AGE OF EMPIRES
The Age of Empires
is a five to six millennia-long period of our ancient history,
which is now largely shrouded in fables. This Age coincided with
the emergence of the equally fabled empires of Telluria
(capital: Tellespont) and Macremia
(capital: Macremnon), which is
estimated to have occured c.a. -15000 A.R.. These two empires are
thought to have risen from the ashes of the near mythical neklaaran
and shandyrin civilizations,
which were destroyed in the wake of the War of
Light and Darkness that ended some five
millennia prior.
The times of Macremia and Telluria are characterized by great
advances in technomagics, the
blending of science and magics. Sadly, the two empires mutually
destroyed each other in the Great War of the
Empires of c.a. -13000 A.R., which also brought
about the destruction of Toristaerenylan
(the mythical first elven kingdom on Anarym) and Shimmerstones
(the equally mythical first dwarven undercity on Anarym).
The fall of Telluria and Macremia was followed a millennia later
by the emergence of the empire of Lankharh
(capital: Lankhalas), around
-12000 A.R.. Characterized by their mental ("psionic")
powers, the lankharhans also inherited some of the ancient
technomagic knowledge of the defunct macremian and tellurian
empires. Then came the rise of the Twelve
Mentarchs ("Mind Lords") c.a. -11000
A.R.: their rule eventually brought about the War
of the Mind Lords which ended c.a. -10000 A.R.,
causing the fall and disintegration of the empire of Lankharh ...
and consequently ending the Age of Empires.
Interrestingly, the end of the Age of Empires immediately
heralded the Age of Nations -
our current age and so far the longest. To this effect, it is of
note that not all of the empire of Lankharh dissolved or
disintegrated after its fall. Even despite the exodus of all
psionic-endowed ("true blood") lankharhans to a land
far north and east they called Keryndhor,
some of those non-psionic humans who were left behind in the
fragmenting and crumbling empire managed to stave off anarchy and
barbarism, holding on to sizeable pockets of civilization few and
far between, thus giving birth to the very first nations. The
secretive, mysterious and isolationist south-eastern nations of Anuria,
Yzunia, Estharym
and Alander are such siblings
of the defunct lankharhan empire, and are consequently among the
oldest and most powerful nations in Anarym.
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