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The Order of the White Horse was founded by Conrad II. as a group of virtuous and experienced warriors who were to help …

One of Conrad's first reforms was the restoration of the economic administration of the provinces. After years of …

…ed himself king and founded the kingdom of Magnursia. It was not just a symbolic elevation of his previous domain. With this move, he created an entir…

… authority, but also for the very image of the monarch. The king, who was supposed to embody order, strength and divine favor, was suddenly visibly ma…

…tablished the rule that after the death of the ruler, the youngest adult son becomes the successor. He justified this decision both by his own experie…

Magnus III he was also one of the most prolific rulers of the early dynasty. He had four wives and a total of fourteen children. His dyna…

The first years of Otto's reign were extremely successful. The kingdom grew rich quickly and began to benefit from its locatio…

In -723, the First War of Kings broke out when the kingdom of Trabazar attacked Magnursia. The conflict lasted thirteen years and was…

…s. Leo, a famous warlord and later Duke of the Western Sound, became the seed of a powerful sideline of the house. Philip I the Thinker then took over…

…llona ascended the throne at the behest of her father Cinbur I, who refused to hand over the land to a more distant male line after the death of his s…

…ny, but which was in fact an expression of hard political necessity. In order to secure the support of an important branch of the family, she granted …

…and at the same time the most fatal act of Magnus's reign has to do with the Sorcerer. By this time, the secrets of the new magic were beginning to sp…

After the murder of Cristiano, even some of his closest relatives turned against Magnus. In -497 the so-called Spring Putsch br…

At the end of his life, Ferdinand gained so much weight that, according to the chronicles, he could no longer use the ori…

…m sat on the throne very young. He came of age just two days before his father's death, making his accession one of the most fragile changes of govern…

At the same time, William was one of the first monarchs who began to openly think about the fact that Magnursia is not just a land of people. Mi…

…e the bridge between the classic period of the Silk Kings and the coming era of the Magic Kings. He had not yet waged great magical wars, but he had o…

… his reign is significant as an example of dynastic fatigue. After a generation of rulers who unlocked magic and tried to change the shape of the land…

…ry, he sent an army outside the borders of the kingdom itself. It was a bold step and significant in terms of prestige. It showed that Magnursie no lo…

…to III was deposed, his son was not yet of age. This made room for Henry, who was originally to fulfill the role of temporary ruler. Such a temporary …

… embarked on an unprecedented slaughter of his own family. It wasn't just about removing a few immediate heirs. Henry systematically eliminated even m…

…e also brought about a distinct decline of the state. Many of the earlier measures, including some of the Interracial Laws, ceased to apply, cooperati…

…nergy was directed towards the survival of one man, not the stability of the whole. And that is why his regime could not last long. This type of rule …

The death of Henry I did not just mean the fall of one tyrant. It marked the definitive end of the era of the Silk Kings…

…r, whom Jakob entrusted to keep any son of his on the throne. Ender uncovered the plot of the four elder princes and instead of simply punishing him, …

…tage. Another innovation was the tactic of rapid attack and retreat, often summarized by later chroniclers as hit and run. The lighter units were supp…

The most significant landmark of his reign was the Battle of Jitron. It was here that for the first time destructive magic was used to a tru…

In the second part of the reign, Ignatius began to systematically support the creation of schools focused on teaching destructive…

…ed, and increasingly pushing the limits of its own expansion. Especially painful was the fact that the opponents were already beginning to understand …

…t all sides. In the north, the pressure of the gnomes grew, in the west, kobolds began to penetrate the weakened provinces, and in the south, the elve…

… on multiple fronts cannot be won by another headless push forward. Therefore, he took the opposite approach from his most famous predecessors. He beg…

The climax of his reign was the Battle of the Luna River. Against Magnursia there was a huge alliance of gnomes, elves, B…

… fully royal form, before the emergence of the imperial idea. His rule shows what a superpower on the verge of exhaustion looks like: still strong, st…

…the end, Magnus didn't die in battle or of old age. He was murdered by his own stepmother, who wanted revenge for his harsh purges and at the same tim…

…ec ascended the throne after the murder of his father Magnus VI. The very first steps of his reign made it clear that he did not want to be another em…

…but also administratively after decades of expansion and war. Bureaucracy grew and not all provinces were able to simply accept and implement every de…

…theless, Martinec was still the emperor of the war age. In the north he faced goblins, whose raids turned out to be supported by gnomes. In the south …

…ened, the dwarves entered into a treaty of alliance, investment began to flow into the provinces, and the empire began to rebuild. Martinec supported …

One of the most visible acts of John II. there was an extensive reconstruction of the Imperial Palace in Magnur. I…

… intervened. also to the administration of large cities. He issued new laws that directly dealt with their management, the responsibility of city repr…

…t only in power, but also in the number of inhabitants, the importance of cities and the movement of people across the provinces. While previous gener…

The most visible transformation of Richard's reign was the expansion of the capital. Magnur has grown to almost twice its previous size under …

…d internal migration. People and people of other races migrated for work, safety and opportunity. Richard therefore passed several laws aimed directly…

…ard's marriage to an elven princess was of fundamental importance. It wasn't just a diplomatic act. It was an act that symbolically capped the new all…

…me almost grotesque in a sense. He died of alcohol poisoning after a party during which he drank too much dwarf rum. From the point of view of history…

…changes, resulting in the long Uprising of the Unicorns. This conflict was often political rather than purely military, but it was all the more danger…

…ebellion. The population there, made up of a diverse mix of races, decided that they no longer wanted to remain under imperial rule. Untred repeatedly…

…n whom great hopes were placed. Another of Ferdinand's brothers, Pudenor, died of severe wounds sustained in battle with the Free Kingdom. Only this s…

… see Ferdinand's reign as just a series of concessions. It was during his time that the level of magical education began to rise significantly, and it…

But Henry's reign was not just a period of celebration. In both the West and the East, he faced rebellions by a section of the nobility who opposed th…

Henry had a total of six sons, the last even at the age of fifty-five with his second and last wife, Helena. His fertility and p…

The greatest lesson of Magnus's rule was the encounter with the orcs in the north. They demonstrated a new way of fighting here. R…

At the end of his life, Magnus VII. he became one of the first emperors who consciously worked with the image of his own …

The biggest internal problem of John's government was taking place in the south. The elven population there felt increasingly that they wer…

The mass departure of the elves turned the south into a sparsely populated area, but at the same time full of opportunities for n…

…t opposition. He was the privileged son of John III, chosen from an extraordinarily wide and dangerously branched circle of descendants. Already durin…

…o its sharp deterioration. Many members of the house, including most of John's brothers, came to see Albert's imprisonment as illegitimate violence, a…

The victory in the war of the brothers brought John IV. and immense material gain. Thanks to confiscations, he acquired a large numbe…

…the war, John IV. devoted mainly to the stabilization of the country. It was necessary to restore the economy, repair the damage after a long internal…

…e decisive clash never came in the form of a major field war. The renderers took a much scarier and more effective route. During the celebration of th…

…ive legacy. He maximized the third line of defense project and brought it to completion. In doing so, he actually admitted that some of the old border…

…first glance, it was an extravagant way of life, behind which there was enough money from new sources of income, mainly from mining. In reality, howev…

… afford his lifestyle precisely because of the new wealth flowing into the imperial coffers. And indeed he used it without restraint. However, towards…

On the 8th of Floranis in 922, Francis I was assassinated by a group of hired assassins. His death was part of a coordina…

…iet was convened, where representatives of the remaining provinces gathered. Renders did not participate in it and their place remained empty. Of the …

…r I ascended the throne not as the heir of the old order, but as a man who had risen from a bloody breach. After the massacre of the Renders, the empi…

The greatest strength of Valendor's rule was that he did not try to keep everything in the hands of one court. On the contrary, he u…

…chroniclers as a period of clean-up and stabilization. The surname Administrator belongs to him by right. He was not a man of grand gestures, but a mo…

… the coronation, it was clear that part of the aristocracy did not accept him. The absence of the nobility from the ceremony was not only indecency, b…

…e east, west and north became the basis of the rebellion. Jan from the Youlender family eventually became the leader of the resistance, although Cecil…

…ceful heir or as a compromise candidate of tired families. He came as the winner of the Second Power War, as the leader of the opposition, and as a ma…

The first years of his reign were filled with feverish renewal. He confirmed and expanded trade agreements, not only with trad…

Jan V. was not only the ruler of the post-war reconstruction, but also a real reformer. One of his most significant steps was the introducti…

After long years of wars, the Reich's population was tired and recruitment into the army was failing. Jan therefore reached for…

Jakob II became emperor as a result of the decision of Theodore I, who chose him as a more suitable successor than the younger Charles. This decis…

…ook on suspicion, hatred and the memory of Magnus' death. Many began to more openly point to his father as a murderer and usurper of the throne. It is…

The Youlender core of the house began to convene inner councils where they concluded that Oled's line must not continue. In their…

…atest reform went beyond the boundaries of the empire. Although the empire already had its own unified currency, currencies of other countries still a…

…I made his mark not only in the history of the empire, but also in the history of the entire continent. His reign created an economic, administrative …

The most important innovation of his reign was the annual conventions of the nobility. The first of them took place in 1212, and their purpo…