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For the second chapter I am just wanting to provide what I consider to be an accurate history of the continent of the continent Eurion with less conceit.

Before the last everyday, and for many great cycles of the years, the continent of Eurion was heavily influenced by the elves of Antella Merana, though many humans also lived in the land. During the last everyday, the elves ruled over the entire eastern coast of Eurion and they used their magic to preserve the lands on the eastern coast of Eurion and the people who lived there. When the everyday came to an end, after one-hundred years, and a normal cycle of seasons and years began again, many men would leave the elven-ruled eastern coast and travel to the west, establishing new nations largely independent of Elven influence.

The cities which the elves established along the eastern coast of Eurion include almost all of the major cities on the map: Nerys city, Auris, and Hiraeth were founded before the last everyday. Crona, Altengrad, Vigro, Svidne, Nyeholm, Jaestrad, and Hameth were all founded by the elves after the last everyday, though they had different names. All of these cities existed for the purpose of producing and corralling human and half-elven slaves which were used to perpetuate the existence of elven society.

For thousands of years, elves had issues reproducing members of their own kind. Because they are immortal, many elves view their own children, not as continuations of their legacy, but as potential rivals once they grow old. Elven society has a tendency to stagnate because of their immortal nature, and in the past this has resulted in young elves not having any real place in society. Because they lacked a real place in society, they often rebelled and forced their way into positions of value within society. But, when elves realized that they could have mortal children with human partners, they generally decided that it was better for them to take mortal spouses and produce mortal children because, even if these children and spouses became rivals, they would only ever be temporary rivals, and until their death, they could be quite useful.

The failure of elves to reproduce members of their own race and their preference for human spouses and half-elven children caused the elven population to experience a long decline which, over the course of many great cycles, has caused their population to be reduced to only afew regions, but in the ancient past they were spread across the whole world. They did not die out because of any great war, though elves have died in many wars, both great and small, they simply, slowly, disappeared, because despite the fact that their race dies out slowly, they still don’t reproduce themselves.

Most surviving elves during the time period the map shows are male. This has to do with the fact that, for many ages, many elves ruled over their own independent realms which were almost entirely populated by their half-elven children and their human slaves. Now a single elven man is ultimately quite capable of producing a large force of powerful half-elven warriors in a quite short period of time, functionally one per day, but female elves can produce half-elves at a much slower rate, roughly once per year. Because of this fact, in the age when elves waged war against one-another, female elves were generally much weaker than their male counterparts and often lost the wars they fought and were killed because of their magical knowledge. Women used many different strategies to survive this age of war. Some co-operated with other elven women, forming vast sisterhoods, to remain capable of competing with their male rivals. Some simply joined forces with other elven men and devoted themselves to raising the half-elven children, ensuring that they would serve the elves loyally, and some were part of purist elven societies which stubbornly believed that the union of elves and men was a great sin which would bring many evils on the world, and they made an effort to preserve the elven race. Societies like these, despite their small size, are essentially the only thing that has kept the elven population from completely collapsing. The more mixed elven societies did still produce elves, but elven men and women would rarely have children with one-another unless they were directly ordered to do this by the state, whereas these purist societies would produce elven children regularly. Because of this, I would estimate that nearly two-thirds of the elves that still live were raised in these purist societies, and around a fourth were born before human beings were even discovered. The remaining twelfth were born by order of some ancient elven state before the last everyday or under some other conditions. Only a miniscule number of elves have been born since the last everyday because of the small number of elven women, they make up maybe 1/17th of the elven population, because of the many grudges that exist between the elves that still live, which make them despise one-another, and because there are probably no purist elven societies still in existence.

Even in lands which are ruled by elves, the vast majority of the population is human and the next largest part is half-elven and not fully elven. The elves banded together during the last everyday in order to wage war against the sun and preserve the world from destruction, but after the war their co-operation quickly collapsed and they divided themselves into many different city states based on the lines of primordial grudges.

he humans which left each elven colony to live independently of elven rule formed their own ethnic groups. The Vemnans were from old Auris. The Rutari and the Turans were both from Crona. The Lis people were from Hiraeth, and both the Kaizuran and the Calthurans were from Trical.

Pretty much every different people group in Eurion would settle in the region surrounding lake Calmir during the age of the moon, the equivalent of the first age (since the last everday). The Calmirans, Kaizurans, Lis, Vemnans, Rutari, and Turans all settled in this region because of the fertile farmland around the lake. The Rutari and Turans which lived in this region would eventually merge into one people group, the Mitrad, and the Mitrad were notable because they were the first to domesticate horses, and they stubbornly remained the best cavalry men in every age.

As the Calthurans formed the Calmiran empire, the Mitrad, Lis, and Vemnans would act as the raiding barbarians which constantly threatened, and often destroyed, their empire. Due to the constant threat from the region, the Calmirans would constantly expel and commit genocide against the many groups that lived in the Mitrad plains until it was left mostly desolate, left to be conquered by the Calmiran state.

The people of the Mitrad plains would flee this genocide in many directions. Some, such as the Vemnans, went north into the regions now known as Vancia and Vemna. Some fled across the sea to the west, such as the Kaizurans and the Lis. Some, such as the Mitrad, fled to the north.

The Mitrad were put in-between a rock and a hard place. They were not able to settle in the lands of Calmira because the Calmiran government actively targeted them because they had destroyed Calmira before. They could not settle in Vemna because it was filled with Vemnan clans that were hostile to the Mitrad. They could not settle along the east coast of Eurion either because it was still ruled by the elves, and the Mitrad did not want to subject themselves to slavery. Finally, even the lands of Ruta and Tura, their own kin, were either subject to the elves or the Calmirans.

Being in this strait, the Mitrad would end up settling in the Mitrad mountains, within Eurion’s spine, inbetween Vemna and the elven cities of Janus (Hiraeth) and Maris (Crona). This migration of the Mitrad would mark the beginning of the second age in Mitrad’s calendar.

The Mitrad would wage constant wars against the Vemnans to the west, both because they were more able to fight them, and because the Vemnans were constantly attacking them, while the elves were not. During these wars certain houses distinguished themselves for valor: the two most notable were the house of Hiraeth and the House of Evance. The House of Hiraeth were the descendants of a man, Hiraeth, who led the people of Mitrad from the Mitrad plains to the Mitrad Mountains during the great genocide, and because of this, his house became the first royal house of Mitrad. However, in around the year 200 of the second age, Evance, a general of the army of Mitrad, waged ware against the Vemnans in the pass of Leran, which would later be called the pass of Evance, and would double the size of the kingdom of Mitrad. After he conquered this land, he refused to be return to the house of the king or hand his land back to the king, but he insisted that he ought to be able to rule the land that he conquered. The king, Hiraeth III, did not agree, so he waged war against Evance in order to reclaim his lands, but Evance defeated him handily. It is often said that, after the second battle of Evance Pass, Evance could have taken the kingdom for himself and deposed the house of Hiraeth, but he believed that if he wasted his time ruling over the “old kingdom” he would not be able to truly succeed in his war against the Vemnans, so he let Hiraeth go, and he made himself a vassal of the king of Mitrad and formed a perpetual alliance between his house and the house of Hiraeth, but his house ruled without any royal oversight whatsoever.

Now as the house of Evance continued their wars against the Vemnans, the glory of Mitrad continually moved more and more to the house of Evance, and he was beloved by the people, and the people of Mitrad constantly chose to live in his lands rather than the lands of the house of Hiraeth, so Hiraeth III, in order to maintain his power and authority, decided that it was absolutely necessary to achieve some great feat of his own, so now, it was at this opportune time, that Hiraeth III waged war against the elven city of Janus and conquered it, and he made it his capital instead of his old city in the Mitrad mountains.

This conquest would spark a war between Mitrad and the larger elven world, a war which Hiraeth would lose, until he called on the aid of his ally Evance. Together, and only together, were they able to win the war against the elves and, for the first time, break the dominion of the elves over the Eastern coast of Eurion, but this only angered Hiraeth all the more.

Around one hundred years after the death of Hiraeth III, Lord Lance of Vancia would wage war against the Vemnans and conquer much of the lands of Vemna up to the place known as Lance’s end. After he completed this conquest, because he loved to wage war, he waged war against the house of Hiraeth and became king of Mitrad himself. After this, he liberated the Turans from Elven dominion and the Rutans from Calmiran dominion, and he also waged war against the Elven city of Maris, but he failed to take it. Not being dissuaded, he turned to attack the Calmiran empire, and he took over the lands of Riveron. Again, he waged war against Altengrad, but the people of Fornost united against him and pushed him out. Not dissuaded, Lance returned to the lands of Vancia and waged a second war against the Calmirans in the Mitrad plains.

During this second war against the Calmirans, Lance heavily neglected his eastern territories, so the Mitrad, Titans, and during this time the half-elves of Maris were constantly raiding the eastern provinces to take slaves from the lands of Tura and Mitrad. In response to the Elven threat, the Mitrad, Turans, and Rutans elected their own king: Crona II, who waged war against the city of Maris, and because he was persistent in his war against it, he conquered it, and he made the city his capital. He also rebelled against Lance in order to establish his own kingdom. Now, when Lance heard of this, he continued his war against Calmira without concern until he heard that Crona had conquered the city of Maris and declared himself king and was marching towards Evance keep. In response to this, Lance quickly made a treaty with the Calthurans and stopped halfway through his intended conquest and met Crona in the fourth battle of Evance pass. In the battle Lance was defeated, but the victory was Pyrrhic, and Crona’s advisor, Jaestrad, persuaded him to seek peace, believing that carrying war onto the end would be too costly for the kingdom. Lance also agreed to make peace as he did not want to continue the fighting in his own lands. In the peace treaty Lance gave up part of Evance pass and he handed part of his Calmiran conquests over to Crona. The vassalage of the house of Evance was re-affirmed and the alliance between the kingdoms established once again.

After the invasion of Lance, the Calmiran empire would collapse once again, but after a long civil war, it would be united into one realm once again by the Calthurans, though they controlled only the southern half of the land once called Calmir.

Dynasty I: The House of Hiraeth
Hiraeth I: FA 12-SA 20
Hiraeth II: SA 20-43
Mitraeth I: 43-48
Mitraeth II: 48-67
Cronaeth Mitterson: 67-89
Vetrad I: 89-110
Vereth I: 110-144
Vetrad II: 144-180
Hiraeth III: 180-216
Hiraeth IV: 216-280
Vereth II: 280-310

Dynasty II: The House of Evance
Lord Evance I: 200-240
Lord Evance II: 240-280
King Lance: 280-340
Lord Axton: 340-360?

Dynasty III: House of Crona
Crona I: 311-340
Crona II: 340-360?