History of Abator

History

In the interest of avoiding a lengthy debate regarding the subjective and objective nature of history, the following information is the scholarly accepted version of history within the Konsil Ncxons.

Approximately three thousand years ago, the Ncxons of the world existed in harmonious perfection.  Details are minimal, since no records from that time have survived, but it is the collective judgment of historical scholars that the world was composed of three kingdoms and a centralized city from which the world was ruled.  The three kingdoms were the Kingdom of Man, the Kingdom of the Elves, and the Kingdom of the Dwarves.  Some religious scholars believe that the Dwarves did not emerge until Kelindor’s War, but these scholars are seen generally as fanatics and ignorant.

Historical and religious texts agree that nearly three thousand years ago, a great war swept up the Ncxons of the world.  Both secular and religious texts attribute the war to the Dark One, a being of immense evil who is often given feminine connotations.  It is during this war that texts cite the first appearances of demons, orks, trolls, minotaurs, the lizard races (Rakaxan and Lisuan), goblins, simbales (gryphons), pegasi, and dragons.  Many of these creatures were thought to have been destroyed during the war as simbales (gryphons), pegasi, dragons, and many other of the listed creations have not been seen since.

The end of the war is classically attributed to Kelindor.  Kelindor and the Kompanions are widely cited as emerging from the destruction and rallying the kingdoms of the Elves and Dwarves to defeat the Dark One.  Stragan’s Hymn is a particularly powerful recital of the legendary Dwarven King’s stand against the forces of Evil at the Kodakian Breech.  The hymn is an integral part of every dwarven Scalding Week Festival.  Central to the stories of Kelindor are the tales of a Ruby Dragon.  The exact nature where the Ruby Dragon came from or its powers is unknown.  What is known is that Kelindor frequently rode the Ruby Dragon into battle and that the Kompanions obtained the secrets of the Dark One’s destruction from the Ruby Dragon.

After the end of the war, Kelindor and the Kompanions are widely recognized as bringing order and recovery to the devastated remains of the former kingdoms.  The Kelindorian Empire is often illustrated as covering the entirety of the continent west of the Kodakian mountains.  The Kelindorian Empire remains strong well past the death of the last members of the Kompanionship, Kelindor.

Unfortunately, as with any organization held together by the sheer presence of a single individual, fractures began appearing after Kelindor’s death.  Nearly two hundred years after the end of the war, the elves broke away from the coalition and formed the Ncxon of Alea.  This fracture is seen as the start of the ‘Great Decline’, which would take over a hundred years to pull the Kelindorian Empire into smaller, more Totalitarian fiefs.  These fiefs would turn on each other around 500 K.E. (Kelindorian Empire, based against the year of Kelindor’s coronation after the defeat of the Dark One).  The vicious wars for a new empire would be known as “The Great Wars.”  The end of “The Great Wars” is often listed around 1000 K.E., when Torakaza begins to form a new Empire within the area now called ‘The Konsil Ncxons’.  His initial conquests form what will later be known as Alavyar and expand to include Riniko and Oleria.  Eventually, Torakaza’s Empire ends its expansion just shy of the modern day Ncxons of Alea, Net’Alea, and Xanona.  One version of history from this time period attributes the sovereignty of the Elven Ncxons to a warning issued to Torakaza.  Upon Torakaza’s first attempt to expand into traditionally Elven territory, the elves respond by wiping out all human cities, settlements, fortifications, troops, and citizens within 50 miles of the Alean borders.  Historians agree that Torakaza’s combat operations near the Alean border last for less than three months and he never returns to that front, giving credibility to the story.   Torakaza eventually relocates the seat of his Empire to the city of Kuatri Bra.  Kuatri Bra is built on and around settlements that go back as far as the Kelidorian Empire and is thought to have been the seat of that government as well.

During the seventeenth century, the Torakazan Empire fractures and creates numerous small city states begin to assert autonomy.  Three of the most powerful city-states to emerge are Ligne, Kissermea, and Hallifax.  These three Ncxons would combine forces with the Noni from Xanona to found the Konsil.  As the rules of confederation continue to develop, the Konsil forms a separate judicial body to oversee the adherence of each of the Ncxons to the Konsil Laws.  This body is granted a little used island just off the shores of the Konsil Ncxons to function as its seat of governance.  Members of all the Konsil Ncxons are allowed to join the ranks of the newly formed ‘Konsil Nyts’.  The diverse membership provides stability in enforcing the laws fairly and without favoring any side.  As time goes by, Noni Konsil Knyts become increasingly rare.  For the next three hundred years, other city-states would ally with a Konsil Ncxon, increasing the size and power of that Ncxon.  Ligni and Hallifax would join and become known as Oleria, with Ligni as the capital.  Kissermea would become the capital of Alavyar.  

As the Konsil Ncxons grew, so did the discord among the elves as to how to deal with the humans.  By the 20th century, the leadership of Alea felt that the growing human kingdoms would provide fertile ground for the return of the Dark One.  Many felt that elven prophecy dictates that the humans be culled regularly to prevent any footholds for the Dark One.  Conversely, many believed that the prophecies warned not of the evil emerging from the humans, but from isolation.  These political groups stated that elves needed to ally with the humans, that it would be through the diverse Ncxon of humans that the Dark One would be defeated.  This disagreement boiled into full-fledged during the 20th century.  It would be known at the First Elven War and would fracture the Elven people so deeply that two separate Ncxons would emerge: Alean and Net’Alea.  Net’Alea became a consistent ally of the Konsil Ncxons, though not a member.  Alea increased its isolationism.

During the twenty-fourth century, Alean leadership finally agreed that it was past time to cull the human Ncxons.  The Aleans declared war on the human Ncxons of the Konsil and began a war of genocide.  The losses on both sides were horrific, but it would be the Konsil Nyts that set the conditions of the Alean surrender.  Net’Alea sat the war out.  The Alean people were so disgusted at the behavior of their leadership (whether for going to war OR for losing the war is still a hot point for debate), that no Queen has sat on the throne of Alea since the end of that war in the twenty-fourth century.  At the end of the war, the Alean Ncxon formally joined the Konsil Ncxons.  With this change, only the Ncxon of Riniko remains completely independent.

It is nearing the end of the thirtieth century since the age of Kelindor began and the Konsil Ncxons are experiencing a rapid growth in technology.  New means of forging metal has appeared, machines are being crafted to do the jobs once held by scribes, and Guilds for the Enchanting Arts are flourishing.  Each year seems to present a new or more efficient means of doing ‘what has always been done’ another way.  The Ncxons of Alea and Net’Alea are still very isolationistic, but allow regular trade along its borders.  The Ncxons of Xanona and Montisange grow rich with the ever increasing need for precious metals drawn from the Blood Mountains or the Mountains of Kadako.  It is a great age to live in, and a dangerous age to live in.