For much of its known history, the land known today as Eder Gira existed in a jumble of intrigue and violence. Historians have divided Elder Gira’s pre-Egelion (or pre-Egalion) time into three different periods, based on styles of culture and government. The three periods are: 1) Era of the City States, 2) Era of the Three Tharches, and 3) the Empire of Eder Gira.