The Historical Documents and Timeline of the Azhujurius,with focus on Pre-Methronnian Eras and the factors of Formation to the Amalgamate,
prologue by Sephilia TezekilthPrologue
When I was an undergraduate my Professor of History of Ascheran Spheres of Power once asked me, 'What do you believe to be the single most important event in Methronnian History?' Looking back at the question, I found that it was vague, inconclusive, indeterminate and without significant detail to specifics, thereby making it a purposely misleading and difficult question. Infact, I would even go insofar as to say it is a 'bad' question, though that carries lines of biases the tone and projection.
That said, as someone who has studied extensive tomes on Ascheran, Methronnian and Jenrakian History, I would say that the most important and well-known incident is the repulsion of Krejei forces by General Enkur. While the Church disagrees with the claim, it is definitely very likely that Enkur was never a god, and that he was a general who served to rebel against the Krejei that were overpowering the (then) weak city states of a beleaguered skeleton for the Methronnian Imperiate.
Therefore, April 8th, 152 BCE is considered the quintessential 'easy answer' to the question of 'most important date?' by most historians, because it marks the end of the warring states and domination era by foreign powers and marks the beginning of Methronnian - and subsequently Tsellian - domination across the continent. Without the victory of Enkur against the Krejei General Celdebomn Aurthehk, there would have never been so many works and romanticised portrayals of the young hero, and more importantly, there would have been no solidified and grass-roots Tsellian Church. The Amalgamate may have never ceased to exist if April 8th, 152 BCE was a failure and the battle was lost.
Regardless, while I make this claim, the fact is that the Church is steadfastly against the argument that Enkur was nothing but a man, and even as the Ascheran scripts prescribe the Void Years as a strong case of building of Ascheran base and the tales of the Karbulians, it is not historically canonical as far as research has proven - digs and excavations have found little, if any evidence, to prove that the Ascheran scripts were accurate records of the lost time period. In fact, it is more likely that they were a group of sensationalised book-keepings that only loosely described the era upon which we Methronnians have so earnestly lusted for knowledge.
Regardless, it is not out of the question perhaps even if we did figure it out and our history was revealed, we may not be growing up wondering about the fantastic battles of Enkur against Ciranaar on Sephut Ahkaj, or the grand defense of Ifet against Zarazego's hounds or the romantic and tragic tale of Azserim as he walks through the deeps of the Black Chaos to retrieve his wife.
Perhaps we'd never believe history and live and cling onto our own ideas growing up, because they serve to provide a moral compass and image for a simpler time in this erratic and uneasy world. Of course, there is no lack of incentive to try, but I find that Tsellian Historians are more well-met outside the Methronnian mainland, and while Xzaerom has been fortunate to protect us from the Church, it cannot nor will not hide all of our kind.
Because of that, I feel that our noble tradition may be lost among fairy tales.
- Sephilia Tezekilth, University of Haasdra
The Timeline
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3000 BCE: The first records of settled human activity found on the Nahm basin, suggesting development and civilized development of the Ascheran mainland from the Eastern plains.
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2300 BCE: The first villages begin to develop, with local chiefs taking up positions of shaman under pagan deities. The development of paganism begins to flourish in what is generally isolated communities.
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2282 BCE: Isolated communities begin to come into contact with each other, and soon differing deities leading to differing clans cause a rise in military aggression. This is known as the Messa Vizjaaq, or the First Inclusion.
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1540 BCE: Clans begin to develop into larger cities, and overharvesting of resources lead to focus on development of woodworking, iron-working and gold-mining. The first cities open up amidst the conflict as peasantry begin to conglomerate towards major trading hubs.
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1533 BCE: The highly influential play, Mehera Sel Tathrum, marks the beginning of caste-based thinking and begins the idea of specialisation in the Ascheran continent.
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1200 BCE: Local city leaders turn into Warlords as the cities begin to attract private military powers, as feudal clans turn into larger federations of vying Lords by fiefdom – Viziths – leading to increased uneasiness between Ascherans.
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870 BCE: Oldest records show of the cult of Emnekria emerge, which become the foundational precursor to the Enkur movement, start showing up around this era.
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862 BCE: The first Krejei city states develop south of the Viraigius River.
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820 BCE: The Sephek Tsrianm, or Great Famine, occurs during this timeframe, leading to forced migration to the north.
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818 BCE: The first Sandurian records, the Ophik Shabbakruum, or the Ballad of the Plains, date to this era, showing significant Ascheran influence.
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800 BCE: The first Sandurian city states emerge, with the city of Odokera as its center.
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755 BCE: Ascherans move westward, eventually reaching the Golden Coast.
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752 BCE: The first oceanic city state, Sel Mekros, is founded.
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748 BCE: Following Sel Mekros’ example, other clans form cities of their own as populations begin to grow along the Golden Coast.
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700 BCE: Nakroses – city states – along the Golden Coast begin to form alliances for protection from older, more aggressive inland Nakroses. The Melkrebruun Aurmaun is founded.
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640 BCE: The Melkrebruun Aurmaun begins extensive trade with the Sandurian city states in the north, growing in power. In response, a coalition of inland states form, known as the Melkrebuun Duriau, with the Nakros of Zakkazon at its heart.
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600 BCE: The assassination of the Lord of Horsingra in Northern Sanduras causes political strife in the city, and Sandurian city states close off trade and relations from the rest of the Ascheran continent. Trade with the Aurmaun grinds to a halt.
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558 BCE: Unable to maintain trade without Sandurian assistance, the Melkrebruun Aurmaun presses for reopening of trade for the Sandurian city states. Horsingra does not reply.
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557 BCE: Pressed and unable to act otherwise, the Melkrebruun Aurmaun issue the Siphilum Merknem, the Immediate Proposal, which details that Sandurian cities must open their borders immediately for trade or face consequences. Horsingra, still without a central leader, does not reply. Two months after the Siphilum Merknem, the Melkrebruun Aurmaun launch a combined naval force, invading and sacking the Sandurian city of Pheso. The Sandurians, without a proper united and cohesive response, eventually ask Zakkazon and the Melkrebruun Duriau for assistance. Zakkazon answers in response, under the condition that it can choose a Sandurian candidate to place on the Horsingra throne. Sandurian city states accept.
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556 BCE: Duriau forces attack, invade and sack the Nakros of Krekkazalbuun, which immediately notifies the Aurmaun. Refugees from Krekkazalbuun are intercepted on their passages north, thereby forcing them south to the Krejei lands. The Nakros system is introduced to the Krejei plains.
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552 BCE: Aurmaun forces hold out against the combine force of a growing Sandurian army and the Duriau, before calling for an alliance with the southern Krejei states. In response, the Krejei invade the Aurmaun cities. The Melkrebruun Aurmaun was defeated at the Battle of Semterra. Duriau places General Aldoret Veldarum, a Melkrebruun Duriau sympathiser, as the Lord of Horsingra.
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450 BCE: Veldarum’s great grandson, Ithilboleth, creates a unified Sandurian army and consolidates and amalgamates the warring Sandurian states. It is named Sanduras, meaning ‘The Progenitor’.
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448 BCE: Sanduras experiences a cultural renaissance, developing unique and highly individualistic ideologies, philosophies, and arts. Horsingra becomes the hub for political and cultural activity on the Ascheran continent.
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433 BCE: Ithilboleth’s son and heir to the Sandurian Throne, Issek, begins to rally bickering nobles together for invasion of the Golden Coast.
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432 BCE: The Nakros of Ouridna is founded by priests off an old Sandurian army encampment.
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408 BCE: By this time, The Sandurian Empire spans from the tips of northernmost Ascherach to a few kilometres south of the Viraigius, before it defeated the last old Aurmaun Nakros, Suriga, at the Battle of Sasz Eren.
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389 BCE: Zakkazon adopts Emnekria as its official religion, and its head leader becomes known as the Zakakorn.
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340 BCE: Again, the Sandurians begin to consolidate power along their Empire, and move south into the Krejei lands to invade.
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339 BCE: Issek is killed by the Krejei General Assalthrung, at the Battle of Philthiessaun. The Sandurian Empire pulls out to determine a new heir.
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334 BCE: Medothruul, Issek’s son, assumes the throne and attempts a second military campaign against the Krejei, leading to the Soremn Vizjaaq, or the Second Inclusion.
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332 BCE: Medothruul dies and is replaced by his son, Sedurthan.
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300 BCE: Sedurthan dies and is replaced by his son, Mekel.
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264 BCE: Mekel dies and is replaced by his son, Abrahk.
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244 BCE: Abrahk pulls out of Krejei after he had to station forces in Horsingra to consolidate power at his home base.
THE DECLINE OF ANCIENT SANDURAS
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242 BCE: The Sandurians lose control over the Southern Viragius after the Krejei push up north.
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200 BCE: Sandurians are defeated at the Battle Veningur, and forces are routed back to their empire on the Golden Coast.
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199 BCE: Krejei forces push north, but mistook Nakros Felderum as Sandurian territory. Krejei forces sack Felderum, which alerts attention by the Duriau.
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196 BCE: Duriau, led by Zakkazon, lead an invasion of the Krejei forces along the Golden Coast with Sandurian alliances.
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194 BCE: The Krejei defeat the Duriau at the Battle of Omnkeh, and the Sandurians at the Battle of Sel Badahk in a span of two weeks between.
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192 BCE: Zakkazon is sacked by the Krejei, as the Krejei empire begins to grow stronger as it moves north.
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190 BCE: The Nakros Methronn, takes over as the head of the Melkrebruun Duriau. The Vizith for Methronn, Tesemdella, sends his general Serrim Ashkrom to hold against the Krejei forces.
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154 BCE: Krejei forces are victorious at routing and defeating much of the Sandurian and Duriau forces until Tesemdella’s son, Mihilvalii, rallies for leadership under the Methronnian Vizith. The Solabrus Afetherm, or the Council of Unquestionables, is held. Mihilvalii is given full administrative power over the other Nakros states to combat the growing Krejei threat.
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152 BCE: Krejei forces continue to be victorious until they are pushed back at the Battle of Sel Hehenna by a young religious resistance fighter named Niur Enkur.
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151 BCE: Mihilvalii enlists Enkur as a General of his army, and effectively Enkur begins to rout Krejei forces with incredible success. Enkur receives the title of Tempestra, or Great Maul.
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145 BCE: Krejei forces are defeated at the Battle of Sasz Kerenuk, where soon after Mihilvalii dies after appointing Enkur as the heir to the Methronnian title.
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142 BCE: Enkur moves his forces north against a weakened Sandurian Empire and conquers its seat of power, defeating the last pure Sandurian King Rekkidraum at the Battle of Orderra.
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128 BCE: Enkur then moves to a weakened Krejei and defeats the Krejei prince, Ciranaar, at the Battle of Pankreska.
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122 BCE: Moving west, Enkur conquers the last remaining Coastal Nakroses, and names the empire that is founded Ascherach, with Methronn at its center.
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121 BCE: Emnekria becomes the official religion, replacing the varied Methronnian religions.
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120 BCE: The Primera Era begins. According to historians, archaeologists, sociologists and anthropologists, the Primera Era carried high levels of instability. The infamous Xonar Ultimatum, a behemoth 6440-page book detailing the events of the Primera Era, have yet to be deciphered. In these years, what is known as the ‘Vetheta Erhma’, or ‘Void Years’ have frustrated and confused historians and archaeologists in regards to the details of the Primera Era. Suffice to say, though the Tsellian bases its Manuscripts on its interpretation of the Xonar Ultimatum, academics cite inconsistencies between the cultural differences of previous eras and the tales of Enkur to really consider the Tsellian Manuscript as a legitimate source of accurate historical work.
THE METHRONNIAN REVITALISATION
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1556 CE: Rising powerfully, Kneiur Sour takes over and reforms the system. Democracy for the first time in Methronn occurs. It is believed to be Methronn’s worst moments.
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1558 CE: The
Markurum Decisive, one of the foremost works on Methronnian sociology. This thereby paves the way for contemporary Jenrakian strata of society.
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1561 CE: The murder of Kneiur Sour’s wife,
Mellerai Sour, is recorded as being the catalyst to the Sour Totalitarian lockdown.
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1588 CE: The
Treatise of Haasdra, which splits up power among the conquering Methronnian states, places the Viraigius River as the main governing body and the borders of the Methronnian Imperiate.
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1589 CE: Sour dies after a long and vicious reign, leading to his grandson Sospheth Sour to rule by right of the current Therax,
Sembara Hahruhm.
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1632 CE: Sospheth’s strong rule could not be strong enough, however, as he was murdered and finally replaced by his ambitious and totalitarian son, Armon. Armon, a powerful traditionalist, reenacted slavery and set the taxation rate to full.
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1633 – 1783 CE: His short reign went by unnoticed, however, as his death incited another civil that engulfed the remaining surviving provinces. The Sandurians, coming from the northern invade northern Methronn but are repelled.
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1783 CE: Salumeira Sa Saravorn, a famous Methronnian treatise on proper education, writing and literature interpretation of pre-Methronnian eras, is written during this time period by scholar Urusaum Idek.
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1783 CE: Dura Mennmin becomes the new ruler of Methronn, and destroys the other provinces. Methronn expands slightly. Methronn was later named Jenrak.
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1786 CE: The Vaazka Hierarchy, a massive network of citadels in northwest Jenrak, are presumed to have begun construction around this time.
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1800 CE: Dura’s death was replaced by Renglessimon Ai, a political powerhouse.
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1803 CE: Renglessimon Ai reintroduced a massive education base, creating and writing
The Doctrine of Solidarity of the Caste, a 6 volume work detailing the rise and fall of Methronnian warlords and kings through the control of a populace’s literacy work. Renglessimon is titled by Professor Hezhoku Genkon as “one of the first of the class of economic generals – those individuals who fight with money, education, society and morality rather than swords and ships, and come out successful for it (Genkon 1:22).”
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1810 CE: Renglessimon enacted the system of the mouthes, a group of advisors that carry emergency power in the case of the lack of an heir to the throne until the Therax chooses a new royal crown.
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1824 CE: The first records of the first of the Prakkem Zivath, the Guard Families, date back to this time frame, with the recorded founding of the family Treyuko.
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1860 CE: After his reign, Renglessimon noted in his will that his power will pass forwards to Hazmaht, his son.
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1888 CE: Gunpowder is circulated through to the Southern Methronnian Imperiate by the Rithos Pseuronaders – elite warriors of Christian faith from the Rithos empire to the south – leading to the first developments of gunpowder weaponry in the Methronnian Imperiate.
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1891 – 1894 CE: The War of the Destabilised,
Mihrid Hashud, occurs during this period with the inception of gunpowder. The Methronnian for the first time begins to field mass armies.
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1896 CE: The Methronnian Imperiate goes through a swift industrial revolution. The famous treatise on Imperialist economics,
The Consideration of Parties in Relation to Power, written by Sorab Meldura, first surfaced copies around this time period. Historians speculate, however, that the book was written far beforehand, though it was not in widespread publication until the resources necessary were visible. The Methronnian Revolution, as a result, revealed the book to be of vital to Methronnian economic dialogue.
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1912 CE: Hazmaht was killed in his sleep by his mouthes, the Rissefs. Power is shifted towards Teurlf Rissef, a cunning and devious ruler.
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1932 CE: Teurlf’s handsome and charming brother, Miraclus Rissef, with the help of the people, overturns his wicked brother’s rule.
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1936 – 1948 CE: The War of Teurlf Madness, a conflict that dragged on for twelve years, was waged as a result of increasing instability between Miraclus and his mouthes, who represented the 24 Old Families. Unwilling to lose power, Miraclus challenged Canon Law and thereby waged war on the Methronnian Imperiate.
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1972 CE: Miraclus is poisoned by his son, Jerkan, where he was usurped. Economy collapses.
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1973 CE: In the most recent print of new money, the Methronnian Imperiate is named ‘Jenrak’, making the naming official.
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1981 CE: After thousands of years of hiding, the Serptine bloodline emerges, with Arborgard the Twelfth, destroying Jerkan’s rule, and taking Jenrak for himself once more.
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2003 CE: Rashkta Nirandu introduces the Amalgamate System after the fall of the House of Dreskisk
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Present Day The Amalgamate of Jenrak is ruled by Sephilia Tezekilth, which governs Ebbuth to the north, the Rithos to the south, the Krejei to the southeast, and the Apek to the east.