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| The Second Age begins in what would have been the year 9005 of the First Age with the founding of Menava. The first ruler of this kingdom founded the Historical Academy in a Miabrall, where most historians have been educated over the centuries. Over time it became common practice among academy historians to give dates in terms of years since Menava's founding. 1 SA (Second Age) Kingdom of Menava founded. 120 SA A knighthood is established in the name of Tenaria by the royal guard of the kingdom of Menava at Fortress Kavenar. Its influence would eventually spready throughout the world. 435 SA After centuries of hostilities, war breaks out between mages and artificers. Several areas in the world are devastated. Cities are leveled. Gods begin to fear the raging conflict will reach a critical level. Izneria, himself, is said to have gotten directly involved in the war. 547 SA The war is finally contained to the continent of Valdross. Fighting has at last reached the critical level the gods have long feared threatening the entire realm. With no other alternative, Izneria casts the most powerful spell known, raze -- the spell of ultimate destruction. The spell kills every single person there and forever destroys all life on that land. Valdross is left by Izneria as it is as a reminder of the horror of war. It would become known as "Valdross, the blasted continent". 1306 SA After centuries of hiding, mages return to society as the second Council of Mages is established. They publicly proclaim their apologies for the crimes of their ancestors. Izneria builds several schools for the mages in remote places throughout the world. 1694 SA The schools established by Izneria have become full-fledged guilds and are thriving. Mages have been reintegrated into society. The Second Council of Mages is renamed the Mage Guild Council. Shibbaratti Mountains Guild School is heavily damaged by a device smuggled in a cart of hay. Noone knows who the culprit was, but the device is found to be one used by artificers during the war. 1822 SA The Artificers Guild is established in the main compound of the Mage Guild Council and opens its own school there. 2445 SA The vampires who had been growing in numbers on the continent of Nepana launch an all-out assault on the native population. The elven clans fight separately against the legions of vampires. The war would become known by the elven race as "The Insurgency". 1985 SA After centuries of warfare and seeing the survival of their race at risk, the elven clans unite for the first time in their history. The leaders of each clan come together to form a war council. 2113 SA The vampires on Nepana are at last defeated. The war council decides to make permanent the union of the clans that had existed during the war. The first ever united elven kingdom is established, Gaealekal. 2197 SA Old clan rivalries resurface among the elves on Nepana and battle erupts between those wishing to preserve the fledgeling kingdom and those wishing to return to the old ways. These tensions are the beginning of the time known as the Clan Wars. 2402 SA The Clan Wars end with Gaealekal disintegrating back into the original clan-controlled territories. Those who had fought to remain unified are banished to the vast underground caverns that exist throughout all of Nepana. They form the subterranean kingdom of Drowlekal. A treaty is signed establishing boundaries and a permanent cease-fire between those who live in the forests and those who now dwell below ground. |