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| - Recorded history began when records of Aegor I Dragomyr building the city of Drakonia were discovered dated back to 10,300 years ago, officially ending the Age of Legends and beginning the First Era. Time proceeded on as the kingdom built around Drakonia continued to expand and spread its influence, with the Dragomyrs typically at the helm. By the end of the First Era, a Thyllanorian kingdom, comparable in size to an empire, arose, and the declared heresy of the Two Paragons, which had become a faith from the divine beatification of the men Alzar and Nyule, became its state religion, along with most of Andoras, which was converted by monks of the Two Paragons. Most of what we know about the First Era and every period thereafter until reliable records came from Andoras themselves is because
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| - Recorded history began when records of Aegor I Dragomyr building the city of Drakonia were discovered dated back to 10,300 years ago, officially ending the Age of Legends and beginning the First Era. Time proceeded on as the kingdom built around Drakonia continued to expand and spread its influence, with the Dragomyrs typically at the helm. By the end of the First Era, a Thyllanorian kingdom, comparable in size to an empire, arose, and the declared heresy of the Two Paragons, which had become a faith from the divine beatification of the men Alzar and Nyule, became its state religion, along with most of Andoras, which was converted by monks of the Two Paragons. Most of what we know about the First Era and every period thereafter until reliable records came from Andoras themselves is because of the meticulous detail that the missionaries would write down, in order to tell those back in Drakonia about the Andorasi and their ways of life. The missionaries also taught the Andorasi how to write, which they had not yet independently developed -- to this day, all surviving writing systems on both Andoras and southwestern Doras Edrossi are written in a Drakonian-based alphabet. Time went on, with events such as Drakonia becoming an empire becoming major history, as Aevorius Ignitius Dragomarus, also known simply as Aevorius, united the entire Drakonian peninsula and all of the city-states in the Third Era. The Drakonian Empire was slowly growing with every passing year, but it came to depend on a certain industry; slavery. By the late Sixth Era, a slave uprising, later named the Gladiator War, freed or killed all of the Empire's slaves, and in return, decimated its economy. Drakonia was mostly united in its attempts to restore its infrastructure, aside from a few disgruntled lords who still desired the commerce that their slaves generated. Civil war, however, was then unlikely. Drakonia could have perhaps returned from this, but before long a strange force began to interfere with various people throughout the world -- The Shadow had come to the world, then unbeknownst to anyone. Through this evil force weaving the lies of deceit, inspiring men to take up arms against one another, and bringing many dragons to near-feral states, the Dragon Wars began. After 30 years of constant warfare, Drakonia resembled a wasteland, with the peninsula all but covered in ash and the majority of dragons dead in the carnage. If that wasn't enough for an already physically and economically crippled Drakonia, the Shadow's earthly forces began to invade; disgusting, twisted creatures that resembled humans only in bodily form. Their unmatched cruelty and inability to care for oneself's safety meant that these mutated beings were far harder to kill than any man. It seemed that Drakonia was all but cursed, and many tried to emigrate before long. Drakonia's population had been declining from the constant warfare, and some places were completely uninhabited by the time the Shadow reached them. All hope was lost, save for a man named Draqipane Dragomyr. Draqipane came into power, and by some stretch of a miracle, managed to convince all men of Drakonius to unite under his banner and push out the supernatural force that now plagued them. Typically at odds with each other, the Andorasi and the Edrossians, the Tegrushkin and the Zaentovi, even the Thaurosians and Yalendans took up arms behind Draqipane, and eventually pushed back the Shadow, marching all the way to the east until reaching the Shadowlands itself. Herein they confronted many higher-ranking creatures in the Shadow's army like the Uldor and their general Sceledrus, and eventually killed a physical manifestation of the Shadow itself, at which point the War of the Shadow ended, but at a great cost; the newly formed Alliance of Men lost its young leader so soon after he had established the greatest standing army still yet known to Drakonius. Demoralized, the nations within returned to their homelands with a heavy heart and weary of years away from home. The world temporarily entered a sort of dark ages as Drakonia's influence dies in most places and pureblood Drakonians became a rare sight due to their extensive loss from such profound death. Not much else of note happens for about half a millennium. Nearly 500 years later, in 5 BC, Draegon I Dragomyr began his conquest for the western continent of Andoras, from the island of Dragomyra, an ancient House Dragomyr holding that was all that remained of the old Drakonian Empire, in an attempt to restore his family's prestige and legacy. Armed with a small army -- but several dragons -- By 10 AC he had subjugated the entire continent under his belt, and here began the legacy of the Kingdom of Andoras.
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