade Unisvel. The war is short and the Kesoran military is destroyed. As a result the state plunged in a state of chaos.
800-264 B.A A state of anarchy predominates in northern Falgaland. The Librarians refuse to interfere in Kesora combined with the growing power of the Mage Guild made for a bad combination.
264 B.A In a small village the Kos family releases its slaves. Known for her oddities the Kos matriarch appoints her son as heir although males are known to be without rights. The name of the 15 years old? Cyril Kos.
263 B.A The death of the Kos matriarch and the fact that the heir was a male prompts intervention from two powerful families. CyrilÆs refuse to accept marriage with one of the daughters of the families and the fact that he insisted on maintaining the freedom of his slaves earned him a death sentence. As a result a powerful army was sent after his head. Unexpectedly Cyril defeated the punitive expedition relying on a army mostly composed of former slaves.
Numerous slaves joined his forces shortly afterwards.
263-247 B.A Cyril and his army are on the run from the superior forces of Kesoran matriarchy.
246. B.A Forced to accept a battle Cyril obtains his most brilliant military victory. He then uses a force march to attack the capital before reinforcements could be brought to defend it.
245-240 B.A Cyril ends the civil war. He reveals himself as a very skilled individual, not only on the battlefield but also in politics.
239-236 B.A The Cirilien Reforms. Cyril introduces a series of new laws, creates the Kesora National Army and signs the first treaty with Nagah. ItÆs also notable the fact that he began trading again with the Baltans/Draconians. His law against foreign slaves, which made impossible for slavers to acquire nagah/baltan/draconian slaves brought him many enemies.
235 B.A Cyril is killed in a battle against the mercenary forces of a rich slave merchant. However his legacy didnÆt end with him as many expected. The army he developed protected his only child and 5 years later his daughter got on the throne. To appease the matriarchal society of Kesora it was decided that Kesora will remain a queendom.
Known as reformers the Kos dynasty started the process of change in Kesora. It notable the fact that no Kos owned a slave since Cyril Kos.
230 B.A-30 B.A A period of relative peace on ground but one of bloody confrontation on sea. The Mage Guild became the dominant force in Unisvel and continued to pressure the other races for their experiments.
10-8 B.A Unisvel Mages begin experiments on Undead. Several human subjects are also aquired. Frustration due to their inability to comprehend the conversion process leads to the acquisition of more and more subjects. The result of their action was simple: In 25 B.A Kesora declares war, one year later the undead do the same though Shiver does not involve herself in the war.
Initially, the mercenary armies of Unisvel obtained several victories and pushed back the enemy armies. It was not until ShiverÆs most trusted retainer Cyril Kos took charge of the undead army that the odds shifted.
In 4-3 B.A the Kesora/Kortair army obtained several victories, shattering the mercenary armies and pushing deep into Unisvel territory. However they ignored the numerous pleas made by the Librarians who pointed out that they were not fighting against the mages. The result was the mobilization of the small Unisvel army.
2 B.A Was the year that witnessed the worst military defeats for Kortair and Kesora. Despite numerical superiority their armies were defeated by the Unisvel Homeguard.
General Valer, the commander was quickly viewed as the greatest threat. At the request of the Mage Guild and specifically Archmage Niculae, he was ordered to lead a mercenary army deep into Kesoran territory. His initial success brought Kesora to its knees, but the withdrawal of the navy left him deeply into enemy territory without any support. Despite the fact that he managed to siege Kesora, he was forced to surrender by his own men. He played an important role in the treaty with the librarians.
1 B.A The Homeguard retreated to protect the Seat of Knowledge leaving most of the Mage fortresses opened to attack. Despite the introduction of numerous war beasts by the mages the war ended abruptly as Shiver reached the and of her patience and appeared on the battlefield. One of the few survivors of the encounter, princess Alesia Kos, now queen of Kesora maintains a scar on her left eye as a reminder of ShiverÆs power.
At the end of the war Shiver demanded numerous concessions from the Mages. Among them there was one regarding orphaned children of the mages. It was ShiverÆs hope that by educating these children sheÆll be able to change the Mage Guild from the inside.
0. The accident takes place.
History of Falgaland.
Important dates.
25000 B.A. The temple of the ancestors is built. It is unknown as to why the draconians and baltans cooperated in its creation. The date has been determinate by a study made by a Unisval mage who discovered that the markings on on the wall coincide with the period of absolute truce that the Baltans and Draconians have every 10 years.
7500 B.A First human state appears. Coincidently this is also the first mention of Shiver in history.
7000-6000 B.A Age of strife, the civilization that strived for 500 years is destroyed in a brutal civil war, progress is halted and people returned to a primitive level.
6000 B.A. One of the many human tribes gains the support of Shiver. First true mages are recorded in history.
5800 B.A Most of the northern Falgaland is united. The kingdom includes most of present day Kesora and Unisval.
5500 B.A The Falgaland library was founded with the help of Shiver. It is currently knows as the Seat of Knowledge.
5400 B.A Shiver travels south, she disappears in the territory known today as Kortair.
5350 B.A The Mage Guild is formed.
5300 B.A Mage Nidal assures regency, numerous laws regarding research are issued.
5282 B.A The king dies of unknown causes, people suspect Nidal as he once again assures regency, the conflict between royalists and the Mage Guild, loyal to Nidal leads to a dictatorship.
5275 B.A The infamous *Study upon Human Conscience* is realized. The use of human live subjects sparks heavy debates in the Mage Guild and a rebellion in the eastern half of the country.
5274-5185 B.A Mage Nael takes the mantle of Archmage, renowned for his violent quenching of the rebellion. In 5185 B.A when the last rebel stronghold was destroyed the country lay in shambles.
5120 B.A Heavy taxation, the lack of any measures meant to reconstruct the country combined with the development of slavery, now widely practiced by mages aiming to free themselves for research and lack of value for the human life leads to another rebellion.
5115 B.A As the various rebellious factions were being destroyed by the Mage armies, Kazad the Great emerges as a military leader in the Talian tribe. Considered one of the founders of Kesora.
5115-5100 B.A Taking advantage by the lack of unity in the Mage Guild, Kazad unifies most of what is now western Kesora. In 5100 B.A he proclaims independence after devastating the mage armies in the battle of Lake Kesora.
5087 B.A The Talian Kingdom is recognized by the new archmage Nedal, a series of buffer states are created out of the other rebellious territories.
5000 B.A At the call made by the citizens of one of the buffer states KazadÆs grandson Cyll begins a campaign of unification. Lack of military and economic abilities plunges the Talian Kingdom in a violent war.
4985 B.A Archamge Nulen overrules the GuildÆs decision and decides to intervene in the neighboring war. His death in battle 10 month later leaves the country without a leader and in a anarchic state. Lack of interest for leaderships combined with the fact that most of the guild members considered that nothing is more important than their research lead to an anarchic state. A Archmage isnÆt picked for the next 600 years.
For 600 years, civilization was a scarce commodity, it is only because of the Librarians of Falgaland that we have recordings during that period. Known as the scientist of Unisval, the Librarians maintained the independence of The Seat of Knowledge and continued to expand the city. It is the considered the oldest surviving settlement in northern Falgaland. Most of this period is marked by violent conflicts in the east and a total lack of organization for the west. Historians consider that history stood still.
4395. B.A After countless years of war, betrayal and chaos regent Kalina unites the eastern territories
* Kesora*. She begins a campaign of conquest in the west.
4395-4385 B.A Faced with the unstoppable Talian war machine the Mage Guild reunites for the first time in 600 hundred years. The Mages refuse inviting the Librarians to the war council.
4370. B.A After witnessing defeat after defeat Archmage Nial accepts the demands that the Librarians made. The Unisval Combine is formed.
4368-4360 B.A Talian troops lay siege to the Seat of Knowledge, due to the impressive defensive array the city canÆt be conquered. In 4360 the death of Kalina prompts the Talian troops to lift the siege.
4360-4310 B.A Most of Unisval is conquered, yet the Seat of Knowledge doesnÆt fall. In 4310 the Talian king dies without a heir.
4305 B.A Talian armies support their commanders for the position of king. Taking advantage of the civil war Unisvel slowly reconquers the lost territory.
4210. Last Talian army is banished from Unisvel territory. The Librarians decide to maintain a small professional army purely for defensive purposes.
4210-4010 B.A The Talian Kingdom splints in several states that are constantly at war with each other.
4010 B.A The law of experiments is enacted. No experiments on sentients are allowed in Unisvel territory. As a result several mages point their looks at the neighboring territories.
4008 B.A Mercenary army lead by the Guild begins conquest campaign. Nomad tribe settles on the shores of Kesora and found the city of Kesora.
4005 B.A Queen Ardera defeats mercenary armies in the second battle of lake Kesora. Her politic and economic abilities bring most of what was previously the Talian Kingdom under her rule.
4000 B.A The Quendoom of Kesora is born. Queen Ardera establishes a set of rules and laws out of which the law of succession is still in effect today albeit with small modifications:
ôFor the one that takes the throne the most important thing is insuring a heir. Thus no queen of Kesora is allowed to risk her life unless she has already secured succession.ö
Her successors establish a strong matriarchy in Kesora. *Among other females were the only ones allowed to trade.*
3800 B.A Kortair is revealed to the world. Rumours appear about its mysterious ruler.
3800-2500 B.A Golden age of Falgaland.
Many consider this period as the greatest in all history. Commerce flourished, relations between the three states were excellent and first explorations of the Esterk forest take place. Trade relations are established with the baltans and the draconians.
However things were not as brilliant as they seemed, the Mage Guild lost a lot of power in Unisvel and the set of treaties that Unisvel entered severely limited their research possibilities. Overpopulation started to become a problem and many realized that things are going to change. 2500 B.A was the last year of peace for Falgaland.
2499 B.A Kesora invades Unisvel. In the following war the Unisvel mercenary armies were easy defeated by the Kesora military. Mages gain once again a position of power.
2485 B.A Undead intervention in Unisvel. Kesoran invasion is halted.
2484 B.A Baltan/Draconian mercenaries are hired by Unisvel. Kesoran fleet is destroyed.
2480 B.A Kesora signs a peace treaty with Unisvel at the pressure of the undead armies.
2475 B.A Shiver is revealed as the ruler of the Undead Kingdom.
2470 B.A As a result of the war with Kesora the Librarians lose power over the country. Use of abominations and blatant ignorance of the old laws by the Mage Guild leads to a civil war.
Many have been said about this civil war, but most historians agree that it would have ended in just a few years were it not for Kesoran and Kortair interferences which practically transformed all of Unisvel in a battleground for countless years. Slavers from Kesora made huge fortunes and slaves were a common sight in Kesora. More and more rights for males were revoked.
2200 B.A Kesora begins a costly campaign in Esterk. Costs are mainly supported by slave trade. First Nagah slaves.
*The Nagah made very poor slaves, their personal connection with nature and the way they were treated made them wither fast in captivity. Only a few cases of Nagah slaves surviving the first months of captivity are recorded.
2000 B.A The huge costs that the Esterk campaign brought, coupled with the permanent interference in Unisvel lead Kesora to bankruptcy. Power was no longer in the hands of the queen but in the hands of a few rich slave traders. Most progress is halted and the country regresses.
1800 B.A Treaty between the Librarians and the Mage Guild. Research facilities are recognized as independent regions with their own laws, in exchange all Unisvel citizens are protected from any experiments. Also the year when the first Nagah colony is founded in Unisval mostly from slaves bought from the Kesoran slave traders.
1600 B.A After witnessing the way the Nagah population developed for two hundred years numerous Mages displayed the desire to find more about them. As a result of the treaty the only way to do so was to study them in their natural habitat. An expedition force is sent to Esterk.
1599 B.A Numerous Nagah are used for experiments, upon witnessing the difference in development that a broodmistress shows from a regular Nagah one of the expedition members performed a vivisection on one of them.
1598 B.A One of Nagah hatcheries is discovered. This never happened before as not even Kesorans were able to find them. As a result the decision is taken to examine the eggs. Broodmistress Serelena fights off the attackers but loses her life in the process. With her last words she begs her fellow Nagah to protect the younglings.
The following years witnessed probably the greatest war waged by the Nagah. For the first time in history they united under a broodmistress and fought off the invaders. This didnÆt stop the mages to make periodical attempts to obtain information about the Nagah.
1400 B.A First recorded Draconian/Baltan war, though the fact that the two races were at odds was commonly known no war was accurately recorded before . Historians were amazed by the respect the two races showed to each other.
1201 B.A Second major Baltan/Draconian war begins.
1200 B.A The Mage Guild decides to explore the Temple of the Ancestors. One of the mages begins to excavate around it.
1199 B.A Baltan/Draconian war stops. The first time outside races saw the two cooperating. All mages on their territory were slaughtered. The fliers went so far as to set on fire any Mage ship they could come across.
1100. B.A Baltan/Draconians stop all relations with Kesora and Unisvel after a Kesoran slave trader was found transporting a baltan infant.
1085 B.A Archmage Neculos decides to explore The Etheria Breach. As a result trade is strangled. Mage fleets destroy any commercial ships due to the fact that they interfered with their research.
1050 B.A Situation in Kesora degenerates. Even Kesoran citizens are brought into slavery.
800 B.A The lack of trade due to the Unisvel navy determines Kesora to invade Unisvel. The war is short and the Kesoran military is destroyed. As a result the state plunged in a state of chaos.
800-264 B.A A state of anarchy predominates in northern Falgaland. The Librarians refuse to interfere in Kesora combined with the growing power of the Mage Guild made for a bad combination.
264 B.A In a small village the Kos family releases its slaves. Known for her oddities the Kos matriarch appoints her son as heir although males are known to be without rights. The name of the 15 years old? Cyril Kos.
263 B.A The death of the Kos matriarch and the fact that the heir was a male prompts intervention from two powerful families. CyrilÆs refuse to accept marriage with one of the daughters of the families and the fact that he insisted on maintaining the freedom of his slaves earned him a death sentence. As a result a powerful army was sent after his head. Unexpectedly Cyril defeated the punitive expedition relying on a army mostly composed of former slaves.
Numerous slaves joined his forces shortly afterwards.
263-247 B.A Cyril and his army are on the run from the superior forces of Kesoran matriarchy.
246. B.A Forced to accept a battle Cyril obtains his most brilliant military victory. He then uses a force march to attack the capital before reinforcements could be brought to defend it.
245-240 B.A Cyril ends the civil war. He reveals himself as a very skilled individual, not only on the battlefield but also in politics.
239-236 B.A The Cirilien Reforms. Cyril introduces a series of new laws, creates the Kesora National Army and signs the first treaty with Nagah. ItÆs also notable the fact that he began trading again with the Baltans/Draconians. His law against foreign slaves, which made impossible for slavers to acquire nagah/baltan/draconian slaves brought him many enemies.
235 B.A Cyril is killed in a battle against the mercenary forces of a rich slave merchant. However his legacy didnÆt end with him as many expected. The army he developed protected his only child and 5 years later his daughter got on the throne. To appease the matriarchal society of Kesora it was decided that Kesora will remain a queendom.
Known as reformers the Kos dynasty started the process of change in Kesora. It notable the fact that no Kos owned a slave since Cyril Kos.
230 B.A-30 B.A A period of relative peace on ground but one of bloody confrontation on sea. The Mage Guild became the dominant force in Unisvel and continued to pressure the other races for their experiments.
10-8 B.A Unisvel Mages begin experiments on Undead. Several human subjects are also aquired. Frustration due to their inability to comprehend the conversion process leads to the acquisition of more and more subjects. The result of their action was simple: In 25 B.A Kesora declares war, one year later the undead do the same though Shiver does not involve herself in the war.
Initially, the mercenary armies of Unisvel obtained several victories and pushed back the enemy armies. It was not until ShiverÆs most trusted retainer Cyril Kos took charge of the undead army that the odds shifted.
In 4-3 B.A the Kesora/Kortair army obtained several victories, shattering the mercenary armies and pushing deep into Unisvel territory. However they ignored the numerous pleas made by the Librarians who pointed out that they were not fighting against the mages. The result was the mobilization of the small Unisvel army.
2 B.A Was the year that witnessed the worst military defeats for Kortair and Kesora. Despite numerical superiority their armies were defeated by the Unisvel Homeguard.
General Valer, the commander was quickly viewed as the greatest threat. At the request of the Mage Guild and specifically Archmage Niculae, he was ordered to lead a mercenary army deep into Kesoran territory. His initial success brought Kesora to its knees, but the withdrawal of the navy left him deeply into enemy territory without any support. Despite the fact that he managed to siege Kesora, he was forced to surrender by his own men. He played an important role in the treaty with the librarians.
1 B.A The Homeguard retreated to protect the Seat of Knowledge leaving most of the Mage fortresses opened to attack. Despite the introduction of numerous war beasts by the mages the war ended abruptly as Shiver reached the and of her patience and appeared on the battlefield. One of the few survivors of the encounter, princess Alesia Kos, now queen of Kesora maintains a scar on her left eye as a reminder of ShiverÆs power.
At the end of the war Shiver demanded numerous concessions from the Mages. Among them there was one regarding orphaned children of the mages. It was ShiverÆs hope that by educating these children sheÆll be able to change the Mage Guild from the inside.
0. The accident takes place.