====== History ======
for a more detailed list see [[history:timeline|-> The Timeline]]\\
**[[history:era1:overview|1st age: age of old]]**\\
//unknown timespan//\\
Creation of the first planes and mortals

**[[history:Era2:overview|2nd age: age of the great empires]]**\\
//debated timespan, at least two thousand years//\\
Rise of the first larger nations, huge development in magic and early magic-tech

**[[History:TheFall|The Fall of Magic]]**\\
The dark god [[deities:major:Oi'Tovon]] ascended and took mortals' inherent magic with them.
This was followed by a decades-long conflict known as the [[history:Fallwar]], which only ended once [[deities:major:Ysra]] made her sacrifice to keep [[deities:|gods]] out of [[cosmology:lower_planes:eludan:materium:overview|]]

**[[history:Era3:overview|3rd age: age of the dwarves]]**\\
//about five hundred years//\\
As the dwarves lived underground, where the War following the Fall didn't affect them as much and as they relied more on craftsdwarfship than sorcerous magic, they managed to keep their empires intact.
Two huge empires - one on each continent - ruled Materium. Their cavern cities spanning basically everywhere.
During this time the elves were driven out of Initium in large numbers and were given their own nation to settle.
The dwarves ruled the surface and relied upon levies for their food. As the surface rebuilt from the fall and rebelled against the dwarves, the empires eventually crumbled, most of the cities being deserted and technology was lost.

**[[history:Era4:overview|4th age: age of rebuilding]]**\\
//712 years//\\
After the fall of the dwarven empires a period of warfare spanned the globe. Various client states became independent and started competing for territory. As the dwarven empires had kept much of their technology secret, this uncertain state of the world led to a loss of many achievements of the previous era.
On [[geography:Eldask]] and northwestern [[geography:Valtio]] this era was dominated by the rise of the [[realms:alranle:overview|Alran Empire]] and its conflict with [[realms:Faresia]].\\
With the truce between the two nations and the subsequent rise to power of the new Alran King [[history:figures:Sidhhael Alrantora]] in 505, along with the popularity of the philosophy of [[history:figures:Darton]], the situation on Eldask stabilisied the Empire stopped expanding. Over time parts of the empire split off and the monarchies power waned.