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Cruseryx has seen many long eons pass and many ages come and go. This may be a good time to make the distinction between Ages of Mortus and Ages of Substance. The first is reference to the period of time that mortal life has been tracking time, and their ways of splitting our timeline of existence into periods of significance. The latter is a more Academic term used to chapter specific periods of time. I am sure this will become more clear as we progress through my entries.
The First Age
The Second Age
The Third Age
The Fourth Age
Age of Primordials
The Age of Primordials, is as the name implies, the Age in which the Primordials began their quest to form the planet we call home into their playground. From what the ancient sages had to say, it was a multi-thousand year period in which the oceans were formed, land was raised and the mountains forged. This period is significantly beyond the time in which mortal races, capable of documenting such activities, existed in the world and so the information provided about this time is mostly speculation.
Some of the information provided is supposedly from the Gods themselves, who, once again, supposedly received the information from their partially inherited memories of their previous Primordials. For more information on these inherited memories, please refer to my notes on the New Pantheon.
Age of Tyranny
The Age of Tyranny, the first of these entries in which some modicum of mortal memory is capable of reaching. This is the period of time that encases the creation of the first mortal races, and the domination that the Primordials exhibited over them. The Age of Tyranny itself lasted at least 20,000 years, potentially even longer, with the Primordials keeping those mortal races that had been granted the privilege of life in a dark and confined limbo between freedom and slavery.
The conditions to which the mortals were subjected often depended on the Primordial to which they served. For example, those that had been created by Aluneire, now referred to as the Elves, lived a fairly comfortable and respectable life, even by current standards.
Age of First Strife
It is the phrasing that my tutor always used when discussing the Age of First Strife, quite aptly too now that I look back upon it. This particular period of time is the one dedicated to, essentially, the First Primordial War. The time in which mortal life on this planet rose up against its oppressors and demanded freedom from their iron grip. The climax of this period was, of course, the sacrificing of many Primordials to pave the way and create the New Pantheon.
Age of Kings
The Age of Kings is the period of time in which humanity began imposing themselves on the free and open land before them, banding together into tribes, villages, townships, city-states and Kingdoms. For some centuries, a highly volatile game was played between these rivalling Kings, Queens and lesser lords, each vying for domination and dominion over the other. All of these power games were in service to a single, universal goal; Empire.
Any of these Kings or Queens could have declared themselves Imperius, but the real source of ones power, is the recognition it gets and the ability to project it upon others. If no one is prepared to agree that you are an Emperor, then you are in fact, not an Emperor. This particular period of time was brought to an end within a single human lifespan, much to the credit of a single human man.
Carridus Scarro II, 11th Regent to the Kingdom of Caelia, and first Emperor of The Caelian Empire.
Age of The Empire
Named by, for and in respect of, The Caelian Empire. This period of time encapsulates one of the longer spans of time in Cruseryx history, lasting 2,000 years worth of the House of Scarro's reign, before the advent of the Eternal Emperor. The events encapsulated within this period of time are vast and broad ranging, from the absorption of most of the remaining lands of Cruseryx, to the establishment of The Imperial Senate and the Second Primordial War.