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First cultures and kingdoms
After the long events of the biological division of the races, there was a period on Ulvenor in which the mai…
Elves and the First Kingdom of Ulvenor
The Elves were the first race to go beyond a purely tribal society to form a true kingdom with a dynast…
John II Builder › Palace, cities and the new heart of the empire
One of the most visible acts of John II. there was an extensive reconstruction of the Imperial Palace in Magnu…
John II Builder › The laws of great cities and the symbolism of the coat of arms
…n projects, John II intervened. also to the administration of large cities. He issued new laws that directly dealt with their management, the r…
Endoret › The Unification of the Three Cities
Endoret united the rebellions in the cities of Coulim, Tarakulina, and Fire Rock. In doing so, he created a threat tha…
The emergence of a hierarchical judiciary
…stablished under James III. and divided the court system into city, province, fiefdom, and imperial levels. Citizens gained the ability to appe…
The emergence of a hierarchical judiciary › Courts in a Growing Empire
With the development of cities, provinces and trade relations, the older court system became confusing. Diff…
The emergence of a hierarchical judiciary › City, province, country, empire
The new system divided judicial power into city, provincial, state-administrative and imperial levels. …
The emergence of a hierarchical judiciary › Law as an instrument of unity
The reform strengthened the unity of the empire as law began to operate according to a shared framework…
Laws of the Great Cities › Laws, Reforms, and Institutions
City laws governing life in the great centers.
Nations and Realms › Trade Routes, Cities, and the Edges of Civilization
…a sea routes, and gnome workshops form other networks of movement and exchange. No single power controls all of them, and that is why informati…
Great Plains › Hirch, Javorica, and the Variety of Kobold Cities
The Great Plains are known for the striking difference of their kobold cities. Hirch lies beneath the g…
Frozen Stones › Fall of Hvorzo and the Buried Cities
In -250, the region was struck by an unexpected Winter Storm. It hit the nearby mountains, triggered earthquakes…
Magnus I. Founder › Founding of the Kingdom of Magnursia
…agnus declared himself king and founded the kingdom of Magnursia. It was not just a symbolic elevation of his previous domain. With this move, …
Magnus II Cursed › Illness and fall of the royal face
Shortly after the coronation, non-healing scars began to appear on Magnus's face. At a time when illnesses were expla…
Magnus III Young › The law of the youngest son of full age
Magnus III therefore decided to make an extremely important change. He established the rule that after the death o…
Magnus III Young › Family, marriage and branching of the family
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 …
Otto II Defender › The rise of a trading power
The first years of Otto's reign were extremely successful. The kingdom grew rich quickly and began to b…
Otto II Defender › The first war of kings
In -723, the First War of Kings broke out when the kingdom of Trabazar attacked Magnursia. The conflict lasted t…
Otto II Defender › The family and future branches of the dynasty
…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 …
Yllona I. Unsuitable › A crown against the will of many
Yllona ascended the throne at the behest of her father Cinbur I, who refused to hand over the land to a more distant ma…
Yllona I. Unsuitable › The uprising and autonomy of the Western voice
In the very first years, it had to face civil and tribal uprisings. Some were able to suppress by force, o…
Magnus IV Merciless › The death of the Sorcerer and the fear of a new power
The most famous and at the same time the most fatal act of Magnus's reign has to do with the Sorcerer. …
Magnus IV Merciless › Spring coup and the fall of the tyrant
After the murder of Cristiano, even some of his closest relatives turned against Magnus. In -497 the so-calle…
Ferdinand II Hedonist › The golden throne and the image of excess
At the end of his life, Ferdinand gained so much weight that, according to the chronicles, he could no lon…
William I. Mag › A young king on the verge of change
William sat on the throne very young. He came of age just two days before his father's death, making his accession one…
William I. Mag › Interracial laws and the first conscious administration of a diverse empire
At the same time, William was one of the first monarchs who began to openly think about the fact that Magn…
William I. Mag › The historical significance of William I.
William I is rightly considered to be the bridge between the classic period of the Silk Kings and the coming era of the Magic Kings. He had n…
Richard II Sick › The silent fall of an era
…ring great reforms or famous wars. Nevertheless, his reign is significant as an example of dynastic fatigue. After a generation of rulers who u…
Otto III Weak › The first campaign outside the borders of the kingdom
When the nomads asked Magnursia for help against the orcs, Otto saw a historic opportunity. For the first ti…
Henry I. King of the Blood › Ruler only for a temporary period
…or Henry, who was originally to fulfill the role of temporary ruler. Such a temporary arrangement was not unknown in history, but it always car…
Henry I. King of the Blood › Blood purges of the clan
…nches from which a future candidate for the throne could emerge. In all, he had thirteen of his relatives killed and spread fear throughout the…
Henry I. King of the Blood › Decline of the Empire and the Orc Guard
…lso brought about a distinct decline of the state. Many of the earlier measures, including some of the Interracial Laws, ceased to apply, coope…
Henry I. King of the Blood › A king without a future
…queror. His energy was directed towards the survival of one man, not the stability of the whole. And that is why his regime could not last long…
Henry I. King of the Blood › End of the Silk Kings
The death of Henry I did not just mean the fall of one tyrant. It marked the definitive end of the era …
Ignatius II. Unbreakable › Youth under the protection of Ender
…I. he was literally lucky for months on the succession. If he had been born a little later, the crown would have missed him. Even so, his older…
Ignatius II. Unbreakable › The second war of kings and a new way of fighting
When Ignatius assumed the crown, the war with Trabazar and Jitron was not yet over. However, it was at this stage that his gr…
Ignatius II. Unbreakable › The Battle of Jitron and the First Battle Mages
The most significant landmark of his reign was the Battle of Jitron. It was here that for the first tim…
Ignatius II. Unbreakable › Schools of Ruinous Magic and the Legacy of Government
In the second part of the reign, Ignatius began to systematically support the creation of schools focused …
Lawrence I. The last king of war › A legacy of exhausted victory
When Laurel ascended the throne, court and army alike knew well that Alfred's end was near. The succession therefore took pl…
Lawrence I. The last king of war › Disintegrating supremacy and closed Northern Trade Route
…ening situation on almost all sides. In the north, the pressure of the gnomes grew, in the west, kobolds began to penetrate the weakened provin…
Lawrence I. The last king of war › Defense of the empire instead of further expansion
… on multiple fronts cannot be won by another headless push forward. Therefore, he took the opposite approach from his most famous predecessors.…
Lawrence I. The last king of war › Battle of the Luna River
The climax of his reign was the Battle of the Luna River. Against Magnursia there was a huge alliance o…
Lawrence I. The last king of war › Significance of Laurel's reign
… names, but its meaning is deep. He was the last king to carry on the Great War in a fully royal form, before the emergence of the imperial ide…
Magnus VI A cruel protector › Assassination and the end of the first imperial generation
In the end, Magnus didn't die in battle or of old age. He was murdered by his own stepmother, who wanted r…
Martinec I. Merciful › Onset after blood and the first gestures of reconciliation
Martinec ascended the throne after the murder of his father Magnus VI. The very first steps of his reign made it clear th…
Martinec I. Merciful › An emperor who knew how to listen to the structure of the empire
Martinec very quickly noticed that the empire was swelling not only territorially but also administratively after decades of expansion and…
Martinec I. Merciful › The final phase of the Great War
Nevertheless, Martinec was still the emperor of the war age. In the north he faced goblins, whose raids turn…
Martinec I. Merciful › The beginning of the golden age
…ew era began. Trade routes were opened, the dwarves entered into a treaty of alliance, investment began to flow into the provinces, and the emp…
Richard IV Friend of the elves › The emperor of the growth period
…hat grew not only in power, but also in the number of inhabitants, the importance of cities and the movement of people across the provinces. Wh…
Richard IV Friend of the elves › An extension of Magnur
The most visible transformation of Richard's reign was the expansion of the capital. Magnur has grown t…
Richard IV Friend of the elves › Migration and new laws
…ternal migration. People and people of other races migrated for work, safety and opportunity. Richard therefore passed several laws aimed direc…
Richard IV Friend of the elves › The elven princess and the new blood of the dynasty
… It was an act that symbolically capped the new alliance between the elves and the Empire, and at the same time transformed House Magnurs itsel…
Richard IV Friend of the elves › Death Friend of the Elves
Richard's end was sudden and at the same time almost grotesque in a sense. He died of alcohol poisoning after a party during which he d…
Untred I. Half-elf › Rise of the Unicorns
Resistance rose against these changes, resulting in the long Uprising of the Unicorns. This conflict was often political rather…
Untred I. Half-elf › Orcs, the Southeast, and the end of the Golden Age
…red seemed destined to reign supreme in the Golden Age. But then came the first really serious blows. In the east, orc tribes began to plunder,…
Ferdinand III Retreating › The last son of the Long Emperor
Ferdinand was not a man for whom the throne was an unshakable certainty from his youth. Untred I was survived by two older sons and a yo…
Ferdinand III Retreating › Magical universities and a new layer of the empire
…oncessions. It was during his time that the level of magical education began to rise significantly, and it became clear that the older teaching…
Henry II Passionate › The uprising of the nobility and the battle for John's Bridge
…t just a period of celebration. In both the West and the East, he faced rebellions by a section of the nobility who opposed the strengthening c…
Henry II Passionate › The passions of the emperor and the tranquility of the empire
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 private…
Magnus VII. Builder › The Battle of Skal Reker and the Third Line of Defense
The greatest lesson of Magnus's rule was the encounter with the orcs in the north. They demonstrated a …
Magnus VII. Builder › Statues of the emperor and the public face of power
At the end of his life, Magnus VII. he became one of the first emperors who consciously worked with the im…
John III Prolific › Southern Disturbances and the Departure of the Elves
The biggest internal problem of John's government was taking place in the south. The elven population t…
John III Prolific › New Settlement of the South
The mass departure of the elves turned the south into a sparsely populated area, but at the same time f…
John IV Childless › The privileged son and fragmented inheritance of John III.
John IV he did not ascend the throne as a man whose accession would be accepted by all without opposition. He was the privileged …
John IV Childless › A war of brothers
John IV tried to break the crisis with a quick and hard intervention. He had Albert imprisoned at the crossing between the cou…
John IV Childless › The Riches of the Winner and the Rise of the Renders
The victory in the war of the brothers brought John IV. and immense material gain. Thanks to confiscati…
John IV Childless › A childless emperor and the end of certainty
After the end of the war, John IV. devoted mainly to the stabilization of the country. It was necessary to re…
Untred II. A half-elf › Massacre at the wedding and the end of the family
But the decisive clash never came in the form of a major field war. The renderers took a much scarier and m…
Frederik II Tough › Completion of the third line of defense
…t lasting positive legacy. He maximized the third line of defense project and brought it to completion. In doing so, he actually admitted that …
Frederick III He was reveling › The backyard transformed into a theater of power
…above all for his frequent excesses and the spectacular celebrations he organized for the nobility from all over the empire. At first glance, i…
Frederick III He was reveling › The Fall of the Man Who Lived Too Free
…ford his lifestyle precisely because of the new wealth flowing into the imperial coffers. And indeed he used it without restraint. However, tow…
Francis I. Unfinished › The Great Slaughter of the Renderians
On the 8th of Floranis in 922, Francis I was assassinated by a group of hired assassins. His death was par…
Francis I. Unfinished › The fall of the dynasty and the new order
After the massacre, the Second Imperial Diet was convened, where representatives of the remaining provinces g…
Valendor I Steward › The winner of the election, who first had to clean up the debris
Valendor 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…
Valendor I Steward › An empire handed over to the lower levels of power
The greatest strength of Valendor's rule was that he did not try to keep everything in the hands of one…
Valendor I Steward › The calm authority and legacy of the Administrator
…managed to maintain good relations with the other clans and hand over the empire to his son in an unexpectedly good condition. That in itself i…
Valendor II Besieged › A crown rejected by part of the empire
Valendor II he ascended the throne without a new imperial election, and this was the fatal blow to his legitimacy. Already at t…
Valendor II Besieged › The Second Power War and the emperor between the two halves of the empire
The peace after the first war was only temporary. Many nobles were convinced that Valendor would eventu…
John V. Usurper of the throne › The man who came from the war
Jan V. did not ascend the throne as a peaceful heir or as a compromise candidate of tired families. He came as the winner of …