History

The lands of Amentir have a long and detailed history. However, adventurers tend not to make the best scholars. The following is an incomplete history of Amentir that represents what the average adventurer might know.

Age of Ancients
-? - Time of the Kamari.

-3000 - Altier invade from the North West, enslaving the scattered human tribes in the North, slowly spreading South and East.

-500 - War of the Elders - The Altier war against the Maenglinir.

-400 - The fall of the Altier.

Age of Crowns
0 - The reclamation of Stonesea.

590 - King Renweard the Great unites the tribes of the South under one banner.

650 - The great march. The kingdom spreads along the coast and up the rivers, absorbing the Halfling lands of the Greenmarsh and spreading North.

740 - Peaceful contact made with the dwarven kingdoms.

930 - During the reign of King Leofric I various cities rebel against the unified rule, the kingdom becomes fractured.

960 - The Turning. Under King Leofric II the simmering rebellion turns violent as the people rise in open revolution. The civil war ends when King Leofric II is killed and the royal family is overthrown.

Age of Reason
0 - Treaties are signed by the leaders of all the Free Cities, establishing the patriciate and the modern government.

70 - Elves reappear and set up enclaves within Amentir.

110 - Refugee orcs arrive from the South West and begin spreading through Amentir.

200 - The Great Blight. Disease sweeps through the lands.

240 - Amentir wages war against the neighbouring human nation of Vosau. Fighting begins in the Southern islands and spreads onto the mainland. Several orc tribes ally with the armies of Amentir and are officially rewarded with land in the Western Plains.

330 - “The Western Problem” War breaks out between orcs and dwarves in the West. The patriciate officially remain neutral, but help broker peace.

384 - Trade wars between Carden Bridge and Mort turn violent, leading to conflict between the cities.

386 - The Greenmarsh agreement officially declares peace between Carden Bridge and Mort.

395 - Khazguul the cruel unites the Hobgoblins in the wild lands and invades the Giant’s Stride. Corton is besieged, but the hobgoblins are eventually repelled.

400 - An unusually cold winter is followed by widespread flooding in the spring.

408 - present day.