Eastern History

This page is to describe history that occurred in the Silver Lands, the region east of what is on the main map.

Best map as of 2011-10-23. Relevant part is everything to the south-east of Lin-Elens.

Prehistory

• Elves inhabit Lin-Elens.
• Minotaurs live on the plains around the minotaur lake.
• Dwarves live in the mountains around Firecloud Peak. They are prohibited by treaty with the elves from claiming the hills south of the great river.
• The Eltireans live in floating isles hidden above the eastern side of the Flamebreath Desert.
• Saurians live in the Ssyuriss Fenn.

20 BW - 200 YW: Drakes and Dwarves

20 BW

• Dwarves from Firecloud Peak cross the Great River and colonize the hills of Triththa.

181 YW

• The Silver Drakes attack Firecloud peak and the surrounding area, drafting most of the saurians from Ssyuriss Fenn into their ranks.
• The dwarvish defenses crumble under the combined offensive. When it becomes clear that the war is lost, the survivors evacuate to Triththa.
• The saurians suffer the brunt of the casualties in the war. The remainder are enslaved by the drakes.

182 YW

• The saurians remaining in Ssyuriss Fenn are soundly defeated by a Triththan offensive. The remnants of their civilization are a number of disorganised tribes.

20-400YW: Arrival of humans

The period in which humans first entered the Silver Lands, and carved out their own nations.

23 YW

• Human settlement of the Estmarks begins.

99-127 YW

• Large increase in the use of magic in the Estmarks.

127 YW

• An orcish invasion pushes the settlers south, out of the Estmarks, before the Grand Army of Wesnoth can arrive.
• The settlers found a number of new settlements on the edge of the Kerlath hills an the Sandy Wastes.
• The orcish horde is driven out by the numerically superior Grand Army of Wesnoth, but some tribes desert and settle the areas furthest from wesnoth.
• Contact between the settlers and the Kingdom of Wesnoth is lost completely.
• The settlers acquire a distaste for magic, thinking its use brought on the orcish horde.

171-300 YW

• The settlers expand around the edge of the desert, eventually reaching the mountains south of Lake Aoir. (named Minotaur's Lake on the map)

336 YW

• A large group of magic-using settlers leaves the desert, heading north.

337-368 YW

• The exiles settle in the plains near the Lin-Elens.
• The exiles rapidly expand their territory.
• Ideological conflict about types of magic starts fracturing the new nation.
• The sides eventually consolidate around the cities of Noct and Diurna, on opposite sides of the river.

395-398 YW

• The various tribes around the desert are unified as the Khalifate. Magic is outlawed

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546-550 YW

• Contact between the Khalifate and Wesnoth is reestablished, trade flourishes.

551 YW

• Ravanal is banished from the Khalifate for the use of magic.

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