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…r and without a clear successor. At the Second Imperial Diet, 31 nobles gathered to represent the remaining provinces. The result was…

When Ignatius assumed the crown, the war with Trabazar and Jitron was not yet over. However, it was at this stage that h…

…iven the chance. In 997, therefore, the Second Power War broke out, this time much more extensive. The empire effectively split into …

…hs could build. It is from him that the second golden age of the empire is often counted. After his death, a grand procession of the …

He died of pancreatic problems.

Konrad I restored dynastic power through a minor line and at the same time transformed the dynastic tension into hard ce…

…thus marked a significant return of the secondary branch to the center of history. This change showed once again that the Magnur fami…

Konrad did not hesitate to eliminate rivals even in his own family. In doing so, he created the image of a monarch who u…

During Conrad's reign, an expedition was sent to bring new knowledge. It was her fate that was indirectly connected with…

…tent and at the same time completed the second line of defense. This combination of internal awareness and external preparedness crea…

In the end, the Diet made an unprecedented decision – the emperor would be elected by vote. The Magnurs put up Thomas as…

After the Great Slaughter of the Renderians, the Empire was left without a ruling dynasty. The Render either died or fle…

The Diet gathered 31 nobles who represented the surviving and functional provinces. The Ariers and Zelins had the greate…

Contrary to expectations, the choice was not a long and chaotic process. Valendor, the main organizer of the massacre, was …

On his accession, Valendor I promised to rule according to the old customs and not to favor his house. At the same time,…

The Second Power War was a large-scale conflict between Emperor Valendor II. and a rebel alliance…

After the First Power War, there was a fragile truce, but it did not last. Tensions between the families persisted and d…

The conflict affected most of the territory of the empire and divided it into two blocs. The insurgents led by Jan Youle…

In the final phase of the war, Valendor II lost. control of key areas and its military weakened by the long conflict. He…

Originally, it might have seemed that a wider assembly of all important nobles would be called. However, the core of the…

…elf without clear dynastic support. The Second Imperial Diet was to decide whether the Empire would descend into another civil war or…

The Second Power War was much more dangerous, because against Valendor II. stood the rebel allian…

…nder Konrad II. the Empire approached a second golden age. Prosperity came not from great conquest, but from order, currency, securit…

… North and definitively showed that the Second Golden Age was coming to an end. After a long lull, reality has returned once again, i…

Another great conflict among the old kingdoms.

A secret plan attributed to the oldest masters of the Blood Moon.

Ignatius I ascended the throne unexpectedly and without much preparation. Yet he was able to hold the young kingdom toge…

Ignatius III he was not famous for great victorious campaigns, but for something perhaps more dangerous. He prepared Mag…

…scended the throne as the winner of the Second Imperial Election after the bloody fall of the Renders. He took over an empire shaken …

…y, he did not gain real confidence. The Second Power War then tore the entire empire into two blocs and over the long years exhausted…

…tinent of Oia. His reign ushered in the Second Golden Age of the Empire.

Anna I is among the most popular and prominent monarchs of the empire. She came in as the unexpected successor of Center…

Zareth-Ka was a kobold archmage and second grandmaster of the Javoric School. He followed up on Nuriak's work and took kobold mag…

Under Ignatius III. Magnursie was turning into a power that was no longer just preparing for defense, but for dominance.…

After the massacre of the Magnurs, an imperial assembly was convened to decide the future fate of the empire. In a situa…

The Battle of the Suno River is one of the first major trials of Ignatius II. Unbreakable. It was here that the value of…

The Battle of the Three Armies is one of the most famous clashes of the early reign of James I the Reformer. Three great…

…icant battle of the middle phase of the Second Power War and one of Valendor II's last great victories. Against the imperial army and…

… extremely important. It began with the Second Imperial Assembly after the massacre of the Renders and represented an attempt to rest…

…new legal and administrative reforms, a second Golden Age, but also dynastic crises, droughts, wars, counter-intelligence, late cultu…

The Unknown Western Continent is one of Oia's greatest mysteries. It lies far beyond the Green Sea, and Ulvenor has almo…

A magical cult claims the Sorcer left behind a ritual that can reveal the same western route he alone once survived.

… direct line, but would branch out into secondary branches over time, which would have their own importance in the history of the emp…

…her. From a man destined for one of the secondary roles in the family, he suddenly became the future king. When he ascended the thron…

…n who was originally expected to play a second or third role.

… prison, where he died years later. The second-born Jakob was pardoned after the complex course of the conflict, but had to give up t…

In the second part of his reign, Cinbur turned his attention to the north. More and more dwarves beg…

…to exile, where she soon died. Norsak's second wife fled to the elven lands and married an elven prince there. This also closes the c…

… in the kingdom and Leo took her as his second wife. However, this set off a chain of family and court conflicts. His first wife repe…

…st. His reforms were soon tested in the Second War of Kings, and it was then that it became clear that the new system could work in a…

In the second part of the reign, Ignatius began to systematically support the creation of schools fo…

Ignatius III completed the second defensive line, which Jakob I had already begun to build. The result was a land densel…

In the second part of the reign, Ignac began to formulate diplomatic and historical claims towards n…

…e of the continent's oldest races. This choice earned him the nickname Friend of the Elves, but also sowed the seeds of future disput…

… even at the age of fifty-five with his second and last wife, Helena. His fertility and private life contributed to the image of a st…

After the massacre, the Second Imperial Diet was convened, where representatives of the remaining provinces gathered.…

…time more based on domestic forces. The second expedition was initially successful, capturing cities and castles, but then came the f…

… families. He came as the winner of the Second Power War, as the leader of the opposition, and as a man about whom it was clear from …

…reign was peaceful and benefited from a second golden age. He instituted annual assemblies of the nobility, encouraged the establishm…

…ucated monarch who sought to maintain a second golden age through culture, administration, and personal education. Unlike his father,…

…almost immediately faced the end of the Second Golden Age. A year after his accession came the Three-Year Drought, which crippled agr…

…e III he took office at a time when the second golden age had definitively passed away and the empire began to face stagnation. After…

… no longer benefit from the ease of the second golden age. After a long time, city dwellers began to feel that they could not afford …

…rial soldiers, i.e. the remnants of the second expedition and the fresh third expedition. About sixty thousand warriors fought on the…

…ia was an elven princess who became the second wife of Emperor Eric II. Her marriage to the Emperor followed the South Elven unrest a…

…s already at a more mature age, and the second marriage did not produce a mature heir who could carry elven blood and elven alliances…

The second wife of Magnus I of the southern house, whose marriage helped to consolidate the loyal…

Second wife of Magnus III. from the Terranter family, whose children were involved in the cha…

Second and last wife of Henry II, associated with the late stabilization of his reign and dyn…

…e head of the Poldech family during the Second Power War, great-nephew of Elianes I, one of the main leaders of the resistance agains…

Second wife of Theodore I and mother of Charles. She died during childbirth, the complication…

…en. Without a drive and with a weakened second line, the lumbering dwarves became vulnerable. The enemy gradually surrounded them and…

…stable, controlled and predictable. The second chaotic, fast and constantly evolving.

…l of the kobold archmage Zareth-Ka, the second great headmaster of the Javoric school. Unlike Nuriak, he was not only a visionary, bu…

…ed the way for the future return of the secondary branch to power. Her reign thus remained a tragic reminder that sometimes the state…

…rew directly from the monarch's private choice. This episode shows how a personal relationship could turn into a question of public m…

…is relationship with Bela and later his second wife, led to another scandal. This also showed how closely money, fame and the intimat…

…e Magnur dynasty of a large part of its secondary supports.

…xpedition failed to stop the enemy, the second was exhausted without a decisive result, and the third was supposed to finally return …

…oo young to rule independently, and the choice of regent fell on Elianes from the Poldech family. This fact alone was unpleasant for …