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First cultures and kingdoms

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After the long events of the biological division of the races, there was a period on Ulvenor in which the main role was …

Orcs and the unfulfilled path to empire

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The orcs did not form a true kingdom for most of their history. Their world remained connected with simple tribes and ch…

Ignatius III Weaver of intrigue › Magic as a prerogative of the realm

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One of his most important steps was to restrict access to magic schools to only the residents of the kingdom. He officia…

Untred II. A half-elf › Entering a realm torn apart by victory

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Untred II. became emperor not as a direct son of the ruler, but as a nephew of John IV, which itself shows how deeply th…

Age of Tribes and Clans › Eve of the First Realms

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By the end of the age of tribes and clans, some races had already exceeded the possibilities of a purely ancestral life.…

Realm › Empire and Politics

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A great political body or power.

Empire of Magnursar › The Current State of the Realm

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…yet it remains the most important human realm on Ulvenor. The imperial throne is held by Untred V of House Youlender, a middle-aged ru…

Nations and Realms › The Power Map of Ulvenor

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…venor politically alive. Even where one realm seems dominant, smaller actors matter: border lords, guilds, temples, tribes, city counc…

Nations and Realms › Empires, Kingdoms, and Peoples Without Crowns

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Not every people rules through an empire or a crown. Magnursar depends on imperial hierarchy, provinces, offices, milita…

Nations and Realms › Alliances, Old Wrongs, and Living Borders

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Alliances in Ulvenor are real, but never free from memory. The alliance between dwarves and the Empire is important, yet…

Nations and Realms › Trade Routes, Cities, and the Edges of Civilization

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Trade keeps Ulvenor connected even when politics fail. Imperial roads carry grain, silver, soldiers, letters, and law. E…

Nations and Realms › The Balance of 1470

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In 1470 the balance of power is unsettled but not yet broken. Untred V holds the imperial throne. The Free Kingdom watch…

Important Places › The Stone Crown - Realm Beneath the Mountains

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The Stone Crown is the great dwarven realm beneath the northern mountains. Its halls, gates, mines, and old seats of power are tied…

Important Places › The Free Kingdom - A Human Realm Without an Emperor

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…the Free Kingdom is a unusual political realm that relies more on parliamentary government than classic monarchy. Its towns and villag…

Important Places › The Gnome City-State - Technology Between Realms

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The gnome kingdom, now more of an advanced city-state, is one of the most important centers of technology, invention, an…

Stone Crown › Former Dwarven Realms

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Before the founding of the present Stone Crown there existed in the north several dwarven kingdoms, family holdings, and…

Lawrence I. The last king of war

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Lawrence I took over the country at a time when Magnursia was no longer just a victorious power, but a state bearing the…

Henry II Passionate

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Henry II he ruled formally from 344, but he took over the actual exercise of power several years before the coronation, …

Magnus VII. Builder

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Magnus VII. came to the throne unexpectedly, and his reign was marked from the beginning by the need to extinguish sever…

Jack of Veremore

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Jack of Veremor was the most powerful mage of his time who sacrificed his own life in the conquest of Borund. His spell …

The rise of the First Elven Empire and the war with the desert goblins

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The rise of the desert goblins forced the fragmented elven nations to join forces for the first time in history. Under t…

The Rise and Fall of the First Goblin King

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Pender the Strong, the first true goblin unifier, was able to unite several tribes through force and personal dominance …

Elven victory at the Maple Grove

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The decisive clash between the First Elven Empire and the Desert Goblins. At the Battle of Maplewood, Sylvar and her eli…

Nations and Realms

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Nations and Realms ⚔️ nations.png The Power Map of Ulvenor The politics of Ulvenor are shaped by several m…

Stone Crown

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… to break the boundary between the safe realm beneath the mountains and the Northern Void.

Heartlands of Magnur

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…. These provinces have been tied to the realm since the days of Magnus I, and although each of them lived through its own crises, none…

Heartlands of Magnur › Southern March

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…e ever truly threatened the core of the realm. Its capital is Jiskra, the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Great War.

Free Kingdom

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The Free Kingdom arose in the year 294 of the imperial calendar as the result of a southeastern uprising against the Emp…

Great Elven Empire

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…gest known natural magic. She built the realm in order to unite the elven tribes against the goblins striking from the southern desert…

Ferdinand III Retreating

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…viving son of Untred I, taking over the realm at a time when the cracks of the long golden age were beginning to fully show. He tried …

John IV Childless › The Riches of the Winner and the Rise of the Renders

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…he short term. He needed to prop up the realm with a loyal force that wasn't entirely tied to the blood of the torn Magnurs. In the lo…

Eric II Silent › Elven unrest and political marriage

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…yond the human world, even if the elven realm's direct involvement in the fighting remained rather indirect.

Frederick II Careful › The emperor on the road and the end abroad

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…f power. He liked to travel outside the realm, and during his absence his wife Elianes of House Poldech became increasingly prominent.…

John V. Usurper of the throne › Restoring the land amid ruins and storms

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… more aggressive weather than the human realms had seen in over two thousand years. Famines, earthquakes and great outcry made reconst…

Anna I. Beloved › Tribute to Urgior and peace with the goblins

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… for them. In doing so, Anna spared the realm a bloody conflict and confirmed that her strength lay in reason rather than in the desir…

Magnus VIII. Hungry › Slaughterhouse at the Two Hundred and Eighth Tower

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…attalions to defend the border with the realm of Urgiora. However, he decided on a bold attack and inflicted a historic defeat on the …

Theodore III Tough › Endoret and the Battle of Malga

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…s, and summoned nomads from outside the realm. Theodore assembled five battalions and sent them against Endoretus, who had built a for…

Lich of the North › Silent Lord of the North

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…death will not be an end, but a tool. A realm where there will be no hunger, pain, or old age, but also no freedom, love, or hatred. A…

Sorcerer › Legend or reality

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…er the truth, his name has outlived all realms. For scholars and magicians alike, it remains a symbol of the absolute beginning—the po…

Jack of Veremore › The price of absolute power

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…deed, becoming a legend that transcends realms.

Letteria › A foreigner in the heart of the empire

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…ves were not just a minority within the realm, but part of a larger and older world that had to be dealt with carefully. Nevertheless,…

Endoret

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…called for help from nomads outside the realm. His defeat at Lake Malga and subsequent execution made him a symbol of the era's last g…

Endoret › The Unification of the Three Cities

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…began summoning nomads from outside the realm to come to his aid. An ordinary rebellion was thus beginning to become a military crisis…

The First War of the Dwarves and Cave Goblins › Western Stone Gate

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…most important entrances to the dwarven realm. King Cerbert decided to end the war with one blow. He assembled an elite force and set …

Birth of the Liche › A plan that no one can see

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…ust to survive. His goal is to create a realm where death is not the end but the beginning. A realm where all races will be subjugated…

The peak of military power under Alfred I. › Conquest of Waldoria and Lutharion

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…and Lutharion became part of the Magnur realm, and Alfred's prestige skyrocketed. These campaigns created the image of a king who does…

The establishment of the first magical universities › From personal learning to institution

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…, controlled, and reproduced across the realm.

The establishment of the first magical universities › The spread of magic throughout the empire

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… to newer and more distant parts of the realm where magical tradition had previously been either absent or weak. In this way, magic gr…

The Second Imperial Diet and the Second Imperial Election › An empire without a government

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…e Render either died or fled beyond the realm. Out of 48 provinces, 17 remained without a ruler, which posed a serious threat to the s…

Crucifixion of the last Ariers

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…their name no longer had a place in the realm and had them all crucified.

Crucifixion of the last Ariers › The Emperor's harsh reply

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…he Ariers were no longer welcome in the realm. He did not choose exile, judicial compromise or confiscation of property. He had them a…

Fall of the West Stone Gate › The gate as a symbol of power

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…e wasn't just the entrance to the Dwarf Realm. She was a symbol of their dominance over the mountains. Carved out over generations, th…

Battle of the Hultwin River › A clash of two worlds

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…blin tribes to the borders of the elven realm. After a series of victories over the kobolds and the conquest of several cities, the or…

The Battle of Velvet Meadows › The third expedition against the northwest

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…k defenses and penetrated deep into the realm. The first two expeditions failed to break the stalemate, so the emperor gathered more f…

Battle of Malga › Rebellion of the East

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…began summoning nomads from outside the realm to come to his aid.

Ignatius III Weaver of intrigue

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…cal work. Magic as a prerogative of the realm One of his most important steps was to restrict access to magic schools to only the resi…

John IV Childless

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…he short term. He needed to prop up the realm with a loyal force that wasn't entirely tied to the blood of the torn Magnurs. In the lo…

Untred II. A half-elf

ruler

… within the imperial system. Entering a realm torn apart by victory Untred II. became emperor not as a direct son of the ruler, but as…

Eric II Silent

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…yond the human world, even if the elven realm's direct involvement in the fighting remained rather indirect. A bland but necessary gov…

Frederick II Careful

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…f power. He liked to travel outside the realm, and during his absence his wife Elianes of House Poldech became increasingly prominent.…

John V. Usurper of the throne

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… more aggressive weather than the human realms had seen in over two thousand years. Famines, earthquakes and great outcry made reconst…

Anna I. Beloved

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… for them. In doing so, Anna spared the realm a bloody conflict and confirmed that her strength lay in reason rather than in the desir…

Magnus VIII. Hungry

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…attalions to defend the border with the realm of Urgiora. However, he decided on a bold attack and inflicted a historic defeat on the …

Theodore III Tough

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…s, and summoned nomads from outside the realm. Theodore assembled five battalions and sent them against Endoretus, who had built a for…

Lich of the North

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…death will not be an end, but a tool. A realm where there will be no hunger, pain, or old age, but also no freedom, love, or hatred. A…

Enhih

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…r of Durbuluk Hero of Hultwin elf elven realm, southern Ulvenor Age of the First Empires Enhih was an elven warrior who defeated Pende…

Sorcerer

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…er the truth, his name has outlived all realms. For scholars and magicians alike, it remains a symbol of the absolute beginning—the po…

Letteria

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…istice The Silent Empress elf the elven realm in the south Empire, period of Eric II. unknown unknown Leteria was an elven princess wh…

Magnursie — The First Decline of the Empire › Paranoia, magic and wars within the system

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…ight to define the form of magic in the realm.

Magnursie — The First Decline of the Empire › The Southern Blows and the Elven Exodus

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…ethnic and cultural face of part of the realm, and the old tension between humans and elves was written directly into the landscape. T…

Age of the First Empires › Elves and the First Crown

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…chief goblin and confirmed that the new realm was not just an idea, but a real power capable of defending its borders.

The Age of Reshaping the World › The year 1470 and the coming turning point

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…is still Ulvenor's most important human realm, but its borders are strained, its provinces weary, and its old certainties less solid t…

Rise of the Empire › Historical Events and Periods

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…rmation of royal power into an imperial realm.

High Court of the Empire › Places of Story Significance

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The highest judicial institution of the realm.

History › Rise of the Human Kingdoms

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…thern Empire. It arose as a multiracial realm under Rulik I and was meant to protect the north from goblin raids. For a long time it s…

History › The Age That Reshaped the World

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…ool capable of threatening even ancient realms. All Ulvenor began to move. Weapons, borders, faith, trade, and the idea of power chang…

History › The Imperial Age

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…ces, defensive lines, and the idea of a realm stronger than any single dynasty. Magnur became the capital of human power, the imperial…

History › The Current Era

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…er. It remains the most important human realm on Ulvenor, but compared with its greatest age it is smaller, more tired, and forced to …

Empire of Magnursar › Heart of Human Power

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…making it one of the largest continuous realms in the civilized world. Ulvenor itself is vast and much of its land is uninhabitable, …

Races › Old Wrongs, Trade, and Alliances

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…e split among cave goblins near dwarven realms, desert goblins tied to southern powers, and other local lines. Orcs in the east are of…