History of the Mazes
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This page is intended to provide a chronological timeline of the Mazes' history, regrouping in one place all of the important historical events. For an explanation on how to read the era and year notation, please read this section.
Era 1
- Duration: 150 years
- Started: 3200 years ago
- Ended: 3050 years ago
- Technology level: Pre-agricultural
The first primitive tribal human societies are believed to have emerged during this period. Very little is known about this period of history.
An unknown cataclysm wipes out the entirety of these early humans 150 years after first emerging.
Era 2
- Duration: 150 years
- Started: 3050 years ago
- Ended: 2900 years ago
- Technology level: Bronze/Iron Age
The Mazes' equivalent of Antiquity. A new generation of humans emerges into the world, equipped with more advanced technology. They develop agriculture, writing, and the concept of towns. Reliable recorded history begins during this era. Each town spoke a different dialect and developed their own writing systems and standards, making the translation of the very few documents that survived rather difficult.
Another unknown cataclysm wipes out this antique civilization.
Era 3
- Duration: 300 years
- Started: 2900 years ago
- Ended: 2600 years ago
- Technology level: Early middle ages
This era is the Mazes' early Middle Ages, forming the first half of the Mazes' medieval period.
The third generation of humans is introduced into the Mazes, with further advances in technology. They now possess steel, develop kingdoms and feudalism, as well as various other advancements, such as guilds and standardized currency. The Tal language also emerged during this period.
The world was largely split into two territories, commonly referred to as the White Kingdom and the Black Kingdom. After a brief period of expansion during the first fifty years, borders separating the Kingdoms began forming, and conflicts over territory expansion soon erupted. The two kingdoms officially declared war on each other in E3-65, starting the 235-year-long War of the Two Banners, over the control of all civilized territory in the Mazes.
Early angelic and demonic creatures start appearing shortly after the war begins, each side supporting one of the kingdoms; the angelic side supporting the White Kingdom, and the demonics supporting the Black Kingdom, introducing a religious and moral element to a conflict of territory. Battles are initially sporadic and unfocused but progressively increase in intensity over the years, with town invasions and liberations becoming more and more frequent starting in E3-110.
The war enters its final and most intense stage in the last 20 years, with the rise of a White Kingdom knight. Raising a massive army, the knight begins a long series of conquests of the Black Kingdom's territory, until reaching the enemy's capital and personally defeating Black King Dornach in single combat.
The downfall of the Black Kingdom triggers the disappearance of demonic forces from the Mazes. All Black Kingdom territory is now united under the White Kingdom's banner, heralding the end of a long conflict, as well as the end of Era 3.
Era 4
- Duration: 300 years
- Started: 2600 years ago
- Ended: 2300 years ago
- Technology level: Late middle ages
The victorious White Kingdom, supported by the early angelics, renames itself to the Silverlight Kingdom. The knight that led the White forces to victory and defeated the Black king is offered the crown to the kingdom. He becomes King Silfazril, the first Silverlight King.
Under Silverlight rule, backed by angelic religious and moral codes, the Mazes are more or less at peace, only occasionally interspersed with small attacks by uncivilized raiders. Although certain rebellious elements attempted multiple times to revive the Black kingdom, these attempts were thwarted each time, its perpetrators harshly and publicly punished for the heresy.
The Silverlight Kingdom was ruled by five kings:
- King Silfazril, Silverlight Bringer (E4-0 ; E4-59)
- King Makazril, Son of the Bringer (E4-59 ; E4-122)
- King Gulram the Eloquent (E4-122 ; E4-201)
- King Goganax the Blessed (E4-201 ; E4-252)
- King Maratuxa the Visionary (E4-252 ; E4-300)
Maratuxa was notable for his frequent visions of the future, which he claimed to see during his sleep since his childhood. After accessing to the throne and becoming the fifth Silverlight King, the visions intensified, and the initially jovial prince became a fearful, paranoid person, obsessed with the nightly visions which he described as "apocalyptic". The King's rule was markedly different from his predecessors, focusing on recording history and book production, as well as the safekeeping and storage of the Silverlight Kingdom's relics. These measures are responsible for the creation of the Silverlight Libraries, found in the towns of Neo Khazrun, Gimrun, Mippei Yosai (formerly Kharidin) and Sirvarris. These books are the largest collection of recorded history, fiction, plays, and other documents ever produced in the medieval era, and are responsible for much of the modern world's knowledge and understanding of the past.
Fearing that the end of the world was imminent and that it would come with great destruction, King Maratuxa did everything in his power to ensure that the Kingdom would not be forgotten, hiding an enormous treasure and instructions for survivors to re-establish the Silverlight Kingdom, should any make it.
These visions were eventually proven true in E4-300, when all angelic creatures departed from the Mazes without leaving a trace. Shortly afterward, a mysterious disease struck humanity, killing every last human being living in the Mazes and instantly wiping the Silverlight Kingdom out.
Era 5
- Duration: 800 years
- Started: 2300 years ago
- Ended: 1500 years ago
- Technology level: Blackpowder era
Era 5 marks the beginning of modern history.
The fourth generation of humans is introduced into the world, equipped with more advanced technology. Most notably, this era is the first to introduce firearms, as well as the introduction of youkai into the world, making it the first time that two sapient species coexist in the world, not counting angelics and demonics.
The language spoken by humans is now Common, while youkai speak their own language, Youkai-go.
Angelic and Demonic forces return to the Mazes under their modern incarnations, Heaven, Ltd. and Hell, Inc..
- E5-1 The Angelic capital city, Cloud Ten, is founded.
- E5-2: The Demonic capital city, Gehen, is founded.
Era 6
(WIP)
Era 7
(WIP)
